Crafty Adventurista: Mad Hares and Rabbits for Country View Crafts Challenges

Hello there,

It’s a new month and that means my first DT project has landed. What a cool theme Rachel has picked for March - Mad March Hare or Rabbit.

I thought I’d make a bookmark as they’re always very handy for that extra little gift and are so very nice when they’ve been handmade, and as Mother’s Day is coming up soon, this would be lovely to give with a book to Mum.

Also, Easter is coming soon too, so why not make some bunny bookmarks to give as a different Easter gift?

This is the prize for March

We’ve got a fabulous prize as always at Country View Crafts, to give away for entering the Challenge here on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/164920247712393

You'll need to join the group to be able to participate. The Challenges are open world wide as Country View Crafts do ship overseas too.

You’ve got until the end of the month to join in and can enter up to 5 times with different makes using products that are stocked by Country View Crafts.

First, I assembled the products I was going to use.

So how did I do my inky backgrounds you ask?

To start, I cut a piece of heavy watercolour card stock 2 1/4 inch x 8 inch.

First I dabbed Squeezed Lemonade Distress ink pad onto my very stained and battered craft mat. Hey, it's OK, it still works. I squeezed water onto this and smooshed it around with my finger, then randomly dabbed my bookmark card into it.

I let it almost dry and thenI repeated this with the Salty Ocean Distress ink pad - this time I spritzed the actual card with water afterwards to blend the colours a bit, and dabbed the overly wet parts with a kitchen towel.

I repeated this process with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink Pad.

Once dry I sprayed some water into my hand and 'flicked' it onto the bookmark, let it stick for a few seconds, then dabbed off with the kitchen towel.

Now I was ready to decorate...

I stenciled white acrylic paint through the AALL and CREATE triangle stencil and then lightly pressed the black text randomly onto it.

Then I stamped the Lavinia Moon and Lupin stamps where I felt they should be.

I did contemplate stamping these onto separate cardstock too, colouring in, in more natural colours and then sticking on top but I quite liked how the background showed through so I left it like this.

I chose a sentiment from the Tim Holtz Ideaology Smalltalk sticker book and added this, and then went over it all with Tim Holtz Distress Micro Glaze to seal it. You may have a laminator and wish to laminate it instead.

Finally I punched a hole in the top middle and found some scraps of ribbon I had in my stash to add to it.

And that's all there is to it :-)