Doing more of what makes me happy for Country View Challenges

Hello and welcome to July. It's a new month and a new challenge over at Country View.

For July the theme is "Do more of what you makes you happy". This is a pretty open theme and this could be a technique you enjoy, stamp brands you love, colours etc. Just let us know what you love to do when creating. The details and my teamies projects for more inspiration can be found here. 

What makes me happy...well gardening is second to my crafting and I have loved having more time to garden. I even started some plants from seed this year including some Cosmos. You would not believe the joy and love I felt on Friday when I saw my first flower in bloom.

This is how they started at the beginning of lockdown

How amazing is Mother Nature!
So back to doing more of what makes me happy craft wise. Well one thing I love doing is making backgrounds using alcohol inks. Susan has lots for sale on the website here

This is what I got up to using Yupo.
I just played and fiddled

adding, dripping and dabbing

until I got the background I wanted

I then grunged it up using the ink splats stamps by Visible Image, Susan doesn't have this set in stock but I'm sure she can order it for you if you email her.

I used one of the gorgeous sentiments from the Love you longer set available here

which I stamped and embossed onto vellum and added between some die cut hearts

I also stamped the hearts in this set onto some other stitched die cut hearts and put my card together.

Some close ups

and one final shot.

This is my anniversary card for my Hb as we celebrate 39 years on 25th of July.  Shhhh...keep it under your hat!

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

Sweet stampin 2/3 create your own background
Creative fingers 2/3 anything goes
Crafty catz 2/3 anything goes
Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes
Crafty sentiments 1/3 anything goes
Cuttlebug mania 1/3 anything goes my heart dies are by Memory box
Crafty cardmakers 1/3 make your own background

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our July "do more of what makes you happy" 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 from CVC is free on all orders over £7.50! Once again all the details for the July challenge can be found here.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Back soon

Bye for now

Jane x