{"id":773,"date":"2022-12-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/?p=773"},"modified":"2025-09-26T15:14:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:14:41","slug":"winter-time-home-decor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/mixed-media-projects\/winter-time-home-decor\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Decor: Winter Tale Street with Happy Place Stamp Set"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello arty friends, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to a fun tutorial using the gorgeous Happy Place<\/a> stamp set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my favorite things is to create some crafts for home decor, mainly using 3D mixed media and it’s been a long time since I did any of that so I was really missing it. Are you ready to see how this was made?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I had this little piece of wood with a very simple text to decorate and I wanted to create a winter scene to give it to someone special. So I started with an idea in mind for the houses of the Happy Place<\/a> set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First I applied white gesso all over the piece and then I glued a piece of rice paper on top that simulated white wooden planks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Base for the home decor<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I applied a layer of clear gesso over the piece to protect the rice paper from damage from other materials and water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a stencil, I applied white crackle paste using a spatula to make it thin, this way it will crackle smaller. I let it air dry so the fractures are better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Base with crackle paste<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I have glued three bamboo sticks together to make the ground for my winter tale. And then I applied some white gesso and also crackle paste on them.
Then I painted the piece, creating a kind of gradient from the lower right corner, with powdered pigments mixed with acrylic medium in different shades of blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Base painted with pigments<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While all this dries up. I stamped the houses and a cloud from the set Night & Day Big<\/strong><\/a> on watercolor paper and painted them with the pigments as if they were watercolors. In addition, I also prepared some pieces of cardboard to give different levels of depth to my houses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The stamps painted with watercolors<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I needed other elements to accompany my stamps and make my decorative piece look like a village street. So I chose some wooden dies and a plastic lantern and painted them with the same colors as the background. I also used embossing powder to help me build a very wintery atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other elements for decoration<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now it’s time to prepare the whole composition of my street and secure it well with a good glue.
I also chose some wood and paper floral elements to give the scene a more romantic look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, we need to make sure that everything looks the same, so I first applied some gesso with the dry brush technique, just to give a few touches here and there. Then I glued fake snow with a little bit of glitter on all of the elements and let it accumulate in the correct areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I leave you some photos with details of the project.  I hope you like it as much as I do when making them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thank you for your visit and let me wish you a Happy Holidays. See you next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hugs, Priss<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hello arty friends, <\/p>\n

Welcome to a fun tutorial using the gorgeous Happy Place stamp set.<\/p>\n

One of my favorite things is to create some crafts for home decor, mainly using 3D mixed media and it’s been a long time since I did any of that so I was really missing it. Are you ready to see how this was made?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,19],"tags":[119,117],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-decor","category-mixed-media-projects","category-tutorial","tag-celestial","tag-happy-place"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Priss-BlaFu-DT-RD-21Dec22.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15390,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/15390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}