Country View Crafts Challenges - Dreaming in Blue and Green

Today I am sharing my second project for the Country View Crafts Challenge.

It's a Tim Holtz medley of goodies today!

I started by scraping Blues and Greens Fresco Acrylic paints onto a panel. Next I used a stencil and sponged paint through it, highlighting areas using a white gel pen.


I scrunched up a sheet of paper, dipped it into Gold Fresco acrylic paint and the dabbed the painted and stencilled background.

I die cut the frame using gold metallic card stock.  This was a bit too shiny for me and so I distressed it using Little Black Dress Fresco acrylic paint.

The portrait is from the new Found Relatives Vintage Portraits - I love these!

To finish my panel I went to town with loads of different types of Ideology that I have in my stash.  This was teamed with cogs die cut into metallic card stock.

I hope that you like my project.  I had great fun creating it,

Thank you for joining me.  Don't forget that there is plenty of time to join in with the challenge this month.  You may even be lucky enough to win a gift voucher!

Have a great July!
Miriam

Country View Crafts Challenges- Blue & Green

It's that time of the month already!  I don't actually know where July went! 

The new challenge has launched over at Country View Crafts Challenges.  The theme for this month is Blue & Green - two of my favourite and most used colours.

Here is my project for this challenge

I started by colouring a panel of watercolour card using Distress Oxides in Broken China and Peeled Paint.  I know I keep going on about these but they really are fabulous!

I then sprinkles some water to activate the oxides.  This, to me, gave it a lovely glistening summer look.  I then stamped various grasses and coloured them with Distress Oxides in Salty Ocean, Peeled Paint and Lucky Clover.

Using PaperArtsy JOFY 49, I then stamped the larger flowers and  coloured them in using the same Oxide colours.

To finish, I inked around the edge using Walnut Stain and then mounted it onto a panel of navy card stock.

This photo shows how wonderful the Oxides react with water.

Make sure you pop over to the blog  to see what the other design team members have created.... and make sure you enter this month's challenge to be in with a chance of winning a voucher to spend in the CVC shop.

Thanks for looking.....