Email Entries for Craft a Scene Garden Challenge

I've got a couple more email entries to share with you all today.

BarbG has posted with us in the past and she does amazing layered work.

DawnR posts regularly on our challenge and she wrote:

I've enjoyed mixing a selection of stamps to make my garden scene for this month's Craft A Scene challenge - I've called this entry "Over the Garden Fence".  I'd made the front of the card some time ago, using an Art
Impressions Front'n'Back stamp, together with their fence and cobbles*, but I wasn't sure what to put inside the card.  It needed to be something that could be seen over the fence, whilst also perhaps having something hidden to be revealed when the card was opened.  Then, when this month's challenge was announced, I looked through my stamps and came across the Winnie the Pooh set that I'd bought from a charity shop, which included this stamp of Pooh tenderly planting a flower, which I thought would be a great subject for the little girl to be looking at over the fence.  I added to the scene with plantpots from Lindsay Mason (Personal Impressions) and flowers from Clarity Stamp.  I made the mistake of stamping my sentiment (from Inkylicious) before I added the Clarity cherry blossom, so one of the branches is overhanging the words a little too far, but I hope it's still legible.

To begin with, I left my scene like that, but it needed something to the left of the plantpots - and then, this weekend, I bought a Papercraft Inspirations magazine that had a set of freebie stamps - including this
second little girl, who was ideal to go into that empty space.  I had to stamp her onto a separate piece of paper and cut her out to stick over the original scene, so that she could stand in front of the flower-pots.





(*  PS: I absolutely love that cobbles stamp from Art Impressions - and it was through the Craft a Scene challenges that I discovered it!  I saw it used by one of your Design Team, Brenda, way back in July 2012, and I just had to have it!)






Well, that's all for today.  Happy stamping!
NancyD

Craft a Scene - Make Your Own Garden - Final Week

This is our final week of the May "make your own garden" challenge. To help us celebrate the end of winter, our challenge this month is to create your own flower garden scene. 

We want to see lots of flowers in a garden scene and please don't forget that we are expecting your scene to be stamped (or digi) with background and foreground elements.

I have an email entry from Margaret:

Margaret from Huddersfield in Yorkshire here once again with my entry for the Garden Challenge.  

I created the background using a brayer, torn paper and Adirondack inks.  I used a variety of stamps, including Hobby Art and Clarity and used Distress inks  and a damp brush to add the colour.  The lady is from Clarity and I coloured her using Liquid Pearls to which I added a little water, then I cut her out and attached her over the stamped image to give dimension.

The wonderful and talented Craft a Scene design team has created cards to show what we mean by a garden scene.

Claire - Claire's Crafty Creations

Pia - Pippins Stampscapes

Dora - Dora's Craft Corner

Now it is your turn to "Make your own garden" project. You may enter up to 3 times and as many other challenges as you wish. If you do not have a blog or account on Split Coast Stampers, then just email me a picture of the piece and I will add it to one of our posts.  

If you are not sure what constitutes a scenic project, check out the information here.

Don't forget to add GDT to your link if you wish to be considered for a guest spot.

Have fun creating!

NancyD

Craft a Scene - Make Your Own Garden - Week 3

Here we are again for the Craft a Scene May "make your own garden" challenge.  To help us celebrate the end of winter, our challenge this month is to create your own flower garden scene. You can skip to mr. linky but will miss the great dt inspiration.

We want to see lots of flowers in a garden scene and please don't forget that we are expecting your scene to be stamped (or digi) with background and foreground elements.

The wonderful and talented Craft a Scene design team has created cards to show what we mean by a garden scene.

Maggie - Silver Crafter

Sue - Sue's Crafty Corner

Anna-Karin - Layers of Ink

Now it is your turn to "Make your own garden" project. You may enter up to 3 times and as many other challenges as you wish. If you do not have a blog or account on Split Coast Stampers, then just email me a picture of the piece and I will add it to one of our posts.  

If you are not sure what constitutes a scenic project, check out the information here.

Don't forget to add GDT to your link if you wish to be considered for a guest spot.

Have fun creating!

NancyD

Craft a Scene - Make Your Own Garden - Week 2

This is the second week of our May, Make Your Own Garden challenge. To help us celebrate the end of winter, our challenge this month is to create your own flower garden scene. 

We want to see lots of flowers in a garden scene and please don't forget that we are expecting your scene to be stamped (or digi) with background and foreground elements.

Have a look at what the wonderful and talented Craft a Scene design team has created for your inspiration.

Maggie - Silver Crafter

Rachel - Fisher's Cards and Crafts

Now it is your turn to "Make your own garden" project. You may enter up to 3 times and as many other challenges as you wish. If you do not have a blog or account on Split Coast Stampers, then just email me a picture of the piece and I will add it to one of our posts.  

If you are not sure what constitutes a scenic project, check out the information here.

Don't forget to add GDT to your link if you wish to be considered for a guest spot.

Have fun creating!

NancyD

Create Your Own Flower Garden - Craft a Scene Style

May is such a lovely month.  Everything is starting to bud and bloom which makes it finally look like Spring. To help us celebrate the end of winter, our challenge this month is to create your own flower garden scene. 

We want to see lots of flowers in a garden scene and please don't forget that we are expecting your scene to be stamped (or digi) with background and foreground elements.

The wonderful and talented Craft a Scene design team has created cards to show what we mean by a garden scene.

Anna-Karin - Layers of Ink

Claire - Claire's Crafty Creations

Pia - Pippins Stampscapes

Maggie - Silver Crafter

Rachel - Fisher's Cards and Crafts

Sue - Sue's Crafty Corner

Dora - Dora's Craft Corner

What a wonderful variety of garden scenes! Now it is your turn to "Make your own garden" project. You may enter up to 3 times and as many other challenges as you wish. If you do not have a blog or account on Split Coast Stampers, then just email me a picture of the piece and I will add it to one of our posts.  

If you are not sure what constitutes a scenic project, check out the information here.

Don't forget to add GDT to your link if you wish to be considered for a guest spot.

Have fun creating!

NancyD

An InLinkz Link-up

Craft a Scene Hills and Mountains Winners!

We had really wonderful "Hill and Mountain" scenes to enjoy this month.  We had a wonderful variety between linked projects and email (4 of them) projects.  It is always tough to choose the top 3!

I also find it difficult to limit myself to just three top entries as there are so many really wonderful scenic stampers who enter this challenge.  Be sure to take our badge to add to your blogs (if you have one). 

Here are the selections for the top three for April.

#3 - Karen

#11 - Scrap Affair

#12 - Carola

Beautiful cards everyone!  I will be back in a few moments with our next challenge.

NancyD

Hills and Mountains eMail Entries

I have two email entries to share with you for the Hills and Mountains challenge.  The first is from Jan P. You can find her on Split Coast Stampers under the name Janelli.

Our second entry is from Margaret in Yorkshire and she writes, "I created my card using a brayer and various Adirondack inks for the sky and foreground, adding a moon mask,  Then I used torn paper and the same inks to create the mountains and hills.  With Versafine onyx black I stamped the trees and small figures, and finished with eggplant ink and some Cut n Dry to sponge around the edges.  Dawn and I don’t have any Scene-scape stamps so we have to create all our scenes from scratch.  Hope you like the card."

****Updated*****

I just received two new cards from Dawn.

Stamped with HobbyArt stamps and coloured with watercolour pencils (except the window frame, which is Clarity coloured with promarkers).  The sheep have been given their fleeces courtesy of "fluffy stuff"!

Yes, we love both of these great entries!  Thank you ladies.

NancyD