More leaves for Country View Challenges

It's time for my 2nd DT make for our September challenge over at Country Vie which I am hosting this month. My theme is "the leaves begin to fall" so I would like to see leaves as a main part of your project, no tiny single leaves please! 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.

If you missed my first make you can find it here. There are live links to the shop website in my post so just click on them if you would like to purchase anything. If Susan is out of stock of anything just fill in the email reminder and she will contact you when they are beck in stock.

This is what I got up to;

For today's make I was torn between using my awesome new Tim Holtz Sizzix 3D oak leaf die or my Visible Image stamped leaves. I couldn't decide which so I decided to use both! The oak leaf die is awesome and makes the most realistic detailed leaves. I used some inky mop up card and die cut the leaves. 

I then added some brown distress inks and finished them off with the awesome new distress mica stain sprays. I used the gold and copper from The halloween set #1 

The sheen is so incredible in real life, always so difficult to show in photos.

 I also stamped and cut out some leaves using my Visible Image Erika's maple set using inky mop up card. 

I decided that all these leaves would make the perfect nest for one of the brand new hedgehogs from the gorgeous  Hedgehog hugs set

So I stamped him out ( I always stamp out a few so that I have spares for other cards) I coloured my hedgehog with watercolour pens and then cut him out.

I sprayed some watercolour card with a few distress oxides and stains to make a background and stamped the grass from the  hedgehog set and also I stamped and matted the Visible Image Happy birthday sentiment.

 I then put everything together. The finishing touches were a few sequins.

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 September "the leaves begin to fall " challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

You can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with other challenges. There is also a £20 crafting voucher up for grabs to the lucky randomly selected winner to spend over on the Country View Crafts on line store. Once again all the details for the September challenge can be found here. 

Remember that the Country View Crafts website has FREE UK postage for any orders over £7.50 and international postage is very reasonable.  I wrote a post for the shop recently sharing all the new Visible Image stamps, you can check it out here.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Take care and stay safe. I will be back to share my 2nd design team project on Friday. 

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! 

Bye for now

Jane x

The leaves begin to fall

 Welcome to September, wow autumn is just around the corner now and I am the host of the brand  new challenge over at Country View challenges. I thought that I would chose, "the leaves begin to fall" as the theme for the month. So I would like to see leaves as a main part of your project, no tiny single leaves please! 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.

The leaves on my potted acers in my garden are already changing colour and served as my inspiration for my first DT make. 

I have added live links for you to click for those items in stock on the website. I really love all things leaves and for my first make I turned to on old Tim Holtz die (no longer stocked) called tattered leaves and his fun Snarky cats stamp set.

I made a slimline birthday card using the great Visible Image birthday sentiment from the Lost for words sentiment set

This is what I got up to; I used one of my distress ink shaving foam marbled backgrounds from my stash.

I used the small size Tim Holtz leaf stencil and added some distress inks. 

I die cut my leaves and stamped my Snarky cat.

I added some text stamping to the leaves using archival ink.

I then stamped the birthday sentiment. Then it was time to put everything together. 

Here is my finished birthday card

with a close up;

and one last shot.

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

You can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with other challenges. There is also a £20 crafting voucher up for grabs to the lucky randomly selected winner to spend over on the Country View Crafts on line store. Once again all the details for the September challenge can be found here. 

Remember that the Country View Crafts website has FREE UK postage for any orders over £7.50 and international postage is very reasonable. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Take care and stay safe. I will be back to share my 2nd design team project on Friday. 

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! 

Bye for now

Jane x

Autumn leaves inspiration for Visible Image

 Good morning it's time for my fortnightly design team post for Visible Image. 

Autumn continues to inspire me with all her glorious colours.

For today's make I used the awesome

autumn leaves stencil 

with Erika's maple 

To make a canvas/wall hanging.

This is what I got up to;

I sprinkled PaperArtsy Emerald Isle infusions onto mixed media card and added water. I dried with my heat gun and applied crackle texture paste through the stencil. 

While still wet I added distress embossing glazes tapping off the excess.

I left this to dry overnight and then heated from below to melt the glazes.

Just look at all this yummy texture and glaze..it reminds me of pottery mosaics. 

I then blended distress inks around the leaves to add colour.

I stamped some of the small leaves onto book pages and cut them out. I  also stamped and white embossed the sentiment onto black card. To finish off I distressed the edge of the cardstock for extra texture.

Here is my finished wall hanging.

with a close up

and one final shot.

I would like to enter my wall hanging into the following challenges;

As you like it 2/3 favourite non card project the reason why is that sometimes I like to make a larger statement piece when I craft.

Stamping sensations 2/3 autumn glory

Chocolate baroque 2/3 anything goes

Try it on Tuesday 2/3 autumn colours

The library challenge 2/3 what to look for in autumn

Not just cards 1/3 anything goes

Crafters castle 1/3 anything goes 

Creative artist  anything mixed media goes 

Simon says stamp Monday dry embossing 

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 videos where you will be able to see lots more samples and ideas. 

Their Instagram page can be found here

Pinterest here

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

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Beautiful rain

It has been very wet over the last week but it has still been so beautiful to see autumnal colour in my garden. My potted acer leaves are turning every shade of golden. They were dripping with water but still so gorgeous.

This one is under the cover of the magnolia

 After quite a dry period my little garden is loving it. 

It inspired my next Halloween tag...with lots of leaves ....

BOO!

The stamps are all by Visible Image and the leaves are Memory Box

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

Funkie Junkie boutique blog Halloween

Happy little stampers anything goes with dies

The house that stamps built inspiration palette

The male room 1/3 Halloween

Simon says Wednesday  Halloween

The sun did peep out late yesterday afternoon so I had the best of both world's in one day. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

When the leaves turn red

Due to the Indian summer we enjoyed well into late October the leaves on the trees have turned the most amazing colours this years..so much red and yellow. Some of the trees seem almost to glow. 

I am loving the weather at the moment and I'm finding it so inspiring. 

 I came home to make my latest Dotty's card and decided to make a very clean and simple one focusing on the beauty of the leaves. I also appreciate that not everyone is surrounded by such beauty and also that life really does get tough sometimes. 

The sentiment stamp is by Visible Image, the leaf die cuts are MFT and are cut from inky mop up card. Sometimes a card as simple as this is enough to say it all. I just added the 3 leaves for some dimension. 

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

Less is more dimension

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes

The artistic stamper 2/3 square it I have made a square card.

The Ribbon girl 3/3 anything goes

Since we have had our first frosts the leaves are now falling like confetti from the sky. How inspiring Mother Nature is. 

Thanks for stopping by today and for the kind comments you take the time to leave me.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x