Winter Scene Building with Small Stamps

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Today I am bringing you some simple wintery ideas, and a few fun ways to use those smaller stamps to build scenes. The first idea is so simple - it's repetition! We often use small stamps on clean & simple cards - as a small focal point with a clean background, but as you'll see with the small tree and deer from this month's Hero kit - you can fill a card by repeating images. I started with Soft Granite Ink - with the tree on an acrylic block, and I stamped the grey trees you see in the center at full strength, and moved away to stamp again with the leftover ink, repeating this process maybe a dozen times - I wanted a prominent row on the middle section and lighter trees above and below.

Next, I did the same, but with black ink - so that a few trees really popped and became focal points - stamping the leftover ink trees among the grey trees as well. It gives the feeling of snow in between you and the lighter trees doesn't it?

Then I took the deer from the kit and stamped him in black in the foreground.

I used an OLO Marker to create shadows for the trees and deer, leaving the top of the card white to look like an upsloping snowy hill. The placement of the trees adds to that vertical feeling as well.

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Here's what the full kit looks like - it has a snowy cling stamp too! Love the village.

Here are all the add-ons this month - and I have a card with one of the dies. They have a sentiment strip Christmas tree! And dies that cut the strips - so if you want just greetings, this is a great combo, but it also makes super cute cards with the tree, as you will see today.

Yesterday's card (details here) used the tree again from the kit to make a tiny subtle rainbow.

Two books about winter made a BIG impact on me as a kid. The Snow Queen, and The Chronicles of Narnia. I remember so vividly the sleighs in both! And, for the Frozen generation, the Snow Queen - incredibly dark, as per Hans Christian Andersen's style, is what that is loosely based on. I've never seen it - I'm not a big Disney fan, and the song is so annoying I think it could be fatal. But anyway, you should read the book. The sleigh is basically a character in the fairy tale - an alluring character. As it is in Narnia, driven by the White Witch and pulled by the white reindeer. Yet another reminder that winter is objectively terrible!! Narnia must be out in the universe this week too - because one of my food groups posted a recipe for Turkish delight! I've never made it myself so I might have to try. This recipe site never fails me so maybe I'll try their version.

Anyway, all that to say, this sleigh die  reminded me of those bewitching sleighs! I decided to make it as alluring as possible, with silver and pink glitter paper. The background uses the birch trees stencil (I'll be using this in my Stamp-Along class, if you are attending!) with Splash ink, and over that, I used the new snow stencil and acrylic paint to add snow. The colors give it such a 50s feel. The sentiment is from the strip tree.

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