Showing posts with label Winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winter. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Winter Hues

Hi!  I am hosting the challenge at Frilly and Funkie with the theme of Winter Hues.  The weather this time of year in the Midwest gets to be a bit chilly, icy, snowy and overcast. These elements of the season create a beautiful palette of colors which I am calling Winter Hues.    This challenge requires you use any or all of the following colors: blue, white, silver, gray in your vintage or shabby chic project.

Everyone who enters and follows the rules will be entered into the draw to have the chance to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique
I played around with a mix of blues, silvers, grays and whites and created a card and a canvas.  The card layered the music stencil with crackle embossing paste and snowflakes over that layer with white embossing paste.

I stenciled the music over an inky background stamped with text.

I started with a mix of dripping sprays down the front of the canvas.  I then added a layer of stenciled snowflakes which I sprinkled with chunky white embossing powder mixed with crystal glitter while the embossing paste was wet.    I then heat dried the embossing powder and it created nice puffy embossed snowflakes as well as capturing flecks of white embossing powder to add more snowy effect.

The words were added using white embossing paste and stenciling them onto the canvas.  While the letters were wet I sprinkled them with a shimmery blue glitter.

After I finished the canvas I decided to do a little different take on the canvas:

I scraped off the glittery blue and created white letters using the same process as the snowflakes. I also added circles and a few stamping of branches.  Every creation is a journey and you never know if you have reached the final destination. :)

Please join in on the fun with us and play along showing us your winter hues!

Suzz



Thursday, December 31, 2015

Winter Days

The new Mixed Media World Challenge #10 showcases some beautiful colors all in grays, blues and browns.  This is what our winter looks like and had me think of wintry days where the sun doesn't shine and the sky is overcast.
I took the colors and smeared them on the craft mat with water and dragged watercolor paper through the ink to pick up a soft watery background.  Then I stamped over with the PaperArtsy set of the music, branches and bird using Pumice Stone dye ink.  I shaded the bird with watercolor pencils.

The sentiment is from Verses Rubber Stamps and I added a layer of Mica flakes form Stampendous.

The lovely color inspiration: 



Happy New Year's Eve!

Suzz

Friday, November 12, 2010

Warm Winter Wishes Challenges

I saw the beautiful shades of blue at the Warm Winter Wishes Challenges at Flourishes. The challenge is to use shades of blue in a winter wishes. Well I have this beautiful poppy set from Flourishes and thought what a beautiful set to make winter flowers and send as a winter card to someone who is in the deep snowy winter like me.

Love this set of stamps they are beautiful and shades of blue they look gorgeous too!

Have a lovely Friday!

Suzz