Be sentimental with Country View challenges

Good morning and welcome to our February challenge over at Country View Crafts. I am delighted to be the host for this month and I have chosen the theme "Be sentimental". So I would like to see your crafty makes which include a sentiment and/or some inspiring words.  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.

Many of the Visible Image sets that Susan stocks have lots of inspiring words and sentiments and today I used 2 sets; 

Life is beautiful

with some words from So much stronger

and the Broken mesh layering die

This is what I got up to;

I blended  mustard seed, crackling campfire and spiced marmalade distress oxides onto a piece of white card and added some drips of water which I blotted off. I also had a piece of inky card in my stash from which I die cut an aperture using the broken mesh die. 

I stamped the hummingbird in the aperture

I then stamped a 2nd bird onto white card and cut out the top wing to use for decoupaging.

I coloured the images with colours from the set 3 distress watercolour pencils. 

I stamped around the edge of the mesh top card using the background stamp in the Life is beautiful set. I also gold embossed the words onto black card and cut them out.

I then stuck the decoupaged wing  and the sentiments in place. I also stamped some of the words from the So much stronger set across the bottom of the card.

I matted and layered my card and adhered it to a 7X5" white card blank. I added some sequins and white gel pen details as finishing touches. 

Here is my finished card;

with a close up

and one final shot;

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with the challenge this month? Once again here you can find all the details for our February challenge here. I am really looking forward to seeing your entries. 

 I'll be back with my 2nd "Be sentimental" make this Friday.

I would also like to give you a heads up that in just under 6 weeks time I am delighted be demoing again for Country View crafts at the Crafterama "Crafting at Ally Pally show" at Alexandra Palace in London. If you came last March it would be so lovely to see you again. If not why not put the date in your diary? The show is running the weekend of Saturday and Sunday 11th and 12th March. We had such fun last year. I will again be offering a little crafting giveaway in a randomly selected draw for anyone who stops by our stand. I will be sharing more details and some of my sample makes nearer the time so please check out my Instagram account;  @jane.tyrrell where I will be posting my updates.

Here is a photo from last year's show;

I will be back on Friday with my 2nd "Be sentimental" make for the challenge. 

I will also be back in half an hour with my 2nd blog post today as it is also time for my Visible Image DT make too. Busy, busy, busy 😂

Bye for now,

Jane x