Baby, You're a STAR

Hi it's Brenda here and I'm sharing an easel card with you today to fit in with the theme of STARS which is our challenge for November.

I love adding an easel to a canvas board so that it makes a standing card to give a friend, I think it makes it kinds special.

If you'd like to see how I made it then please pop over to Bumblebees and Butterflies for more details.

Hopefully with our continuous projects appearing on the blog we are enticing you to join in and enter the challenge, you can press the link Here or on the sidebar of the main challenge blog page to see more about it.

Enjoy your weekend whatever you have planned.

hugs Brenda xxx

October Winner, Top Three & DTMSM

 

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

 

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

Congratulations, Janny!  Your winner's badge and voucher will be on their way to you shortly, and we hope you'll join us as a Guest Designer here at Country View Challenges in the future.

 

Now it's time for Corrie to share her top picks with you.  As always you made it very difficult to choose from so many amazing entries, but here they are in no particular order.

 

No.2 – Lynnes's Art World.

 

I like this because it is so not scary ! It is a great example of how Halloween doesn't always have to be about skulls. Great job !

 

No.26 – Margik

 

I love this little panel. The images used a great and coloured very nicely. The addition of the witch's hat makes it perfect for Halloween.

 

No. 39 – Teresa

 

 

I really love the design of this card especially the little moths on wire. Great background too.

 

Design Team Special Mention:

 

No. 102 - Ma-Mi

 

I love this because it is so simple and yet so wonderfully effective ! Fantastic !  

 

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



Wonderland

Hello everyone, 

Corrie here, and welcome to the blog where I am sharing my second helping of "star" inspiration. 

I made this card with a gelli print and I filmed how I put it together. So if you are interested then hop over to my YouTube Channel :

Or to my blog HERE. 

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

Corrie x

More Stars

Hello all! Rachel here to give you a little more inspiration for our new challenge at Countryview  where the theme is stars. When I set this theme I had grand ideas of what I was going to make but out of neccessity I have made a card!!! Further details are over on my blog here. 

I hope you can join us for your chance to win £20 to spend in store!

Hugs

Rachel x

November 2016 - Stars

Welcome everyone to our new challenge for November with the title

STARS

chosen by the lovely Rachel

 

Rachel

Hello all! Welcome to a new challenge here at Country View challenges. Its my choice this month and I have gone with the theme of stars. I am hoping its a broad theme so that lots of you will join us! I can't wait to see what you make! My first make includes one of the new Elena Zinski stamps from PaperArtsy - for more details please see my blog here.

 

Christine

 

 

My first make for our November theme is a card for someone special.
No glitter but shine aplenty!

Join me on my blog to learn how I made it!

 

Gabrielle

I love this month's theme - there are so many ways stars can be used and my incredibly talented Team mates have shown some fabulous ideas. My tag has a little back story (pop over here to read it!) and there are stencilled stars and stamp stars surrounding the figures.

 

Debs

 

Recently I spent some time walking in a forest, and that experience inspired this journal page full of stars! I loved the colours of the leaves as they floated down forming a vibrant carpet; they reminded me of falling stars but I kept mine in the sky. Hope you can pop over to see the technique I have to share.  See you soon hugs Debs xx

 

Monika

Here are my round wooden boxes I have made for our November challenge. There are slight differences between the two boxes and if you want know how I put them together, please visit my blog.

 

Brenda

I've gone very grungy mixed media for this challenge using a Tando media board and some chipboard shapes to add dimension. Thanks to the lovely Rachel for choosing this theme as I now have something to add to my daughter's tree stocking. It has become traditional that every year I buy her something with a star on, because that's what she is. More details are on my blog as always. xxx

 

Jennie

After months of hunting I finally found my matchbox die so gave it an outing for my STAR project  which was lots of fun to make and had me hunting around for all my star themed stash! 

Do join me over on my blog if you would like to see more!

 

 Hazel

Country View Crafts Crew have Stars in Their Eyes this month, and here is my Dimensional offering.

I really enjoyed creating this festive piece. For more info, visit my blog.

 

Sue

Good morning, and welcome to our November challenge. To celebrate our 'stars' challenge I've gone back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

 

I must admit I do love old films (or anything with Colin Firth in it) and in this piece I have a combination of a very old stamp, and a new Andy Skinner stencil.

If you would like a closer look pop on over to my blog

I'm looking forward to seeing what you make, and I will be back later in the month with my second piece.

 

Jane 

Brrr we have arrived in November and it is time for those long dark nights when we start drawing the curtains earlier and earlier in the afternoon. Rachel's lovely theme of "Stars" for this month's challenge is perfect to light up a November day.

I have made a starry fairy Christmas card to shine a little light into these dark days. If you would like to see how I made my card I have a step by step over on my blog here where a very warm (and bright) welcome awaits you.
Bye for now,
Jane x

Corrie

Hi everyone, 

the lovely Rachel has chosen 'stars' for her November Challenge and here's mine :

If you would like to know how I made this Art Journal page then hope over to my blog HERE where I explain all ! 

I'll be back soon with some more inspiration. 

Corrie x

Evelyn

For this challenge I decided to make a quick and easy card with a stary sky. 

If you want to know how I made it, please visit my blog.

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Wow these are beautiful star 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 Spooky challenge last month. There are some gorgeous entries and the winner will be announced soon









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Tricks or Treats

Spooky greetings crafters... This is Craftyfield here today, rounding off our month long Spooky theme with a radioactive tag.

If you're brave enough, come and see how my inner witch created it.

There'll be some tricks and maybe some treats... so pop over to my blog before nightfall....

A Spooky Farewell

If you follow the CVC project blog you may have seen that I am stepping down from the CVC team at the end of October - I have been here for 2 years - goodness where does the time go! 

So for my final post it is another Spooky card using some of Tim Holtz blueprint stamps. A few more details over at my blog today. Thanks for all the lovely comments over the last couple of years!

Nikki

Addicted to Art

Halloween Family

Hello everybody,  it´s Evelyn here today. I want to show you my second project for our All Things Spooky challenge this month.

I wanted to make a piece in vintage style, where you won´t see the scary point at first sight.

If you want to see how I put all together, please visit my blog, there you´ll find some steps x step photos.

There are some days left to join in the Spooky fun, so I hope you´ll find the time to show your work with us!

Thanks for your visit today!

Evelyn 

Halloween cards with haunted houses

Monika

Here are my second pieces of our November Challenge. Why two? Because I nearly throw away the second card in my picture. I made a mistake which ruined the left corner of my card. But later I had an idea to cover it with a big pumpkin :-) So I have two cards and on my blog I can give you a tutorial. Happy Halloween!

Fright Night

I am thrilled to be back this month and sharing one of my most favourite Halloween makes! This little page in my smallest journal has the smallest Tim Holtz book cover as the background - I thought it looked like a wrought iron door (does it?!) and lots of PaperArtsy stamps to accompany my little chap. For details on how I made this, please pop over to my blog.

Gabrielle x

Spooky pink shrine

Welcome to my Friday inspiration project for the Spooky challenge we have going this month.

There are some apothecary bottles with nasty poisonous things in them, a ghoulish image and a rat coming to have a nosy around in case there's anything for him. Pink you say? Yes pink for a change. There are more details and photos at Bumblebees and Butterflies for you to peruse.

Have a happy weekend.

hugs Brenda xxx

Spooks Shrine

Debs

Hello everyone, Debs here with my second piece for this months challenge, all things Spooky. 

I wanted to show the Shrine lit up with the candle, but it does look rather dark, or is it meant to be dark...

To see how this all came together please pop to my blog where there is tutorial.

Keep creative!

Hugs Debs xxx

Spooky fun scene

Good Morning all! I do hope you are doing well! Its my turn on the blog today and I decided to do a fun spooky scene as inspiration for our current challenge. If you want to know how I made this please visit my blog here. I hope to see your spooky makes in our challenge which you can find here. 

Big Hugs

Rachel x