My first Design Team post for Country View Challenges...and my birthday!

Hello and welcome. I am so thrilled to be sharing my very first DT post for Country view challenges. There is a new challenge up today where the theme is Spring. What a perfect theme for me. You can enter anything crafty, as long as it has a Spring theme. There is a fabulous prize this month up for grabs from Country View Crafts for the winner. This is the link here. Why not pop on over and join in with the fun?

Today is also a very special day as it is none other than my birthday! What a fun way for me to celebrate. I am off out with my darling Hb to celebrate after I have opened my cards and pressies.

For my Spring piece I decided that I would make a card using the very first die I bought from Country View Crafts, a Sizzix accordion die. I love using it for very special cards so it seemed a good choice for today.

I decided to made 2 master boards to decorate the die with so I chose some spring Fresco paint colours and started to brayer on the colours..

 

 These are the stamps I used

I stamped 2 stamps using paints

 and the rest of the stamping in archival inks

I die cut 4 sections to cover the pages

I also die cut and water coloured some of Tim's new wildflower dies

I also used the memories sentiment from Wendy Vecchi's framed art set as well as her SISI flower stamped on a book page

So then it was time to put on my creative hat and put everything together.

Here it is ;

and some close ups to show the details;

I really hope you have enjoyed seeing my first ever Step by step Design Team piece and I that you might get some inspiration to join in with the Spring challenge. You can enter as many times as you like. I  am so looking forward to the next stage of my creative journey. I will be sharing my 2nd DT piece for Country View on Thursday 7th April.

I would also like to link my card up with the following great challenges;

Mixed media world vintage
Vintage stamping at least 3 layers
Allsorts wings
We love to create anything mixed media #7
Simon says stamp 2/3 Wednesday anything goes
Cheery Lynn back to nature

If you are a first time visitor here it's great to see you here. To all my "regulars" thanks for all your support and for the lovely comments you take the time to leave.

I will be back really soon to share some of the details from my birthday celebrations today.

I have one last thing to celebrate today.....I have a new card that has been  published in the May Edition of Craft Stamper which is on sale in the shops today.....I will be back to share it as soon as my copy arrives!

Must dash....there's a train to catch and a birthday to celebrate.

Jane x