The sun always shines

Today it is time for my fortnightly blogged design team make for Visible Image. Gosh what a heatwave we have experienced in the UK. The temperature reached the dizzy heights of 38c here in south east England  but today it is forecast to cloud over a little and cool down, thank goodness. I do love the heat but only when I am holiday with air con and a pool or the sea to dip in! For today's make I have used one of my favourite summer Visible Image stamp sets;

Rise and shine

with the incredibly useful and versatile background stamp

Grunge flourish 

 If you click on any of my links they will take you to the website.

This is what I got up to; I made a background on Daylor Rowney mixed media card using twisted citron, crushed olive and the new colour uncharted mariner, distress stain sprays and then cut it down to fit a 5X7" card blank.

Using fossilized amber distress glaze and embossing ink I heat embossed the Grunge flourish around the edges.

I love the translucency of these glazes.

I stamped the large sun from Rise and shine onto a scrap of inky mop up card and cut it out. This is such an easy stamp to fussy cut. I also stamped the sentiment onto white card, cut around it and then matted it onto black card. (You can see this in the final photos). I added some orange glitter and white pen details. 

Using wild honey distress archival ink I stamped the small sun and bubbles from the set

and blended a little extra uncharted mariner ink to the edges.

I put my design together and adhered it to the background. I added glossy accents to some of the circles as a finishing touch and then let everything dry.

Here is my finished card

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 over there. 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 celebrated a whole year of swapping in May. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Nearly 100 members, 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. There is no "monthly" commitment, just join in when you have the time! 

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.

A little heads up too that Visible Image are back on your sreens again in the coming days. They will be taking their new Christmas stamps plus lots of others onto Crafters TV tomorrow (Thursday 21st July). Shows are are 12 noon, 3pm and 7pm and onto HobbyMaker on Saturday (23rd July). Shows there are at 1pm and 3pm. 

There are going to be lots of fab samples, demos by Mark Alexander aka Mr. Visible Image and deals up for grabs so don't miss out!

 Keep an eye on social media for all the details or even easier, why not sign up for their newsletter on their website? 

Bye for now. 

Jane x

Travelling by plane with Country View challenges

 Hello, I am back today with my 2nd design team post for Country View challenges to hopefully inspire you to join our current "travel" challenge for July.  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.

For this make I dug out one of  my old Tim Holtz side order dies. I really love these and die cut them in batches in my little sidekick machine.

I also die cut Tim's globe;

and found a piece of map DP in my paper stash.

I stamped one of my STAMPlorations sentiments and die cut it into a square.

Then I put my design together. Here it is;

with a close up

and one final shot;

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our July 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

Once again here you can find all the details for our June 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

Christmas in July ATCs for Visible Image

 Hello again after the fun of my Billy cat taking over my blog on Saturday  I am back with my regular fortnightly blogged design team make for Visible Image. If you missed his blog post you can see it here. For today's make I am sharing the artist trading cards (ATCs) I made recently, one was for our monthly swap over in the Visible Image Facebook group. If you haven't found the group yet do come on over. It's great fun and if you would like to join in with our ATC swap you would be most welcome. It's open to everyone, internationally. If you live in the UK you can also request to swap just within the UK if that is better for you. The theme for this month is "Christmas in July" so I decided to use the brand new gorgeous

Christmas Robin set 

with the awesome script stamp from the Distressed Christmas set. 

And of course added the details on the back using brilliant ATC/Mail art stamp set.

Love of ATCs

 Here are some of my previous backs. I use the reverse of a Weetabix carton for my kraft card.

I always make 4 ATCs; 1 to keep, 1 to swap, 1 for my granddaughter and 1 for a crafting partner I swap with abroad. 

Here ARE some of my previous ATC swaps which have made their way around the UK and abroad.

This is what I got up to;

I made a snowy background using white linen distress ink on black card (technically it is an oxide). I plan to demo this at the Stamperarma show in Bedford in September so if you would like to see it up close and personal do come along. I will give details nearer the time but the date for your diary is Sunday 25th September. 

I cut my card into 4 X 3 1/2  by 2 1/2 inch size pieces for the backgrounds. 

Using white embossing powder I added some text using the awesome Distressed Christmas stamp. 

I stamped all the elements from the Christmas Robin set onto white card

I stamped the holly and branch several times onto white card. The branch is easily repeat stamped to make a longer branch if you need to. I coloured some of the berries red.

After cutting everything out I added some festive frost using Glamour dust and Stickles glitter.

I stamped, coloured and cut out all 3 sizes of the robin.

 I then started to put together 4 different festive scenes.

I stamped a little more snow using the snow flurry stamp in the Christmas robin set  using picket fence ink again. 

I also added a little gold sparkle pen to the robins as a finishing touch.

Here they all are together

individually 

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. 

 I organize a monthly artist trading card swap there.  We are celebrated a whole year of swapping in May. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Nearly 100 members, 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. There is no "monthly" commitment, just join in when you have the time! 

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