10 December 2014

A Vintage Holiday at Frilly and Funkie

Hi everyone and welcome. It's the beginning of the second week of our latest challenge over at Frilly and Funkie. Our host Nancy has called this one 'A Vintage Holiday'; "Let's get one step closer to finishing up our to-do lists by creating a vintage themed holiday card (as there are lots of different celebrations taking place at this time of year)." As ever the overall challenge winner gets the chance to join us for a Guest Designer spot and one lucky winner gets a $25 shopping voucher for The Funkie Junkie Boutique.

Now, as part of the Funkie team its time to unveil my distinctly vintage Christmas card...


And here I go again doubling up with another of my entries to The Funkie Junkie 12 Tags of Christmas 2014 and this time it's my take on #Tag 4. A few more details on this challenge; this annual challenge is being hosted by Linda Coughlin, the Funkie Junkie herself and has been very generously sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique. The idea is that you take inspiration from each of Linda's weekly tags and create your own version, linking all 12 before December 21st to be in with a chance to win.


I took inspiration from Linda's careful stencilling using the Festive Layering Stencil for the two background panels on my card. Far from going to the trouble of masking off sections to ink each one, I went for it with the mini blending tools and a selection of inks to get a multi-coloured version. Love it! Taking to heart Linda's 'very country/homespun' description I used a piece of Tim Holtz ephemera (the alphabet panel) before edging the lot with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink and flicking a little Tarnished Brass Distress Spray Stain over the top.


Linda had some fantastic red accents. I went for a fussy cut stamped poinsettia (the book pages were glued to card and coloured with Distress Stains) layered over 'Holiday Greens' die cuts and some altered bronze leaves soaked in Snow Cap Alcohol Ink. Finally having added some Distress Stickles to the centre of the poinsettia and a Simple Saying I was done.


So that's my take on 'A Vintage Holiday' for Frilly and Funkie. Now I highly recommend you to hop on over to the main challenge blog to see what my super-talented team mates have created before getting your own entries linked up; as ever there are fabulous prizes up for grabs for the winners.

That's all from me for now but there's lots more still to see; the production line is in full swing here!
In the meantime take care of yourselves, Jenny xxx

ps. If you haven't seen my previous 12 Tags entries you'll find them here;


22 comments:

  1. Wow What a beautiful card Jenny.I love it a lot.
    Greetings
    Felicie

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  2. This is so pretty, Jenny! Love it! Hugs, Sandra

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  3. Gorgeous Jenny! Fabulous vintage colours and the fussy cut poinsettia with the glitter veins is stunning! All the fantastic foliage is such a perfect fit for the stencilled pattern! Amazing! holiday hugs :)

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  4. Great idea one those glitter viens. I'm going to try that on my real poinsettia plants. Love your card and that it's double duty. I'll send you my addy so I can get on your mailing list.

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  5. Such a pretty Christmas card! I love this one.

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  6. Gorgeous creation Jenny.
    Hugs Veerle x

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  7. Love this, Jenny! The stencilled holly looks fabulous in the background and the die-cuts look fabulous layered with the bronze leaves - wonderful!
    Alison xx

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  8. lovely card Jenny - love the mix of ephemera and stenciling.

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  9. Beautiful, absolutely stunning, love everything about it especially that wonderful Poinsettia.
    Hugs

    Patricia xxx

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  10. Wonderful holiday card with great layers. Love the background stenciling and the use of book paper for the festive poinsettia.
    Hugs!
    Cec

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  11. This is so, so beautiful Jenny, I love the gorgeous poinsettia and of course, your wonderful layering! Anne xx

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  12. A beautiful Christmas card! I love those poinsettias!

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  13. Very festive Jenny plus I love the vintage look to the card. Your fussy cutting is amazing sweets.

    Warm crafty hugs from Shirl x x x
    ShirlsCards.

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  14. Jenny, this is another gorgeous card! I love the stenciling and that Poinsettia is amazing! Love it! Hugs!

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  15. Such an elegant design Jenny, stunning as always.
    Julie x

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  16. A fantastic card. The poinsettia looks wonderful.

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  17. This is fantastic, Jenny. I absolutely LOVE it. I didn't realize your poinsettia was hand cut - gorgeous! The book paper makes it so interesting. Beautiful work with the Holiday Greens but my absolute favorite part is the bronze leaves that you altered with the Snow Cap fixative. You totally changed the look of that product and I'm drooling over them! Sensational job on both the the Filly and Funkie challenge and my rage #4!

    Hugs,
    Linda

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  18. Wowww Jenny, awesome!!!!!!

    Hugs,
    Ellen

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  19. Wow what gorgeous details and design.

    Hugs Diane

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  20. Oh what a stunning Christmas card, Jenny :) It's that poinsettia! I love it!! Love that glittery/blingy center :) Oh, but there's some of my favorite splatter, too :) I just love it all!! XOXO-Shari

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