Summertime for CVCC

Eeek it's the first of August and there's a new challenge starting at Country View Crafts, hoping to remind us what time of year this is!!!! So I concentrated on what the garden could look like if the sun was shining.

I started with a size 10 tag stamping the cone flower from the Flower Garden set of stamps and watercoloured with distress markers. I chose five orange, yellow and red tones and then four green tones for the stem. I then rubbed microglaze over it to seal it.....

... and added remnant rubs to create a background ....

..... then used the remnant rub resist technique to add colour with distress stains - peacock feathers, evergreen bough, scattered straw, crushed olive and mustard see (which has turned green ugh!!!!). Once dry I blended over scattered straw, shabby shutters and tumbled glass distress inks and flicked water over to distress the colours.

I coloured up some seam binding using rusty hinge, scattered straw and barn door distress stains and added a treble bow.

At this point I was rather disappointed with the flower which looked too grungy for my liking ...

... so I stamped another on Tim's watercolour paper and cut it out sticking it over the top which now gives it a brighter colour, more dimension and balances the colours out better.

To finish off I added a word disk dabbed with alcohol inks and rubbed over with treasure gold ....

.... I used a splatter stamp to add some picket fence distress paint splatter dots and some text stamping using forest moss distress ink ......

I hope you will pop over to see some fabulous inspiration from the team and look to join us during the month of August.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great summer, hopefully with some good weather.

hugs Brenda xxx