I wanted to make something peaceful and serene and wintery and cold so I opted for white and silver as my color scheme and decided to play with texture and layers, something I find hard to do as a rule. I have one stamp that is the word "Peace" which I decided to use as my focus.
First of all, I took some of Ranger's Textured Surfaces corrugated card and painted it with Ranger "Snow Cap" acrylic paint (which was pretty much dried up in my bottle so I had to water it down and basically spatula it on! Note to self --- buy more, that jar is toast!) and, then when dry, with Distress "Brushed Pewter" paint:
Next was assembly, using foam squares to pop up various elements in the layers. For more texture, I added a Venetian lace corner and a string of clear "pearls" for bling:
- Papers: Textured Surfaces; Maja designs “Vintage Frost Basics”; scrap white yardstick
- Stamps: Art Impressions I-2124
- Inks: Adirondack Acrylic Dabber “Snow Cap”; Distress Paint “Brushed Pewter”, Versamark
- Emossing Powders: WOW! “Metallic Silver Super Fine”
- Embellishments: Prima Marketing “Tessitura” (562762); Venician Lace corner; Modern Romance "Clear Pearls” (MRT-462-112)
- Adhesives: Multi Medium Matte; Glossy Accents, Foam Squares