I had such a blast making today’s card! It would have been great to have had Cut ‘n’ Dry felt so I could make my own custom stamp pads. It sounds like a very cool technique that I’m going to try someday when I get the necessary supplies. But for now, I made do. (Check out Tim’s directions for making custom colored stamp pads.)
There’s lots of stamping on this card, many layers in fact, and I think that’s what makes it so nice. It’s simple, yet deep, if you know what I mean.
I started off by inking the paper (I just use plain white paper, the inserts that come in page protectors) with weathered wood and tumbled glass distress inks. Then I stamped my pine cone branch with pine needles distress ink.
I used the rest of the q-tip from yesterday’s project (there it was, just sitting on my desk, and it was perfect) to add vintage photo and walnut stain inks to the pine cones and peeled paint to the branch. Next, the music background was stamped with bundled sage distress and the flourishes with antique linen.
The Merry Christmas was added with fired brick and aged mahogany.
Finally I stamped all around with the splatter background with walnut stain.
The birdhouse was glue-dotted on, the cord taped around the back and that was that.
This one went so quick I can see doing several in assembly line fashion.
Supplies:
Vintage Photo Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Walnut Stain Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Peeled Paint Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Pine Needles Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Bundled Sage Tim Holtz Distress Inks
Aged Mahogany Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Fired Brick Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Antique Linen Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Weathered Wood Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Tumbled Glass Tim Holtz Distress Inks
Christmas Silhouettes Clear Stamps 5 pc Set Inkadinkado
Pine Cone Branch Stamp, Inkadinkado
Music Background Cling Stamps (Hero Arts)
Swirls Clear Stamp Set
All Night Media Wood-Mounted Stamps – Splatter Pattern
Birdhouse ornament – Merry minis, Michaels
