Lighting the way to Christmas

Good morning its time for my last 2021 make for Country View Challenges. Our last challenge of the year is "Anything Christmas" and so feel free to share all your Christmas makes. Please remember that you can enter a maximum of 5 times and combine you make with 10 challenges (including ours) in total. 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 love Christmas so much and on 5th December I went to Lapland UK with my family. It is so gorgeously vintage that it inspired my make today. This is my 2 grandchildren being told by Father  Christmas that they are on is "good" list...of course!!

Check this out for snow

and just look at that vintage lantern bottom left....

So for this make I knew that I wanted to use my very favourite die that Tim Holtz released this year. Although it was a Halloween release I knew it would also be perfect for Christmas. Sadly it appears to be sold out everywhere, if I had a pound for every message I have had asking me where I got mine from I would have a lovely Christmas bonus. Susan did have it in and I have added a link here so that you add can add your email in case she gets more in. 

I made up several lanterns and candles.

and chose this one for my card. 

I made a background using festive berries and hickory smoke distress inks which I blended onto a slimline card sized piece of smooth cardstock.  I knew which set of snowflake stamps would work perfectly with my diecut lantern....

I white heat embossed the gorgeous snowflakes from my favourite Visible Imge Simply snowflakes set (which is in stock and is a mere £5.99)

I added a black soot distress border

and the fab Christmas sentiment die cut from the Christmas 2021 Vault series by Tim, which again is in stock on the CVC website.

I added lots of "snow" to the lantern using my favourite mix of Snow tex and silver Glamour dust glitter. I also added some stickles and a hint of glitter pen to the candle which you can see in the final close up photos. 

Then I matted my slimline panel onto a black slimline card blank. 

Here is my finished card.

with some close ups

and one final shot.

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

 Once again all the details for the December challenge are here. Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website postage FREE on orders over £ 7.50. The amazing annual Advent sale is still running, so do check it out 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. 

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! 

Enjoy this very special time of the year, have a very merry Christmas and I will be back on 1st January, bright and breezy, with my first make for our first Country View challenge for 2022. Thanks for all you support and kind comments you left me here and on my Instagram account during 2021. I so appreciate it.

Jane x

Wishing you a very Merry Visible Image Christmas

Good morning it's time for my last DT post of 2021 for Visible Image. Wow Christmas is just around the corner, how quickly this year has raced by. I thought that today my make just had to be Christmas themed. I had the idea to do create very "non" traditional Christmas card using the beautiful  Simply snowflakes

 the Nothing to wear T shirt

and the Christmas sentiment from Christmas chaos

Who needs Christmas jumpers when you can have your very own individual Visible Image Christmas t shirt! 

This is what I got up to.

 First I made a very festive background using my distress stain sprays and added some of the snowflurries mica spray for extra sparkle. 

I stamped the tea shirt onto inky mop up card and added the Christmas sentiment from Christmas chaos and the smallest snowflakes from the  Simply snowflakes set. I then cut it out and added some 3d foam tape underneath. 

I randomly stamped all the snowflakes from  Simply snowflakes and heat embossed using white wintry embossing powder ( a very old one from my stash)

I then put everything together and matted my card up. The finishing touch was a few sequins. 

Here is is;

with a couple of close ups;

and one final shot;

I hope this shows how incredibly versatile the T shirt stamp is...it can be used at Christmas, for birthdays, positive words, saying hello or I love you.... the list is endless!  

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 the 8th month of swapping and have had over 73 people, worldwide, taking part. The sign up for the January swap will be up around 23rd December  if you would like to join us.

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 the brilliant newly  revamped website is here.

 You will also find me on Instagram here; @jane.tyrrell where I share many more samples than I have the time to blog.

Have a wonderful Christmas and I will be back in the new year with my first DT post for 2022 on Monday 3rd January. Thank you for all your kind support on social media during 2021, it is so appreciated. 

Bye for now,

Jane x

Stamps and candles for STAMPlorations

Hello and welcome to my 2nd design team post today. This one is for STAMPlorations and our new theme and photo prompt December challenge. This month our theme is

Stamps and candles and full details are here.

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 using any stamps.  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.

Party time

and the stars from Christmas baubles

The smallest crazy running stitched die 

and the O my stars stencil

This is what I got up to;

I made a galaxy background using distress oxide sprays on black card.

Using the stars from  Christmas baubles I gold heat embossed them across the background.

I have shared my hand made candles in my blog several times over the years. I make these in batches as they sell well in Dotty's. They are made from paper straws. I used 1 from my blue stash.

I die cut a rectangle from inky mop up card using the  smallest crazy running stitched die and adding star stenciling using the O my stars stencil and gold shimmer paste. I then edged the rectangle with black soot distress ink. 

I made a plaque using one the sentiments from Party time, again gold heat embossed and glued it underneath.

I then matted up my card. 

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 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 

It's Christmas my very favourite time of the year

Happy 1st December everyone, I am so excited that here we are ready to count down to Christmas day, my very favourite time of the year. Are you ready? 

Don't worry if you're not.  Every year we think there is not enough time and every year it all come together. It's obviously time today for a new challenge over at Country View, our last of 2021. The theme is as always "Christmas" so you can share anything Christmas related but please remember that you can enter a maximum of  5 times and into a maximum of 10 challenges including ours. 

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.

For my first Christmas make I just had to use my awesome Tim Holtz snarky cats. This card uses the Christmas set. I smile every time I look at these stamps. I like to call this stamp Billy as it tells the adventures of my own sweet cat.

This is what I got up to; I used Tim's reinkers on watercolour card; black soot, frayed burlap, antique linen, stormy sky and salvaged patina for a very dramatic night sky background.

I stamped and coloured "Billy" as I call him from the original snarky cats set using my Zig watercolour pens. I then cut him out. 

I die cut some inky greenery using Tim's Christmas greenery dies and added some clear rock candy glitter and mica flakes

I also used my very favourite and long retired Crescent moon and stars Bigz die . I so wish Sizzix would let Tim bring this back in some form! 

Then it was time to put everything together. 

So Billy managed to climb up into the starry sky and choose his very own Christmas star. Whilst there of course he had to say hello to his old friend The Man in the moon. Here is my finished card.

 a couple of close ups

and one final shot;

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

 Once again all the details for the December challenge are here. Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website postage FREE on orders over £ 7.50. There is also the start of the amazing Advent sale today, so do check it out 

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! 

Enjoy this very special time of the year. 

 Billy and I would like to wish a very merry Christmas to you all. 

Bye for now

Jane x