Welcome to 2023

Good morning, happy new year and welcome to 2023. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and your head is not too heavy this morning if you were up late last night seeing in the new year! It is time to start a brand new crafting year with our first challenge of 2023 over at Country View Crafts. The theme for this month is "Time" so we would like to see your projects featuring clocks, watches and anything time related.  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.

  Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website UK postage is FREE on orders over £20.00 I have added some live links within my post to take you to some of the products I used.

I wanted to use my treasured old Tim Holtz Bigz clock dies so I have used one for this make and the other for my 2nd DT make which I will share here on 15th Jan. 

This is what I got up to;

I used a piece of inky mop up card to die cut the weathered clock die.

Using shabby shutters, iced spruce and pine needles distress spray stains I created this drippy inky background. 

The new year sentiment is from the A7 size Visible Image Classic Christmas stamp set

I then added sparkle using the Visible Image Sparkle stamps and Wow embossing powder

I cut the clock hands in black card and stuck the clock face in place adding a sparkly brad to the centre.

I absolutely LOVE my mischievous cats and knew they had to see the new year in too so I added faces to 3 of them. 

I let them climb aboard 😂

Here is my finished make;

with some close ups

and 1 final shot;

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with the challenge this month? Once again here you can find all the details for our January challenge here.  Wishing all my lovely blog readers a very happy, healthy and creative 2023 and thank you so much for stopping by and for the lovely comments you leave me here.  

 I'll be back with my 2nd "Time" make on the 15th.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Blow out the candles for Country View challenges

 Hi friends, I am back with my 2nd design team make for our January challenge over at Country View. The theme is "Your year to sparkle and shine". So we would like to see lots of bling, sparkle media etc. 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 decided to make a sparkly birthday cake using the awesome Visible Image Blow out the candles stamp set. I appreciate that this set and lots of other are currently out of stock over on the website. Susan will be restocking very soon and if you add your email address she will contact you when they are back in stock. 

This set is just perfect for making quick birthday cards. This is the card for my husband's birthday yesterday as he loves chocolate cake so this is what I baked  made. This is what I got up to;

I used one of my distress ink shaving foam marbled background from my stash and dripped on some snow flurries distress mica stain. I love the sparkle you get with these inks.

I then stamped the large cake onto brown, blue inky mop up and white card and cut the parts out to assemble 1 cake. It's really useful doing it this way as you have 3 cakes to make up. Great instant spares for a quick birthday card.

I stamped the sentiments in place and stamped the candles in place. There is a lovely "glow" stamp in this set which gives a gorgeous outline to the candles. I added a little glitter pen to them and then it was time to assemble my cake

Here is it is;

You can see the Stickles sparkle I added to the icing, in the close up

and one final shot;

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our January "Your year to sparkle and shine "challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

 Once again all the details for the January challenge are here Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website postage FREE on orders over £ 7.50 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Take care and stay safe.

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

Happy new year!

Hello everyone and welcome to 2022..happy new year! Let's hope that this really is the year when our lives can start to return to some kind of normality. I hope you had a splendid Christmas?  Of course it's time for our first challenge over at Country View and for January the theme is "Your year to sparkle and shine". So we would like to see lots of bling, sparkle media etc. 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 decided to make a very sparkly new year card to ring in 2022. This is what I got up to;

I cut out a circle from a 5.5" square of black card. I used the new year sentiment from Visible Image's Go to Christmas words and gold embossed it at the top and the "sparkle sentiment "from the Rays of light stamp set at the bottom. ( Edit; I notice that the stamps I have used have been so popular that sold out on the website, just add your email and Susan will contact you as soon as she has restocked!)

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The rays in this set are really awesome. I repeat stamped them in red embossing glitter. I also used the bubbles in the set to stamp in white. 

On another sheet of card I dripped some of Tom Holtz' mica stain sprays. I then stamped another ray in the centre.

I stamped the glass from the awesome Keep your gin up set and coloured the lemon slice. I stamped and cut out the ice cube too. 

I then stuck it in front of the ray.

I added a couple of gold die cut stars. I used 3d foam to layer up the front. 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 January "Your year to sparkle and shine "challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

 Once again all the details for the January challenge are here, Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website postage FREE on orders over £ 7.50 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Take care and stay safe. I will be sharing my 2nd design team project on the 19th.

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

Hearts and splatters with STAMPlorations

Good morning, I am back again with my 2nd post of the new year, this time sharing my first design team card of the year for our Theme and Photo prompt challenge over at STAMPlorations 

All the details of the challenge can be found here

You can choose to go with the splatter them or chose to go with something from the photo; perhaps the colours or image..or as I always love to challenge myself to do...both! If it is not obvious just let us know on your post.

I worked with the following awesome products and have added live links to them in my post. Remember if you 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.

I used the gorgeous face stencil

 stamps from It's a girl thing; sunshine 

and a sentiment from Romantic expressions 1

I used Versafine Clair through the stencil to create the face.

Then I stamped the flowers by masking some off to give depth.

I also paper pieced a couple.

I then masked off the face to add my splatters and stamped the sentiment.

Here is my card

with a close up

It would be great to see you joining in with the fun and perhaps you might even be one of the winners.  You can go with the theme, the sketch or both, the choice is yours. There are some fab prizes to be won; $15 gift certificate to the winner and $10 for the runner up, chosen by a DT member. There are also $5 gift certificates given to each of 3 randomly drawn players. Once again  this is the link here to the challenge with all the info you need.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;
Moving along with the times 1/3 all things new my new is the face stencil. I love it!
A bit more time to craft 1/3 Anything goes
Creative inspirations 1/3 something old or new I have one of each, my face stencil is new, my stamps are old!

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

The start of a new Visible Image year of crafting

Good morning it's time to get back to a "normal" Monday after all the excitement and celebrations of Christmas and the new year. The Visible Image team have all been on a break. Today I delighted to be kicking off with the first Design team inspiration post of 2019.
I do love the new year....I never make resolutions but I do think it's a good time to take stock of our views and hopes in life. I love the inspiring words that Helen writes which Mark turns into amazing stamps which I can incorporate into my crafting. 

I decided to use the words from
Voices in your head to create an inspirational wall hanging for the year.

I made some backgrounds with my small Gelli plate (lucky me got an 8" by 10" one from Santa so watch out for more larger projects using this).

I used some DecoArt media acryllics and stamps from

 Visometry

and 

Universal

and also the 2 tone stencil to pull some prints.

I made a whole batch of prints

and selected 3 to make into ATcs.

I gold embossed the words and added some more patterns with gold ink using universal. Sorry the photos are a little dark, there is so little daylight this time of the year when I am crafting inside. 

For the wall hanging I used some corrugated card on mount board. I exposed some of the core and added paints and crackle paint. Once dry I rubbed on some Treasure gold. I attached some string using my mini stapler.

I also stamped the year using the numbers from alphabetical onto scraps of gelli prints and mounted them on card.

So here is my finished wall hanging

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

A vintage journey put your stamp on it
Love to create anything mixed media
Penny Black and more 1/3 new beginnings
Mix it up 1/5 anything goes
Crafter's Castle 1/3 anything goes
Mixed media place inspirational mood board
Rhedd's creative spirit December
Not just cards 1/3 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 can add work to the new challenge album where one randomly chosen winner each month wins a £40 coupon to spend on the website. For December and January the theme is "Christmas/Winter".

The main Visible Image Facebook page is here; there are weekly stamp giveaways...open world wide.

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

Our Christmas/winter challenge on Facebook runs  until the end of January so you still have a whole month to make something and be in with a chance of winning the £40 voucher to spend on the web site. The winner is selected by random so everyone has an equal winning chance.

Thanks so much for stopping by and for the kind comments you take the time to leave. There are lots of exciting Visible Image newbies in the pipeline and I am so looking forward to designing with them. An exciting year is ahead and I am going to try to remember these inspiring words during 2019

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x