It's STAMPlorations 8th birthday!

 I am delighted to be a part of the 3 day event for STAMPlorations 8th birthday. Yes this wonderful company has been selling awesome stamps, stencils and more for 8 whole years and I have been a proud design team member for the last 4.  Shery has so many products on her website with something for everyone. From 1st time crafters to the most experienced ones.

There are some really awesome prizes up for grabs including;

One winner of a $75 prize code randomly drawn from current store mailing list subscribers

One winner of a $25 prize code randomly drawn from comments left on the birthday hop posts (STAMP blog and designers' blogs)

One winner of her choice of birthday bundle randomly drawn from the birthday linky

There are also several surprise prizes in the form of prize codes and products

The 8th Birthday Event ends July 8. Winners announced on July 10.

Do check everything out  here on the main STAMP blog.

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.

I am a part of the Day 2 team and I am showcasing some of the great new products on the website. Shery has 3 fab bundles on sale and I worked with this one #2  Mine contains

One of the gorgeous new floral stamps;

Blossom sprays #5

One of the terrific sentiment stamp sets;

See the good

A fab funky new edge die 

Art border die #2

and one of the clever new design blox;

Design blox #6

For the moment all 3 new bundles are available for just  $26.60 and if you live within the USA shipping is free. Take a look here at the offer on the website. 

I used my gorgeous bundle to make 2 cards;

Card 1; This is what I got up to; For my first make I used one of my distress ink shaving foam marbled backgrounds from my stash. I stamped the lovely flower and sentiment and coloured the flowers using my Zig markers.

I also stamped the blooms only on some inky mop up card and used these to decoupage a couple of the bloom heads.

I then stamped the sentiment in place.  I also die cut some blue card using the cool new die and added it for a little edging. For a final touch I added some accents using glitter pens and a bow.

Here is my finished card;

with a couple of close ups;

and one final shot.

Card 2; For my second make I used another of my marbled backgrounds. I used the striped square from the design blox and added some distress ink. I repeated this over the background 

and then cut 4 squares out. I did one extra in case I needed it.

I stamped the celebrate you from the "See the good set" plus make a wish onto 2 of the squares and also 3 cupcakes from the Birthday bash stamp set onto inky mop up card. I cut the cupcakes out and added a little glitter pen as frosting.

I put the 4 squares together matching up the pattern onto pink card.

and stuck the cupcakes in place. 

I added some sequins as finishing touches. Here is my finished card

with a couple of close ups;

and one final shot.

I really hope I have inspired you to treat yourself to this gorgeous bundle (and a one of the older sets which is one of my favourites, who doesn't love cupcakes!). They really are a joy to use. 

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.

PLEASE NOTE the bundles are already heavily discounted and my code will only work for individual  products not the bundle. You can check the bundle out again here

However my code will still work if you want to buy any individually and for any other products on the website.

Also as a heads up check this out too..........

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Do check out the other STAMPgirls makes too, you will find all the details here

I would love to also see you over on Instagram where I share new creative makes nearly every day. This is my link/profile @jane.tyrrell

Sadly these days I just don't have the time to blog everything! 

Bye for now,

Jane x 

Before I go I just want to mention that FeedBurner are removing their "follow by email" function from Blogger at the end of the month. I have removed it from my side bar already. I have over 1,000 existing lovely email subscribers who I would hate to loose. If you have a Blogger account and currently get notifications by email of my new blog posts I would love if you would just hit my "follow" button on my side bar. My posts will then show up in your reader list feed. Otherwise if you follow me on Instagram, this is me here; or you can find me as @jane.tyrrell I will always mention there which of my posts are blogged. Thanks so much for all your support, Jx

Memories of beach combing in the sunshine

 Over on Instagram ( @jane.tyrrell ) I have been sharing some process photos of a glass Tim Holtz display dome I am making. I bought some at Christmas and decided to make one for each season. I wanted to share my thought process behind my make so I decided to write a blog post. For my summer dome I wanted to save some memories of beach combing in the sunshine. It is one of my favourite pastimes on holidays especially in our beloved Rhodes. I wonder if we will be able to get there this year? Who knows. I love walking along the sandy beach looking at footsteps in the sand and finding shells and even the occasion treasure aka sea glass. 

These are the very cute domes.

I wanted to catch all the essence of these memories in a little 4" dome so I thought long and hard of how to do this. The first thing I did was to get out the jar of shells I keep in my studio. I keep special shells I have collected over the years, including some from the beach where my daughter lives on the South Coast which I have collected with Daisy.

As you can see there is sea glass there too.

I used my tiny Tim Holtz Sideorder dies and embossing folder and cut out some flips flops and "the sea", I also use spray inks to create the sand.

I used the bases of a few flip flops to make my footsteps in the sand,

I coloured some rock candy glitter with alcohol ink to use as sand under some "seaweed" I had also die cut.

I decided to use one of the larger shells I had collected with Daisy to hold the tiny shells and to make them look like they were in the sea using Glossy accents.

Here is everything before assembly. I love how the Glossy accents dry clear and sparkled like the sea. 

Then it was time to put everything together. Here is my finished summer globe. It was hard to photograph with the reflection from the glass. This is the front;

and the back.

and  side view.

I removed the glass to show the inside more clearly. 

and a couple more shots.

I made a spring themed one earlier this year which I shared on IG. This is the link Here they are on my shelf together. 

So now I have a spring globe to remind me of my sweet dino duck babies and especially Eric

and of sunny holidays and beach combing with my family.....sweet memories indeed.

This photo is Circa 2018

and 2020

Jack often prefers the stones to shells! 

and my last visit to Rhodes with my Hb in 2019

I so hope we make it back this year.

In the meantime I will smile when I look at my little glass spring and summer themed display domes. 

Thanks for stopping by,

Bye for now,

Jane x

A proud heart

 Good morning it's time for my fortnightly blogged design team post for Visible Image. As June is Pride month I could not let the month pass by without making something to celebrate this most important annual event. I decided to make a mixed media plaque heart. Equality in this world for everyone is so very important so this stamp set below seemed perfect to use. I love Helen's definition of the word Equality. 

Equality, hope and love

I also wanted to share some love so I also used the gorgeous grungy heart from Follow your heart

and added some background stamping using the uber useful

grunge tones

This is what I got up to;

I used an MDF heart from my stash and painted it with gesso.

Using yellow acrylic paint and one of the grunge tones stamps I repeat stamped all over.

I repeated this using the other stamps in the set using red and blue paints.  Do remember to wash your stamps immediately after using paint. 

I stamped out the equality sentiment from Equality, hope and love , cut it up and matted it onto red card.

I then cut out a smaller heart shape from card by hand and coloured it using a rainbow of distress inks.

I then stamped the Follow your heart in the centre and clear embossed it, adding some white pen and then added some more grunge tones stamping around the edge.

Here is the finished plaque with its gorgeous rainbow ribbon.

A couple of close ups where you can see I added some glossy accents to the bubbles and decoupaged a couple of the elements in this lovely heart stamp.

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.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Before I go I just want to mention that FeedBurner are removing their "follow by email" function from Blogger at the end of the month. I have removed it from my side bar already. I have over 1,000 existing lovely email subscribers who I would hate to loose. If you have a Blogger account and currently get notifications by email of my new blog posts I would love if you would just hit my "follow" button on my side bar. My posts will then show up in your reader list feed. Otherwise if you follow me on Instagram, this is me here; or you can find me as @jane.tyrrell I will always mention there which of my posts are blogged. Thanks so much for all your support, Jx