Hello All! Today was the release of the Simon Says Stamp Stamptember Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Stamp Collection, which this year included two stencils, and small jars of the new Glow Distress Grit Paste and Sparkle Distress Texture Paste from Ranger. I was so honored to be asked to make a project for the release, and I had such making these whimsical Christmas cards. The images on the set are so so FUN, and I love the addition of a few snarky sentiments. Enjoy!
Cut Distress White
Heavystock from Ranger to 4 x 6" for as many card fronts as you want to
make (I made 4 different designs). Take the second to largest circle from the
Sizzix Stitched Circles Framelits and place it in the very center of the one of
the papers, and die cut. You can use a pencil to mark where the center is and
the edges of the circle to help. Do all the card fronts with the die, and set
the circles aside for now. Take the new stamp set and using the mittens, all
three stockings, and snow flurries images, place them onto one of the card
fronts so the mittens are on the top left side and snow next to it in the
center all at the top (you will be stamping another mitten on the right) and
all three stockings are at the bottom equally centered. Take the arrow looking
pine tree from the Festive Print Stamp Set, and place it below the mittens
about 1/2 inch down (you will be stamping another directly across, and then two
more above the stockings later). Use a ruler and pencil to mark where to make a
line under the mittens and snow, then under the arrow tree, then above the
stockings, then above where the other row of arrow trees will be. Go ahead and
place the paper into the stamp platform and close the lid to secure those
stamps. Remove the paper and lightly draw the lines with the pencil and ruler. Using
a scrap paper for a straight edge mask, color in the top and bottom lines with
Festive Berries Distress Ink and an Ink Blending Tool, then the lines under
those with Twisted Citron, and the middle part with Speckled Egg Distress for a
colorblocked look. Repeat doing all the rest of the papers.
Place one of the papers
into the platform and stamp the images with Glacier White Pigment Ink (It's a
good idea to reink the pad beforehand so it is nice and saturated. Stamp the
images a few times so they are nice and white. Repeat with the other papers
keeping them separated for the ink to dry as it stays wetter longer. Remove the
snow flurries and all the stockings as you are finished with those, and then
move the mittens over to the right, as well as the arrow tree. Stamp those now
on all the papers. Remove the mittens as you are finished with those, and move
the arrow tree down to the other row, and stamp this on all the papers, then
repeat again stamping it on the opposite side doing all the papers. Set those
aside to dry.
Taking the die cut
circles now, place one into the platform and then place one of the main stamp images
on the circle centering it. Close the lid to adhere the stamp. Stamp the image
with Black Soot Archival a few times to make sure the images are nice and
crisp. Remove and do the next one on another circle. When you do the presents
and sweater, stamp the presents first, then onto a sticky note, cut that out,
and place over the presents to mask then stamp the sweater over.
Take a black fine tip
permanent pen and draw a wavy line across for the Santa and snowman that will
divide snowy land and sky. Add a few lines under the snowman and Santa's feet
for snowy build up. Finish drawing the rest of the reindeers body on the other
side of the wreath, and then a dividing line for land and sky, and a line
straight up from the wreath like it's hanging from it. Color in the sky on the
reindeer and snowman with a Speckled Egg Distress Watercolor Pencil and a Broad
Water Brush, as well as the area around the sweater and presents, but don't
extend the color over the cut and embossed stitching around the circles. Take
the star stencil and a yellow pencil with Detail Water Brush and add stars
around the sweater and around Santa. Take the flurries stencil and a light blue
pencil and brush and add flurries around the snowman and reindeer. Color in the
rest of the images with the pencils and water brush. For the snow areas only
add light blue lines tracings around the black lines leaving the snow white.
For Santa's sky, use the Black Soot Pencil and color around the stars. Take the
stencils again and a small paint brush and brush the Sparkle Distress Texture
Paste through the stencil over all the stars and flurries. Then add more
Sparkle to the snow areas, Santa's hat and the snowman's body. Using a red
crayon and brush color in the triangle parts of the border stitching leaving
the very outer border white. Let dry.
Cut
and fold a Kraft Cardstock base card to 4.75 x 6.75 inches, and ink the edges
with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. Cut a black cardstock mat to 4.5 x 6.5 and
mount to center of card base with two sided tape. Cut a white cardstock mat to 4.25
x 6.25 inches and mount to black. Take the colorblock piece, and ink the edges
with Gathered Twigs and then mount onto the white. Mount the circle to the
middle. Use the black pen to draw in lines between the colorblocking to look
like stitching, and do the same over the cut lines on the circle. Shake up
colors of Distress Mica Stain and pour a tiny bit out and use the Detail Water
Brush to color in some parts of each image, like the bows on the presents,
Santa's boots, belt and buckle, the snowman's hat, the ornaments on the wreath.
Stamp the sentiments onto Vellum with Black Soot, and cut apart leaving space
on each side. Fish tail cut the left side and add a tiny piece of two sided
tape to the right side and adhere to the right side of the card front. Add two
sided tape to the bottom of a light blue drop, and place that over the tape
part under the sentiment.
Supplies:
(Paper Trimmer, Pencil, Ruler, Scrap
Paper, Ink Blending Tool, Stamp Platform, Sticky Note, Scissors, Detail Water
Brush, Broad Water Brush, Two Sided Tape, Small Paint Brush)
-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Heavystock:
White
-Sizzix Tim Holtz Framelits: Stitched
Circles (second to largest)
-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Speckled
Egg, Twisted Citron, Festive Berries, Gathered Twigs
-Stamper's
Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamptember 2023 Set
-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp
Set: Festive Print
-Ranger Pigment Ink: Glacier White
-Ranger Tim Holtz
Distress Archival Ink: Black Soot
-Ranger Tim Holtz Watercolor Pencils
-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Texture
Paste: Sparkle
-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Mica Stain:
Frozen Fog, Unravelled, Snow Flurries, Tree Lot, Yuletide, Wicked Elixir,
Fallen Acorn, Iron Gate
-Ranger Surfaces: Kraft Cardstock, Black
Cardstock
-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Christmas
Droplets
-Permanent Fine Black Pen, White Pen, Vellum
Thanks so much for stopping by! I will be back next week with the other Stamper's Anonymous Christmas make. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!
