Another male birthday card for Country View Challenges

Hello this is my 2nd make for March for Country View challenges. The theme for this month is to make a masculine birthday card. You can enter a maximum of 5 times and into a maximum of 10 challenges, including ours. As always there is a fab £20 voucher up for grabs for one lucky randomly selected winner to spend on the website.  You can find all the details of the challenge and more examples made by my talented teamies here.

  Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website UK postage is FREE on orders over £20.00 I have added some live links within my post to take you to some of the products I used.

For this card I decided to use the Visible Image Ride the wind set

with the birthday sentiment from You're a classic (not in stock at the moment but it is on order. If you message CVC Susan can tell you when they are in)

 I also used the brilliant Off the grid stencil. 

This is what I got up to; I used a piece of inky mop up card from my stash and placed the off the grid stencil over it. I moved the stencil around and added various distress inks including lumberjack plaid through different parts of it. 

until I was happy with the background,

I then stamped the bike and skid mark from Ride the wind onto the background and stamped the bike again onto white card. This 2nd image I coloured and cut out.

I then stuck the coloured image on top. 

I stamped the sentiment above the bike.

I also stamped the birthday sentiment from You're a classic (out of stock at the moment) onto white card. I then matted everything up and stuck it to a white square card blank.

Here is my finished card,

with a close up,

and one final shot.

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with the challenge this month? Once again here you can find all the details for our March challenge here. 

Bye for now,

Jane x

Time for cocktails and the new March Visible image release

 I am excited today to be blogging my first design team make with the brand new Visible Image March release. There are three fab new A6 stamp sets with coordinating dies and six A7 sets. Pre orders opened on the website on Friday for worldwide release on Friday 24th March. You can see them all here.

I am sharing my first make with the awesome new "Cocktails and dreams " stamp set. And yes if you're not a fussy cutter you can purchase the co ordinating dies here.

 I am so delighted to see this set added to the Visible Image drinks cabinet. There are so many fun stamps in the set...3 different glasses to choose from, no less than 6 fruit elements, a straw, cocktail umbrella and an ice cube. There are coordinating dies for all of these...a real game changer for those people who dislike fussy cutting. I love fussy cutting but these dies really do speed everything up.

This is what I got up to; I sprayed a rainbow of distress oxide sprays across a piece of white card, adding some water and allowing the inks to drip down. I then I left it to dry. 

I stamped and die cut all 3 glasses, the umbrella, some of the fruit, a straw, some ice cubes and coloured them all with distress pencils. 

I stamped the sentiment in black versafine and clear embossed, adding part onto a piece of white card which I cut out and the rest underneath, directly on the background.

While I was making this card I also made up lots of other cocktails for other cards. This is such fun to do. I added glossy accents to the glasses. Some fruits I stamped directly and others I used the dies.It's also fun to cut into the lemon slice and "sit" it on the rims of the glasses. 

I added the umbrella to the middle glass and I slice of lemon to finish off my card. 

Here is my finished card

with a close up

and 1 final shot

Cocktails anyone? 

All the Visible Image links are listed below;

The Visible Image Group page is over on Facebook. Our friendly 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.  We celebrated a whole year of swapping in May 2022. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Over 115 members, worldwide, have taken part since it started. 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. So the next sign up, for April, opens on 23rd March, if you would like to join us.  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 where I will be sharing lots more of new samples than I have the time to blog. Do pop on over to see what I got up to.

I had an awesome time demoing all things Visible Image at Ally Pally this weekend...here are a couple of photos. Thanks to everyone who stopped by, it was so lovely to meet you. 

Saturday before the doors opened;

Sunday first thing

The Craftermath at the end of the day on Sunday and yes I did colour a Happy Bunny in green, blue and orange!!

The next show  I will be demoing for Country View Crafts at will be the Stamperama show Bedford on Sunday 22nd October and I'll be bringing all my Visible Image goodies to demo with distress inks and pencils and more!

Remember that you can pre order the new release here NOW for release on 24th March. 

Bye for now,

Jane x

Daffodils for St David's day and Mother's day

 Hello all and welcome to my fortnightly blogged design team make for Visible Image. Their new February release has really taken the crafting world by storm and shhhh there is more to come later in March 😀

Mother's day in the UK is on 19th March and as today is St David's day I thought it would work perfectly to share a step by step of my Mother's day sample I made using the gorgeous Golden daffodils set 

with an aperture made using the Broken mesh layering die. 

Right from the first day I designed some samples using the gorgeous layering dies I discovered that the apertures left when die cutting the shape are as useful as the die cuts themselves. I have shared lots of makes over the last year using all 3 of them. 

This is what I got up to;

 I used the Broken mesh die to cut an aperture in a piece of 4 3/4 by 6 3/4" turquoise card.

I stamped the sentiment at the bottom in black and clear heat embossed.

I found a piece of left over Brushos card from my stash

and stamped the daffodils .

I lined this up behind the aperture and cut to size.

I repeat stamped just the daffodil heads and the single daffodil in the set onto some yellow inky mop up card and cut them out, adding some gold pen detailing and glossy accents. You can see this in the final photos. 

I stuck the heads over the stamped ones and added 3 single daffodils, 1 at the top and 2 at the bottom of the card. I added some gold sequins as a finishing touch.

I then adhered the finished panel to a 5X7" white card blank. 

Here is my finished card

with a couple of close ups

and 1 final shot;

All the Visible Image links are listed below;

The Visible Image Group page is over on Facebook. Our friendly 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.  We celebrated a whole year of swapping in May 2022. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Over 115 members, worldwide, have taken part since it started. 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 if you would like to join us.  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 where I share many more samples than I have the time to blog.

Finally a little heads up before I go that in 11days time I am delighted be demoing all things Visible Image again for Country View Crafts, one of Visible Image's UK stockists. We will be at the Crafterama "Crafting at Ally Pally show" at Alexandra Palace in London. If you came last March it would be so lovely to see you again. If not why not put the date in your diary? The show is running the weekend of Saturday and Sunday 11th and 12th March. We had such fun last year.  I will have all the new release with me plus more. Susan will have a fab stock of Visible Image stamps, stencils and the layering dies on the stand.  

Here is a photo from last year's show;

I have made badges again from artist trading coins...this time using the Golden daffodils set with That lovin' feline...look out for me wearing this one!

I will be offering a little crafting giveaway again. Someone will win one of my artist trading coins in a randomly selected draw, so do stop by and say hello.

Bye for now

Jane x