Making for Christmas

Hello and welcome to November. As it's the first of the month I have my 2 design team blog posts coming up today. This is my first one for Country View Challenges where  the theme for the month is "Christmas gifting" in other words your make needs to be anything other than a card. 

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 am a huge gin fan and we have lots of different brands. Gin also makes a fab gift so I decided to design a Christmas gin tag which can be put around the neck of a bottle of gin and make a really personal Christmas pressie, with no need for gift wrap! Visible Image have just released a really awesome gin stamp set which was perfect for my make. This is what I got up to;

I used the awesome new

Visible Image "Keep your gin up"stamp set

with a background made using the amazing new Tim Holtz villainous potions distress stain spray mixed with some salvaged patina

 I stamped the gin bottle and glass onto inky mop up card and cut them out, adding some gold pen to the lid of the bottle and yellow marker to the lemon I also stamped and cut out just a label in white card.

I then stamped the Father Christmas on his sleigh from 

Christmas eve

and added the merry Christmas from Christmas chaos and then one of the fun sentiments in the 

"Keep your gin up"stamp set. I  also stamped some of the stars and some of the star swooshes. 

 from the Christmas eve set in gold ink 

 I stuck the bottle and glass in place and then backed the tag with sparkly gold glitter card.

Here it is finished

and here it is all ready for Christmas gifting on my favourite brand of gin......

cheers...... mine is with regular tonic, ice and a slice.

a couple of close ups

and one final shot

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our November "Christmas gifting"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 November challenge are here.

Susan has all the awesome new Visible Image release in stock which was released on 29th October plus a large selection of their 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 19th.

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! 

(If you would like to see my samples using all 6 sets from the brand new Visible Image stamps I also wrote a post for the CVC shop blog last week. You can view it here I am also on the Visible Image design team so I get them pre release to work with them and make samples,

This is a taster from the CVC shop blog. There are 3 drinks sets; gin, wine and beer, a fab car, a motorbike and a cool birthday cake with dripping sparkly candles)

Bye for now

Jane x