This week there is a sketch challenge over at the Global Design Project. It’s a very simple sketch, so it seems it would be super easy. But sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to do well. I had to ponder this one a while. 

For some reason, I saw someone looking down from that top left corner, not just a doodah hanging there. I looked at my stamp sets. I thought about the little bear in Bear Hugs, and he would’ve been cute. But when I came across this little snowman in Snow Place, I knew I had my guy. So I stamped him in Smoky Slate ink onto Whisper White card stock and cut him out with the coordinating die in the Snow Friends Framelits.

Okay, now what is he doing up there in the corner looking down? And what is he looking down from? And what is he looking at? I looked to the same stamp set for inspiration and it hit me. I wanted to use the little ice cream cone. I stamped his arm in Soft Suede on Whisper White and used the die to cut it out. But it didn’t make sense for him to be dangling an ice cream cone from the sky.

He needed something to be hanging down from. I looked at my embossing folders and thought a brick wall would be a good choice. Okay, so now he was hanging over a brick wall with an ice cream cone. But why? <Light bulb!> Because he dropped it!

Here’s how I finished the card. I used a brayer and Smoky Slate ink to color the Whisper White embossed wall. Then I used a Sponge Dauber to make some of the bricks a little darker. I stamped the ice cream in Smoky Slate on Whisper White, cut it with its die, then colored it with Stampin’ Write Markers in Delightful Dijon and Blushing Bride.

I adhered the snowman and ice cream to the wall with Foam Adhesive Strips, which are great for the skinny bits like his arm and the cone. I used Paper Snips to cut away the excess snowman body so he was even with the wall.

I stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set in Memento black ink directly onto the bricks. I inked up “Time” and “to chill” separately to stamp them onto the two bricks. This is easy with the see-through photopolymer stamps.

I matted the wall with Smoky Slate card stock, and glued that onto a Thick Whisper White card stock card base.

Here’s what I used:

Be sure to check out the other projects at Global Design Project this week!

Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!