Sprinkle Starlight by Dorthe Hansen

I can feel it is getting more and more difficult not to create Christmas pieces, so once again I'm here with a festive story about the little angel sprinkling starlight over the beautiful Christmas time ………

I started with a white/greyboard 6x6 panel painted in Ice Blue and when dry, stenciled the beautiful Poinsettia tree using Light Texture Paste. When dry it was painted with first diluted Chestnut Brown, then Green and lastly with the Metallic Paint Silver, so that the dark tone from the brown and green is still shining through.

The angel was also stenciled onto the panel with Light Texture Paste and when dry, I added Crackle Paint to her dress. It was later dabbed with Green and Teal paint to let it run into the cracks and when dry, it all got a coat of Soft Gel Matte, to keep the rather big cracks in place. Her wings were painted with White and Antique Silver and she has a red cheek, brown hair and shoes and face details, all with Fine Liners.

A snowflake was stenciled in the right corner next to the tree and Ice Blue paint was dabbed all around the tree, angel and star, to create texture not easy to take good photos with all the shine, lol).

Bits and Pieces greyboard, bells and a gift box were all painted with Antique Silver and adhered to the tree with Multi Purpose Craft Adhesive, tying light blue ribbon to hang the bells and wrap the box. Next to the tree on the left side, I added strips of long thin papers, torn and added with gesso to make snowy like texture on the ground - also smeared with a little Teal with my finger! The clouds were created the same way. The Dinky Stencil Stars were stenciled onto heavy cardboard and cut out after I painted them with the Antique Silver. They were adhered on top of a piece of old nylon tulle, totally torn into loose threads, as if falling from the angel hands. Lynne’s Affirmation was stamped also on cardboard in Distress Oxide Salty Ocean and with my finger, I smeared the rest of the colour from her dress and Teal onto the text panels.

I found a Star Anise in my kitchen and made it the top star, painting with a little White and Teal. Also I added little snow dots to the tree and lastly sprinkled silver glitter here and there using the Multi Purpose Craft Adhesive.

Now I hope you are able to see the details but sorry for bad photos, I did retake them 3 times and then gave up! J

This is first Monday in December and I wish you all a wonderful Christmas month.

Hugs and love

Dorthe

Materials used:

That’s Crafty! Surfaces White Greyboard Panel Rounded Corners 6x6

That’s Crafty! Stencils: Poinsettia Tree TC7001, Angel Tree TC7005

That’s Crafty! Dinky Stencil Star Shower TC037

That’s Crafty! Bits and Pieces Greyboard Christmas Tree

That’s Crafty! Multi Surface Paint: White, Chestnut Brown, Teal, Metallic Antique Silver, Green, Metallic Ice Blue

That’s Crafty! Stamp Set Lynne’s Affirmations Set 1

That’s Crafty! Light Texture Paste

That’s Crafty! Gesso

That’s Crafty! Multi Purpose Craft Adhesive

Distress Oxide Ink Pad Salty Ocean

Distress Crackle Paint Picket Fence

Soft Gel Matte

Sharpie White

Posca Pen Brown

Fine Liners

From my stash: Blue ribbon, craft paper, old nylon tulle, Star Anise, silver glitter