Industrial Inspiration

Hello all! I hope you're enjoying the Industrial challenge that we have running this month at Countryview challenges. I have got another piece to share with you today and full details can be found over at my blog here.

I hope you can pop over for some details!

Big hugs Rachel x

Industrial Tag

Hello to you all,Well we are half way through the challenge.

 I am back with my second make for you and have decided to make a tag.

I have die cut and added texture paste.  You can get more details

from my blog

Industrial Guest Designer - Karen Petitt

Hello all!  We are delighted to have some extra inspiration for you for the Industrial theme this month, courtesy of our December winner, Karen Petitt of Karen's Crafting Obsessions.  We're very happy to have you on board to help us celebrate our birthday this month, Karen!

Without more ado, let's take a look at Karen's amazing creation, and here some more about Karen herself as well as her beautiful Industrial hanging, in her very own words...

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I’ve crafted in one way or another since childhood.  At school I gained a Needlework O Level but I had to drop art which is a story for another time.  I’ve dabbled in glass painting, silk painting, watercolours, fashion design and I attended many different classes at Liberty’s Sewing School in London.  With the exception of the Liberty Sewing School Classes I was not inspired by the other courses.

About eighteen years ago I found stamping and paper crafting and very quickly I fell in love.  I am a stamp addict who adores playing with inks and or paints too.  I started creating cards for my husband and to me they had to be perfect and I continued along that journey for about sixteen years.  About a year ago I started to feel a little bored creating cards and the odd tag.

After seeing many wonderful projects in and around Blogger I fell head over heals in love with mixed media.  I’ve been happily experimenting and learning about different products and techniques for the past year.  Also I’ve a new found passion for shabby style cards and tags which are the complete opposite of what I used to create.  

For the Industrial challenge, I decided to create a distressed mixed media hanging.  I used an A4 chipboard sheet cut down to 15 cm x 20 cm.  I added a layer of white gesso and once dry I used Tim Holtz Salty Ocean Distress paint, two coats, gently drying each coat as I didn’t want the gesso or paint to bubble.  I attached a stencil with Washi tape, and added layers of Distress Stain that I dried with my heat tool.  I painted Tando Creative Chipboard Cogs with Distress Paint.  I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment and cogs onto card and attached using Matt Medium.

I used Distress Stains to add more colour, sprayed with water to get layers of colour and distressed look.  I used a tube of outliner to connect the cogs to each other.  I coloured the outliner with Perfect Pearls Heirloom Gold.  I used a Crackle Paint on sentiment and chipboard cogs.  Once dry I used gold acrylic paint to rub into the cracks and added a final layer of Matt Medium to the whole piece to seal it.

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Do hop over to Karen's Crafting Obsessions and take a look at the project in full - it's fantastic.  And especially given what you'll discover there about her first reaction to the theme.  What a brilliant leap outside your comfort zone, Karen, thank you!

We hope that will nudge you to leap into Industrial action and come and play along with the birthday challenge this month.  As always, there's a prize voucher on offer from the wonderful Country View Crafts, and you could be a Guest Designer here on the Country View Challenges blog too.  We're looking forward to seeing what you create.

Happy crafting all!

Alison and the CVC team x

Industrial Easter Bunny

I am loving this month's theme of "Industrial" and found myself wondering what the Easter Bunny would look like if they were given a little make over - after all Easter is just round the corner! So here is my take on an industrial rabbit! Lots of metal tape, embossing folders and paint techniques were used! Hope you like him (or is the Easter Bunny a girl?!) As always, there is more on my blog.  Gabrielle x

Robot family with artificial intelligence

Monika

Hello there, it's Monika here with the second piece of our March challenge: INDUSTRIAL.

I like funny and cute things so I wanted to approach our industrial theme from these aspects.

And I think Tim Holtz stamps were just perfect to reach my goal. 

I hope you like it and if you want to know more, please visit my blog.

February Make Your Own Background Winners

Hello all!  It's time to find out who the winners are for Sue's wonderful Make Your Own Background challenge in February.  There were so many brilliant entries for this theme, making our job as lovely as always for when we come round visiting and as hard as ever for picking the winners!

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First let's see who Mr Random Generator has selected to be the winner of the Country View Crafts prize voucher...

That's Kim at Tangled Blue Rose with this fantastic project... do hop over to her blog to check out the reverse side too.

Congratulations, Kim!  Your badge and voucher will be on their way to you shortly, and we hope you'll come and join us as a Guest Designer soon.

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Now it's time for Sue to get to work selecting our Top Three, and here they are, in no particular order...

#49 Emily Shroom

Sue says: I love the use of white space and the mono printed background. It's the perfect 'man' card.


#60 Almo Craft

Sue says: Mo has turned an amazing master board into beautiful cards. I honestly thought this was designer paper until I saw her step by step.


#63 Samantha Wade

Sue says:  The background is amazing and the stamped butterflies give it such depth.

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And finally let's find out who is our Design Team Member's Special Mention for February...


#126 Kezzy

Sue says:  This is so bright and cheery and the eyelets are the perfect addition. It's a real treat for the eyes.

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Congratulations to all our winners - what fabulous projects... and thank you to all of you who shared your own backgrounds with us last month.  There was oodles of inspirational creativity on offer, and we loved seeing what you came up with for Sue's great theme.  We hope you'll come and celebrate our birthday with us by joining in with our Industrial challenge this month.   It's always great to see your creations, so we hope to see you there!

Alison and the CVC team x

Still loving the foil!

Nikki

For my second industrial creation for this challenge I used Tim Holtz's industrial technique on the fabulous dragonfly (die and embossing folder). I layered it on another foil panel and an inky stencilled background.

Nikki xxx

Industrial number two

Debs

Hello everyone Debs here. I chose Industrial for this months Challenge and here is my second piece. Lots of rusty textures springs and cogs to give it that aged look. You can see all details of how this came together over on my blog.

 

Woo hoo - It's our Birthday

Hi Everyone and welcome to our special birthday challenge. We start with an amazing theme from Debs who has chosen 'Industrial' for us to focus on, so we are looking for industrial images, embossing folder textures, something mechanical, metallic colours with cogs and wheels, robots or something normal made to look metallic/industrial.

Debs

Hi everyone, Debs back, and im sharing a very grungy tag with you. It was a good opportunity to get out the gears makes some flowers and stick it all together with black thick grease (metaphorically speaking). My inspiration? Thoughts of a bygone age when industry was established and man was attempting to mechanicalize everything. Have fun! You can see how this come together here.

Gabrielle

I had lots of fun creating my mechanical heart for this month's Industrial theme. Lots of die cuts, alcohol inks and paints were used! Can't remember the last time I used my alcohol inks so thank you Debs for choosing this theme! More, as always, on my blog. Gabrielle x

Doreen

Wow this was a bit of a hard one for me, I wasn't sure what do do for Industrial so I really hope you like my first make. More details on my blog.

Monika

For our March challenge I made a boyish card using robot stamps, gears and metal embossing folder  to reach an industrial effect. If you want to know more about the supplies, please jump to my blog.

Rachel

Hello there - Rachel here with my first make for the theme Industrial - I had such fun making this Debs - thanks for the challenge! You can find out how I did it on my blog here.

Nikki

When I did my version of Tim Holtz's January tag I made a mental note to try a similar idea for a birthday card! Do pop over to Addicted to Art to see the details and a second version.

Jennie

I am having great fun working with these slim pieces of greyboard and this piece was just perfect to try out some wonderful industrial techniques learnt at a recent workshop with Andy Skinner. Do join me over on my blog if you would like to see some more details.

Sue


Good morning it's Sue here with my first 'Industrial' piece. Living in the North of England our industry has always been coal mining, and this stamp reminds me of pit head winding gear which is now sadly no longer around.

Full details can be found here on my blog x

Brenda

I've a really quirky project for you this month, my inspiration was an old rusty camera but as the project grew, ideas changed and new bits and pieces got added. It definitely has an old and weathered look and the real thing would have been manufactured in a factory.  I have called this 'Through the Lens of Time'.

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So it's over to you now, create your project and link it below and let's see who wins the birthday voucher from Susan this month. To celebrate a bit more there will be an extra special prize and activity coming up for the beginning of April so stay tuned.  And don't forget to come back throughout March for more inspiration - including our January winner Karen of Karen's Crafting Obsessions who will be Guest Designing for us later this month.

hugs Brenda and the CVC team xxx

An InLinkz Link-up

Vintage Collage by Astrid

Hello all and thanks for dropping by here today. Well, there we are, nearly at the end of the month....
For my second "Make your Own Background" piece I decided to create a vintage collage page for my techniques journal.

If you would like to see more details of how this page came together, please come over to my blog where I have a detailed step by step of how I put this together.

Well that's it and this is actually also my very last project as part of the Countryview Crafts Design Team. I have very much enjoyed being part of the team, but life is taking me in different directions so I felt it was time to move on.....

There are however still a couple of days left to join into the challenge, you can find all the details here

Hope to see you there!

Ink and stencil background cards

Hi there. For my second project this month I decided to use a little colour! My background was first created with various distress inks added with cut and dry foam to white card. I then laid my stencil over the top and spritzed with water before laying kitchen towel over to remove the spray and some ink. I love the water colour effect this creates. I made two others - a little different - please pop over to my blog if you would like to see them!
Nikki
Addicted to Art

My second piece

Hello everyone, Debs with you today, sharing my second piece for this months fabulous Challenge Make your own backgrounds. My background was built of many layers.

I had such fun with this background that I thought a simple drawing would look best and I didn't want to cover up all the different layers. If you would like to see how this all came together please visit my blog for all the details.

By for now and I'll see you soon! Take care, hugs Debsxxx

 

Deborah's Designs

I Love You For Your Brains

Hi, it's Sue here, with my less than romantic Valentine's Day Card. I'm afraid I don't do pink and fluffy very well, but I LOVE these Brett Weldele stamps.

More details can be found here on my blog. (yes I know it's late but I'm a technical numpty so better late than never lol)
I hope you like it, and remember there's still plenty of time for YOU to join in xx