Crafty Adventurista: Make Me Smile - May DT Project 2 for CVC

Hello All,

Here I am today with my second Design Team project for May, for Country View Crafts and Challenges on Facebook. The theme this month is 'Make Me Smile'. You can find the challenge on here: 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 and brands that are stocked by Country View Crafts.

The prize for this month are 3 of the new Versafine Clair ink pads. These are fabulous quality ink pads and a good addition to your supplies, so you would definitely want to win these. One person will be selected as the winner by the random selector generator.

I thought I'd make a card this time, that could be given as a Birthday Card, Friendship Card or just a card to cheer someone up. I like the sentiment "too glam to give a damn" and that's exactly how it should be.

To start, I stamped Miss Dee by Janet Klein from AALL and Create #704 onto card with Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink, and coloured her with Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor pencils - I used colours from Sets 1, 2 and 3. I then fussy cut her out.

On a cotton cheescloth material I sprayed Distress Spray Stain and once dry, I stamped the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Crochet Trims with Ranger Jet Black Archival ink. I cut around the edges to make a 'scarf'.

On a 4.5x 4.5 inch card base, I masked the edge off and blended Seth Apter's Izink Ice through the Tim Holtz Layering Stencil Labels THS178, keeping it quite subtle and then sprinkled over some fine gold glitter while the ink was still wet. I love how translucent this is and how it has a fairly gloss look to it.

I layered the elements onto my decorated backing card, adding the 'scarf' with some Inkssentials Red Tape. I then stamped my chosen sentiment, added some glitter glue to Miss Dee's eyelids and also some Ranger Glossy Accents to her eyes. From my stash I added some tiny diamantes for the necklace, earrings and bag clasp, but you could also highlight these with Glossy Accents instead.

I layered this onto a black border (measuring 5x5 inch) and finally I added this to the main card substrate (measuring almost 6x6 inch - it's an A4 card folded in half lengthways and doesn't quite reach 6 inches when folded so I trim it up to be equal all the way around).

And here she is! The glamorous Miss Dee...

I hope you like this idea and might be inspired to try it out.
And don't forget to enter the Challenge on Facebook - there's still plenty of time.
You could be the lucky winner.

Thanks for taking a look at my blog.

Have a great day

hugs, Carol x

Products Used:

Miss Dee by Janet Klein AALL and Create #704
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/aall--create---a7-stamp-set-704---miss-dee-by-janet-klein-150019-p.asp

Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous CMS480 Crochet Trims
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/cms480-tim-holtz-cling-mounted-stamp-set---crochet-trims-173263-p.asp

Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-distress-watercolor-pencils-1598-c.asp

Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stains
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/ranger-tim-holtz-distress-spray-stains-696-c.asp

Tim Holtz Layering Stencil Labels THS178
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/ths178-stampers-anonymous-tim-holtz-layering-stencil---labels-173548-p.asp

Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/ranger-archival-ink-pad-jet-black---90mm-x-62mm-1609-p.asp

Izink - Ice by Seth Apter (mine was a lighter green but you could use this one too)
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/izink---ice-by-seth-apter---vert-menthe-frozen-peas-117650-p.asp

Inkssentials Redline Tape
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/ranger---inkssentials-redline-tape-and-sheets-14in-wonder-tape-39310-p.asp