Crafty Adventurista: Wintery Scene - DT Project 1 for Country View Crafts and Challenges 2025

Happy New Year Everybody,

Here I am with my first DT Project of the year, to share with you, that I’ve made for Country View Crafts and Challenges on Facebook.

The challenge theme is ‘Wintry Scene’ and runs until the end of the month.

The challenge is open worldwide and you can join the group here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/164920247712393

You must use products from brands that Country View Crafts stocks, and please mention them in your post.

You can enter 5 times each month with different projects and one winner will be selected randomly.

There is a fabulous prize as usual for the lucky winner for this month.

This year, I want to do more scenes in my art journal, so I’m starting with this one for January.

These two cute penguins from #941 Cold Hands set by Janet Klein AALL and Create seemed perfect to sum up winter, especially as they’re having a snowball fight.

First I masked off the area in the journal to leave a white border when finished.

Then I created the background using Distress Inks Speckled Egg and Tumbled Glass. I splattered some water on this and dabbed dry. I inked up the word BRRR from the Cold Hands set with Speckled Egg Archival and loosely and randomly stamped over the ‘sky’. I stencilled the sparkle stencil from Tim Holtz Mini Layering Stencil Set MTHS062 with Distress Oxide Lost Shadow.

I also felt it needed something else, so in white Posca I wrote some asemic writing just above the snow. You can hardly see it but I know it’s there :-)

I only covered the top half as I then added Tim Holtz Distress Grit Paste Snowfall to the bottom to give the icy look.

Next I stamped the penguins and the ‘snow hut’ in black Archival ink. I used the Kenyan Hut #693 from Janet Klein AALL and Create for this and coloured all of the stamped images using Tim Holtz’s Watercolor pencils.

I fussy cut these out, and placed in position on my background scene and added some Distress Grit Paste Snowfall to the 'hut'.

I added some Glossy Accents to the penguins' eyes and to finish, I added some ‘snowballs’ cut in half, from my stash.

And here’s my first Wintry Scene for 2025. In fact it’s my first make for 2025!!

I hope you like it and will be inspired to join in our challenge.