November Challenge Winner, Top 3 & DTSM

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

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

#121 ValeryAnne

Last month, we had a fabulous collection of entries for our Hand Stamped challenge, showing that stamping is alive and well and holding its own against digital crafting!

Craftyfield had a hard time selecting the top three but here are her choices, in no particular order:

109. Lynne R

Craftyfield said: I love the subtle colour scheme and shabby chic feel of Lynne's card and the bird and berries are well coloured. The added snow add that finishing touch to make it pop!

61. Avril B

 

Craftyfield said: One of the reason I love stamps so much is the infinite possibilities when you start combining them. Avril has done just that and created a whole landscape, which looks both nostalgic and realistic.

46. Kanda

 

Craftyfield said: although traditional black stamping is the go to technique, personally I love stamping in colour...  look no lines! And no need to painstakingly colour with pens either… Kanda's card is a good illustration of this technique and I love her CAS design.

Special mention:

13. Viv

 

Craftyfield said: Viv also combined several stamps to create this image and added her own details with pen. I love the watercolour background and the stamping with Distress inks with a spritz of water is the perfect technique for a snowy day.

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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.

Starry Starry Night

Hello! I hope you are enjoying the theme of 'Stars' this month - I have another piece to try and tempt you to join us in our challenge:

I have used two main stamps from Lavinia and created the background using brushos.

For more details check out my blog here.

Shine brightly

Hello everyone, 

I have a second piece of inspiration for you today! The theme is still 'STARS' and I have loved it.. I hope you do too!

This art journal spread was made with the resist technique and inks. If you'd like to see how I made it please hop over to my BLOG or straight to my YouTube Channel where you will find a tutorial. 

Good luck to everyone who has entered the challenge! You can still play if you'd like ! Anyway, I wish you a Merry Christmas and I will see you next year ! 

Corrie x

Star wired

Hello crafters, Craftyfield here!

 

Not long now… Time to make those last few cards and get them in the post before it's too late!
Worry not I have an easy to make design to inspire you.

 

Come by my blog to read the details!

Only one thing left to say this year…

 

Happy Christmas!!!

New Year's card with Mr Snowman

Monika

Hello everyone,

this is my second project for our December challenge, Stars.

I have made a New Years card with my new favourite, Mr Snowman by Tim Holtz.

And of course, I have created a starry sky for this winter scene.

I hope you like it and if you need a tutorial,

please visit my blog.

Thank you!

Seeing Stars

Good morning and happy Friday, it's Sue here with my second 'stars' piece.

 I've made my inky backgrounds with Distress Inks and Oxides, and my girls are the lovely Trish Lattimer stamps. There are lots more photographs over on my blog and I would love to see you over there. Have a fun weekend, and thanks very much for looking xx

I'll give you a star

Hello it's Jane here with another Starry themed piece for our current December challenge. I used some wonderful new (to me) stamps by the talented Tracy Easson to make my card.

This is her wonderful Star Gazer stamp set and you can see that sweet Morty Bottoms has caught one of the stars in his little jar. If you would like to see details of my card and how I made it just wish upon a star  hop on over to my blog here where all will be revealed. 

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and I will "see you" again on New Year's day.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Starry Skyline

Hello!! Teresa here with my second project for our Stars challenge. This time I have a masculine tag using stamps from various sets.

Please pop over to my blog for a closer look. Good luck taking part in the challenge!

Rustic Stars

Miriam with you again.

Here is my second project for the Stars challenge.  This time I have taken a more rustic approach.

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

As this is my last project for the year, I would like to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and New Year.  Thank you for joining me in my Challenge journey this year!

Miriam

Angel Tag

Hello everyone, it´s Evelyn here today with my second project for the stars challenge!

I wanted to use the new Visible Image stamp set Don´t Judge and I had an idea in mind - but it turned out different - I must be in a christmas mood, the figure looks like an Angel 😋😉.

If you want to see more, please flutter to my blog.

Thank you for your visit today and have a wonderful blessed and peaceful christmas time!

December 2019 - Stars

Welcome everyone to our December Challenge.
Our theme this month is Stars, chosen by the lovely Evelyn. We love you taking part in our challenges so this month, (don't forget focal point must be stars) to enter your projects to be in with a chance to win a £20 Gift Voucher.

Evelyn

Hello and welcome to December!

This month it is my turn to host the challenge and I have chosen the theme "Stars".

The countdown to Christmas has started and so I thought it should be an easy theme in this busy time.

I made a little modern Christmas card.

If you want see more, you can go to my blog.

See you in a few days!

Hi everyone, 

Can you believe it is December already? This year has flown past. Anyway, for Evelyn's fabulous 'stars' Challenge I have made an art journal spread. Of course there is a YouTube tutorial if you'd like to see how I made it. 

You'll find the video HERE,  or you can hop over to my BLOG where you'll find a link as well. 

I'll be back with more inspiration soon ! 

Corrie xx

Happy December

Here is my first project for the wonderful stars theme

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

Happy crafting!

Miriam

Monika

For our December challenge, I created a starry winter night with a beautiful angel

who heralds that the little Jesus was born.

If you like my card and need a tutorial, please hop on my blog!

Sue

Woo-hoo, welcome to December, it's only 24 more sleeps! For my 1st stars piece I've cut into my beautiful Cosmos papers.

Please pop over to my blog to see how this came together. 

Have a very happy December and thanks so much for looking x

Jane

How quickly can a year flash by? Here we are in December with our last challenge of 2019. I love the theme of stars, as it is an embellishment I use so much in my card making. I made a very starry night owl card.

If you would like to see how I put this together just swoop over to my blog here where all will be revealed. Mr Owl will be there to greet you with a hoot 

I hope all your Christmas preparations are going well? Remember to try take the time to savour the season...it is my absolute favourite time of the year.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Craftyfield

Cold crisps nights and stars in the sky are what December nights are made of…

If not, there's always this card I made to inspire you!

Come by my blog where I have all the details for this Christmas card!

Rachel

Hello there! A lovely new challenge here ar Countryview challenges...this month its 'Stars'... I used a star stencil from Tim Holtz to add my stars. You can get more detail here.

Hugs Rachel xx

Teresa

Hello and welcome to the December challenge - Stars!

I have created a contemporary Christmas card:

You can take a closer look on my blog. 

Thanks for stopping by!

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 challenge in November. There are lots of entries and the winner will be announced soon. Thank You All for taking part in our 2019 Challenges and we wish you all a Very Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year xx

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Two Easy but Elegant Christmas Cards

Hello lovelies, it´s Evelyn here today!

For my second project I made two christmas cards, inspired by Blanche Siegmann. 

I used the beautiful stamp set from PaperArtsy Eclectica³ by Scrapcosy ESC07. It is available in the shop.

If you want to see how I made this two cards, you can find it on my YouTube channel here.

Thank you for your visit and have a wonderful week!