It's spooky season at Country View Challenges

 Hello everyone, it's time for my first blogged design team make for our October Country View Crafts challenge hosted over on Facebook. 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 350 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 or brands which are stocked on the Country View Website.

The theme for October is "Halloween" so we would like to see all your spooky makes. I love Halloween crafting and each year make 6 Halloween tags to add to the little Halloween gifts I give to my kids and grandkids.

Obviously my go to products to reach for are from my Tim Holtz stash. This man has so many amazing products to choose from and CVC stocks loads.

This is my first tag

and this is how it came together.

I used my fab Tim Holtz 3D wings Impresslit to create some spooky wings for one of my Paper dolls. I used black card and added some distress crayons . My paper doll  from an old pack but there are plenty of solo Paper dolls available on the CVC website here. 

I made my background using the Acorns texture fade. Again I used black card and distress crayons then I splattered on some distress mica sprays for some added bling and interest.

I also stamped out a pumpkin, a sentiment and an old Tim spider die cut and put everything together, Here is my finished tag again. 

with a couple of close ups 

and 1 final shot.

I hope I might have inspired you to give our October "Halloween" challenge a go. There is a fab prize up for grabs too for one randomly selected and you can enter up to 5 times!

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 will be back to share my 2nd design team make for the challenge on Saturday 26th October. 

I would also like to give you a heads up that my 2024 Inky cardmaking Christmas workshop at Dotty's Teahouse in Carshalton, Surrey will be held on 2 dates this year; Thursday 21st and repeated on 28th November, 7.30-10pm. The cost is £30 which includes my tuition, workshop notes, all materials, a take home bag and a hot drink and festive bake. Bookings are open NOW. This is the link to Dotty's website. This is the 3rd year I have hosted  these workshops, they are such festive fun! Please feel free to contact me via Instagram messenger. 

Bye for now,

Jane x

Nature inspiration for Visible Image

Hi everyone and welcome to my latest design team make for Visible Image. The theme for our makes this week is "nature". I recently returned from our annual holiday to Rhodes and during our stay witnessed some amazing sunsets. One night in particular it looked as though the sky was on fire and I decided that when I got home I would use it as inspiration for one of my card makes.

This was the stunning scene I photographed as we enjoyed one of our al fresco evening meals.

Photo 1

and this is the card I made

Photo 2

I used the following products

Bubbles and fizz stencil set for my "sun" as a stencil and mask

and the Stay wild stamp set

This is how I created my fiery sunset;

Photo 3

I pulled the photo up from my phone and chose these distress inks to re create the sky. I used black soot, scorched timber, crackling campfire, carved pumpkin and mustard seed

Photo 4

I placed the circle mask from the stencil (you get this included in the bubbles and fizz set) over the top of a piece of 15cm square smooth white card as shown below

Starting with the lightest colour (mustard seed) I used a round ink blending tool to blend each of the colours around the circle mask. I then removed the mask.

Photo 5

I placed the circle stencil where the mask had been and added a little mustard seed ink. 

Photo 6

By using the combination of the mask and stencil I could achieve a white "glow" around the sun to really make it pop. 

Photo 7

I then cut the background down to a 14cm square and stamped the horse with Nocture Versafine Clair ink and clear heat embossed it.

 Photo 8

I stamped and white heat embossed the sentiment onto black card and placed it at the bottom right of the card. I also stamped 2 of the little horses and used the "splash" of the horse to stamp as an edge to the sun, which you can see in the finished card. I matted onto black card and then affixed to a white 15.5cm square card blank. 

Here is my finished card again.

Photo 9

I am always inspired by mother nature but I was so pleased that by making this card I was able to bring back a memory of a sunset meal on our recent wonderful sunshine holiday. You could also make something similar to my card in your scrap book or journal to save as a holiday memory.

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. 

 I also organize a monthly artist trading card swap in the group. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Over 150 members, worldwide, have taken part since it started over 3 years ago. It's been such fun and it's so lovely to receive a unique piece of art from your partner in the post. The details and sign up for each swap are posted in the group on the 23rd of the month. There is no "monthly" commitment, just join in when you have the time and if you live in the UK can you choose to post to the UK only if that suits you best.

The main Visible Image Facebook business page 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

My design team journey continues with Visible Image

 Good morning and welcome to my latest design team make for Visible Image. There have been some recent exciting changes in the way we will be inspiring you with their gorgeous products. I will continue to be on their regular creative team and will be sharing my makes every 2 weeks, still on a Wednesday. However one make in 3 will be a "social media" share only over on Instagram. So it is really important to check me out and follow me over there if you would like to continue to see all of my fortnightly Visible Image makes. You will find my Instagram account here  or search for @jane.tyrrell. 

There are now 6 of us designers on the Inspiration DesignTeam. Projects will be shared on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays every week.  So plenty of fab content to be inspired by. Each week will also have a theme so this should add to your viewing delight.

So this is the first of my design team inspiration posts in this new format and the theme for this week is "positive affirmations".  Now there are so many wonderful stamps in the Visible Image catalogue which have sentiments which are positive affirmations, either as part of an image set or as stand alone sentiments sets.  I have always love the sun from the "Rise and shine" set and have made many cards with it in the past. This time I decided to pair it with one of the new mini stencils and one of the positive affirmation sentiments from the Look forward with hope set. 

This is the card I made;

 

using the following products;

The sunshine stencil

which is one of the 18 fab new mini stencils;

 the rise and shine stamp set 

and a very positive affirmation sentiment from the Look forward with hope sentiments stamp set. I also used the fab cloud stamp in this set. 

This is how I made my card;

I chose a piece of bright inky mop up card from my distress ink stash and cut it down for a slimline card. 

I placed the Sunshine stencil near the top and using a mix of these 2 distress inks blended them through the stencil.

I then stamped the large Rise and shine sun into the centre using Versafine Clair nocturne ink and clear embossed. I made a "Border" all around the edges of the card using the "rays" of the stencil and Carved pumpkin distress ink.  

I randomly stamped the clouds using Morning mist Versafine and stamped the sentiment at the bottom of the card in the same way as the sun stamp.  

For some finishing touches I added some white gel and glitter pen details to the sun. Then I matted onto cerise card  finally onto a white slimline card blank. 

Here is a close up showing the details. 

and 1 final shot

This type of card is perfect to send to someone just to say that you are thinking of them. You don't need an occasion or a reason. When they receive it you can be sure you will have put a smile on their face.

 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. 

 I also organize a monthly artist trading card swap in the group. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Over 150 members, worldwide, have taken part since it started over 3 years ago. It's been such fun and it's so lovely to receive a unique piece of art from your partner in the post. The details and sign up for each swap are posted in the group on the 23rd of the month. The October sign up is open now and the theme is "Black and white". If you would like to join us do head on over and do so by this Friday (27th September) when it will close. There is no "monthly" commitment, just join in when you have the time and if you live in the UK can you choose to post to the UK only if that suits you best.

The main Visible Image Facebook business page 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 

Pinterest here

and their website is here 

You will also find me on Instagram here; @jane.tyrrell most days, where I share many, many more makes than I have the time to blog. 

Back soon.

Bye for now

Jane x