When falling leaves inspire falling snowflakes

We finally had our first frost during the week and it was enough to trigger the leaves to start to fall...........

carpets of them appeared almost overnight.

I stood mesmerised in the park watching them float to the ground

 Even some of the acers in their pots in my garden dropped lots of their leaves overnight.

All these falling leaves  make me think of a stamp that was in my yummy Design Team package that I recently received from Visible Image. In it is a lovely poem stamp about falling snowflakes. Here is the you can see it here

 I decided I would have my first play with decorating one of their awesome Monoliths with it. If you have not seen these before they have been designed by Mark and were a totally unique product, new to the crafting market last year. You can see them here. They are fab quality free standing MDF plaques which can be decorated on both sides and make awesome gifts.

 I took a couple of  process photos but I got so carried away with my painting play that there are only a few.

As I was using acrylic paints I just gave my Monolith 1 coat of Gesso. I then crushed up some tissue paper and adhered it to the plaque with matt medium.

I then got busy with adding some Decoart media paints and lots of spritzes of water and dabbing with baby wipes and my fingers. 

I also stamped my poem onto tissue and then added it to the plaque together with some some embossed snowflakes from their enchanting snowflakes set

 I also embossed more snowflakes on the reverse using a winter wonderland embossing powder.

and then it was time to add some festive die cuts and the one thing it just had to have..............

yes....of course..

SNOW 

The Monoliths can be left to flat pack but as I wanted a snowy base I stuck my base together permanently. My snow is a mix of Frantage, Decoart snow and Glamour dust. IRL it sparkles so much.

So here is my first Monolith,;for me it just had to be a Christmas themed one. 

Here is the reverse

and a few close ups...it's so hard to capture the sparkle at this time of the year....I loved the way the paints ran into the crackles.

I would like to enter my Monolith into the following challenges;

A vintage journey cracking up I achieved my cracks using crumpled tissue.

                                                                         Noor 2/3 Winter
                                                               Anything but Cute  rustic glam

Everybody art vintage

Dies are us 2/3  thankful for nature

ABC Christmas 2/3 V for vertical
Addicted to stamps and more 2/3 holiday

Let's craft and create 1/3  winter

WOW embossing powders Boxes and gifts

Rhedd's Creative spirit altered art
Crafty friends 1/3 for someone special


Thanks for stopping by today and for the kind comments you take the time to leave. Enjoy your fireworks if you are having any. We plan to stay put this year and watch Strictly live rather than catching up as we often do on a Sunday!

Keep snug,

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x