Joy on Thin Ice

I was reminded last week that I had never blogged or posted this project, so here is the best I can do. There is a funny story behind it. 

Last spring when I was working on Halloween and Christmas sample projects for Tim Holtz Sizzix dies, I made an error and used a Chapter 4 release with it.... the Engraved Texture Fade that makes the amazing snowy drifts on the sides of the Vignette Boxes. UGH! So I made something else with the Thin Ice dies for the Ch 3 release, and left this project on a shelf in my studio for several months until it was time for Sizzix Chapter 4. I made a few additional changes, adding the Darling Deer and the little snowflakes from Arctic background die and sent it to Tim. 

Anyway, by the time the reveal finally came, I was in the throes of getting ready for our first trip ever to Walt Disney World, and posting Halloween projects. In preparation for WDW, I deleted a bunch of photos from my phone to make room for my vacation pics, including anything for this project.

Last week when someone asked about it, I realized that not only did I not have a blog post, but I had no photos of it. I was able to find these from a backup photo drive, so nothing in progress but I hope this helps!

The elf is from the Thin Ice die set. He is in silhouette form, but just like with the Santa's Helper die from last year, you can cut him up and let him wear fun outfits. I posted directions in this blog post from my Chapter 3 Thin Ice Treat Boxes.  

Let's talk about the base now. It is two Vignette Boxes. I painted the tops with Picket Fence Distress Paint. Then covered the sides with Distress Watercolor paper that had been colored lightly with a little Weathered Wood Distress Ink. Ran it through the Engraved Texture Fade, then cut the the textured papers into pieces that fit the sides of the boxes. Lastly attach the papers to them with Distress Collage Medium, and then attach the boxes on top of each other with collage medium.

On the top box, I used an older die to make the skating rink. It's called Splat. I cut it out of smooth White Heavystock, colored the pieces with very light blue Tumbled Glass Distress Ink, then put them together and sprayed them with a layer of Distress Resist Spray to make it look smooth and shiny like ice on a frozen lake.

Then I put it on the top of the top box with Collage Medium. I used a pallette knife to smooth Distress Grit Paste all around it on the top box and then all around the top edge of the bottom box. Then while it was still wet I quickly used to Distress Glitter Duster and Rock Candy Distress Glitter to add some sparkle to the snow. 

You can see that I used some Baubles and I globbed some Collage medium onto them and rolled them into Distress Rock Candy Glitter to make some snowballs. Once they were glued and secured in place, I adhered some of the trees in the top of the upper box and attached them to the snowballs. The snowballs really helped to give them stability.

I attached one elf on the front of the upper box and added some Stacked Triangles as pennants with the little snowflakes from the Arctic background die, in between them. The letters are from the Tiny Type Lowercase Alphanumeric set.

Next I assembled many trees from the Thin Ice die, and adhered them around the upper box to mimic a forest and these two on the bottom front corner with two of the Darling Deer.

To get the one skater to stand up, I added Collage Medium to the bottom of his skate and made sure the one tree and one snowball were attached close enough to him that his skate could be attached to the tree and his hat pom pom could be attached to a snowball. That made three areas of contact so he could be upright.

Sorry I don't have any step out photos to show the process, but I hope the photos with my explanations will help a little bit.

Tami

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