Anniversary Artist Trading Coins

 Hello and hurray!

For our 100th challenge at Country View Challenges I made some Artist Trading Coins for your inspiration.

As it is a special challenge, you have this time two chances to win a voucher for the shop!

This is what you have to do:

Remember you must take inspiration from one of the DT makes, such as a colour scheme, technique, design idea, stamp or die motif for your make to be in with the chance to win and, of course,include "100" (or One hundred in any language) for a chance to win a £20 voucher to the Country View Crafts shop

"This month there is also a special prize for a commenter

on todays' CVC and DT blog posts. So Hop to it!"

 I used a lot of technics, supplies and mediums, so I guess you can find something that you want integrate into your work.

So here are the steps:

First I wanted to make a collage paper, I have seen that recently from Tiffany Solorio, you can watch her video here. So I gathered tissue paper, a whole bunch of stamps and black Archival ink and started to build my background.

I started with the 100 in different sizes and went on with a lot of different stamps.

This is the result I got - I really like it!

Next I punched my coins with a 21/2" circle punch. I needed three for the back, three from cardboard (if it is too thick, cut it with siccors) and three from cardstock.

To create the background color I used Distress Oxides and spreat the inks with a brayer.

Time to use my collage paper. I cut out pieces and glued it down with Matte Medium.

After drying I filed the edges with a nail file.

For more interest I added some crackle glaze here and there.

For some shimmer I painted parts with extreme sheen gold paint.

For my vocal point I stamped some words and the beautiful butterflies from rubber dance on white Bristol paper and heat embossed it with black nuvo fine detail embossingpowder.

I colored the butterflies with liquid watercolors. When dry, I cut them out and glued them onto my coins. The coins I framed with black acrylic paint and added some white splatters.

Here they are! Very hard to get good pictures, so sorry for the photo quality.

I hope you feel inspired and want to join in with our anniversery challenge.

Have a wonderful day and thank you for your visit!

Celebrate 100!

 Hello my crafty friends!

Today is a very special day at Country View Challenges - it´s the 100s challenge! Hooray, let´s celebrate!

For my first project I decided to create a page on my little sketch pad.

I am part of the amazing design team since April 2016 - can you believe it! - and I still enjoy it.

Here is my very first project I made for CVC, you can find the post here:

But back to the anniversary challenge.

Because it is a very special challeng, you have the chance to win twice! You can make what ever you want, it can be a card, an art journal page, off the page project, ....

You only have to follow some rules:

• Make a project inspired by one of the makes from the DT members. May be you want to copy the whole make, may be you feel inspired by the chosen colors or technique, may be you will use the same stamp or stencil - it is your choice, BUT YOU HAVE TO TELL US WHO INSPIRED YOU AND WHAT INSPIRED YOU!
• THERE MUST BE THE 100 SOMEWHERE ON YOUR PROJECT! .....and we should be able to find it 😉.
• To get the chance to win a second time, you have to leave a comment on the CVC blogpost and all DT blogposts and find some kind words for their makes.

And this is what I did:

First I diecut some numbers with the very new numbers thinlits Countdown from Tim Holtz (you can find them here) and a old Tim Holtz Alterations die called Typeset. I glued them down with a 3in1 glue. I also glued down some wooden numbers.

After this I painted the whole page with ranger dylusions paint bubblgum pink and dried it completely.

Then I overpainted everything with brown antiquing paint and wiped off the most of it so that only shadows left in different places. To highlight the numbers I drybrushed the edges of the numbers with white Gesso and some silver wax.

After this I cut out a flower and a flower coin and also glued these down.

Now I only had to glue down the little paper doll girl and give her a bunch of flowers in her hands.

Here are some close ups:

Now I hope you want to play with us at the anniversery challenge!

Thank you for your visit!

Haute Couture

 Hello lovelies, nice to have you here!

It´s my second make for the challenge "We Will Always Have Paris" over at Country View Challenges.

This time I made a journal page in my little note pad.

As you know, Paris is one of the most famous cities of fashion! Many well known fashion designer started their carreer in Paris.

So I made a page which shows a atelier of a fashion designer - may be it´s Coco Chanel´s?

There are no dresses, because it´s fashion week and the models are on the cat walk right now 😉

I started with this Lady. She was stamped on a shrink foil, colored with color pencils and shrinked with a heating tool - it is still fascinating to watch the motive shrink! I glued her into a golden frame I had in my stash.

Then I painted the page using Amsterdam acrylic paint in sky blue light using a brayer. Then I stamped a tapestry with VersaFine Clair warm breeze and toned everything down with white acrylic paint.

The dress forms I stamped, colored and cut out, then I glued them down to the page - one directly and the other one with foam tape. 

The little buttons and the perfume bottle are frome a very old stamp set, as well as the word stripe.

Here are some close ups:

That´s it for today!

I hope you feel inspired to make something beautiful for our Paris challenge too!

As you know, you can win a 20 £ voucher for the shop!

Thank you for your visit!

T

Ballet de Paris

Hello all, happy first of May!

As always at the first of the month, it´s time for a new challenge at Country View Challenges.

This month the theme is: "We will always have Paris".

I made a card with vintage french themed papers.

I made it quite simple, cut out the papers, distressed the edges, colored the edges with vintage phote Distress Ink, layered the scraps, added some cloth, diecuts and homemade flowers - that´s it!

Here are some close ups:

I hope you liked it and feel inspired to make something for our challenge! You know, you can win a voucher for the shop!

Thank you for your visit and have sunny days!

Hinter der Maske - Behind the Mask

 Hallo zusammen,

heute möchte ich euch mein Layout "Hinter der Maske" zeigen.

Ich habe jede Menge Resinteile, gegossen mit den Moulds von Finnabair, verwendet.

Das Bild für meinen Mittelpunkt ist von Stefan Keller, ihr findet es hier.

Hello all,

today I want to share my latest layout with you.

I used a lot of resin parts, poured from the new finnabair moulds.

The picture from my vocal point you can find here.

Ein Video dazu könnt ihr auf meinem YouTube Kanal ansehen. Viel Spaß dabei!

You can watch my video I made. Have fun!

Hier noch ein paar Bilder:

Some more pictures:

Danke fürs Vorbeischauen!

Thank you for your visit!

Grungy Bee Card

 Hello all!

Today I want to share my second make for the "The Birds and the Bees" challenge theme at Country View Challenges.

I made a card with a grungy background.

For my background I used Distress Oxides frayed burlap, speckled egg and walnut stain and some distress ink peeled paint. I dabbed the inkpads on my craft mat, spritzed some water on top and swiped a precut, also slightly spritzed with water, Bristol paper through the paint. Then I dried the layer and dabbed in the paint again. I repeated it several times, until I was happy with the result.

I sprinkled some water on top for even more splatters.

Next I took a LaBlanche background stamp and stamped it with walnut stain DO all around the background. Then I spritzed some water on top to fade the stamp a little bit. It is hard to see and very subtile, which I really love.

Then I took the stamp #383, Scripted Hexagons, designed by Bipasha, from  AALL & Create and stamped it randomly to the background. I used DO walnut stain again.

Now I built up the scene. I stamped the flowers from the starburst set from Lavinia Stamps (you can find them here in the shop) with black Archival Ink and filled in the bubbles with a white gel pen.

The sentiment is an old one from my stash and says: Life is beautiful. I also stamped it with black Archival Ink and heat embossed it with Nuvo fine detail black embossing powder.

The bee is also a stamp from LaBlanche. I stamed it with Versafine Clair pinecone, colored it with watercolor, spreat some Wink of Stella clear over the wings, cut it out and gave it a little shape with a ball tool. Then I glued it down.

Last I stamped some leaves from a very old Artemio stamp set with black ink randomly around my card and glued my panel on top of a card.

I hope you feel inspired to make something with a bird or a bee as a main image for our challenge this month! You have plenty of time to make something pretty!

And as always you can win a 20 £ voucher for the shop.

Thank you for your visit!

Three Little Birds - Index Cards

 Hello, hello! 

Welcome to April! Spring is here and hopefully will stay with sunshine and warmer days.

As always on the first of month, there is a new challenge over at Country View Challenges! This month my lovely teammate Sue does host the challenge and she wants to see "The Birds and the Bees". There must be a bird or/and a bee as VOCAL POINT on your project, we don't want to have to use a magnifying glass to find a bird or a bee!

I made three Index cards this time.

I made a process video, so if you want to know how I made these little cuties, you can watch it on my YouTube channel here. https://youtu.be/CHNYJIXgcz4

Thank you for your visit today and I´m looking forward to seeing your makes!

Have a wonderful month!