Friday, December 22, 2023

Winter Wonderland Elf šŸ§šŸ»

Hello! Hope your holiday must-dos are winding down and the get-to-dos are a-plenty! ā˜ŗļø Iā€™m sharing this festive, super-layered make with a cute elf and LIGHTS šŸ’”šŸ’” 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 šŸ¤¤



Hereā€™s how she came together šŸ‘‡šŸ»


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! šŸ˜





I roughed up the paper edges with the distress wheel and glued the pieces down on the back panel of a framed panel set



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



Added a few mounting dots, painted with black soot



Wonderlandā€¦ used the Tiny Type lower font and cut three sets from heavystock


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


Added Hardware heads to the frame corners and more random gold embossing




Annnnd thatā€™s how my project came together šŸ”š Hope you like it! I sure enjoyed making it ā˜ŗļø Thanks so much for looking! Sending you all warm (and crafty) wishes! šŸ’«

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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