Framed Season of Joy

I'm pretty happy with the way this turned out and it was really easy to make. The best part is it only cost me a buck plus some Hodge-Podge Hardware! I got this shadowbox frame at the Dollar Tree a month or so ago. Now I'm wishing I would have gotten more of them, but at the time I wasn't sure if it would work out.

To create this I just inked the word collage stamp from Season of Joy with Sage and then used a bit of rolled up paper towel (to form a pointy tip) to carefully wipe away the ink from the letters I wanted to re-ink with my celery and artichoke markers. Adding the extra colors makes for a more interesting design I think. After my stamp was inked in the colors I wanted, I stamped the image onto Shimmery White card stock. Then I used my stamp-a-ma-jig to decide on the placement for the tree. I embossed the tree in silver - it was hard to capture the pretty sheen of the silver on the tree without catching the glare from the glass on the frame, so you'll have to take my word that it looks prettier in real life.

For embellishments I first added one of my cute new build-a-brads to the center of the "o" in joy. The Snow Flurries set works perfect with the build a brad...that's what I used here, but any image that can be punched with the 1/2" circle works great with these. I added some double stitched Soft Sky ribbon attached to a buckle and held in place with some brads along the bottom. It still needed something to the left so 3 strips punched from the Wintergreen paper with the Window Word punch worked out great to fill in that area.

I think this framed piece of stamped art will be perfect to deck my halls during the holidays!