Textured Warm Layout

Hi everyone! It is STAMPtember® at Simon Says Stamp during September. This is such a fun event, a whole month full of stamping fun and inspiration. I was happy to take part in the celebrations on Saturday with the release of an exclusive Tim Holtz blueprint set. You can find my post here. 

It is Monday and a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, 'stamp + punch'. You can also combine stamping and die cutting, something I love to do.

Almost overnight, the weather changed into a feeling of autumn. It is almost as if you can smell and feel autumn in the air. Even though I would have loved summer to be longer (and warmer), I am looking forward to autumn. I like the changing of seasons and I haven't seen a 'real' autumn in a while. That might have been the reason for why I wanted to create a warm and golden layout for this week, with two photos and a quote that you can also find in my Brothers Crackle Album. I used Tim Holtz new Sizzix punches, which have such great designs. They also store easily since they are rectangular and have a closing mechanism. I took some step photos.

I worked on a 12 x 12 piece of watercolour paper. After coating it with gesso, I painted the page with Distress Paints. If you look carefully, you can see that the paint puddles are not on the layout, but on a piece of plastic packaging. 

After the first paint layer dried, I added some lovely gold. It is hard to see in the photos, but it makes the layout glow. 

When the paint was dry, the layout was stamped with various stamps, using Jet Black and Potting Soil inks. I love the Wheat Silhouette stamp and liked that there were two wheat strands, a taller one and a shorter one, as in two brothers. You can also find it on this set by Tim Holtz. I happened to have the wood mounted version. The backgrounds in the new Ledger Script set are so versatile. I love text stamps and will surely use this one a lot. The beautiful flourish stamp is from an older set, the Artful Flight Bird Cage.

I used the Bricked stencil and Wendy Vecchi's Crackled Texture Paste, almost to create the look of an old weathered wall.

When the paste dries, cracks appear. I painted them with watered down Walnut Stain and Black Soot paints, and added more black around the edges.

The flowers were punched from Metallic Kraft-Core cardstock, using the gold. If you haven't seen this cardstock yet, it has gold, silver and copper sheets and if you sand it will reveal a kraft-core as in the other kraft-core papers. The metallic shine is gorgeous, but I decided to slightly sand my flowers, to give them a rougher texture. The punches easily punch through cardstock. I used the Spiky Floral Medium. Daisy Flower Large, and Tattered Flower Large punches.

The flowers were stamped with the same script stamp that was used on the background.

I gave the flowers some shape with my Sizzix Susan's Garden Tool Kit, which is fabulous. I also punched banners, sanded and stamped them.

The layout was also splattered with some black paint. The mix of paint, stamping, and Crackled Paste gives the background an interesting texture.

I really like this sentiment, and if fits extra well since Anton is wearing dress out clothing on the photos, although not actually superhero clothing, since he is Darth Vader. The stamped sentiment comes from the Crazy Talk set.

The flowers were layered together with some gears and I also punched Laurel branches, which is one of my favourites of the punches that are available now. 

The photos were layered on sanded and inked gold Metallic Kraft-Core cardstock, inked Motif Cardstock (which has an embossed pattern that resists ink) and yellow Kraft-Core cardstock.

The flags were glued to a piece of twine. Spelling: 'brother'. 

A close up of the Wheat Silhouette stamping, stamped with both first and second generation stamping. 

I placed another stamped sentiment in an Ornate Plate and layered more of the flowers and gears, and a piece of ruler ribbon that I found on my desk. I used both glitter and star brads to hold the flowers together. 

I hope you will join us in our 'stamp and punch' challenge, as always, one random participant wins a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp.You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

In case you missed it, I am on Instagram now, you can find me here. And if you want to follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff every day. 

If you use instagram add #sssmchallenge to your challenge entry uploads, so that we can see them on there too.

Thank you so much for visiting today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies (affiliate links):

Tim Holtz LEDGER SCRIPT	Tim Holtz CRAZY TALK	Tim Holtz ARTFUL FLIGHT Bird Cage	Tim Holtz WHEAT SILHOUETTE	Tim Holtz THANKFUL SILHOUETTES
Tim Holtz WILD WEST	Tim Holtz CIRCLESTARS	Tim Holtz NATURE'S DISCOVERY	Tim Holtz WATERCOLOR	Tim Holtz Sizzix DAISY FLOWER Large
Tim Holtz Sizzix TATTERED FLOWER Large	Tim Holtz Sizzix BANNER Large	Tim Holtz Sizzix LAUREL Large	Tim Holtz Sizzix SPIKY FLORAL Medium	Sizzix SUSAN'S GARDEN TOOL KIT
Tim Holtz Core'dinations KRAFT CORE METALLIC 12 x 12	Canson XL WATERCOLOR PAPER 9x12	Tim Holtz MOTIF Cardstock	Tim Holtz Stencil BRICKED	Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK
Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival POTTING SOIL	Tim Holtz Distress Ink VINTAGE PHOTO	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD WALNUT STAIN	Ranger Paint Dabber GOLD METALLIC	Tim Holtz SCATTERED STRAW
Tim Holtz Distress Paint BLACK SOOT	Tim Holtz TEA DYE	Tim Holtz Distress Paint WALNUT STAIN	Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste CRACKLED	Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE GESSO
Tim Holtz SPROCKET GEARS	Tim Holtz Idea-ology MINI FASTENERS	Tim Holtz Idea-ology ARROWS Adornments	Tim Holtz Idea-ology MINI GEARS Sprockets	Tim Holtz STAR FASTENERS
Tim Holtz Idea-ology ORNATE PLATES	3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4	Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER Ranger	Ranger Inkssentials INK BLENDING TOOL	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET
Dina Wakley Ranger PALETTE KNIFE	Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS	Tim Holtz Tonic PAPER DISTRESSER

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