Ice cream anyone?

 Good morning! It's time for my fortnightly Wednesday blogged design team make for Visible Image. I'm delighted to be blogging one of my ice cream samples I made using the awesome new "Better with ice cream" set from the summer stamp release."

I know I am not really allowed to have favourites but to me this is the best ice cream stamp set I have seen in all my nearly 30 years of stamping. It just screams summer! You have the choice of whippy or a 99 or a waffle cone with extra scoops too. There is even a flake to make a "99". The 4 separate sentiments are so cool too.  It's just brilliant.

This is what I got up to;

I used an offcut of one of my shaving foam distress reinker marbled backgrounds and stamped the ice cream part in Versafine Clair "Charming" ink, clear embossed the image and cut out just the ice cream whippy part. 

I then stamped the cone part onto kraft card using Versafine Clair acorn and again clear embossed and cut them out. I tend to make things in batches ever though I was only using 1 cone for my card. That way you always have a ready made image at hand for a quick card when needed.

My background was a distress ink one from my stash using picked raspberry, mustard seed, vintage photo, spiced marmalade and broken china ink pads.

I stamped the sentiments onto white card

and added "strawberry sauce" using Christmas red stickles.

I finished it off with a flake which I made using the stamp on Kraft card with Versafine Clair acorn ink again. 

You can see the process easier in this photo below taken in my studio as I worked.

I added a flake to one of my cones. I stamped the ice cream onto the card front using Versafine Clair Charming, to get the inky drips back, and stuck the ice cream I had made on top. I then put my card together and added my signature sequins as a finishing touch.

Here it is;

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 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 2 years of swapping  in May. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Over 135 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 June, opened yesterday on 23rd May,  if you would like to join us. The theme is "Rainbow joy". It will close on Sunday 28th. 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 purchase the new release NOW over on the website here.

 Thanks for stopping by,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Still driving with Country View Challenges

 Hello everyone this is my 2nd design team make to hopefully inspire you to enter our May "Vehicles" challenge over at Country View.  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 my make today I used 2 stamp sets by Visible Image stamps and 2 of their stencils all of which Susan has in stock. 

This is what I got up to.

First I used the Graffiti stencil

with twisted citron, mustard seed and squeezed lemonade distress ink

I then used the bottom part of the Seeing stars stencil with rustic wilderness and squeezed lemonade ink

finally I used the top part with mustard seed ink.

To achieve this background

I stamped the car from You're a classic onto the background,

the birthday sentiment from Lost for words

and added a 2nd wheel and bumper to decoupage the image. For a finishing touch I added some gold glitter pen details and die cut stars.

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 May challenge here.

Susan has all the new Visible Image release in stock and many more of their fab stencils, coordinating dies and those hard to find in stock layering dies...do check them out here .

 

Bye for now,

Jane x

Introducing the new summer Visible Image stamp release

Good morning! It's time for my fortnightly Wednesday blogged design team make for Visible Image. I'm delighted to be sharing my first make using stamps from their awesome new summer stamp release.

 There are 6 fantastic new A6 sets including a very Hippie chick, dream catcher, birthday sentiments and more, so as always there is something for everyone. Pre release orders are open now on the website for worldwide release on 19th May. This is the link.

Today I am sharing my first make with the gorgeous Hippie Chick

and sentiments from the new Birthday wishes set.

 She is very easy to colour and looks brilliant with different coloured hair and glasses or of course you can leave her lenses clear. 

The little round stamp in the set is used to change the colour of the lenses of her glasses...such fun! For this make I used my blue sketch distress ink but any dye based ink would work. I then added glossy accent to give them some reflection. I used my distress pencils to colour all my images. They work well on both white card and on my distress ink backgrounds.

 I made several versions as you can see in the photo below; 

I decided to go with the one below and cut her down into a rectangle and inked the edges.

I used a stamp from the existing Round in circles background set for my background,

 stamping in pink, yellow and blue Versafine Clair inks. 

I stamped 2 sentiments from the Birthday set and edged and matted them onto blue card. I also added the stars from the sentiment set to the background and the sentiment plaques...such a brilliant stamp.

I also added stars to the card circles background again using the stars circle stamp from the Birthday wishes set.  This is such a brilliant little accent stamp. This is my finished background.

Then I put everything together, adding sequins as a finishing touch.

Here is my Hippy Chick birthday card.

with some close ups;

and one final shot;

Just to show you how different she can look in different colour ways this is a variation I made as a slimline card sporting red sunglasses this time!

A couple of close ups showing the brilliant stars circle flourish in the Birthday wishes set

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 are currently celebrating 2 years of swapping. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Over 135 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 June, opens on 23rd May,  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 19th May. 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 set.

Bye for now,

Jane x