September rolls in with Country View challenges

 Hello everyone and welcome to September. Wow here we are 3/4 of the way through the year. It's time for my first of the month design team make for our September challenge over at Country View. The theme for this month is "season's of mists and mellow fruitfulness" so we would like to see your autumnal inspired makes. 

You can enter a maximum of 5 times and into a maximum of 10 challenges, including ours. As always there is a fab £20 voucher up for grabs for one lucky randomly selected winner to spend on the website.  You can find all the details of the challenge and more examples made by my talented teamies here.

  Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website UK postage is FREE on orders over £20.00 I have added some live links within my post to take you to some of the products I used.

The project I am sharing for this DT post is very special to me as they are the badges/artist trading coins I have made for Country View Crafts for wearing on the stand at the Stamperama Show at Bedford International athletic centre on Sunday 25th September. I will be demoing all things Visible Image and Tim Holtz Distress inks on the stand and I will also be hosting a little giveaway for one of these. If you would like to be in with a chance of winning one the details are at the end of this post. 

So back to my badges/artist trading coins. I first got the idea for making these in April 2019 when I demoed for the first time at  the London Ally Pally craft show. I had made some artist trading coins and thought they would also work well to wear as a badge. It's an idea I have continued with for every show I demo at and there is usually a theme behind it. The theme behind these is September and autumn..yes the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!"

This is what I got up to;

I made some distress ink backgrounds using these colours

I die cut some 2 1/2 inch circles (the size of artist trading coins)

I added some stenciling using the fab "Honeycomb hex" stencil 

I then stamped images and sentiment from Daisy Grunge and Bee happy

and as a finishing touch added some gold glitter pen and Glossy Accents

Here they are dry and ready to go!

with a close up of one.

Once again here you can find all the details for our September challenge here.

I am back on the 9th September with my 2nd make. This will also be something I am sharing at the Bedford show.

I would love to see you over on Instagram where I share new creative makes nearly every day. This is my link/profile @jane.tyrrell

Sadly these days I just don't have the time to blog everything! 

So if you would like a chance to win one of these just come along to the Stamperama Show at Bedford International athletic centre on Sunday 25th September. I will have a little sign up for the free draw on my table.  Here is a link for the details.  You will recognize me as I will be wearing my badge ....and a smile!

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x