Bunny burrow

Hello all and welcome to my fortnightly blogged design team make for Visible Image. Their new February release has really taken the crafting world by storm. Today, as promised, I wanted to share the step by step of my Bunny Burrow card, one I made as my design team sample for the brilliant Happy Bunny stamp set. This sets is has a gorgeous detailed large bunny stamp with some cute smaller silhouette ones and some fun sentiments including a very useful "Happy Easter"

I had the idea of making the bunny emerge from his burrow using awesome and super popular Supernova stencil to make this.

This is what I got up to; 

I used a piece of distress ink shaving foam marbled card from my stash. I put the stencil in place and using vintage photo distress ink blended it through the stencil. I then cut this down to 5 1/2" square.

I cut out some of the centre and distressed the edges with a distressing tool (or use your scissors) I stamped the 3 small bunnies round the edges and 2 at the bottom in Versafine clair Acorn which I clear embossed for extra texture and shine. 

I stamped the bunny head twice; once onto kraft card (5 3/4" square) and once onto a scrap of white.

 The white image I coloured with distress pencils and cut out minus the whiskers. Don't worry no bunnies were injured during this procedure 😂. I then glued it over the image on the kraft card (which replaced the whiskers)

I popped  him into his burrow and glued him in place. 

I stamped the Happy Easter sentiment onto an offcut of card and glued it in place. For a little finishing touch I stamped the hearts from the set around the stencilled burrow and added some flower soft to resemble soil. I adhered the card front onto the kraft card, matted it onto green card and then a white square card blank 

Here is my finished card.

with a close up;

and 1 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 join us.  You will be warmly welcomed and see lots of inspiration from the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. 

 I also organize a monthly artist trading card swap in the group.  We celebrated a whole year of swapping in May 2022. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Over 110 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 and sign up for each swap are posted in the group on the 23rd of the month. So the next sign up, for March, opens on 23rd February,  if you would like to join us.  There is no "monthly" commitment, just join in when you have the time and if you live in the UK can you choose to post to the UK only if that suits you best.

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.

Finally a little heads up before I go that in just over 3 weeks time I am delighted be demoing all things Visible Image (and distress ink) again for Country View Crafts, one of Visible Image's UK stockists, at the Crafterama "Crafting at Ally Pally show" at Alexandra Palace in London. If you came last March it would be so lovely to see you again. If not why not put the date in your diary? The show is running the weekend of Saturday and Sunday 11th and 12th March. We had such fun last year. I will again be offering a little crafting giveaway in a randomly selected draw for anyone who stops by our stand. I will have all the new release with me plus more. Susan will have a fab stock of Visible Image stamps, stencils and the layering dies on the stand.  

Here is a photo from last year's show;

I will also have an "Easter" bunny burrow card to share at the show using another of the great sentiments in the  Happy Bunny set and 2 daffodils from the beautiful new Golden daffodils set.

Bye for now,

Jane x

More sentiments for Country View Challenges

 Good morning I am back with my 2nd design team make for our February challenge over at Country View Challenges.  I am delighted to be the host for this month and I have chosen the theme "Be sentimental". So I would like to see your crafty makes which include a sentiment and/or some inspiring words.  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.

  Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website UK postage is FREE on orders over £20.00 I have added some live links within my post to take you to some of the products I used.

For this make I used a sentiment from another of the many fab Visible Image sentiment sets. This set was from the September release and is called Better days ahead

teamed with their 

which Susan can order in for you if you email her via CVC.

This is what I got up to;

I made a drippy inky background using distress oxide sprays;

I stamped and clear embossed the sentiment

then I stamped the Beautiful soul, adding sequins and some white gel pen details which you will see in the finished photos.

Here is my finished card

with a close up

and one last shot

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with the challenge this month? Once again here you can find all the details for our February challenge  here. I am really looking forward to seeing your entries. 

I would also like to give you a heads up that in just under 6 weeks time I am delighted be demoing again for Country View crafts at the Crafterama "Crafting at Ally Pally show" at Alexandra Palace in London. You can see up close and personal how I make backgrounds like the one I have shown today. If you came last March it would be so lovely to see you again. If not why not put the date in your diary? The show is running the weekend of Saturday and Sunday 11th and 12th March. We had such fun last year. I will again be offering a little crafting giveaway in a randomly selected draw for anyone who stops by our stand. I will be sharing more details and some of my sample makes nearer the time so please check out my Instagram account;  @jane.tyrrell where I will be posting my updates.

Here is a photo from last year's show;

Bye for now,

Jane x

That lovin' feline from the new Visible Image release

Hello I'm back with my second post today as it's also time for my fortnightly Wednesday blogged design team make for Visible Image. I'm delighted to be sharing my first make using stamps from the new Visible Image release using the fantastic "That Lovin' feline"cat stamp set. Not only are the cat images wonderful but the sentiments are hilarious... and don't miss the little bird, paw print, hearts and mouse stamps too. Just take a look at all the stamps and sentiments you get in the set;

I teamed them with the awesome Heart Ink stencil. (This stencil also come with the heart mask)

Unless you have been loving under a rock you will know that there are 6 fab new stamp sets and 6 new stencils in their February release. They have taken the crafting world by storm and are being released on 10th February. Pre orders are open on the website now and they are selling really fast so if you want to guarantee to get your hands on these when they are first released don't delay pre ordering here. 

This is what I got up to with these hilarious cats....I had to keep an eye on them as they were playing aorund with my own Billy cat!

First I made my background using these pink shades of distress ink stain spays;

I then blended worn lipstick distress ink through the  Heart Ink stencil.

and cut my card front down to a 5 1/2" square. I stamped the 2 tall cats from  "That Lovin' feline" onto the heart as shown below and also onto white card

I coloured the pair stamped on white card using my Zig watercolour pens. I used pink and gold glitter pens for their eyes and noses and then cut the images out. I used my own sweet Billy Cat as my inspiration. Any cats I colour need to have pink noses and a white tip of the tail..just like my sweet boy. 

After I took this photo I also cut off their whiskers (don't worry it didn't hurt) as they will reappear once stuck onto the 2 outline cats on the heart. 

I repeat stamped the paw prints and mouse around the edge of the heart. 

I then adhered the cats in place (you can see that their whiskers reappeared).  I used the little heart stamp too, see below. I stamped the sentiment onto a strip of white card and distressed the edges with worn lipstick distress ink.

I also added some silver pen details to the mice and the hearts. Finally I matted my card onto black and then onto a white square card blank.

Here is my finished card

 with a close up

and one final shot;

As you probably know I adore cats...My sweet Billy has always been the avatar of my blog, Jane's Journal. I can't stop colouring up these fab cat images and have so many ideas using them. This is one which was shared last week and you can see it over in my Instagram account here.

that sentiment.....😂 

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 join us.  You will be warmly welcomed and see lots of inspiration from the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. 

 I also organize a monthly artist trading card swap in the group.  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. Over 110 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 and sign up for each swap are posted in the group on the 23rd of the month. So the next sign up, for March, opens on 23rd February,  if you would like to join us.  There is no "monthly" commitment, just join in when you have the time and if you live in the UK can you choose to post to the UK only if that suits you best.

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.

Remember that you can pre order the new release NOW over on the website here for the release on 10th February. I have lots more new release samples to share over the coming weeks so do check me out on Instagram.  My next blogged DT make for Visible Image will be posted here in 2 weeks when I will be sharing the fun I had with the 

Happy bunny set

where I used the Supernova stencil to make him a special bunny burrow!

Here's a sneak peek

Bye for now,

Jane x

Be sentimental with Country View challenges

Good morning and welcome to our February challenge over at Country View Crafts. I am delighted to be the host for this month and I have chosen the theme "Be sentimental". So I would like to see your crafty makes which include a sentiment and/or some inspiring words.  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.

  Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website UK postage is FREE on orders over £20.00 I have added some live links within my post to take you to some of the products I used.

Many of the Visible Image sets that Susan stocks have lots of inspiring words and sentiments and today I used 2 sets; 

Life is beautiful

with some words from So much stronger

and the Broken mesh layering die

This is what I got up to;

I blended  mustard seed, crackling campfire and spiced marmalade distress oxides onto a piece of white card and added some drips of water which I blotted off. I also had a piece of inky card in my stash from which I die cut an aperture using the broken mesh die. 

I stamped the hummingbird in the aperture

I then stamped a 2nd bird onto white card and cut out the top wing to use for decoupaging.

I coloured the images with colours from the set 3 distress watercolour pencils. 

I stamped around the edge of the mesh top card using the background stamp in the Life is beautiful set. I also gold embossed the words onto black card and cut them out.

I then stuck the decoupaged wing  and the sentiments in place. I also stamped some of the words from the So much stronger set across the bottom of the card.

I matted and layered my card and adhered it to a 7X5" white card blank. I added some sequins and white gel pen details as finishing touches. 

Here is my finished card;

with a close up

and one final shot;

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with the challenge this month? Once again here you can find all the details for our February challenge here. I am really looking forward to seeing your entries. 

 I'll be back with my 2nd "Be sentimental" make this Friday.

I would also like to give you a heads up that in just under 6 weeks time I am delighted be demoing again for Country View crafts at the Crafterama "Crafting at Ally Pally show" at Alexandra Palace in London. If you came last March it would be so lovely to see you again. If not why not put the date in your diary? The show is running the weekend of Saturday and Sunday 11th and 12th March. We had such fun last year. I will again be offering a little crafting giveaway in a randomly selected draw for anyone who stops by our stand. I will be sharing more details and some of my sample makes nearer the time so please check out my Instagram account;  @jane.tyrrell where I will be posting my updates.

Here is a photo from last year's show;

I will be back on Friday with my 2nd "Be sentimental" make for the challenge. 

I will also be back in half an hour with my 2nd blog post today as it is also time for my Visible Image DT make too. Busy, busy, busy 😂

Bye for now,

Jane x