DH has spent a happy afternoon cutting up old calendars and making envelopes from them; the background of this image was a picture that was too tall and thin for him to use, and when I saw it, I knew it would make a lovely setting for this stamp - even if, in the end, much less of it shows than I imagined at the start.
The original stamped image does have the snowman wearing an origami-style samurai helmet, and I have used them as embellishments on cards before (see HERE if you like), but never actually added one to the snowman before. DH painstakingly made 3 in decreasing sizes till he was happy that this one was the right fit . I coloured the snowman with Twinkling H2Os and the children with Polychromos pencils and cut them out.
For the base - originally I was thinking along the lines of Linda's Cracked Glass challenge from yesterday, so I started out with UTEE on plain card. But then - for the first time ever I am experiencing the "clumping" EP I have read so much about, so I decided I need to use up my seafoam white, and added a layer of that on top of 3 layers of UTEE, knowing it would give a somewhat distressed finish. Then after die-cutting the aperture, I decided to stamp on the silver snowflakes and use the Embedded Image] tutorial. And then my finger pulled up a little of the embossing, and I had to add one glitter snowflake to cover it up and a couple more to balance that one out. Liquid Pearl snow covers up the bottom of the stamped image, and I am very happy with this in the end.
Date: Friday, January 1, 2016 GMT Views: 1891
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