The tin man gets shrunk

It's bank holiday Sunday and I hope you are all enjoying some relaxing down time. We enjoyed visiting our family at the South Coast yesterday and with the recent rain everywhere is greening up nicely and the May is fully out.

It's time for my second post for Country View. Our May theme is "Opposites". If you would like to see my Visible/Invisible card I made for 1st May you can see it here

You can enter our May challenge as many times as you like and combine with other challenges. There is also a £20 crafting voucher up for grabs to the lucky randomly selected winner to spend over on the Country View Crafts on line store. Remember that UK postage and packing is absolutely FREE! All the details for the challenge can be found here.

This time I went for the opposite words Little/Large as I had an idea to use my shrink plastic with my sweet Visible Image Tin man stamp set, part of the brilliant Oz collection. Susan sells both the Tin Man stamp set and the coordinating dies on the website.
First I stamped him onto my Shrink plastic and coloured him with pencils and then die cut him out

 Then I stamped him onto silver card. Here they both are pre shrinking.

 And how cute does he look shrunk!

I also shrunk his oil can and heart too for extra embellishments.

I made a distress oxide background, added some stamping using stamps from Ahead of our time and the sentiment from the Tin Man set.

Here is my card

with a couple of close ups of Little and Large

I would liked to enter my card into the following challenges;

Crafty friends 1/3 More than 1 die I used 3, the in man, his oil can and the heart.
Sweet Stampin 1/3 spaced out/anything goes
Lil patch of crafting friends 1/3 anything goes
Craft Stamper take it make it 1/3 May
Inkspirational 1/3 adventure
Crafty calendar 1/3 distress it

I hope to see lots of you joining in with the fun..the details again are here. It is a challenging challenge I know but it does make you think! My teamies still also have lots more inspiration over the coming weeks so do check out the blog or even sign up as a follower.

 Thanks for stopping by today and for the kind comments you take the time to leave me.

Back tomorrow,

Bye for now,

Jane x