Simon Says Stamp and Show... Kraft!

Surprisingly for a vintage lover, I'm not a big fan of kraft card. It's because I love my colours and of course, they are always somewhat muted on kraft card. I do, however, use a lot of recycled packaging. Often, as with the notebook covers from last month, the card is covered with patterned papers. But another way I like to use it is with diecutting.

In this card, the weathered clock, gears and hands are all diecut from recycled cat food box before decorating with metallic distress stains. The clock is stuck onto the card using Claudine Hellmuth matt multi medium, whilst the gears and clock hands are adhered with a decorative screw brad through the centre. This is attached to the panel before sticking to the rest of the card, so the hands of the brad are hidden.

This card started out with the egg timer which is a Hunkydory topper. I chose some inks to match (Pumice Stone and Milled Lavender), and set about making an inky background on A4 stamping card. Plenty of picket fence distress stain was used to mute the colours and also for some of the ghost stamping to add interest. Once dried, the master sheet is cut into an A5 piece for the main card background, and an A6 piece for the top panel, and each of these is matted onto grey card along with the topper. The washers came from Tom's toolbox. I asked if he had any washers and he made the mistake of saying "help yourself", so I did :-)

Ingredients:

Sizzix Bigz Tim Holtz dies: Weathered Clock, Gadget Gears

Tim Holtz stamp set Time

recycled cat food box

metallic distress stain

screw brad

adhesives: Claudine Hellmuth matt multi medium, PVA

distress inks: Milled Lavender, Pumice Stone

distress stain: Picket Fence

archival ink: Jet Black

Hunkydory vintage topper & tickets

washers

cardstock: grey 200gsm, white 160gsm & 300gsm

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Simon Says Stamp and Show - Kraft