Autumn magic for Country View Challenges

Hello I am back with my 2nd design team inspiration make for our current "Autumn magic"  challenge over in the new Country View Crafts Challenge Facebook group.  The monthly challenges are now being hosted over on Facebook as it makes it easier for everyone who wants to enter, to do so. You don't need a blog or an Instagram account, just head over to the group and join in with the fun! The link is here and if you are not already a member just request to join and we will love to welcome you over there. It will also be a place you can see Country View Craft products, the latest releases etc etc. We have a happy membership of over 200 crafters already and we are growing every day.

The theme for our October challenge is "Autumn magic". So we would like to see leaves, autumn colours, mushrooms etc etc on your entries. You can make anything you like. You need to use products or brands stocked on the website. You can enter up to 5 different projects. There is an amazing Christmas Tim Holtz stamp set up for grabs for the randomly selected winner. You really don't want to miss out on this! As always the challenges are open internationally.

 I have added some live links to the Country View Crafts website where you can purchase some of the products I have used. If any items are out of stock just hit the email request button. 

For today's make I used the gorgeous Visible Image Night owl set available on the website here

with the Branch out stencil available here

This is what I got up to;

I used one of my inky backgrounds from my stash and cut to a 5 1/4" square. I place the stencil over to the left

and using gathered twigs distress ink blended it through the stencil using a blending foam tool. 

I stamped the owl and moon from the Night owl set and the sentiment and stars from the Birthday wishes set (not in stock yet on the CVC website but it's coming!)

Using distress crayons I water coloured the owl. Susan has all the sets in stock over at CVC here

I added some die cut stars as a finishing touch. I matted it onto blue glitter card and then a white 5 3/4" card blank. Here is my finished card;

with a couple of close ups

and 1 final shot;

I really hope that I may have inspired you to join in with the "autumn magic" fun. Do head over to the challenge now being hosted on Facebook here. I have decided that for now I will continue to blog my makes so that I can share some process photos. If this is something you find helpful please do let me know. However I will keep an eye on how many people come over to see them. If there are not many I might stop writing up the posts, as they do take me a lot of time. 

Remember you can find me most days over on Instagram here @jane.tyrrell where I do share many, many more makes then I have the time to blog. 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x