Say cheese....

Good morning again, this is my 2nd post today and I am back with my weekly Monday Design Team inspiration for Visible Image. There is a new challenge for June over on Facebook and our theme this month is to add "dimension".

 As you well know my trusty camera comes everywhere with me and I capture lots of moments with it.

Here are a couple of my most recent snaps.

I took this photo of my daughter proudly sharing her first strawberry crop when we were in Southampton on Saturday.

And these photos of my darling grandchildren. Jack is now beginning to smile..but I didn't quite manage to catch it 😁 more a happy shrug!

But I did capture this precious moment of Daisy with her brother, she loves him so much.

I also snapped my first flowers blooming in my hanging basket.

I have always loved being outside in the garden and I have some treasured vintage photos from my childhood, mostly black and white. My brother and I used to play in our family garden for hours and hours....Sindy Doll and Action Man featured a lot! I decided to use a scanned copy of my darling brother and I in the garden circa 1963. Don't you love my furry slippers 😉

For my card I decided to use the brilliant  Capture the Moment VI set. 

It is available to buy here

I made myself a Distress Oxide ink background

and added some background stamps and stencilling;  I used words from the destination unknown set

and scripted streets set

I also embossed the great Smile stamp which comes with the Capture the Moment set.

I  added some circles using Archival Ink from the  universal set.

 I decoupaged the camera in 3 layers to give a 3D effect. I also coloured the metal parts of the camera silver.

The words from the set were embossed in white and I distressed the edge of the plaque to "age" it.

 The vintage style photo corners added to the vintage effect. I stuck foam under the plaque again adding dimension.

I then put everything together and below is my finished card.

I hope these techniques and ideas may inspire you to join our June challenge over on Facebook.
You might even be the lucky winner of the £40 voucher to spend on the website...and that could treat you to some of the fab 3 sets of brand new stamps.
The amazing new release is being launched on Create and Craft TV this Friday, 9 June..more details to follow later this week. They can also all be pre ordered on the Visible Image website now and if you pre order before 6 June using the code ITSTIME you can get Free UK or International postage! 

All the links to Visible Image are below;

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group can be found here ...it would be lovely to see you. You can add work to the "Show and Tell" album where one randomly chose winner each month win a £25 coupon to spend on the website. Our 2nd themed challenge, "dimension", is  also up and running until 28 June. There is another £40 voucher up for grabs for the winner of this. 

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 these gorgeous stamps can be purchased. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges

                                                         

                                         Happy Little Stampers watercolour 3/3 anything goes

                                           Simon Says stamp Wednesday 3/5 anything goes

WOW embossing powder Summer

Stamping sensations 1/3 favourite stamp...I have so many but the camera from the Capture The Moment set is one of them.
Sweet Stampin 1/3 for Dad's or special men

I cannot end my post without mentioning the latest atrocities to blight our country. My darling husband walks across London Bridge every single work day on his way to and from work. Our thoughts are with those innocent souls who were murdered and for their loved ones left behind. When M goes to work today he faces a more delayed journey....but that is nothing compared to the start of the new week for those involved and their families.  We must however vow to continue to live our lives as normal and not let terror make us cower.

Back soon

Bye for now

Jane x

♥♥♥ Love is all around us ♥♥♥

♥ Yes it's that time of year when us old romantics like to celebrate. It's also a good excuse for a post Christmas celebration. It is 31 years on Monday since my Hb proposed to me...gosh that is such a long time. I wish I had some digital photos from then, they would be fun to see! ♥

I thought I would share with you my card creation for the occasion....

If you recognise the backing paper, yes it's the last pieces of the paper I used for my daughter and her fiance's engagement card last November. Us crafters never waste anything so I used the almost last part to make this card too which I put into my Etsy shop.

On the love heart theme I also want to show you some new very pretty, feminine Fimo pendants I bought from the USA...

I really like these and decided to make up a design of me for to wear  using some pretty seed beads I have used recently.

This is my necklace below, I will probably make the other 2 focals into necklaces as I think they will sell well at my Open Houses/Parties.

As Valentine's Day falls on a Monday this year we are attending a Valentine Dinner/Dance on Saturday night at National Trust Property in Surrey. Also on Tuesday night our Dance School is hosting a Valentine's Ball. It is a black tie event and should be great fun.

Having mentioned at the beginning of this post that I wish I had some digital photos I remembered that my Hb has an old album of photos from when we first met (1979). I only started keeping scrapbooks from our Wedding (1981) so I don't have any photos of our engagement. After a little searching this morning I manged to find his album and laughed  and smiled when I looked at the contents! He had a beard (long gone) and I had very long hair (cut in 1982!). I had to photograph the photos in their album through the protective plastic so they are not that clear but thought I would share the smile with you.....

This is us cutting our cake!

In the photo above I think I was dancing around here the day after our party showing off my new engagement ring. (Hmm yes remember I was only 19!)  Now I know everyone will say...so what on earth do I look like compared to that photo 31 years ago...well OK I don't really do photos of me on my blog as it is about what I do rather than what I look like but I decided to break that rule and show your one of  me with 2 other "special men in my life" aka my 21 year old son Matt and my Dad. These was taken last September at my Dad's 78th Birthday party...

Same ring but rather older hands now-LOL! Mind you it's been such an adventure these last 31 years and my hands have made SO many different things and treated so many patients!

So Happy Engagement Anniversary to my dear Hb and sending everyone out there in blog land lots and lots of love......love really is all around you ♥♥♥
Billy sends some too....

I am meeting my dear daughter up in London this afternoon for her first try on of Wedding dresses...so exciting.

 Bye for now,
Jane
x