CAS love

Hello it's Jane here this morning with some more inspiration for our hearts theme challenge. I made a very CAS (Clean And Simple) card on a hot sunny day last Thursday in my garden studio using the D'Oxide "ice cream" off cuts from my first "hearts" card I shared here last week.

If you would like to see how I put this together there is a very warm welcome awaiting you over on my blog  here. I hope you will join us this month....and share a little love (not forgetting the chance to win a £20 voucher to spend in the shop 😍)

Bye for now,

Jane x

Flowers and Hearts, #52, Hazel,

Here we are in June and here is my second contribution on the CVC topic of "Hearts". My title is Flowers and Hearts, because, I nearly forgot to add the Hearts! Details of my muppetry are over on my blog.

June 2017 - Hearts

Welcome everyone to our June Challenge.

Our theme this month is "Hearts", chosen by the lovely Hazel

 

Hazel

 

Hazel here, very happy to be launching the new challenge entitled Hearts! Here is my recycled bag photographed amongst the Wisteria! Happy June everyone. Please visit my blog for more details

Gabrielle

I loved the theme this month - there are so many ways to use hearts and I know your creativity will soar with this month's challenge! For my submission I decorated an MDF plaque and embossed a heart shaped Art Part. The gold highlights make the project 'pop'! Gabrielle x

Craftyfield

 

 

I made a gruny/Vintagey tag for my first Hearty make. After Valentine's Day garish reds, I fancied muted colours and spent a long time establishing the background for my hearts. Come and see how I did it on my blog.

 

Sue

Wow June already, time for  sunshine and Summer weddings. That means Anniversary cards the following years, which is what I've made for our first hearts challenge.

Being born without a romantic bone in my body it was Paper Artsy stamps and Dylusion papers to the rescue. There are more pictures of my struggle here at Sue The Iron xx

Corrie
Hello everyone, 

The lovely Hazel has chosen the theme of 'Hearts' for June's challenge. I have decorated this MDF Monolith for the occasion ! I have also filmed the process and if you are interested to see how I made this you can pop over to my blog HERE

or go directly :

 

Thanks for stopping by today ! I'll be back later in the month with more inspiration. 

Corrie x

Monika

Hello everybody, it's my first project for our June challenge: Hearts.

I wanted to make a card using the techniques I have learned from Tim Holtz during the "12 tags of..." challenges. I hope you like it! More details on my blog. Thanks for visiting!

Brenda

My daughter recently got engaged and we don't know when she and her partner will get married but when I came across this lovely vintage photo I created a journal page to celebrate the occasion. The details of how this came together can be found over on Bumblebees and Butterflies if you care to pop over.

Jane

Happy June everyone, summer really is just around the corner now. For the lovely Hearts theme this month I chose to make 2 very summery cards. This is the first one; I used distress oxides and carried the theme right through to adding a heart brad. I thought the colours reminded me of  ice cream! If you would like to see how I made this I have a step by step over on my blog here where a warm (and heartfelt 😊) welcome awaits. Let's hope it's a really flaming June. 

Bye for now,

Jane x

 

Rachel

Hello there! Well our theme this month is hearts and I had lots of fun making this card. If you would like the details please hop over to my blog. Hugs rachel x

 

Miriam

 

 

Fabulous topic again this month....and perfect for lots of wedding anniversaries that are coming up over the summer months.  Pop over to my blog to see how I made this card.

 

Debs

Hello everyone, what a fabulous theme for this month;  hearts, a favourite any time of year! 

I choose do a journal page with lots of Stencilling, and as I'm still addicted 

to those Oxides, I couldn't resist adding a little here and there.

As always the details are over on my blog.

Hugs 

Evelyn

Hello all, what a lovely theme this month! For my first project I made a romantic card with a vintage touch. If you want to know how I made this, please visit my blog.

Wow Wow Wow these are gorgeous heart 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 Flower Power Challenge last month. There are some fantastic entries and the winner will be announced soon

 

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Happy Memories

Hi again..... it's Miriam here from Miriam's Creative Dreams.  I hope you've been enjoying the awesome projects from the design team so far this month.  I adore flowers and so had lots of ideas running through my head for this topic.

I chose to create a canvas for my dear friend, Dianne.  Here is my finished project....

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

If you haven't done so already there is still time to join in with this month's challenge - Flower Power. 

I hope that I have inspired you today.  I hope you all have a wonderful bank holiday weekend.

Happy crafting!

Miriam

Double flower power

Hello it's Jane here again today with my 2nd flower power inspiration project.  I decided to make a Distress Oxide version of the tag I shared with you on the 1st of the month using exactly the same floral stamps.

I am always fascinated how 2 projects using the same stamps turn out so differently when different inks and colours are used. I have a full step by step over on my own blog here where a floral  warm welcome awaits you. We have already had some gorgeous entries into our Flower Power challenge this month, you have just under the week left to enter. We look forward to seeing lots more.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Flower Power,#51, Hazel,

Hazel

A background inspired by Mindy Lacefield and some Queen Anne's lace were my inspiration for my second Design piece. Please pop over to my blog for details. 

Happiness blooms from within

This month's challenge theme of Flower Power is terrific as there are so many ways you can incorporate flowers into your art. I made a page in my journal and used the idea of a jam jar filled with flowers as my central image. The colours are all complementary meaning that the yellowy orange flowers really pop out from the background. Thank you for joining me today and I hope you enter our challenge for the chance to win a great prize. Gabrielle x

Feminin card with pretty flowers

Evelyn

 For my second piece this month I made a very feminin card and added some Flower Power!

If you want to see more, please visit my blog!

Thinking of you

Hi everyone, 

Today I have a little more inspiration for this month's 'Flower Power' Challenge. I have made a card:

If you want to know how I made this, please hop over to my BLOG where everything is explained ! 

Thank you so much for stopping by today ! 

Until next time ! 

Corrie x

Powerful Flower

Craftyfield here today with a single bloom... alone yes, but strong!

 

 

In complete contrast to my first inspiration piece I used only one flower for this card, but a big one to create, I hope, a powerful image. Do come over to see the details on my blog!

Flower Power #2

Hi it's Brenda here from Bumblebees and Butterflies and here I am sharing my second project for the Flower Power challenge and I promised you the finished journal to the covers I showed you on the 1st May. This was them.

I took the first set of panels (the design on the left) to make this finished piece .....

... and all the details of how I made the journal itself are on my blog today.

Grab a cuppa on the way over as there are lots of photos and steps for you to peruse if you have time.

I hope you are enjoying the challenge and have been able to pop over and took a look at the inspiration projects from the design team.

Have fun.

hugs Brenda xxx

April Winner, Top 3 and DTSM

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

 

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

 

#30 Toni

Congratulations, Toni!  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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Hello dear followers, today it´s time to choose the winners of our April challenge!

Although there were not as many entries as in the challenges before, the ones who through in their hat did a really fantastic job! It was hard to pick out only three of them!

But here they are in no particular order:

#2 - Laneen

Evelyn said: Laneen created a gorgeous male layout in a grunge style. The rusty bits and bobs are fitting perfect to the vintage photo of James Dean!

#17 - Jan

Evelyn said: Love this book cover to bits! I would love to touch the surface with all it´s texture. The rust is looking so very elegant here and the blue night sky pops out beautifully.

#30 - Toni

Evelyn said: Another gorgeous layout with loads of rust goodness! There are so many fabulous details, you nearly can´t stop looking at. The photo of the "machine man" rounds off the overall picture.

Evelyn´s choice for the Design Team Member's Special Mention this time even goes to two completely different entries, but both catched her eyes so much, that she didn´t want to leave one of them behind:

#7 - Lys

Evelyn said: What a fabulous and unique idea to alter an USB stick! Lys created an absolutely stunning tiny little piece of art with gorgeous rustiness. Love it!

#31 - Kristina

Evelyn said: This invitation card is so very elegant, although it is so simple! I love, how the created rust comes into focus.

 

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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 May Challenge - Flower Power

 

More Flower Power

Sue

I'm loving the challenge this month, and I know you are too, so here's some more flower power.

Again I've used some of my favourite (they're all my favourites) PaperArtsy stamps, and my neglected but now sharpened watercolour pencils. There are lots more pictures over at Sue The Iron so please pop across x