Blow out the candles for Country View challenges

 Hi friends, I am back with my 2nd design team make for our January challenge over at Country View. The theme is "Your year to sparkle and shine". So we would like to see lots of bling, sparkle media etc. 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 this make I decided to make a sparkly birthday cake using the awesome Visible Image Blow out the candles stamp set. I appreciate that this set and lots of other are currently out of stock over on the website. Susan will be restocking very soon and if you add your email address she will contact you when they are back in stock. 

This set is just perfect for making quick birthday cards. This is the card for my husband's birthday yesterday as he loves chocolate cake so this is what I baked  made. This is what I got up to;

I used one of my distress ink shaving foam marbled background from my stash and dripped on some snow flurries distress mica stain. I love the sparkle you get with these inks.

I then stamped the large cake onto brown, blue inky mop up and white card and cut the parts out to assemble 1 cake. It's really useful doing it this way as you have 3 cakes to make up. Great instant spares for a quick birthday card.

I stamped the sentiments in place and stamped the candles in place. There is a lovely "glow" stamp in this set which gives a gorgeous outline to the candles. I added a little glitter pen to them and then it was time to assemble my cake

Here is it is;

You can see the Stickles sparkle I added to the icing, in the close up

and one final shot;

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our January "Your year to sparkle and shine "challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

 Once again all the details for the January challenge are here Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website postage FREE on orders over £ 7.50 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Take care and stay safe.

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! 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Take your broken wings and fly again for Visible Image

Hello, I am here today with my fortnightly design team post for Visible Image. I have been a secret squirrel over the last few weeks making samples with the AMAZING upcoming new release. You may have seen some sneak peeks on social media over the last week. Pre release orders open on the website this Friday (21st Jan). Worldwide release date is 11th February. There are new stamps, stencils and dies...and something rather different for Visible Image in the die front too. I think you will love the new products. Obviously I can't share anything here yet (but there are some of my sneak peeks at the end of this post) so I decided to look through my stash and chose a stamp set I have not used for a while. 

 I chose Learn to fly . This set has gorgeous images and such an uplifting quote. 

This is what I got up to;

I used one of my shaving foam marbled reinker backgrounds from my stash. For this one I had use the uber useful Fibres stencil

I masked off the sentiment into 2 halves using a Post it note.

and stamped it in 2 halves at the top and bottom of the background. 

Using spiced marmalade archival distress ink I stamped the birds. I then stamped the small feather using peeled paint archival.

I used green versafine clair in rainforest green to stamp and clear emboss the large feather. 

I added a few sequins for a finishing touch and matted up my card.

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 the 8th month of swapping and have had over 74 people, worldwide, taking part. The sign up for the February swap will open on 23rd January 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.

From tomorrow the design team will start sharing our new release samples on social media...please check out my Instagram posts as I won't be blogging all my makes.  I will also share them in the Visible Image customer page so do pop on over and join us.  I will have a blogged sample here on Wednesday 2nd Feb. Pre release orders will be open on the website from 28th January. The worldwide new release date is Feb 11th 

and just to wet your appetite here are a couple of my sneak peeks 😉

Bye for now,

Jane x

Stamps and cups for STAMPlorations

Hello and welcome to my inspiration for our first 2022  STAMPlorations theme and photo prompt January  challenge. 

This month our theme is

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.

Shower of butterflies stencil

and the lovely a cup of roses stamp set. 

This is what I got up to;

I placed the Shower of butterflies stencil at the side of my card and kept it in place using the magnets from my Wendy Vecchi Stay-tion

Using shaded lilac and picked raspberry distress inks lightly blended the inks around the stencil. 

I added a little ink to the sides of the card too.

I stamped, coloured and cut out the  a cup of roses . I also stamped one of the sentiments at the top of the card.

I then stuck the focal in place and matted up my card. I added some sequins for a finishing touch. 

Here is my card

with a close up 

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 

 

2022 - destination unknown

 Good morning welcome to the first Monday of 2022 and my first new Visible Image design team post of the year. I decided that I would celebrate this with a 2022 dated canvas. 

Let's hope this really is the year when our lives start to return to some kind of normality and we will be able to seek out new adventures both in the UK and abroad. I have put live links in this post which if you click on them will take you straight to the products on the Visible Image website.

I worked with these fab stamp sets;

Destination unknown

the numbers and boxes/squares from Alphabetical

 some background stamping using all the stamps from Mesh-ellaeous

and the uber versatile Fibres stencil

This is what I got up to; using Prize ribbon, Salvaged patina and Fossilized amber I made a watercolour background. I wanted to make a background representing the land and seas on earth.

Using the 2 blues and my blending tool I then added some stenciling using my Fibres stencil.

I added some background stamping using Fossilized amber distress archival ink and all the stamps in the Mesh-ellaeous set. I just randomly partially stamped, holding the stamps in my hand. It gives a much more organic feel than if you put the stamps onto a block.

Next I stamped the year onto inky mop up card using the numbers and squares from Alphabetical. I cut them out and distressed the edges.

I die cut a circle, representing our planet Earth, stamped the sentiment from Destination unknown and again added some faint stenciling using the Fibres stencil. 

I stamped the "directions" onto inky mop up card. I cut them into banners and using a distress tool, distressed their edges. 

I stamped all the sizes of the boats and planes in the Destination unknown and cut them out. I love these images, they are such fun!

Then it was time to put my 2022 canvas together. 

Here it is;

with some close ups;

and one final shot;

I gave this to my son, as 2022 looks to be a very adventurous new journey for him 😎

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 74 people, worldwide, taking part. The sign up for the February swap will be up around 23rd January  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. 

I can also give a little heads up that there is lots going on behind the scenes at the moment as there is a new release coming up very soon. Look of for lots of sneak peeks on the socials......all I can say that whether you like fun quirky characters, die cutting or mixed media there is something for everyone in this next release! 

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.

And finally before I go if you have any Christmas money left over and would like to add to your Visible Image stash..if you use the code MERRY25 at the checkout you will get 25% off everything on the web site. Hurry though as the offer finishes on 10th January. 

Bye for now,

Jane x