It’s Wednesday and time for the funkie side of the design team to share our projects for the current challenge over at the Frilly and Funkie Challenge Blog!
The current challenge is hosted by team member Cec, who has chosen the theme ELEGANT JEWELS …Cec says, “Let’s make a vintage or shabby chic project in jewel tone colours such as deep purple, emerald green, jade green, burgundy, bright turquoise to name a few AND to make your project extra special, add some sort of jewel or gem, which can be anything from a dollar store find to a piece of broken jewelry.”
Confession, I had to message one of my design team mates to ask for an explanation of jewels tones, (in distress colour terms of course)! Horrified at the total lack of muted brown tones I went about trying to figure out ways to add brown! Ha Ha (true story)!
I used mermaid lagoon distress oxide to simulate lagoon blue tourmaline gemstones. I added oxide to my glass media mat, spritzed with water and dragged a distress mixed media heavystock tag through, drying with a heat tool. I then went back and tapped parts of the tag into the beads of oxide on the mat. I blended mermaid lagoon distress oxide through a stencil with a blending tool and added walnut stain to the edges…
There was a helpful suggestion to use walnut stain (at the edges). I decided “edge” is a relative term and could mostly cover all those hideous brights with brown! It will be no surprise to you that I wear brown tinted sunglasses, similar to rose tinted, I see the world through a beautiful brown lens. 😉
I am so obsessed with the new idea-ology milk caps by Tim Holtz that I had to talk myself into covering it up with an idea-ology quote token. I added picket fence distress crayon to the quote token and a rhinestone gem to the hole, with stonewash alcohol ink added. A little rusty hinge distress paint was added to the idea-ology adornment stars, (still one of my favourites) and everything glued into place with distress collage medium.
I used my sidekick to cut some foliage from classic kraft stock and sanded with a sanding grip. I added rhinestone gems to compliment the challenge theme. These were mounted over the outline of a stitched circle, coloured with rusty hinge distress ink and over a strip of design tape. I want to add that I had the stitched circle leftover from another project and wouldn’t have added the foliage if it wasn’t so easy to do so with the sidekick. I so often add die cuts where I wouldn’t if I had to get my full size die cutter out.
I added a paper doll, coloured with distress markers.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you will find time to join in the challenge and pop over to Frilly and Funkie challenge blog to see the rest of the DT’s projects. All the products I used are available from The Funkie Junkie Boutique.
Zoe x
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I love your work. Why don’t you do youtube?
I for one love this tag! The colors make mw want to flee to the ocean! I gotta get back to my table to test out this combination. Just yummmmm.
Love this tag Zoe. I too love browns and don’t they go great with the blue?! Great tag. If you need to find a home for it…
This is truly a little masterpiece.
It’s a great tag and the subtle use of the required theme and jewels is perfect. This one was hard for me too, but you nailed it! Well done. Hugs, Autumn
Fabulous tag, I adore the circle and the wonderful backdrop, the blue is striking. Fabulous embellishments too. Tracy ❤️❤️
For me, the jewel coloured background is exquisite, it reminds me of the sea… but of course, the brown accents really give the whole tag a lift! Anne xx
i love the loose interpretation of ‘edges’, i too would be at a loss with out copious amounts of brown at the ready. fabulous project.
vicki
Oh that background! LOVE the blue marble! Perfect little gent too!
That background is divine. I know you abhor bright colors, but your addition of walnut stain to the “edges” really made it pop. So genius. This entire piece is a “gem.” The details are thrilling. Your work is so free and inspiring and perfectly composed. Yeah, I’m a fan! xo
This is one AMAZING tag, Zoe! I love how you toned down the bright blue and used the Milk Caps so brilliantly in your design. Your background is just mouth watering, as usual! You are such an incredible inspiration! Hugs!
How to take a jewel inspired challenge and create a beautifully handsome project? Ask Zoe!!! This is just lovely and I love that you took the jewel theme and created this fabulous tag with a boy image!
Love this tag, the colour, the design and the sweet boy in the photo. Thanks for sharing your work
I love your work! I am creating a shopping list of many of the products you used on this tag, especially the stitched circles, the Rusty Hinge Distress Paint, and the Garden Greens Thinlets! Just hoping that if I practice enough, I can create some of your gorgeous effects.
Urs has to be my FAVE!!!
I am totally addicted to both the muted browns, blues, & reds!!! Americans is my fave set of colors & I think I probably use my Vintage Photo Distress (both reg & Oxide) inks -hands down- on every single project! If that’s too dark- I’ll use my next fave: Tea Dye.
The boy doll (I LOVE LOVE LOVE those TH Paper Dolls!!!), & the circle just make the perfect Tag here!!!!
Sweet take on this Challenge!!