Mad March Hare or a sweet Spring Bunny for Country View Crafts

Mad March Hare or a sweet Spring Bunny? 

This is my inspirational project for Country View Crafts March theme.

He who wanders is not lost

I found several Cottontails from the TH die that had been roughly scraped texture paste over them. Cottontail on the right is a plain die-cut, the one on the left is textured with some pencil details.

I chose the cottontail to use and with a graphite pencil I drew in some details of a hare/rabbit and then took Lost Shadow, Pumice Stone, Hickory Smoke, Black Soot and Scorched Timber distress watercolor pencils and coloured him in. These pencils are so versatile and I think bunny looks so much more realistic now.

I decided to make this hoppity into a collage panel so started to gather some pieces to work with - a background form my leftovers folder, Tim Holtz tissue paper, ephemera and entomology moth, stamped sentiment and 'Big Chat' word and spent time arranging them into a composition.

The composition changed a little as I firmed up how I wanted it to be.

And I fell in love with cottontail himself and his cute face.

There is a challenge every month on the Country View Crafts FaceBook page.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/164920247712393/?multi_permalinks=1464040191133719&notif_id=1708239957586108&notif_t=group_activity&ref=notif

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Supplies from Country View Crafts

Distress Watercolor Pencils

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-distress-watercolor-pencils-1598-c.asp

Collage paper - 

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/th93705-tim-holtz-idea-ology---collage-paper-botanical-171830-p.asp

Big Chat

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-idea-ology-102-c.asp

Ephemera Pack- Number Strips

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/th94222---tim-holtz-idea-ology---ephemera-pack-snippets---number-strips-171863-p.asp

Ephemera Pack - Layers - Urban

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-idea-ology-102-c.asp

Stamps - Nature's Wonder CMS 343

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/cms343-tim-holtz-cling-mounted-stamp-set---natures-wonder-172377-p.asp

Stamps - Entomology

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-stamps-by-stampers-anonymous-193-c.asp

Sizzix dies - Entomology

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/sizzix-thinlits-and-framelits-die-sets-wstamps-by-tim-holtz-519-c.asp

Distress ink - Scorched Timber

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/ranger---tim-holtz---distress-ink-pad--scorched-timber-171734-p.asp

How can you tell that a rabbit is getting old? Look for the grey hares. 

What do you call a happy rabbit?    A Hop-timist

Why don’t rabbits get hot in the summer?  They have hare conditioning

Stamps and Distress Watercolor Pencils

Stamping with Distress Watercolor Pencils 

What are your greatest loves in life? 

‘Love’2nd project February 2024 Country View Crafts

For me it has to start with family and this card will be for my daughter's birthday this year.

Process Steps

Focus panel. Langton Hot press card – watery dip, drip and dry background using Worn Lipstick, Scorched Timber, Aged Mahogany Oxides.

Bundled Sage, Aged Mahogany and Lumberjack Plaid Distress Watercolor Pencils to stamp Floral Outlines CMS430 using the stamp platform.

Water brush and rough palette with Shabby Shutters, Crushed Olive and Scorched Timber to watercolour the leaves.

Fired Brick, Spun Sugar and Scorched Timber to watercolour the flowers.

I knew I needed to mute and distress the watercolours, so I blended Scorched Timber distress ink around the edges and when there was hardly any ink left in the foam pad I rubbed it gently over the whole card. 

I loved the effect of the Distress Watercolor Pencils with the Scorched Timber distress ink, it started to look like a piece of vintage wallpaper.

The backing paper is from Stamperia Rose Parfum collection.

Three idea-ology gumdrop hearts which were daubed with Aged Mahogany Distress Stain and heat dried.....

 Mummy Cloth, a little bit of Greenery I think came from Festive Greenery, thread and flowers from my drawer.

A sentiment stamped from Simple Sayings CMS 155

Products

Tim Holtz – Oxides, Distress Watercolor Pencils, distress inks and blenders, Floral Outlines CMS430 stamp, idea-ology gumdrop hearts, Mummy Cloth, Aged Mahogany Distress Stain, Simple Sayings CMS 155 stamp

Stamperia – papers - Rose Parfum collection

Worn Lipstick, Scorched Timber, Aged Mahogany Oxides.

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-distress-oxide-ink-pads--reinkers-1049-c.asp

Bundled Sage, Aged Mahogany and Lumberjack Plaid, Crushed Olive and Scorched Timber, Fired Brick, Spun Sugar and Scorched Timber, Distress Watercolor Pencils

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-distress-watercolor-pencils-1598-c.asp

Tim Holtz stamps - Floral Outlines, Simple Sayings CMS 155

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-stamps-by-stampers-anonymous-193-c.asp

Tim Holtz - stamp platform.

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-by-tonic-studios-200-c.asp

Scorched Timber distress ink.

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-distress-ink--re-inkers-103-c.asp

Stamperia Rose Parfum collection.

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/stamperia---scrapbooking-pad-10-sheets-203-x-203-cm-88-mini-background-selection---rose-parfum-156000-p.asp

idea-ology gumdrop hearts

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/th93681-tim-holtz-idea-ology-gumdrops-15pkg-clear-hearts-90797-p.asp

Aged Mahogany Distress StainlandandDistrict Parish Council

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-distress-stains-214-c.asp

Mummy Cloth

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/th94155-tim-holtz-idea-ology--mummy-cloth-172127-p.asp

Sizzix dies - Festive Greenery

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/sizzix-thinlits-and-framelits-die-sets-wstamps-by-tim-holtz-519-c.asp

Thanks for stopping by.

xxx

In My Winter Garden

 Thank you for responses here and on FaceBook about my previous two tags, it's lovely to know people are still around on the blogs and stop here for a visit.

Having made those two tags with the new Scorched Timber (ST) distress colour I next wanted to try out my new ST watercolour pencil. 

I got my first pencils as a Christmas gift and have had a little time to play with them but this was the result today, which I am quite pleased with - I think I need more practice with colouring and pulling out the ink, but otherwise I'm happy with it.

 

I used Tim's 'Flower Garden' stamps and the echinacea one reminded me of how brown the heads are in the garden at the moment so I used just the Scorched Timber which seemed the most appropriate colour for me to use. I also used hickory smoke oxide for the watery background and for stamping the handwritten text from the 'Entomology' set. To pull it all together I added some Scorched Timber wash, dried it and knocked it all back by sponging some gesso over it. It created the perfect effect allowing the flower heads to take centre stage.

 

By inking the edge of the panel with the ST distress ink I could see how much darker it is than than the oxide which I had used for the flowers, so with a fine brush and water I added some of it to give more contrast to the light and dark areas in the petals. 

To finish off, a brown panel of coredinations paper acts as the ground and die-cuts from the Festive Gatherings and Funky Florals #2 sets of dies provide the winter garden peeking from the heart panel.

 

The hearts, from Tim's 'Watercolor' set were stamped with ST distress ink on a quick dip and dry wash of distress oxide and splatters with water droplets dropped on and dried.

 

The saying is from the Small Talk stickers and completed the card.

Thanks for stopping by.

xxx 

Using Scorched Timber Oxide on my background - Tag 2

If you've seen tag one on my last post, which was yesterday, this is the follow up. 

I added lots more splatters and drips to the original background and found that by mixing both the Scorched Timber and Broken China it gave me a gorgeous patina colour so I literally smooched both colours in the oxides on my mat and with a blending tool mixed them together to create the edge colour. 

I added some stamping, stencilling and splatters of white acrylic paint before creating the collage. 

When it was dry I roughened those edges and went round giving a careful deep dark fine edge with the Scorched Timber distress ink pad.

Thanks for stopping by.

xxx

Do you have a way with words?

This project is for the first FaceBook Country View Crafts challenge of 2024, led by Jane she asked that people use words, verses or sentiments on their make. I love using text of all kinds on my projects and used a variety of Tim Holtz stamps (Papillon, Perspective and Classics #4). I was lucky to be gifted the Tim Holtz Distress Watercolour Pencils for Christmas so I loved taking the opportunity to play with these as well and used them to colour in the large butterfly - I wouldn't normally give a butterfly a rainbow effect but I just loved the experimentation of using them to see what they can do.

Materials

Archival Ink  Jet Black, Coffee

Distress Oxides  Vintage Photo, Hickory Smoke, Walnut Stain, Tattered Rose

Distress Watercolour Pencils  Candied Apple, Peacock Feathers, Tattered Rose, Picked Raspberry, Hickory Smoke, Salty Ocean, Twisted Citron, Rustic Wilderness, Picket Fence

Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Paper Dolls, ephemera, Stamps Classic#4

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