The Usual Suspects

Good morning, and I hope it's another warm one. Haven't the last few days been beautiful. When I was younger I hated the sunshine, but the older I get the more I like it!
For my second piece I'm celebrating all things Alice. I must admit I'm not a fan of the Alice films (shock horror), but I do love Alice stamps.
More details can be found here at Sue The Iron.
Don't forget to join in, and have a fun week x

p.s I think the cat did it....

Cracking Invite

I am really inspired by this Crackle theme this month and made this invite for a family get together for my daughter's sweet sixteenth birthday - as always there are more details on my blog. I used PaperArtsy's Crackle Glaze which is so much fun to use because the cracks very quickly appear before your eyes as it works its magic! Perfect for those, like me, who are really impatient!
We are really looking forward to seeing your entries!

Gabrielle x

Crackled Landscape.

Hazel

I have combined lots of crackle and bling to create my version of a hilly landscape.

Not a card, or a canvas or anything useful...just a picture which I may mount sometime.

If you likey, then please hop over to my blog for more details.

#40, Hazel,

Crackled Art Journal Page

Hello dear readers,

it´s Evelyn here today. This month it´s my turn to host the challenge and I want to show you my second "Crackles" project, this time an art journal page.

I made this pages in my holidays, I spent in Italy two weeks ago. I wanted to try out something new and used Crackle Glaze through a stencil.

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

I hope, you will find the time to join our challenge this month.

Thank you for popping in here today!

June Challenge - Crackle

Welcome everyone to our June Challenge

This months theme is Crackle chosen by Evelyn, checkout what our Designers have created and then get crackling

Evelyn

I love crackles - there is always some kind of magic by using several crackle mediums! To show you some different possibilities of the use of crackle mediums, I decided to make a little vintage tag. If you want to know more about how I made, please hop over to my blog!

Jane

June is the month in which we will be celebrating Father's day, here in the UK, on Sunday 19th. I decided to make a Father's Day card, with a crackle base, for my dear Dad.  I used DecoArt products, vintage book pages and a childhood photo of me. A step by step of how I created this can be found over at my blog here.

Sue

I love crackle, I find I'm using it more and more in my crafting. However, it doesn't always go well, and this piece has been an exercise in painting over in white and starting over again. Full details can be found here on my blog.

Brenda

I love using crackle mediums and there are so many of them out there. On my blog today I am sharing the effects of four of the DecoArt ones, how you can use them and how you can get five different techniques from them. If you look closely the four cups all have a different finish as does the background. There's crackle galore.

Rachel

Hello there - I have experimented with a new to me crackle technique to make this piece - I think the crackle is very cool - come and see more over at my blog here.

Craftyfield

To ease you in our Crackle theme, I picked an easy, no fuss, no mess method of getting crackle on your makes! Come and see the details on my blog and I'll get you crackling in no time!

Nikki

For this challenge I used a wooden panel as my substrate adding crackle texture paste along with these fabulous PaperArtsy butterflies. Do join me at Addicted to Art for more details today.

Monika

For our June Challenge I created a canvas board with hot air balloons. To fulfill our requirements I made a crackled background and I also crackled the hot air balloons. For this I used 2 types of crackle medium and on my blog you will find the details. Thanks!

Corrie

Wow, June already ! For this first inspiration piece for Evelyn's "crackle" theme,  I have created a little wallhanging made out of a stirring stick for paint from the DIY place ! 

If you want to know how I made this, then hop over to my blog HERE and I will show you ! 

I'll be back later in the month with another inspiration piece ! 

Until then ! Corrie x

Jennie

I decided to have some fun with my Tim Holtz Village Dwelling Die this month and used crackle paste on my walls for this fanciful little blue house.  Join me over on my blog if you would like to see more.

Gabrielle

I love crackle - there are so many ways to achieve the look and it can add some fabulous texture to our projects! This is a cardboard base with some PaperArtsy crackle paint on top - please pop by my blog where I show the three easy steps and how I used the finished project! Gabrielle x

These gorgeous creations from our Design Team will give you inspiration to use your own crackle. So it's over to you now, create your project and link it below

An InLinkz Link-up

It's your birthday

Hello everyone,

For my second inspiration piece for Chirsitine's fabulous stencil challenge I have made a birthday card.

Details of how I made this are on my blog HERE. 

Thanks for stopping by today ! 

More stencil and paint fun

Nikki here with my second 'stencil' creation for the month. I have used some wooden blocks and added lots of random stencilling and a little stamping. Once I was happy with my backgrounds I stamped the flower (Emma Godfrey / PaperArtsy) and added a little doodling with my white pen.

Don't forget the fabulous prize up for grabs this month - a chance to win a Big Shot!! Just a couple more days to enter HERE!

'till next time...

Nikki

Addicted to Art

xx

Guest Designer - Kim from Tangled Blue Rose

Hello all!  We're delighted today to welcome Kim from Tangled Blue Rose as our guest.  Kim was the winner of our Make Your Own Background challenge back in February (you can see her fabulous dragonfly monolith here if you missed it), and today she's sharing a fantastic creation made for the current Use A Stencil theme.  So let's take a look...

Kim says: I am happiest when I can play and create, something, anything! I love to use stamps and stencils and lots of colour and texture. 

What a gorgeous hanging, Kim!  Thanks so much for joining us this month as our guest.

Don't you just love all that stencilled crackle texture?  And the butterfly is stunning!  If you'd like to see more of this lovely project, do visit Kim at Tangled Blue Rose for all the details.

You still have just a couple of days to enter our Use A Stencil challenge and Birthday Bloghop.  The usual £20 voucher is on offer for the winner of the challenge, and the possibility of a Guest Design spot here at Country View Challenges, and the fabulous prize for the Bloghop is a Sizzix BigShot Machine and Die Bundle, so you can either get creating or get hopping or both!  See you there!

Alison and the CVC team x

A stenciled wedding tag

Hello it's Jane here today from Jane's Journal and I am back with my 2nd DT inspiration piece for the May "use a stencil" challenge. You only have 4 more days to enter our challenge and our fabulous blog hop, with the amazing prize of a Sizzix machine and die bundle...time to get your skates on! Wow I am so jealous that I can't enter. You do not need to enter the challenge to win the machine...just hop over to all the DT pieces shown on 1st May and leave a comment...simples!!

For this piece I have made a matching tag for the wedding card I shared here at the beginning of the month.

I have a step by step over at my blog here, do pop on over. A warm welcome awaits you.

Crafty hugs,

Jane x

The Earth Laughs

Hello...Doreen here, 

I have decorated a wooden plaque for my second project this 

month using some Paper Artsy

stencils. you can get full details of how

 this was made from my blog

Canvas board and stencilling.

Hi it's Brenda here today to show you a media board created with stencils, texture paste and DecoArt media acrylic paints.

I love lots of technique in my backgrounds and layered two different stencils to create the backdrop for this grungy framed found relative and flowers left over from my CVC reverse canvas workshop. I've happily shown a few more photos of the process steps over at Bumblebees and Butterflies if you can make it.

Don't forget our challenge is still open for another week and the blog hop is also running with the fabulous sizzix big shot and dies as a prize, so do pop over to the challenge post to see what's going on.

Have a great week.

hugs Brenda xxx

Gold-turquoise tag with butterfly

Monika

This is my second make for our May Challenge: USE A STENCIL.

I wanted to make an elegant tag overwhelmed with gold. If you want to see my tutorial, please visit my blog.

Be bold

For my second project for this month's fabulous stencils theme I wanted to use some of my favourite stencils. I used squares, stars, leaf and numbers and then added the stamped butterfly and sentiment. Stencils can be a main focal point, like the leaf here or can be used to build up the background. However you use them we'd love to see, so please join in with this month's challenge! It's also not too late to take part in the Blog Hop - for more details on both please pop over here.

Gabrielle x