The Tim Holtz / Sizzix #hipforsummer promotions for the "Hipster" stamps and dies had me going and I had an idea for a Hipster card…
I was working with some plaid papers last week and had decided that I had one paper that wasn’t too inspiring a color palette for what I wanted to do with that card. But it works for the paper collection it is part of: “Master Detective” by Graphic 45. And when I was thinking about creating a card for week seven, it occurred to me that Sherlock Holmes was a hipster in his day. So… here is a second entry in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge for July 12, 2017: Use Plaid!
I started with a fancy fold technique demonstrate by Dolores Sanders (for Riley and Company) i the Autumn 2017 issue of Cardmaker Magazine (Vol 13, issue 3, pages 20 and 21). After one failed attempt, I managed the proper cuts, scores and folds on a scrap of Bazzill palest green card and added a cut of the plaid paper, a journaling card and a chipboard embellishment to the front:
I was working with some plaid papers last week and had decided that I had one paper that wasn’t too inspiring a color palette for what I wanted to do with that card. But it works for the paper collection it is part of: “Master Detective” by Graphic 45. And when I was thinking about creating a card for week seven, it occurred to me that Sherlock Holmes was a hipster in his day. So… here is a second entry in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge for July 12, 2017: Use Plaid!
I started with a fancy fold technique demonstrate by Dolores Sanders (for Riley and Company) i the Autumn 2017 issue of Cardmaker Magazine (Vol 13, issue 3, pages 20 and 21). After one failed attempt, I managed the proper cuts, scores and folds on a scrap of Bazzill palest green card and added a cut of the plaid paper, a journaling card and a chipboard embellishment to the front:
The back valley in the folded card needed a larger backdrop for my detective so I created a 3” x 4” cut of the same Bazzill card, adding “blood” spatter through a layering stencil with Distress Ink, Versamark and clear embossing powder (this blood is so fresh it shines!). I printed out a fingerprint and added it to the background as well as a magnifying glass stamped with the word “clue”:
Now it was time to make my detective. I stamped three images of the cat “hipster” from the stamp set on white card: two were stamped in Archival “Jet Black” while the third was stamped in Distress Oxide “Peeled Paint”. I sketched out a deerstalker cap and added a bit of the plaid paper to it. I also sketched out a pipe and colored both it and the hat with Distress Inks. Assembled, the “hipster” has become “Master Detective Purrlick Holmes”!
After attaching “Purrlick” to the front valley fold, the card folds up like so:
When opened, it stands like so:
Products used in the making of this card were
- Stamps: Stampers Anonymus “Hipster” (CMS288) and Karen Foster SnapStamps “Mini-Formal” (00372)
- Dies: Sizzix Thinlits “Hipster Cat” (662247)
- Stencils: Stampers Anonymous Mini-Layering Stencil set 3, “Splatter” (THMS009)
- Inks: Archival “Jet Black”; Distress Oxide “Peeled Paint”; Distress Ink “Vintage Photo” and “Candied Apple”; Distress Markers “Vintage Photo” , “Peeled Paint”, “Pumice Stone”, “Worn Lipstick”, “Hickory Smoke”; Versamark
- Embossing Powder: Stampendous Deep Impression “clear”
- Papers: Bazzill very light green; Neena Heavycard “white”; Idea-ology Paper Stash 8x8 “Etcetera” (YH93551); Graphic 45 Master Detective Collection 8x8 “It’s Elementary” (45015700), Chipboard “(4501574) and Journaling and Ephemera Cards (4501575)
- Adhesives: ScorTape; Ranger Collage Glue Stick; EK Tools 3D foam dots
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