July Challenge Winner, Top 3 & DTSM

Hello everybody!  It's time to announce the July Challenge Blues & Greens.  There were some really fabulous entries and we always love seeing what you're inspired to make by each theme.  So here are the July winner of our Challenge and Corrie's Top Three & DTSM.  Are you sitting comfortably?  Then let's begin!

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

#46 Aimeslee

Congratulations Aimeslee - your winner's code & badge will be with you shortly

Hello everyone, 

it is Corrie with the top 3 and the special mention for my challenge of July which was 'blues and greens'. There were lots of fabulous entries and it was very difficult to choose ! 

Here's my top 3:

#6 - Aussie aNNie

This card shows fabulous use of the requested colours with nothing to distract from the theme. I love it ! Lovely gel printed background too ! 

#3 - J.

This mermaid girl is fabulous and fits the bill (=challenge :)) perfectly ! Love her wild hair and the background is fabulous. 

#50 - Tammy A. 

Love all the different elements on this card and the main image is lovely! 

The special mention is for :

#60 Jo from 'Let's Artjournal'

The detail in the background is fantastic, I love the blues and greens and the meaning of the page is powerful ! 

I'd like to thank everyone who took part in my challenge; it was fun looking at all the entries and see all the stunning work ! 

Corrie 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.

A little book

Hello everyone, 

It is me again, Corrie, with the second of my inspiration pieces for Miriam's fabulous texture challenge. I have made a little travel journal:

I you would like to know how I made this then you can hop over to my BLOG where you will find a link to YouTube for a full Tutorial. 

You can also click HERE to go straight to my YouTube Channel.

I hope you enjoy my process ! I will see you soon again ! 

Corrie xx

A tiny textured dancer

Good morning it's Jane here today with some more texture inspiration for our current challenge. We have seen some fab entries and you still have 10 more days to enter. 

My card uses lots of techniques for "alternative" textures including dry embossing and gems. If you would like to see how I put this card together just dance pop on over to my blog here where all is revealed.

Enjoy the rest of August, let's hope we get another blast of sunny summer weather before September arrives.

Bye for now,

Jane

Rusted Texture

Hello and welcome back!

Teresa here again and this time I have a richly textured canvas with a gorgeous faux rust effect texture.

Please pop over to my blog for a full walk through of how I created this.

Seek - Art Journal Page

Hello lovelies,

 it´s Evelyn here today with my second project for the "Texture" challenge this month!

I made an art journal page with lots of yummy texture this time.

I made a process video, so if you want to know how I made this page, please hop to my YouTube channel and enjoy watching!

More photos you can find on my blog.

Now I hope you will also make something textured, there is enough time left!

Thank you for your visit and have a wonderful weekend 💖

Embrace Life

Sue

Good morning and happy Thursday. I'm really pleased to be sharing my second texture piece with you today, and this time I've gone for the rustic look.

If you would like to hop over to my blog there are lots more photographs over there.

Have a wonderful week, and thanks very much for looking x

Embossed - Debossed

Hello crafters, Craftyfield here today for my second inspiration make for our challenge.

 

 

 

I have for you 2 techniques for textures, embossing and it's opposite, debossing. Without bossing you about (see what I did there?!), do come over to my blog to read up on all the details!

 

Keep cool and carry on crafting!

 

Dreamer of dreams ....

Hello there! Rachel here today with another post for our texture challenge - on todays card I used cardboard to get a textural effect and also added texture through stencilling.

I do hope you can join us - you'll be in with a chance to win a £20 voucher to spend at Countryview Challenges.

You can get more details as to how I did this here.

Rachel xx

Guest Designer - Angela Radford

Today we have the lovely Angela Radford as our Guest Designer



Hi all, my name is Angela Radford. Some of you may know my blog: Felix the Crafty Cat and I have a Facebook page too. I spent 33 years teaching Textiles and Art and since retiring I've been on several Design Teams and done a few Workshops too. I still enjoys learning new skill and then passing them on to others. I cannot remember when I started crafting as I've always been making something from being a child.

Style wise my work is rather eclectic though I particularly love anything a bit grungy be it 2D or 3D in paper or fabrics. I think I am technique obsessive and love to learn something new to add to my projects so when Susan said that this theme was Texture you can imagine that my brain went wild. I don't think that I could have got many more textures on this project but I did my best as you will see.

Anyone who knows me from my blogging would probably say that's her that makes the Masterboards and I include one on my blog most Mondays so it was the obvious place to start.

Details of how I made this are on my blog and hope you like it.

I started here:

 

 And I finished here:


Happy crafting to you all.

Angela x

Thank you Angela a Gorgeous project for our Texture Challenge. If you want to see more why not pop over to her blog and don't forget there is still plenty of time to join in with our August Challenge Susan x

Mixed media journal cover with dragonfly

Monika

Hello everyone,

here I am with the second project for our August challenge.

As for the first time, I created a mixed media journal cover.

Believe it or not, I actually use my first one as a bullet journal :-)

If you need a tutorial or info about the supplies,

please hop on my blog!

Thank you and happy crafting!

Layers of Texture

Miriam with you again today.  I hope you enjoyed our first post for the texture challenge.

Here is my second project for the month

Pop over to my blog to see how I created this and to see the texture in more detail.

I really hope to see you join in with this challenge 0 there are so many possibilities.

Happy crafting!
Miriam