Wash Away The Dust

Sue

Good morning and Happy Easter Monday. I'm very happy to be sharing my second 'rusty' piece with you today.

This is a mixture of new and very old stamps, and I love how well they all work together.

For more pictures visit me at Sue The Iron, and please bring chocolate 'cos I've not had an Easter egg this year!

Have a lovely day, Sue xx

Time flies - more rust!

Rachel

Good Morning all! Rachel here today! Our challenge this month is 'rust' and for my second piece I have made this masculine card - details of the techniques I used can be found at my blog here.

I do hope you can join us this month - I loved this challenge - rust is so cool! Go on - you know you want to!

Hugs

Rachel x

Square box with rusty hardware findings by Tim Holtz

Monika

Hello everybody, here is my second project for our April - Rust - challenge. Again I have brought you here a box (I'm a box addict or I just like these practical objects or both?) with rusty hardware findings by Tim Holtz. If you want to know more and see more pictures, please visit my blog.

Happy crafting!

Rusty love

Good morning. It's Jane here again today with my 2nd inspiration card for our current challenge. I made a rusty heart as the focal for a card I made for Dotty's Tearooms.

If you would like to see my process I have a step by step over to my blog here where a rusty  very warm welcome awaits.

I hope to see lots of you joining in with our Rust challenge. You still have plenty of time to link up your work....have fun getting rusty 😉

Bye for now,

Jane x

March Winner, Top Three & DTMSM

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

 

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

#16

Congratulations, Autumn!  Your winner's badge and voucher will be on their way to you shortly, and we hope you'll join us a Guest Designer here at Country View Challenges in the future. 
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The Inspired by Tim Holtz theme was a crowd pleaser amongst the afficionados of all things Distressed and it was hard to choose just 3 of the best....
Christine (a.k.a Craftyfield) gave up and chose a top 4, on account that Tim Holtz would tell you to break the rules (that could be just be her excuse...) and it just wasn't possible to leave one of these brilliant makes behind...  In no particular order:

2 - Butterfly


Christine said: Hats off to Alison who had me at the Verdigris effect on the metal embellishments, and produced a tag full of interest, showing off her new Distress Oxides backgrounds.

44 - Sewpaperpaint


Christine said: Autumn made this journal page with lots of layers in a beautifully Vintage colour scheme. Don't you love these Paper Dolls from Tim's latest collection?

59 - Paperplay


Christine said: Carol created her own Paper Dolls by fussy cutting the Stampers Anonymous image (kudos, fussy cutting is my pet hate!) to create this wonderfully "Tim" tag. I love the colour contrast between the foreground and the black and white image.

63 - Julia Aston


Christine said: I can tell from Julia's blog she is a big fan of the man and even met him! She used lots of supplies for her tag including the new Distress Oxides and the iconic Umbrella man... I think Tim would be proud, don't you agree?

And finally, Christine choice for the Design Team Member's Special Mention goes to:
31 - Two Mad Dahlias


Christine said: Jess started making a tag and ended up with a piece of theatre... She put the brothers on stage, surrounded by suitably inked, distressed and generally "aged", papers and embellishments. Aptly named Beautiful Relic, methinks...

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

And don't forget there is still lots of time to enter our April Challenge - Rust

Rusty Door, #50, Rust,

 Hazel 

My interpretation of a rusty old door is my second piece this month on the CVC challenge. Lots of layers here for you to explore. Pop over to my blog if you are curious. 

Rusty Things

I have made a rusty looking tag for my second project this month. The whole piece is made with lots and lots of layers of paint and is a pretty easy effect to achieve! There is more explanation of this technique on my blog. Gabrielle x

Rusty canvas - as time goes bye

Hello and a wonderful Monday!

Today I want to show you my second project for the rust challenge.

This time I have a little canvas for you.

As I promised, I will show you some more ways how you can create rust!

So if you are interested, please visit my blog.

Thank you for stopping bye!

April 2017 - Rust

Welcome everyone to our April Challenge.

Our theme this month is "Rust", chosen by the lovely Evelyn

 

Hello and happy April! 

This month it´s my turn to host the new challenge here at Country View Challenges and I decided to choose the theme: RUST.

If you want to know, how I created my forgotten door, please visit my blog! I´ll show you some ways to get things rusty. Come back the next days, I´ll show you some more ways, so stay tuned!

 

Sue

 

What a great challenge, this really made me think. Then it made me clear out 'that' drawer to find the rusting powder, and then 'that' cupboard to find the white vinegar!

For more details and pictures (not of the drawer and cupboard, no one needs to see these) please visit my blog at Sue The Iron.

 

Craftyfield

Rust, and its copper equivalent Verdigris, are my favourite weathered effects. It immediately gives a Vintage look to your creations and I was inspired to make a foray in the Steampunk area with this canvas. Come and see how I made this on my blog.

Brenda

I am in a phase of mixing rusty elements with lighter and/or brighter colours and I am also experimenting with abstract art, so I have mixed it all up for this challenge. As always more details and photos can be see over at Bumblebees and Butterflies, but the warmer weather is definitely on it's way and inspiring my creations.

 

Miriam
For my rust project this month I have created a tag using new Distress and Tim Holtz products.  My rusty birdcage has been created using paint. 

 

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

 

Gabrielle

For my first Rust project this month I covered a mdf plaque with Fresco paints and Copper Treasure Gold. To find out how I made it, please pop over to my blog. Gabrielle x

 

Rachel

I had so much fun making this piece - I do hope you can join in with our rust challenge - I think you'll have fun too! You can find more details at my blog here.

Monika

For our April challenge I have brought you here a Rusty Time Box which can actually indicate the time. If you would like to know how I put this together, please visit my blog.

Jane

A very happy 1st April to you all...there will be no catching me out today on April's Fools' day because it's also my birthday..yes honestly. I will be catching up with all the family later and enjoy a meal out and cake (of course). Our theme for April is rust and I must admit I did struggle a little with this at first. However I eventually decided on a "rust" coloured and textured female greeting card. I made rusted butterflies and used lots of other textures and colours. If you would like to see some more step by step details do pop over to my blog here where a  slice of birthday cake  very warm welcome awaits you.

Bye for now,

Jane  x

 

Hazel

Well done Evelyn for choosing the topic of RUST! Love it! Here is a taster of my contribution to the team effort. It's over on my blog if you are curious! 

 

Corrie
Hello everyone,

and welcome to a new fun challenge ! The lovely Evelyn chose the theme of RUST this month and boy did I have fun making this wallhanger  :

Now if you want to know how I made this little wall hanger you will have to pop over to my blog HERE where all is revealed ! 

We hope you will play along with us ! 

I will be back with more inspiration later this month ! 

Corrie x

 

Wow some wonderful rusty 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 Time Challenge last month. There are some fantastic entries and the winner will be announced soon

 

 

 

 

An InLinkz Link-up

Inspired By Tim Holtz #49

Hi, again.... Miriam here from Miriam's Creative Dreams.

It's my turn to show you another project for the current theme 'Inspired by Tim Holtz'.  If you pop over to by blog you can see the details of how I created my card.

I hope you join in with this month's challenge - I'll look forward to seeing your entries.

Thanks for looking.......

It's Those Crazy Dogs

Good morning and happy weekend! I'm really pleased to be sharing my second Tim Holtz inspired piece today.

I love these stamp and die sets when I need a fun 'special' card, they just make me smile!

There are more photo's and details over on my blog Sue The Iron and I'd love it if you popped across. 

Have a great day, and thanks very much for looking. Sue xx

Tims feminine side!

Today its my turn to share more inspiration for our challenge with you. I wanted to explore Tims more feminine side with this second piece and this is what I came up with - there's full details over on my blog here.

Having fun with the new Tim Holtz Oxides.

With apologies, some of you have already seen this post but it published at the wrong time - probably my fault lol. Thank you to those who have already left comments and here it is again in it's correct slot.

Hi it's Brenda here today to share a little playtime I had recently using the new Distress Oxides from Tim Holtz. I haven't completed a project as I spent time playing with a palette of three colours, spritzing, dipping and drying many layers to create these fabulous backgrounds.

If you would like to see more then pop over to Bumblebees and Butterflies and also keep a watch out on the project blog over the next couple of weeks where I will be showing how I used these two pieces in a project.

Don't forget to take a look at the Challenge Blog to see the challenge details 'Inspired by Tim Holtz' and all the fabulous entries we already have. (You'll find the link on the sidebar).

hugs Brenda xxx