Daisy Grunge

 Good morning it's time for my fortnightly design team make for Visible Image. Today I am sharing a make using another of the fab new summer release stamp sets. This release is going down a storm which is no surprise se as it really is awesome. These are the 6 new stamp sets and 3 stencils.

 Visible Image are launching the whole new release on Crafters TV today so do tune in. Mark will have lots of demos to share.

Tune in at 12pm, 3pm & 7pm BST 

7am, 10am & 2pm ET 

You can watch on the Crafter's TV Facebook page, Crafter's TV YouTube channel, or on the Crafter's Companion website! 

 They will also be on Hobbymaker TV this Friday 28th. You can also still pre order on the website, to be sure to be the first own these lovely new stamps and stencils as I have a feeling these may well sell out on the TV shows!

 The set I chose to work with today is called Daisy Grunge. It is proving to be a best seller which is no surprise as it really is a gorgeous set. Plus anything which has my sweet granddaughter's name in it has to be pretty awesome! 

I made a slimline card and this is what I got up to;

 I made my background using kitsch flamingo, salvaged patina and wilted violet distress inks. Just the usual Tim Holtz smooshing method of pressing the inks onto a craft sheet with added sprays of water, dipping in some mixed media card and drying between layers. I cut a panel 10.5 X 20cm from this,

I stamped the whole large daisy in black Versafine ink and clear heat embossed, plus an extra centre (for some extra dimension and used further on) onto white card and cut them out. I coloured the separate and the whole daisy centres using  mustard seed and squeezed lemonade distress inks.

I then cut the daisy with the coloured centre into 4

and stuck each quarter around the edges of the background.

I then stamped the daisy again in the top half of the card.

and added the separate cut out centre. 

I stamped one of the sentiments, adding the tiny daisy in the set at the sides, for some detail. I coloured the centres of these tiny daisies yellow too.

I then matted onto black card and glued it onto a card blank. A couple of sequins were added as my very much loved finishing touch.

Here is my finished card.

with a close up,

 and one final shot;

The Worldwide release date for the summer stamps and stencils is tomorrow, Thursday 27th April, so only 1 more sleep! 

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. 

 I organize a monthly artist trading card swap there.  We are celebrating a whole year of swapping in May and there is a £50 coupon up for grabs but you need to be quick as the sign up close at noon tomorrow! 

Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Over 88 people, worldwide, have taken part since it started. It's been such fun and it's so lovely to receive a unique piece of art from your partner in the post. The details for each swap are  put up in the group on 23rd of the month. 

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 their 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.

Back soon,

Bye for now. 

Jane x

Easter crafting for Country View Crafts

 Hello I am here with my 2nd design team inspiration make for our April challenge over at County View Challenges. The theme for the month is "spring". You can make anything you like using any products. 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.

I have added clickable links within this post to the CVC website. If anything is out of stock just add your name in the email notification and Susan will email you when she has them back in stock. 

My make today uses some of my many left over die cuts pieces which I made into an Easter card.

The letters were left over from my Bold text #1 die set

I was able to make up the word Easter. I also used Tim Holtz' flower field die

and a left over cut die cut Visible Image mesh.

I used black card stock and just layered up my design adding the chicks from my stash and some stars as finishing touches. Here is my finished make.

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

 Once again all the details for the challenge are  Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website UK postage is FREE on orders over £20.00 There is also a little Easter sale on at the moment. Check it out here.

Once again here you can find all the details for our challenge here.

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

Being a busy bee with the new summer Visible Image release

I am so excited today today as I am able to share my first design team make using the brand new summer Visible Image release. Yes the gorgeous new summer release is being shared and pre release ordering starts over on their website from 14th April. Just look at all these beauties.

 There have been lots of sneak peeks shown on social media over the last few days by myself and my teamies, do check them out. It was a hard choice which of my makes to share today but I decided it just had to be the card I made using new

Bee Happy stamp set

and the fab new stencil

Honeycomb Hex

This is what I got up to;

I sprayed  squeezed lemonade and wild honey distress stain sprays onto a piece of mixed media card.

I cut it down to 4 1/2 by 6 1/2 " and  then die cut out 5 hexagons. At the top, in the centre, I stamped the word Bee

and at the bottom, Kind. I also stamped a couple of the smaller bees next to the words, seen in the later photos. 

 I cut another piece of plain white card to stick underneath and randomly stamped the hexagons in the set in summertime Versafine Claire (these will be seen through the die cut apertures). 

I stamped the large bee onto white card and coloured the body with gold glitter pen and added gold and clear glitter pens to the wings. I wanted to have him on top of the card with his wings slightly raised. You will see this further on in the photos. I cut him out minus his antenna. 

I then stamped the rest of my bees.  Some were stamped directly onto the card front, some onto the underneath piece of card.

I added a little stenciling to the card front using fossalised amber distress ink through the hex stencil. I also stamped the inky splodge stamp as seen below, to give extra movement to the bees.

I lined up my white card underneath and worked out where to stamp the large bee. You could draw round the apertures with pencil if you find this easier for placement. I wanted it to overhang the aperture. I would then be able to line up my fussy cut bee when I put everything together and give him back his antennae! 

Here is the fussy cut bee being being lined up

before gluing him in place with a little foam tape under his wings to raise them up. 

Here is my finished card,

 a couple of close ups,

and one final photo.

I absolutely love these bees and the stencil and they are sure to be  best sellers. The detail of the bees is incredible and they stamps for perfectly.  If you want to be sure to get your hands on them when they are released, head on over to the website tomorrow, Thursday, where you can pre order. The world wide release date is 28th April. This is the link.

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. 

 I organize a monthly artist trading card swap there which will be celebrating a whole year of swapping next month. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Over 85 people, worldwide, have taken part since it started. It's been such fun and it's so lovely to receive a unique piece of art from your partner in the post. A little heads up that we are celebrating our first year of swapping in May and there is going to be a little prize up for grabs for the May swap. The details will be put up in the group on 23rd April. 

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 their 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.

Back soon,

Bye for now. 

Jane x

Stamps and text for the STAMPlorations April theme and photo prompt challenge

 I am back with my second blog post on my birthday as it is also time for my design team post for our next theme and photo prompt challenge over at  STAMPlorations.  

Our theme for April is 

Stamps and text

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. 

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.

I used the following awesome products and have added live links to the website in my post.

Coffee for all seasons 

and 

sketchy coffee cups stamp sets.

This is what I got up to; I used a page from my much used for crafting "Tale of 2 cities" which I glued onto thin card and cut to size for my card background,

I stamped all the seasons from Coffee for all seasons 

onto kraft card in brown ink, clear embossed and cut them out. 

I stamped and cut out some of the fab cups from the sketchy coffee cups stamp sets.

and added a little colour to them. I the put my design together; 

Here is my finished card

and one last 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