More autumn richness for Country View Crafts September challenge

 Hello everyone, it's time for my second blogged design team make for our September Country View Crafts challenge hosted over on Facebook. 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.

I am the host for this month and the theme I chose is "autumn richness". So I would like to see makes using the colours, images, leaves, animals etc of autumn.

My 2nd make is an autumn wreath birthday card made for my dear Dad's 92nd birthday on 26th September. 

I used Tim Holtz' Vault foliage wreath available here and a sentiment from his Floristry stamp set

This is how I made it.

I made a background using these distress inks.

I used the new vault foliage wreath set and die cut 2 wreaths using kraft and brown card. I stamped the happy birthday sentiment from the Floristry set onto a piece of white card. 

I love die cutting and cut out a whole load of foliage. I will have spares for extra cards.

I added the foliage to the wreath

and then die cut D A D using an old alphabet set in green and black card. 

I also die cut some hearts and added these too. I matted onto green card and then a square kraft card blank.

Here is my finished card again

plus a close up.

I hope I might have inspired you to join us? We have this awesome PaperArtsy stamp set and printed tissue prize up for grabs for one randomly selected entry.

You can enter up to 5 times too!

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.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Autumn richness for our September Country View crafts challenge

 Hello everyone, it's time for my first blogged design team make for our September Country View Crafts challenge hosted over on Facebook. 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 340 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.

I am delighted to be the host for the challenge for this month and I have chosen the theme "autumn richness" So I would like to see makes using the colours, images, leaves, animals etc of autumn. 

This is my make, a birthday card for my best friend who's special day is on Thursday. It was inspired by all the wonderful acorns I see ripening on the trees. To me this is always the first sign of autumn.

I used the gorgeous Acorn Tim Holtz 3d embossing folder available here. I coloured it with distress mica crayons and added some splashed of distress spritz.

This is how it came together;

First I embossed my piece of white card using the 3D folder. I coloured it with a mix of regular and mica distress crayons. 

Once finished I thought it looked a little bare so I got out my distress spritz

and flicked some over the background.

I stamped a sentiment from Tim's  Floristry stamp set and matted everything onto gold paper and then a white card blank. 

Here are a couple of close ups;

and 1 final shot.

I hope I might have inspired you to join us? We have this awesome PaperArtsy stamp set and printed tissue prize up for grabs for one randomly selected entry.

Remember that you can enter up to 5 times too!

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 will be back to share my 2nd design team make for the challenge on 17th September.

Bye for now,

Jane x