Monday, 24 February 2025

Romance & Friendship February DT Project 2 For Country View Crafts and Challenges

Hello All, 

I’m back again with my second DT project for February in the theme of Romance and Friendship, for Country View Crafts and Challenges on Facebook. 


The challenge runs until the end of the month and is open worldwide - you can join the group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/164920247712393


You must use products from brands that Country View Crafts stocks, and please mention them in your post. You can enter 5 times each month with different projects and one winner will be selected randomly.

There is a fabulous prize of a Pink Ink Design stamp set and also a stamp set from Phil Martin Sentimentally Yours - two sets in this prize!! 


I’ve made a friendship (birthday) card this time using AALL and Create Janet Klein Heart Needs stamps and Tim Holtz Sizzix Vault Side Order Love Notes. I decided to make my card rectangle 5x7 inch size.
 
 
I stamped my girl from the Heart Needs set with Archival Ink and coloured with Distress Watercolor pencils, added a few white Posca pen lines and dots for highlights, and then fussy cut her out.  I also stamped the sentiment and cut this out too. 

I cut to size, with my Tim Holtz deckle trimmer, a printed background card from AALL and Create and then using Distress Inks: Spun Sugar, Saltwater Taffy and Frayed Burlap, I added some colour to it. 
 

 
Using the same colours in Distress sprays and also a little Walnut Stain, I sprayed a small piece of watercolor card and finished with a spray of Distress Spritz Saltwater Taffy. 
 

I then ran it through my Sidekick using the embossing folder from Tim Holtz Sizzix Vault Side Order Love Notes, tore this into strips between the hearts and positioned them on the background card. 
 

 

Then it was a matter of just putting it all together. I laid out the sentiment on the front and drew a line between the words to make it look like it was hanging. I also added some glossy accents to her eyes. 

And here is the finished card. My friend was very happy with it. :-)
 
 
I hope you like what I've made and maybe will give it a try yourself.
Thanks for stopping by my blog.
Hugs
Carol xx
 

Products used:

AALL and Create Janet Klein Heart Needs Stamps

AALL and Create Collection - I used the background card from the #12 set. 

Tim Holtz Sizzix Vault Side Order Love Notes

Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stains

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Tim Holtz Distress Spritz

Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils

Ranger Archival Ink Jet Black

Glossy Accents
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/ranger-inkssentials-glossy-accents-59ml-2-fl-oz-4799-p.asp
 
Tim Holtz Tonic Deckle Edge Trimmer

 

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Tuesday, 11 February 2025

Romance & Friendship DT Project 1 For Country View Crafts and Challenges

Happy February 💘!! 

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching it’s time for my first DT project for Country View Crafts and Challenges on Facebook. 


The challenge theme for this month is ‘Romance and Friendship’ and runs until the end of the month.  

The challenge is open worldwide and you can join the group here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/164920247712393


You must use products from brands that Country View Crafts stocks, and please mention them in your post.

You can enter 5 times each month with different projects and one winner will be selected randomly.

There is a fabulous prize of a Pink Ink Design stamp set and also a stamp set from Phil Martin Sentimentally Yours - two sets in this prize!!  


Because it’s traditionally the month of ‘amor’ and I have to make something special for the ‘other half’, I decided to show you what I made - it’s a little tag book of ‘love’ quotes. 


First I prepared these half tags from Dina Wakley Media by painting them on both sides with Dina’s paints and sprays. I used Raspberry, Fuchsia and Carnation. And then a light ‘wash’ of Gilt spray on top.  

 

I also painted some strips of bookbinding tape with the same colour paints minus the gilt spray. Once the tape was dry, I cut it in half lengthways and proceeded to tape together the tags, with the holes lined up on the right side. I finished with one tape strip going from the front to the back to cover the spine. 

 

 


I then decorated the tags using Tim Holtz Sparkle stencil (I used Fuchsia but I think I’d picked up my Archival black blending foam so it’s a darker colour than intended 😂) and also used stamps from the Tim Holtz Love Notes Stampers Anonymous set. I used a brayer to brayer over Carnation onto a heart stamp.  I randomly stamped some small hearts in black Versafine Clair Nocturne ink. 

 

Using a white Posca pen I did some Scribbly writing on the tag pages. 


Next to prepare my focal points. 

I stamped out images in Versafine Clair Nocturne,  from Tim Holtz Love Notes Stampers Anonymous set and Curiosity Shop onto white cartridge paper. 

I kept these black and white purposely and then fussy cut them out. 

 

On a small piece of watercolour card, I brayered some fuchsia and then hand cut out some little hearts. 


I pulled out my Dina Wakley Typed Ledgers Set 1 and chose quotes that were ‘love’ related. I cut these out ready to use. 


Then it was a matter of assembling all the elements onto the tag pages. 

I knew I wanted the typewriter on the front, so that was already spoken for. 

I built up each tag page, with a piece of Tim Holtz Collage paper, a stamped image and the quote. Sometimes I used my Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher to clip the image to the collage paper, and then glued these down. 

I then added the small cut out hearts to the different pages. 


And finally! All the pages were complete!!

I found a piece of fuchsia sari silk and used this to thread through all the tag holes and tied a nice large bow to close the book. 


And here it is!! I hope you like it (I hope he does too 😂). 

 

 



 

Thank you for taking the time to check out my blog and I hope you’ll be inspired to try this out for yourself and maybe enter into this month’s challenge over on Facebook. 


Have a great day

Hugs

Carol x 


Products used:


Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Love Notes  CMS477

Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Curiosity Shop CMS482

Tim Holtz stencils 

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Collage Paper

Dina Wakley Paint and Sprays 

 


Dina Wakley Typed Ledgers 1

Stix 2 Book Binding Tape

Versafine Clair Noctune




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