Happy Memories

Hi again..... it's Miriam here from Miriam's Creative Dreams.  I hope you've been enjoying the awesome projects from the design team so far this month.  I adore flowers and so had lots of ideas running through my head for this topic.

I chose to create a canvas for my dear friend, Dianne.  Here is my finished project....

Pop on over to my blog to see how I created this.

If you haven't done so already there is still time to join in with this month's challenge - Flower Power. 

I hope that I have inspired you today.  I hope you all have a wonderful bank holiday weekend.

Happy crafting!

Miriam

Double flower power

Hello it's Jane here again today with my 2nd flower power inspiration project.  I decided to make a Distress Oxide version of the tag I shared with you on the 1st of the month using exactly the same floral stamps.

I am always fascinated how 2 projects using the same stamps turn out so differently when different inks and colours are used. I have a full step by step over on my own blog here where a floral  warm welcome awaits you. We have already had some gorgeous entries into our Flower Power challenge this month, you have just under the week left to enter. We look forward to seeing lots more.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Flower Power,#51, Hazel,

Hazel

A background inspired by Mindy Lacefield and some Queen Anne's lace were my inspiration for my second Design piece. Please pop over to my blog for details. 

Happiness blooms from within

This month's challenge theme of Flower Power is terrific as there are so many ways you can incorporate flowers into your art. I made a page in my journal and used the idea of a jam jar filled with flowers as my central image. The colours are all complementary meaning that the yellowy orange flowers really pop out from the background. Thank you for joining me today and I hope you enter our challenge for the chance to win a great prize. Gabrielle x

Feminin card with pretty flowers

Evelyn

 For my second piece this month I made a very feminin card and added some Flower Power!

If you want to see more, please visit my blog!

Thinking of you

Hi everyone, 

Today I have a little more inspiration for this month's 'Flower Power' Challenge. I have made a card:

If you want to know how I made this, please hop over to my BLOG where everything is explained ! 

Thank you so much for stopping by today ! 

Until next time ! 

Corrie x

Powerful Flower

Craftyfield here today with a single bloom... alone yes, but strong!

 

 

In complete contrast to my first inspiration piece I used only one flower for this card, but a big one to create, I hope, a powerful image. Do come over to see the details on my blog!

Flower Power #2

Hi it's Brenda here from Bumblebees and Butterflies and here I am sharing my second project for the Flower Power challenge and I promised you the finished journal to the covers I showed you on the 1st May. This was them.

I took the first set of panels (the design on the left) to make this finished piece .....

... and all the details of how I made the journal itself are on my blog today.

Grab a cuppa on the way over as there are lots of photos and steps for you to peruse if you have time.

I hope you are enjoying the challenge and have been able to pop over and took a look at the inspiration projects from the design team.

Have fun.

hugs Brenda xxx

April Winner, Top 3 and DTSM

Hello everybody!  It's time to announce the April winner of our Challenge, Top Three and Design Team Member Special Mention.  Are you sitting comfortably?  Then let's begin!

 

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April winner of the £20 Country View Crafts voucher, selected by Random Generator from the challenge entries is...

 

#30 Toni

Congratulations, Toni!  Your winner's badge and voucher will be on their way to you shortly, and we hope you'll join us a Guest Designer here at Country View Challenges in the future. 
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Hello dear followers, today it´s time to choose the winners of our April challenge!

Although there were not as many entries as in the challenges before, the ones who through in their hat did a really fantastic job! It was hard to pick out only three of them!

But here they are in no particular order:

#2 - Laneen

Evelyn said: Laneen created a gorgeous male layout in a grunge style. The rusty bits and bobs are fitting perfect to the vintage photo of James Dean!

#17 - Jan

Evelyn said: Love this book cover to bits! I would love to touch the surface with all it´s texture. The rust is looking so very elegant here and the blue night sky pops out beautifully.

#30 - Toni

Evelyn said: Another gorgeous layout with loads of rust goodness! There are so many fabulous details, you nearly can´t stop looking at. The photo of the "machine man" rounds off the overall picture.

Evelyn´s choice for the Design Team Member's Special Mention this time even goes to two completely different entries, but both catched her eyes so much, that she didn´t want to leave one of them behind:

#7 - Lys

Evelyn said: What a fabulous and unique idea to alter an USB stick! Lys created an absolutely stunning tiny little piece of art with gorgeous rustiness. Love it!

#31 - Kristina

Evelyn said: This invitation card is so very elegant, although it is so simple! I love, how the created rust comes into focus.

 

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WOW Fantastic work all around!  Congratulations - your badges will be on their way soon, and we hope you'll display them with pride.

And don't forget there is still lots of time to enter our May Challenge - Flower Power

 

More Flower Power

Sue

I'm loving the challenge this month, and I know you are too, so here's some more flower power.

Again I've used some of my favourite (they're all my favourites) PaperArtsy stamps, and my neglected but now sharpened watercolour pencils. There are lots more pictures over at Sue The Iron so please pop across x

Floral Borders

Rachel

I had fun making some floral borders for these bright summery cards and then completed them with stamped flowers. For more details please see my blog post which you can find here. Have a great day! Hugs rachel x

Canvas with wildflowers and watering can

Monika

As a second inspirational piece I have a mixed media canvas with Tim's Watering Can and Wildflowers. Our theme is Flower Power in May this is why I put many of these beautiful wildflowers onto my canvas. For more details, please visit my blog...

May 2017 - Flower Power

Welcome everyone to our May Challenge.

Our theme this month is "Flower Power", chosen by the lovely Monika

Hello everybody, it's Monika

the hostess of the May challenge

It's said: "April showers bring May flowers."

So it's time for the flowers and for the floral creations.

You might know that I like to make home decorations. For our May challenge I've created two flower wreaths - a pink and a blue one - with felt flowers. I wanted to show you how easy to make home decorations with Sizzix dies and not just with Bigz dies but with Thinlits dies too. For more details, please click on my blog.

Gabrielle

For the Flower Power project I made a wall hanging, combining the rust of last month with the flowers of this month to create a bird cage. It been ages since I last did any die cutting and I had forgotten how much I enjoyed sending a piece of card though my machine only to see it turn into leaves or flowers at the other end! There's a close up photo and a description of how I made this on my blog. Gabrielle x



Craftyfield

One of the most difficult part of designing this card was to chose the stamps to use! Flowers are a fail safe image for cards and I have a lot to chose from... Come over to my blog to see how I made my floral card.

Brenda

I've been playing with the Tim Holtz Floral stencil and I've created two sets of panels for when the new Eileen Hull journal comes into stock (hopefully very soon). The panel on the left was made using distress oxides and the stencil as a stencil and using the ink left on it, spritzed with water as a monoprint. The second panel on the right was created using the monoprint technique only. I won't leave you hanging, so for more details pop over to Bumblebees and Butterflies and you'll find out when I can show you the finished journal.

 

Jane

Happy May day, wow the year is racing by but May is one of my favourite months of the year. I was delighted when our lovely Monika chose "Flower Power" as our theme this month. May really is the month of flowers and I chose to make 2 floral tags. I am sharing the first one today made with regular Distress Inks.

If you would like to see how I made my flower power tag do pop over to my blog here where a very fragrant  warm welcome awaits you. I will be back to share my Distress Oxide version of this later in the month. Enjoy the bank holiday and I really hope that you get some time to get inky.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Hi everyone,

Here's my contribution to this month's fab Challenge "Flower Power". 

It is a mini art journal page and if you would like to know how I made this then please hop over to my blog HERE. 

I will be back later in the month with some more inspiration ! 

Corrie x

Rachel

You just gotta love flowers! So many shapes and colours - they really are the most amazing things! I used some wonderful stamps from Kay Carley to make my card for today. You can find out more details on my blog here.

Hope you can join us!

Hugs rachel xx

Hazel

Excited because we got round to my birthday month. Here is my first piece in the new challenge of "Flower Power". For more details, please visit my blog.

Evelyn

Flower Power! This theme is perfect for bold colours and a happy design!

I made a card with the beautiful PaperArtsy stamps and used Distress Oxides on my background. If you want to see, how I put this card together, please hop over to my blog

Sue

What a great challenge, perfect for Summer which I hope starts now! I have a few family birthdays coming up, so with this in mind I've chosen my happy colours of PaperArtsy paint, along with their stencils and stamps. There are more details over at Sue The Iron. Have a lovely day x

Miriam
Who doesn't love flowers?  Especially at this time of year when Spring is in the air!  Here is my project for this month's challenge....

Pop over to my blog to see how I created this card.

Wow some wonderful flower projects from our Design Team. So it's over to you now, create your project and link it below with the chance to win a £20 voucher to use on the Country View Crafts website. Thanks to everyone who took up the Rust Challenge last month. There are some fantastic entries and the winner will be announced soon

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