Daisy Grunge

  Hi everyone and welcome to my fortnightly blogged design team post for Visible Image. We are now near the end of April and mother nature is really blooming. It won't be very long until I can plant up my pots in my tiny sunny garden with summer bedding.  My make today uses the delightful "Daisy Grunge" stamp set with a background set and stencil. Daisy Grunge is so versatile and I have used the main bloom from the set with the sweet tiny daisy and one of the sentiments to make this spring inspired card. 

These are the products I used;

Daisy Grunge stamp set

with a stamp from the  Round in circles background stamp set 

and the Leafy stencil

This is what I got up to;

I taped the stencil onto a piece of white card and blended through these distress inks. Did you know that Visible Image now stock a large range of distress inks and other Tim Holtz products on their website? Do check them out. 

I cut my background down to 5 1/4" square and stamped the large circle cluster from the Round in circles background stamp set  using green oasis Versafine claire ink across the middle.

Next I stamped the large daisy from the Daisy Grunge stamp set onto a scrap of white card, using Nocturne ink, clear heat embossed and cut it out.  I added a little colouring using distress watercolour pencils. 

For some extra dimension I added Glossy accents to the centre of the flower.

I randomly repeat stamped the little daisy from the set all over the background, adding some gold pen detailing. I  stamped the Daisy grunge in the centre of the background and decoupaged the cut out daisy onto it, adding a litttle foam tape under some of the petals to lift them up. Finally I stamped the Smile sentiment below.  As a finishing touch I machine stitched around the edges using my trusty sewing machine. 

I matted onto green card and then adhered to a 5 3/4" square white card blank. 

Here is my finished card again

with a couple of close ups

and one final shot.

I hope I may have inspired you to check out the these lovely stamps and stencil and be inspired by all the stunning colours Mother Nature is sharing all around you to make something spring themed. 

All the Visible Image links are listed below;

 Our kind, friendly and supportive customer Facebook Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you join us.  You will be warmly welcomed and see lots of inspiration from the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. 

 I also organize a monthly artist trading card swap in the group.  A heads up that we are  celebrating 3 years of swapping and the May swap sign up opened yesterday. 

Don't miss this one as there is this amazing giveaway too. One randomly selected participant will win a £30 coupon code to spend on new Visible Image goodies on their website. The sign up will close on Saturday 27th April so hurry on over if you would like to join in. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome. Over 150 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. There is no "monthly" commitment, just join in when you have the time and if you live in the UK can you choose to post to the UK only, if that suits you best.

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 most days, where I share many, many more makes than I have the time to blog. 

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy these light filled spring days.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Lilies with love

 Hi everyone and welcome to my fortnightly blogged design team post for Visible Image. Haven't the days suddenly got so much lighter? My tiny garden is warming up and bursting into life and I can almost hear the plants growing. It's such a wonderful time of the year. Spring really has sprung.

 Flowers are such an important part of my garden and I love making floral cards.  My make today showcases the beautiful Lilies in Love stamp set.

which is on the website here

 This gorgeous set has coordinating dies available here. 

However today I am sharing a "one layer card" to show that if you don't have the dies and don't want to fussy cut you can still make wonderful quick and easy cards using this beautiful stamp set. 

This is what I got up to;

I  selected a distress ink background from my stash.

 (If you are not aware Visible Image now has a superb selection of Tim Holtz products, including all his distress ink range on the website. Check out this link. I am delighted to see this addition as they are my go to products I use when making). 

 I always keep a good supply of inked backgrounds ready for projects. It keeps the creative juices flowing when you have a design idea and want to get making. It is also much better to work on a thoroughly dry background. This one was made using blueprint sketch, salvaged patina and kitsch flamingo distress inks pads pressed onto my craft mat.  I added some mists of water droplets using my distress water sprayer. I then dipped in my card and dried between layers until I was happy with the colour mix. 

I stamped the lily collage and the thinking of your sentiment with Versafine Claire nocturne ink and clear heat embossed. 

Heat embossing also makes the colouring step much easier. I love the new distress watercolour pencils and use them to colour all my images. As they are highly pigmented they work over the top of distress inks. Any that strays onto the stamped image, because it is embossed, is easily wiped off with a dry cloth. I used the colours below. People use the pencils in many different ways but I pick up colour from the pencil using a fine damp paintbrush.

I started with the leaves

and then added in colour to the blooms. 

I really do enjoy water colouring and find it very mindful. 

When I had finished I distressed the edge of the background with my distressing tool and added some picked raspberry ink. 

For a finishing touch I added some sequins and gold pen details before matting it onto cerise and then purple card and finally onto a white card blank. 

Below is a close up of my water coloured lilies and the gold pen detailing.

And 1 final shot;

All the Visible Image links are listed below;

 Our kind, friendly and supportive customer Facebook Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you join us.  You will be warmly welcomed and see lots of inspiration from the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. 

 I also organize a monthly artist trading card swap in the group.  We will be celebrating 3 years of swapping in May (don't miss this one as there might be a giveaway too!) Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Over 150 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 and sign up for each swap are posted in the group on the 23rd of the month. There is no "monthly" commitment, just join in when you have the time and if you live in the UK can you choose to post to the UK only if that suits you best.

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 most days, where I share many, many more makes than I have the time to blog. 

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy these light filled spring days.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Daffodils for St David's day and Mother's day

 Hello all and welcome to my fortnightly blogged design team make for Visible Image. Their new February release has really taken the crafting world by storm and shhhh there is more to come later in March 😀

Mother's day in the UK is on 19th March and as today is St David's day I thought it would work perfectly to share a step by step of my Mother's day sample I made using the gorgeous Golden daffodils set 

with an aperture made using the Broken mesh layering die. 

Right from the first day I designed some samples using the gorgeous layering dies I discovered that the apertures left when die cutting the shape are as useful as the die cuts themselves. I have shared lots of makes over the last year using all 3 of them. 

This is what I got up to;

 I used the Broken mesh die to cut an aperture in a piece of 4 3/4 by 6 3/4" turquoise card.

I stamped the sentiment at the bottom in black and clear heat embossed.

I found a piece of left over Brushos card from my stash

and stamped the daffodils .

I lined this up behind the aperture and cut to size.

I repeat stamped just the daffodil heads and the single daffodil in the set onto some yellow inky mop up card and cut them out, adding some gold pen detailing and glossy accents. You can see this in the final photos. 

I stuck the heads over the stamped ones and added 3 single daffodils, 1 at the top and 2 at the bottom of the card. I added some gold sequins as a finishing touch.

I then adhered the finished panel to a 5X7" white card blank. 

Here is my finished card

with a couple of close ups

and 1 final shot;

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 join us.  You will be warmly welcomed and see lots of inspiration from the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. 

 I also organize a monthly artist trading card swap in the group.  We celebrated a whole year of swapping in May 2022. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Over 115 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 and sign up for each swap are posted in the group on the 23rd of the month if you would like to join us.  There is no "monthly" commitment, just join in when you have the time and if you live in the UK can you choose to post to the UK only if that suits you best.

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.

Finally a little heads up before I go that in 11days time I am delighted be demoing all things Visible Image again for Country View Crafts, one of Visible Image's UK stockists. We will be at the Crafterama "Crafting at Ally Pally show" at Alexandra Palace in London. If you came last March it would be so lovely to see you again. If not why not put the date in your diary? The show is running the weekend of Saturday and Sunday 11th and 12th March. We had such fun last year.  I will have all the new release with me plus more. Susan will have a fab stock of Visible Image stamps, stencils and the layering dies on the stand.  

Here is a photo from last year's show;

I have made badges again from artist trading coins...this time using the Golden daffodils set with That lovin' feline...look out for me wearing this one!

I will be offering a little crafting giveaway again. Someone will win one of my artist trading coins in a randomly selected draw, so do stop by and say hello.

Bye for now

Jane x

More signs of spring for Country View challenges

 Good morning it's time for my 2nd inspiration post for our current "first signs of spring" over at Country View challenges. If you missed my first post you can find it here.

There are more lovely signs of spring around here and I am loving the lighter evenings.

Primroses are in flower

Camellia in bud

and my sweet dinos are getting very vocal!

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 another "first signs of spring" tag, this time focusing on the eggs which will soon be laid in all the birds' nests.

 This is what I got up to;

I used the same paint resist technique as for my first tag. All my products are by Tim Holtz. Susan has a really extensive selection of all his products on her website here.  This time I stamped faded text in cracked pistachio paint. I stamped the bird from urban tapestry in brown archival, adding first mustard seed distress ink.

and then old paper.

I die cut my nest and added some eggs cut from inky mop up card using an oval die.

I finished off with some die cut "tiny tattered floral" flowers cut from left over  inky Yupo and then put everything together.

Here is the finished tag.

with a couple of close ups

and one final shot.

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our February "first signs of spring" 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. Remember that UK postage and packing from CVC is free on all orders over £7.50! Once again all the details for the February challenge can be found here.

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

Back soon,

Bye for now

Jane x