Hello! Hope your holiday must-dos are winding down and the get-to-dos are a-plenty! āŗļø Iām sharing this festive, super-layered make with a cute elf and LIGHTS š”š” so glad I finally tried these! This project was a labor of love but so fun and the background turned out fab, got my gradient fix for a bit š¤¤
Hereās how she came together šš»
The Background (Papers)ā¦
Cut some strips of white heavystock and splotched on a few layers of watery Speckled Egg and Chipped Sapphire paintā¦
Ended up adding a few darker strips later, then cut all in half again for extra stamp varietyā¦
Next came clear emboss ink + various holiday stamps + matching distress glazes and heat set, then one final top coat of collage medium to seal everythingā¦ love! š
The Frameā¦
I painted the frame from a framed panel with a mix of black soot + chipped sapphire
Then I taped my mini lights around the underside of the frame, leaving some of the strand out for my elf to hold
To hide my messy edgesā¦ I cut four strips of heavystock and painted with a mix of black soot + chipped sapphire, then I stamped the strips with the crackle stamp + princess gold powder and heat set
I trimmed them the exact length of each of the four sides, scored and trimmed the corners, then glued and clamped
The Elfā¦
I cut four of the elf from the Thin Ice set out of heavystock paper and drew on some of my own details
Once I had my layers cut and assembled, I glued together with collage medium and added an extra goopy layer on top to help blend some seams + add texture
Next, liberally covered with clear emboss ink, sprinkled on Princess gold powder and heat set, followed by a wash of chipped sapphire paint to help define the levels/texture
The Winter Wonderland Lettersā¦
WINTERā¦ Used the Bigz Handmade font set to cut my winter letters from chipboard, using the negative space around the letter as a letter tile
Gave each letter the same treatment as the elfā¦ Covered with clear emboss ink and Princess Gold powder then heat set, followed by a wash of Black Soot paint over the top to grunge them up a bit
Glued them down on a strip of clear acetate
The Treesā¦
Cut lots of Forest Shadows dies out of heavystock paper then added grit pasteā¦ once it was dry, I fully covered the smaller trees with Princess gold, only a sprinkling on the larger
For my snow banksā¦ I cut the bases off of some unused trees, added gold embossing, followed by sprinkled on clear mica flakes
The Finishing Touchesā¦
The crystal knob at the top is from the mini Hardware set
Annnnd thatās how my project came together š Hope you like it! I sure enjoyed making it āŗļø Thanks so much for looking! Sending you all warm (and crafty) wishes! š«
x Erin
The Productsā¦
Surfacesā¦ framed panel, mixed media heavystock paper, clear acetate
Diesā¦ Thin Ice, Forest Shadows, Tiny type lower, Bigz handmade font
Mediumsā¦ collage medium, grit paste, clear mica flakes, clear embossing ink
Ranger Princess Gold Embossing powder
Stampsā¦ crackle, holiday music, holiday tiny text
Distress paintā¦ Speckled Egg, Chipped Sapphire, Black Soot
Ideaologyā¦ mini hardware, mini hardware heads
Otherā¦ mini mounting dots, heat tool, glass mat
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