Afternoon tea anyone?

 Hi everyone, and welcome to my latest design team make for Visible Image. The theme for our makes this week is "friendship". 

My favourite beverage is tea and the blacker the better. There is nothing quite like catching up with my friends over a cuppa and indulging in a slice of cake with it, is even better.  I decided make a card using  the Afternoon tea set with the  Splash stencil. This stamp set is full of fun tea and cake themed images, there is even a fork and a tea bag. The sentiments it contains are delightful too. 

This is how I made it;

I cut a piece of smooth white card to a 5 1/4" square and blended salvaged patina, squeezed lemonade and worn lipstick distress inks onto it. Then I added some drips of water, blotted and dried the background with a heat gun (or you can leave it to air dry).

Using the Splash stencil I blended the same 3 inks through the stencil onto the background. 

This is how it looked after adding the extra inks. 

Once dry I stamped my design, for placement on the background. I used Versafine clair nocturne ink and clear heat embossed everything.

I stamped the teapot and cup again onto red card and the knife onto silver and cut them out.

The cake was stamped twice onto inky mop up card and cut out.

I cut out just the cake from the top image and stuck it over the "blue" cake. I added some glitter pen to create the "jam" and "cream".

I cut out the the fork too and added some white pen detailing to the cup, teapot and plate.

I then adhered these images over those on the background. 

I stamped the sentiments onto white card, cut around them.

and stuck them in place. 

I also added some stickles glitter glue to the cake icing for some extra sparkle. 

Here it is finished;

The above friendship card, for me, is worth the effort of the extra decoupaged detailing, but I also made this non decoupaged version below which I just coloured directly with watercolour pencils. So if you would like to make a quicker version you can. Simply stamp the background with the design I have shared and colour using your favourite medium. 

This is fun card to send to a friend who you might not have seen for a while and need to catch up with...over a cuppa! And of course a slice of cake would make that date extra special. 

All the Visible Image links are listed below;

 Our kind, friendly and supportive customer Facebook 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. 

The main Visible Image Facebook business page is here

Their website 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 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

A friendship card for the Country View Crafts February challenge

 Hi everyone, I am here today with my second design team make to hopefully inspire you to join our February challenge over in the Country View Crafts challenge group on Facebook. The theme this month is "Romance and friendship" You don't need a blog or an Instagram account, just head over to the group and join in with the fun! The link is Here and if you are not already a member just request to join and we will warmly welcome you. It is also be a place you can be the first to hear about workshops, the latest releases etc etc. We have a happy membership of over 370 crafters and we are growing every day. You can enter the challenges up to 5 times as you like as long as you use products from brands which are stocked on the Country View Website.

Today I have made a friendship card.

This is  how it came together, with some links to the the website for the products I used. I made a distress ink background using these colours.

Using the Visible Image A friend like you stamp set I stamped the sentiment and one of the flowers in the vase.

I stamped just the flower head again onto inky mop up card and cut it out.

Then I glued it in place adding some sequins too. 

I finished off the vase with Glossy accents to give a glassy dimension. 

Here is a close up when dry.

and one last shot of my finished card.

Remember you can find me most days over on Instagram Here @jane.tyrrell where I share many, many more makes then I have the time to blog.

I hope I may have inspired you to give our "romance and friendship" challenge a go. This fab prize up for grabs too for one randomly selected and you can enter up to 5 times!

Bye for now,

Jane x

Romance and friendship for Country View Crafts February challenge

 Hi everyone, I am here today with my first design team make to hopefully inspire you to join our February challenge. The theme this month is "Romance and friendship" You don't need a blog or an Instagram account, just head over to the group and join in with the fun! The link is Here and if you are not already a member just request to join and we will warmly welcome you. It is also be a place you can be the first to hear about workshops, the latest releases etc etc. We have a happy membership of over 370 crafters and we are growing every day. You can enter the challenges up to 5 times as you like as long as you use products from brands which are stocked on the Country View Website.

This is the card I made, a Valentine's day card.  I bought this sweet Andy Skinner stamp in the CVC advent sale. You can buy it here , it is such a cute image.

This is how my card came together.

I used the awesome Visible Image distressed brick stencil with these 2 distress inks. to make the background.

I stamped the robots onto a scrap of white card

I coloured with distress pencils and cut them out.

 

I stamped them again on the background, together with the sentiment.

I decoupaged it with the cut out image and also added a little distress pencil colouring to the background.  I also added some heart die cuts as finishing touches, 

Here is a close up

 And one final photo

Remember you can find me most days over on Instagram Here @jane.tyrrell where I share many, many more makes then I have the time to blog.

I hope I may have inspired you to give our "romance and friendship" challenge a go. This fab prize up for grabs too for one randomly selected and you can enter up to 5 times!

I will be back with my 2nd make on Sunday 9th February.

Bye for now,

Jane x

A Visible Image bookmark for those difficult times

 Hi everyone, and welcome to my latest design team make for Visible Image. The theme for our makes this week is "with sympathy" and my brief was to make something "non card". I am sure like me you find it very difficult to make things for such a sad time and I must admit I usually make a card. However a brief is a brief so I put on my thinking cap and decided that a bookmark might be another way of expressing your empathy to someone who is bereaved. You could write some words on the back and it could be kept in a book with memories or even a religious book if they have a faith.

This is what I made

The stamp set I used is a very special one called 

Forever in your heart 

which has a very useful coordinating die

This is how I made it;

I made a blue distress ink background using tumbled glass, stormy sky and salty ocean. (Just press these inks on a kraft sheet add a mist of water and dip in your card. If you dry between the layers you will get  lots of depth). 

I cut it down to a "bookmark" size. You can choose any size you like. Mine is 5.5cm x 21cm. I then stamped the "thinking of your" sentiment from the set in summer breeze blue Versafine clair ink and clear embossed it. 

I then added stamped using the hearts randomly onto the background and coloured some of them in with silver glitter pen. 

The feather was stamped onto 150gsm heat stable vellum using Versamark embossing ink and heat embossed using white sparkle embossing powder. I then die cut it out using the coordinating die. Stamping onto vellum creates a more lifelike feather. 

I adhered the vellum to the bookmark using Glossy accents. I just added some along the "spine" of the feather as I wanted it to be as realistic as possible not just be glued flat. I actually looked up the correct term for the spine as I didn't know..it's called the rachis.. now there is a new word for the day!

Here is my finished bookmark

with a few close ups 

and 1 final photo.

It is often hard to know what to give when a person is grieving. Perhaps even buying a book and putting a similar handmade bookmark inside might show that you are thinking of them at such a tough time. 

All the Visible Image links are listed below;

 Our kind, friendly and supportive customer Facebook 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. 

The main Visible Image Facebook business page is here

Their website 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 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Another wintry scene for our January Country View crafts January challenge

 Hi everyone, I am back with my 2nd design team make to hopefully inspire you to join in with our January Country View Crafts challenge. The theme for this month is "wintry scenes" You don't need a blog or an Instagram account, just head over to the group and join in with the fun! The link is Here and if you are not already a member just request to join and we will warmly welcome you. It is also be a place you can be the first to hear about workshops, the latest releases etc etc. We have a happy membership of over 370 crafters and we are growing every day. You can enter the challenges up to 5 times as you like as long as you use products or brands which are stocked on the Country View Website.

As we are getting towards the end of the month and hopefully some slightly milder winter days I made this card with a winter scene and frost inspired background but with a little nod towards the spring. 

I have added some links in the posts to the products which are available on the CVC website. 

 This is how it came together;

I made a "frosty morning" background using distress mica stains and ink pads 

I then stamped the birthday sentiment from the Visible Image lost for words  stamp set using versafine claire nocture ink and clear heat embossed.

I die cut my Tim Holtz flower field using black card to give it a wintry feel. 

I also die cut a Tim Holtz crow from my stash from inky mop up card.

Then I put my card together adding some sequins and a glitter card border for a frosty effect. 

Here is my finished card once more. 

Remember you can find me most days over on Instagram Here @jane.tyrrell where I share many, many more makes then I have the time to blog.

I hope I may have inspired you to give our "wintry scenes" challenge a go. There is a fab prize up for grabs too for one randomly selected and you can enter up to 5 times!

Bye for now,

Jane x