This week, with Memorial Day right around the corner, Stampendous is celebrating the mice of summer. I have featured one of the "summeriest" House Mouse stamps I have seen.
Here is how it was done:
MATERIALS:
Shrink Plastic
Sand Paper
Manual Die Cut Machine
Big Bite, or other strong hole punch
Prismacolor Pencils in French Gray 30% and 90% , Cool
Gray 10%, 20%, 30%, 50%, 70% and 90%, White, Blush Pink, Deco Pink, Pink Rose, Spring
Green, Lime Peel, Olive, Marine Green, Yellow Chartreuse, Dark Umber, Light
Umber, Sepia, Burnt Ochre, Orange,
Pumpkin Orange, Terra Cotta, Sand,
Jasmine, Canary Yellow, Goldenrod, Light Aqua and Deco Aqua.
Zip Dry
Foam Squares
My Colors Card Stock in Tropical Splash, Poolside
and Spearmint
Corregated Kraft Card Stock
Raffia in Green and Natural
DIRECTIONS:
1) Fold
a piece of 12” by 6 ” card stock so that
the fold is on the top.
2) Stamp
the Shell Search image onto the mixed media paper with the Momento Ink.
3) Color
the image with the pencils.
4) Stamp
the Sentiment with Versamark Ink and cover with the embossing powder.
5) Tap
off the excess powder and heat emboss with tool.
6) Sand
one side of the shrink plastic.
7) Stamp
the other side of the shrink plastic with the shell image and the Stazon Ink.
8) Use
the manual die cut machine and the fitted frames die to cut a pretty frame
around the sentiment.
9) Use
the die cut machine and the shell die to cut around the stamped shell image.
10)
Color the back of the shell image with
colored pencils. Be sure to color with
the white to make the shell opaque.
11)
Use the hole punch to create a large
hole in the plastic shell.
12)
Use the heat embossing tool to shrink
the shell. Be sure to do this on a
non-stick heat proof surface.
13)
Adhere the image to a poolside mat and
then to the corregated board.
14)
Adhere the board to the background.
15)
Push the raffia through the hole in the
shell.
16)
Tie raffia ribbon in place.
17)
Attach the sentiment to the tropical splash
card stock.
18)
Attach the sentiment with the foam
squares to raise it above the background.
Now, I had a bit of a departure this week--notice the lack of stencils. Since Stampendous is doing primarily stencils on Thursday, my post will be linked to their site on Friday. Therefore, I am posting links to BOTH Thursday and Friday here. Thanks for stopping by
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