About a year ago, I discovered this utterly adorable artwork by the one and only Stamperia at Simple Pleasures in Colorado Springs (y’all, this IS the mothership of papercrafting and they ship). I bought the chipboard pieces, several 12 x 12 pieces of the darling paper, and had no idea what I’d do with them. About a month later we learned we’d be grandparents for the first time. I had an idea. I bought more of the Hidden Grove paper line from Simon Says Stamp. The grandbaby showed up early so I put the pedal to the metal in late January and made these three mixed media hoops.
Except for the moon on the largest hoop (which was made with Tim Holtz Antique Linen Distress Spray, Scattered Straw Distress Spray and Pumice Stone Distress Ink together with his Moon Mask), everything you see is part of the Hidden Grove line from Stamperia. If you’re not familiar with this company, all their artwork is divine. Be prepared to fall in love.
Each hoop has a few pieces of chipboard embellishments on it, especially on the edge of the hoop. And there are a few pieces of the Hidden Grove chipboard in the backgrounds. However, the majority of the images were fussy cut using my favorite detail scissors from We R Memory Keepers. I used similar or identical paper to the background, and once it was cut, I inked all the edges just a tiny bit with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink. Next, I backed each of the pieces with a chipboard harvested from old mailers, notepads, etc. I simply traced around my fussy cut pieces and then cut the cardboard out inside the trace line by about 4mm, to ensure it was smaller than my artwork and wouldn’t show. It wasn’t pretty looking but it made the pieces sturdy. Then, I raised the cut pieces up from the Hidden Grove paper background with a LOT of craft foam. I ended up using a combination of 2mm fun foam and 4mm fun foam from the hobby store. I used Bearly Arts glue for everything on this project. It’s my favorite liquid glue.
The hoops themselves came from Goodwill (the largest one) and Amazon (the 2 smaller ones). I bought a $0.69 bottle of walnut colored stain from the same hobby store along with some cheap foam brushes. It took no time at all to stain the hoops (separated inside from outside hoop) and have them dry.
The very back of the hoops is more chipboard, which I covered with solid cardstock to make it look better from behind. The ribbon I got from the Etsy seller named Delainenoe.
This was a labor of love and now hangs in the little guy’s nursery using Command Adhesive Velcro Strips.
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