A blue sparkly start to Christmas

Hello I am back to share some more photos from our Disneyland Paris trip. The Christmas decorations  were so pretty and the theme seemed to be blue. Daisy loved them.

The tree was en-nor-mouse

and the Christmas parade made everyone smile

The evening parade was just as spectacular

I decided to use blue as the colour for my card today...a Christmas card. I used 3 distress ink blues and a mask for a moon 

and I created a moonlit snowy scene with a deep blue sky

I die cut some trees and embossed them in silver

and made this card

My card was created for these challenges

 The Funkie Junkie 12 tags of Christmas #9

If you would like to play along with Linda's challenge you can see all the rules here. There are some great prizes for the winners too. The challenge is generously sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique Linda shares a tag each week and you just have to take something from it and make something Christmas themed. I have always chosen to make cards and it's a great way to make 12 very unique cards for Christmas.

You can also combine it with any other challenges...so that is just what I did.

This is her card for week 9 here. I took the deep blue sky and the embossed trees and deer to use for some of the inspiration in my design.

Pixie's snippets playground #309/10

Dies R Us 3/3 snow

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge 2/3 #361

Allsorts  3/3 Inspired by winter song/carol Mine is In the bleak mid winter

Sweet stampin  2/3 fave Christmas colours I love using blue for Christmas

Crimbo Crackers 2/3 #146

Noor winter

Simon says Wednesday 2/5 anything goes

Thanks for stopping by and for your kind comments. I am back tomorrow as yes we have reached the 1st of December and I have not 1 but 2 design team posts!

See you tomorrow,

Bye for now,

Jane x

STAMPlorations stencils blog hop

Hello and if you are a first time visitor here to Jane's Journal a very warm welcome. Today I am taking part in the STAMPlorations new stencils blog hop.

This is to celebrate the release of 8 brand new stencils by Sanna Lippert Designs. 

You can see these fab new stencils here

There will be 2 winners, randomly selected from comments left on all the participating designers.

One person win a $20 gift voucher to spend at the web site shop

Two winners can select their 3 fave stencils from the new range.

All the details for the hop are here 

I chose to work with Senicio 1

and Christmas trees 1

and I have made 2 cards today to showcase these awesome new stencils.

First up is my card using Senicio

 I used black card and Candied apple distress oxide ink through the stencil

sprinkled on some embossing powder and heated

 and got this cool effect

 I used it as a background for the card below using the Trendy birds 2 stamp set

here is a close up of the background

For my second card I brayered a Christmas plaid background using paints

and then added glitter pastes through the stencil.

A sentiment from the Christmas reindeer completed a simple Christmas card to show off this awesome stencil.

I would like to enter my card (or both if appropriate) into the following challenges;

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes
Winter wonderland 1/3 red and green
Fashionable stamping nature
Rudolph days challenge November

Remember that the more designers you visit and leave comments for the more you increase your chances of being a lucky winner! Commenting for the hop closes on 4 December. 

The link once more is  here ..good luck!

Thanks so much for stopping by to see what I made. It's beginning to look lot like Christmas...I spotted these beauties recently  in the shops...it's nearly time to get our Christmas tree..Billy is practising his typing skills 😼

 As an extra bonus there is a whopping 40% off all products EXCEPT the new releases, on the website until tomorrow. Check it out here just use the code BIGTHANKS at the checkout.
However you can still use my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at the checkout to get 20% off anything!

If you are taking part in the hop remember to leave a comment on as many participating blogs as possible to increase your chances of winning. Good luck!

Back soon,

Bye for now

Jane x

Your eyes are the window to your soul

Good morning. If you are just visiting to see my card this post is very photo heavy so just scroll to the bottom. However if you would like to have a little feast for your eyes read on... 

We saw so many wonderful sights at Disneyland Paris last week. There is just so much detail there and everything is fresh, clean and inspiring. 

Even the entrance just filled us with joy. What is there not to love about this....

 and yes just look at the colour of that sky!

What was wonderful was seeing Disney through the eyes of our darling 4 year old granddaughter Daisy. We took our our children to Disney in the 1990s and early noughties but they were older and I don't think we stepped into Fantasy Land. With our Daisy though, this was where we spent a lot of our time. 

 Most days we walked through the castle to Fantasy land. Upstairs is the most beautiful Sleeping Beauty story told in stained glass windows.

 One day we even went to lunch with 4 Princesses...but those photos are for another day 😊

 Today is my weekly Design Team inspiration for Visible Image. This week I chose to use another of the fab older sentiments which works perfectly for my post today.

Window to your soul

This stamp has such a unique typeface. I have often used the "eye" as a partner for this stamp but I decided I wanted to showcase this great sentiment all by itself.

I had the idea to stamp the sentiment on clear acetate "window" and then create a very textured starry sky.

This is my Distress Oxide starry sky

 To add some sparkly stars I used sparkle medium through the 

cosmic skies  stencil.

 I used a clear based one as the inks soak into the medium and take up a wonderful glow...

I made my "window" and used little star brads in each corner to attach my sentiment.

Here is my finished card. 

In real life it has a very textured sparkle, just like the sky at night twinking.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges.

Pile it on 2/3 large sentiments

Craty catz #394 anything goes

Cute card Thursday stars

Everybody art 1/3 anything goes

Retro Rubber #76 anything goes I have had this stamp since the Ally Pally stamp show Sept 2016

Dream Valley 1/3 add texture

All the Visible Image links can be found here;

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group can be found here ...it would be lovely to see you. You can add work to the "Show and Tell" album where one randomly chosen winner each month wins a £25 coupon to spend on the website.The November challenge is also up and running where the winner can win a £40 coupon! Our theme for the month is "tags". There as just a few more days left to enter.

The main Visible Image Facebook page is here; there are weekly stamp giveaways...open world wide!

And the shop web site is here; where all these gorgeous stamps and stencils can be purchased. 

You can also follow via:

 Pinterest

Twitter

 Instagram

Your eyes really are the windows to your soul and on that trip our souls soured with total joy. Being with Daisy for those 5 days was wonderful. Her eyes saw things in such a unique childlike way which we found magical. I will share some more photos soon.

Thanks so much for stopping by and for the lovely comments you take the time to leave me.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Disney's Winter Wonderland

It's 25th November which means that it's exactly 1 month until Christmas. I have been a little awol this week...with good reason...I've been in Disneyland Paris! My Hb and I took darling Daisy on a 5 day trip. It was am-az-zing and the whole resort was decked out for Christmas. It truly was Winter Wonderland.

I have over 300 photos to sort through and I will share some posts but today here are just a couple..

On Main Street it even snows! My card today just had to feature snow. We were so lucky with the weather, 2 days with crisp blue skies and the rest of the time was dry!
 I  took some Broken China oxide and built u p some layers on some watercolour card which I then embossed using a snowy folder.

I  dry brushed on some gesso which brought out the pretty snowflake pattern

I die cut some Tim Holtz snowflakes and then added more gesso and glitter and stamped his great retro Merry Christmas sentiment.

I then put on my creative hat to make my card

My card was made for the following challenges;

 The Funkie Junkie 12 tags of Christmas #8
If you would like to play along with Linda's challenge you can see all the rules here. There are some great prizes for the winners too. The challenge is generously sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique Linda shares a tag each week and you just have to take something from it and make something Christmas themed. I have always chosen to make cards and it's a great way to make 12 very unique cards for Christmas.
You can also combine it with any other challenges...so that is just what I did.
This is her card for week 8 here. I took the snowflake embossed background, the large die cut snowflake and flag style sentiment to use for some of the inspiration in my design.

Dies R Us 2/3 snow

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge 1/3 #361

Allsorts 1/3 Inspired by winter song/carol Mine is In the bleak mid winter

Sweet stampin  fave Christmas colours I love using blues with kraft

Crimbo Crackers 1/3 #146

Noor winter

Card Mania 5/5 anything goes



Thanks for stopping by and for taking the time to leave your very kind comments.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x