Dreams of sunshine birthdays with Visible Image

Good morning it's time for my fortnightly design team post for Visible Image. For today's make I was inspired by my upcoming "not going to happen big birthday plans". I have a big birthday coming up on Thursday and all the plans we made a few years ago have gone out of the window courtesy of Mr Corona.  

We had planned a celebratory trip and a lovely meal out .

This is a distant memory of a meal out in our beloved Rhodes 2 years ago. 

 but as that is not going to happen I created an imaginary "sunshine holiday" birthday on a canvas. A girl can still dream can't she?  Confused....well that's how my creative brain works. All will be revealed....

I worked with these sets;

the birthday sentiment from Lost for words

Random art of kindness

and the Count me in stencil

This is what I got up to;

I added drops of picked raspberry, squeezed lemonade and crackling campfire distress reinker to a rectangle of water colour card and added water using my distress sprayer. 

Once dry I added these distress inks through  the Count me in stencil

I also machine stitched around the edge of the card.

Next I created a circle frame for my flowers using 3 die cut scallop circle edges. 

I stamped the flowers from 

Random art of kindness onto inky mop up card and cut them out. I decoupaged the centers of the circular ones and adding glitter pen details to them all for extra sparkle.

I then glued them around the circle frame.

I stamped the birthday sentiment onto card and stitched a border. I also did this to a coloured card mat and stuck them together.

I glued this into the centre of the floral circle.

I made a corrugate card base for my canvas by adding a little red ink and then some embossing powders to it for extra detail and texture.

 I ripped off some of the covering and used a brush to add embossing ink to areas around the visible edges only. I sprinkled in the powders and heat embossed them from underneath.

Then I matted the finished canvas onto blue card, adhered it to the base and added sprinkle of sequins to finish.

Job done....

Here it is...you might need sun glasses!

with some close ups showing the details.

and one last shot of my Calypso birthday canvas.

I would like to enter my canvas into the following challenges;

The house that stamps built 1/3 anything goes

Fab n funky 1/3 flowers

 All the Visible Image links are listed below

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you there. You will see lots of gorgeous makes by the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. 

The main Visible Image Facebook page is here; there are regular giveaways...open world wide. Do check out the Facebook LIVES and videos where you will be able to see lots more samples and ideas. 

Their Instagram page can be found here 

Pinterest here

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

This is the link to the new release. 

 If you would like to follow me on Instagram where I share all my makes, this is the link to my account.

 My Hb and I will obviously not be donning our sunglasses on Thursday and lapping up the sunshine in a tropical hideaway. We will still enjoy a little celebration at home ....and a bottle of champagne is going in the fridge to chill.

The only upside of all this is we that don't have to share it with anyone!!!! Cheers! 

I will be back here on my birthday, as of course being the first of the month I also have my other 2 DT's hats to put on. Time and tide eh!!

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Butterfly silhouettes for Country View

 Hello friends, I am back today with my 2nd design team make for our current "Silhouettes" challenge over at Country View. So we would like you to share projects where the focus is a silhouette image. The perfect stamps for me to use are of course Visible Image as many of their stamps are silhouettes. Susan has a good stock of their stamps here. If any are out of stock just add your email address and you will be notified when they are back in.

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.

This is what I got up to;

I made a background using the gorgeous Visible Image entwined butterflies stencil and a rainbow of distress inks

I stamped the words from the So much stronger sentiment set

and the lovely silhouette butterflies from Live life now which I clear embossed.

 I then added the little butterflies stamping with grey versafine clair

Here is my finished card 

and one last shot

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

Crafters Castle 3/3 anything goes 

Lil patch of crafting friends 2/3 anything goes

Addicted to stamps and more 1/3 make your mark

Creative moments 1/3 anything goes

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our "silhouettes" challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

You can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with other challenges. There is also a £20 crafting voucher up for grabs to the lucky randomly selected winner to spend over on the Country View Crafts on line store. Remember that UK postage and packing from CVC is free on all orders over £7.50! Once again all the details for the March challenge can be found here.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Bye for now

Jane x

More stamps and numbers in March for STAMPlorations

 Hello this is my 2nd blog post today and it's time for some more inspiration for our March theme and photo prompt challenge over at STAMPlorations.  

I have affiliate links in my STAMP posts which simply means that if you click on any of the live links here and buy something from the STAMP store I will receive a small commission at no cost whatsoever to you 😊  I also have a special code you can use; If you order more than $15 of product from the website (after discounts and before shipping) and quote my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at the checkout you can get 20% off your order on top of any other savings offered!  I also have a very special extra treat if you use my special code with any orders, details are at the end of this post.

You can enter up to a maximum of 3 entries. There are awesome prizes up for grabs; A $20 prize code for the winner, as well as $7 prize codes awarded to 3 randomly selected entries. Please remember to add our challenge logo to your post if you would like to be in with a chance of winning. Full details can be found here.

You can work with the theme, the photo prompt or both as I always love to do. 

I worked with the following awesome products and have added live links to them in my post. Remember if you also use my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at the check out you can get an additional 20% off on top of any existing discounts! Shery ships internationally at very low cost too.

It's a girl thing sunshine, stamp set for the birds and nesting tags die set

 dies and the awesome slimline stencil leaf prints 4. (Do check out Shery's slimline stencils here she has some great designs in her store)

This is what I got up to;

I used the slimline stencil leaf prints 4 and sprayed it with frayed burlap distress stain spray. I used this to print onto a piece of watercolour card, cut it down and matted it onto gold card.

I die cut  some gold birds using for the birds die

I added some stamping using It's a girl thing sunshine, and made a tag using a tag from the nesting tags die set. I added some extra colour using worn lipstick distress ink. Finally I added some die cut numbers.

Here is my finished make;

with a couple of close ups,

and one final shot.

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with the challenge, which is open internationally. Once again the details are here.

Remember that if you order more than $15 of product from the website (after discounts and before shipping) and quote my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at checkout not only can you get 20% off your order. My little extra treat is that if you do this you can also choose a product for FREE up to the value of $7! Here is a link to the website.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Bye for now,

Jane x 

Zips and safely pins for Visible Image

Hello I have 2 posts up today. This morning I am back with my usual fortnightly design team post for Visible Image.   Pre orders are open on the website and the worldwide release date is this Friday March 19. There are 6 fab new stamp sets in this release. Last week with my extra post I share my punk rocker rocker card. If you missed it you can see it here. 

Today I am using the same set but this time I have made a wall hanging/canvas. . When I think of the punk fashions I first think of safely pins and zips so I decided to get out my trusty sewing machine and incorporate these in a fun canvas.

First I made a background using a mix of acrylic and Lindy's sparkle sprays.

 I cut  it apart and removed some of the pieces. I replaced these pieces with the same sized pieces of black card and stitched them back together to make my background.  

I also stitched in a zip and yes it actually opens!

I used my Refuse normal stamp set

I stamped the words onto lime green card and "grunged" them using black distress ink and my distress tool and then added a safely pin.

I stamped the punk in Versafine black onyx and clear embossed her. I coloured her with Zig watercolour pens adding a little pencil shading too. The cross earring was coloured using silver gel pen. I then cut her out.

Then it was time to assemble everything.

Here is my finished canvas.

with some close ups;

and one final shot.

I would like to enter my canvas into the following challenges;

Crafters Castle 2/3 anything goes 

Crafty catz 1/3 anything goes

Creative artiste 2/3 anything goes 

Creative fingers 2/3 anything goes 

Allsorts 1/3 add a stamped image

Lil patch of crafting friends 1/3 anything goes

 All the Visible Image links are listed below

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you there. You will see lots of gorgeous makes by the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. 

The main Visible Image Facebook page is here; there are regular giveaways...open world wide. Do check out the Facebook LIVES and videos where you will be able to see lots more samples and ideas. 

Their Instagram page can be found here 

Pinterest here

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

This is the link to the new release. 

There will be lots more makes shared in the coming weeks using this fab new release so do check out the website and social media. If you would like to follow me on Instagram where I share all my makes, this is the link to my account. Visible Image will also be back on your Create and Craft TV screens next week on 23 March at noon (UK) and you will spot some of my samples there too. 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

I'm back again this afternoon with my 2nd post of the day.

Bye for now,

Jane x