A brand new year and a brand new challenge at Country View Crafts – welcome to 2014 and I hope it is a wonderful year packed with inky fun and lots of joy and happiness.
The theme for the next month is ‘Monochromatic’ and I have used a very vintage palette using various shades of browns and a little treasure copper.
The background effects were achieved by using brushed corduroy and vintage photo DIs and the wrinkle free technique then the same inks blended through the Tim Holtz clockwork mask with my favourite text stamped through using walnut stain.
The bells were die-cut, covered with vintage photo distress paint and then covered with embossing ink and pepper EP, when cool I added some treasure copper. When I put the tag together I added some little rusted bells too.
The bookplate was cut from corrugated cardboard, painted over with distress paints and some of the treasure copper blended round the edges.
The spinner is pointing to the 1st and to the 12 to see in the new year, I hope it’s a good one for you and your family
Thank you for being part of my creative journey and visiting me. Thank you also to all my lovely friends who leave me comments, who give me continual encouragement and love in this amazing blogging community. I feel truly blessed to be in the company and family of such wonderful artists such as yourselves, it is a privilege to visit you when I can and to see what you create too. If you have left me a comment and I haven’t visited you it is probably because Blogger hasn’t given me a link to your blog. If I have not visited you and left a comment please leave me a link to your blog when you leave a comment for me so that I know where you are.
Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!
This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!
I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!
- William Arthur Ward
big hugs {brenda} x0x
Supplies used -
Tin Holtz dies – mini bells, tag and bookplate, typeset strip dye
stamps – TH purely random, simple sayings, classics 4
DIs – brushed corduroy, vintage photo, walnut stain
DPs – vintage photo, walnut stain, antique linen
small bells given the rusting treatment
Beautiful work Brenda, love how you have used those vintage browns! That is a great start to the New Year. Hugs, Valerie
ReplyDeleteFabulous vintage tag Brenda a d I just. Love the rusted bells.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year
MaggieH
Hi Brenda, it is always, always a pleasure to visit your blog, you always delight us with a wonderful creation. This one is so very beautiful and perfect for today, your rusting is fantastic. Love this. Wishing you all the very best for 2014, hope it is a good one for you and yours. Hugs, Anne x
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderdul start to a crafty 2014! Happy New Year to you and yours Brenda.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Brenda. It's always a pleasure to visit your blog and the wonderful creations you create. Love this tag and the fabulous textures you have given it. Hugs Rita xxx
ReplyDeleteWhat a brilliant tag, Brenda - that background is just wonderful (note to self - must use that text more often!!) and the rusting on your bells is just fantastic... love, love it!!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!
Alison xx
Gorgeous tag Brenda, loving those warm brown tones and the rusted elements are fantastic. Happy New Year Brenda and thank you for,your support during 2013. Tracy x
ReplyDeleteLovely rusting celebration tag Brenda! Hope there are not too many sore heads around in your house, we had a very civilised evening :-)& feeling no pain.
ReplyDeleteHappy crafting
Sally
Wow, that's a breathtaking take, love the vintage look.
ReplyDeleteWishing you a happy, healthy and creative year 2014.
Great tag to start 2014! Lovely colour scheme!
ReplyDeleteMay 2014 be a grand one!
Happy new year Brenda!
ReplyDeleteThis tag is so gorgeous!!!
Bizz
Your tag is gorgeous Brenda - wow!
ReplyDeletewhat a way to start the New Year.
I love everything about your tag especially the bells!!!
Happy New Year Kid!
Sandy
Happy New Year Brenda, love this as I love all your projects. I wanted to pop in to congratulate you on winning the December Tim's tag - woohoo! Xxx
ReplyDeleteGorgeous tag, again, Brenda! Here's wishing you all the best in the New Year.
ReplyDeleteJoyce xx
Happy New Year Brenda! Love the tag. I'm going to have to check out that rusting technique, very effective. Suz xxx
ReplyDeleteI just love the whole feel of this piece Brenda - so beautifully calm and soft but with a lovely rustiness! It is always a pleasure to visit your blog - always so many wonderful inspirational ideas and thank you for all your encouragement and comments. Jennie x
ReplyDeleteOh wow, this is an amazing little project. So love the vintage kind of steam punk feel to it.
ReplyDeleteHugs
DesÃre
{Doing Life – my personal blog}
Love all the 'rusted' elements on this one Brenda and the colour scheme is gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteHope all your hard work with the game paid off and you had a fabulous New Year. Jenny x
What a wonderful start of the new year Brenda...hope to see a lot of your beautiful projects in 2014!
ReplyDeletexxx Margreet
Terrific tag Brenda with lots to admire. Happy New Year, hugs Annette x
ReplyDeleteGorgeous tag Brenda, love the rusty effect, so very very real looking! Happy New Year too! ~Diane
ReplyDeleteA most gorgeous tag! I LOVE the bell...rusted wonderfulness! Happy happy New Year! May 2014 bring you all the goodness it can!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Brenda! Your tag is wonderful - beautifully vintage and the stenciled background looks fabulous. Looking forward to another year in blogland with you. Nicola x
ReplyDeleteWhat super rusting Brenda :)
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year
Von ♥
I always love the look of stamping though the stencils! Brenda, this is a great tag to start of the new year! Love that inky, stenciled and stamped background and I may just use that idea for Tim's January tag! Love the rusted bells and plate! Guess I just love it all! Hugs and here is to a very creative 2014!!!
ReplyDeleteOh Brenda what a wonderful start to the new year, LOVE you tag! The background with those yummy brown tones looks fantastic and I adore the other elements you have added, the rust effects look brilliant too!!
ReplyDeleteOh and I absolutely LOVE that William Ward poem!!! Hope you don't mind but I am going to add it to my next blog post and will link back to you of course.
Hope you have the most wonderful creative year!!
This is fabulous Brenda, that looks so realistic!!! Thank you yourself for sharing your art with us on your blog all the past year, and for all what you inspire of Beauty and Art... Happy New Year again. Hugs Coco xx
ReplyDeleteThis is such a stunning tag.
ReplyDeleteI love the colours, but especially like how you make the die cuts have a rusty look to them.
Simply wonderful Brenda...those rusty bells are fab! Wishing you a happy healthy newer xx love xx
ReplyDeleteSuch an amazing tag here Brenda, I´m in total awe about this, it´s so beautiful, and I really wish I could get anything to look like yours and astrids, but it never looks anything like it, when I try, so guess, I better stick to my own kind of stuff, even I really love how yours always looks.
ReplyDeleteI also absolutely LOVE your poem here, and hope, you don´t mind, if I reuse it too, as it just were perfect inside a card, I have to do here very soon for a dear friend.
Have a wonderful New Year hun and I hope this will be the best year ever for everyone.
I cannot lie....I come here to study your techniques with these awesome products. Another lovely tag! Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteThis tag is so interesting with the layered stamping and masking, and all the gorgeous metal. Love how you've rusted those bells!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant tag, love the colours and background and the really texture on the bells
ReplyDeleteJool x
An exceptional tag. Just love it.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful tag, Brenda!
ReplyDeleteLucy x