Guest Designer at Country View Crafts Challenge

Good morning folks, Monday morning already!! Its a very exciting day for me as I'm over the moon to be joining the talented team at Country View Challenges and a Guest Designer for their 'Nautical Challenge'. If you've got time,do pop over and have a look as the team always have some amazing inspiration!

For my project I made the base using mountboard (I'd seen them on C&C and decided to have a go at making my own) and created some texture with a Crafters Workshop woodgrain stencil and Maimeri Light modelling paste. I added some colour with acrylic paints, distress stains and added some coffee for a bit more depth here and there.

The focal scene was made using stamps from Chocolate Baroque stamped on kraft card painted with gesso. I've coloured the scene with Derwent Coloursoft pencilsand then tore the edges.

I stamped the sentiment and seagulls in the sky using stamps from Crafty Individuals and layered the scene up over some cheesecloth and some netting. Next came more stamping,with a selection of postcards and seaside images from Crafty Individuals stamped on coffee misted card and popped under the right hand side of the scene. I added the lovely bathing belle (also from Crafty Individuals) and coloured with Graph'It Markers to the left hand side of the scene.

To finish off I've added lots of little shells

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Creative knockouts: outdoors

Deep Ocean: Vintage

Sentimental Sundays: a touch of vintage

Treasured Times: Anything goes

Wags'n'Whiskers: for the girls

Thanks for popping by today, hope to see you again soon
Claire xx

Scrap 365 meets Premium Craft Brand for blog hopping fun

Good morning my lovelies, its a very exciting day for me today as its not only the first day of my week of work (yippppeeeeeee) but us lucky girlies at Premium Craft Brands PanPastel DT are joining in with the talented team from Scrap365 Magazine Blog for a very colourful blog hop!

Premium Craft Brands have donated a fantastic set of Donna Downey Pan Pastels for the lucky winner of our Blog Hop prize draw :)

To take part in the blog hop you need to follow the trail of our blogs (below) to see all the amazing creations from everyone - we have some wonderful layouts and projects for you which will blow you away! Make sure you visit each blog and leave a comment so we know you've visited and you will go in the draw for that wonderful set of Donna Downey Pan Pastels which is worth £41.95!!! 

The random winner will be chosen from all the comments by Ali from Scrap365 and will be announced 20th March at 5pm on the Scrap365 blog and the Pan Pastel blog.

The challenge was to go crazy with colour and we began by picking out a colour palette from a fab site called Design Seeds, here's my pick and I began by matching up the colours with PanPastels

It was only when I actually began my project that I realised I'd picked a colour palette with red orange purple and lime green! Eeeeeeeeeeeek! Not only that but I'd never made a scrapbook layout before either, double eeeeeeeeeeeek! Anyway I can never resist a challenge so I got to work with my PanPastels and Maimeri mediums and had soooooooo much fun lol.

I printed the pics (of my gorgeous fur babies Benji and Barney) on printable canvas and cut them out with deckle edged scissors. I used Violet Tint and Paynes Grey PanPastel to create the background, stamping with a honeycomb stamp and white gesso. Next I added lots of texture with Maimeri Light Modelling paste using a Palette knife, stencil and more stamping (although it doesn't show up too well in the pic)

The flowers and leaves are all stamps from Chocolate Baroque, I coloured the cardstock with PanPastels and sealed with hairspray before stamping the images with white embossing powder and cutting them out. I curled the petals and shaped the leaves and then set to layering them all up. I added buttons and bakers twine from my stash and then came lots of pretty little laser cut butterflies from Dutch Doobadoo 

I stamped the words at the top left corner and then used some scraps of card to create the bunting with the word 'colour'. To finish off I used some Dutch Doobadoo card arrows painted with white gesso. Hope you like my very colourful layout lol!!

So, now you need to click on the link here and go to the Scrap365 blog and Ali's post HERE 

or if you've just come from there then your next stop on the blog hop is Natalie's Blog so hop on over and check out her gorgeous project!

Here is the list you need to follow just in case you get lost along the way:

Scrap365 and Ali's post - HERE! ..... http://scrap365.blogspot.com/

Nikky Hall -  http://nikkyhall.com/

Riikka Kovasin -  http://paperiliitin.blogspot.co.uk/

Lou Sims -  http://lulucardmaking.blogspot.com/

Sandra Przbylska -  http://sandrap2206.blogspot.co.uk/

Tracy Easson -   http://queeniesscrapmad.blogspot.co.uk/

Lisa Saunders -  http://scrappyfairies.blogspot.co.uk/

Terry Wietma-Girbes -  http://www.cardscreativity.blogspot.co.uk/

Tracee Provis -  http://stresstickled.blogspot.co.uk/

Claire Chapman -  http://clairescraftycreations.blogspot.co.uk/

Natalie Macdonald -  http://njmacs.blogspot.co.uk/

RETURN to Scrap365 to leave a comment for the prize draw :) -  http://scrap365.blogspot.com/

I'm entering this in the following challenges:
Corrosive Challenge: animals
Fab'n'Funky: animals (no people)
Scrapping  for fun: flowers
Use your Stuff: animals

Have fun hopping and all the very best of luck, someone is going to be in for a real treat with all those gorgeous PanPastels!! We'll be back with a new challenge at Premium Craft Brands PanPastel Challenge next Sunday!

Claire xx