Is it too early for wine?

 Good morning everyone it's time for my fortnightly blogged Visible Image design team post. Today I am delighted to share my first blogged make with one of the sets from the awesome brand new stamp release. There are 6 new stamp sets, which can be preordered now, for the worldwide release this Friday, 29th October. I have been sharing lots of my samples over on Instagram and they also appeared on the recent live which you can catch up on over at the Visible Image You Tube channel. All these details are at the end of this post.

 I had a hard time choosing which of my makes to blog but I went with the pair of tags I made using the brilliant

 99% chance of wine set

The stamps in this set are so unique and includes 2 awesome wine splashes.

This is what I got up to;

I used one of my shaving foam marbled distress re inker backgrounds and die cut 2 tags. I love the swirling effect you can achieve. These colours are kitsch flamingo, salvaged patina and festive berries.

I stamped the sentiments at the top in black onyx Versafine and some of the wine splashes around the edges using charming pink Versafine Clair ink.

I stamped the glass and the wine "swoosh" and heat dried them. I then painted over just the glass with embossing ink and sprinkled with clear embossing powder.

I heat embossed it and while hot added more powder and repeated this twice more. It gives a gorgeous shine without the need for drying time when using glossy accents.

I matted them up on black card and added some string. Here they are;

and a couple of shots of them together

Just adding a handmade tag to a bottle of wine would make such a great gift.

This really is such a versatile set of stamps and I have so many other ideas of how I want to use it.

 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. You will see lots of gorgeous makes by the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you will be most welcome.  You will also be able to join in with the monthly Artist Trading Card (ATC) swap which has been such fun. The sign up for November is open now if you would like to join us. We are now in the 7th month of swapping and have had over 67 people, worldwide, taking part. 

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

Do check out social media where you will find lots of makes being shared over the coming days. You can pre orders the new stamps now over on the VI website here. World wide release date is 29th October.

 You will find me on Instagram here; @jane.tyrrell

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

A witchy take on the October Country View challenge

Hi I am back with my 2nd design team inspiration post for Country View Challenges.  The theme for the month is "autumn colours +/- Halloween. A nice easy one. For my first make I went with autumn colours so for this make I decided to get my Halloween spook on and go for Halloween.  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. 

I decided to make a Halloween card and first I used my Halloween distress mica stains set on my Tim die cut numbers. I also die cut "shadows" in black.

I used twisted citron, wilted violet and pumice stone distress stain sprays to make a background. 

I stamped the fab Visible image witch and used the matching die to cut her out and also die cut her shadow in black. I coloured her with pencils.

Susan has the brilliant witch stamp set for sale here

and her matching die here

I added some Tim Holtz spider's web die cuts 

and some of his bats plus other die cuts to create my Halloween scene. 

Here is my finished card;

with a close up

and one final shot.

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our October "shades of autumn/halloween"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. Once again all the details for the October challenge  here.

Susan has recently had a restock the awesome Visible Image stencils and stamps you can see them all here.  Remember that UK postage and packing from CVC is FREE on all orders over £7.50! 

I would love to 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! 

Thanks for stopping by today.

Bye for now

Jane x

Thinking of you

Good morning everyone it's time for my fortnightly blogged Visible Image design team post. After 2 weeks of Christmas stamps and stencils inspiration the design team are getting back to sharing some non Christmas makes. This is while we await the delivery of the new stamps and start making our samples. Yes there are 6 new stamp sets coming out later this month and they are AWESOME.

I decided to work with these 2 lovely sets and make a slimline card;

Flower art

and Thinking of you which has such a delightful verse written by Helen. 

This is what I got up to.

I sprayed frayed burlap and mermaid lagoon distress oxide sprays onto watercolour card, spritzed some water and dried with my heat gun. Once dry I cut a slimline panel. I then stamped the sentiment as shown. I masked off the verse so that I could stamp it in 2 halves on my background. I then stamped the rose flower from the Flower art set with a green inked stalk/leaves and black over the flower head. As long as the stalk and leaves are green you don't need to be too precise with the colour on the flower as this is being decoupaged.

Top of card; 

bottom of card;

I added some extra green to the leaves using a zig watercolour pen. 

Next I stamped and embossed just the rose flower heads onto inky mop up card and cut them out. 

I glued the rose blooms in place, matted up the card and adhered it to a slimline card blank (I just cut my own).

Here it is finished

with a couple of close ups

and one 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. You will see lots of gorgeous makes by the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you will be most welcome.  You will also be able to join in with the monthly Artist Trading Card (ATC) swap which has been such fun. We are now in our 6th month of swapping and have had over 67 people, worldwide, taking part. 

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

Behind the scenes myself and the rest of my teamies are busy making our samples with the awesome new stamps. Do check out social media where you will find lots of fun sneak peeks being shared over the coming days. Pre orders for the new stamps is from THIS Friday 15th October over on the VI website. World wide release date is 29th October.

 You will find me on Instagram here; @jane.tyrrell

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

The STAMPlorations theme and photo prompt challenge returns

After a restful summer break all the STAMP girls are ready and raring to share some inspiration for the STAMPlorations  challenges which all re start today. I am delighted to be continuing for another year as a design team member of the Theme and Photo prompt challenge.

This is our fun theme and photo prompt for this month's challenge.

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 and there are 3 awesome prizes up for grabs; 

$20 prize code to winner ($25 if a STAMPlorations product was used as the main/focal point of the card)

$10 prize code to 2 randomly picked entries ($15 if a STAMPlorations product was used as the main/focal point of the card)

Please remember to add our challenge logo of you are entering via a blog post if you would like to be in with a chance of winning. You don't have to do this if you are linking via IG or other social media platforms, but it would be  great if you do!  Full details can be found here.

You can work with the theme, the photo prompt or both. 

I used 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.

Christmas baubles

and the gorgeous iconic

Christmas angel die 

This is what I got up to;

I made a distress oxide background on black card and stamped the stars from the Christmas baubles set in gold embossing glitter.

 I stamped, gold embossed and cut out 3 of the baubles from the same set. I die cut the angel using gold glitter card.

I then stamped one of the sentiments onto black card and again gold embossed then I put my design together. 

Here is my finished card.

with a couple of close ups;

and one final photo;

  I hope I may have inspired you to join in with this month's challenge, which is open internationally. Once again all 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.

I would love to see you also 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 

Autumn colours and Halloween for Country View Challenges

Happy October all, wow isn't the year motoring along now. I have 2 design team blog posts coming up today. This is my first one for Country View Challenges where  the theme for the month is "autumn colours +/- Halloween. A nice easy one. For my first make I went with autumn colours as they are so spectacular at this time of the year.

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 sprayed picked raspberry , fossilized amber and carved pumpkin distress stains onto watercolour card.

 I then added some fossilized amber and cracking campfire ink though the Visible Image strobes stencil using a blending foam. I do love these domed blending foams.

I stamped and cut out the large butterfly from  Butterfly effect I also stamped the circles swoosh onto the background.

I also stamped and cut out 2 using the butterfly in the VI minis #1 set

I coloured them with distress inks and added a little sparkle

I stamped one of the sentiments from the "Look forward with hope" VI set and also the sun. Then I put my card together with a few sequins as a final finishing touch.

Here it is 

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our October "shades of autumn/halloween"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. Once again all the details for the October challenge  here.

Susan has recently had a restock the awesome Visible Image stencils and stamps you can see them all here.  Remember that UK postage and packing from CVC is FREE on all orders over £7.50! 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Take care and stay safe. I will be sharing my 2nd design team project on the 11th and for that one for that one I have gone with Halloween.

I would love to 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