Colourful Snowflakes on Canada Day

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well.  Happy Canada Day to my Canadian followers!

I have a Christmas design today, in non-traditional colours.   I enjoy making Christmas cards,  it's fun to get started on them early.   I love snowflakes and used the beautiful hand drawn Snowflake Set by Designs by Ryn.   But I'm not ready for snow for at least six months and we are currently enjoying a lot of warm weather.  We've also had more rain than normal in June, the grass, trees and flowers love it.

The background started from a large sheet of mixed media which I sprayed different colours of Dylusions paints. 

Next I stamped snowflakes from Snowflake Set using different colours of Distress Ink and embossed with clear.  The white embossed snowflakes were last and you can see that some of the detail was lost when I embossed over embossing.   

The beautiful die cut snowflakes are by Spellbinder (S4-433).     The largest layer was painted with Radiant Gels by ColourArte.  I also added Twinkling H2O's over top of the Gel (after dry) and also painted the other layers with the paints:  Sky blue, Wisteria, Jasmine and Icicles (which is clear over the white flake).  I added some rhinestones to finish it off.

If you enjoy Designs by Ryn's stamp designs you will find inspiration using them at her Facebook Page and at her blog.

I hope you enjoyed a colourful Christmas design in July.  Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,

Shirleyx

Hibiscus and Radiant Gels

Hello everyone, I hope you had a wonderful weekend.   I would like to welcome the new followers, thank you for your interest in my blog.  And again I would like to thank everyone for your visits and kind comments.

Along with the beautiful Twinkling H2O's, members of Design by Ryn's Design Team also received a jar of Radiant Gels from ColourArte to play with.   It's a very cool medium, a dimensional paint with glimmer that you can create texture on your art either by using a stencil or paint using a palette knife to create mounds and peaks.  It also blends with other paint when wet, which I found during my experimentation.  I'm still learning what it can do and there are many wonderful colours to be tempted by :)

I used Designs by Ryn's - Hibiscus Stencil with the Radiant Gels.

The background is a combination of Distress Paints and inks and some clear embossing.   I also used Design by Ryn's fabulous Ginkgo stencil.

I used a palette knife to add the Radiant Gel (African Jade) over Designs by Ryn Hibiscus stencil.  I used a heat gun to dry which will cause some bubbling but I was OK with the added texture.   Because the colour of the Radiant Gel is close to the background colour the image didn't stand out enough for me so I placed the stencil back over the gel (when dry) and added a little white Acrylic paint.

On this next design below you can see the glimmer of the Gel which I left alone this time :)

I added the Radiant Gel first, let it dry, sprinkled Brusho powders over top and spritzed with water.  Next I stamped a few leaves from Design by Ryn's Hibiscus stamp set.   

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week,
Shirleyx