Mixed Media Winter Scene



Hello everyone!! I hope you had a good weekend! It is Monday and time for a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. This week we are doing winter projects, very fitting for this month of the year.

 

When I made this page we had just gotten quite a lot of snow, and since I love to make wintery scenes, I let the snow outside the window inspire me to create a clear and cold winter's night in my journal. I started with a layer of gesso and continued with Dina Wakley's paints, using Sky and Lapis and a mixture of the two to make a graduated background.  

 

I used Hero Arts' lovely Forest stencil and smeared Ranger's Texture Paste through it. The stencil wasn't wide enough for my page. I let it dry, and added another two trees to the right. When all the paste was dry, the trees were painted white and I mixed up a grey to add shading. I also splattered the background with white paint and added some silver dots and silver to the trees with a Krylon Silver Leafing Pen.

The moon was also painted white and I added shine around it with more white, dry brushing it on for a subtle effect. A tiny bit of blue was also added to the moon, so that it didn't look like it was floating.

Before the paste dried after stencilling it, I added more paste at the base to create a snowy hill and extend the scene a little. The snow was painted white and given extra texture with blue paint and the silver marker. My son thought I needed to add some glitter too, and I decided to use Prima's Frosted Mica Flakes. I love the shine and imperfections of mica. 

 

Alison Bomber posted this quote in a beautiful blog post recently. I thought of that quote when I was busy making this page and it fit pretty well together with the feel of the scene. 

 

Here you can maybe see the shine of the mica a little better.

 

Join us in our celebration of winter this week, and it can be you who wins a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp, drawn randomly.

 

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

 

Happy crafting!!

 

Anna-Karin

 

Supplies:

Surfaces: Ranger Dylusions Small Creative Journal

Stencil: Hero Arts: Forest

Paint: Ranger Dina Wakley: Lapis, Sky, White; Distress Paint: Picket Fence, Black Soot

Medium: Ranger: Texture Paste, Dina Wakley White Gesso

Marker: Krylon Silver Leafing Pen

Embellishments: Prima: Frosted Mica Flakes; Tim Holtz idea-ology: Seasonal Chit Chat stickers