A new release from Brandi Kincaid exclusively for Essentials by Ellen is now available in the shop! You can see lots of inspiration on the "This Just In" page of the Ellen Hutson LLC website and on Ellen's the CLASSroom blog.
There are two new Leading Lady stamp and coordinating die sets (Bookworm Lady and Holiday Shopper Lady), a great little Ugly Sweater Accessories stamp and coordinating die set, plus some great stand alone dies - Winter Window and Snowfall Backdrop!
Today I'm using the Holiday Shopper Lady and the adorable Winter Window die. I always love thinking "outside the box", to find unusual and different ways to use my supplies. So while the Winter Window die would probably normally be used to look at an outdoor scene, I've created a scene of my Holiday Shopper Lady looking into a store window. She's doing a little sidewalk window shopping for her long holiday shopping list, waiting for the store to open so she can catch that big sale! Remember those commercials where everyone is crowded around the store doors, waiting for it to open,saying "Open-open-open"?!!
To get this look, I did some selective inking of the Holiday Shopper Lady stamp and omitted inking some of her stamp lines, to give the appearance of the back side of this lady instead of her front! You can easily do this by using either a smaller ink cube like Memento Dew Drop or a Marker. In the stamped images below, you can see where I did not ink the lady's shoes, pants pockets; or the gift bows. I also just inked the outside lines of her head and hair:
After die cutting the images with their coordinating Holiday Shopper Lady dies, I drew in the bottom of her hair and her shoes using a Black Copic Multiliner. I also finished the lines of the gifts, where the bows had been. Then I just snipped the parts of the die cuts off where her shoes and the gift bows would have been:
All the images were colored with these Copic markers: E00/42/43/44 (shopping list, skin), Y23, YR23 (hair, shopping bag), R22/24/27/37 (hat), G21/24 (holly), BG000/53/57 (sweater), C1 (hat trim, shirt), N4/5/6/8 (chalkboard sign, pants).
To make the Sale sign I used the tall square gift and just didn't ink the ribbon around it! I used the skinny gift with big bow for the sign post and just didn't ink the bow. You can still use the dies for these selectively-inked stamps -- just cut off anything you don't need after die cutting, like the bows!
I added a holly stamp from the Ugly Sweater Accessories to the shopping bag. The Winter Window was cut from Ellen's Oyster Gray cardstock and 40 Lb. Vellum. I also die cut the window from the brick background I created (using a brick wall stencil and Fired Brick Distress Ink on watercolor paper), so the white card base would show through the vellum and create the illusion of the inside of the store. I white heat embossed "Happy Christmas" (from Julie's Over the River stamp set) on the holiday store window (vellum) front. I added the fun snow and icicle die cut (from Winter Window) and accented it with some gray and blue Copic shading, plus Nuvo Glitter Gloss Aqua Shimmer accents! The Shimmer was also added to the hat trim:
I hope this project encourages you will look at your stamps and dies, to see how you can use them differently and stretch your crafting options! Please be sure to check out the CLASSroom blog today, to see more inspiration from the amazingly talented Ellen Hutson team!
Thanks so much for joining me today!
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Ok that is wild that we both reversed them!! And the window off to the right?? I feel like I’ve finally arrived—-I think like my idol now! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Posted by: Sandy | October 09, 2018 at 09:25 AM