torstai 9. huhtikuuta 2015

Trying to forget the snow


This is my last "missing" page for the calendars I'm making for the Craft Barn calendar challenge. The January prompts were aqua and snowflakes, and I really had trouble motivating myself to do this snowy scene, after all everything has at last melted around here and we are hoping for green things to sprout! I'm glad I decided to place a house in my image and post for the ongoing Craft Barn weekly challenge: that gave me the deadline I needed and a focal point for my scene. I love using stitching with collage, and I'm also posting for the Stampotique Designers challenge (stitches).


For the background I decided to make an experiment: embossing powder resist combined with acrylic paint. As can be seen, the snowflakes show quite well. I spread the paint with the side of a plastic card. The paint covered the embossed stamping, but came of with some wiping. I had to spread a second coat of paint, because my first wiping took of too much colour. I used underpaper collage for this page, and the blue is as close to "aqua" as my papers happen to be at the moment.  I should have stamped more of the embossed flakes around the background, but after building the image it was already too late, so I added blue punched flakes.




7 kommenttia:

  1. Beautiful! Fab idea. Thanks for joining the Stampotique DC

    VastaaPoista
  2. well done for catching up, love your stitching and i like the 2 different types of snowflakes.

    VastaaPoista
  3. Great calendar page....Thanks for joining the Stampotique DC

    VastaaPoista
  4. Fabulous Kristiina, love the stitching! And well done on catching up. I'm so glad you have finally got rid of the snow.....we didn't get any this winter :( Thank you for joining in The Craft Barn Challenge.
    Jane x

    VastaaPoista
  5. A super calendar page, wonderful colours.

    VastaaPoista
  6. A bright and cheery calendar page. It will lift your spirits on a snowy January day.

    VastaaPoista
  7. Lovely calendar journal page
    Thank you for joining us at the stampotique designers challenge blog

    VastaaPoista