Snow Scrapbooking Page

This is what I've done today:

I started to make the background for this snow scene and in the book I was following it said to use silver card and cover it with transparent acrylic gel medium.  I was going to do that but found out that the gel medium that I had wasn't transparent, it was white.  I could have used that but thought they must have used the transparent stuff for a good reason so went in search for a substitute.  I vaguely remember someone using 'Klear' Floor Cleaner for something arty (wish I could remember what!) so I hunted under the kitchen sink and dug it out.  I wiped it over the silver card and then added liquid acrylic in pearlescent blue and white. I added more Klear over the top and then swept over it with a comb and added glitter.  It was very wet at this stage so I thought I'll never get it dry to finish my project today so heated it with my heat gun. It made a lovely effect, all bubbled up, hope it wasn't a dangerous thing to do!

I then added some lovely silvery wool I've got to one of my glittery snowflake stickers and put it in the top corner.  I printed out the picture of my boys sledging in the snow next to their school and ripped it all round the edges.  I used the Cuttlebug to cut out the letters of the word 'Snow' for the bottom corner and added more glitter snowflakes all around.  After gluing it all down I added glitter to the picture and words and  tiny silver gems to the large snowflake. I then finally distressed the whole thing with white Stazon. The next day I decided that the Stazon distressing effect wasn't enough so I attacked it with coarse sandpaper, scissors and careless abandon!  :-)

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Oooh, lovely, lovely textures!