Season's Greetings - Into the Woods

This card takes us Into the Woods for a holiday greeting card with a rustic feel. Three new Christmas Stamp sets from Tim Holtz and Stampers anonymous work together well for this woodsy card.

To start, lets make the background paper. You will need some Distress Mixed Media Heavystock, some Ranger Watermark Resist Ink, and the plaid stamp from the Lumberjack set.

Stamp the plaid onto the Heavystock with the Watermark Resist Ink.

Dry the ink and then grab a red Distress Spray Stain and a red Distress Oxide Spray.

Spray them onto the stamped surface.

Then add some Ground Espresso for a little depth.

By the time you get all three colors sprayed on the stamped paper, it will look like this.

Spray some water onto it and let it soak in for a minute and then dry it.

When it is dry it should look something like this. The Watermark Ink kind of grabs the ink color and leaves a light image. I really love this technique and have enjoyed using it several times in the last year with various stamps and ink combos. I encourage to experiment with this technique and see what happens now that we have all of the ink colors in Spray Stains and Spray Oxides.

Next I wanted to add a bit of snow, so I put some Picket Fence Distress Paint on the Distress Splatter Brush and splatter some "snow" across the piece. Dry it quickly with a heat tool so that it doesn't have time to soak up the red ink and turn pink.

From the Christmastime 2 set, stamp the Season's Greetings sentiment onto the card in the upper right area. You need to leave room for the fox and trees. Stamp the sentiment with the Black Soot Distress Oxide and then cover it with Super Fine Gold Embossing Powder and heat with an embossing tool.

Stamp the trees from the Into the Woods set in the Forest Moss and Peeled Paint Oxide Inks onto some Distress Mixed Media Cardstock. Fussy cut them out, then ink the edges with the same oxides, spritz them with water to add a little bit of oxidation. Attach one to the background and pop the second one up a little bit and overlap them.
Stamp the Fox in Black Soot Oxide, fussy cut it out and ink the edges. Sprinkle a few drops of water to add some oxidation. Pop it up and and layer it it below the sentiment and in front of the trees.

Add some of the Idea-ology Metallic Droplets across the front. I also added a couple of pieces of greenery from the Sizzix Deck the Halls die set.

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Tami

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