Time to start a new chapter

Good morning, what a change in the weather for me, last Wednesday I was basking in 33c in Rhodes and although the weather over the weekend was lovely it is a real temperature shock!

 It is time for my now, once a fortnight, Monday Make for Visible Image. We were recently joined by some lovely new designers who had guest designed so well during  the summer that Helen invited them to join the team. It is really lovely to have them and their wonderful talent on board Team Awesome. This means that we have a 2 weekly rota so that everyone can share their projects. I will now bring you my new design team makes every other Monday.

For my make today I decided to use sentiments and the typewriter from the One kind word

and some sentiments from Have I told you sets

together with the iconic 

Face it!

I made a rainbow background using distress inks and masking tape.

I stamped and embossed half the face and the large sentiment from One kind word.

I stamped the letters flourish using worn lipstick distress ink.

I then coloured in the eye and lips with glitter pens.

I stamped, embossed and fussy cut out the typewriter and one set of words which I pushed up to give some dimension on a piece of craft foam.

Here is my finished card.

Some close ups;

and one final shot

I would like to enter it into the following challenges;

A gem of a challenge 1/2 anything goes
Allsorts 1/3 anything goes +/- a twist
Take it make it craft stamper 1/3 anything goes
Addicted to stamps 1/3 for a lady/girl
Simon says stamp Monday stamp it
Through the craft room door 2/3 anything goes

I think this is a most apt card for today; the start of a fabulous new Visible Image chapter. I absolutely love being a part of this awesome team. For me personally I also have some other, secret for now, crafting adventures I am foraying into. I can't share anything yet..but watch this space. I really am living the crafting dream.

Thank you all so much for stopping by, for your lovely comments you take the time to leave and for following and supporting me. It is time to start my new crafting chapter and adventures!

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

A last butterfly for summer?

Good morning there are just 19 days left of summer 2019. I thought that today, for my Visible Image  design team make, it would be good to share the card today I made for the Craft Stamper magazine July edition, when summer was still in full swing. It still feels like summer in my garden and my buddleia is still blooming beautifully. I even spotted this gorgeous butterfly at the weekend, which I quickly snapped with my camera.

I was asked by Visible Image to design a summer card for the magazine and I chose to use the Wings of change stamp set. Such a fab butterfly set. I called my card "fragile summer" in honour of how fragile the life of a butterfly is. 

These are some of the colours I associate with summer and I chose for them for my palette.

I added some drips of water to my background and then added some background stamping using the Organics set to make some branches. 

I stamped using green versamark clair ink.

I stamped some more butterflies and coloured them with the same distress oxide colours. I then added a wink of Stella for sparkle and then Crackle Accents to give some more fragility.

I wanted the butterflies to emerge from my card so I stamped and gold embossed the Crack from "How fragile"

and cut an opening for a butterfly to emerge from

I also used some beading wire to fashion a set of antennae

and stamped, highlighted and distressed the words.

Here is my finished card

and some close ups

and one last shot

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

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes

A bit more time to craft 1/3 anything goes
We love 2 create 1/3 anything goes mixed media
Happy Little stampers watercolour anything goes

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,

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

His and her's hummingbirds

After our record breaking Easter temperatures we are back to more normal late April temperatures. 

I spotted these camellia locally

 and the tulips are in my garden pots are glorious.

We are now in the last few days of April and my Monday design team make for Visible Image is a His and Her's version of a design I made using the hummingbird from the lovely Life is beautiful stamp set.

and also the birthday sentiment from Go to words

I made card for my best friend and my Dad's birthdays using an alcohol ink background on Yupo paper.

My BF loves pink so I got out silver and pink AIs and started dripping them onto my Yupo

until I was happy with the mix.

 I stamped the humming bird across the white space 

I did the same for my Dad's this time using a different colour palette.

I then added my sentiments, a couple of embellishments, matted them up.

Here they are separately.

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

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes

Try it on Tuesday 1/3 springtime

Lil patch of crafty friends 1/3 anything goes

A gem of a challenge 1/3 anything goes

Sweet stampers 1/5 birthday/celebrate

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 enjoy the last few days of April and all the lovely spring colours around us. They are so inspiring. 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

April watercolours for STAMPlorations

Hello it's the first Friday in the month which means that is time for our new Theme and Sketch April challenge over at STAMPlorations. The theme this month is a real favourite for me 

 I LOVE watercolours and below is the sketch which you could also choose to use, instead or as well as the theme.

The rules in brief are that you need to use stamping on your projects. You don't have to use STAMPlorations stamps to enter but of course we love it if you do! You can link up 6 times with new blog posts and you need to add our logo to your post. You can go with the theme, the sketch or both, the choice is yours. There are some fab prizes to be won too! 

This is the link to the challenge with all the info you need.

As always I used the theme and sketch and this is what I got up to.

I used the fun before coffee bold sentiment

and the
Convalleria stencil

 I made a watercolour background using distress inks and then added the stenciling as per the sketch using dark green Versafine Clair ink.

On a piece of spare watercoloured card I added some more ink and then stamped embossed the sentiment and die cut it out.
Here is my finished card.

with a close up.

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

Polkadoodles anything creative/mixed media

The crafting addicts 2/3 anything goes
Crafting with an attitude 1/3 anything goes
CRAFT 1/3 inspired by a song mine is One more cup of coffee by Bob Dylan
Cute card Thursday 1/3 anything goes
Mod squad 1/3 stencil your background
The house that stamps built 1/3 use a stencil

Remember if you would like to buy these stamps or stencil just enter my code STAMPGIRLJANE at the checkout to get 20% off on top of any current discount being offered.

It would be great to see you joining in with the fun and perhaps you might even be the winner of the $15 coupon code? Once again This is the link to the challenge with all the info you need.

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

*******PS if anyone is going to the Ally Pally Crafting show tomorrow, Saturday 6th, do swing by stand E9 and say hi as I am demoing for Visible Image on the Stamper's Grove stand *******

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