Snowy Victorian Park

Hello and a Very Happy New Year to ALL my crafting friends so good to have you visit me today, I do hope you have had enjoyable festivities over the last week or two. I certainly have, such a shame its getting near to returning back to work lol! I think we need another week off to relax now!

Its a bit late I know but our Sheena is on Create and Craft today at 2pm and 6pm showing some more of the last stencils and aquatints so there will be some fabulous demos I have no doubt. 

I made three more cards for her including this one, which is my favourite. I had to do a snowy scene being Christmas but glad we don't have scenes like this just yet!

 For the main card I used a basic White card base and matted up with some Black card.

For the image itself I started with a piece of White card and  inked it up with DI Pumice Stone and Hickory Smoke, blending together all over the card. I then added a few water drops  to make it look like snow in the background.

On the right of the card I stamped the Christmas Tree, coloured it in slightly with DI Forest Moss then added the snow on the branches with a Snow Writer. I then got my stencil Victorian Park and placed the railings in front of my tree and inked through with my Versamark Ink Pad then heat embossed with Black embossing powder, this gave the railings a shine that looked like painted metal. I then moved the stencil across to the middle and using the cobbled stones part of the stencil inked through with Pumice Stone and Brushed Cordroy giving some definition to the cobblestones, on the left side of the card I inked through the Lamp-post with my Versamark and heat embossed it with Black embossing powder. I then faux bleached out the light in the Lamp-post by painting over with just water and blotting it with kitchen towel, this removes most of the ink in the background, I also added some rays from the light by the same method of painting on with water and blotting with kitchen towel. Using a Bright Yellow Aqua marker I painted in the light.

I wanted some trees in the background, just a shadow  to give the illusion of depth so I second stamped the top of the trees from Country Christmas stamp set, I also turned the stamp round and second stamped them by the side of the lamp-post to give the effect of bushes. By second stamping I mean ink your stamp up as you normally would, I used Black Ink, then stamp it onto some scrap paper then stamp again on to your image where you want the stamp to go, its called second stamping as you are using the ink on the stamp a second time but it comes out a little faded and not as dominant as the first stamping. I hope this makes sense to those who have not done this before? I was more than happy with the results this gave.

With my Snow Writer I squeezed some onto my glass mat and using a paintbrush I painted over the railings, lamp-post and the cobbled stones, painting more along the edge of the railings and by the lamp-post, the ink from the cobbled stones actually blended a little with the snow which made it look more realistic!

I then used a little White Acrylic paint and using an old toothbrush splattered it all over the card to give the effect of falling snow. Make sure you do this in a box or some other sort of cover so you don't get paint over everything lol!

To finish the card  I made a sentiment using the same colour background, heat embossed the sentiment and splattered some Acrylic paint as snow over the top, matted it onto some Black card then placed it onto my card as seen.

Items Used:

Sheena Douglass White Stamping Card

Sheena Douglass Black card

Sheena Douglass Stencil Victorian Park

Sheena Douglass A little Bit Festive Country Christmas Stamps (Tree tops)

Creative Expressions Create a Scene Stamps, Designed by Sheena Douglass Christmas( Christmas Tree)

Creative Expressions Create a Scene Stamps, designed by Sheena Douglass Vintage Christmas (Sentiment)

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Pumice Stone, Hickory Smoke, Forest Moss and Brushed Cordroy.

Versamark Ink Pad

Deco Art Snow Writer 

Papermania Black Embossing Powder

Aqua Markers Sunflower Yellow

Acrylic Paint White

I am entering this into Anything But Cute You Got mail Challenge

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx