TFJ Challenge: Back to School

 

Hello and welcome to the new Funkie Junkie Challenge! Back to School: Create something with books, alphabets or anything reminding you of learning!

The overall winner will be offered the chance to be a Guest Designer at a future date here at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog, and everyone who enters and follows the rules will go into the drawing for the chance to win a $25.00 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. There are also Top 3 Badges for three additional outstanding entries, chosen by the Design Team.

The guidelines for entering are simple; create a new vintage or shabby chic project following the challenge theme, link it to your post (not just your blog) and also include a link to this challenge in your post. You can combine our challenge with up to 10 challenges (including this one) to be in with a chance for winning. Don’t forget you can also join the fun through Instagram as well. To enter on Instagram: If you are entering through a public forum (such as Instagram) you'll need to include the words 'Funkie Junkie Boutique Challenge'.

For this challenge I was inspired by science class to create a card with the new chapter 3 die set specimens using the specimen slide diet cuts. For video tutorial click video link here.

Used: Stamp set inventor 7 CMS374, Ranger alcohol ink Sepia, Sizzix die cuts alphanumeric theory, specimen, distress archival ink black soot,  distress inks vintage photo, brushed corduroy, distress oxide bushed corduroy, Idea-ology French industrial 12 x 12, worn wallpaper, transparent wings,  metallic craft stock collage medium tonic snips, and mica tiles.

To start the science theme card I decided to create a Drippy Inc. background using the distress in colours brushed corduroy vintage photo, and brushed corduroy oxide ink.

To start with I smashed my in pads on to the craft mat portion of the Tim Holtz media mat and for my substrate I decided to use some distress watercolour cardstock.

Next I dipped and layered the ink on the watercolour card stock. I dried each layer in between with the Ranger heat tool to get and in key background. Below is my first inkey layer.

Then I repeated dipping and drying until I was satisfied with my inkybackground.

Below is my completed and keep background for the science themed card.

For the next step I cut down my and keep background to 3 inches by 3 3/4 and 5 inches. For the base layer I used some worn wallpaper measuring in at 5 1/2“ x 4 and one quarter inches.

For the next step in a project I decided to stamp with the Tim Holt Stamps at inventor number 7 CMS374. For stamping I am using a large acrylic block and some of the Tim Holtz Distress archival black soot ink.

below are the finished results of stamping over the top of our distressed background. I chose the stamps up because it reminded me of science experiments with electricity.

For the next step I started to create the scientific specimen slides. Each of the slides was dicot from the Tim Holtz die set specimen from chapter 3. For each of the slides I asked around the edges of them with a little bit of distress vintage photo using some dome on a mini blending tool.

Now for the fun part we are going to be altering some mica tiles with some Sepia  Alcohol Ink.

With each mica tile I gently pulled the layers apart until I had two separate pieces.

Then using a piece of round felt I gently dumped on the alcohol ink to the mica tile to give it a more vintage look.

For the next step I gently lined up the mica tile with the little window on the specimen side frame before cutting a piece to fit the frame. For cutting I use some of the Tim Holtz Tonic snip scissors.

Now for the finishing touches.  On the slide I added a transparent butterfly from the Idea-ology ephemera set transparent wings.

Here are the slides now with small butterflies specimen. 

Then I decided to also add the word specimen in a phoframed metal bracket. I die cut these pieces first from black kraft stock and then the frame from metallic kraft stock to make these labels.

Here I am adding the slides to the card. On the back of each slide I added some mini foam squares to give the card a little bit more dimension.

For alignment I decided to do a little staircase with each slide slightly above the other.

For the last step of the card I die cut with Alpha numeric die set theory.

Since this was a science themed card I decided to add the words learn and idea.

Thank you so much for joining me here today at the crafty corner. Until next time, we happy crafting!

Janna~ 💕🎨💕

I can also be found on:

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YouTube:  The Crafty Corner with Janna

Below are some links for some inspired shopping at the Funkie Junkie.

Chapter 3 specimen

https://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/Tim_Holtz_Thinlits_Dies_Specimen_665930_p/die_665930.htm

Die set Alphanumeric Theories

https://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/Tim_Holtz_Thinlits_Dies_Alphanumeric_Theory_665924_p/die_665924_a.htm

Alcohol ink sepia

https://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/Ranger_Tim_Holtz_Alcohol_Ink_Sepia_TAL59448_p/tal59448.htm

Distress ink vintage photo 

https://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/Distress_Ink_Pad_Vintage_Photo_TIM19527_p/tim19527.htm

Distress Ink brushed corduroy 

https://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/Distress_Ink_Pad_Brushed_Corduroy_TIM21421_p/tim21421.htm

Distress Oxide Ink Brushed Corduroy 

https://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/Tim_Holtz_Distress_Oxide_Brushed_Corduroy_TDO55839_p/di_tdo55839.htm

Distress Archival Ink Black Soot

https://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/Tim_Holtz_Mini_Archival_Ink_Pads_Kit_3_AITK64848_p/ai_tank64848.htm

Collage Medium 

https://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/Distress_Collage_Medium_Matte_2oz_Bottle_TDA73031_p/tda73031.htm

Black Kraft stock

https://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/Tim_Holtz_Idea_ology_Kraft_Stock_Black_TH94145_p/th94145.htm

Metallic Kraft stock

https://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/Tim_Holtz_Kraft_Stock_Metallic_Classics_TH94227_p/th94227.htm

Idea-ology worn wallpaper

https://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/Halloween_2022_Worn_Wallpaper_Scraps_TH94147_p/th94147.htm