Giveaway winner and a taste of Tuscany

Hello friends.  I am back not only with my giveaway winner but also to share some photos of our holiday.  Yes we managed to escape to Italy for a week and got home on Monday. It was such a wonderful week and where we stayed in the middle of a wine estate in Tuscany meant there was no need to socially distance as there was no one around for miles!

As the week progressed it got hotter and hotter so the pool was bliss. 

The grounds provided perfect crafting inspiration.

The only sounds were the bees buzzing and the chirrup of the crickets. 

So back to my winner. All the names and multiples were put into a hat and my Hb pulled out..

drum roll....

I was delighted to see Vivienne's name as she has been a rock and total supporter of my blog since I started writing it 10 years ago. Even though she no longer blogs she still comments on all my blog posts, even if I have 2 in a day at the beginning of the month. Thanks V you really are a deserving winner. I will get your prize posted by the end of the week. 

My creative project today is one of the holiday makes I made in Tuscany. There were so many delightful spots to craft from like the one below.  

While away I decided to make a series of ATCs which I may make a little booklet for when I get the chance. 

You can follow me on Instagram; here or search for me as @jane.tyrrell . Those of you who do will have seen them but this is my challenge entry for today.

All the products are Tim Holtz.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges;

Dragonfly dreams 1/3 anything goes
Simon says stamp Monday summer memories
Creative artiste 1/3 anything goes
We love to create 1/3 anything goes

I will share some more photos of our Italian getaway soon, meanwhile is steaming here in the South of England. It reached 37c yesterday during the day here and it was still 28c at 10pm!
Phew! Today it's steaming away but I do think a storm is brewing....

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Oh and a little heads up that I am in print again with a 3 card mixed media feature in the latest edition of Creative stamping magazine. Issue #86 which is on sale now!

I'm back on Friday with a blog post sharing a couple of my makes and 1 made just for sharing here at Jane's Journal!

Giveaway and garden winners

My summer jewellery giveaway closed last night and I sorted out the number of names to go in the hat. Some people had 1 entry others 2 and some 3 as they had also shared it on their own blogs. Thank you everyone who entered my jewellery giveaway. All the names went into my straw hat ...Billy adjudicated

and my Hb as soon as he walked in from work was made to do the drawing. M pulled out.........

drum roll.......................

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The lovely Susan of  Mary Jane's Tearoom 

Very well done Susan and I think you should buy a lottery ticket (Susan was one of my winners in my last giveaway). Susan and I often joke that we have several parallels in our lives including daughters studying/studied medicine and even that the initial of her blog are the same as my Hbs :0)  I hope you enjoy wearing your summery necklace (or giving it as a gift) as much as I enjoyed making it.  I am sorry that there can only be one winner but there will be another giveaway soon. Thanks also for leaving such kind comments on my anniversaries post, I really loved reading every single one of them. BTW if you are quick Susan has a giveaway on her own lovely blog at the moment....pop on over there and join the fun.

My other winnings today are from my garden. The lovely hot sunshine has brought everything on so much.

 My pots this year have been spectacular

 I have grown some new plants, cucamelons and asparagus peas which are coming along well, more of these in another post

 My aubergines are like purple jewels hanging from their stems.

Pretty  trailing petunia 

 Jackanapes viola which my Mum bought me.This old variety as an amazing cottage garden scent to it.

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 Chillies in lots of varieties

 This purple variety is called fairy lights...don't let the gentle name deceive you...it is soo hot!

I even have a couple of squash. My Dad grew the plants from seeds.

  I have lots of gorgeous green peppers which I am leaving on the plants to turn red as I much prefer the sweetness of a red pepper.

 Ever reliable runner beans....

 and this year I tried some mange tout...now these are delicious and next year I plan to grow more of these.

and my tomatoes are just about ripening.

So it's winners all round then in the garden too.


My card challenge for today takes it's inspiration from my sunny garden. I have used my favourite Bella sleeping by Wild Rose Studios. It is a new baby boy card and is for sale here in my Etsy shop
I have used lots of bright sunny colours and butterflies.

I have make an embossed background with the blue card. The small butterflies are Martha Stewart. The large one is my favourite Cheery Lynn exotic butterfly. There are also some Cheery Lynn Olive branches cut in yellow and green.

You can also see in this close up a blue heart button tied with green twine which matches the green gingham ribbon. I LOVE gingham ribbon. The sentiment in LOTV.
I have coloured my stamp with Promarkers and highlighted with Prismacolor pencils.











I would like to enter my card into the following challenges

Top Tip Tuesday Embossing
Papertake Weekly anything goes
Penny Black and More In the garden
Crafts to Challenge you Summer days, fun in the sun
Emma's Cards Floral
Divas by design bingo my line is the diagonal line;embossing, die cuts and punches and flowers
The Paper Shelter punches/dies
As you like it favourite ribbon and why as I said above I really love gingham ribbon and I think it is perfect for baby cards. I also love this bright green as it really screams life to me!
Crafty Ribbons anything goes with ribbon
Cute Card Thursday die-ing to punch
Jelly Park cuddly wuddly
Make it Monday Linky Party #152

Thanks for visiting and a very warm welcome to my recent new followers. It's so good to see everyone here and that you take the time to leave so many sweet comments. I hope you all have a lovely weekend...we have one more big treat coming up on Saturday..we are being taken as guests to Ascot to see some more horse racing. I am so excited after my introduction to horse racing at Glorious Goodwood  recently. Having never been racing before to get the opportunity to attend twice in as many weeks is an incredibly lucky coincidence..perhaps I should be buying that lottery ticket along with Susan.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x