Crafty Adventurista: April 2026

Thursday, 23 April 2026

April DT Project 2 for Country View Crafts and Challenges - Easter - bunnies, chicks, eggs

Hello friends,

We’re in full swing in April with our Easter themed challenge (think bunnies, chicks, eggs) as chosen by our lovely team member Christine, and I’m here with my second DT project to inspire you for our challenge for Country View Crafts and Challenges on Facebook.

The challenge is open worldwide and you can join the group here where you will find information on how to enter:

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

You must use products from brands that Country View Crafts stocks and please list them in your entry. You can enter 5 times each month with different projects. We’ve got a fabulous £20 prize voucher that one randomly selected winner will win this month.

So I decided to make a card with the lovely bunny from Kate Crane Paperartsy stamp set KC019 as my main focus and I used the quote from the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous CMS049 Nature’s Discovery.

First I prepared the background (I made two) using Ranger Distress Mini Inks: Twisted Citron, Worn Lipstick, Wild Honey, which I blended using the Tim Holtz Ranger blender.

I placed my Kate Crane Stencil PS503 on the background and rubbed through it with a baby wipe to ‘lift’ the ink. It’s interesting to compare the two ‘lifts’ from the first to the second. Obviously the first one was wetter and made the card I was using swell under it more, giving a raised effect.

Next I stamped my bunny and the cute little bird from the same set, in Archival Black Soot and coloured these in using Ranger Distress Watercolor Pencils. I then fussy cut these out. (I cut the whiskers off the bunny and the legs from the bird).

I stamped my quote directly onto the background using Ranger Archival Black Soot Ink, lined up where I wanted my bunny and bird to go and stamped these onto the background too.

I layered the background card onto black cardstock to give it a border and then placed this onto my Kraft card substrate.

Finally I placed the cut out images and glued these over the stamped images.

And here’s my finished cards.

I hope you’ll maybe try this for yourself and be inspired to enter our challenge on Facebook.

Thanks for stopping by my blog.

Hugs

Carol xx

You can find the products I used here:

(If anything is out of stock you can always contact Brenda at Country View Crafts to see if she can order it in for you, and she ships overseas too).

Kate Crane Paperartsy Stamp Set KC019

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/paperartsy---kate-crane-stamp-set-019-a5-on-ez-182911-p.asp

Kate Crane Paperartsy Stenci PS503

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/paperartsy---kate-crane-pa-stencil-503-182921-p.asp

Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Nature’s Discovery CMS049

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/cms049-tim-holtz-cling-mounted-stamp-set---natures-discovery-178516-p.asp

Ranger Distress Mini Ink Pads

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/distress-mini-ink-pads-859-c.asp

Ranger Archival Jet Black

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

Ranger Distress Watercolor Pencils

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/watercolor-pencils-1598-c.asp

Ranger Blending Tool

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/ranger-inkssentials-tim-holtz-mini-ink-blending-tool---1-inch-round-2-tools-30474-p.asp

Thursday, 9 April 2026

April DT Project 1 for Country View Crafts and Challenges

Hello all,

Here we are in April and I’m popping in with my first DT project to inspire you for our challenge for Country View Crafts and Challenges on Facebook with the theme ‘Easter’ as chosen by our lovely team member Christine.

(Think Bunnies, Easter Eggs, Chicks etc).

The challenge is open worldwide and you can join the group here where you will find information on how to enter:

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

I do hope you’re all keeping well. Well, we’ve just had Easter, so bunnies and Easter eggs may have been in the minds for many of us. They were for me.

I decided to alter a children’s hard page book with a view to completing a full book eventually. This is the start.

First I covered the page with torn pieces of book pages and glued these down. I then gave a watered down coating of Finnabair Heavy Gesso in white.

Using Dina Wakley turquoise paint with a Tim Holtz Stencil, I blended through the stencil in a couple of areas. I used the stencil from Tim Holtz Clear Stamps and Stencil Noteworthy, Blossom and Polkadot thmm113.

Holding the stamp from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Botanic Collage CMS447 in my hand, I then gently pressed the stamp down using the bottom part text only of the butterfly, in the background, using Ranger Archival Pebble Beach.

For the zigzag stiching around the edges I used the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Spring Sprung CMS084 stamped in Ranger Archival Black Soot.

I stamped some Winter Teasels from the Alison Bomber EAB43 Winter Teasels set in the background with the Ranger Archival Black Soot and I stamped the words ‘Sunrise, the beauty of the shadow’ from this set too.

I added a postage stamp from Tim Holtz Idea-ology Postage Sticker Book and stamped over this with a ‘franking’ stamp from Crafty by Toni.

So now my background was complete, I stamped my bunny from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Spring Sprung CMS084 in the area that I had left for him to be placed.

I then painted him with Dina Wakley paints: cheddar, turquoise, white and magenta and added a bit of glossy accents to his eye.

I cut out three small hearts from pink painted canvas and placed these beside him, and using three flowers from my stash I layered these beside him too.

To finish I added a sentiment from the Tim Holtz Small Talk Sticker Book.

And here’s my completed Easter project 1.