Relax

A warm hello from me, Craftyfield!

 

Whether you are having a normal weekend or enjoying a longer British Bank Holiday,

I hope you will have time to relax and enjoy the last of the summer...

or maybe the music!

I feel ready to join her...

 

Today I'm showing you my second inspiration piece for the Greens and Blues challenge.

As usual, all the details on how I made this card are on my blog, I hope you will take some time out to visit!

 

Fairies At The Bottom Of The Garden

I've tried something a little different for my second piece for our 'blues and greens' challenge.

This is the first time I've used Powertex on my own so please be kind :-D  More details can be found over on my blog and I'd love it if you would join me over there. xx

Ornate seaside frame card

Hello it's Jane here again to share my 2nd card for the month to hopefully give some more inspiration for our Blues and Greens challenge, which has just over a week left to run. I made a seaside card with a very ornate frame.

If you would like to see a step by step everything is over on my blog here. It's worth swimming  popping over to see the background in full. As always it all gets covered over. The things we do to our art eh!

Enjoy the last week of August and happy holidays to you all. We are enjoying seeing all your lovely blue and green entries. 

Bye for now,

Jane x

Soul Sisters

Hello there! Rachel here with you today with another piece to encourage you to join our challenge this month...

The theme is Blues and greens ... there's still over a week to join in with us. I made this card using a stamp set by Tracy Easson... please pop over to my blog for full details here.

Have a great day.

Hugs

Rachel x

Tag with dragonflies - Blue and green

Monika

Hello everybody, this is my second piece for our August challenge: Blues and greens. If you like my dragonfly tag and if you would like a supply list, please click on my blog.
Thank you!

Inspired By Seth Apter

Hi again, it's my turn to show you another project for the 'Blue and Green' theme.

I hope you have been enjoying all of the wonderful inspiration this month. 

As my title suggest, this month's project is inspired by Seth Apter - those of you who know his art will know his love of layers and paints!

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

If you haven't done so already there is still time to enter this month's challenge - don't forget that there is a voucher to spend in the shop up for grabs!

Thanks for joining me.....It's the bank holiday weekend so I hope you have something crafty planned.

Happy crafting!

Miriam

Be Bold, Be Brave.

Hazel here with my second "Blue and Green" piece. Using my paint chip cards again. All the details can be found over on my blog.
Don't forget that there is still plenty of time to join in with our challenge. 

I don't like...

For this month's Blue and Green theme (which I have LOVED!) I have tried to think a little more differently and make a journal page in less than half an hour.

I simply added white Fresco Finish paint to a black page in my journal and made sure that it was thin coverage so some of the black shows through. I'd used a stencil for my first project this month and so I simply used the leftover ink by flipping the stencil over and rubbing it to transfer the ink to the page (which is why the numbers are reversed!) The blue heart and green coloured stamped images finish off the page.

Thank you, as always for popping by!

Gabrielle x

July Winner, Top 3 & DTSM

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

 

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

#23 Lovely Linda

 

 

 

Wow what can I say! There were 128 wonderful entries into my things with wings theme for our July challenge. I was delighted to see so many diverse projects. Thanks so much to everyone who rose to the challenge, it was great fun visiting all your blogs. I'm sorry if I didn't manage to comment on everyone's..I would have been away for days. This however did lead to a dilemma...how on earth could I just chose a Top 3 from the 128? Well after a couple evenings I did manage it and here there are, in the date order they were submitted into the challenge.

No 13 Ionabunny (Gail)

As you well know I have a "cute" side too. This sweet little bird card flew into the challenge early on and immediately caught my eye. Gail's CAS (Clean and simple) design is delightful and despite all that white space that little bird stamp and words really gives the feeling of flying and movement. A really super cute card which made me smile.

No 63 Carol Gill

I love colouring images (when I get the time) and Carol's brilliant dragon stood out with its gorgeous red, white and blue colours. Her colouring is fabulous and he stands out so well on the speckled background. A most unusual "thing with wings" and a striking card.

No 115 Nora

Nora's gorgeous art journal spread joined the challenge during the last few days of July and what beautiful pages she created. There is so much texture and her painted butterfly is stunning. The fabulous background and colours are so summery too. A really beautiful entry.

So those are my Top 3. Now I just need to reveal my Design Team Special Mention (DTSM)...and it goes to 

No 75 Janner

Janner obviously knows my weakness for fairies as one of my favourite things with wings...in fact she quite rightly said that it sounded wrong to call a fairy a "thing". This is the most delightful card...those fairies are perfectly silhouetted against the gorgeous stamped and inked background. The monochrome colour scheme works perfectly too for this very magical card and as the sentiment says, "Those who don't believe in magic will never find it".... I could not agree more!

Thanks again to everyone who entered and made it such a pleasure to see so many gorgeous things with wings. Remember that our current August challenge theme is Blues and Greens and we hope to see lots more of your lovely work. Here is the link. Enjoy the summer and happy crafting.

Bye for now,

Jane x

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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 August Challenge - Blues & Greens



Thank you!

Hello dear crafty peeps, 

it´s Evelyn today with my second piece for this month!

I hope you enjoy the summer - here in Germany we had some very hot days.

But now to my project.

For the Blues and Greens challenge theme this month I made another card.

As you can see, I made my background in nearly the same way as my first project - and nevertheless it looks totally different!

If you want to know some more details, please hop over to my blog.

Now I hope, you will join in with our challenge, there is plenty of time to play!

For more inspiration please come back to see the fabulous creations of my lovely teamies here to come.

Thank you for your visit today!

Feathers

Hello everyone Debs here, thanks for stopping by as I share my second piece for this month's challenge of Blue, and Green.

All the details are on my blog

Take care 

Hugs Xxx

Hug me and a new VIDEO !

Hello everyone,

and welcome to my second inspiration post for the challenge I set. The theme is 'blues and greens' and I have made an art journal page in these colours. I also filmed the process if you are interested.

A link to the Video is on my blog HERE or you can go straight via the link below:

Thank you for stopping by today and don't forget to play along ! 

Corrie x

August 2017 - Blues and Greens

 

Welcome everyone to our August Challenge.

Our theme this month is "Blues & Greens", chosen by the lovely Corrie

 

Hello everyone, 

and welcome to my Challenge. For this month's theme I chose one of my favourite colour combinations: greens and blues. I would love to see you create something in these colours and don't forget you could just win a GBP 20,- voucher to spend in the shop ! 

I you'd like to know how I made this then hop over to my BLOG and I'll tell you all about it! 

I will be back in a few days with another project ! 

Corrie x

 

Evelyn

"Blues and Greens" - what a beautiful colour combi!

Okay, I decided to add some red too, but  this makes the blue/green background pop out even more I think.

For my first project this month I made a Fantasy card. I had so much fun! If you want to know how it came together, please visit my blog.

Have a wonderful holiday month!

 

Sue

Well, it's birthday season again around here, so it's back to the craft room for me - cloud bathing was getting a little bit boring anyway!

You can't beat a little bit of Tim Holtz when it comes to a 'guy card', and I've teamed his stamps with his stencils, inks, and dies. More details can be found here at Sue The Iron.

Thank you, Corrie, for the fun challenge, and have a fun week everyone! x

Brenda

I've been having fun layering up some blues and greens media paints to create a mixed media background and a panel for the cover of a new journal I am in the process of making.

If you'd like to see how the layers unfold I would be very pleased to see you at Bumblebees and Butterflies where I have the process steps and more photos to go with the details.

Thanks for this great theme Corrie I have always loved blue and green together but I just don't use them that often, so it was lovely to play with them again.

 

Craftyfield

 

A glasses case is a useful gift idea and also great way to get your crafting skills seen by lots of people, unwittingly advertised by your gift recipient....!

 

 

Come and read the details on how I made this and see more pics on my blog !

 

Gabrielle

I love the colour combination of blue and green (green is my very favourite colour!) and often use them together. For this month I wanted create a layered look from the image to the tag to the background allowing the colours to be distinct and also harmonious by carrying the leaf stamp across both. i'm looking forward to seeing how you interpret this month's theme. Gabrielle x

 

Jane

Blue and green are 2 of my favourite colours so I was delighted with Corrie's theme for August. There is so much scope for inspiration using these colours. I have made a male and female card this month..this is the male one today. I have all the details and a step by step if you would like to travel pop over to my blog here. I will share my female card later in the month. Enjoy the summer holidays and your summer crafting 😎.

Bye for now,

Jane x

 

Hazel

Blue and green should never be seen, is something that resonates from my childhood! Pop over to my blog for details of my journal page. 

 

Monika

Hello All, I have made a mini canvas board as a birthday card for our August challenge: Blue and green. For this canvas I used Tim Holtz's stencil and stamps, and of course many shades of Tim's blue and green markers. If you want to know more about my canvas, please hop on my blog. Thank you!

Rachel

Blue and green meant an underwater scene for me - and here it is. There is a step by step on my blog here if you would like to pop over! I do hope you can join us! Hugs rachel x

 

Debs

Blue and Green are one of my favourite colour combinations so I was thrilled to create a journal page 

using one of my own stamps now available in store and this gorgeous colour combo.

For all the details please hop over to my blog.

Take care

Hugsxxx 

Miriam
Hi there, the them this month is two of my favourite colours. When I created this project it was cold and raining outside and so I drifted away to think of summer and fields full of flowers.

Pop over to my blog  to see how I created this card.  Make sure you enter this month's challenge - I will look forward to see what you create

 

Wow Wow Wow these are more gorgeous 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 Things With Wings Challenge last month. There are lots of fantastic entries and the winner will be announced soon

 

 

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