Daisy Grunge in August for Country View Challenges

 Hello, I am back today with my 2nd design team post for Country View challenges to hopefully inspire you to join our current "birthday" challenge for July.  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. 

For this birthday card I decided to go floral and used the gorgeous Visible Image Daisy Grunge stamp set

 with the bee-autiful Bee Happy set. 

and the birthday sentiment from Lost for words

This is what I got up to;

 I made a background using saltwater taffy and uncharted mariner distress inks.

I stamped Daisy grunge and the bees in place and clear heat embossed them.

I painted the leaves with a little extra saltwater taffy and uncharted mariner ink.

I coloured the bees with gold gel pen and the daisy centre with blue glitter pen. I finished off with some glossy accents to the centre of the daisy and some sequins.

 Here is my finished card;

with a close up of the lovely Daisy and bees.

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our August challenge. You can use any stamps products, the choice is yours. 

 Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website UK postage is FREE on orders over £20.00

Once again you can find all the details for our August challenge here. 

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! 

A little heads up that if you would like to see a version this card made in person and how to make the distress ink background, I will be demoing it and lots of other designs for Country View Crafts at the Stamperama Show at Bedford International athletic centre on Sunday 25th September. Here is a link for the details. Pop the date in your diary. I will share more of my demos and samples during the coming weeks. 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Travelling by plane with Country View challenges

 Hello, I am back today with my 2nd design team post for Country View challenges to hopefully inspire you to join our current "travel" challenge for July.  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.

For this make I dug out one of  my old Tim Holtz side order dies. I really love these and die cut them in batches in my little sidekick machine.

I also die cut Tim's globe;

and found a piece of map DP in my paper stash.

I stamped one of my STAMPlorations sentiments and die cut it into a square.

Then I put my design together. Here it is;

with a close up

and one final shot;

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our July challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

 Once again all the details for the challenge are  Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website UK postage is FREE on orders over £20.00

Once again here you can find all the details for our June challenge here;

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

More stars for Country View challenges

  Hello I am here today with my 2nd design team inspiration make for our June challenge over at County View Challenges. The theme for the month is "Seeing stars". 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 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. 

When I shared my first make on 1st June I mentioned that I had quite a lot of die cut stars left over. I decided to use them for my 2nd design team make today.

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This is what I got up to ;

I stamped the Congrats sentiment from Visible Image's

Lost for words sentiment set

onto a piece of white card using Black ink and clear heat embossed it.

I had a play with placement of my die cut stars and then glued them in place.

I added a few sequins too for extra detail. I then matted it onto navy blue card and onto a 5X7" card blank.  A nice quick and very clean and simple (for me!) make.

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 June challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

 Once again all the details for the challenge are  Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website UK postage is FREE on orders over £20.00

Once again here you can find all the details for our June challenge  here.

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

More stamps and numbers in March for STAMPlorations

 Hello this is my 2nd blog post today and it's time for some more inspiration for our March theme and photo prompt challenge over at STAMPlorations.  

I have affiliate links in my STAMP posts which simply means that if you click on any of the live links here and buy something from the STAMP store I will receive a small commission at no cost whatsoever to you 😊  I also have a special code you can use; If you order more than $15 of product from the website (after discounts and before shipping) and quote my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at the checkout you can get 20% off your order on top of any other savings offered!  I also have a very special extra treat if you use my special code with any orders, details are at the end of this post.

You can enter up to a maximum of 3 entries. There are awesome prizes up for grabs; A $20 prize code for the winner, as well as $7 prize codes awarded to 3 randomly selected entries. Please remember to add our challenge logo to your post if you would like to be in with a chance of winning. Full details can be found here.

You can work with the theme, the photo prompt or both as I always love to do. 

I worked with 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.

It's a girl thing sunshine, stamp set for the birds and nesting tags die set

 dies and the awesome slimline stencil leaf prints 4. (Do check out Shery's slimline stencils here she has some great designs in her store)

This is what I got up to;

I used the slimline stencil leaf prints 4 and sprayed it with frayed burlap distress stain spray. I used this to print onto a piece of watercolour card, cut it down and matted it onto gold card.

I die cut  some gold birds using for the birds die

I added some stamping using It's a girl thing sunshine, and made a tag using a tag from the nesting tags die set. I added some extra colour using worn lipstick distress ink. Finally I added some die cut numbers.

Here is my finished make;

with a couple of close ups,

and one final shot.

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with the challenge, which is open internationally. Once again 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. My little extra treat is that if you do this 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.

Bye for now,

Jane x 

Stamps and numbers for STAMPlorations

Hello everyone. This is the final of 3 blog posts from me today. Thanks for coming back to see what I have been up to. The Theme and Photo prompt challenge for STAMPlorations is now back after our little break in February.  This is the lovely theme for March. 

I have affiliate links in my STAMP posts which simply means that if you click on any of the live links here and buy something from the STAMP store I will receive a small commission at no cost whatsoever to you 😊  I also have a special code you can use; If you order more than $15 of product from the website (after discounts and before shipping) and quote my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at the checkout you can get 20% off your order on top of any other savings offered!  I also have a very special extra treat if you use my special code with any orders, details are at the end of this post.

You can enter up to a maximum of 3 entries. There are awesome prizes up for grabs; A $20 prize code for the winner, as well as $7 prize codes awarded to 3 randomly selected entries. Please remember to add our challenge logo to your post if you would like to be in with a chance of winning. Full details can be found here.

You can work with the theme, the photo prompt or both as I always love to do. 

I worked with 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.

Trendy birds 2

and the smallest die from Crazy running stitched nesting dies

This is what I got up to;

I made a distress ink background using picked raspberry, barn door and worn lipstick distress stain sprays.

I cut 2 pieces, one for the background which I stamped with the small birds and a 2nd which I die cut an oval from. Using the smallest die from Crazy running stitched nesting dies I die cut in gold card and then cut out an oval which I in filled with the inky oval. I stamped the bird from Trendy birds 2 and coloured it with Zig pens and added one of the sentiments from the set.  I then die cut some ovals and stamped them again with the small birds adding die cut numbers.

It was then time to put my design together. Here is my finished card. 

with a close up

and one final shot.

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

We love chocolate Baroque Flowers, butterflies or birds

Crafty catz anything goes

Simon says stamp Wednesday 3/3 anything goes

Allsorts 1/3 feminine

Sweet stampin 2/3 shabby chic or distressed

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with the challenge, which is open internationally. Once again 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 as an extra treat 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 will be back with my 2nd DT project on 15th of this month.

Bye for now,

Jane x 

November contrasts for the theme and photo prompt STAMPlorations challenge

This is my second post today. Welcome to the latest STAMPlorations challenge where our theme is "stamps and contrast". You can find all the details and more inspiration from my teamies here.

 I now 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 can also a offer a very special extra treat if you use my code, details at the end of this post.

Here is our challenge theme banner for November 

You can enter up to a maximum of 3 entries. There are awesome prizes up for grabs; A $20 prize code for the winner, as well as $7 prize codes awarded to 3 randomly selected entries. Please remember to add our challenge logo to your post if you would like to be in with a chance of winning. Full details can be found  here.

I worked with 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.

You can work with the theme, the photo prompt or both as I always love to do. 

I used the following products;

Snow much

snowflakes from the Christmas reindeer stamps

 and the  Stitched winter landscape die

This is what I got up to. I used black and white contrasting card and I die cut the background in white card. I stamped the sweet snowman and boy and added just red and green glitter pen which are contrasting colours. 

I stamped white snowflakes from the reindeer and snow much stamp sets again as a contrast of black/white onto a 5X7" piece of  black card.

My final contrast was to die cut some glitter stars whose texture contrasted with the smoothness of the black and white card. I then put my design together.

Here it is finished.

with a close up

I hope I may have inspired you to join our new November challenge. Remember all the details can be found  here.

So before I close here is my treat I mentioned at the beginning of this post...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 will be back with my 2nd DT project on 15th of this month.

Bye for now,

Jane x