Sunshine and sand over at the Country View Crafts challenge

 Hi everyone it's time for my second blogged design team make for our June Country View crafts challenge hosted over on Facebook where the theme is "Anything seaside".

 You don't need a blog or an Instagram account, just head over to the group and join in with the fun! The link is here and if you are not already a member just request to join and we will warmly welcome you. It is also be a place you can be the first to hear about workshops, the latest releases etc etc. We have a happy membership of over 320 crafters already and we are growing every day. You can enter the challenges up to 5 times as you like as long as you use products or brands which are stocked on the Country View Website. 

I try to link up the products I use in my posts but obviously stock on the CVC website sells out quickly . Some may be out of stock when you click on the links. If they are just fill in the email notification and you will be emailed when they are back in stock. This is the link to the website   Remember that postage is FREE on all UK orders over £20. 

  The prize this month is a fab stash of seaside themed products by Art by Mylene.

I recently bought one of the brand new Andy Skinner stamps Best friends. It has been a while since a new stamp range has had that real WOW factor for lots of people, including me. The crafting world has bought these up by the score but Susan still has a few in stock if you are quick. I teamed it with the shells from the lovely Visible Image At the beach stamp set to make my seaside themed card. A little heads up that this set is now discontinued and Susan is one of the few UK stockists who still has a few in stock. If you would like to add it to your stash act quickly as when they're gone they're gone!

This is how I made my card. First I stamped the girl with  Nocturne Versafine clair ink and the seashells using Acorn.   I also added the lovely sentiment from the Visible Image set underneath her. 

Using squeezed lemonade squeezed lemonade distress ink and a round blending tool round blending tool I made a sun in the sky. 

and grounded the girl on some "sand".

Then using a mix of mermaid lagoon mermaid lagoon and salty ocean distress inks salty ocean distress inks  I created a sky and sea.

I added the inks using a damp paintbrush.

Using vintage photo distress ink I also added some colour to the shells. Here is my finished card again

 Our challenge is open worldwide.

Remember you can find me most days over on Instagram here @jane.tyrrell where I share many, many more makes than I have the time to blog. 

You still have 3 days to enter the June challenge.

Bye for now,

Jane x

A seaside themed Father's day card for Country View Challenges

 Hello everyone I am here today with my first design team make for our June challenge over at Country View challenges hosted over on Facebook. The theme is "Anything seaside". 

You don't need a blog or an Instagram account, just head over to the group to join in with the fun! The link is here and if you are not already a member just request to join and we will warmly welcome you. It is also the place where you can be the first to hear about workshops, the latest releases etc etc. We have a happy membership of over 330 crafters already and we are growing every day. You can enter the challenges up to 5 times as you like as long as you use products or brands which are stocked on the Country View Website. 

I try to link up the products I use in my posts but obviously stock on the CVC website sells out quickly . Some may be out of stock when you click on the links. If they are just fill in the email notification and you will be emailed when they are back in stock. This is the link to the website   Remember that postage is FREE on all UK orders over £20. 

The prize this month is a fab stash of seaside themed products from Art by Marlene.

This is what I got up to. 

I die cut some shells using my old Tim Holtz bigz dies. I ended up only using the large one.

I added some foundry wax foundry wax to the raised areas.

For the background I used one of Tim's backdrops. 

I used one of my old paper dolls, similar are in the new poses set here.

I also used some Collage strips

I coloured the paper doll with distress pencils

I added some stamping to the background using some old Tim stamps and distress archival inks. 

 

I then put everything together and distressed the edges,

finishing off with a stamped sentiment and an off cut of some film strip die cut.

Here is my finished card 

with a couple of close ups

and 1 final shot;

and shhhh...this is the card I have made  for my darling 91 year old Dad for Father's day this Sunday.

Our challenge is open worldwide.

Remember you can find me most days over on Instagram here @jane.tyrrell where I share many, many more makes than I have the time to blog. 

I will be back with my 2nd seaside make on 27th June.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Footsteps in the sand, 10 years on

Hello everyone I am back with my fortnightly blogged design team make for Visible Image. For today's make I am sharing a step by step of the card I made for my daughter and son in laws recent wedding anniversary. As it was a special one, their 10th, I decided to make something very detailed and meaningful to them. 

They live at the seaside and spend a lot of time here.

 I decided to make a circle easel card and I knew exactly which Visible Image products would be perfect. 

At the beach

Ride the waves

the sentiment from Happy anniversary

Plus 2 stencils 

Sandy feet

and Always and forever.

The always versatile

Framed fibres layering die (for extra textured waves).

And finally for the number 10, I stamped the numbers from the White rabbit set

 and used their co ordinating dies to cut them out.

This is what I got up to;

I inked 2 circles of card using these seaside coloured distress stain sprays.

I then inked the Always and forever stencil onto the top of the card using distress ink,

It creates such a romantic image.

Once dry I white heat embossed the waves from Ride the waves

On the bottom part of the card I stencilled the small footprints from Sandy feet using texture paste

I cut off the tip of the card to accommodate the fold in the circle easel card blank. I make my own, there are lots of on line tutorials elsewhere for how to do this.

I stamped some of the At the beach shells in brown ink onto inky mop up card and cut them out. I also stamped the sentiment from  Happy anniversary and added foam fixers underneath to raise it to hold the top part of the card in place when stood up.

I added pieces of card die cut using the Framed fibres layering die and stuck them in place to represent the waves lapping at the footprints in the sand. 

I glued all the elements in place

and for a cool watery sea effect I decided to use glossy accents and glamour dust glitter to give a shimmer to the waves and around the sandy footprints.

This is how it looked when dry, 

Here is my finished card

with a couple of close ups

and one final shot

You could of course adapt either part of my easel design to make a single flat card. However, all these extra details really do make for a different card and are worth the effort for those special people in your life. My card was very loved and appreciated by my daughter and SIL.

All the Visible Image links are listed below;

The Visible Image Group page is over on Facebook. Our friendly Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you pop over. You will see lots of gorgeous makes by the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. 

 I organize a monthly artist trading card swap there.  We celebrated a whole year of swapping in May. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Nearly 100 members, worldwide, have taken part since it started. It's been such fun and it's so lovely to receive a unique piece of art from your partner in the post. The details for each swap are put up in the group on 23rd of the month. There is no "monthly" commitment, just join in when you have the time! 

The main Visible Image Facebook business page is here

Visible Image also has its own You Tube channel here where you can see videos and Lives to give you lots of inspiration and ideas. 

Their Instagram page can be found here 

Pinterest here

and their website is here. 

 You will also find me on Instagram here; @jane.tyrrell where I share many more samples than I have the time to blog.

A little heads up that Visible Image have a summer sale on and you can get 30% off all the stamps, stencils and dies I have used in this make (the offer includes everything but Christmas products) Just enter the code SUMMER30 at the checkout. You need to be quick though as the offer ends on Wednesday 10th August.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x