A bokeh October

Good morning, don't worry your eyes or computer are not out of fucus!  Welcome to October and our latest challenge over at Country View Challenges which is called Beautiful Bokeh. Bokeh as a camera definition is the attractive circular blur effect. I used a photo editor on a couple of my own photos to show this.

In crafting there are lots of ways of achieving a bokeh effect. I like to use my own hand cut stencil. For my first card today I used mustard seed, stormy sky and peacock feather distress re inker colours.
I first soaked the water colour paper with water and then dripped on the colours.

Lots of deep tones.

Once dry I used my hand made die cut circles stencil

and added white pigment ink through it to achieve the bokeh effect. Try to use different sizes of circles and overlap some too.

I also think it is such a shame to cover up some backgrounds so I took a photo before I did! 

I then stamped out my Tim Holtz Flower Garden stamps , coloured them with distress markers and cut them out. I added a little text stamping for a little extra detail. 

I then put my design together.

I added some bling to the stamens using Stickles.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Pixie's snippets playground #362
Sweet stampin 2/3 Distressed
Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes
Happy little stampers 1/3 anything goes/botanical
We love to create 1/3 anything goes/mixed media

I really enjoy using the bokeh technique and I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

You can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with other challenges. There is also a £20 crafting voucher up for grabs to the lucky randomly selected winner to spend over on the Country View Crafts on line store. Remember that UK postage and packing is absolutely FREE! All the details for the October challenge can be found here.

I will be back with some more bokeh inspiration for CVC on Saturday 19th October, this time with a Christmas bokeh card.

Thanks so much for stopping by, I am back in an hour and a half with my 2nd post of the day....the 1st of the month is busy busy!! 

Bye for now,

Jane x