Favourite Things

'brown paper packages tied up with strings ~ these are a few of my favourite things' 

Tim Holtz + Stampers Anonymous cms498 Home for Christmas is an awesome stamp set. It has all the vintage feels. I chose the wrapped parcel for my make. I was inspired by my friends Nico Scrap and Vicki Evans. You can find his make on his IG post. and Vicki's make on her IG post here. This is what I came up with.

The Base:

Starting with distress watercolour card stock, and distress inks in antique linen, old paper and frayed burlap, I did a watercolour wet-on-wet technique. 

It's all in the Layers:

Building up the layers on the base. Distress ink in frayed burlap with background stamp ticking and grain. Randomly stamp on base.

Layering stencil sparkle fade with texture paste in sparkle adds the right amount of bling to the make. Let the paste air dry.

Tim + Ranger distress spritz adds the perfect amount of shimmer to any make. Antique linen is my favourite and it pops out nicely on the background. Distress ink in walnut stain, blended around the edges for a more defined yet softer look.

One of my favourite pass times is colouring. It's very therapeutic and good for the soul. I used distress watercolour pencil crayons. They are easy to colour with and blend like butter. I chose walnut stain + gathered twigs for the shading and old paper + antique linen for the hi lights. This colour combo is perfect for the parcels from the stamp set Home for Christmas.

One of my favourite stamp sets from Tim + Stampers Anonymous is Classic Favourites ~ Classic #10 SCF010. It's one of the first stamp sets I owned. The saying from this set is perfect for this make. 'brown paper packaging tied up with strings ~ these are a few of my favourite things. First mask out the bottom wording of stamp, then ink the top with distress archival in frayed burlap.

The finishing touches:

Have you ever had a 'what if' moment? Those ideas can be very surprising. I grabbed some twine, then tied them up into little bows to go on top of the parcels. Died the bows using distress spray stains in my splat box, then heat set. 

I chose mermaid lagoon, uncharted mariner and speckled egg. Machine stitched the border in cream thread.

Sometimes it's fun to think outside the box and be inspired by others. You never know where it will take you.

Christina