At The Movies

Hello friends!! I hope you had a good weekend! We had almost summer weather here and spent much time outdoors. I have also tried to sort out some computer problems that I have been having. It is Monday and a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is up, namely At the Movies. Since STAMPtember® started last Monday, we have our product/designer showcase this week instead, and the team is showcasing products by Spellbinders. You don't have to use Spellbinders products to join in, but it is always fun if you do. 

STAMPtember® continues the whole month, be sure not to miss anything. 

When I was thinking of the theme, I thought it would be a fun idea to do a layout about all the movies that Anton has seen at the movies. We love to go to the movies and when he was about 3.5 years old we started to take him to children's movies. I have kept the tickets, but I haven't managed to find them yet, they ended up somewhere during the move. I used an older photo of him and wrote quite a lot of journaling. Going to the movies with Anton is so much fun and he really loves it. 

For this layout, I used two die sets by Tammy Tutterow: Waterfall One and Frayed Posies dies, as well as her Dear Ruby background stamp. I took some step photos. My favourite part might be the box of pop corn, you'll see how it was made below.

I worked on a 12 x 12 sheet of watercoloured paper that I gessoed. Pumice Stone and Hickory Smoke Distress Paint was applied with a palette knife, and before they dried completely, I rubbed off some of the paint through Tim Holtz Tiles stencil.

The background was stamped with Tammy's Dear Ruby stamp. I really like this script stamp and also used it on my Wilderness layout.

Next, I coloured some Texture Paste with Candied Apple and Silver paint and smeared through the Industrial, Numbered and Stars stencils. 

I stamped Dear Ruby repeatedly on Tim Holtz Tissue Wrap. 

The Frayed Posies flowers were die cut from the tissue paper.

Glue or staple the flowers together and crumble them up a bit. I added a Prima Druzy Stones to the centers.

I often journal a lot on my pages and I love to find fun and easy ways to add more journaling, or photos, and often both. Tammy's Waterfall One is such a fun die set. There is also a Waterfall Two, with different edges, which you could easily combine with this one. I die cut three of the scalloped pages and three of the bracket ones. You can fit six pages into a letter-sized sheet of manila cardstock.

Stamp the pages with background stamps and Shadow Grey Archival ink, which gives a great light grey. Apart from Dear Ruby, I also used Tim Holtz Lattice & Flourish and ZigZag & Diamonds stamps.

 Fold along the score lines and ink with Pumice Stone and Hickory Smoke.

The waterfall book is built from the bottom page and up, so start with the last page and apply adhesive to the top flap. Fold the following page along the second flap, which is where you will line them up.

Adhere to the bottom page as shown, lining the top score line of the bottom page up with the second score line on the top page.

Continue adding page the same way, until your booklet looks like this. You can add more pages than I did. Fold the top flap over to give the it a nice finish.

Anton loves popcorn at the movies and I wanted to include that. Then I looked at the Waterfall One dies and got the idea of using the scalloped edge one to create a popcorn box. It was die cut from Mixed Media paper and I stamped a Tim Holtz popcorn image on top. 

Cut off a piece from each side and then score. Fold along the score lines, also using the lines created by the die. 

Glue only the folded flaps to the page, and you have a dimensional popcorn box that you can put things into.

I thought of making some fake popcorn, but instead I tucked three small stamped tickets into the box, as well as two straws. The straws were made from Tim Holtz Correspondence paper, rolled into a straw.

The script tissue flowers are really pretty, and would look great on a card too. Or put a stem on them a place them in a jar (check out this Wire and Felt Flowers project for inspiration).

I also splattered some black paint on the background and added a little extra silver paint to the stars. When everything was dry, black paint was dry brushed around the edges and here and there.

I like the big red stencil elements, and picked red because of the Spider-Man outfit.

Another two stamped tickets were glued to the cover, with the addition of a Chit Chat sticker. I embellished the Waterfall book with tissue tape, Deco Tape and some rub-ons.

I journaled on both sides of the pages inside the booklet and wrote down memories from our movie visits. The booklet lies flat on the page and doesn't add much bulk at all, which I really liked. It would also be a fun element on the front of a card, you could hide sentiments and special greetings inside.

At the side of the booklet there is a film strip stamped on Clearly for Art Modeling Film. Carefully heat the film and shape it as you'd like. It keeps its shape perfectly. I also stamped a movie program on acetate, which was placed under the photo, to add another layer to the layout.

The title was die cut from black Kraft-Core cardstock, using the Typo Lowercase die.

I hope you will join us in our At the Movies challenge. As every week, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

If you want to, follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 

Do you use Instagram ? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Spellbinders Tammy Tutterow Designs WATERFALL ONE	Spellbinders Tammy Tutterow Designs FRAYED POSIES	Spellbinders Tammy Tutterow DEAR RUBY	Tim Holtz AT THE MOVIES	Tim Holtz ZIGZAG and DIAMONDS
Tim Holtz LATTICE AND FLOURISH	Tim Holtz ODDS AND ENDS	Tim Holtz GOING SOMEWHERE	Tim Holtz Sizzix ALPHABET TYPO LOWER	Tim Holtz Stencil STARS
Tim Holtz Stencil NUMBERED	Tim HoltzStencil INDUSTRIAL	Tim Holtz TILES	Tim Holtz PLAIN TISSUE WRAP	Ranger MIXED MEDIA CARDSTOCK
Ranger 8.5 X 11 MANILA CARDSTOCK	Tim Holtz Core'dinations KRAFT CORE NOSTALGIC	Tim Holtz Idea-ology CORRESPONDENCE	Wendy Vecchi Modeling Film CLEAR	Tim Holtz Distress Ink HICKORY SMOKE
Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD PUMICE STONE	Ranger Archival Ink SHADOW GREY	Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK	Tsukineko JET BLACK STAZON	Ranger Paint Dabber SILVER METALLIC
Tim Holtz Distress Paint PUMICE STONE	Tim Holtz Distress Paint HICKORY SMOKE	Tim Holtz Distress Paint BLACK SOOT	Tim Holtz Distress Paint CANDIED APPLE	Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE GESSO
Ranger TEXTURE PASTE 4oz	Tim Holtz LABEL LETTERS	Tim Holtz Idea-ology CHITCHAT STICKERS	Tim Holtz Idea-ology DECO TAPE	Prima Flowers ROSSIBELLE Druzy Stones
Tim Holtz Idea-ology DAPPER DESIGN TAPE	Tim Holtz Idea-ology MERRIMENT TISSUE TAPE	Tim Holtz NUMBERS REMNANT RUBS	Tim Holtz BOTANICAL REMNANT RUBS	Tim Holtz Distress SPLATTER BRUSH
Simon Says Stamp White FLOUR SACK TOWEL	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White	Sizzix MAGNETIC PLATFORM	Sizzix MINT Standard Cutting Pads	Dina Wakley Ranger PALETTE KNIFE
Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER Ranger	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET	Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS	Ranger Inkssentials INK BLENDING TOOL	3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4
Tim Holtz Tonic CRAFT KNIFE	Tim Holtz Tonic Craft SCISSORS	Tim Holtz SANDING GRIP	Tim Holtz TINY ATTACHER Stapler	Ranger Inkssentials US HEAT IT CRAFT TOOL
Ranger Inkssentials EUROPEAN HEAT IT CRAFT TOOL	Hero Arts CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCK 3 by 3

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