simon says stamp monday challenge: shoot for the stars

Hi crafty friends, welcome to this week’s Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! Thank you for joining us us for last week’s Sprays and Splashes Challenge and we hope you will join us again this week for the Shoot for the Stars Challenge. 

This week I have created a TIm Holtz Idea-ology Vignette Shrine complete with a Starry Sky made from Alcohol Ink. I started out by painting the pieces shrine with Black Soot DIstress Paint and let it dry. Then I covered the back and sides of the shrine with Typeset Collage paper which I adhered using matte DIstress Collage Medium. Once that was dry, I added accents of Blueprint Sketch and Old Paper Distress paint and dried it again and went back in lightly with a little more Black Soot paint. 

Now to create the sky. I took a piece of Alcohol Ink Yupo paper and added my favorite blues and purples and also Pitch Black. I splattered the entire background with Alcohol to create the look of stars. I cut the Yupo to fit inside the shrine along the back and the sides. I added the compass piece from the Urban Layers Ephemera pack and also added a blue center from the Junk Drawer Baseboards. 

Once those pieces were in, I added some Label tape, some Number Blocks that I colored with Distress Embossing Glaze, a Baseboard Doll and some Clippings stickers. To finish the piece, I cut several stars from the Sizzix Swirling Stars die from glitter paper and places them all around the shrine. 

The lovely folks at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a $25 voucher to shop at the Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take our your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt and add your project to the InLInkz at the bottom of the post on the SImon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog 🙂 All winners are chosen randomly, so anyone can be a winner!!!