More "Time" inspiration for Country View Challenges

 Hello I am back with my 2nd design team make for Country View Challenges.  The theme for this month is of course "Time" so let's see all your time related makes...clocks, words etc 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 is what I got up to. As we are fast approaching Valentine's Day I decided to make a love time themed card. I have a very treasured and long discontinued  weathered clock Tim Holtz die which I used for my first project. If you missed it you can find it here. I decided to use another from my stash called Time Keeper with a Visible Image stamp set which has the perfect sentiments and heart for love themed projects called Have I told you.  Susan hasn't got "Have I told you" set in stock at the moment but you can order it from her if you just send an email. I also used the sentiment with the awesome time swirl stamp from their Ahead of our time stamp set .

 Susan hasn't got "Have I told you" set in stock at the moment but you can order it from her if you just send an email. 

I used my lumberjack plaid and iced spruce distress sprays to create my background.

I also had a piece of inky mop up card to which I added some gold mica stain spray to give it some sparkle and used this to die cut the clock face.

I stamped the Visible Image sentiment in the centre using the die cut for placing. 

I stamped the time swirl from their Ahead of our time stamp set and added the hearts which are also in the "Have I told you" sentiment set. 

I die cut the clock hands in black and attached them with a white heart brad for a little extra detail. I then matted it onto black card and adhered to a square white card blank.

Here is my finished card

with a couple of close ups;

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 January challenge  here.

 You will also find me on Instagram here; @jane.tyrrell where I share many more creative makes than I have the time to blog.

 Back soon, 

Bye for now,

Jane x

A Country View robin merry Christmas to you

Hello I am back with my 2nd design team make for Country View Challenges.  The theme for this month is of course Christmas so let's see all your festive 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.

This is my last DT post for Country View for 2022 and I thought I would use one of my favourite stamp sets from this year, which is the Visible Image Christmas robin set.

 It's been so popular that it is now out of stock but will be restocked soon.

This is what I got up to;

I stamped all 3 robins, coloured them and cut them out minus their legs.

I stamped and cut out 5 of the holly leaves images and coloured those too.

I stamped the branch around the card to make a frame and added some dots of colour using the "snow" stamp in the set with distress oxides...a very useful stamp!

I stamped the sentiment from "Sentimental Christmas" in the centre

I stamped the large robin in his place to give him his legs back!

and then added the coloured cut out one on top. I glued the holly in place, tucking the other robins behind. For a finishing touch I added some Stickles glitter glue and white pen details. Here is my finished make

with a couple of close ups

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 December challenge  here.  Enjoy all your Christmas prep and the festivities of my very favourite time of the year. 

 Country View challenges will return on 1st January. See you on the other side! 

Bye for now,

Jane x

Christmas is coming with Country View challenges

Welcome to December and incredibly the last Country View challenge of 2022. Wow how quickly did this year fly by? The theme for this month is of course Christmas so let's see all your festive 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.

I obviously need to make a LOT of Christmas cards both for myself and for selling at Dotty's so I am sharing Visible Image stamps Christmas card.

I used the text from the  Distressed Christmas set 

with Let it snow 

and 2 sentiments from the Go to Christmas set

 (which is out of stock at the moment but if you email Susan she can get them in for you).

This is what I got up to; I stamped the text in gold ink and when dry white embossed the snowflakes onto black card.

I gold embossed the words onto vellum.

and then tore them into strips and inked the edges. 

To attach them to the card I folded the ends around the back.

I added a few stars and matted onto gold card and then a card blank. Here is my finished make;

with a couple of close ups;

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 December challenge  here. I will be back on the 17th with my final Christmas DT make for 2022. Enjoy all your Christmas prep and the festivities of my very favourite time of the year. 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x