Hi you!
Today, I’m joining Simon Says Stamp again as the Designer in the Spotlight of the SSS Wednesday Challenge.
I hope you’ll be inspired by my work! Now let’s get crafty…
This week’s theme is ‘Making your own background’ with Tim Holtz as the artist in the spotlight. I wanted to make a card that has just a very simple design so the background could stand out. And I really wanted to use my all time favorite inks: Tim Holtz’ Oxides!
I started with stamping out the cute Santa bear from the Lawn Fawn – Oh What Fun mini stamp set. I stamped it on my Bristol Smooth paper, using Versafine Onyx Black ink. I used my Zigs to color in the images. The colors I used: Red, Oatmeal, Light Carmine, Dull Blue, Ochre, Fog Gray. For the first time, I used the Zig Blender to fade out the colors. I really liked the result so I’m sure I will be using this again.
To create my card panel, I again cut my Bristol Smooth paper in the size I wanted ( small and skinny. I masked off the hill with some Post-It Tape. I’m a big fan of Tim Holtz’ Distress Oxides so I really wanted to use them this week. I chose ‘Picked Raspberry‘, ‘Wilted Violet‘ and ‘Blueprint Sketch‘ to create my sky. I splattered some water and white gouache onto the panel.
To make this card just a little bit more special, I decided my Santa had to slide off the snowy hill I created. I took a scrap of Neenah Solar White paper and traced down my hill on that paper. I cut it out, so I had a piece to create the slider mechanism. First, I stamped my sentiment and for my slider, I used the Mama Elephant – Straight Sliders.
Kelly Marie Alvarez from Lawn Fawn explains very clearly how to create such a mechanism in this video.
I assembled the mechanism and then adhered everything on my slim card base. I really like how this card turned out.
Tim, hope you’ll be better very soon!
I hope I gave you some inspiration to make someone’s heart happy.
Love, Jarle x
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You can win a 50$ gift voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store. Just create a card in this week’s challenge theme and submit it on their challenge website!
Have fun creating!
Handmade card. Happy heart. 