SanDee&amelie's Winter Special Challenge Reminder and an (almost) Steampunk-Christmas-Tag

Hi, servus and welcome to a little "reminder-tag" today that I have made for our reminder post over at SanDee&amelie's Steampunk Challenges. Our winter special challenge is in full swing and there's one more month left (until the end of December) to play along. Some of my wonderful teamies have created a little steampunk-Christmas something for you too - so I highly recommend you hop over to our challenge blog to check these out as well! ;)

Over there we're also announcing the new DecoArt prize bundle for 2019...erhemm...erhemm... ;)

I haven't taken steps images of the creative process this time, but the pictures of the finished tagshow the process pretty well too...

I hope I could at least catch a bit of the bling from the cool DecoArt Glamour Dust paints I have used on top of other DecoArt paints and blingy products. ;)

Here's what I did to create my tag: I started with DecoArt premium white Gesso that I scraped onto the die cut cardboard tag using a palette knife. I tried not to work too evenly so some streaks remained visible. The die cut hills were given coats of dabbed and scraped on premium Texture Medium. Dabbing the palette knife into the wet Texture Medium and lifting it and repeating that process all over the surface created a lot of lovely texture that I later dry brushed with DecoArt premium paint Quinacridone Gold Hue.

This way the texture became visible just beautifully! I later added a thin coat of DecoArt "Ice Crystal" Glamour Dust paint on top to mimic the glittering snow on the hills...

To create the rusty houses I painted the die cut house shapes with Viva Decor Rusty Paper and also added a very thin layer of Rusty Patina once the "rust" paint had dried. Stippling on the paint instead of brushing created a gorgeous textural surface that enhances the impression of rusty metal house shapes beautifully.

I painted the sky's background with DecoArt Vintage Effect Wash "Patina". This paint is very translucent and a great medium to add just that tad of vintage feel to your makes (it is meant to be used on top of home decor pieces...but you know me...lol). I have used Vintage Effect Wash "Beige" on the bow (and traces of DecoArt Gold Rush Metallic Lustre on top).

To have my die cut "Merry Christmas" quote really pop and look festive, I used DecoArt Extreme Sheen "Bronze" that I applied with a thin soft brush before I glued the quote in place with DecoArt matte Decou-Page. I also used the Extreme Sheen on the little star on the Christmas tree...

The rusty clouds were given a light coat of Rusty Patina as well and the sky also got a coat of Turquoise Sparkle Glamour Dust for even more glitter from the falling snow. Using Titanium White DecoArt premium paint and a splatter brush I added the falling snow once all had dried and was glued in place. Only the bow and quote were fixed to the tag afterwards so they had no white paint sprinkles on them.

Dies used were from a set of little houses, clouds and trees (that I do not remember the name of), the hills and quote are from the Sizzix "Home for the Holidays" dies set by Tim Holtz and the bow is a Tim Holtz die too (from the "Fold Up Bows" set).

The SASPC team and I wish you a...

HERE's the link that takes you to our challenge blog ;)

Happy holidays and happy crafting!

Claudia

xxx