Country View Crafts Challenges - Cats and Dogs

Welcome back. Today I am sharing my second project for the Cats and Dogs challenge, again I have used a cute kitty stamp.

Here are the products that I used to create this card:

Aall and Create Janet Klein stamp set

Tim Holtz Doodle Stencil

Tim Holtz Distress Sprays

Sizzix Hexagon from the free set included with the Sizzix Switch

Tim Holtz Texture Paste

This was such a fun card to make.  If nothing else, I only used snippets of the backgrounds that I created which means I have more left to make other projects.

Pop over to the blog to see the amazing inspiration from the rest of the team.  And while you are there, why not join in with the Cats and Dogs challenge.  You never know, you may be a lucky winner.

Thanks for joining me.

Miriam

Country View Crafts Challenges - Bokeh

Today I am sharing my second project for the Bokeh challenge.

Here is my project:

For this project I used a bold PaperArtsy JOFY stamp - this is such a beautiful stamp.

I started by blending blue circles using different shades of Distress inks.

I used a stencil to blend teh white circles so that they looked more pronounced.

I love the different shades on this card.

I hope that you have been inspired to join in with this month's Challenge.  Make sure you pop over to the blog to see the inspiration from the design team and to join in with the Challenge.

Thanks for joining me,
Miriam

Country View Crafts Challenges - It's A Bug's Life

I hope you are all enjoying the wonderful inspiration from the team so far this month.  There is so much more to come.

Here is my second project for the month

I decided to alter some artist trading coins for this one.

I started by triple embossing Ancient Amber Baked Texture.  How fab does this look?!

On the last emboss I pressed the bug stamps into the hot melted powder.  I so love the impressions they left.


I then inked around the edges and added a Tim Holtz quote.

To finish, I embossed and painted the back of the coins.

Thank you for joining me again today.  Make sure you pop over to the Challenge blog to see the inspiration this month.  And do join in - apart from it enabling us to see your amazing projects you may be in with a chance of winning a gift voucher to spend in the online store!

Happy crafting!
Miriam

Country View Crafts Challenges - It's A Bug's Life

Welcome to June.  We are almost half way through the year already!

This month Jane has chosen 'It's a Bug's Life' as the theme over at Country View Crafts Challenges.  Now this theme threw me at first as I don't often use 'bugs' in my craft, however, the ideas started to flow.

Here is my first project for the month

I started my project using a very simple stencilled background that I used spray inks through.  

The flowers and ladybirds were various ones from the JOFY collection at PaperArtsy.  These were stamped and coloured then cut out.

I thought the ladybirds were very cute!

A very simple, but colourful card.  Perfect for the start of the warmer months - let's hope we have a good summer!

Thank you for joining me today.  Make sure you pop over to the Country View Crafts Challenge blog where you can see the inspiration from the other design team members.  And don't forget to join the challenge - you may be the lucky winner of a gift voucher that can be spent in the online shop!

Thanks for looking... Happy crafting!
Miriam

Country View Challenges - Pimp It Up

Happy Easter to you all.

Today marks the start of a new challenge over at Country View Crafts Challenges.  The theme for -April is 'Pimp it Up' and also refers to up-cycling and altering.

Here is my first project for the challenge

This project started life as a mini frame that I have had in my stash forever.  

So I thought I would show it some love and 'pimp it up'.

I started by painting the back card using Ice Blue Fresco Chalk Paint.  The frame itself was painted using Venetian Blue.  All of the paints used are from the latest Seth Apter PaperArtsy Fresco Chalk Paints.

I used the 'Textures' set of stamps by Lisa Horton for Creative Expressions to add texture using Spanish Mulberry.



The flowers are from the fabulous new Tracy Scott stamps that can be found here and here.  They were stamped, coloured and fussy cut around.

These were then mounted to the frame, and a Tim Holtz rub-on used to complete the project.

So that's one item that I have been keeping to use at 'some point' - now for everything else that I have got!

Thanks for joining me today.  Do pop over and see the other projects created by my talented DT members, and I hope that you join in with this month's challenge - there is a voucher to spend in the shop up for grabs.

Country View Crafts Challenge - Christmas

It's the last challenge of the year - and what better theme than Christmas.

Here is the card that I created for my first project of the month...

I can't tell you how much I enjoyed making this!!

I started by cutting matts from the Tim Holtz Christmas stack and Kraft stack.  I love the Kraft stack so much I had to buy a second pad because I used it so quickly!  Once cut, I distressed the edges f the mat and inked using Walnut Stain distress ink.

These were layered to a card blank and a stitched circle in Kraft card stock added.

Next, I die cut the largest reindeer from the newest Tim Holtz set and some ferns from Tim's Christmas Greens set.  The reindeer was offset to the right side of the card and the ferns to the top left of the circle.

I added pine cones and seam binding ribbon.

I added metallic distress crayon to a Tim Holtz words and numbers tag.  

This was tied to the seam binding, along with bells.

To finish the card I used a metallic rub-on.

Yes, this card was a Tim overload, but boy did I enjoy it!! 

Pop over to Country View Crafts Challenges to see what the other design team members have created.

Thanks for reading my post today.....