Making a Scene

Being the shy, retiring wallflower that I am, this week's My Favorite Things' Wednesday Stamp Club challenge {Make a Scene! Create a scene with your stamps and Die-namics, or use a stamp that shows a scene} was really a stretch for me. I'm just loathe to make a scene or draw any sort of attention to myself...

Because I am so HIGHLY UNCOMFORTABLE with making scenes (and because I just realized that I have a paper due this evening for my Professionalism & Ethics class), I decided to reach into the way-back machine and pull out a little number that fits this week's challenge and has yet to be seen by the public. Feast your eyes on this peaceful panorama:

I originally created this during my stint as one of Splitcoaststamper's Dirty Dozen. It's a little vista of Who's That Girl (WTG) getting comfy in her robe and Bunny Slippers. One of the many great things about WTG images is that they tend to tell a story. The story here? WTG has had a long day, and decided to peel off her clothes and get cozy.

The wood floor beneath her feet was drawn using Copic Markers and a black pen. I made a frame for the image using Nestabilities long rectangles, and instead of faux stitching, I zig-zagged around the frame with a sewing machine. I attached the image to the frame, then popped it up on Foam Boosters. I adhered all of that to a scrap of the patterned paper so it appeared to be wallpaper and gave a 'shadowbox' effect.

I created the background paper by making a masterboard (where you make your own background paper by stamping and coloring images -- 'masterboard' makes it sound fancy, though, don't you think? ;) ) with the large Bunny Slippers image from the Bunny Slippers set and then coloring them with Copic markers.

Her robe is polka-dotted with a white pen, and her slippers, cuffs, sash & lapel have been Fun Flocked. The yummy satin ribbon was tied to mimic the sash of her robe.

Go to Kim's blog for all of the challenge details, and to find a list of links to all of the MFT Challenge and Design Team members participating in this week's challenge. Play with us and you might just win a $15 MFT voucher!

Now, off to the salt mines...