Sleigh Ride

Artistic Outpost is releasing a new winter plate today.  Sleigh Ride features nostalgic images of children in their coats and finery, perfect for your winter or holiday projects. It also features a versatile background stamp of glistening pine trees and holiday sentiments and collage elements.

These stamps are available both as an unmounted sheet of red rubber measuring 8.5" x 5.5" or mounted on EZMount clingfoam, pre-trimmed, and stored on a printed cling card.

My first project is a tag featuring an emboss resist technique.  The images were stamped in Versamark and clear embossed.  Next, I inked the tag using a combination of blue and purple Distress Inks to get the deep night sky hue that I wanted.  

After the ink dried, I placed the tag between newsprint and ironed off the embossing powder to get a cool batik effect.  The final step was putting Stickles Crystal Glitter Glue on my finger and patting it all over the trees until they were covered with a glittery night snow sparkle.  I used jewelry cord at the top of my tag and unwound and unraveled it a bit to give it a frayed effect.

My second card paired handmade papers with the cute little sleigh ride image.  I stamped in India ink and then used Egyptian Gold Twinkling H2O's to add gold glimmery accents to coordinate with the gold flecks in the handmade paper.  I tore the edges and put my adhesive about 3/4" from the edges, so I could curl the edges after attaching.

I added some hand-dyed seam binding ribbon from Outpost Attic Findings and a tiny snowflake from the set (also accented with gold) as an accent.

Make sure you check out the other design team blogs for more fabulous projects featuring these great images.

Lisa Somerville 

Gerrie Johnnic 

Lynn Stevens 

Judy Hayes 

Barbara Washington 

Connie Paxman 

Suzzane Czosek

 

Comments

[Lynn Stevens]

ohhh that blue is so elegant! Beautiful!!

[Judy Hayes]

Love that blue tag with the trees! It captured my attention right away in the Gallery! Nice work!

[stampersuzz]

Love the trees in white with that beautiful deep blue background. Lovely tag. The vintage children on the lovely soft paper is wonderful. Lovely card!

[Lisa Somerville]

Wonderful Christmas tag and card. The deep purples in the tag make for a stunning tag. The gold H20's look fab on the sleigh ride girls!

[Sandra]

love the tag!
Sandra

[Gerrie]

Oh Gosh GF, what a FAB release...luvin' your resist tag, outstanding!, sleigh ride details are FAB!

[connie paxman]

Oh my goodness...both of these are works of art using mediums...love the Batik with Stickles...but I most admire how crisp your image stamped on the handmade paper...
connie paxman

[Colleen Dietrich]

Stef, that blue tag is AWESOME! I'd frame it, if it were a gift to me. It's just so beautiful.

[Barbara Washington]

Two awesome art pieces. The use of the emboss resist technique on the tag was brilliant. Wonderful job.

[Tiffany E.]

Wow Stef! Such stunning work, the golden trees are spectacular, caught my eye right away!

[lauren]

of course these are BOTH gorgeous in the extreme but THAT TAG is just sooooooooooooooo utterly FAB♥U♥LOUS!!! (note to self: dark blue & gold SO ROCK!!!!!!!!) ♥♥♥

[Robyn Phelan Sharp]

I do love that creative tag...beautiful works...