February, the love month

Good morning and welcome to February, the love month 💓 and the last month before spring arrives.

As it is the first of the month it is time for my first design team project for Country View Challenges. This month the theme is splatters, splashes and drips.

 So we would like to see all your inky/painty splattered creations and one lucky randomly selected entry will receive a £20 gift code to spent on the website. 

All the details can be found here.

For my first project this is what I got up to;
 I sprayed hickory smoke and picked raspberry oxide inks onto my watercolour paper. Then I added a little gold spritz of gold spray.
I used stamps from 2 of the super cute Tracey Easson Star gazer sets; Morty Bottoms and Betsy Bottoms
When my background was dry I stamped the Believe moon and gold embossed it and also stamped Morty in black Versafine which I clear embossed.

I coloured him in with Zig real colour watercolour markers. I paper pieced the moon and stamped the words out and cut some of them out.

Here he is..such a gorgeous image. I liked the way the oxides still show through him. 

Here is my finished card.

I would like to link it up with the following challenges;

Simon says Monday all loved up
Simon says Wednesday anything goes
Crafty catz 1/3 anything goes
Uniko 1/3 anything goes

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

You can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with other challenges. There is also a £20 crafting voucher up for grabs to the lucky randomly selected winner to spend over on the Country View Crafts on line store. Remember that UK postage and packing is absolutely FREE! Once again all the details for the February challenge can be found here.

I will be back with some more inspiration for CVC on Wednesday with another splashy/inky card...which could not be more different!

Bye for now,

Jane x

Wisley Gardens in winter

I haven't had a chance to share the photos from my recent visit to Wisley Gardens so I thought today would be the perfect time. 

I love catching up with my dear blogging friend Brenda as we share a real love of gardening and so enjoy our seasonal visits to Wisley Gardens in Surrey. Our latest visit was in January and I must admit I thought there would not little colour around. How delighted I was to be so wrong. There were lovely colours everywhere.

Outside we saw the Witch hazel in bloom

 and this amazing tree, not sure of its name though.

Early daffs were in bloom

and even iris were poking up out of the undergrowth.

In the green houses the colours were so vibrant and the flower shapes so unusual.

So all these lovely colours inspired my latest Valentine's card which is heading down to Dotty's Tea House today.
I used some vibrant distress inks and the stamps are by Visible Image. I die cut some hearts and finished off with some sequins.

A couple of close ups.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

The crafty addicts 1/3 anything goes
Double D 1/3 hearts
Creative inspirations 1/3 with love
Addicted to stamps and more 1/3 make your mark

As you like it 2/3 fave shape or fold and why Mine is a 7X5" card blanks as these are so much easier to display than square ones at Dotty's Tea House where I sell my cards.
Stamping sensations 2/3 all things bright and beautiful
We love to create 2/3 anything goes mixed media
Lil patch of crafting friends 2/3 anything goes
Crafters castle 2/3 anything goes
Penny black and More 2/3 anything goes with the option of tags
Fashionable stamping 2/3 anything goes

Thanks for stopping by and for your very kind and supportive comments you have been leaving me, they are really appreciated.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x