It's Halloween at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog!

Hello! It's time for a new challenge at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Challenge Blog. I'm hosting this challenge and 'It's Halloween!'

I love Halloween! With Halloween just a few weeks away, I challenge you to create a vintage or shabby chic project with a Halloween theme. Your project can be as silly or creepy as you like, but just have fun!

As always, the winner will earn a chance to be a Guest Designer at a future date at The Funkie Junkie Boutique blog, and everyone who enters and follows the rules will go into the draw for the chance to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. There are also Top 3 Badges for three additional outstanding entries, chosen by the Design Team. Please see the blog for details.

Apologies for the long post. I tried to make a video, and failed miserably. But my son thinks he figured it out before this went live, so it's added at the end. (Fingers crossed, it works!)

I couldn't let Halloween pass without an altered birdhouse, which I make every year. The original bird house looked like this:

After applying Opaque Texture Paste through Tim's Decayed Layering Stencil and allowing it to dry, I smeared with Ranger Grit Paste, Opaque Crackle Paste and added some Prima Mini Art Stones for more texture. The entire thing was colored with a variety of products including Distress Oxide sprays and inks and Distress paint.

Here's a shot of the base before I painted it with black gesso and paint and Oxide spray in Lucky Clover.:

I made the fence with kraft card stock embossed with Lumber 3D embossing folder. I highlighted the texture with Weathered Wood, and die cut with Planks Bigz die. I rolled the planks and adhered to straws. I smeared with Crackle Paste, and when dry highlighted cracks with Distress Crayon. I tied them up with wire from my stash and adhered with Distress Collage Medium Matte. Everything is adhered with the collage medium--this stuff sticks everything quickly and permanently. I had three fence posts left over, so I cut them in half and adhered to the front of the base for a border.

I chose one of the new Halloween Quote Chips to make a sign. Those Hardware Heads fit perfectly on the new chips.

Let's take a closer look at the completed house and yard. First, the house...

 Bat Crazy die cuts are all over the place! This looks like a popular roosting place.

The five small spiders are the silver toned charms from Linda's shop. I altered them with Distress paint and crayon. The large spider is from a cheap plastic ring; so cheap all it's legs were stuck together, poor dear.

Tim's Mini Scallop 3D Impresslits make wonderful gingerbread trim on this vintage cottage.

Around back all is quiet...

Now, let's tour the garden... An Idea-ology zombie hand looks like it's pulled the rotted Idea-ology  pumpkin right from the swamp. The Pumpkin Pieces come in three handy sizes in the pack--I used all three. Mummy cloth dyed with Oxide sprays add mysteriousness. The vines are cut with Garden Greens Thinlits die and are colored with mop ups of all the leftover sprays --I cut, then color.

The cornstalks are made with Wildflower Stems #2 Thinlits stems tied on a base of raffia. I had to get those Idea-ology Creepy Eyes just for this shuck stack.  I love dem bones--the new Idea-ology Boneyard and Skull Fragments come in some new great sizes so perfect for my garden/graveyard. The tombstones come as they are shown with the zombie hand in the Cryptic pack, and I added my favorite epitaphs from Tim's Halloween Remnant Rubs. 

To the left of the house is another creepy garden. Wisps of Mummy Cloth makes great weeds!. The resin headstone in the back is from my stash -- it started out black and white, but was easily turned to 'stone' with Oxide sprays and a smudge of crayon. I was happy it matched the scale of Tim's perfectly.

Another Crazy Bat hangs out in a twig from my yard-turned-defoliated-tree, and the spiders weave their egg sacks. These are actually mini Christmas baubles from my stash covered with Mummy Cloth, and the eggs are clusters of  mini art stones colored with Oxide spray.

I hope you enjoyed your tour of my Foreboding altered birdhouse. With all the great Idea-ology Halloween goodies and Distress Oxide sprays, it was really easy and so much fun to pull together. 

We'd love to see what you're making for Halloween, so after you've seen all the wonderful makes from my teammates on the The Funkie Junkie Boutique Challenge blog, please link up your silly or creepy Halloween make. I can't wait to see what you will create! Sara Emily

Challenge shares:

Bleeding Art September Challenge - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Fall/Autumn

Scrapy Land Challenge #123 Anything Goes  I used 4 Sizzix dies.

Crafty Cardmakers #242 Add A Critter Check!

Creative Artiste Challenge #54 Anything Mixed Media Goes

Here's the links to products I used and you can find discounted every day at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Decayed

Sizzix Chapter 3 Tim Holtz Thinlits Die Set - Bat Crazy

Sizzix Thinlits - Wildflowers #2 by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits - Garden Greens by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Bigz Die - Planks by Tim Holtz

Sizzix 3-D Texture Fades Embossing Folder - Lumber

Sizzix 3-D Impresslits Embossing Folder - Mini Scallop

Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Boneyard, Cryptic, Creepy Eyes, Skull Fragments, Halloween Quote Chips, Hardware Heads, Pumpkin Pieces, Halloween Remnant Rubs, Mummy Cloth

Tim Holtz Idea-ology 8 x 8 Classic Kraft Stock

Ranger Mediums - Distress Collage Medium Matte and Vintage, Grit Paste, Opaque Texture and Crackle Pastes, 

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Aged Mahogany

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads - Brushed Corduroy, Black Soot, Weathered Wood

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons - Set # 2 and #3

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Reinker Antique Linen

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Paint - Black Soot, Ground Espresso, Lucky CloverRanger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Sprays - Black Soot, Iced Spruce, Frayed Burlap, Walnut Stain, Lucky Clover, Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint

Prima Art Ingredients - Mini Art Stones

Silvertone Spider Charms - Set of 5

Assemblage Clock -- 'Tis the Season For Gift Giving For Frilly and Funkie

Hello and welcome! Our current theme at Frilly and Funkie is Tis the Season For Gift Giving chosen by our super talented and creative teammate, Maggi. Today the Funkie side of the team is presenting their inspiration for this theme, and my share is a Tim Holtz Assemblage Clock I made for my family. When the clocks were readily available in our local craft stores, I bought three, knowing I would decorate them for my family over the next years. Three is enough to be considered a collection. 

Here is what Maggi says about her challenge theme: Because it's that time of the year when we're all thinking about the perfect gift for our friends and families, let's combine our crafting passion with our "to do" list by creating a vintage or shabby chic gift for a special someone in your life. Your gift could be as simple as a handmade card or tag, or an elaborate piece of home decor. Maybe you like to place your gifts in handmade boxes? Your imagination is the only limit on this challenge! 

Please stop by Frilly and Funkie to see the gifts my talented Frilly and Funkie teammates have created for that special someone. Hopefully you'll be tempted to create a gift and play along!  As always, 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.

Let's start with some of elements and how these were made:

The Salvaged Snowman is colored with Distress Markers and Crayons and coated with Distress Collage Medium Matte. While still wet, I spooned on Distress Clear Rock Candy Dry Glitter. The clock was disassembled and all of the pieces were covered with 2 coats of gesso. I applied Forest Collage Paper to the clock itself with Vintage Collage Medium and colored with Distress Crayons.

The inside of the back of the clock is colored with Distress oxides and ink in blues and stamped with Watering Can Archival ink using the pine from Tim Holtz Great Outdoors set.

The wonky pines from Merry Moose and Home For the Holidays Thinlits are colored with oxides, smeared with Distress Grit Paste and sprinkled with glitter. The snowdrifts are also from Home For the Holidays, smeared with Grit paste and glittered.

 I couldn't resist giving a little texture to the trunks with Distress Crazing.

I cut a circle free hand from the snowy acetate sheet from Tim's Christmas Paper Stash, and layered my drifts and tree on it, using adhesive foam to add dimension. The wonky trees were adhered to the backing, all using collage medium. This stuff makes anything stick!

  I extended the tree line on the sides of the clock's interior by using the same colors in Distress paint and stamping additional tree images. I was just tickled pink that 'Christ' appeared so prominently when I applied the collage paper, totally unintentionally by me. It should remind us that Jesus Christ was born on this holy day and to be sure to put Christ in Christmas. It prompted me to tear out the words 'family' and 'beautiful' from the paper and adhere them to the rim of the clock, too.

Next comes the tricky part of assembling everything within the clock. First all the parts must be put back on.  After determining where my snowman would sit, I smeared some light texture paste at the base near the front of the clock and sprinkled it with Distress glitter. The snowy acetate panel came next, held in place with blocks of foam. You can see where I added some chunky glitter to cover some of the foam in the photo directly above. The glitter was a generous gift from my good friend, Autumn last Christmas. Thank you, Autumn! I replaced the back panel of the clock and settled my snowman. Notice I did not replace the glass panel. It creates too much of a reflection and makes it difficult to view the scene. As it is, the acetate panel makes it challenging to photograph the snowy panel in the back, but in real life does not hinder viewing.

And lastly, the fun part of embellishing the exterior. I used Holiday Greens Mini, Festive Greens, and Funky Festive Thinlits to cut from Distress Mixed Media Heavystock, Metallic Kraft Stock and water color paper. I actually combined poinsettias from both the Festive Greens and Funky Festive sets to make mine, and I embossed them with the Textured Poinsettia Texture Fade. Everything was colored with Distress inks and oxide inks.

I stamped Plain Collage Paper with the sheet music stamp from Music and Advert to adhere to the bells, and added color with various Distress Crayons. All of the accessories like the feet, the knobs, the clapper and handle were colored with Picket Fence Distress paint and Mushroom alcohol ink before assembling.

I hope my family is going to enjoy another clock to add to the collection. You can see my other two clocks HERE and HERE. In the past, I've used little vintage figures to put into my scenes, so I was excited to make the Salvaged Santa look vintage for this year's make. Happy crafting!

Hugs and Blessings!

Sara Emily

Challenge shares:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Gift It

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Baby It’s Cold Outside

Scrapy Land Challenge #102 Anything Goes See links below for dies used.

Crafty Cardmakers #223 Anything But a Card

Cropstop November Link Party - # 45

That's Crafty Winter Wonderland

Let's Craft and Create Challenge #143 - ANYTHING GOES

The following products were used and can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

Tim Holtz Idea-olog Paper Stash, Christmas	Tim Holtz Idea-ology 8 x 8 Metallic Kraft Stock	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Collage Paper Plain	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Collage Paper, Forest	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Mixed Media Heavystock 8.5x11 inches - TDA53842
Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Great Outdoors	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Music & Advert	Sizzix Thinlits Festive Greens by Tim Holtz	Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 18pk - Funky Festive by Tim Holtz 663101	Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 11PK - Holiday Greens, Mini by Tim Holtz
Home for the Holidays Thinlits die set	Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 12pk - Merry Moose by Tim Holtz 663103	Sizzix Texture Fades Embossing Folder - Tattered Poinsettia by Tim Holtz 662198	Distress Grit Paste	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium Vintage TDA47940
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium Matte TDA47933	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium Crazing TDA47957	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons - 6PC Set #3 TDBK47926	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons - 6PC Set #2 TDBK47919	Tim Holtz Distress Crayons Set- Metallics (Antique Bronze/Brushed Pewter/Tarnished Brass)
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons - 6PC Set #1 TDBK47902	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Marker - Stormy Sky TDM32687	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Marker - Spiced Marmalade	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Marker - Crushed Olive	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Marker - Barn Door
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Tumbled Glass TDF53330	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Broken China TDF52944	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Chipped Sapphire TDF52982	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Picket Fence TDF53170	Tim Holtz Distress Stickles Dry Glitter Clear Rock Candy 3oz TDR35879
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Chipped Sapphire TIM27119	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Pine Needles TIM21476	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Forest Moss TIM27133	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Frayed Burlap	(LATE OCTOBER PRE-ORDER) Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Pine Needles
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Peeled Paint	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Bundled Sage	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Forest Moss	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Gathered Twigs	(LATE OCTOBER PRE-ORDER) Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Weathered Wood
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Stormy Sky	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink Pad - Watering Can AID39006	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Salvaged Snowmen