Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Any Way You Fold It

Hello and welcome to the second part of our current challenge which is Any Way You Fold It ! It's Sue here sharing with you the Funkie side of the team's inspiration. We've already had some fantastic entries, but there's still time to join if you haven't already.


 Sue Carrington - Stamping Sue Style



 


 Trace - inkypinkycraft










Hello and welcome back to the start of a brand new two-week challenge here at Frilly and Funkie.  We are thrilled that so many of you played along with us for Terry's Summertime theme.  Thanks to each and every one of you who joined in the fun with us for this challenge.  Don't forget to check back on Monday for our winners' post.  There are so many different folds that you can do, tri fold, z fold , side step etc. For this challenge we'd like to see which fold takes your fancy, you may even want to take the opportunity to try a new fold! The choice is yours!

Let's see how our Frilly design team has folded their project.

Cec Wintonyk - CW Card Creations
 


Rebecca~ PaperPrimrose



Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Whatever your vintage style, be it Frilly or Funkie please feel free to join in the fun and enter a piece into this challenge. You may upload your project at any time. If using a public forum, please use keyword F&F. Please be sure to provide a link back to our challenge in your post. And please please please be sure to turn off your Word Verification so our design team can leave comments on your blogs. Don't forget, you can only play in 4 other challenges besides ours.

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Saturday Step by Step - Fold It!

Hi everyone and welcome to another Saturday Step by Step, this time hosted by me, Buttons. I figured as our current challenge involves anything with folds I'd pass on a fantastic 'one sheet wonder' folded booklet; this was taught to me by the wonderful (Certified Ranger Eductator) Annaliese Bates of L'atelier at the Stitches show earlier this year. There is no need for glue, scissors (or if you are feeling really brave a ruler!) Warning; this is picture heavy but you need it, trust me.

Start with a double-sided piece of 12x12 cardstock. Right side facing you, fold up about 3/4 inches from the bottom. Don't worry about mountain/valley and all that business. You just need a good fold. I fold it backwards and forwards to make sure the crease is firm and flexible.
Turn your card around and fold up to meet your new crease line.
Unfold these creases and fold down the centre lengthwise.
Now fold the sides into the centre lengthwise to divide your card into four strips.
 Open it all out and lay your card face down with the first crease at the bottom. Now fold each of the sides in by 3/4 inch.
Keeping those creases folded now turn up each corner to meet the next crease lines in.
Fold these triangular cornered parts in on themselves along the existing crease lines (so now the back is showing in the middle and the front is showing at the edges).
Now for the fun bit. Keeping those triangular bits folded, fold the whole thing in half along the existing 'central' crease line (apologies for the shadows, the sun is really bright this morning!)
OK, I'll do this bit slowly for you. Bend back your original 3/4 inch crease line (which now has little folded triangles in the corners).
Slot the top of your cardstock into the triangles like this. I've done the one on the left so you can see. Do the same with the one on the right.
Now just fold the whole thing in half along the existing central crease line, and hey presto! Here's the outer sides (it's worth giving everything a good fold and wiggle around to settle it into place).
And here's what the inside should look like.
And just take a look at how many pockets you've got for adding in your tags, messages, ATC's, oh the list is limitless!
And of course there's more on the flip side (plus extras at the top that I haven't even put things into!
And here's a few I made earlier so you can get to see all the angles.
Now for those of you who will ask for a video, well I could if there's enough demand, but this way you get to save the photos and have your very own crib sheet (you won't need it after a couple though).

OK, so now you'll have to see what I did with them on Wednesday when it's the Funkie team's turn to show you their projects for the

And of course I want to see what you do with yours too, because then you get to join the challenge and be in with a chance of winning a spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique (where you can of course purchase some fantastic 12x12 papers, including some scrummy new Maja Designs ones that I can't wait to get my mits on!) Thanks for joining me and take care of yourselves, hugs Jenny xxx

Friday, July 26, 2013

Taking a Short Break

Hi friends,

I hope your summer is going great!  Things are very busy at The Funkie Junkie Boutique with lots of pre-orders on the new Tim Holtz stencils and the great deal on the new Wendy Vecchi archival inks.

The DH and I are trying to plan a few vacation breaks over the summer and the opportunity to make a visit to one of our children came up suddenly.  So I have to apologize but I'm going to take a few days off again.  That means no Friday Focus column this week as I was the one scheduled to share but I will leave the Texture Fades on the Friday Focus 15% off for another week.  And no shipping at The Funkie Junkie Boutique through August 2nd.  You are welcome to place orders and they will be filled first-come, first-served beginning August 3rd.

No word yet on when the Tim Holtz stencils will ship, but you can still place a pre-order.

Thanks for visiting and have a great week.

Hugs,
Linda

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

ANYWAY YOU FOLD IT......

Hello and welcome back to the start of a brand new two-week challenge here at Frilly and Funkie.  We are thrilled that so many of you played along with us for Terry's Summertime theme.  Thanks to each and every one of you who joined in the fun with us for this challenge.  Don't forget to check back on Monday for our winners' post.  There are so many different folds that you can do, tri fold, z fold , side step etc. For this challenge we'd like to see which fold takes your fancy, you may even want to take the opportunity to try a new fold! The choice is yours!

Let's see how our Frilly design team has folded their project.

Cec Wintonyk - CW Card Creations
 


Rebecca~ PaperPrimrose



Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Whatever your vintage style, be it Frilly or Funkie please feel free to join in the fun and enter a piece into this challenge. You may upload your project at any time. If using a public forum, please use keyword F&F. Please be sure to provide a link back to our challenge in your post. And please please please be sure to turn off your Word Verification so our design team can leave comments on your blogs. Don't forget, you can only play in 4 other challenges besides ours.

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Saturday StepXStep

This week's Saturday Step x Step at Frilly and Funkie is about flowers created from burlap and lace. You know I have a penchant for flowers and burlap and lace, so I thought I would share some simple ways of making these four variations...

F&F-17

Let's begin with the lower left flower. It uses the Sizzix 'Tattered Florals' die. I cut three layers of the small, medium and large components in both burlap and lace (two layers at a time for burlap and three at a time for the lace). The lace was a very inexpensive overall lace. The cheapest all-over lace is really the best choice for this flower, as soft, drapey lace won't give the flower the substance and dimension that the stiff lace does (and the pricier laces I found were all very soft)!

F&F-1

For this Step-By-Step, I chose to use a deeper colored burlap to better show the contrast with the lace. In real life, even tiny differences in colors work very well...

F&F-2

Alternate burlap and lace, three times for each of the three sizes and layer them, staggering the petals...

F&F-3

The center is a pearl domed brad, pushed through all the layers. No cutting or glueing was needed. A button sewn down through all the layers would be a fabulous choice too. The next flower is made from 3/8" woven jute ribbon...

F&F-13

Begin with a chipboard disc (2-1/2" or so)...

F&F-4

Make a loose knot at the end of the ribbon and hot glue it to the center. Hold the knot gently in place until the glue cools and then begin...

F&F-5

to fold the ribbon loosely and glue it down, one fold at a time. It's important not to rush through each fold. If you tug on the freshly glued portion, you will wind up with hot glue on the other folds. Don't ask me how I know ;)

F&F-6

Continue turning the circle as you go, until the circle has been filled...

F&F-7

I wanted a 'soft' look to the leaves on this flower, so I...

F&F-8

found some scraps (about 3-4 " long) of hand dyed silk ribbon, an inch wide. Hold it as you see above and then...

F&F-9

fold the other end down. A small dab of hot glue holds it together...

F&F-10

On the back of the disk, fold the ribbon over the edge, to the back and glue the jute ribbon down along with the ribbon leaves...

F&F-12

It's pretty just as it is, but I couldn't resist the urge to embellish it with a few pearl beads...

F&F-13

The next flower is made exactly the same as the one above. The difference is that I took a 3/8" lace and ran it along with the jute ribbon...

F&F-14

Begin with a knot at the end. This is glued to the center of a chipboard (or cardboard) disc...

F&F-15

This works well, when the folds are loose and each 'twist' or fold is glued as you go along. I think it will be very pretty with a cream burlap and white lace too..a bit more subtle...

Finally, here is how I constructed the white lace flower...

F&F-1a

Using a 13" length of wide venice lace (this was a piece I've had for ages, so I've linked to one at the end of this post,that will work just perfectly), anchor a piece of strong sewing thread to a cut edge and begin lacing the thread through the loops...

F&F-1b

Gather the lace tightly together and knot off the end but don't cut it...

F&F-1c

Using the thread that's still attached, stitch the straight, cut edges together...

F&F-white lace

A small burlap flower from the earlier die cuts was glued over the center hole, followed by a large, flat-backed rhinestone...

F&F-17

So here's the group again. I hope it incourages you to play around with these materials and have some fun creating really unique embellishments. I'm thinking of gift bags, a prettily wrapped present, on a barrette, a scrapbook cover..........
Thanks for stopping by and if you're not in too much of a hurry, I would love to hear from you!

((Hugs))

Rebecca