An Easter tag for Daisy

It is time for my second DT project for our April challenge over at Country View. We have a nice easy theme of Spring/Easter. We look forward to seeing lots of lovely spring inspired creations.

You can enter our April 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 is absolutely FREE! All the details for the challenge can be found here.

For my design team projects for April I decided to make my Easter tags which I make every year for my big and little babies.
I share my first tag here if you missed it. That one was made for my grandson Jack.

Today's tag was made for my 5 year old granddaughter Daisy. I used an inky distress ink mop up tag for the background. I added some more distress ink using several Tim Holtz stencils and added some crackle paste though my Tim Holtz flower stencil.

I got some lovely crackle.

Daisy loves die cuts so I die cut some chicks and a label and put this together. The dies are Cheery Lynn, Tim Holtz, Memory Box and Spellbinders

With a couple of close ups

I hope to see lots of you joining in the fun..the details again are here.

Have a lovely weekend and thanks so much for stopping by.

   Back soon.

Bye for now,

Jane x

More spring flinging

Hello again, it's time for my second spring fling card for the brilliant STAMPlorations spring event.

Over at STAMPlorations we are celebrating with a Spring fling 12 days of giveaways! Yes the lovely Shery has some amazing offers over on the website and you can read all the details here. This event kicked off on Monday 1st April and we are now at Day 10. There are lots of prizes to be won, a different one every each day so do check it out. Today's prize is the choice of one 4X8 stamp set! (Up to the value of $20)You can qualify for entry to today's prize draw just by leaving a comment on my blog and you increase your chances by commenting on all the other designers who are taking part and also on the main STAMP blog. Commenting to qualify ends on 19 April and all the winners will be announced in a special post on 22 April.

I decided to go "birdy" for my second spring card. 

I made a distress ink background

I then took a piece of inky mop up card and used my Pebble waves stencil

and added some Vintage photo distress ink

I used this as a background to cut out the brilliant For the birds CUTplorations dies

Shery's die are amazing and cut like butter through all card stock
I used the soar stamp as my sentiment and also stamped some birds in the background using the brilliant Trendy birds 2 stamp set

Here is my finished card

with a close up of the brilliant bold sentiment.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges;

Craft stamper take it make it 2/3 April
Creative moments 2/3 anything goes
Allsorts 2/3 sentiment in focus
Penny Black and More 2/3 Springtime
Lil patch of crafty friends 2/3 anything goes
Crafter's castle 2/3 anything goes
Sweet stampin 2/3 mellow yellow/spring
Let's craft and create 1/3 Anything goes/butterflies

As I had left over background card so I also made these 2 cards;

Remember that by using my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at the checkout you could save another 20% meaning that on those products you could save up to 45%!

Thanks for stopping by, remember to leave a comment here as you pass to go into the hat for a chance of winning today's prize. If you would like to see the other designers' post for today this is the link again.

Good luck!

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

It's time for a STAMPlorations Spring fling giveaway

Good morning, it's a special spring day here because over at STAMPlorations we are celebrating with a Spring fling 12 days of giveaways! Yes the lovely Shery has some amazing offers over on the website and you can read all the details here. This event kicked off on Monday and we are now at Day 3. There are lots of prizes to be won, a different one every each day so do check it out. Today's prize is an amazing $25 gift code to use on the website. You can qualify for entry to today's prize draw just by leaving a comment on my blog and you increase your chances by commenting on all the other designers who are taking part and also on the main STAMP blog. Commenting to qualify ends on 19 April and all the winners will be announced in a special post on 22 April.

Throughout April over on the STAMPlorations website everything in the SPRING FLING section is 25% and as an extra bonus by using my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at the checkout you could save another 20% meaning that on those products you could save up to 45%! Even if you treat yourself to other products just use my code to save 25% off everything. International orders are welcomed and Shery's postage rate are very reasonable.
This is what I got up as my card for the fling;
I used these 2 sets

It's a girl thing, kindness

the butterfly from
blossom like a butterfly

and a sentiment from the
fond expressions 2

I used the amazing butterfly to create my background. This is just red and yellow stamping on yellow card.

I then cut and inked a butterfly for the focal. I edged the card using stamps from the kindness set.
Here is my spring fling card.

with a close up. The detail of the butterfly just blows me away!

I have a second post Spring fling post coming up next Wednesday.

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

Crafty Catz 3/3 anything goes

Polkadoodles anything creative/mixed media

Uniko 2/3 Spring/Easter

The crafting addicts 1/3 anything goes

Remember that by using my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at the checkout you could save another 20% meaning that on those products you could save up to 45%!

Thanks for stopping by, remember to leave a comment here as you pass to go into the hat for a chance of winning today's prize. If you would like to see the other designers post for today this is the link again.

Good luck!

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

No April fool here

Good morning. Happy 1st April or April Fool's day. There is never any chance of fooling me as it is my birthday today. Yes seriously. My Hb has the day off and we are heading out to enjoy a birthday lunch and potter and perhaps a meal out tonight as well. 

It is also time for our newest challenge over at Country View. For April we have a nice easy theme of Spring/Easter. We look forward to seeing lots of lovely spring inspired creations.

You can enter our April 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 is absolutely FREE! All the details for the challenge can be found here.

For my design team projects for April I decided to make my Easter tags which I make every year for my big and little babies.

Today I will share the first tag, the second will be coming up on 13th April. 

This is what I got up to.
 I make tags for my big and small children for their Easter bags and this one is for Jack who will be 2 on Easter Day. He adores birds and so I knew I had to made a bird based tag for him. The birds around here are certainly paring up. I spotted these 2 sweethearts down at the ponds.

First I made a tree lined setting.
I added twisted citron and squeezed lemonade oxides to make my tag base.
I got out my small tag sized Tim Holtz stencils.

 I took his tree stencil and added vintage photo oxide

I also added some blue leaves with broken china distress ink using his leaf stencil.

I added some bird remnant rubs

I also altered a die cut from my favourite Tim Bird branch Bigz die, sadly long discontinued using paints and a little crackle. 

I finished off with some butterflies from his butterfly frenzy die.

Here is my finished tag.

with some close ups

and one final shot

I hope to see lots of you joining in the fun..the details again are here.

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

Pixie's snippets playground #349

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes

Alphabet challenge A is for animals

Crafty Catz 1/3 anything goes

Uniko 1/3 Spring/Easter

Polkadoodles anything creative/mixed media

Crafty friends 3/3 spring

My 2nd tag for CVC will be on 13th April.

This is the link again for our April challenge. 

 

I have second post coming up in an hour as being Monday it is also time for my
Visible Image DT Monday make...busy busy!

       Back very soon!

Bye for now,

Jane x

Pots of flowers

My magnolia in my garden is bursting with pink blooms. It is the only tree I have room for..I love it despite the fact that the blooms are short lived.

Billy and I were able to enjoy lunch in the garden on Monday.

He loves rolling around on the patio..and getting very gritty!

My hard work planting up my pots in the garden with spring bulbs last autumn has paid off and the daffs are gorgeous. 

The winter violas are still hanging on too

and look what I spied...

Yes.....my tulips are pushing up and should be in bloom very soon. 

I love this time of the year, the birds are singing, the bees start buzzing and you can almost hear the flowers growing.

I have been taking down some last Mother's day cards to Dotty's as it is Mother's day here in the UK on Sunday. My card today is one of them.

The image is my old Nicecrane digi, the stamped sentiment is Clearly Besotted. The dies are Cheery Lynn, Marianne and Memory Box.

It is for sale at Dotty's Teahouse, Carshalton, SM5 2AE

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

 Creative fingers 2/3 anything goes

Creative moments 2/3 anything goes

Crafty catz 2/3 make it square

Crafty friends 2/3 spring colours

Addicted to stamps 2/3 spring

Lil patch of crafting friends 2/3 anything goes

Die cut divas 1/3 fave colour combination mine is blues/greens

Crafty sentiments 1/3 anything goes

Happy little stampers anything goes with dies

Thanks for stopping by and for the kind comments you take the time to leave me. I hope you are able to start enjoying your own gardens too.  I would also like to extend a very warm welcome to my newest followers. Thanks for joining me on my creative journey. 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Spring has sprung

Well spring is finally here and I am loving these lighter mornings and evenings. There is the sound of bird song everywhere...and I should think lots of little eggs dropping into nests soon too.

The daffodils are exploding with colour everwyere

I visited Standen House last week and the grounds were so pretty.

 with daffodils and primroses everywhere. 

We saw a lovely exhibition in the house too but I will save that for another post. 

My card today sums up how we should all hopefully start feeling in the mornings!

The background is a silver and blue acrylic paint gelli print I made using the Visible Image

Wings of change stamps. I then added some more stamping and a card butterfly together with the rather awesome sentiment!

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

Through the craft room door 2/2 anything goes
Pile it on Favourite colour, mine of course is blue!
The butterfly challenge The letter C I have gone for cadet blue in my gelliplate background.
Cute card Thursday 1/3 spring fever
Allsorts fave stamp mine is this awesome new Visible Image butterfly

My card is for sale at Dotty's Tea House, Carshalton, Surrey, SM5  2AE

Today I have also written a post for the Country View Shop where I am showcasing all the new Visible Image mixed media stamps and stencils. You can see it by clicking here. I would love if you would pop on over and say hello. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Bird spotting with Bear

I am really enjoying Bear staying with us and we have been on some long walks. One lovely park near us is Beddington and we took a long stroll over there. He loves sniffing around in the woods.

 We also took a walk around the lake

 and spotted these cuties.

 Yes 8 fluffy goslings with Mum

and some cygnets too.

There was also Joe Crow looking down at us from a tree.

All these birds inspired me to come home and make some Artist trading coins with a spring bird theme.

I had a piece of paint resist card in my stash made with Tim Holtz' Urban tapestry stamps so I made a background by blending some blue and green distress inks onto it. I also added some Broken china ink through my Tim Holtz bark stencil.

 I added some stamping using my treasured Bronte verse from Visible Image, sadly long discontinued but one of my fave script stamps.

 I die cut some of my CL birds and coloured them with distress inks.

I also used the owls and sentiment stamps from Visible Image's Into the Woods. stamp set. I stamped and embossed a nest using one of the stamps from their Organics stamp set.

This is what I put together.

There are 3 as they were made for an Facebook UK swap group that I am a member of.

Number 1

 Number 2

 and number 3

and here they are as a group.

I would like to enter my A T Coins into the following challenges;

Penny black and More 1/3 going round in circles
Through the craft room door 1/2 anything goes
Happy Little stampers watercolour anything goes
Mix it up 1/5 anything goes
Pile it on 1/3 favourite colour mine is definitely blue
Addicted to stamps and more 1/3 make your mark

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x