Sending a Visible Image postcard with love

 Hi there, it's time for my fortnightly blogged design team make for Visible Image.

I can also announce the news that Mark Alexander aka Mr Visible Image is back on Create and Craft TV this Thursday at 12.45pm UK time. Mark will have some fab new samples to demo and there will be lots of samples on the set from my teamies and myself. 

Today I am sharing a postcard. These are fun to make and even swap and measure 6" x 4", the size of a UK standard postcard. The stamps I used are all on the show. I worked with the love sentiment from

Equality, hope and love

and the gorgeous roses and barbed wire stamps from

Forever love

This is what I got up to;

I used a piece of shaving foam marbled card I made with my granddaughter using distress reinkers and sprays. This is a really old crafting technique (I did it as a child with food colouring) and there are lots of on line instructions and videos. I cut it to 6x4"

I stamped and embossed the love sentiment from  Equality, hope and love and then stamped the barbed wire using archival ink onto the left side. These would be my flower stalks.

and then the right.

I stamped several of the roses from  Forever love  (I only ended up using a few) onto red card using black ink and clear embossed them. I also cut out some of the centres of some more of the large roses to use for decoupaging.

I stamped and embossed the large rose onto the postcard using red embossing glitter

then I adhered the large rose. I decoupaged it with a couple of extra layers of petals. I added a small rose at the top of each barbed wire plant stalks. I finished off with some dewdrops of Glossy accents for extra shine, drippage (is that a word?!?) and dimension. 

Here is my finished postcard

with a close up of the decoupaged dewy rose

and a couple more photos. 

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, many more than I get the time to blog,  this is the link to my account.

Remember to that you can see everything on Create and Craft on Thursday or set those recorders and catch up later.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Celebrating Jack's 4th birthday virtually

Yes it's been a long time since I shared a non design team blog post but today is a special day! My sweet grandson Jack is 4 today and this is sadly the 2nd time that I have not been able to make him a cake and celebrate his birthday with him in person. My little fella is no longer a toddler but a real little boy and I loved seeing him recently even though we could only meet up outside. Here he is with Daisy (who incredibly will be 8 this year) last weekend.

We had such a great meet up outside.

He has grown so much...

Daisy was able to come to stay for a few days last week as we were providing child care for the Easter holidays. Her Mummy asked if I could make a topper for Jack's cake and I decided that Daisy and I could do this and more when she stayed.

We had fun designing a scene with Jack's model dinosaurs and I make a plaque to sit his favourite one on. 

He sorted out some of his other "besties" we could use!

We had fun making some ponds and rocks out of fondant icing to display them around the cake.

And made boulder candle holders.

So it's a "partial" Nanna cake this year. Hopefully next year we will all be able to celebrate with a proper party!

I also made him a dinosaur birthday card, of course,  using the fab dinosaur stamps from Stampers Grove. Some are out of stock now but there a few left if you are quick! The stenciled background is The forest by Visible Image as it the cool birthday sentiment in their lost for words sentiment set.

a close up

and one last shot

I would like to enter my card into these challenges;

Simon says stamp Monday Cheerful colours

Through the craftroom door anything goes

Crafty sentiments anything goes

Lil patch of crafting friends anything goes

and I'm waving to my friends over at 

Pixie's snippets playground #401

Life is fine my end and I am loving the sunshine and my garden too...I can almost hear it growing at the moment!

I have lots of photos over on Instagram if you would like to have a look. Here is the link to my account; Jane Tyrrrell. I tend to post much more over there these days as blog posts take so long to write and I have a lot of designing commitments (which I really love!)  I think it is the way life is going. I resisted for a long time but I now see it is so much quicker to share. If you pop on over do say hello.

Thanks so much for stopping by, enjoy the sunshine and keep safe.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

More stamps and curves for STAMPlorations

Hello, I am back with my mid month design post for the STAMPlorations theme and photo prompt challenge. You can see more inspiration from my talented teamies here.

This is our lovely theme and photo prompt for April.

 I have affiliate links in my STAMP posts which simply means that if you click on any of the links here and buy something from the STAMP store I will receive a small commission at no cost whatsoever to you 😊I also offer a very special extra treat if you use my code, details 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.

Hello coffee stamp set

Party time

and 

scaly stencil

This is what I got up.

I used the following distress oxides and the scaly stencil

to make a blended background

I stitched around the edge with my sewing machine. 

I stamped the birds and cup and coloured them from the sweet Hello coffee stamp set  onto a circle die cut.

 I stamped the sentiment onto a rectangle of card and machine stitched around the edge again.

 I then stuck my focal together and added it to the card with foam tape for dimension. I added some sequins for a finished touch.

Here is my finished card

with a close up

and one last shot

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.

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with this month's 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 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 

More birds and bees for Country View challenges

Good morning it's time for my 2nd design team make for our current April "birds and the bees" challenge over at Country View Challenges. 

The weather is certainly warming up and there is plenty of blossom for the bees to start feasting on.

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 with this mix of distress inks

I stamped the birds from the Visible Image learn to fly again set and their thank you sentiment. I then die cut out some hexagons using some old Tim Holtz dies. 

I stamped the bees from Tim's  Entomology set stamping some on the hexagons and die cutting others.

I then put everything together and matted onto black card. 

Here is my finished card

with a couple of close ups 

 and one last shot.

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our "birds and the bees" 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 April challenge can be found here.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Bye for now

Jane x

Missing you with Visible Image

Hi there, it's time for my fortnightly blogged design team make for Visible Image. Today I am showcasing some old with the new again. I used the awesome new "I miss your face" sentiment from

 Lost for words

with the incredibly versatile new 

Grunge tones set

plus their gorgeous "rose" from the

Random art of kindness set

and their beautiful ink swirls stencil

I decided to make a tag. Here's what I got up to;

I smashed some some squeezed lemonade and fossilized amber distress inks onto my mixed media mat, added some water and created a watercolour background to my tag.

Next I blended speckled egg distress ink through the ink swirls stencil

Then I stamped using all 3 stamps from the Grunge tones  set using salty ocean ink and first and 2nd generation stamping to give a subtle background

I also stamped and embossed the sentiment  from Lost for words and the numbers stamps from Random art of kindness set and carried on building up the layers.

I added some alcohol ink pearls to heat resistant acetate. I have shared this technique many times before and also demoed it at many a stamp show in 2019. I stamped and clear embossed the roses and cut them out.

I stamped the roses again on the tag and then layered everything up

using glossy accents as my adhesive.

Here is my finished tag which I mounted onto black

a couple of close ups 

and one final shot.

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, many more than I get the time to blog,  this is the link to my account.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Bye for now,

Jane x