Afternoon tea anyone?

 Hi everyone, and welcome to my latest design team make for Visible Image. The theme for our makes this week is "friendship". 

My favourite beverage is tea and the blacker the better. There is nothing quite like catching up with my friends over a cuppa and indulging in a slice of cake with it, is even better.  I decided make a card using  the Afternoon tea set with the  Splash stencil. This stamp set is full of fun tea and cake themed images, there is even a fork and a tea bag. The sentiments it contains are delightful too. 

This is how I made it;

I cut a piece of smooth white card to a 5 1/4" square and blended salvaged patina, squeezed lemonade and worn lipstick distress inks onto it. Then I added some drips of water, blotted and dried the background with a heat gun (or you can leave it to air dry).

Using the Splash stencil I blended the same 3 inks through the stencil onto the background. 

This is how it looked after adding the extra inks. 

Once dry I stamped my design, for placement on the background. I used Versafine clair nocturne ink and clear heat embossed everything.

I stamped the teapot and cup again onto red card and the knife onto silver and cut them out.

The cake was stamped twice onto inky mop up card and cut out.

I cut out just the cake from the top image and stuck it over the "blue" cake. I added some glitter pen to create the "jam" and "cream".

I cut out the the fork too and added some white pen detailing to the cup, teapot and plate.

I then adhered these images over those on the background. 

I stamped the sentiments onto white card, cut around them.

and stuck them in place. 

I also added some stickles glitter glue to the cake icing for some extra sparkle. 

Here it is finished;

The above friendship card, for me, is worth the effort of the extra decoupaged detailing, but I also made this non decoupaged version below which I just coloured directly with watercolour pencils. So if you would like to make a quicker version you can. Simply stamp the background with the design I have shared and colour using your favourite medium. 

This is fun card to send to a friend who you might not have seen for a while and need to catch up with...over a cuppa! And of course a slice of cake would make that date extra special. 

All the Visible Image links are listed below;

 Our kind, friendly and supportive customer Facebook Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you join us.  You will be warmly welcomed and see lots of inspiration from the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. 

The main Visible Image Facebook business page is here

Their website is here

Visible Image also has its own You Tube channel here where you can see videos and Lives to give you lots of inspiration and ideas. 

Their Instagram page can be found here 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

A friendship card for the Country View Crafts February challenge

 Hi everyone, I am here today with my second design team make to hopefully inspire you to join our February challenge over in the Country View Crafts challenge group on Facebook. The theme this month is "Romance and friendship" You don't need a blog or an Instagram account, just head over to the group and join in with the fun! The link is Here and if you are not already a member just request to join and we will warmly welcome you. It is also be a place you can be the first to hear about workshops, the latest releases etc etc. We have a happy membership of over 370 crafters and we are growing every day. You can enter the challenges up to 5 times as you like as long as you use products from brands which are stocked on the Country View Website.

Today I have made a friendship card.

This is  how it came together, with some links to the the website for the products I used. I made a distress ink background using these colours.

Using the Visible Image A friend like you stamp set I stamped the sentiment and one of the flowers in the vase.

I stamped just the flower head again onto inky mop up card and cut it out.

Then I glued it in place adding some sequins too. 

I finished off the vase with Glossy accents to give a glassy dimension. 

Here is a close up when dry.

and one last shot of my finished card.

Remember you can find me most days over on Instagram Here @jane.tyrrell where I share many, many more makes then I have the time to blog.

I hope I may have inspired you to give our "romance and friendship" challenge a go. This fab prize up for grabs too for one randomly selected and you can enter up to 5 times!

Bye for now,

Jane x

Romance and friendship for Country View Crafts February challenge

 Hi everyone, I am here today with my first design team make to hopefully inspire you to join our February challenge. The theme this month is "Romance and friendship" You don't need a blog or an Instagram account, just head over to the group and join in with the fun! The link is Here and if you are not already a member just request to join and we will warmly welcome you. It is also be a place you can be the first to hear about workshops, the latest releases etc etc. We have a happy membership of over 370 crafters and we are growing every day. You can enter the challenges up to 5 times as you like as long as you use products from brands which are stocked on the Country View Website.

This is the card I made, a Valentine's day card.  I bought this sweet Andy Skinner stamp in the CVC advent sale. You can buy it here , it is such a cute image.

This is how my card came together.

I used the awesome Visible Image distressed brick stencil with these 2 distress inks. to make the background.

I stamped the robots onto a scrap of white card

I coloured with distress pencils and cut them out.

 

I stamped them again on the background, together with the sentiment.

I decoupaged it with the cut out image and also added a little distress pencil colouring to the background.  I also added some heart die cuts as finishing touches, 

Here is a close up

 And one final photo

Remember you can find me most days over on Instagram Here @jane.tyrrell where I share many, many more makes then I have the time to blog.

I hope I may have inspired you to give our "romance and friendship" challenge a go. This fab prize up for grabs too for one randomly selected and you can enter up to 5 times!

I will be back with my 2nd make on Sunday 9th February.

Bye for now,

Jane x