LTSCB challenge 38 "Anything Goes"

Hello. Welcome to another Love To Scrap challenge. This time around it’s Anything Goes. We only have one sponsor for this bi-weekly challenge and that sponsor is:

 DRS Designs

 

The Prize:

I am working with an image and sentiment by DRS Designs that they graciously provided. The image is entitled “Snow Globe” and the sentiment is called Spirit of Christmas Greeting. Obviously I made a Christmas card. I have been wanting a snow globe image for some time. I saw this one and decided to give it a try. Normally we are not supposed to use any images or stamps from other manufacturers, but what is a snow globe without something inside. I don’t have anything else from DRS so I put a silhouette nativity inside.  That way I am not taking much away from the globe itself. This is my first shaker card ever. I got on You tube and found a simple tutorial. I decided to give it a go. I had to tear it apart and add a second layer of foam tape because the snow is just too thick and wouldn’t move around. It wouldn’t stay inside the tape either because the tape did not make a high enough wall. I don’t think it turned out to bad for my first try.

I used my gellyroll clear stardust pen on the stars inside the globe. I stamped the nativity with brown momento ink but it wasn’t dark enough. You could see the background paper through the image. I traced over it with copic E49 which helped tremendously. I stamped a star onto yellow cardstock and cut it out (not the easiest thing to do). I covered it with Wink of Stella gold and yellow pens for some sparkle and mounted it to the stable with a glue dot. Then I took diamond stickles and added more shine to the background. I had printed the globe several times on regular paper until I got the right size. Then I placed a small piece of brown cardstock over the globe’s base and printed again. I cut it out and layered it over the image. The cardinal and poinsettia are movers and shapers mini dies by Tim Holtz. I covered them with his frosted film for sparkle and used distress inks to color. The cardinal wasn’t dark enough, so I colored him with R27. I cut both dies out of a material called Clearly for Art. I used the whitout for this but it also comes in clear and black. You can heat this material and then shape it. I only shaped the poinsettia. The green branches are a pine branch punch from Paper Blossoms. The DP is from an old Christmas pack that I have had for years.

Here is the inside:

I used a small image of the snow globe printed on white cardstock. I colored it with copics-BG10 for the globe and E23, 25, 27, and 29 for the base. I then used Wink of Stella pens clear and brown to add sparkle. I stamped an angel inside using Delecata Gold ink. I applied a thin coat of 3D Crystal lacquer and sprinkled a little Rock Candy distress glitter and Recollections Bling extra fine glitter so that it looked like snow swirling around inside. I then added a thick layer of the crystal lacquer for a glassy effect. The sentiment was printed using Word. I changed the color using the recolor picture tool.

All in all I am very please at how this turned out. I hope you like it too. Thanks for stopping by. I hope to see your creations entered into our anything goes challenge. It runs from Sept. 15th-28th. Just click on the picture in my side bar. Until next time, “Happy Crafting”!!

I am entering the following challenges:
http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ Anything Goes
http://craftybootschallenges.blogspot.com/ Anything Goes
http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.com/  Add some Lines
http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/ Rock the techniques (Distressing, shaker card, using 3D Lacquer to create a glass look)
http://stamplorations.blogspot.com/2014/09/september-challenge-stamps-markers.html Stamps and Markers
http://thepapernestdollschallenge.blogspot.com/ Anything Goes
http://throughthepurplehazechallenges.blogspot.com/ Anything Goes
http://acreativeromance.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything Goes
http://qkrstampede.blogspot.com/ Things with wings (Cardinal and Angel)
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.com/ Anything Goes