Use Your Wings

Good morning and happy Tuesday. I have lots of 'things with wings' for you today, and it was a real labour of love. I'd forgoten how much I enjoyed using my Dina Wakley stamps.

There are lots more details here and I would love it if you popped over. Have a wonderful day, Sue x

June Winner, Top 3 & DTSM

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

 

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

#65 Roshini's Crafts

 Congratulations, Roshini!  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. Now over to Hazel for her Top3 and DTSM
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This was such a difficult challenge to choose my favourites as the standard was amazing and the styles so varied. I started off with 11 choices which I begrudgingly had to whittle down.

In order of numbers

#9 Jannet

Such an emotional journaling page, so personal and unique. The message is clear and the images tell the sad story but point out the resilience of the human spirit!

 

#17 Svetlana

Svetlana has such an amazing talent for combining colour, texture and forms. Truly magical.

 

#65 Rossini

Rossini has created a masterpiece using simple objects that she has cleverly woven together and sprinkled with fairy dust. I just love it! 

 

Special DTM mention goes to 

 

#43 Melissa

Melissa keeps producing pieces for our challenges that are so spontaneously fresh and full of life. Her love for her art just shines through! 

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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.

And don't forget there is still lots of time to enter our July Challenge - Things With Wings

Bee your own kind of beeautiful!

Hello there! Its Rachel here today with a card made using the fabulous stamps from Kay Carley at paperartsy.

I have put a step by step guide to how I made this on my blog today which you can find here. I hope this may inspire you to join our 'Things with wings' challenge this month!

Big hugs

Rachel x

On fairy wings

Good morning, it's Jane here with my second post for the "Things with Wings" challenge I am hosting here at Country View this month. For my first card I went with paper planes and this time I have gone to the fantasy world of fairies. I wanted some really hot summery colours so I got out my brightest distress inks to play with to make my fairy card.

If you would like to see how I made my little things with wings scene you will find a magical welcome over on my blog here. I am pleased you enjoyed seeing all my photos of things with wings on Saturday...I have some more today to share on my blog..including a peahen with her chicks at breakfast..yes seriously.

 I will be flying over visiting your blogs to see all your own lovely things with wings projects. Have fun and I look forward to seeing your makes.

Enjoy your summer days.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Vintage three-drawer box with butterflies

Monika 

My goal was to make a vintage box whose sides look like old butterfly illustrations from a handbook. Tim's stamps were just perfect for my project. On my blog I will tell you what I used.

Thank you!

July - Things With Wings

 

Welcome everyone to our July Challenge.

Our theme this month is "Things With Wings", chosen by the lovely Jane

Jane

Welcome to July, the month of sunshine and holidays. I am delighted to be the hostess for the new challenge this month and I have chosen a summery theme, "Things with wings". Over on my blog I have several ideas and photos for your inspiration.... some of them  more off the wall..but all have wings. My card today has wings.......paper plane wings 😄 I have a fly by step by step over on my blog post here.

I am really looking forward to visiting you all this month to see your wings too. Have fun and don't forget to fly.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Rachel

Hello there! I do hope you can join us for our new challenge - I decided to use a Tim Holtz die and make my bees...they're buzzing around my card and you can find out how I made it over on my blog here.

Hugs Rachel x

Gabrielle

Hello! Can you believe it's July already?! For my first project this month I altered a page in my Creative Dyary - I've put the details on my blog. I love this challenge theme as there are so many possibilities. I adore what my team mates have made as inspiration this month and I can't wait to see what you make too!

Gabrielle x

Debs

Hello everyone, I loved this months theme! So in my journal I created this pretty little thing,

All the details are on my blog. Hope to you there,

Hugs

Evelyn

Hello all, it´s summer! One of the most beautiful things are the twittering birds in summer. So for the "Things with wings"-challenge I made a little card with a bird. For more details you can hop to my blog.

Brenda

I love this theme chosen by Jane as it provides so many options for us all both as Design Team members and you, the readers, to enter the challenge. I decided I wanted stay in a vintage mode and chose to create wings for these two lovely girls so they could play at being fairies in the garden. I've added a vintage shabby mixed media background, a few embellishments and altered the shadowbox. So if you'd like to see how this came together I'd love you to pop over to Bumblebees and Butterflies where there are instructions, new techniques and more photos.

Corrie
Hello everyone, 

For this months 'Things with wings' challenge I have made this AJ page. I filmed the process too so if you want to know how I made this then hop over to my blog HERE or go straight to YouTube :

Hope you enjoy ! I will be back soon with more inspiration ! 

Sue

It's 1st July, Summer is here, so we're in my happy place. It doesn't need to be hot, but a little bit of sunshine cheers me up. Quirky birds also cheer me up (slick link eh!) so here they are

 

Oh to have legs like this! There are lots more pictures over on my blog so I hope to see you there x

 

Monika

This song (Chirpy, chirpy, cheep, cheep...) and I, we were both born in the early seventies. So I was just a little girl when I first heard it. It came to my mind when I was looking for an inspiration for Tim's birds and for our "Things with wings" challenge. If you want to see the tutorial of my canvas boards, please hop on my blog. Thank you!

Craftyfield

 

Butterflies are high on my list of Winged things but I wanted my offering to be more original and out of my usual so...

 here goes the Flamin' [birds].

 

 

Please visit my blog to read all the details on how I created this scene-scape!

Keep cool and carry on crafting...

 

Hazel

For our new topic this month I have chosen to create a journal page with memories of my recent holiday. I hope that you will join me on my blog.

 

Miriam

This month I have been able to combine two of my favourite things - Butterflies and Tim Holtz.  Pop over to my blog to see how I created this card.

This topic can be so versatile.  I hope you join in with the challenge and look forward to seeing what you create.

Happy Crafting!

Fantastic Things With Wings 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 Hearts Challenge last month. There are some beautiful entries and the winner will be announced soon

 

 

 

An InLinkz Link-up

Hopeful Love

Hi, Miriam here from Miriam's Creative Dreams.  It's my turn to share another project with you today.

Pop over to my blog to see the full project and how I created it.

There's still time to join in with this month's challenge.  And don't forget - there is a gift voucher up for grabs too!

Thanks for looking.....
Miriam

Love heart

For my second project for this month's Heart theme I have made a page in my Dylusions Dyary. The heart is a Wendy Vecchi stencil (with PaperArtsy paints on black card) so I added some of my favourite leaf and flower stamps from Wendy too. I added a Dylusions stencils in the background and some washi tape. I loved making this page - and I hope you have been inspired to join in too - there's still time to enter and you may win a prize!

Gabrielle x

Vintage heart hanger

Hello all on this wonderful sunny and hot summer day (at least here in Germany)!

For my second project for the "Hearts" challenge this month I altered a wooden heart.

If you want to see, how I made this, please visit my blog!

Now I hope you will join in our challenge, you have enough time to play!

Thank you for stopping bye today!

Love Heart

Hello everyone Debs here from ArtZone  with my second heart which has gone very floral. I had so much fun creating this, and hope you are inspired to play along with the challenge. 

 

As always you can see all the details over on the blog plus lots of close up.

Hope to over there

Take care

Hugsxxx 

 

You and me

Hello everyone, 

Welcome to my second post for this month's challenge "Hearts". It is an art journal spread :

I hope you will hop along to my BLOG  'MadeByCHook' to have a look at how I made this ! 

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

Corrie x

Foiled Heart

Hello crafters, Craftyfield here today with a shiny heart!

Don't they say people are blinded by love? Well, I took that to heart... (puns totally intended)

 

 

Please come by my blog... to read all the details on how I created my gilded heart,

this is such an easy way of getting a beautiful shine!

 

Have a great crafty weekend!

Wildflower heart garden

Hi Brenda here sharing my second project for our HEARTS challenge this month using an mdf heart that had been painted up eons ago but served my purpose perfectly to add Tim's wildflowers and some DecoArt media acrylics to create a dark corner of a summer garden.

I would love to see you at Bumblebees and Butterflies where there are more photos and details of the process steps.

I hope you are enjoying the challenge and have hopefully entered a project already.

Enjoy walking in a garden somewhere whether that be your own or one you are visiting.

hugs Brenda xxx