Hello! It's time for the Funkie side of Frilly and Funkie Design Team to unveil their inspiration for the current challenge 'Haberdashery' at Frilly and Funkie. I'm sharing my altered mannequin featuring Tim Holtz Foundry 3D Texture Fade. I'll have some process photos and details as well as some close ups following, but first let's see what our talented hostess, Zoe, has to say about her chosen theme.
A haberdasher is a person who sells small articles for sewing, such as buttons, ribbons and zippers. For this challenge create a vintage or shabby chic project including items found at a Haberdashery.
In America, the word also refers to a men's clothing store. Having visited these upscale stores with my husband, I know they often tailor off the rack clothing for their clients as part of their services. So I mingled these two concepts to come up with my project.
The Design Team will choose their top four favorites, with the winner being invited to join us in a Guest Designer spot at Frilly and Funkie, and the next three will receive Top 3 badges to display on their blogs. Everyone who enters and follows the rules will be entered into the draw to have the chance to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.
In America, the word also refers to a men's clothing store. Having visited these upscale stores with my husband, I know they often tailor off the rack clothing for their clients as part of their services. So I mingled these two concepts to come up with my project.
The Design Team will choose their top four favorites, with the winner being invited to join us in a Guest Designer spot at Frilly and Funkie, and the next three will receive Top 3 badges to display on their blogs. Everyone who enters and follows the rules will be entered into the draw to have the chance to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.
Here's what it looked like before I started on the body but after I had crackled the painted black base and top with DecoArt crackle medium and paints.
The legs required some repair work, so I used some of the drying Wendy Vecchi Crackle texture paste that forms under the rim and on the sides of the jar (waste not, want not) to fill the cracked joints. Even though it was so dry, it crackled up nicely, so I decided to swipe the entire base and top with crackle paste.
To emboss them as one continuous strip, I embossed one end and then flipped the panel around and placed the un-embossed end into the embossing folder. I carefully lined it up with the previous embossing and ran it through my Big Kick just up to that initial embossing. Maybe the photo will better explain.
In the photo above, you can see the darts I had to cut to form the card to the mannequin. There are also areas where there is little or no texture because rubbing in the ink refresher removes some of the embossed texture. Also some seams popped up,. These are all areas that I used the cut up metal pieces. After everything was in place, I gave it a coat of Distress Collage Medium Matte, and when dry, rubbed with Walnut Stain Distress crayon. I got a little carried away with the patches at times!
I had this lone zipper pull and some pearl and gold toned pins in my stash. I colored them with Caramel alcohol ink.
I cut a length of the tape that says 'chest' and 'bust' along with boxes to record your monthly progress in these areas to make a lanyard to hold those tools important to a seamstress. I hand sewed a hook of a hook and eye on one end and a 'loop' on the other. A loop pin holds a thimble charm and a old rusted bobbin from my stash. The hook holds this sweet scissors charm that Linda sells at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. The thimble, loop pin, and scissors were altered with Mushroom alcohol ink and Chunky Rust and Patina Baked Textures powders.
I gave the base and neck crackled portions a coat of Vintage Collage Medium. I stamped some plain tissue with text from Tim Holtz' Inventor 3 set and adhered it. I had these cute wooden spools in my stash. I stained them with Vintage Photo Distress stain and wound some thread around them.
As always, thank you for stopping in and for all your lovely comments!
Hugs and Blessings!
Sara Emily
CHALLENGE SHARES:
SanDee&amelie's SASPC September 2018 Challenge
SanDee&amelie's SASPC September 2018 Challenge
Artistic Stamper September's Creative Challenge - Going Round & Round My lace and tape goes around the bottom and lace around the neck. I used a round button and other round elements. I used stamping on base and on the tape measure.
SumMore Fun Mood Board Challenge #36 I was inspired by the Foundry at the bottom.
Simon Says Stamp Monday Stamp It On I know you really have to look, but I used 2 stamp sets.
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