Hello everybody Tracy here. It's time to reveal the Winner and the Pinworthies for the Monochromatic Challenge (July 2016) hosted by me last month. Thank you to all those who played along - as always there were so many fantastic entries, and we enjoyed visiting all of them. Before we reveal our winners though, we're delighted to welcome our winning Guest, the wonderful Kerstin of Scrapbook Dreams. She's created an amazing project for our Stencil It theme, so let's hand over to her to share all the details. _____________________________ Welcome everyone! It's an honour to be invited here and I'm very happy about this. Kerstin here and I have been creating for many years now, always in search of new techniques and yet unexplored territory. I'm a girl with a big vintage heart and love the things that are old and nobody wants anymore, because they have a history. My big passion are colours, textures and all the things which I find interesting and exciting to try it. I love to tell stories with all of my projects. This month the challenge theme is Stencil it, yes, I love it, because a theme with so many opportunities. I decided to make a mixed media project in industrial style, a new home decoration piece. I used 3 several stencils - Rays, Children and the words. Before it was a letter block set, made of cardboard. On the basis of white gesso I used some acrylic paints diluted with water and crackle paste + texture paste for altered effects. For the children stencil black acrylic paint and added a script stamp with white inkpad over the stencils. some details I hope you like my inspiration for this beautiful month theme! Thank you very much Happy crafting! Kerstin _____________________________ Thank you so much, Kerstin - what a fantastic creation! Now, without further ado, here is the randomly selected winner of the voucher sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique... That's Sara Emily of 'sarascloset' with this fabulous monochromatic seahorse artwork. Do follow the link to take a closer look. Congratulations, Sara! Your badge and voucher will be with you shortly, and we hope you will join us as a Guest Designer here in the months to come. _____________________________ And now for the Pinworthies, selected by myself and the Creative Guides. Here they are, in no particular order... Remya Sreekanth We all loved Remya's fantastic journal pages Rupa S Rupa created a lovely piece from a packaging box Irena Stefanova Irena created a fabulous Nautical Shadow Box _____________________________ Fantastic work all round, congratulations. Your badges will be on their way to you shortly, along with an invitation to join us as guests here at A Vintage Journey soon. Thank you again to all who played along. We hope you're enjoying Amanda's Stencil It Challenge this month and that you are inspired by our Travel Bag - there are already some amazing entries, and we're looking forward to seeing lots more. See you somewhere along the road! Tracy and the Creative Guides x