Read any Good Books Lately?

Happy Wednesday!  Are you feeling funkie?  It is time for the Funkie Design Team to share thir projects at the Frilly and Funkie Challenge for the "Read any Good Books Lately" challenge hosted by the wonderfully creative Sara Emily.

Sara Emily challenged us with:  "Reading a good book on the beach or on the porch is a simple summer pleasure. For this challenge, please create a vintage or shabby chic project that depicts a favorite book or use book pages on your project, alter a book or even make a journal or journal page! Just be sure it's in the vintage or shabby chic style that we are looking for!"

I just left the library the other day with a huge stack of books which I have been working my way through!  I am always looking for damaged, or distraught books to up-cycle into my art.  I used a slightly older dictionary page as the base for my project today.  

If you are observant you will notice there are a few holes on either side of my tiny house.  There is a reason for that and I will be sharing that later this week over on the F&F blog with a full step by step and a few other fun pages.

At the end of the challenge the team will choose their top four picks. Our first place winner will be invited to join us for a Guest Designer spot here at Frilly and Funkie. Three additional talented participants will receive badges to display on their blogs. Everyone who enters and adheres to the challenge guidelines will be entered into a drawing to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique!

Please hop over and check out the entire DT projects as they are all fabulous!  I hope you are inspired to play along with us!

Suzz 

All in the Family

It's time for a new Funkie part of the Frilly and Funkie challenge which I am hosting this time on the Frilly and Funkie Challenge blog.  The All in the Family challenge is to be inspired by your family.   It can be a favorite family memory, something from your ancestry, culture or just about your family. 

At the end of the challenge the team will choose their top four picks. Our first place winner will be invited to join us in a Guest DT spot here at Frilly and Funkie. Three additional talented participants will receive badges to display on their blogs. Everyone who enters and adheres to the challenge guidelines will be entered into a drawing to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique!

I had so many ideas running through my head, should I focus on our family road trips, family history, culture or pick one memory from all the different ones?  In the end I thought about our family and how it all centers around our home.

I created a mini house on a card reflective of how it all comes back to home base where our family gathers and we live together.  With our oldest two going off to school now and only one at home the time when we gather together in our home is the sweetest time of all.

I choose symbols and images to represent our family unit and placed them inside the house.  The number 5 is just representative of the number of us in our family.  I picked our state to represent on the card as we have not travelled far from many of our extended family and we are all located in the same area that we grew up in.  The little footprints are for our family members who are four footed present and passed.   I tried to capture a little bit of our family wrapped up into a card.

Don't forget to check out the  Frilly and Funkie blog to see the rest of the Design Teams awesome creations.

Suzz

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Winter House

Today's challenge at Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge is House Rules.  I have been hoarding an old checkerboard/backgammon board that I wanted to use for a special project.  I used the backgammon side of the board as the base of my for my birds' winter house.

This turned into a family project with help from my kids in creating the winter wonderland.

I painted the middle and ends of the board with acrylic paint. I painted three little spool with Ranger Distress Stains Metallic Gold.  I dipped my dried Statice into glue and dragged through Shaved Ice Mica.  I stamped a pathway using the domino stamp and embossed using silver embossing powder.

To create my bird house I stamped the bingo stamp 5 times using red ink on white cardstock that was glimmer misted red.

Here is a picture of my trial house. :) 

I punched the top edge on two of the sides using a border punch with tabs.  I cut slits in the roof to align with the punched tabs. I taped the sides of the house together using tissue tape. The roof has a layer of Mica Shaved Ice snow.  I added a few glittery birds a piece of driftwood covered in shaved ice. I then took tinsel pipe cleaners and formed a wreath. I added a bow with bells to the top of the wreath.

My youngest helped me create a snowman from Fimo clay. We rolled the snow balls together and added gems and a tip of a orange toothpick for his nose.  We created a halo from the tinsel pipe cleaner and then added two arms from statice.

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Come join in the challenge for an opportunity to win a gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp:

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz