Mid month reveal and our February winners ,,,

Welcome to our mid month reveal and the announcement of our February winners.

Before we get started I'd just like to offer a special tribute to Kirsty Lang who was a guest designer with us last year and who recently lost her courageous battle with cancer.  You were truly one of the beautiful people, Kirsty and we will miss your positive outlook on life and infectious laugh.  You left us way too soon.  Rest easy my friend.



We'd like to thank our main sponsors,  James from Alacraft and Julie from Time to Create for their generous support this year.

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Well the votes are in and I am happy to announce our Top 3 winners are ...

                           Kripa who has won a $25 gift voucher from Alacraft.  

Tone who has won a lovely prize from Time to Create.

Doreen who has won the Director's Prize.

and  Sweetscraps who is our random draw winner for February.

Could the winners please contact me at jjjustjane@bigpond.com with their postal details.  Don't forget to grab our winners badge from the sidebar. 

Our Design Team favourite as voted on by her peers is Leanne who will receive a little something from me.

and now for our second team reveal of the month ....

We are working from this amazing piece of art ...

Lyn Butchart - Bluebirds

Criteria - Texture

LESLEY

"When it comes to texture usually let my papers and flowers do the talking. But I thought I would challenge myself and create texture on my background paper. I used tissue paper, ribbon, lace, twine, metal embellies, hessian and felt to create the base. I then covered this in Gesso to meld it together then got creating with glimmermists, stamps and distress paints. I used the tarnished brass distress paint to colour the flowers and other bits in the cluster, linking it all together. This goes out to my good friend Kirsty xxooxx"

LEANNE

“When I look at this painting, I think of the freedom that birds have..and I thought of my chooks straight away!  They have never been let out of their yard, in case the dogs hurt them, but I have only just discovered that the dogs don’t bother them at all.  So I feel like they are now free and can scratch around in the backyard and do what chooks do!

Texture......YES that is pea straw from the garden and a small bit of gravel.  I have layered the leaves and and the flower stickers for more dimension and strips of blue tissue paper in the sky and that lovely cork bird, which I painted.  I really enjoyed doing this!


MAJA


On my layout I have tried to create the texture and depth by using different
materials, paints, stencils, some dry embossing and stamps.


TONE-LILL

"Bluebirds" by Lyn Butchart  really inspires me to "make a mess" and work with mixed medias.
I started with a flower patterned paper and made a few splodges with white acrylic paint , a bit of random  stamping, stencils and gesso. A layer of thin Sizoweb, some more gesso and spray ink, chicken wire die cuts corrugated cardboard and laces to create lots and lots of different texture with more gesso, acrylic paint and spray ink. 2 seagulls got a "new home" on the page as the Inspiration picture is all about birds :)


DI

I've taken a quirky approach to this month's challenge piece. I've used an A3 sized piece of heavy watercolour paper and painted the background with acrylics overlaid in sections with texture paste. I added details to make a scene, using the same materials.

Birds were stamped and coloured (look at my blog for the details). They were then beaded for added texture. I also used wool and die-cut cogs which were also embossed.


AUBRIE

This month I was really inspired first by the movement in the paint of the inspiration piece, and also the colors.  I decided that this hot glue technique would compliment that well.  Then, I added the little birds.  They are white tissue rolled between my fingers, cut and bent.  

JANE

I have used paint as my texture base and taken the bird aspect of the artwork to create my own bird scene.

Beautiful pages everyone !!

We'd love to see your interpretations of our inspiration this month.

 Remember we happily accept all forms of paper crafting for your entry including digital and encourage international submissions.  All we ask is that you create an new entry for our challenge although you are most welcome to combine with a sketch and/or colour challenge if you wish.  You have until 11.55pm on the last day of the month to submit your entry.

  

Next week we will be introducing you to our third guest designer of the year, Marie Johansson.