Wintery backgrounds for our January Country View Crafts challenge

 Hi everyone, today I am sharing my first design team make for our new challenge over in the Country View Crafts and challenges group on Facebook. The theme for January is "wintry scenes" 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 warmly welcome you. It is also be a place you can be the first to hear about workshops, the latest releases etc etc. We have a happy membership of over 350 crafters and we are growing every day. You can enter the challenges up to 5 times as you like as long as you use products or brands which are stocked on the Country View Website.

This is the first of my 2 DT makes for this month, a wintry background birthday card I made for my husband's January birthday.

I used Tim Holtz products for the background and colouring and Visible Image stamps. I will add some links to the products which are in stock on the website in this post. 

Here is my tutorial of how my card came together.

I first sprayed a wintry mix of distress mica stains (currently out of stock but Susan can order in if you email her) with lost shadow distress oxide spray  onto black card. 

I then die cut a Tim Holtz "moon" using his moonlight set. 

I added some dimension using lost shadow and pumice stone distress inks and then flicking on some water. 

I also die cut some wintry trees using an ancient die from my stash. Susan has a substitute wintry tree you could use here

I then stamped the Visible Image Night owl using Versafine Clair Nocturne and clear heat embossed. I fussy cut it out and coloured using distress pencils.

I stamped the birthday sentiment using the Visible Image Go to words set. 

Then I put my wintry scene together sticking everything down with Cosmic shimmer glue 

I added some Tim Holtz die cut gold stars as a finishing touch. 

Here is my finished card once more. 

with a final close up.

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

I hope I may have inspired you to give our "wintry scenes" challenge a go. There is a fab prize up for grabs too for one randomly selected and you can enter up to 5 times!

I will be back with my 2nd DT make on the 25th.

Bye for now,

Jane x