Blow out the candles for Country View challenges

 Hi friends, I am back with my 2nd design team make for our January challenge over at Country View. The theme is "Your year to sparkle and shine". So we would like to see lots of bling, sparkle media etc. 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.

For this make I decided to make a sparkly birthday cake using the awesome Visible Image Blow out the candles stamp set. I appreciate that this set and lots of other are currently out of stock over on the website. Susan will be restocking very soon and if you add your email address she will contact you when they are back in stock. 

This set is just perfect for making quick birthday cards. This is the card for my husband's birthday yesterday as he loves chocolate cake so this is what I baked  made. This is what I got up to;

I used one of my distress ink shaving foam marbled background from my stash and dripped on some snow flurries distress mica stain. I love the sparkle you get with these inks.

I then stamped the large cake onto brown, blue inky mop up and white card and cut the parts out to assemble 1 cake. It's really useful doing it this way as you have 3 cakes to make up. Great instant spares for a quick birthday card.

I stamped the sentiments in place and stamped the candles in place. There is a lovely "glow" stamp in this set which gives a gorgeous outline to the candles. I added a little glitter pen to them and then it was time to assemble my cake

Here is it is;

You can see the Stickles sparkle I added to the icing, in the close up

and one final shot;

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our January "Your year to sparkle and shine "challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

 Once again all the details for the January challenge are here Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website postage FREE on orders over £ 7.50 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Take care and stay safe.

I would love to see you over on Instagram where I share new creative makes nearly every day. This is my link/profile @jane.tyrrell

Sadly these days I just don't have the time to blog everything! 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Stamps and cups for STAMPlorations

Hello and welcome to my inspiration for our first 2022  STAMPlorations theme and photo prompt January  challenge. 

This month our theme is

full details are here.

I have affiliate links in my STAMP posts which simply means that if you click on any of the links here and buy something from the STAMP store I will receive a small commission at no cost whatsoever to you 😊I also offer a very special extra treat if you use my code, details at the end of this post.

You can enter up to a maximum of 3 entries using any stamps.  There are 3 awesome prizes up for grabs; 

$20 prize code to winner ($25 if a STAMPlorations product was used as the main/focal point of the card)

$10 prize code to 2 randomly picked entries ($15 if a STAMPlorations product was used as the main/focal point of the card)

Please remember to add our challenge logo of you are entering via a blog post if you would like to be in with a chance of winning. You don't have to do this if you are linking via IG or other social media platforms, but it would be  great if you do!  Full details can be found here.

You can work with the theme, the photo prompt or both. 

I used the following awesome products and have added live links to them in my post. Remember if you also use my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at the check out you can get an additional 20% off on top of any existing discounts! Shery ships internationally at very low cost too.

Shower of butterflies stencil

and the lovely a cup of roses stamp set. 

This is what I got up to;

I placed the Shower of butterflies stencil at the side of my card and kept it in place using the magnets from my Wendy Vecchi Stay-tion

Using shaded lilac and picked raspberry distress inks lightly blended the inks around the stencil. 

I added a little ink to the sides of the card too.

I stamped, coloured and cut out the  a cup of roses . I also stamped one of the sentiments at the top of the card.

I then stuck the focal in place and matted up my card. I added some sequins for a finishing touch. 

Here is my card

with a close up 

and one final shot.

 I hope I may have inspired you to join in with this month's challenge, which is open internationally. Once again all the details are  here.

Remember that if you order more than $15 of product from the website (after discounts and before shipping) and quote my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at checkout not only can you get 20% off your order you can also choose a product for FREE up to the value of $7! Here is a link to the website.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

I would love to see you also over on Instagram where I share new creative makes nearly every day. This is my link/profile @jane.tyrrell

Sadly these days I just don't have the time to blog everything! 

Bye for now,

Jane x 

 

Happy new year!

Hello everyone and welcome to 2022..happy new year! Let's hope that this really is the year when our lives can start to return to some kind of normality. I hope you had a splendid Christmas?  Of course it's time for our first challenge over at Country View and for January the theme is "Your year to sparkle and shine". So we would like to see lots of bling, sparkle media etc. 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 decided to make a very sparkly new year card to ring in 2022. This is what I got up to;

I cut out a circle from a 5.5" square of black card. I used the new year sentiment from Visible Image's Go to Christmas words and gold embossed it at the top and the "sparkle sentiment "from the Rays of light stamp set at the bottom. ( Edit; I notice that the stamps I have used have been so popular that sold out on the website, just add your email and Susan will contact you as soon as she has restocked!)

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The rays in this set are really awesome. I repeat stamped them in red embossing glitter. I also used the bubbles in the set to stamp in white. 

On another sheet of card I dripped some of Tom Holtz' mica stain sprays. I then stamped another ray in the centre.

I stamped the glass from the awesome Keep your gin up set and coloured the lemon slice. I stamped and cut out the ice cube too. 

I then stuck it in front of the ray.

I added a couple of gold die cut stars. I used 3d foam to layer up the front. Here is my finished card;

with a close up

and one final shot.

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our January "Your year to sparkle and shine "challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

 Once again all the details for the January challenge are here, Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website postage FREE on orders over £ 7.50 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Take care and stay safe. I will be sharing my 2nd design team project on the 19th.

I would love to see you over on Instagram where I share new creative makes nearly every day. This is my link/profile @jane.tyrrell

Sadly these days I just don't have the time to blog everything! 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

The January blues

Hello blogging friends. I hope you are all keeping well? Here in the UK the pandemic is taking a turn for the worse and cases are rises exponentially . The vaccine is thankfully being rolled out very quickly and let's really hope that this surge can soon be controlled.  My daughter (an NHS doctor) has had her first jab and my parents who are in their late 80s are hoping to be called up very soon. My Hb continues to work from home and I have now moved indoors again from my garden studio to craft so we are cozied up indoors for now with Billy our dear cat.  I get out for my daily walks and most days go to see my sweet dino ducks who never cease to make me smile. 

I thought I would share a few recent photos of the lovely blue skies we have enjoyed recently despite the cold and show some photos taken in the week of my sweet dinos.

and as the sun went down it shone beautifully through the willow tree. 

Dotty's Teahouse, where I sell my cards has now had to shut for any takeaways so I have had some crafting time to experiment, which is always fun.  It's not me but my crafting which has taken on "The blues" for the last week. I take part in a monthly artist trading card and coins swap and this was the theme. I made my cards and coins with the same theme and then my imagination took over and I decided to make a tag with "the blues".

I have already posted these on Instagram where I just celebrated my 1,000 post. If you would like to find me this is the link 

I made some winter blues artist trading cards using Lavinia stamps

a "Blue starry tree" tag with an oxide galaxy background with Tim Holtz dies

and some "Playing the blues" coins using Visible Image stamps

I would like to enter my coins into the following challenges;

Allsorts favourite colour no guess as to mine...blue of course!

Crafty friends 1/3 anything goes

Creative fingers 1/3 anything goes

Cute card Thursday 1/3 anything goes

Stamping sensations 1/3 favourite stamps these Visible Image Jazz it up stamps are one of my very favoruite male sets. 

I have been keeping very busy with my crafting with some secret, for now projects, too which I will share as soon as I can. 

Stay safe, stay indoors and stay positive.  Please take great care. Keep mindful, things will improve in the coming months, we just need to get through these difficult weeks ahead. 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

January theme and sketch challenge at STAMPlorations

Hello and welcome to our January theme and sketch challenge over STAMPlorations, the first of 2019. 

We have a fun theme this month

and a lovely sketch to work with

 Before I share my January inspiration I just wanted to give you a heads up of a great giveway which closes on Monday here This post is where Shery shares her fave 3 of each designers' makes from 2018. If you would like to see which of mine she chose just head on over.  You can win a $50 package of stamps just by leaving a comment over there so please don't miss out and yes it is open to everyone, internationally. 

 So back to our January theme and sketch challenge. The rules in brief are that you need to use stamping on your projects. You don't have to use STAMPlorations stamps to enter but of course we love it if you do! You can link up 6 times with new blog posts and you need to add our logo to your post. You can go with the theme, the sketch or both, the choice is yours. There are some fab prizes to be won too!

Today I am sharing my first card to hopefully give you some inspiration to join us. I have chosen to use both the theme and sketch.

I used this sweet stamp set called Tweet love

and the sentiments from party time

I love the "stitched" feel to the Tweet Love animal stamps so I got out my sewing machine to add some sewing both to the edges of the card and to the panels of stamping.

I stamped and coloured the images with Zig watercolour markers (I didn't use them all in the final card)

Here is my final card, mounted onto a Kraft card blank.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges

Mix it up 2/5 anything goes

Love to craft 2/5 anything goes
A bit more time to craft 2/3 anything goes
Happy little stampers watercolour challenge anything goes

You can see more inspiration and get more info over at the main challenge blog post here.  There is a $15 voucher for the winner, voted for by the DT as well as 3 $5 gift vouchers to the 3 runners ups. it would be lovely to see you join us. And remember that if you use my code STAMPGIRLJANE at the checkout you could save an extra 10% off in addition to any current discount on the shop website here

Enjoy the weekend ahead.

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

A little colour in January

I am still being delighted by a little colour from the plucky little violas in my ports in the garden.

I deadhead them regularly and they just keep blooming and blooming. 

 I also spied that my bulbs, planted in the autumn, are pushing up. 

We are promised a bit of a cold blast of weather for the next week but I am sure that my bulbs will keep snug.

I also have a little ray of sunshine in the house...my darling Daisy has come to stay for a few days.

We have been crafting, especially die cutting which she finds really fascinating.  I have lots of new crafting bits to show her too. Santa was kind to Nanna, so perhaps I must have been good after all 😃

I have been also making some stock for Dotty's and today's card challenge entry is a very cheery and colourful one.

This is a simply print digi image from Lili of the Valley. The stamped sentiment tag is also LOTV. I have used my Tim Holtz swirling stars die on the background...I think this is my favourite ever die!

It is for sale at Dotty's Tea House, Carshalton High Street, Surrey, SM5 2AE

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Mix it up 1/5 anything goes

Love to craft 1/5 anything goes

Dies R us 1/3 anything goes with dies in the store mine is the Memory Box stitched rectangle I used to die cut the image.

A bit more time to craft 1/3 anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's patterned paper January

Must dash, my little ray of sunshine is calling.

Thanks for stopping by,

Back tomorrow with my first STAMPlorations inspiration for 2019

Bye for now,

Jane x