Last year I made a canvas for the Craft Stamper that I called 'Fragile Winter' and it was in the December issue. I am at last sharing it here and over on the Country View projects blog with the process steps I took to make the canvas background here and the snowflakes steps on CVC.
Step-by-step…
1.
Seal
the canvas top and sides with a coat of gesso and dry, wipe over with a wash of
magenta, then daub modelling paste in areas that you want to stamp the
snowflakes.
2.
Heat
dry the paste until a skin has formed, spritz the stamp with water and press it
into the paste removing it straight away.
3.
Paint
layers of crackle paste all over the rest of the background and some on the
sides and leave the whole canvas to dry naturally.
4.
Lay
a darkish watery grey wash over the crackled areas dab off any excess with
kitchen roll.
5.
Layer
light pink and grey layers of watery paints, let them drip and move around, drying
between each layer. Then stamp snowflakes with watering can archival ink.
6.
Brayer
on white and cream paints, dry with a heat gun and then dribble and spritz
white watery paint through the whole background.
7.
Go
back into a couple of the areas of the textured snowflakes with a very watery
wash of magenta to create contrast and depth.
8.
Finger
paint thin white paint around the pink areas and lightly spritz the white
shimmer mister to bring coherence to the overall design.
9.
Dab
watery colours into recesses if they need it and splatter a watery wash of titan
buff and one of magenta dabbing off with a paper towel to further help unify
the whole piece.
To
finish the project
·
Seal
the background with a coat of Ultra Matte Varnish.
·
Add
snowflakes using the same colours but deeper tones so that they stand out.
Process steps to make these can be found at Country View Crafts project blog.
If you subscribe to Craft Stamper you may remember seeing it but it's that magical time of the year as Christmas approaches and as I was asked to teach the steps at 'Let's Be Creative' last week, I hope to be back soon to show you the new design I made to take with me.
Enjoy the lead up to December, it's only 26 days to Christmas.
hugs Brenda xxx
