Going Grunge with Wild Honey

Hello Everyone!

Today I have put shabby on the shelf and pulled out a big dose of grunge!! I really wanted to play around a little bit with some Tim Holtz techniques and my new Wild Honey distress spray to create a project for a few of my favourite challenges. This was a lot of fun to make, a bit of a mixed media frenzy and I was just covered in orange spots, which I thoroughly enjoyed!!

OK, so you may have noticed that there are flowers on my GRUNGY creation...well, I was hellbent on proving that flowers can be added to any project, no matter what style you are using! I think I proved my point with these vintage florals made from Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die. They are coloured with Tim Holtz distress ink Wild Honey and Gathered Twigs. I edged them with Vintage Photo ink and then used some Glossy Accents to glue Vintage Photo distress glitter in the centers.

For the background I coated a piece of cardboard with homemade texture paste which I mixed with DecoArt Crafter's Acrylic Tan to make a beige paste. I squished in some foam letters and let it dry.

After it dried, I attacked it with Tim Holtz distress sprays Gathered Twigs, Wild Honey and Scattered Straw, I let it pool and drip all over the place. Then I spritzed with some water, Wild Honey and Picket Fence to make some random stains.

The butterflies were cut using the Tim Holtz French Flight set. I stained them with Gathered Twigs and Wild Honey and stamped on some numbers with Ranger Archival Coffee ink.

The frame was cut from the Tim Holtz Ornate Frame die and covered with Glue N Seal, then Vintage Photo and Antique Linen distress glitters as well as some Walnut Stain embossing powder. I used Tim Holtz's distress glitter technique to antique the frame.

The ticket layers were made using various Tim Holtz, Artistic Outpost and other stamps with Ranger Archival ink Coffee. I used some Wendy Vecchi Crackle Paste and the Tim Holtz Arrow stencil to apply the arrow in the middle of the ticket. I dripped some Wild Honey and Gathered Twigs onto the tags and tickets and let it run all over the place. Then I flicked on some Wild Honey, Picket Fence and Walnut Stain with the end of my brush.

The numbers were cut using Tim Holtz's Vintage Noel die and then I used embossing powders Tim Holtz Walnut Stain, Ranger Copper and UTEE with my to give it a nice worn out look. Voilà, grunge project complete!!! Thanks Tim!!

I am entering my Wild Honey card into the following wonderful challenges:

- A Vintage Journey - Special Numbers

- Artist Trading Post - Alphabet Soup

- Country View Challenges - February Challenge - Drips and Drops
- Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - No Rules
- Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
- The Male Room - Challenge 04 - Create Background Paper
- Shopping Our Stash - Challenge #190 - Out of the Jar
(I used two types of glitter, two types of embossing powder and UTEE)

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All of the following products that I used can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique


That's it for today. Thank you for stopping in and for all the amazing comments. I read and appreciate every single one! If you have any questions, please let me know.