Seeing the colours of spring

Good morning another new week beckons and the extra daylight in the evenings is so noticeable. The colours around me are so fresh too.

 Billy is loving being outside too.

 There is so much pretty blossom too.

I used all these blues and pinks are the colour palette for my Monday Visible Image DT make. I worked with 4 of the new mixed media stamp sets

See everything

wings of change

 and a sentiment from the fab The world need art

I decided to make a rocker card as I have not made one of these for years and it is a fun card shape. There are lots of tutorial on the Internet and the circle dies I used to cut the layers are from The Works.

I stamped the eye image onto card and coloured it with distress inks  .

and then masked it out before adding some more distress inks. I also added some extra colours using gel pens.

                                     The background layer is a gelli plate print from my stash using the Random art of kindness set

I added the butterflies and some extra colour with gel pens. 

I made the rocker using pink card and then put everything together. 

Here is my card

with some close ups

and one last shot

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

Craft stamper take it make it 3/3 April

Creative moments 3/3 anything goes

Penny Black and More 2/3 Springtime

Lil patch of crafty friends 3/3 anything goes

Crafter's castle 3/3 anything goes

Sweet stampin 3/3 mellow yellow/spring

Let's craft and create 2/3 Anything goes/butterflies

All the Visible Image links can be found here;

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you there. You will see lots of gorgeous makes by the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity.

The main Visible Image Facebook page is here; there are regular giveaways...open world wide.

And the shop web site is here; where all their gorgeous stamps and stencils can be purchased. 

Thanks for stopping today and enjoy the fresh colours of spring.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Crafting at Ally Pally 2019

This year was a first for me as I was delighted to be asked by Helen and Mark to demo at the Crafting at Ally Pally show in London at Alexandra Palace, on the Stampers' Grove Stand. James and Emma aka Stampers' Grove take Visible Image products all around the country selling at various shows.
I made a few samples in preparation and the one below demonstrated using the new alcohol ink pearls.
Here is a little snapshot.

I didn't take my camera with me so I am grateful that Helen took some photos, these are hers, thanks Helen xxx
There were lots of questions to answer!

Tips to share

 and yes I always get very inky!

It really was such fun sharing my love of Visible Image products and to put names to faces. I was also delighted to introduce new some customers too. One lady who was visiting from Venezuela. She had never stamped and was very keen to start. I took her around the stand and she picked up her first ever stamping kit including a set of Visible Image stamps. She was so excited to fly home on the Sunday and get started!

My Monday design team for Visible Image is the accordion card I took to the show as it included stamps from a 6 sets of the new mixed media ones. I wanted something to show them all together. These sets have been so popular.
Creative chaos

 See everything

Random art of kindness

 Art rebel

  The world needs art

 and Wings of change 

 People at the show asked how my card was made, as I didn't demo this one.  I told then that my step my step would be on my blog today so here goes.
I used PaperArtsy Fresco paints.

and brayered a background onto 2 A4 sheets of card as I wanted to make 2 masterboards to cut up.
I used these colours of Archival ink

and randomly stamped over the sheets using all the image sets. Here is one of the sheets in progress

I then die cut my accordion card

and stamped the 4 World needs art sentiments, 1 on each panel.
I also added some stamps which I yellow embossed

and also stamped and cut out a few images.

I then put everything together. Here is my accordion card

with some close ups;

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

Craft stamper take it make it 1/3 April
The butterfly challenge D is for mine is denim blue (my butterflies and fish) and Dartmouth green which is the green archival ink I used.
Creative moments 1/3 anything goes
Allsorts 1/3 sentiment in focus
Addicted to stamps 1/3 lots of layers/stamps
Penny Black and More Springtime
Lil patch of crafty friends 1/3 anything goes
Crafter's castle 1/3 anything goes
Sweet stampin 1/3 mellow yellow/spring
Let's craft and create 1/3 Anything goes/butterflies

Now after I finished off my card I had some off-cuts which sat on my side. I had a flash of inspiration that I could use them to made Artist trading coins, which I did.

These were all packed ready for taking to the show when I had one last idea. If I attached a badge back to them I could turn them into badges for Helen, Mark and myself to wear at the show. I quickly ordered some on line and hey presto, one of a kind badges!

which Mark, Helen and I wore at the show!

I really had a lovely day and thoroughly enjoyed demoing and meeting so many lovely crafters, new and seasoned!

All the Visible Image links can be found here;

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you there. You will see lots of gorgeous makes by the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity.

The main Visible Image Facebook page is here; there are regular giveaways...open world wide.

And the shop web site is here; where all their gorgeous stamps and stencils can be purchased. 

Thanks for stopping by and getting to the end of this rather long post. I would also like to warmly welcome my newest followers. Thanks for joining me here on my creative journey. 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

A rocking birthday

This is my second post today. If you are looking for my Country View Challenges post you can find it here

So 2 posts on my birthday, who would believe it! Thanks so much for coming back. 

For my Visible Image Monday design team I made something inspired by some of the bands I loved as a teenager...Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Alice Cooper....yes you get the picture I was quite a heavy rocker. It seemed just the right thing to be celebrating on my birthday.

I wanted to do something very different with the new release stamps and combine them with a couple of other existing sets. 

These are the stamp sets I used with links to the website;

You are not alone

 Live life now

 and wings of change

I have also been having fun making Gelli prints using the

entwined butterflies stencil

This is what I got up to. I used red and black acryllic paint and pulled a print.

I then stamped the inky butterfly from live life now.

On a piece of card I red embossed the sentiment in this set and also one from "We are not alone". 

I stamped and embossed some of the medium butterflies onto black and white card and one large one onto white card. I added a hint of colour to this butterfly.

I red embossed the hands and cut the fingers a little to enable them to "hold" the largest butterfly from wings of change. In real life this is all very dimensional

I then put my card together.

Some close ups;

and one last shot

Well that's me done for today. I am being taken out to celebrate by my dear Hb. 

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

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes

Crafty Catz 2/3 anything goes

Polkadoodles anything creative/mixed media

All the Visible Image links can be found here;

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you there. You will see lots of gorgeous makes by the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity.

The main Visible Image Facebook page is here; there are regular giveaways...open world wide.

And the shop web site is here; where all their gorgeous stamps and stencils can be purchased. 

Thanks for stopping by twice in one day. And in case you are wondering.. yes I am still quite a Rock Chick..or should I say at my age, Rock Hen!!

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x