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I hope you are enjoying this months challenge

Here is Monika's second sample for us this month

More details can be found on her blog

Make sure you come back for lots more inspiration from the team

Christmas in blue

Hi everyone, Nikki here with my second design for this month's challenge - the colour blue. I am sure other card makers out there are also busy with their Christmas cards - so I thought I would share one with you today.

I love Tim Holtz Festive Scribbles thinlits which I have used here with Kraft core card stock. Do pay a visit to Addicted to Art today to see more details.

Nikki
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Postcard from New York

Hello Everyone and thank you for joining us again today. Jennie here with my second project of our "blue" month.

I just love this photograph taken during my fabulous trip to New York earlier this year and wanted a layout which didn't compete with it.  I decided that the lady would love blue …  but I did use some vintage browns to set them off. Please join me on my blog if you want to see more.

And of course don't forget you have plenty of time to enter our fabulous "blue" challenge. So get out those blue inks, paints, papers and pastes and create in blue!

Thank you for joining me today!

Jennie x

Feeling Blue

 Hello! Thank you for popping by today! Gabrielle here with my second 'blue' project.

I love this challenge as it means I can make a simple journal page using some of my favourite things! I love this little chap who is standing on a strip of book text. The background has some of my favourite stencils and the painty marks were heated so they 'blistered' to give a little texture. By the time I had finished this I was feeling anything but blue!!! As always, there's more on how I made this on my blog. 

There's plenty of time for you to enter this month's challenge - we're loving seeing your fabulous creations! 

Gabrielle x

Winners, winners, winners!

Hello everybody!  Apologies from us here, and we know we owe you some Winners!  Unfortunately sometimes life just gets in the way, but we're catching up, 

so you definitely won't miss out on anything.

So here's a very busy post, announcing our random prize voucher winners, our Top Threes and our DT Member's Special Mentions for July, August and September.

Are you ready to meet some winners?

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July's challenge theme was On Your Travels, hosted by Trace, and here are our winners for that month.

Our July random prize winner, as selected by Mr Random Generator...

That's Strangely Creative at Pinxton Craft Club.
Congratulations!  Your voucher will be on the way shortly.

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The July Top 3, in no particular order, are:

13 Jose

We love this bright and breezy VW camper van off on its summer travels!

19 Irmgard

A great travel-themed card with wonderful nautical detailing and fantastic lettering.

38 yellow house studio

This is one of a set of collaged ATCs, with all the different pairs of shoes needed on your travels.

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And our July DT Member's Special Mention goes to:

36 Hazel Agnew

A really original take on the theme, with this well-travelled envelope forming the base for a quirky, arty vintage collage - we love it!

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August's challenge theme was Summertime, hosted by Alison, and here are our winners for that month.

Our August random prize voucher winner, as chosen by Mr Random Generator...

That's Hazel at My Crafty Outlook.  Congratulations, Hazel!
Your voucher will be on its way soon.

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Our August Top 3, in no particular order, are:

16 Crafty Clarey

Alison said:

There's something about the softly blended colour tones of these journalling pages which just makes me happy - a real summertime warmth, and I love the stencilling and the little bird.

71 Sandma

Alison said:

I love the soft summer haze around the masked sun, and the zing of that fabulous poppy standing out amongst the other meadow flowers.

99 Jane's Journal

Alison said:

These pages capture a summer garden just perfectly.  I love the use of die-cuts to create texture and the watercolouring on the flowers is absolutely luscious.

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Our August DT Member's Special Mention is:

100 Jannet Blay

Alison said:

This delicate butterfly tree is really original, and such a delight. You can see how much love and work has gone into it, and the result is whimsical and charming and so summery - just lovely.

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September's challenge theme was Numbers, hosted by Nikki, and here are our winners for that month.

Our September random prize voucher winner, as selected by Mr Random Generator...

That's Paper Profusion.  Congratulations, Nicola!
Your voucher will be on the way shortly.

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Our September Top 3 choices, in no particular order, are:

6 Kerstin at Scrapbook Dreams

Nikki said:

I love all the detail on this Route 66, vintage style scrapbook page.

36 Adziamar

Nikki said:

This 60th male, birthday card is so wonderfully designed – full of timepiece die cuts.

47 Juliz Design Post

Nikki said:
31 Creepers Court is an amazing haunted house, full of wonderful, scary details.

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Our September DT Member's Special Mention is:

3 Hazel Agnew

Nikki said:
A wonderful numbers themed journal page full of texture, a great composition and fabulous words.

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Congratulations to everybody!  Prize vouchers and badges will be on their way to you very soon.

If you are one of our winners, whether Random, Top Three, or one of our DTMSMs and you would like to be a Guest Designer with us in 2016, please contact Brenda on brenda_brown25@hotmail.com so that she can arrange all the details with you.

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We'll be back later in the month with the October winners, and don't forget there's always new inspiration to be found here for the current challenge.  For November Doreen would like to see The Colour Blue, so do come and play along.
Happy Crafting all!

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Hello...

Doreen here 

I am back with some inspiration for the "Blue Challenge" I do hope you will enjoy the theme for this month and I can't wait to see all your fab creations

I have been busy with my Gelli Plate for this and also used some JOFY stamps

More details for this are on my blog here

Do come back on Thursday for some more inspiration

and have a lovely week.

November #33 - The Colour Blue

Welcome to November where in the northern hemisphere the nights are drawing in fast and the days are getting colder. Gardens and parks are littered with fallen leaves and soon we can expect to wake to frosty mornings and hopefully some fine wintry skies. So often in the winter season the colour blue comes into our craft work and Doreen has chosen this as our new theme.

Let's see what the team have been up to and how they have interpreted -

'The Colour Blue'

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Doreen

Hello to you all, I have had the pleasure of picking the challenge this month, everyone knows I am hooked on the colour Blue.

The details for this can be found over on my blog

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Rachel

Hello there! Rachel here with my take on Doreen's beautiful Blue theme - I love to see blue on Christmas cards so I'm taking full advantage of that here! Here's my first make:

You can find out about the products I used and how I made it on my blog here.

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Monika

To our new challenge I prepared a blue winter tag with one of the very favourite crazy birds by Tim Holtz. Step by step tutorial on my blog.

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Nikki

For my first creation for Doreen's theme I used various of blue toned distress inks and the wrinkle free distress technique to create my background. Do pop over at Addicted to Art  for more details today.

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Alison

Blue is different for me at different times of the year.  Since Doreen is looking for The Colour Blue in November, my blues have taken on quite a wintry hue.  I also found myself reaching for birds to sit against my blue backgrounds... so this tag gave me the chance to ink up Dina Wakley's Scribbly Birds for the first time.  Come over to Words and Pictures if you'd like to see more details.

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As it's now November and turning a little bit chilly, my guys have all got their wooly coats on. More details can be found here on my blog x

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Jennie

For my first "blue" project I have made a simple tag using an array of blue Distress Inks and some recycled bits and pieces from previous projects. Do join me over on my blog if you would like to see more.

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Brenda

A wintry canvas from me today which has numerous blue tones in it. I loved using a whole range of dies and punches to create the dimensional snowflakes and various glitters to add sparkle to give that cold winters morning feel to it.

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Debs

Wow! how quick is time going? Here we are again with another Challenge chosen for us by the very talented Doreen. I love the colour blue, it's not my favourite colour, but definitely up there.

I'm happy to share this little wall board all the details can be found

Here

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So we're off and looking forward to seeing your blue entries this month. Don't forget there's a £20 voucher for the winner from Country View Crafts.

We'll be back soon with more inspiration from the design team soon, so keep your eyes peeled.

hugs Brenda  xxx

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Gabrielle is back with the last inspirational sample for the month, so where did October go?

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Gabrielle

 

For my first project I added Grunge Paste to a wooden block so it seemed only right that I decorated the other side! I used the same paints (PaperArtsy's new Limited Edition) and technique but created a whole new look! If you'd like to see how I decorated this please do pop over to my blog and see! Gabrielle x 

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Mmmm love that muted, grungy look Gabrielle and how lovely that you used the other side of your block. A great piece.

Your last chance now folks to get that final textured piece made and linked to the challenge who knows it could be your number that Random Org chooses as the winner and who wouldn't love to have a £20 voucher for Country View Crafts shop, especially with Christmas fast approaching now.

Have a lovely Halloween weekend and see you Sunday for the new challenge - gosh it will then be November. Must dash to get some Christmas cards made. See you soon.

hugs Brenda and the CVC team xxx

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I love kraft card - don't you? Doreen is here today with a fabulous card textured card in kraft and white - so lovely.

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Doreen

My second card has been made with lots of craft card details from Here

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Thank you Doreen. some gorgeous texturing here and the added hessian ribbon is perfect.

Have a happy Sunday everyone and we'll see you this time next week with another new challenge.

hugs Brenda and the CVC team xxx

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Welcome back to our inspirational project posts for the Texture Challenge at Country View Challenges and Deb is up with this very striking piece.

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Debs

Hello everyone Debs here with my second inspiration for this month's challenge. I had so much fun with one and hope you do too.

For details of how this was created please visit my Blog, hugs Debs xx

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Thank you Debs you have created fabulous blends of colours which contrast beautifully with the black background.

Well this is the last week of October and just 8 days left to get your entries into the challenge if you haven't already. Pop over to the challenge blog to see all the inspirational pieces so far and all the fabulous entries we have had.

Thanks for joining us.

hugs Brenda and the CVC team xxx

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Hi Everyone I am back with the next installment of my Christmas baubles project and two more that have lots of texture and festive colour on them.

Brenda

By the time I got to these two chipboard baubles I was really into the mixed media layers, colours and textures. Using stencils is such a great way to get that added dimension and on my blog I show you two ways to add colour and make that texture look glittery and realistic. I think out of the four these are my favourites and I already have an idea where I will use them when I decorate the house for Christmas.


Are you getting into the preparations, both craft wise and season wise? Is the list written (mine is lol), still a while to go yet but lots to do.

Enjoy the rest of the week.

hugs Brenda and the CVC team xxx

Astrid 2

Welcome everyone to our next textured project and it'd Astrid joining us today with a fabulous mixed media piece.

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Astrid

For my second project I altered a canvas, using texture paste, lots of layers and background stamping. 

A full step by step can be found on my blog

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Thank you Astrid I want to reach out and touch the wonderful textured areas on your fabulous canvas, it's beautiful.

Well how is your crafty month going, I seem to be jogging along with deadlines and thinking more and more of the busy period ahead - what about you?

Hope you are having a great weekend, see you soon.

hugs Brenda and the CVC team xxxx

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Alison joins us with a fabulous autumnal tag today.

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Alison 

If you thought my first piece this month was slightly dark in mood... wait til you see this one!  Sorry, autumn just sometimes hits me this way.  But there's plenty of texture to be found on this earthy tag, so I hope you'll be able to hop over to Words and Pictures and see the details - it's not as gloomy as it looks, I promise you!

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It doesn't look at all gloomy to me, does it you? I love all the autumn colours and the dark earthy ones are rich and natural and tell me that winter is well on it's way.


Looking at some of the projects that are being entered into the challenge I see a whole variety of colour blends including autumnal and wintry blends. Thanks for sharing them with us.

Be here in another couple of days to see what the next project brings in way of inspiration for the current challenge.

See you then.

hugs Brenda and the CVC team xxx