Another male birthday card for Country View Challenges

Hello this is my 2nd make for March for Country View challenges. The theme for this month is to make a masculine birthday card. 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 this card I decided to use the Visible Image Ride the wind set

with the birthday sentiment from You're a classic (not in stock at the moment but it is on order. If you message CVC Susan can tell you when they are in)

 I also used the brilliant Off the grid stencil. 

This is what I got up to; I used a piece of inky mop up card from my stash and placed the off the grid stencil over it. I moved the stencil around and added various distress inks including lumberjack plaid through different parts of it. 

until I was happy with the background,

I then stamped the bike and skid mark from Ride the wind onto the background and stamped the bike again onto white card. This 2nd image I coloured and cut out.

I then stuck the coloured image on top. 

I stamped the sentiment above the bike.

I also stamped the birthday sentiment from You're a classic (out of stock at the moment) onto white card. I then matted everything up and stuck it to a white square card blank.

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 March challenge here. 

Bye for now,

Jane x

Male birthday card for the March Country View Challenge

Good morning and welcome to March. This is the first of 2 posts for me today. This first post is my design team make for our new challenge over at Country View Challenges.  The theme for this month is to make a masculine birthday card. 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.

I decided to make a male birthday card inspired by the card I made for my son's birthday last week. This was the card;

I used the brilliant new Visible Image cat set called "That lovin feline" which is on the CVC website here. 

with the "Blow out the candles set" available here. 

So using my son's card for inspiration this is what I got up to;

I sprayed candied apple and fossilized amber onto a piece of watercolour card allowing it to drip down and then dried it off.  I turned the card upside down. 

I stamped the large cake from  "Blow out the candles set" available here in brown and then just the icing in red. I cut both out and added gold pen to the plate.

I added red gel pen to make the jam and stuck everything together. 

I stamped some cats from  "That lovin feline" here and coloured them with my distress pencils. Susan has all 3 sets in stock. I used colours from set 1 and 3. 

I positioned the cake and then stamped 3 cast above.

I also stamped the birthday sentiment from Blow out the candles and one of the fun sentiments in the 

"That lovin feline"set. I changed my mind and didn't matt onto black as you will see in my final photos.

Then I put everything together and matted the card onto red before adding it to a card blank. 

Here is my finished card;

with a close up of the brilliant cats

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 March challenge here. 

 I'll be back with my 2nd male birthday card on 21st March. 

I would also like to give you a heads up that in 10 days time I am delighted be demoing again for Country View crafts at the Crafterama "Crafting at Ally Pally show" at Alexandra Palace in London. If you came last March it would be so lovely to see you again. If not why not put the date in your diary? The show is running the weekend of Saturday and Sunday 11th and 12th March. I will demoing all things Visible Image including these fun new cats and all the new release plus distress inks, sprays and pencils.  We had such fun last year. I will again be offering a little crafting giveaway in a randomly selected draw for anyone who stops by our stand. I will be sharing more details and some of my sample makes nearer the time so please check out my Instagram account;  @jane.tyrrell where I will be posting my updates.

Here is a photo from last year's show;

I will also be back in half an hour with my 2nd blog post today as it is also time for my Visible Image DT make too. Busy, busy, busy 😂

Bye for now,

Jane x

Stamps and text for the STAMPlorations April theme and photo prompt challenge

 I am back with my second blog post on my birthday as it is also time for my design team post for our next theme and photo prompt challenge over at  STAMPlorations.  

Our theme for April is 

Stamps and text

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. 

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.

I used the following awesome products and have added live links to the website in my post.

Coffee for all seasons 

and 

sketchy coffee cups stamp sets.

This is what I got up to; I used a page from my much used for crafting "Tale of 2 cities" which I glued onto thin card and cut to size for my card background,

I stamped all the seasons from Coffee for all seasons 

onto kraft card in brown ink, clear embossed and cut them out. 

I stamped and cut out some of the fab cups from the sketchy coffee cups stamp sets.

and added a little colour to them. I the put my design together; 

Here is my finished card

and one last 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 

Mother's day for March over at Country View challenges

 Happy March friends, spring really is just around the corner now and so is Mother's Day. We will have spring bulbs like these from last year in my garden to look forward to.

Here in the UK it is on Sunday 27th . Mother's day is also the theme for our new challenge over at Country View. So we would like to see projects which you would send to your Mum or of course your Mother's day cards.  You can make anything you like using any products. 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 used the following products; I have added clickable links within this post to the CVC website. If anything is out of stock just add your name in the email notification and Susan will email you when she has them back in stock. 

Sketched tulips

the Broken mesh layering die

and also the Mother sentiment (not in stock but if you would like it do email CVC)

This is what I got up to;

I used these distress inks to create my background which I then cut to size.

I stamped the Mother definition at the bottom and clear embossed it.

I added the background stamps from Sketched tulips

  using kitsch flamingo. It is worth buying this set just for the gorgeous script stamp!

I then stamped the tulip and added colour using watercolour pens. 

I die cut a piece of inky mop up card using the Broken mesh layering die

and cut it into pieces to add around the edges of the card.

The finishing touch was some sequins, before I matted my card and adhered it to a card blank. 

Here is my finished card

with a close up showing the background stamping

and one final shot;

 I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our March "Mother's day "challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

 Once again all the details for the challenge are here.  Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website UK postage is FREE on orders over £20 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Take care and stay safe. I will be sharing my 2nd design team project soon,  on 5th March.

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! 

Before you go I have some very exciting news that I will be demoing for Country View Crafts at the "Crafterama at Ally Pally" show on Saturday12th and Sunday 13th March. It is wonderful that craft shows are starting up again and I do love Alexander Palace. It is such an iconic place to host a craft show. So if you happen to be near London or fancy a day out I will be demoing Visible Image stamps and stencils plus the whole Tim Holtz distress range, including the awesome new colour, saltwater taffy (and more!) 

 Come and say hi, it would be fab to see you there.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x