Good Morning all
Its the first friday in February so time for the first challenge of the year over at Creative Artiste where the theme is anything goes mixed media- we need at least 3 different mediums please.
When I made my Autumn Shadow box last year from a cat food box I thought I might try and do one for each season. So here is my Winter scene - a very snowy cabin in the woods.
Approx size 8x6" and 3.5" deep
After covering it all in snow I made my little cabin (see details further down this post) and glued it into place. I then die cut lots and lots and lots more pine trees from dark green cardstock, these I adhered together to make my own chipboard and make them nice and study - the trees adhered to a wall are 4 layers but those freestanding are 8 layers of die cuts, all covered in mod podge to again help strengthen them and then I added my snow with thick white gesso, dabbing it on the branches with my pallet knife, while still wet I sprinkled on the lightest dusting of super fine glitter.
I adhered the trees into place and covered the bottoms with more snow to hide any glue and make them part of the landscape. I painted 5 wooden birds in brown and red like Robins and added around the scene, these just a little colour with the splash of red
I painted wooden snowflakes with white cadence dora paint which really shimmers in the light, these I adhered to the back and side walls of the box and added a clear gem to the centres for a bit more frosty bling.
I had to have a little Robin on the roof of the cabin. Funnily while painting these Robins like our British ones the red is actually higher up on their breasts but it just looked weird so my Robins are more red bellies😀 which is more like the American Robin....but then that is more suiting this scene as snow like this in England would be very very very unusual and even more so coming across an old cabin in the woods...and if we ever get snow like this in Cornwall then we are in trouble! lol As it a very rare occurrence to see snow and even rarer if it settles and hangs around for more than a day or two. 2" of snow is deep here and a rare sight.
Here you can see the outside of the box also, which I covered in texture paste and white acrylic for snow and added more wooden snowflakes.
I wasn't sure if I wanted to hang this on the wall or sitting on a side to display so I added both options. I found some big clear acrylic heart beads in my stash which made great feet adhered flat, being clear they give a frosty like effect. I also added a hanging hook to the back.
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How I made it
I made a small slim box out of kraft card, gluing all the edges closed. I added yellow acrylic paint where i wanted the window and then added matchsticks for my window. I then added lolly sticks as the wood planks, making sure they weren't cut perfectly to give a more rustic feel like an older cabin would have. I added more lolly sticks for the roof, this time keeping the rounded edge as the scalloped edge to the roof. Then covered in black gesso.
I dried brushed on various layers of 3 shades of brown. I added a touch of yellow around the outside of the window onto the planks to give the effect of the light shining out. 2nd pic shows back of box, the angled roof I attached with pinflair glue gel as its sticky enough to hold up the sticks while they were drying to get the right angle - once the back of the roof was attached to the back of the box it was solid and no chance of moving.
I covered the box inside and out in texture paste - well cheap polyfiller actually which is ideal when doing larger areas like this. I gave it a snowy effect with the spatula - this took me back to my bakery days and when we had to decorate 100's of Christmas cakes each year😀 Once dry I covered it in white gesso and then white acrylic paint, sprinkling just a little super fine glitter on the inside onto the paint while it was still wet, this gives a subtle glistening effect.....I don't really 'do' loose glitter as it gets everywhere but won some in a mixed media box so it did work well here.
Items Used:
Memory box tree die
Dark green 350gsm cardstock
Cadence white gesso
Cadence white dora paint
Folk art acrylic paints
Polyfiller
Wood match sticks and lolly pop sticks
Fine glitter
Mod podge matt & glossy
Papermania wood snowflakes
kaisercraft wood birds
Papermania clear gems
Cardboard box
Hop over to Creative Artiste Mixed Media to see what the rest of the DT have created and join in. Maybe its a new year to try a new craft and have a go at some mixed media - we accept cards and papercraft projects as well as 3d ones like mine so you can start off small like an ATC but just mix your mediums - at least 3 different ones
Thank you for stopping by once again. I hope that February is a good month for you all. Here the snowdrops are well in flower, early daffodils in full flower and crocus too and the days are slowly drawing out. Emmax
Id love to enter the following:
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