A Winter's Tale - Alison Bomber

 I bought some of Alison's mini stamps in the Country View Crafts Advent sale and I've had fun using this gorgeous image of Star Anise and using it in creating this frame .

Background - a scraped layer of gesso using a palette knife leaving a gap around the edges. Dried, dipped in pumicestone DI, dripped and dried again. Blended gathered twigs around the edges and added some text stamping using hickory smoke.

2nd layer using vellum, tear the edges and stamp with textured stamp from Alison's pressed grasses set, using versamark and embossing powder.

Focal panel - stamped with Alison's Winter Tale stamp in coffee, painted in the image using lost shadow and walnut stain DOs and brown distress watercolor pencils. The image has watery tea dye roughly painted around it and hickory smoke blended around the edges.

The winter greenery was die-cut with white card and snow-tex daubed over it for texture,

I found the snowflakes (which are glued to the underside of the frame) and icicles already cut in a bag ..........

..... and used those with the other miscellaneous oddments to add interest to the frame.

Supplies

Alison Bomber - PaperArtsy  -  mini Winter's Tale stamp,EM90, pressed grasses EAB40

Tim Holtz - Sizzix - Festive Gatherings, Paper Snowflakes,

Tim Holtz Ranger Distress inks - pumice stone, gathered twigs, tea dye, hickory smoke

 Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Watercolor Pencils Vintage Photo, Ground Espresso

Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Oxides -  lost shadow, walnut stain

Ranger - Seafoam White embossing powder

Miscellaneous - vellum, star anise, silver berries, twigs, pinecone, 

Ranger Coffee Archival ink

49 and Market Garden rub on transfers