Some photos from my Winter Wonderland workshop at Country View Crafts - 30th November 2024
My 2024 Christmas workshop project for Country View Crafts - I so love making 3D boards and they are very popular. I used lots of Tim Holtz products and loved adding the ledge and blocks to help create this wintry landscape. The natural elements helped add a wonderful cold, icy, wintry feel.
1. Paint all the
small wooden pieces with 1 coat of white gesso
– dry. Repeat with a coat of white acrylic paint – include
the base of the silver trees. Sand the edges of the cubes
and blend the exposed edges with a dark brown DI to give a shabby effect.
Repeat the effect randomly on the corners and odd parts of the ledge and frame.
2.
Paint the large board with a coat of gesso to seal it and dry. (no paint)
Take
speckles or snowy effect stencil and texture paste
(I used distress texture paste matte) add very sparingly mostly round the edges
of the top 2/3 of the board and dry.
Take
tumbled glass and broken china Dis and speckled egg and iced spruce DO. (or any
sky blue colours). Create puddles and dabble them over, spritz, drip and dry.
Take white acrylic paint and lightly brayer over the top, the white will hit
the top of some of the snow droplets but also create lighter areas on the board
that you can rub in with your finger to create cloud effects. Dry. If you want to add more of the blues, repeat
puddles and daub with a brush, the texture paste soaks up some of the blue
watery ink and also the inks lay and puddle between the snow droplets. When
it’s dry scrape the texture paste through the speckles/snow stencil to add more
white snowy texture through it. Again, dry it. KEEP BOTTOM THIRD OF THE BOARD
CLEAN.
Moving to the bottom
third of the board use the tumbled glass DI and Iced Spruce DO to make puddles
of colour. With a paint brush daub a light layer over the board and add a
little silver paint into it, let it all move around a lot in your hand and dry
it. Splatter with water and watch some rings appear. Dry and take iced spruce
distress ink and a chosen small chosen stencil (I used the mini version of
Festive THS029) to create background for the seed heads.
Glue
the ledge on at this point. The top of the ledge is 22 cms from the top f the
board. Put to one side to dry.
3
Take the four, silver, die-cut trees, glue shapes back-to-back, offset
slightly, and don’t worry if some of the white shows through, it actually looks
like snow. Glue a gold star to the top of each one.
Take
the gold sparkly row of fir trees, Cut the sides to fit the wooden panel and
use a palette knife to add a small amount of snowtex to both the gold and
silver trees using a palette knife. Put aside to dry.
4
Take the white card panel. Blend silver paint through a star stencil and dry
it. Blend tumbled glass (light blue) DI over the surface. Sparingly rub some
micro glaze randomly over the surface and gently buff off excess. Blend broken
china (mid blue) over the surface. Splatter water droplets on, leave for about
30 seconds and the blot off with a paper towel and dry. You have created a
mottled sky with snow falling in the background. Sand the edges and then blend
a dark blue and then a dark brown distress ink round. Splatter it, the main
board, the panel and the row of fir trees with some white paint. Dry the card
panel, then adhere this to the wooden panel to create a frame. Paint glue round
three sides of the frame (not the bottom one) and sprinkle rock candy glitter
over it. Put aside to dry.
5
Take the round circle, lightly blend antique linen over the surface. Spritz
with water, blot & dry. Spritz, blot & dry a second time. Place the
moon mask over the top & blend antique linen distress oxide through it to
create the texture of the moon. Dry it. Use a very fine paint brush to add glue
over the oxide and dip into rock candy glitter.
6
Take the ribbon spritz it with water. Make a little puddle of tumbled glass,
dip and dry. Repeat with a watery puddle of salty ocean. Make it into a bow.
7.
Make up the double snowflake. Use small amounts of brown and white paints to
colour the deer.
Now
all pieces are prepped it’s time to assemble the project. Start by adding the
star background frame on the ledge and adhere the two blocks either side of it.
Glue on the silver icicles strip, the moon, gold stars, silver snowflakes.
Adhere the white dried flowers and bundle of sticks on the blocks. Use a glue gun
to add the seed head spray, bow and bells. Glue on the silver trees then use
snow-tex on the ledge and adhere the decorative pieces – I always add glue to
the areas that are going to sit in the ‘snow’. Add the Winter Wonderland title.
Lay this flat in a box to carry it home.