The Crafty Corner With Janna

 Hello and welcome! I am so excited to have recently become a design team member for The Funkie Junkie Boutique. This week I am please to announce The Funkie Junkie Boutique will be hosting a creative challenge on their challenge blog to the them "Anything Goes. I greatly look forward to seeing your creative makes over at The Funkie Junkie Blog .  The Design Team will choose their three top picks, and the overall winner will receive the $25 gift certificate to go on a spending spree at  The Funkie Junkie Boutique . All four top picks will receive badges to display on their blogs in recognition of their outstanding contributions. Be sure to stop over to the blog to see all the details of the challenge. While you're there check out the fantastic creations my talented teammates made to inspire you! Here is my take on the theme "Anything Goes". I decided to dive into my collection of Tim Holtz supplies to create this vintage inspired, grungy, glitzy card. You can also ac...

This month I have been enjoying experimenting with the new Distress color Salvaged Patina. This another fantastic chameleon color that shifts depending on the substrate it is used on and the colors it is placed next to. This amazing color shifts between a blueish green or an ocean blue.  To start this card I began with two backgrounds made on mixed media heavy stock mixed media white. I used the Tim Holtz ink dipping and layering technique to get the fun speckaly bits on the brown background along with the distress spray bottle. I used chipped sapphire, vintage phone, brushed corduroy distress ink, and ground espresso distress oxide. The second background was made with distress spray stains chipped sapphire and salvaged patina. For the focal points I used salvaged patina distress spray stain over mixed media heavy cardstock white. Then I stamped with the stamp set flutter CMS294 and distress oxide salvaged patina. After I sprinkled on some sticky embossing powder.  Next I melt...