A Visible Image Christmas

Good morning today I am sharing my last pre Christmas blogged Visible Image design team make.

As everyone knows my favourite Christmas set ever is their Christmas Robin stamp set. 

Now that they have co ordinating dies it makes them so easy to layer up. 

I used them with the lovely Christmas Eve stencil

I also used the sentiment and snow flurry found in the Snowflake grunge set.

to make a special Christmas card. 

This is what I got up to; I chose one of my shaving foam distress reinker backgrounds from my stash and spread red glitter paste through the Christmas word on the stencil. 

When dry I stamped the sentiment from  Snowflake grunge set underneath and randomly stamped the snowflake flurry from the same set in blue Versafine Clair,

I stamped the large robin from the Christmas Robin stamp set ,  3 holly branches and 2 single holly leaves. I coloured these using distress pencils and die cut them using the co ordinating dies. 

I then put my design together

I added some gold pen and glossy accents detailing which you will see in my photos below. I matted it onto red card and then adhered it to my white card blank. 

Here is my finished card

with a couple of 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 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 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. 

Bye for now,

Jane x

Vintage Christmas post 2

Hi it's time for my 2nd design team make for Country View Challenges to hopefully inspire you to join in our current challenge. The theme for June is "Vintage" so your make must have a vintage vibe to it...so no cute cartoon characters for this one please! 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.

I love a vintage Christmas, this is one of the many sets of Christmas crackers I have made over the years. 

  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. 

Now to me no one does vintage like Tim Holtz and so both of my design team make for this month use Tim products. Also no one does Christmas like Tim so I also decided make a 2nd Christmas card. I do find that having a couple ready made in my stash is very helpful before I start my big Christmas card making in the autumn. 

This is what I got up to;

I sprayed a piece of card using iced spruce and salvaged patina stain sprays. 

I added some background stamping using distress archival inks

I used some of Tim's ephemera and circles 25th December...I wonder why!!!

I then put my design together adding some stars and ribbon and mounted it up and onto a kraft card base.

with a couple of close ups;

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 June challenge here;

Enjoy the rest of the month.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Vintage vibes for Country View Challenges

Good morning and welcome to (hopefully) sunny June.   It's also time for a new challenge over at Country View. The theme for June is "Vintage" so your make must have a vintage vibe to it...so no cute cartoon characters for this one please! 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. 

Now to me no one does vintage like Tim Holtz and so both of my design team make for this month will be using Tim products. Also no one does Christmas like Tim so I also decided to get a start on my Christmas cards  (yes shhhh  don't tell my friend Vivienne, she will have a fit!) I really do find that having a couple ready made in my stash is very helpful before I start my big Christmas card making in the autumn. 

This is what I got up to;

I took some of my Tim Holtz ephemera and teamed it with a paper doll and a 3D angel wing which I embossed using white card.

I made a distress stain spray background using mermaid lagoon and saltwater taffy oxides.

I added some background stamping using distress archival inks

and added Gilded foundry wax to the wings. They shine beautifully IRL.

I then turned my Christmas paper doll into a Christmas angel with them.

I added glossy accents to the holly berries and glitter to the pine needles and put my card together. 

Here it is

with a close up

and 1 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 June challenge here;

I will be back with my 2nd "Vintage" make on 11th June. 

Bye for now,

Jane x