I created a little winter scene using Eileen Hull's Shadow Box Frames #2 Die Set to make the frame. It is a handy die set to have in your tool box! Another 2022 favorite is the Holiday seasonal release, Gray Two-tone Woodgrain Cardstock. Love it! It has a great look even without any inking and it was really easy to die cut to make the frame.
The background is the new Tim Holtz 3-D Texture Fade folder Tree Rings (which I LOVE). So much texture! The houses, trees, sky and sentiment are all cut using the Tim Holtz Christmas Cutouts Die Set. It is definitely not limited to Christmas projects. I really like the primitive look of the designs.
Let's take a look at some of the how-to:
Step 1 – First I inked up some Heavystock with Distress Spray Stains to use in the Tree Rings embossing folder.
Step 2 – One of my favorite techniques to use with the 3-D Texture Fade folders is to ink the folder itself with Archival Ink and then emboss. The ink gets transferred to the paper in all the de-bossed areas and really makes the texture pop. I tried three different ink colors to see which I liked best.
Step 3 – Cutting out the Shadow Box frame parts:
Step 4 – The frames aren't too hard to assemble, especially if you build it atop a gridded surface of some sort so you can make sure it glues up squared.
Step 5 – To create the houses and other elements, I applied foil tape over heavy cardstock and then painted over the metal with Distress Paint. (Tip: clean the foil with rubbing alcohol first and the paint will adhere better.) When the paint was dry, I die cut my pieces and then lightly sanded them to reveal some of the metal underneath.
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