Hello friends, hope your week is going well. I’m sharing another of my makes shown during the Tim Holtz LIVE launch of his New Distress, Lumberjack Plaid. You can see the replay and makes over on Tim’s blog. Make sure you watch to the end! 😉
I was inspired by my good friend Vicki Evans clever alteration of the Woodland Santa into a Lumberjack on it’s release and she graciously allowed me to use her idea and didn’t ask any questions. You can see her awesome make on instagram. I started with an idea-ology vignette tray and added strips of distress watercolor cardstock, embossed with the Lumber 3D folder and blended with walnut stain and ground espresso distress ink.
Ok so a funny story about this umbrella… I’ve been mis-pronouncing “plaid” for a while now and when I began making this I was going to add some words above the “PLAID” that I made with the Alphanumeric Varsity dies.
“Don’t rain on my PLAID”… my sweet husband (trying not to laugh when I told him my plan) said “it’s not pronounced “PLAYED” it’s pronounced “PLAD” … “Don’t rain on my PLAD” didn’t quite work as well! After some choice words that rhyme with “LUCK” I decided to just go with it and omit the “don’t rain on my…”
Without my mistake, I wouldn’t have used the umbrella which I love. It’s from The Gent thinlits die set. I blended in Lumberjack Plaid distress ink and stamped with black soot distress archival ink using a stamp from the Plaid and Nordic (CMS243) Stamp set. I overlaid the umbrella outline which was stained with ground espresso distress ink.
I used adhesive foam under the center of the umbrella and distress collage medium at the very edges to make the umbrella curved.
To decorate the outside of the vignette tray, I added strips of distress watercolor cardstock with Lumberjack Plaid distress ink blended in and stamped with the same plaid stamps as on the umbrella. I sanded lightly to give a distressed look.
I altered the Woodland Santa die into a lumberjack stamping his shirt with the plaid stamp and adding Lumberjack Plaid distress ink to his shirt and hat. The rest of him was colored using distress inks in faded jeans, ground espresso, walnut stain and black soot. The buckle and shirt buttons were cut from idea-ology metallic kraftstock. Thanks again to Vicki Evans for her cool inspiration and willingness to share.
I added Lumberjack Plaid distress paint to an idea-ology lantern. I’m not going to lie, it was pretty bright so I dry brushed ground espresso distress paint over the top to tone it down and make it dirty. When almost dry, I rubbed with my finger to remove parts of the paint. I thread a set of idea-ology tiny lights through the back of the idea-0logy vignette tray and up through the wood slice into the lantern. I cut all but 3 lights off the tiny lights set and twisted them to fit inside the lantern. The lantern sits perfectly on the idea-ology wood slices.
Thanks for stopping by and let me know if you have any questions.
Zoe
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This is awesome, and thanks for the laugh. PLAYED 😂😂😂
Wonderful, you played really well!!
This is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC Zoe!! I love everything about this vignette tray and I’m looking forward to somewhat replicating this – even with Uncharted Mariner for my son.
THANK YOU for sharing
He is just downright fun…love it!!!
I love it and the story. You plaid that very well, hahahahaha
I do love that colour and have it on order 😉
How fun is that. Love the Played umbrella.
You inspire me Zoe, thank you!
Jody
Made my day with great eye candy and a laugh. When I saw this on the LIVE feed, I decided I needed to get the plaid stamp. It just came yesterday so I get to play today. Thanks for the inspiration.
Too funny! Thanks for telling on yourself and giving us all a chuckle. I laugh at myself often and use the word “luck” more than I care to admit. This make is awesome, even without the plaid on words.
Love that! Thanks for the giggle! It really is wonderful how kind everyone is about sharing their work. Thank you for sharing this!
You are soooo creative!!! I Love your Santa/Lumberjack!!