Mixed media snowflake canvas

Happy Sunday everyone and welcome to November, I really think that time has speeded up again as the days, weeks, months and years seem to be just whizzing past before my very eyes.

Using DecoArt paints and mediums and Tim Holtz dies I am sharing a cold, wintry, blue snowflake canvas today which is my contribution to the new challenge at Country View Challenges.

This canvas has been getting little bits of attention over many days and at last it is finished for Christmas. I didn't get to take too many photos of the process but hopefully you will get the idea of the steps involved.

I began with a coat of gesso then painted decoart 'vintage' chalk paint over (if you don't have this try Fresco Finish chalk paint). When dry I used a snowflake mask and decoart sand paste which created a beautiful gritty texture. For the next layer I rubbed in a little victorian velvet and broken china distress paints to create some colour tone both on the canvas and the snowflakes.  I wanted to create the look of snow on the snowflakes so I dragged gesso across the top of the textured areas which got caught in cracks and on the tops of the highest points leaving a random white snowy effect.

A stencil and gesso added more interest in the gaps and I also stamped with white pigment ink.

After brushing on a little watery vintage photo distress ink I achieved some glistening effects by rubbing some glue over the snowflakes and sprinkled on glamour dust.

 I also added some gold foil randomly around the edges.

The next step was to die-cut some of  Tim's snowflakes using a variety of dies, punches and some wooden shapes shabbying them using gesso, cobalt blue and cerulean blue fluid acrylic paint and making them twinkle using rock candy distress glitter.

The pieces were layered up to create one large and several smaller snowflakes ....

.... creating varying heights and dimension ....

.... and so it all came together with some smaller white punched snowflakes to fill the gaps and create a snowy day feel to it.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by, I love to see the page visits I get on the stats and there are so many of you who obviously take the trouble to share in what I am making, thank you so much.

I hope to see some of you over at Country View Challenges this month, but in the meantime have a spooktacular weekend.

hugs Brenda xxx

These are the supplies I mainly used and that are available at the Country View Crafts shop. Please be aware that I have substituted some products for similar ones that will still create the same look.

DecoArt Mixed Media - Texture Sand Paste DecoArt Mixed Media - White Gesso PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics 50ml - Lake Wanaka Decorative Strip Die - Snowflake Rosette By Tim Holtz Tim Holtz Layered Snowflake Tim Holtz Paper Snowflakes Thinlits dies Tim Holtz Decorative strip die - Mini snowflake rosettes Wooden laser cut ornaments - Snowflakes Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Snowflakes Tim Holtz Distress paint dabber - Broken china Tim Holtz Distress paint - Victorian velvet Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Latticework Distress ink pad - Vintage photo DecoArt Mediums 29.5g - Glamour Dust Crystal Ranger Foil Transfer Sheets - Holiday DecoArt Mixed Media Fluid Acrylic 1oz - Cerulean Blue DecoArt Mixed Media Fluid Acrylic 1oz - Cobalt Blue Hue Tim Holtz Distress glitter - Rock candy Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlits - Holiday greens

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