Cats eyes

Good morning it is time for my 2nd DT post for Country View Crafts for the current March challenge I am hosting which I called "The eyes have it". I would like to see creations featuring an eye or eyes either as the main focus of a project or part of a person/face which again is prominent. Please, no tiny birds in a tree where we can just about find a glimpse of 1 eye using a microscope! They can also be eyes from animals/ characters or fantasy creatures as long as it is the focus of your entry.  One lucky randomly selected entry will receive a £20 gift code to spent on the website. 

All the details can be found here

If you missed my first eye project on Sunday you can find it here

For today's project I enlisted the help of my sweet cat Billy. He's just come downstairs to say hello and will take over from me here.

 Hi all

I'm Billy and usually I only write Jane's blog posts when the trees come into the house and I get mu annual visit from Santa and Rudolf ....but rather than trees in the house this time there is .............a Bear in the house.....

Yes her son's dog is staying..he made these eyes at me but I'm staying upstairs where I'm safe.

Bear has also made himself at home in my newly landscaped garden too..Jane says she will share some photos soon.

Jane thought I could help her making a card for Bear's 8th birthday on Friday (28th Feb) I knew just which stamp set to suggest....tee hee! Who says cats are not clever 😼
This is one of the fab Visible Image stamp sets called Curious Cats which Susan has on the website here (does that mean she sells spiders too??)

I think it looks a little like me doesn't it?
Jane is always crafting and there are often pieces of card lying around which she calls inky mop ups.
I put my foot on this one as I liked the bright colours.
She also used one of the new Visible Image sentiment sets, this one is the Happy Birthday one (you can buy it here.) I had a look around and found there are lots of lovely new occasions verses and they are just £5.99 too! NO sign of spiders though.
I watched Jane put this together, here's what she got up to; she stamped the face and sentiment

She also got out the new scribble stencil I chose it as I thought it looked like a ball of wool, that's the cat in me!

She blended oxide inks to add a little colour and texture, just like me!
Next came the eye colour...I handed her the green pen...

 and a pink nose, using me as the model of course.

Here is her finished card...

with some close ups

and one final shot.

Jane usually enters something called challenges but she has been too rushed off her feet so she just wants me to purr at this point...never a problem!

I am hoping normal service will be restored in the house soon when Bear goes home. Thanks for stopping by and when Jane says "The eyes have it" it has to be Cat not Dog eyes every time...don't you agree?

Back again in December....unless Jane goes mad again and does a Christmas in the summer post again...

Bye for now,

Billy and Jane (and I suppose Bear too) xxx

2020 Vision

Good morning it's time for my fortnightly design team post for Visible Image...and yes it features the awesome new 2020 Vision stamp set again. Do you think I like it just a bit?

For this make I decided to create a piece with the eye masked to keep the white white! I shared this rainbow version on social media last week and at the recent Create It show.

This is what I got up to. I stamped the main image using black Versafine and clear embossed it.

On a scrap of card I roughly stamped just the eye and cut out a mask

I placed the mask over the eye and added some Infusions and a spritz of water.

 Once dry, with the mask still in place, I added some antique linen and broken china distress oxide.

 I stamped out 1 of the awesome sentiments from the set and decided to cut them into cloud shapes as I felt my piece had a real "sky" feel to it. I edged them with more blue ink.

 I then removed the mask and added blue glitter pen to the eye and some white accents to some of the bubbles. I then added Glossy Accents which you can see in the finished photos.

Here is my finished card

 a close up

 and one last shot.

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

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes
The house that stamps built 3/3 anything goes
Through the craft room room door 3/3 anything goes

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Remember that the new release is out now. You can buy it here on the website or from your local stockist.

All the Visible Image links are listed below

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. Do check out the Facebook LIVES and vidoes where you will be able to see lots of the samples we have been making with the new release in the flesh!

Their Instagram page can be found here

  Pinterest  here

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

If you would like to see me in action remember that I am demonstrating again on Thursday 19th and Friday 20th March at the NEC Birmingham Creative Craft show for Stampers Grove. The show runs 19-22nd March.  I will be sharing lots of tips and techniques, all  the new Visible Image stamps and stencils release plus lots of the wonderful oldies too. Thank you to everyone who came to see me at the recent Farnborough Create It show, your support and kind words are so appreciated.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x