Wednesday, 23 April 2025

'You've Been Framed' - April DT Project 2 For Country View Crafts and Challenges

Hello there, 
 
I hope you all had a lovely Easter weekend. Did anyone go away for a short break?
 
If so, my second DT project for Country View Crafts and Challenges for our 'You’ve Been Framed' challenge may be just what you need to organise some of those photos you took.
 
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’s a fabulous prize for the random selected winner, so get your ‘frames’ out and get creative. 

So I got my thinking cap on - what could I do for this 'You’ve Been Framed' challenge? Well, how about a set of Polaroids of holiday snaps? They are frames after all as they frame the image. 

Digging through my Janet Klein AALL and Create stamps, I pulled out 3 of Janet’s Around The World Series stamps to use in my ‘holiday’ collection. 
 
Using a template from Google for the Polaroid frame, I printed it out, then cut out 3 frames from an A4 white gloss card. (There were 4 that I had in the PDF, always handy to have a spare in case of a mishap).
(**TIP - if printing onto the gloss card, print on the matt side of it, as some printers will smudge on the gloss, also when I cut it out, there's no lines showing.)


Next, I stamped the 3 images in Jet Black Archival Ink and then coloured them with Distress Watercolor Pencils and shaded with Faber Castell Polychromos Pencils.  
 
I also stamped some of the accompanying background stamps and coloured these as above too. 

I cut out white backing card to fit completely on the 3 Polaroid frames. 
Using Distress Inks, I smooshed out some colours, spritzed with water and used a wet brush to ‘wash’ these in place. I wanted a loose ‘watercolour’ looking background. 
For the first frame, for Janet Klein’s England girl, I stamped the buildings from the Visible Image ‘The Right Direction’ stamp,  in Jet Black Archival Ink. I wanted the background to show through the background image.

For my second frame, for Janet Klein’s Spain girl, I created the background, the same as before but using different colours this time and I stamped the chandelier from Visible Image ‘Hang In There’ stamp, in black Archival Ink. I also stamped a bit of ‘paving’ from the Visible Image Stamp 'Mesh-ellaneous'. 

For my third frame, for Janet Klein’s Canada girl, again I created the background watercolour wash using two different colours and then stamped the ‘ tree’ from Tracy Evans AALL and Create Woodland stamp. 
 
 
Then I assembled my main images and placed them in their respective frames on their backgrounds, using the template to line each one up and glued the gloss frame on top. 
 

In a journal, I created a background with the map stamp from Janet Klein AALL and Create #881, and randomly stamped the travel words from that set, across the page.
To finish the journal page, I die cut the word 'Adventure' in black, from a Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlits Die ‘Adventure’ 660212 and placed this on at the top of the left side page. I then added some travel ephemera from Janet Klein AALL and Create Let’s Go #14.
 
 
I then placed the 3 Polaroids on these two pages. Under each Polaroid I stamped the country. I also added some Glossy Accents to the eyes.

And here’s my finished project. 
 
 

You could make this with any images, photos etc and I hope I’ve inspired you to try this out. 
 
Thanks for looking at my blog. 
Hugs
Carol x 


Products used:
(you can always contact Susan at Country View Crafts if there's something out of stock, to see if she can get it in for you).
 
Janet Klein AALL and Create - England

Janet Klein AALL and Create - Spain

Janet Klein AALL and Create - Canada

Tracy Evans AALL and Create Woodland

Visible Image Hang In There

Visible Image The Right Direction 

Faber Castell Polychromos Pencils

Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils

Tim Holtz Distress Inks

Tim Holtz Gloss Card - Alcohol Ink Surfaces
(I used an A4 gloss card that I already had but this could be used too)
 
 
Glossy Accents 
 
Seawhite Journal
 
In place of the world map stamp and travel ephemera by Janet Klein AALL and Create, if you can't get/don't have this, you could use these instead, using the stamp in the background in B&W, and restamping on card to colour elements and cut out to place on the page.
and these:
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Monday, 7 April 2025

'Frames' April DT Project 1 For Country View Crafts and Challenges

Hello, 

Spring has Sprung - finally, and as it’ll soon be Easter, my make for my first DT project for Country View Crafts and Challenges encompasses that, whilst still adhering to the theme for this month’s challenge - ‘Frames’. 


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’s a fabulous prize for the random selected winner, so get your ‘frames’ out and get creative. 

I decided to make an Easter card for the other half, as it’s coming up soon. I used an old stamp set for the main Bunny and Butterfly images called Spring Sprung, Perspective and Love Notes.  
First I decided which frame I was going to use from Tim Holtz Idea-ology Montage Layer Frames pack to get an idea of colours. 

I stamped out the Bunny and Butterfly from the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Spring Sprung CMS084 in Jet Black Archival ink and then coloured these with Distress Watercolor Pencils and fussy cut these out. 
I covered the Butterfly with Versamark embossing ink and heat embossed with clear powder. 
For the Bunny I only added the Versamark embossing ink and powder to his jacket and eye. 
Next, using a stamping platform I placed the numbers stamp from the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Perspective CMS213 set and stamped this twice, one under the other, to form a rectangle, in VersaFine Clair Nocturne. 
I stamped a small heart from the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Love Notes CMS477 stamp set in Fired Brick, fussy cut this out and then heat embossed with Distress Glaze Crackling Campfire. 
 All that was left was to compose the card. I intentionally wanted it to look busy and 
I wanted the stamped background to be a frame outside the main frame. 

Then I wanted the Butterfly and Bunny to look like they’d escaped from the frame.  
I raised the Butterfly up on foam pads, and for a bit of fun I used a Mini Craft Wobblie for the Bunny to make him look like he’s running when ‘spun’. 

Finally I added some Idea-ology Typography to the bottom of the stamped text frame - ‘Bunny Love’ which I glued down with Distress Collage Medium.  

I will add a sentiment to the inside to complete the card for Easter. 
 
So, here’s my finished card. 
I hope you like it and will be inspired to join in our ‘Frames’ challenge on Facebook. 
Thank you for stopping by. 

Hugs
Carol xx


Products used:

Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Stamps
Spring Sprung
Perspective 
Love Notes

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Layer Frames Montage

Distress Watercolor Pencils

Distress Glaze - Crackling Campfire

Distress Ink Pad - Fired Brick

Distress Collage Medium

Archival Ink Jet Black Ink Pad

VersaFine Clair Ink Pad

Versamark Embossing Pad

WOW clear embossing powder




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