Sidekick Saturday February 3 Prompt

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing another planner page that I made for the Elizabeth Craft Planners & Journaling Facebook group Sidekick Saturday prompts. I’m still playing catch up on these prompts.

The prompt for February 3 was Arts & Crafts. I decided to use some stamps from ECD and do dome colouring with my pencil crayons.

I started by die cutting some corrugated cardboard that I salvaged from some packaging. I tore off the one side exposing the corrugated parts. I wasn’t worried about this being perfect as it looks cool with some bits still left attached. I used the Art Journal Specials ATC stitched mat to cut them out. 

Next I stamped and cut out the pencil from CS295 Journal Your Life and the vase from CS304 Back in Time. The pencil doesn’t have a matching die but it was easy to fussy cut. 

Then I choose a few colours from my very large pencil crayon collection and coloured in the images. I also stamped and die cut the stamp and clip from the Journal Your Life stamp. 

I then chose a stamp from CS214 Paper Love and stamped it on paper from Reminiscence The Book 6. I also coloured it lightly. I ink distressed the edges of everything with a dark brown. 

I recently purchased some loose leaf CHOCOLATE tea while away on vacation. It is so good! I saved the tea bags which have a nice orangey tinge to them. 

Then I assembled everything together which you can see in my process video at the bottom of this post. 

I remembered to use my ATC stamp on the back of each card. 

As you can see in the close up, I added some simmer to the cardboard. I did this using something called shimmer paint which is likely over 10 years old but still good! It is similar to a glimmer paste I suppose. It has a fairly thin consistency. You could probably also use a glitter brush instead. I just dry brushed the paint on in a few areas making sure not to cover the entire card. 

Although the prompts are created for a sidekick journal, I am making mine for the full size planner. I cut out a pocket to hold my ATC’s using the Planner Essentials 30 Wave Pocket die and paper from Reminiscence The Book 2.

I folded it, inked it and then added a few embellishments. The orange tag at the top is from the 2110 Torn set, the “BORN TO CREATE” is from CS345 Stitched Borders. Since I didn’t end up using the clip on my ATC’s I used one here. 

You can see the assembly process video below on my YouTube channel.

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