Greetings! Saturday is my day to share a project created with products by Funky Fossil Designs who celebrated their sixth birthday in January with several great new releases. The Vintage Patchwork Collection is the final hurrah for their birthday month and its name describes it really well. The collection includes an 8x8 Vintage Patchwork Paper Pad, a 5 x 7 Three-Layer Patchwork Heart Stencil, an A5 Essential Ephemera Rub-Ons, an A7 Love Etc Clear Stamp Set, and a Vintage Patchwork Signature Wallet.
Here's what Funky Fossil Designs has to say about the new Vintage Patchwork Signature Wallet.
"Our 7th Signature Wallet contains a delicious combination of shabby chic papers and rub ons with a versatile stamp set which comes with a matching stencil and die plus a 5x7 stencil."
I decided to use some of the contents of the Vintage Patchwork Signature Wallet with the A5 Essential Ephemera Rub-Ons and the A7 Love Etc Clear Stamp Set.
Here's my card!
Funky Fossil Products Used:
Other Products Used:
Light Pink and Brown Cardstock by Bazzill Basics
Cloudy Sky Patterned Vellum: Source Unknown
Vintage Photo Archival Ink by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink
Anti-static Pouch
VersaMark Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko
Detail Gold Embossing Powder
Matte Modge Podge by DecoArt
Dark Sepia and Light Skin Pitt Artist Pens by Faber Castell
Circle Die Set by QuicKutz
Gold UniPosca Paint Pens by Mitsubishi Pencil
Paintbrush
Glue Dots
Stamping Platform
Notes:
- My instructions are going to be totally scattered as I encountered all sorts of challenges ranging from using old Modge Podge to having my Posca Paint Pen's nib fly out of the pen's body when I tapped it to scatter paint. Fortunately I did not have a paint explosion.
- I should have heat set the Modge Podged layers prior to stamping. Bad result. Badder me.
- Midway through the card, I was ready to bin the entire thing. My Funky Fossil teammates offered some great suggestions and I may/may not have salvaged the card.
- I've come to the realization that pretty elegant shabby chic is so not my style. So moving forward, I will use this collection (which I love!) in my own way. In the words of the Tim "you be you".
Instructions:
- Fussy-cut a flower and a pair of flowers from two sheets of the same 5" x 7" patterned papers included in the Vintage Patchwork Signature Wallet.
- Tear a wide strip and a narrow strip of the vertical striped paper from the Vintage Patchwork Signature Wallet.
- Use Modge Podge to adhere the wide striped strip along the bottom of the blue/pink stucco looking patterned paper.
- Inadvertently tear the paper while adding another layer of Modge Podge overtop.
- Use Modge Podge to adhere the thin strip of striped paper over the tear.
- Use Modge Podge to adhere the single flower to the upper left and the flower cluster towards the bottom right overlapping the striped paper with a leaf.
- Trim the layered patterned paper to 4.75" x 6.75" and edge with Vintage Photo Archival Ink.
- Select the larger of the two harlequin patterned clear stamps from the stamp set included in the Vintage Patchwork Signature Wallet.
- Ink the stamp with Vintage Photo Archival Ink and second generation stamp the harlequin in five places. I should probably have heat set the panel first as the impressions are very fuzzy. We'll call them faded and vintage.
- Apply a large butterfly rub-on from the A6 Vintage Patchwork Rub-Ons to a piece of pink cardstock.
- Fussy-cut the butterfly and edge with Vintage Photo Archival Ink.
- Apply the clock from the A5 Essential Ephemera Rub-Ons to pink cardstock, cut with a circle cutting die, and edge with Vintage Photo Archival Ink.
- Use Modge Podge to adhere the butterfly and the clock as shown.
- Add two small blue butterfly rub-ons from the A6 Vintage Patchwork Rub-Ons above and below the flower cluster on the right.
- Fussy-cut the small blue butterfly from the packaging of the A6 Vintage Patchwork Rub-Ons, fussy-cut, and edge with Vintage Photo Archival Ink.
- Adhere the butterfly over the clock as shown.
- Use Sepia and Light Flesh (a pale pink in reality) Pitt Artist Pens to outline the flower clusters and the large butterfly.
- Use a Gold Posca Paint Pen to splatter the panel. Hope your pen doesn't lose its nib halfway through. Add a bunch of the liberated gold paint to a small dish and use a paintbrush to continue splattering.
- Use the Sepia Pitt Artist Pen to edge the panel.
- Pat a piece of clouded sky blue vellum with an anti-static tool.
- Stamp the "collect beautiful moments" onto the vellum using VersaMark Ink.
- Pour Gold Detail Embossing Powder onto the wet ink, dump the excess powder back into its container, and heat set.
- Tear the vellum horizontally above and below the gold heat embossed sentiment.
- Tear a point onto the left side of the vellum strip.
- Add two pink jewel rub-ons from the A6 Vintage Patchwork Rub-Ons to the right side and one to the left side.
- Use Glue Dots under the jewel rub-ons and the heavier type to adhere the vellum to the panel.
- Adhere the panel to a brown 5" x 7" card.
Thanks for visiting today!
