This week's challenge at
Shopping Our Stash is to make something
Christmas- or Winter-related. Think: penguins, polar bears, stockings, wreaths, angels, presents, snow, ice skating, tree, Santa, nativity scenes, etc! LOTS of options for you!
My card for this challenge may be the ultimate in stash-shopping. Here's the card:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYjlWz9wpNC-Ty3cJNODVZuybOLf3gy3oGCJC068-Cp75fW9iZRfWHhVVOw7NG-qOreS3EwCWuHDwzFY7vyWAG6MjLCB3HDfZrWEEXW90jJiUvNtvwu5G8izkbZiw_eQhruQwd9FExwmw/s400/SOS27-gingerbreadman.JPG)
and now I shall bore you with the details of the stash involved. First, I cut five (5) gingerbread men with my A Muse Studio die I bought a while ago and have never used. I cut them from a piece of Core'dinations card stock that is chocolate/brown on one side and a cool minty green on the other side. Why 5? Because 5 fit and I disappeared that remnant from the Heaplet.
Next we'll talk about buttons. A while back I had this idea I needed to organize the bazillion little packages of buttons to get them out of the craft closet and out somewhere so I could see them and maybe even use them. So I took each of the 20+ packages of 40+ buttons each and dumped them all into this jar:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMS4EDQKjx06gyKFe32BAB7eaNhzSyA6cTiaxMAB-kqIL9wSRX7Xv_FFp-xxGeWYL8YdFJwrI8j1AkYc4ugFr-RggmVU6JshqVBzplVy7jQBloQ7ybAMwMfKZpDDNQ4Qlphvpb3yxXlmk/s400/JarOButtons.JPG)
The problem comes when you're looking for one color, and have to sift through all of these to find that one color. I needed black. I started by pouring them into my palm, but when that looked about to overflow, I resorted to this:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH4tdaX1UmimsKyRDvhm6ZflhqrbBtMrhI1g4ULYR0YvTvJGjrgDPrfhkFgIAjJSMP4gaxehBGt7RH4nngIEJ5aG-xDKNkihJuKKNlpJwduaXeSKwml5yDKSQeBzsHl43c4UNFAgi63JI/s400/PileOButtons.JPG)
Yeah, that's a few buttons. Here's all I needed:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVQr1X_xo7rKuXu1-8bO9euWbTerOyVlsF_vCExfhbbBCK4OdY6gnZdOsWK8PPGBuurK62JD_hKlIZZ9a4RL5Qj6laCws3dLA5GvugcJivGZnlHrWIZE5nsctzziJMb94HFpD6jUNf6SY/s400/BlackButtons.JPG)
So in this case, maybe organization wasn't the best idea. Or maybe I need to get over it.
I next selected black buttons in sets of 3 until I had them on all 5 gingerbread men:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3V-Z_ouqKkxZwd7ugszjlB7YCG3fguLaiMsNC9ShBVZJNc5OWBg2YQtjotAWVEqgLdM9WxdidO-PDeSuTxLVUxW8U3Oy3dPSB5yeTbiZBhD6lD2j2THc0gkfTTzIjLHMnRpfSV41c6Do/s400/EnufButtons.JPG)
The rest got dumped back into the jar.
I next glued them down and added the mouths with Liquid Pearls and the eyes with black enamel:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF3YfK-jkcdOc-J-ZNxaxlNQnXMQon_i0PsdBYnSYvO91ELxPB5WEocWJ2Uu5SWfkRfjHLnLJAV1dP-Bkc5TV-G1SU4lAwv9R8EmWwoBvO6inyGQ6gcW3R4TtPL5ywE8KIJTh0WTDDz68/s400/FinishedGingerbreadMen.JPG)
Here's the enamel stuff I used for the eyes:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiKCoD3jUVLugdHc6QgxKBO8MTD4v7PrOvRsXMNNmQy74ecyLrR_bH5Q35XsEIzkSEkjhXw4bwAjaGHoHgBkFNy-bu8WEA80Vrievq6VxQALkQcSCBp5-VZI6pfZ-3-io3C2hCxqCRSQs/s400/BlackEnamel.JPG)
and one of the drying guys up close and personal:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGqHsWE0320OkMQlF4IsEdYYNmmtPNVHKWvgb7V97ph0Q0f3HuZtBLwSjI7AACx3xOoQsFT5zT50TczOqoz7lhXbKAwVIru5jmFzCKirnQ1DqCFI9FdmcOWvkzCqmwZzFbB0A-oRk9n1s/s400/GBMan.JPG)
Then I went on to gather the rest of the card parts. I was following
this sketch (last week's sketch from
Stamping 411):
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYXVKj3WtFdtjCmo_VWwEK4PtwrCsjsGv3lRk_c9kHfJ0kL73wjwN7w6sYZhV0l8YXlpc5o45hFJJWDNK-Mc1U8TnL6UE17J71nUQjUTE5aLnczUF3wDO1OSIdJ8a0vxe2YCHs0oD6qac/s400/ssc_229.jpg)
As all that other stuff dried, I tried to think of how to make that white panel not so ... white. Then I remembered this stuff I bought and haven't used yet:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVDG-Vciz2hKbgD1oeg3yP1xaURSUMvuAud0btKU7BhvRCczuZLfePG923xxFpHRPZ-bxzJtifY5p8d82HZnZhUiH7-JyTD24NVfSv1tf9z_gSPGRU8c1hMohyphenhyphenaY1lvEJfIRTIAJj3yXk/s400/GoosebumpsSpray.JPG)
So I sprayed it all over the white piece after I'd stamped the sentiment, and it dried like this:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZRjvQzIz1ikVsAnFfZAuLYG0GZXwphtPM5IV3Cr9OpJ-Nax4couc_XYCGOk42XQhk0L-6klO6EvCIDO7smftk62UVaxZLutnLOOdTr2XMT0yPIgmt-GNOycXj0oHqvg3sb0fYHh2Vb5A/s400/Goosebumps.JPG)
But wait - there's more! YES, there IS!
Here's the card again:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYjlWz9wpNC-Ty3cJNODVZuybOLf3gy3oGCJC068-Cp75fW9iZRfWHhVVOw7NG-qOreS3EwCWuHDwzFY7vyWAG6MjLCB3HDfZrWEEXW90jJiUvNtvwu5G8izkbZiw_eQhruQwd9FExwmw/s400/SOS27-gingerbreadman.JPG)
See that back panel? It matches the back side of the gingerbread man Core'dinations. Why am I telling you this? Because I ran out of that color of the Chocolate Core'dinations, but I checked out the Beach Core'dinations
(whaaaat, you're surprised I have all of them? Pffth) and they have the same colors in that pack, just a different "other" side. I was home free!
AND, I used one of my SU folders on it and sanded it to try and bring out the other color. I love how it turned out.
AAAAAAND, I used my crimper
(had to blow off the dust) to make the black horizontal strip, and the ribbon is A Muse, from the stash. Now even
you'll have to admit that's a lotta stash on one card, eh? :)
Now it's your turn! Go into your stash, find some neglected Christmas/Holiday/Winter/whatever stuff, make a card, then come link us at
Shopping Our Stash so we can see what you've made!
Thanks for stopping by!
So cute! I love the colors too.
ReplyDeleteThis is so fun and cute! and way to go on using things you hadn't in a while. I'll admit I have a tad bit of button envy..hehe!
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