Wintry Christmas dome

 Glitter for Country View Crafts

The lovely Susan Seabert of Country View Crafts has now sold the CVC shop and handed over the products, name and challenges to Brenda O'Reilly who is the new owner.

This is a bitter sweet time as Susan and her husband will be moving down to Dorset to be nearer their family and for her and  me it is an end of an era. I am so happy for Susan but I also feel rather sad at the same time as I, with my sister, helped Susan set up her original blog and begin the workshops. In fact I taught the very first one.

But I will be continuing with Brenda and look forward to new beginnings with her.

So here is my second project for the November Glitter challenge.

I used two small wooden log slices, glued together and painted with gesso. When dry I placed them into the base of the dome.

One of the bottles was painted with a mix of toffee apple and mahogany paints, the other was painted white and sprinkled with fine glitter. Whilst they were drying I made a couple of labels using free images found on the internet and simple ones with words on. 

I glued a star to the little tree. I used a sponge to give the deer his colour using toffee and buff paints.

The base of the scene was covered with snow-tex and the 4 pieces glued into the wet mix and left overnight to dry.

The surface was painted decoupage glue and covered with fake snow and the chunky glitter -  which doesn't show up well in the photos.

The base of the dome was covered with a strip of glitter card, the dome had a strip of glitter washi tape wrapped round with some red twine tied over it.

This will go out as one of my new Christmas decorations for this year.

xxx

Supplies

White Gesso

Bottles

Tim Holtz Deer, 

Tim Holtz crackle paint, Rock Candy Chunky Glitter, Stickles

Snowtex

Decoupage matte Glue/Sealer

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint - Mahogany, Toffee Apple, Toffee, Buff

MIscellaneous - Fake snow, labels (hand made), Tree with star, wooden log slices, small cloche dome,

Glittery Christmas Bauble

 Using glitter for Country View Crafts challenge

This is my first inspiration project for our Country View Crafts November Challenge, with the theme of ‘Fireworks' - use glitter or embossing powder to make your project 'sparkle’ hosted by our lovely Cassie.

I attended the amazing InkC retreat recently where the workshops included so many amazing projects and I am sharing my finished Christmas bauble that our very own fabulous Susan Seabert taught on the sunday evening. We had a huge collection of napkins to choose from to create a decoupage background and then I added snowtex and glitter. The blue snowflakes caught my eye almost immediately and I love the finished effects.

Process Steps

Paint the bauble with gesso to seal it and give a white surface Dry and then seal.

Pull the snowflakes out of the napkin by painting water around the image first which allows you to tear images with a rough edging. This ensures there are no straight cuts left when the image has been adhered to the bauble. I used the decoupage glue which is a sealer as well.

Leave the bauble to dry. Then using a coffeestirreror brush add snowtex around the images. Leave it to dry again.

Use the decoupage to cover the top half of the bauble and add the glitter. Leave to dry.

Repeat with the bottom half.

Supplies

Bauble and napkin supplied by Susan.

Gesso, sealer and glue (I used Decoart's Decou-page), glitter - distress rock candy