A rainbow Cheshire cat for Country View challenges

Good morning today. It's a very important day today....our sweetest Billy cat is 15!

  It is also time for me to share my 2nd design team make for Country View Challenges to hopefully inspire you to join in this possibly last challenge on Blogger. 

We are going to take a break for August and September and our challenges are possibly being transferred to Facebook. Blogging and Blogger have changed so much over the years and audiences seem to be bigger on other social media platforms. I still see that I have lots of traffic on my own blog here but it is sad how things are changing. Blog posts do take a LONG time to write, especially as I always choose to share my step by step process. So I will continue to do this for Visible Image and hopefully for STAMPlorations when Shery is well enough to restart her challenges, but this may well be my last blogged make for Country View Challenges. (I might pop in and out with occasional CVC makes if people really would like to see some process photos). 

Our current July challenge theme is "4 legged friends". As you well know my favourite 4 legged friend is my sweet Billy cat so of course I had to make another cat themed card!

 Your challenge make must have a pet, farm or wild animal with 4 legs....not 2 or 8! 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.

 This time I used the Visible Image Cheshire cat  stamp set

which also has co ordinating dies with the new Birthday wishes sentiment set to make a cat birthday card...of course!

This is what I got up to; I made a rainbow drippy background using distress oxide sprays.

I stamped the sentiments and the background star from the Birthday wishes set.

Then I stamped the cat and fish bones. I used the co ordinating dies for the fish but and coloured and fussy cut the cat. I added glossy accents to the cat's eyes (of course!)

I put my design together, matting onto red card and then a square white card blank. 

Here is my finished card;

with a close up

and 1 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 July challenge here;

Have a brilliant summer. You will still find me creating most days over on Instagram here; @jane.tyrrell . 

**************EDIT 21/9/23 I am very sorry to say that Country View crafts is NOT having a stall at the Bedford show. But plans are in place for me to demo again in 2024 at Ally Pally. Keep an eye on the socials!****************** Before I go; a little early heads up that I will be demoing all things Distress ink and Visible Image again for Country View Crafts at the Stamperama Show in Bedford on Sunday 22nd October. It was a fab show last year...here are a couple of photos of me in action. If you are planning on coming do stop by..I will be hosting a little give away as always. 

Do let me know if you're still out there on Blogger and what your thoughts are about the challenge changes. 

Also I realise that I rarely do any "personal" posts on what is going on with family/holidays, my gardening etc? Is there still an interest for that? My blog is 13 years old on the 26th of July and I do enjoy reading my old posts and just wonder whether to continue to do a few more personal ones i.e not just for my design teams? Do leave a comment here if you would still like to see what is happening in Jane's Journal behind the scenes. Thanks so much for all your support over the years. It's been an incredible journey!

Bye for now,

Jane x