The Funkie Junkie Challenge -- Sing, Sing, Sing (January, 2016)

8 years ago

Over the weekend I was at a lovely scrapbook retreat at a little hideaway B&B.  While it was only 15 minutes from home it felt like it was a whole different world and is situated in a lovely pine forest.  I love this area as it is near where I grew up as a child and the wind through the pine trees is a very beautiful, calming, "homey" sound for me.  There were about 20 of us scrapbooking all weekend long!  It was a lovely creative weekend with friends!

As I was waiting for my beloved to bring me a couple of things I forgot at home, I took a pause from my scrapbook pages and focused in on the latest challenge on the Funkie Junkie Challenge Blog.  The challenge is graciously sponsored by the Funkie Junkie Boutique.  Earlier in the week I tried a couple of different ideas for the challenge but I just couldn't get them to work.  So, I left it and let the ideas float around in my brain.

For one of my ideas earlier I had stitched a heart from some Tim Holtz Symphony fabric and it was on my scrapbook table just sitting there.  Staring at me.  Daring me in its own cute way to use it.  So, the idea came for a Valentine's Day banner.  I'm not usually a very big Valentine's Day celebrator so it's interesting that I went in that direction.  After several hours, a couple of different directions on design choices, and helping out others at the retreat, here is my Sing, Sing, Sing project.  I hope it makes your heart sing!  Happy Valentine's Day!

I started off with last season's CTMH Heartstrings paper.  I grabbed some Graphic 45 kraft tags.  I traced 3 of the outlines of the tag on 2 different printed papers (one being the darker red with hearts and the other with the pink arrows).  I then used a Cricut postage stamp cut out of the newspaper print paper from the paper pack.  I cut out the tags and cut them on the G45 tags.  I used a 1 inch circle punch for the hole at the "bottom" where the eyelet is.  It's not a perfect cut but close enough.  I then used some Whisper Gray colored paper and created fanned cricle badges from the Tim Holtz decorative strip (initially I was going to use these but wound up using them as a height lifter).  I edged the postage stamp cutouts with Eggplant colored ink and attached them to the circle badges.  I edged the main tags with Cranberry ink.  Next, I grabbed a piece of Eggplant colored paper and the Tim Holtz #4 Creative Textures stamp (the swirly one).  The stamped the image on to the eggplant colored paper in Versa Mark.  I embossed the images with Wendy Vecchi Red Geranium embossing powder.  Next came the letters cut out on my Cricut (Birthday Cake font) in Black and Red Glitter paper.  I then created the layers for each tag.  Before attaching the layers, I grabbed my Cropodile and punched holes and added eyelets to the tops of the tags.   I used Memories R Us black eyelets.  Next, I attached the paper layers to the tags.  After that came the decoration of the tags.  I colored some white magnolia flowers from Really Reasonable Ribbon in Tim Holtz Worn Lipstick.  Once those dried, I then decorated each tag using cream twine, Tim Holtz typed tokens, a red glitter bird, G45 keys, buttons (Buttons Galore & More), a Tim Holtz arrow, and a Tim Holtz glass bottle filled with Ranger Purple Embossing Powder for Love Potion #9.  At this point I had the main part of the banner.  I then decided I wanted to use the Heart as the break between "Be" and "Mine."  I attached the heart with a pear pin.  The heart had been created from the Memory Box heart die and I filled it and stitched it by hand.  I then added to ATC kraft tags covering them in the Tim Holtz Symphony fabric.  I punches holes and added eyelets to them.  I then grabbed the Tim Holtz #219 stamp.  Using Wendy Vecchi Red Geranium Archival Ink I used the "I love us" stamp and stamped it on the fabric covered tag.  On the second fabric covered tag, I stamped "you" from the "you and me" stamp.  I stamped "make" from "make a wish."  I stamped the "m" and the "y: from "you and me" to create "my."  Next I stamped "sing" using the the various letters in "Congratulations" to create the word sing (the "s" at the end, the "i" toward the end and the "ng" at the front).  I then threaded a Maya Road wooden heart and attached it so the saying said "you make my heart sing."    I then finished the ATC tags off with some embellishment.  Finally, I added some hanging "jewels" with pear pins (I've had these in my basement forever and I've finally found a use for them).  I think that's everything.