A new year of design team inspiration for Visible Image

Good morning everyone and welcome to my first blog post of 2024.  I hope you all had an amazing Christmas and new year and are now ready to think ahead to lots of creative enjoyment. This is my first design team make of the year for Visible Image and I decided to make a card with some positive thoughts for the year ahead. It's incredible that this will be my 7th year on their team. I love their products and am honoured to have been on their team as their longest serving design team member.

I used the brilliant No filter stamp set

 I also used a sentiment and the heart from the Affirmations set.

This is what I got up to; 

I chose a background from my stash. This one was made using wilted violet, saltwater taffy, kitsch flamingo and broken china distress oxide sprays. I stamped the no filter face in black Versafine ink and clear embossed it

I then stamped the heart and a sentiment from the Affirmations set and also used 3 of the hashtags from the No filter set.

I added some colours in the hair and to the eyelids and lips

using glitter pens. 

I coloured the hearts using distress pencils.

I then added some kitsch flamingo distress oxide shading to the face and matted onto black card and finally a 5X7" white card blank. I also added some white gel pen details which you can see on the final photos.

Here is my finished card;

with some close ups

and 1 final shot. 

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. 

 I also organize a monthly artist trading card swap in the group.  We will be celebrating 3 years of swapping in May. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Over 150 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. 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. 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Happy new year with Country View challenges

 Happy new year everyone! A warm welcome to the very first day of January 2024. I am here bright and early as I am the host of this month's new challenge over at Country View. As you will remember our challenges are now hosted over on Facebook here but I still like to blog my makes. 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 love to welcome you. It is also a place where you can see Country View Craft products, the latest releases etc etc. We have a happy membership of over 250 crafters already and we are growing every day. 

I try to link up the products I use in my posts but obviously stock on the CVC website sells out quickly . Some may be out of stock when you click on the links. If they are just fill in the email notification and you will be emailed when they are back in stock.

The theme I have chosen for the January challenge is "Get wordy". So I would like to see a sentiment or some words on your entries. You can enter as many times as you like as long as you use products or brands which are stocked on the Country View Website. 

For my first design team inspiration make I just had to make a new year card didn't I!

Here it is; 

The words I used are from the Visible Image "Go to Christmas words" set which you will find here.

I used an old Tim Holtz bells Bigz die from my stash and the brilliant  Mischievous cats Tim Holtz dies.

 The background was made with distress stain sprays  the star stamp is from my stash.

This is what I got up to; I used frayed burlap, prize ribbon and spun sugar distress stain sprays with some Fog mist distress mica stain for a little sparkle. I love the mica sprays and Susan has sold out of that one, the nearest is in this set

I die cut the bells from gold card (sorry the photo is so fuzzy but daylight light it pretty non existent at this time of the year!

I stamped the words at the bottom of the card

I die cut the cats in black and added face details using gold pen

I had a play with positioning the cats

and then put the design together.  I added gold pen details to the bells too. I stamped the stars using Versafine charming pink ink and added some sequins from my stash.

Here is the finished card again

with some close ups

and 1 final shot

I really hope that I may have inspired you to join in with the "Get wordy" fun. Do head over to the challenge on Facebook here.  There is also an amazing prize for one randomly selected winner. 

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

I will be back on Friday with my 2nd "get wordy" make.

Bye for now,

Jane x