Sun, Sea and Sand

 Summer Holidays for Country View Crafts 

July Challenge 1

Dip, drip and dry three separate layers of distress inks, 1, Old Paper. 2, Spiced Marmalade. 3 Crackling Campfire.

Take the blue distress oxide pads and rub them over the Sparkler Fade stencil, spritz with water and monoprint over the top of the hot colours and heat dry,

Lay down the Burst stencil and use Rusty Hinge to blend through the rays.

Add some extra dip and drips using Crackling Campfire at the bottom of the card to create more of a sandy look.

Stamp some second generation text with the grey permanent ink.

Stamp the Post Card at the top in black.

Use the grey to stamp the post mark only (rub off any ink that got onto the postage stamp.

Stamp the postage stamp itself using spiced marmalade onto a spare piece of card and cut out, overlay it onto the post mark.

Cut out the couple having fun on their holidays and adhere.

Diecut the words you want to use and also add.

Blend brown distress ink round the edges and mount the finished project onto the teal paper.

Thanks for stopping by

Brenda xxx

Supplies

Alison Bomber stamps - Poppy Edition EAB37 (Postcard). Pressed Foliage EAB39 (Postage stamp) https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/alison-bomber-by-paperartsy-1731-c.asp

Sizzix Tim Holtz dies  - Vacation Words, (As far as I'm aware these are discontinued)  https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-by-sizzix-152-c.asp

Ranger - Core-dinations paper (discontinued)

Tim Holtz stencils, Burst, Sparkle Fade                                https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/layering-stencils-523-c.asp

Idea-ology Tim Holtz Found Relatives (first edition)                https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/idea-ology-102-c.asp

Distress Inks - Spiced Marmalade, Crackling Campfire, Old Paper, Rusty Hinge, Ground Espresso https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/distress-ink--re-inkers-103-c.asp

Distress Oxide - Salvaged Patina, Mermaid Lagoon                              https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/distress-oxide-ink--re-inkers-1049-c.asp  

Versafine Clair - Morning mist, Nocturne                                    https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/versafine-clair-ink-pads-and-re-inkers-1311-c.asp

Mini Clipboard Entomology

 Bugs and Bees in May

This is my first inspiration project for Country View Crafts this month called Bugs and Bees

Mini Clipboard

Using Tim's die I adhered together a kraft die-cut and a black card over the top and sanded the edges which were then edged with the distress crayon.

The clip was sanded and also had distress crayon rubbed over to distress it.

The panel was added having been cut from one of the panels I made using gathered twigs, pumice stone, old paper and antique linen.

I added a smaller panel using the lighter card to die cut the smaller rectangle.

Building the frame

I used the Entomology stamps and dies and cut them all to choose the bug I wanted to use.

I also used the Field Notes stamps to stamp ephemera with picket fence on black.

I took the black frame and stamped some text using gesso and when it was dry I rubbed over the brown distress crayon to lower the brightness of it.

For the base layer of the background I used exactly the same distress inks and I added more text this time using one of the brown distress inks,

Then I created another distressed panel mounted on black and kraft panel card and distressed the edges.

I soaked the bug and gently moulded it into a curved shape and stuck a piece of wood dowling underneath it to make it look a little more lifelike and be in a standing position rather than laying flat,

I adhered the bug onto the mini clipboard to finish

I do like the additional flowers and the 3D effect of the bug on this frame.

xx

Supplies

Tim Holtz Stamps - Entomology, Field Notes, Ledger Script, Wildflowers CMS253

Tim Holtz dies - Entomology, Vault Noteworthy, Specimen,

Distress Inks - Pumice Stone, Old Paper, Antique Linen, Gathered Twigs, Ground Espresso, Picket Fence

Distress Crayons - Vintage Photo, 

Versa Fine Clair - Nocturne

DecoArt Americana White Gesso

Kraft card, black card and silver card.

Stencil monoprint and stamping

Happy Easter 

I did a workshop at Grayshott yesterday with an amazing group of ladies including Lois, Karen and Dominique.

They wanted to focus on distress ink techniques and create a tag book. We explored 9 techniques and ended up with 11 backgrounds. I came home with my sample book collection plus 32 more panels/tags so I want to use some of them to create some cards. This is the first.

The background which is a stencil monoprint with stamping through the stencil.

The elements. I collected bits together from my collage envelopes and some extra snippets.

A huge thank you to all the ladies who made it such a fun and enjoyable day. I definitely will be back to Grayshot to enjoy your company again.

xx

Supplies

Distress inks - stormy sky, hickory smoke, ground espresso

Stencil - Tim Holtz - Harlequin

Stamps - small text from my supplies, Tim Holtz - Natures Wonder

Dies - Tim Holtz - Silhouette Birds, Crochet

Tim Holtz - Snippets

Black archival ink

Poppies Edition - Condolences card

 A condolences card needed for a lovely crafty friend

Stamp the poppy with aged mahogany, dry it then using waterbrush pull the colour from the edges through the petals. 

Whilst wet add some fired brick with a watercolour brush.

Draw the leaves through the stencil and watercolour using the green distress inks.

Use a fine black pen to outline and create form, detail and depth to the image.

Stamp the flower onto masking paper, and trace through for the leaves. Once added to the card splatter both the red and green inks.

Lastly stamp the words and add them to the card.

Thinking of you Gayna. 💔 xxx

Supplies

Alison Bomber stamps Summer Poppies Edition EAB48

Alison Bomber Stencil for the leavesPS473

Tim Holtz Stamps - Simple Sayings CMS155

Distress inks - aged mahogany, fired brick,rustic wilderness, bundled sage, ground espresso.

Permanent ink - Versafine Nocturne

Fabriano watercolour paper

Black uni pin fine line water and fade proof pigment ink pen

Spring Into Life Apple Blossoms watercolour

Apple Blossom 

Stamps by Alison Bomber

I am using a technique I taught at Country View Crafts a few weekends ago, Everyone loved it and the effects they achieved.

Stamp and wider stamp the apple blossom to cover approximately half the page. This was a practice one I did.

Paint the images with masking fluid and leave to dry - this is an experiment in a Hobbycraft Shore and Marsh A5 sketchbook which says it is watercolour paper but it does not allow the distress inks to work and react with water like other card and watercolour papers do. So I shall be giving this sketchbook a miss in the future. After stamping over the images with the masking fluid still on and dipping into watery distress ink puddles, I made sure the ink was dry all over and rubbed the masking fluid from the page and then painted the images using  my chosen palette of colours.

From there I made sure I had recorded colours on a colour palette I created and use quite frequently at the moment.

I also made some swatches as I needed to include Rustic Wilderness which was an additional colour at the last minute.

 After adding the words and some thin cheesecloth I cut coloured papers echoing the coloured inks I had used and made the tiny bunting. The composition just needed something in the top right hand corner ......

.... and it finished with a splattering of white using a large white chalk marker.

xx

Supplies

PaperArtsy Alison Bomber stamps - Apple Blossom Edition EAB46

Ranger arhival ink - Watering Can

Tim Holtz distress inks - Scattered Straw, Bundled Sage, Mowed Lawn, Rustic Wilderness, Spun Sugar, Kitsch Flamingo, Vintage Photo and Ground Espresso.

Watercolour book of hearts

'Hearts' - using distress inks like watercolours

 Cut a long strip of watercolour paper - mine was 7 cm wide and 38 cm long.

Crease the central line vertically, cut 1 cm off each end and score at 6 cm to create each page.

Create distressed backgrounds by using stencils - rub some ink randomly over the stencil, spritz with water and lay randomly a couple of times along the strip, repeat with another colour and a different stencil and dry. 

Then take an old credit card or something similar and aged mahogany ink, press one edge into the ink pad, spritz water lightly on the horizontal line of the card pages and push the edge of the credit card into it and watch the colour disperse outwards as it moves into and through the water. Dry and stamp some random text along the line just above and below using aged mahogany ink.

Take some card and using the dip, drip, spritz and dry technique, create distressed backgrounds from which you can die-cut some hearts. I used all the colour inks in my colour palette and the distress spritz sprays as well.

bring the pages together with the die-cut hearts, some thread for texture and rub-ons.

I added distress ink and distress spritz colour palettes and left over hearts to the back pages of the book.

I also made a belly band to keep the booklet together.

 xxx

Supplies

Tim Holtz distress inks - aged mahogany, picked raspberry, candied apple, tattered rose, spun sugar, saltwater taffy, picket fence, 

Tim Holtz distress Spritz - picked raspberry, worn lipstick, tattered rose

Sizzix Tim Holtz dies - Vault Matchbook, Vault lovebirds,

Tim Holtz stamps - Ledger Script CMS241, 

Fabriano watercolour paper, bookmaking thread. punched hearts.