Celebrating Country View Crafts 100

Good morning I am back with my 2nd design team make for our special 100th challenge over at Country View Challenges. 

The theme for this month is to use one of our design team makes for inspiration and make something which also includes the number 100 in some way.  Please tell us who's make you used for your inspiration. You could be inspired by a colour way, stamps, theme dies etc one of us have use. You could ever CASE one of our makes if you want to. If it is not obvious what inspiration you used please can you clarify your entry with a short explanation. All the details are here.

I first met Susan, the owner of Country View, in person, at one of the Workshops she used to host in a fab village hall in Flitwick in  Bedfordshire. I was able to take a direct train from London there and it really was the most delightful of days out. It is also where I met my dear friend Brenda who taught at the workshops and who I still regularly meet as she lives not too far away. We have a mutual love of gardening and crafting and have so much in common. Brenda herself was one of the original cast of CV challenges. We had such good times at the Flitwick workshops and I made some gorgeous vintage things with her including this canvas;

and this tag memory book.

 I must have attended several the years until the hall sadly became unavailable to hire any longer. After that Susan used her own premises and until Covid intervened still held regular workshops. For me the drive there is long and congested especially round the M25 but I have been fortunate to still attend a couple. One of my absolute favourites was one where Tracey Easson of Just and girl and her Imagination stamps came to teach a workshop making a book. We had such a laugh, especially when the power went down as so many heat guns were drying tea soaked cloth that it tripped the electricity supply. Luckily very quickly power was restored and we carried on. Such fond memories.

So I decided to make a CVC 100 card using my favourite stamp set by Tracy called Whispering sweet nothings. I also wanted to use my newest distress ink bought from CVC, Salvaged Patina 

This is what I got up to;

 

Here is my finished card;

with a couple of close ups

and one final shot.

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

Simon says stamp Monday Inspired by an artist mine is the lovely and talented Tracy Easson.

Crafty catz anything goes

Cute card Thursday anything goes

Addicted to stamps and more make your mark

A bit more time to craft 1/3 anything goes

Happy little stampers watercolour anything goes

Thanks so much for stopping by, once again all the challenge details are here.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

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Stamps and 2 colours for STAMPlorations

 Hello again I am back with my 2nd post for June 1st and this time it is my design team make for STAMPlorations.

This is our fun theme and photo prompt for this month's challenge.

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You can enter up to a maximum of 3 entries. There are awesome prizes up for grabs; A $20 prize code for the winner, as well as $7 prize codes awarded to 3 randomly selected entries. Please remember to add our challenge logo to your post if you would like to be in with a chance of winning. Full details can be found here.

You can work with the theme, the photo prompt or both. 

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Always tea time

and 

happy everything

This is what I got up to;

I made a Brushos background and then stamped the cupcakes and tea cup. I also stamped the cup and saucer onto white card and cut it out.

I coloured the cupcakes with zig markers and added some "tea" in the cup.

I then matted up my card. Here it is;

with a close up

and one last shot.

 I hope I may have inspired you to join in with this month's challenge, which is open internationally. Once again the details are here.

Remember that if you order more than $15 of product from the website (after discounts and before shipping) and quote my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at checkout not only can you get 20% off your order you can also choose a product for FREE up to the value of $7! Here is a link to the website.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I will be back with my 2nd DT project on 15th of this month.

I would love to see you also over on Instagram where I share new creative makes nearly every day. This is my link/profile @jane.tyrrell

Sadly these days I just don't have the time to blog everything! 

Bye for now,

Jane x 

100 not out - Country View Challenges is celebrating!

 Today is so exciting as not only is it the 1st of June and summer is just around the corner but over at Country View Challenges we are celebrating our 100th challenge. Yes isn't that incredible! I joined the team 5 years ago at challenge number 38 which means I have posted 124 DT makes (2 each month!). 

For this special "100" month there are 2 parts to the challenge and 2 prizes. Firstly there is the usual theme to follow . The theme is to use any of the DTs makes as inspiration and to add the number 100 in your make. But also this month if you comment on the challenge blog and all the DTs blogs you will be entered into a draw for a second prize.  Please tell us which DT make you used. You can find all the details here

This was my first DT post here and a photo below of my very first design team make on 1st April 2016

So for my first make I decided to be inspired by my first design team make and use the same accordion die. I bought this die from Susan over at Country View Crafts about 6 years ago and it is how I "found" her and how our friendship started. She was one of the few UK stockist's of a really good range of Tim Holtz products and I am pleased to be a long time shopper on her website. 

Each part of my card also has a very personal "meaning for me" and I will try to explain each part of it. Tim Holtz has been my main inspiration for my crafting for over 10 years now. He never loses his enthusiasm for crafting and is so supportive of peoples' work. I had the pleasure of meeting him in person at a UK workshop 3 years ago. He is every bit as charming and enthusiastic in real life. One of life's very genuine crafters. He has no "hidden agenda" at all.   As I own every colour of the distress ink palette it seemed most appropriate that I used his newest colour, Salvaged Patina for my card.

First I made some backgrounds using the oxide and stain sprays. It is such a gorgeous colour, my new favourite. I used them to cut out my backgrounds. I used white card for the main base of the accordion card.

I also used Tim's newest numeral thinlets die to cut out the number 100.

I decided to use my Lady Rose stamp set to add some stamping to the panels as this is one of my all time favourites sets by Tim and I use it so much.

I have some very old clear stamps of Tim's I bought years ago and they had some very relevant sentiments in the right size too so I used 2 of these.

I used my "Billy" snarky cat as he just had to feature. I love these cat stamps. I gave him a little piece of flower die to hold too.  This stamp is so much like my own sweet gentle cat Billy.

I also love Tim's original wildflowers dies so I die cut some flowers and I also "had" to use my ladybird from his Entomology set as this is another of my favourite sets and I love ladybirds! I also used some other insects from this set which can be spotted in the final photos. 

I added some stamping and colour to the 100

Then it was time to put the panels together. 

Here is my finished card.

with some close ups.

and one final shot.

I really loved making this card. It will be one of those very rare makes that I made for me to keep.

All those memories wrapped up in one card.

If you want to use my card for your inspiration to join in our 100 challenge you could copy one of my panels, the colours I used, Billy the cat, the flowers, insects...the list is endless. Please remember to mention in your entry what you used for your inspiration if it is not obvious. 

I am back on Saturday, 5th June with my 2nd "100" make and for that one I was inspired by one of the workshops held by Susan. It was such a  hilarious time: we tripped the power by drying tea stained material with so many heat guns....and we listened to the chatter of lots of gorgeous mice..I kid you not!

If you made it to the end thank you. 

Remember that if you also leave a comment on the challenge blog, mine and the rest of the DTs blogs there is also a 2nd prize up for grabs! Once again the link is here.

I would love to see you also over on Instagram where I share new creative makes nearly every day. This is my link/profile @jane.tyrrell

Sadly these days I just don't have the time to blog everything! 

Bye for now,

Jane x