Snow Queen

Hi all, just popping on to show you my Snow Queen, I have found that I love making buttons with clay and using inkpads and stamps, so I wanted to try something bigger.  The stamp is a gorgeous Christmas stamp by Indigo Blu called Rebecca snow queen.  Instead of telling you how I did it I have done a step by step to show you how I got there :-).
I would like to enter my hanging into the following challenges.......................
Artistic Inspirations Challenge - Anything but a Card/Anything Goes
Frilly and Funkie Challenge Blog - Anything Goes
Simons Monday Challenge - Embossing - I heat embossed the snowflakes and flicked powder around to make it look like snow storm :-)

These are what I started with, I used the darker colour.  Initially I wanted

white with blue stamping but I had ran out of white.

Adding it through the pasta machine a few times gives it a lovely feel and

easy to work with.

I rolled out the size.

It's really easy all you do is stamp into the clay.  I find using

a pigment ink pad always works better as they are more opaque

and because you are cooking the clay it dries.

I cut around really carefully missing out some of the more small and intricate

snow flakes.

Next I had a piece of canvas board that was left from cutting up

a large sheet.  I used spellbinders circle die and some Tim Holtz make your own mask

for the moon.  Then I sprayed with dylusions.

Ooops I also painted it with gesso before hand.

I keep spraying and drying, spraying and drying until I get the look I want.

Next I started playing with the moon, used just water and a paint brush.

Next I did some stamping with a scrip, shame I did it upside down!!!!!

Now I have found that because I use around 5-6 layers over the gesso to get

that burnt look, just by handling it you can get the blue on your fingers,

so I find the best way is to use spray and shine.

I wanted sparkle in my snowflakes but not a lot so I played for a bit and

ended up mixing some white with snow embossing powder.

I forgot to take a picture but I did use a little bit of talcum powder gently

brushed over the canvas to help the embossing powder not to stick.

Your probably wondering why as I wanted embossing powder everywhere, but

I wanted the snowflakes to be perfect and the snow storm to be where

I wanted it to be lol

And that was it, the next step was to heat snowflakes all over which are from the same stamp, then add some white sprinkles of embossing powder.  Next I used some cosmic shimmer mist in violet to add a bit of added colour, punched the holes, wrapped some wire around my finger and added some bells on.

Hope you enjoyed the step by step and a huge thank you for getting this far lol.

Happy Crafting :-)

Hugs Kezzy xxx

Recipe

Stamps - Indigo Blu (rebecca snow queen, scrip background)

Ink pads - Brilliance (moonlight white), Archival (jet black), Versamark (dazzle)

Canvas Board (cut up piece)

Fimo blue sparkle clay

Fimo varnish

Dies - Spellbinders circle die which I cut out of Tim Holtz make your own mask sheets

Gesso

Sprays - Dylusions (after midnight, london bus), Perfect Pearl Mists (blue raspberry), Cosmic Shimmer (purple violet)

Imagination Crafts - sparkle medium diamond

Cosmic Shimmer mica powder mixed with glossy accents to make a paste to edge around canvas

Wow mix of bright white and sparkling snow