Eileen Hull Snowman and Mitten Cards

This blog is not only dusty, it's completely neglected. So sorry everyone. This pandemic has made me blog derelict.  Hello to each and every one of you, and I pray that life has been treating you kind. So with a kick in the crafty hind end to participate in a blog hop, I have a set of inky mixed media wintry cards for you using Eileen Hull's new Sizzix dies, the Snowman and Mitten Large ScoreBoard Box Dies. By the way, Eileen just posted a lovely write up about each of her Educators and our favorite project we've made using her dies. Hope on over if you haven't seen it, and you can revisit my Steampunk Baby Shoes here as well.

I love playing cards, and tried to give this that sort of feel. I think these would be great for a winter birthday or all occasion card, and not just for Christmas.

I pressed five colors of Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink directly onto the Tim Holtz Glass Media Mat, sprayed them with rubbing alcohol, and ran sheets of Specialty Stamping Paper from Ranger through it, picking up the colors. This created a cool marbled swirly background. I let this dry naturally which happens fast.

Using a stamping platform, I stamped the Mini Swirly Snowflakes from Tim and Stamper's Anonymous onto the backgrounds using Forget Me Not Archival.

Then I stamped some more using the Urban Chic and Mini Media Marks sets using more Archival. I cut the backgrounds in half to create four card backgrounds.  I added a strip of heart Washi Tape and stamped a striped border along the bottom. Then I inked the edges of each card and rounded the corners by hand.

I stamped the letters onto the upper left side of the cards, and mounted the cards onto black cardstock. Using the heart pieces cut from the Mittens Box Die using Mat Board, I inked over them in Red Geranium Archival, and adhered them under the letters for each card. I used a white pen to color in the circles in the background of each card as well.

I wanted a more 3D Snowman so I used two pieces of each scarf and hat, and trimmed sections off and layered them on top of each other. I inked over all the pieces with Archival.

I added stamped portions over the snowman and snow using the scribbly circle stamp and lightly stamped in Sky Blue Archival. Then I adhered all the pieces of the snowmen together.

To have the mittens fit the card size a little better, I trimmed off a portion of the cuff and adhered it on top of the remainder of cuff for a more 3D look. I inked the sides, trim, and cuff in Forget Me Not.

I lightly stamped over the mittens using Wendy's Ticking Background Stamp and Sky Blue to make them look knitted. Then I stamped the snowflake image in the middle, and stripes onto the cuffs. I colored in the snowflakes with Pitt Pens from Faber-Castell. I added more hearts onto the mittens and snowmen.

I added the snowmen and mittens to each card front, and highlighted a few areas with Stickles. Then to finish the cards I added the words with Label Letters from Tim Holtz Idea-ology.

 

 

Supplies: 

(Stamp Platform, Paper Trimmer, 91% Rubbing Alcohol, Stamping Block, Ink Blending Tool, Skor Tape, Foam Tape, Scissors)

-Ranger Surfaces: Specialty Stamping Paper, Black Cardstock

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink: Red Geranium, Sky Blue, Forget Me Not, Bluebird, Cornflower Blue, Watering Can, Tiger Lily, Orange Blossom, Potting Soil, Jet Black

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Mini Swirly Snowflakes, Urban Chic, Mini Media Marks, Blockprint

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Washi Tape

-Sakura Gelly Roll Pen: White, Black

-Sizzix Eileen Hull Scoreboards Large Box Die: Snowman, Mitten

-Sizzix Little Sizzlers Mat Board: White

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium: Matte

-Stamper's Anonymous Wendy Vecchi Background Stamp: Ticking

-Faber Castell Pitt Pens: Cobalt Turquoise, Indian Red

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Label Letters
-Ranger Stickles: Diamond, Black Diamond
 

Eileen Hull Snowman and Mitten Blog Hop Participants:

Jennie Atkinson

Sue Eldred

Madeline Arendt

Sarah Lizzie

Debbie Bankston

Nicole Wright

Cheryl Bodkin Waters

Annette Green 
Julia Aston
Karen Bearse

Susie Bentz

Pam Bray

Anna-Karin Evaldsson

Lisa Hoel
Jenny Marples

Elizabeth Robinson

Tonya Trantham

Mitsyana Wright

Don't forget to visit all the fabulous designers in this hop to see their gorgeous makes. I am going to try to be back soonish. Thank you truly for stopping by today and making my day!!! Stay safe and healthy everyone!

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Snow Guy

Can you believe it's snowing here today in West Texas...big huge flakes?!! I LOVE it, and hope it sticks around awhile. And the weather reminded me I have a card I forgot to post that I made last month. It's simple, but uses Ranger Alcohol Ink and Gloss Cardstock...some of my favs!  Here is the tutorial as well if you want to make one yourself.

Cut a piece of 12x12 Gloss Paper to 8.5x5.5 inches and fold in half to make an A2 sized card base (4.25x5.5 inches). Cut another 3.75x4.5 inches to use as the sky portion, and other another smaller piece 3x4.5 to use of the snow portion. Also, die cut the Assembly Snowman with the Gloss Cardstock as well.

Shake Snow Cap and Silver Mixative until the ball inside is going crazy, and apply a drop of each into a piece of felt on the Alcohol Ink Applicator Tool. Add about three drops of Sail Boat Blue, and begin pouncing the ink onto the base card front. You don't have to cover the whole thing like I did, as you will only see the edges.

Using the sky portion card, apply Cloudy Blue to a new piece of felt and pounce that on about 3/4 of the way down. Take a Mini Ink Blending Tool, and apply a few squirts of Alcohol Blending Solution and one drop of Snow Cap Mixative to it, let it set a minute, while you layer the Holiday Knit Stencil over the sky. You don't want it too wet. Lightly pounce the tool onto the stencil. You won't see a lot happening, but when you remove the stencil, those portions will be lighter.

Use Cloudy Blue and Snow Cap and pounce that of the smaller piece of Gloss Cardstock and cut those into three smaller pieces larger to smaller.

Apply Pitch Black to the hat, eyes, and buttons, Caramel to the branch arms, Cloudy Blue to the scarf, Poppyfield to the berries, Botanical to the leaf, and Sunset Orange to the nose.

Apply Cloudy Blue and Snow Cap to the bottom and edges of the round snowman body parts.

Tear the edges of the snow pieces, and adhere them together with Multi Matte, staggering the pieces.

Assemble the snowman with Multi Matte and Adhesive Foam for a 3D look. Add Cranberry Stickles to the berries, and do a little line work to the scarf and leaf with a Fude Ball Pen. Ink the edges of the snowman with Jet Black Archival, and snip the edges of the scarf for a frayed look.

Stitch the borders of the sky portion and the snow pieces so that all is together. Stamp the sentiment in Jet Black, and emboss with Clear Embossing Powder.

Attach the sky and snow to the base card using the Adhesive Strips...love those!

Ink the edges of the card with Wendy's Cornflower Blue Archival and stamp the tiny snowflakes onto the bottom portion of the snowman. Give him a quick dry with a heat tool, and attach him onto the card with Foam Tape, tucking him into the bottom of the snow piece. Add Mercury Glass Stickles to the middle of the snowflakes and adhere Mirrored Stars randomly on the card.

 

Until next time...stay warm!!!

Supplies:

Ranger Gloss Cardstock 12x12	Sizzix Tim Holtz Assembly Snowman Bigz Die	Snow Cap Mixative	Silver Mixative Alcohol Ink	Sail Boat Blue Alcohol Ink
Ranger Alcohol Ink in Botanical	Ranger Alcohol Ink In Caramel	Adirondack Alcohol Ink In Sunset Orange	Pitch Black Alcohol Ink	Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Poppyfield
Alcohol Ink Applicator Tool	Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool	Ranger Alcohol Blending Solution	Tim Holtz Collection Layering Stencil in Holiday Knit	Ranger Adhesive Foam in White
Ranger Adhesive Strips	Ranger Multi Matte Medium	Ranger Stickles in Cranberry	Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink	Stamper′s Anonymous Tim Holtz Handwritten Holidays 2 Stamp Set
Ranger Embossing Powder in Clear	Stamper′s Anonymous Tim Holtz Christmas Nostalgia Stamp Set	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink - Cornflower Blue	Ranger Stickles in Mercury Glass	Idea-ology Mirrored Stars
Ranger Fude Ball Pen in Black

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!