Keep Warm by Dorthe Hansen

This week of posting for That`s Crafty! we are to use some of 

the new wonderful stamps, just arrived in the shop, and as something

very special, all created by members of the DT .

So I chose to use: The Freddy and Friends Collection, designed by my sweet friend

 Donna Gray. 

If you don`t know Donna yet, I can tell you that it is her cute quirky cat we are seeing here.

I started with a big panel, painted it with Blue and White mixed acrylic paints 

darker on to top of panel and very soft tone on the lower half.

After dry I stenciled the wonderful winter tree, using Texture Paste and also the 

trunk stencil in lower left corner, plus a little snow  using Punchinella . Fred the cat, was stamped onto white tissue

paper and put aside.

The trees and trunk were all inked up, using the stencils again,

on top of the Texture Paste and I added the brown ink with a foam

applicator. Next, the lines were defined with a black fineliner.

On top I created a big wullen sky filled with snow, using left over papers,

crumpled together, adhered to panel and painted white and bluish.

Also the same was done in the bottom panel to give the trees a ground to rest on and

pieces of real bark from my stash were adhered under trees and stamen. 

The cat was then adhered to sit on top of the trunk and was painted blue eyes,

red ears and rusty top and chest. No wonder he looks angry with only a fishbone dangling in the wind! :-) 

Fishbone, Keep Warm and Snow were stamped onto an old piece

of book page and black was added to the perimeters. They were all 

adhered to cardstock, and then adhered to the panel. Snow falling created with the buttom of a pencil dipped into white acrylic paint , and  brown ribbon

from my stash makes a hanger for this wintery piece!!

Thank you for following me to the end of this post, I wish you

a great new week - here we hope for less snow, we have enough now :-)

Hugs and love, Dorthe 

Materials used:

That's Crafty! Surfaces White/Greyboard Panel

That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Freddy and Friends

That's Crafty! Mini Stencil - Tree

That's Crafty! Dinky Stencil - Puchinella Background

That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paint - Bright Blue

That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paint - White

Archival Ink Pad - Jet Black

Archival Ink Pad - Coffee

Words stamps from : RubberDance Whimsical Winter Stamp Set by Donna Gray

From my stash: colour pencils in different tones, reused papers, bark and brown cotton ribbon