The Scarecrow

Despite the 100+ degree temperatures around here, I am ready for fall. Dreaming of cooler nights, heading to the pumpkin patch and wearing sweaters again. I fell in love with this scarecrow stamp by Tim Holtz for Stampers anonymous and felt it would be perfect for a little reverse painting.

Products used:

• The Scarecrow (CMS451)
• Vault series Halloween 2021 (665563)
• Design Tape (TH94259)
• Distress Mica flakes- Midnight
• Ranger Archival Ink- Jet Black
• Ranger Distress Paint- Black Soot, Rustic Wilderness, Peeled Paint, Prize Ribbon, Speckled Egg, Candied Apple, Ground Espresso, Picket Fence and Carved Pumpkin
• Ranger Distress Ink- Scattered Straw, Gathered Twigs, Squeezed Lemonade
• Ranger Distress Oxide- Villainous Potion, Rusty Hinge, Stormy Sky

Instructions:

First I cut a piece of acrylic to 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ and used washi tape to attach it to the non stick sheet from my travel glass platform. I then stamped the scarecrow and two stalks of corn using the jet black archival ink.

Once dry, I flipped the image over and reattached it to my non stick sheet. Then I painted the image using distress paints. Optional step- Once the original paint is dry, I like to paint over the image using black soot paint. This fills in any small gaps in the color and makes it more “solid”

While the paint dried (be patient, it can take a little longer on the acrylic), I worked on my background. I stamped the moon and the two opposite cornstalks on a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ piece of ivory card stock. I then colored them using ink and a water brush.

I then used blending brushes to ink the rest of the background

Once the scarecrow piece was dry, I ran black foam tape all around the edge of the image, making sure the edges butted right up to each other to prevent mica leakage.

I made a small tag with “Happy Fall” stamped in archival and distressed the edges with Gathered Twigs distress ink. This was attached on the background panel, overlapping the moon.

I placed a small pile of mica flakes in the center of the background panel, then attached the scarecrow panel on top. I covered the edges with design tape, covering the foam tape and folding the excess to the back.

As a final touch I cut the small raven twice from the vault series and lightly brushed some stormy sky distress oxide over the top of one of them. I stacked the colored raven on top of the non colored one and attached it to the lower right of the frame (I doubled the raven just to give it a little extra depth).

I then mounted the entire shaker unit to a black card base.

With a little shake to show the mica =)

With that my card was complete. I hope you like it and give it a try. Have a great week!

-Lisa