PREMIUM CRAFT BRANDS CHALLENGE #39 ANYTHING GOES.....

Hey guys welcome to the NEW Challenge look at 

PREMIUM CRAFT BRANDS CHALLENGE BLOG

So we have a brand new challenge and Berni has a fabulous prize for the winner of the Challenge. And in fact our generous sponsor has lots of wonderfull products in her store, you just gotta check it out (just by clicking the blinky it will take you there).

I am extremely proud to welcome the new teamies

Louise Sims

Suzi McKenzie

Tracy Easson
Zoe Russell


Alongside Claire, Nikky and myself we hope to give you lots of inspiration over the coming months....The blog has had a facelift and looks great thanksss to Nikky.....Please check out my amazing teamies their indivual blogs to check out the fabulous projects they have made....

Here is some info about the Challenges......

1. You do NOT need to use Pan Pastels or our other products on your entries as long as you follow the challenge theme - obviously we'd love you to use the products but realise not everyone has them.
Each challenge runs from Sunday 8.00 am and ends the following Tuesday at noon GMT - this gives you 9 days to add your entry and join in with us. 

The winner of each challenge will be chosen at random by a random number generator.
Please note: Due to postage costs the Random Winner Prize will be posted to a UK postal address only - but overseas entries are still welcomed and will be included in the Top 3.
In addition to the random winner the Design Team will also choose their favourite Top 3 entries for that week who will all be able to proudly display their winners badge and may be asked to Guest Design for us. Overseas entries are welcome and will be included in our Top 3.

So we hope you like the changes and it has made it easier for you all to enter! 

ANYTHING GOES......is the theme for the challenge

You can use ANY products to enter our challenge!

Remember to join our Facebook group too, Premium Craft Brands, where we have daily inspiration and share some of our favourite makes & hints and tips every day, it's a great place to be. 

So this is what I have made....

I have altered a foto frame....I just love to alter anything I can get my hands on....and when you read the text underneith the picture you can find out what I did with it......

I've used the Gesso and the fabulous A4 butterfly stencil with roses with Light Modelling Paste to make the texture on the frame. The Metallic PanPastels were used on top of the frame and give the frame a shine. The wooden hearts are worked on with Metallic PanPastels and Crackle to give it a fragile look. I really love that look on the hearts....

The background in the frame has lots of texture from a honeycomb stencil and a sentiment stamp. On top I played with the Metallic PanPastels. The butterflies are from Wendy Vecchi and I played with Embossing Powder and Utee to finish them. 

This is the side of the frame, so you can see how it looks like that......(and that it is really a frame lol...)

The background from the frame is also worked on with distress inks and butterfly papers from Tim Holtz....

And did you see the little butterfly stamp at the bottom..hehee I did not use that one in a longgggggg time....it is my own handmade by Terry Stamp wohoooo see I told ya I just love butterflies....

So are you curious what the projects from my amazing teamies look like guys....then I suggest you come over to the PREMIUM CRAFT BRANDS BLOG and check out all the fabulous projects..your gonna love them....Have loads of fun and offcourse were very curious what your about to make ....

Hugs Terry 

xxxx

FRIDAY FOCUS ON MELISSA FRANCIS PRODUCTS on the FRILLY AND FUNKIE CHALLENGE BLOG xxx

Editor's Note; we are pleased to let you know that many items have been restocked at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. Limited supplies of the new products from Summer CHA 2013 are now in stock, including the new Sizzix Framelits Die sets, Texture Fades, Movers and Shapers dies, Bigz dies, and the Coats Eclectic Elements fabric packs. You can see all the latest items HERE.

Hey there guys....it's Terry, and it's my turn to give you a Friday Focus on the fabulous Melissa Francis range.......and Linda has lots of Melissa Francis products in the The Funkie Junkie Boutique... you should really check it out...your really gonna love what your about to see.... Ok, here we go.....

When Linda asked me to focus on the Melissa Francis range at first I did not have a clue what to make....but it did not take me long before the ideas just popped into my head. I really like to work with the products, the lace is completely yummy and the embellishments are fabulous to work with.

I had this nice empty lace package from Melissa Francis and thought that I could re use it...so I took my pencil and drew around the package onto a piece of Pion Design Paper.....cut it out and glued the two pieces together.

I took a paper distresser and worked on the edges and then got the Vintage Photo Distress Ink and gently blended the borders with it.

Then I got the Embossing Paste from Wendy Vecchi and her fabulous diamond stencil and played with it onto the what was going to be a label of some sort.....

Next I took the Ranger Embossing Powder, this time the rust one....and heated it with my heat tool. Did you know that if you use the Embossing Paste from Wendy you get a fabulous result playing with embossing powder on top? 

So this does not look like much....but bear with me you will see the end result pretty soon....after you check out my WHOLE post, lol......well there are just a "few" more pictures, lol......

I took the Dylusions Spray and the Adirondack Colour Wash out and sprayed it onto the heart embellishment.....it comes in the off white colour but for this project I wanted a different colour. The Espresso was a bit too dark for me so I sprayed some white Ink Spray on top......

Perhaps you think it is still too dark....I thought so too so first I played with the embossing powder and after that I worked on it some more...you will see the result shortly......

I did the same with this fabulous embellishment with the white roses on it....sprayed it and played with the embossing powder.....to give it a rusty look....

So here you have it, see the difference.....I think the Rust came out pretty good don't you think....on top I used some more Vintage Photo to finish it..

I used the same routine with the off white roses from Melissa and sprayed it and embossed it.....

This is the way the roses look after they have been "embossed".

The Melissa Francis range has some awesome lace too.....different kinds and you can work with it in so many different ways....I was thinking about a flower....so I took the lace and curled it up and at the end I made a sort of a rose with it......

I think this lace is really wonderful and it was used underneath the rose.....

So this picture lets you see what the end result is...On top a rusty rose for the centre and some underneath the bigger rose that I made out of two sorts of lace.....

So now it was time to place the lace with flower onto the sort of a label and underneath some more lace....it looks a little like a ballerina eh? lol.....

I had a little star in my closet and thought that would look great underneath the rose.....

Remember the heart.......well this is the finished heart with lace underneath, you can do so much with a piece of lace and an embellishment.....on top the diamond and the sentiments to finish.....

I took the "whole" label and wanted to hang it up on the wall, so the easiest way to do that is to use this gorgeous hanger from Melissa Francis...and the fabulous thing is if you want use it for another project, just unclip it and used it for something else....how clever is that eh?

So I hope you like my Friday Focus and hopefully I have given you some ideas for using and altering the products from the Melissa Francis range. And remember, if you have purchased some goodies from Linda's shop, you can re use the package to make something out of that too! Be sure to check out the Friday Focus section at The Funkie Junkie Boutique where for this week only you will find items from the Melissa Francis range are discounted by and extra 15%.

Hope you will have lots of fun. We would love to see what you make.

Hugs Terry 

xxxx

Melissa Frances Satin Pleated Ribbon - Cream	Melissa Frances Blossom Assortments Resin Embellishments	Melissa Frances Satin Pleated Ribbon - Pink	Melissa Frances Satin Pleated Ribbon - White	Melissa Frances Jewel Button Assortment
Melissa Frances Reproduction Glass Button Assortment	Melissa Frances Floppy Blossom Ribbon - Pink	Melissa Frances Floppy Blossom Ribbon - Champagne	Melissa Frances 4" Flower Clip Hanger	Melissa Frances Organza Pouf Ribbon - Cream
Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stencil - Diamonds are a Girl′s Best Friend	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste - White	Pion Designs Paper - From My Heart II Scrapbooking Paper	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder - Vintage Photo	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder - Black Soot
Dyan Reaveley′s Dylusions Ink Spray - Set of 12	Adirondack Color Wash Dye 2 Ounce Spray - Espresso	Large Ivory Resin Flower Embellishments - 1 1/8"	Ivory Resin Flower Embellishments	Pink Resin Flower Embellishments - 1/2""
Large Pink Resin Flower Embellishments - 1 1/8"	Large Sky Blue Resin Flower Embellishments - 1 1/8"	Pink Resin Flower Embellishments - 3/4"	Rusted Metal Embellishments - Hearts, Stars, Bottle Caps, Bells	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Vintage Photo	Ranger Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink Reinker