New October stencil release blog hop for STAMPlorations comment to win!

Hello, I am delighted to be a part of the STAMPlorations blog hop today which is showcasing the awesome new Sanna stencil release. If you would like to see the full range of these newbies just click here

There are prizes to be won just by leaving comment on those designers' blogs participating in the hop. Obviously the more blogs you visit and comment on the higher your chance of winning! The prizes are 1 winner receive a $20 coupon, 1 a $10 coupon and 2 others will win their choice of any 3 of the new Sanna Lippert design stencils. Commenting closes on the 21 October and winner will be announced on 10 November over on the STAMPlorations blog. 

You can find all the details here and a list of all those participating in the hop. 

I got to play with these fab 2 new stencils which make brilliant backgrounds. 

convallaria

and

clustered hearts

For the hop I have made 2 cards to share, the first one with a Christmas theme using the peace, love joy stamp

I used the clustered hearts stencil to make this background using glitter paste, below is a photo when wet.

I also used the same paste through the convallaria stencil onto a gold inked background and made this card. 

I then made a coffee love theme card using the clustered hearts stencil with this brilliant stamp
Before coffee

  First with ink and then with embossing powder on black card.

 but I actually made a 3rd card which I can share here on my blog.  I was just enjoying playing with textures and colours using the 2 stencils and the same coffee stamp.

Commenting closes on 21 October and winners are announce over on the main page on 10th November in the October winners page. You can find all the details here

From 8-21 October there is 15% off all stencils, no code needed but if you use my code STAMPGIRLJANE at the checkout you can save another 20%. You can use my code at any time to get 20% off all products in the store here

Thanks so much for stopping by today and good luck. Do you have a favourite of the cards I made? I'd love to know.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Eye contact

Good morning, unbelievably we find ourselves past the longest day and in the last week of June. Summer has finally arrived and I intend to make the most of every single second. The weather is just perfect.  I adore being able to be outside in my garden and also to be able to craft in my garden studio. From my studio I can hear the birds sings, the bees humming and Billy can sit in the shade and watch me. My summer pots are just bursting with glorious colour.

It's also time for my Monday DT make for Visible Image and I decided that I would have a play with the awesome Eye contact stencil.

plus some words from the fab Voices in your head sentiment set.

I have always loved all the Face and Eye stamps that Mark has designed and I was thrilled to see that in the new release he brought out an eye stencil too. 

I hadn't played with my Bister and Infusions for a while so I make a background first using watercolour card. I started with a little....

 and just added different colours until I was happy with my background.

I used black sparkle medium through the stencil, below is when it is wet...

 but once dry it  has an awesome sparkle below). I painted the white part of the eye in using white acrylic paint. 

I also added glossy accents to the iris (which you can see in the final photos).

I stamped 2 sentiments from the Voices in your head stamp set and then matted up my plaque.

Here are some close ups

 and one last shot

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

Crafty Catz 2/3 anything goes
Creative Artiste 3/3 anything mixed media
As you like it 1/3 favourite type of embossing and why mine is always heat embossing as it gives a brilliant resist to all my inking.
CRAFT 2/2 summer
Time out 2/3 warm
Simon says stamp Wednesday bright and cheerful

Lil patch of crafty friends 2/3 anything goes
Addicted to stamps and More 1/3 make your mark

All the Visible Image links can be found here;

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 chosen winner each month wins a £25 coupon to spend on the website.

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 and stencils can be purchased. 

You can also follow via:

 Pinterest

Twitter

and

 Instagram

There are 6 new stamp sets and 8 new stencils...all totally amazing and uniquely Visible Image.

 Thanks for stopping by and for your kind comments. This glorious weather seems set for a while and I am just loving it. I'm getting back to my gardening and crafting in my garden studio...bliss!

Bye for now,

Jane x

STAMPlorations stencils blog hop

Hello and if you are a first time visitor here to Jane's Journal a very warm welcome. Today I am taking part in the STAMPlorations new stencils blog hop.

This is to celebrate the release of 8 brand new stencils by Sanna Lippert Designs. 

You can see these fab new stencils here

There will be 2 winners, randomly selected from comments left on all the participating designers.

One person win a $20 gift voucher to spend at the web site shop

Two winners can select their 3 fave stencils from the new range.

All the details for the hop are here 

I chose to work with Senicio 1

and Christmas trees 1

and I have made 2 cards today to showcase these awesome new stencils.

First up is my card using Senicio

 I used black card and Candied apple distress oxide ink through the stencil

sprinkled on some embossing powder and heated

 and got this cool effect

 I used it as a background for the card below using the Trendy birds 2 stamp set

here is a close up of the background

For my second card I brayered a Christmas plaid background using paints

and then added glitter pastes through the stencil.

A sentiment from the Christmas reindeer completed a simple Christmas card to show off this awesome stencil.

I would like to enter my card (or both if appropriate) into the following challenges;

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes
Winter wonderland 1/3 red and green
Fashionable stamping nature
Rudolph days challenge November

Remember that the more designers you visit and leave comments for the more you increase your chances of being a lucky winner! Commenting for the hop closes on 4 December. 

The link once more is  here ..good luck!

Thanks so much for stopping by to see what I made. It's beginning to look lot like Christmas...I spotted these beauties recently  in the shops...it's nearly time to get our Christmas tree..Billy is practising his typing skills 😼

 As an extra bonus there is a whopping 40% off all products EXCEPT the new releases, on the website until tomorrow. Check it out here just use the code BIGTHANKS at the checkout.
However you can still use my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at the checkout to get 20% off anything!

If you are taking part in the hop remember to leave a comment on as many participating blogs as possible to increase your chances of winning. Good luck!

Back soon,

Bye for now

Jane x

Holly for Christmas

Good morning  it's my turn to share some more inspiration for our November stencils challenge over at Country View. For my first card I shared a snowflake card here. I used more contemporary colours of blue and silver

For today's card I have gone very traditional.
I love reds and greens and to me Holly epitomizes the spirit of Christmas

 I used one of Tim Holtz' traditional Santa stamps....to me this is the image of Father Christmas 😃 I added some colour with distress markers

 and used these Christmassy distress oxides for my background

I added holly stencilling...

I didn't want to cover up all the background so I kept my design very simple. The sentiment is also Tim Holtz' 

You still have until 30 November to enter our Stencils challenge...I really hope that you can join us.

Remember that you can enter as many times as you like and combine with any other challenges. Your make can be anything creative! You may even be the lucky random winner of the £20 CVC voucher.

 You will find all the details here

I would like to add my card to the following challenges;

Happy Little Stampers anything goes
We love to Create 3/3 anything mixed media
Crafting with an attitude 3/3 anything goes
Creative Artiste 3/3 anything mixed media
Mix it up 3/3 anything goes, optional stencilling
Noor UK Winter
The Ribbon Girl 1/3 November any card challenge
That's Crafty 1/3 stencils

Thanks for stopping by today, I have a very important date today with a special birthday girl....yes my darling granddaughter Daisy is 4 today and we are heading off to her celebrations...with my Frozen birthday cake...here's a sneak peek...

all will be revealed soon!

Bye for now,

Have a lovely weekend,

Jane x

A snowflake's journey

Wow, we have arrived at the first day of November! The weather certainly knew which month it is...a real drop in temperature. We have yet to have our first frost but it must be very near. I planted up the last of my winter flowering viola in the garden at the weekend so that I can enjoy a little colour until the bulbs peep through next spring.

They are such delicate flowers but even in the harshest winters keep on flowering their little hearts out. I decided to use just a little touch of colour to create my card today.

It is time for our November challenge over at Country View Challenges and our theme this month is "Stencils". A really great theme as I use them in most of my crafting.
Remember that you can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with any other challenges. Your make can be anything creative! You may even be the lucky random winner of the £20 CVC voucher.

 You will find all the details here

I am sharing the first of my 2 inspiration cards. Today's uses temporary Christmas colours of blues and silvers. I used my Visible Image snowflake stamps and 2 of their stencils; the brilliant time tunnel and cosmic skies. The time tunnel stencil gave me the feel of  swirling snowflakes on their journey, hence the title of my post. I also added a glint of silvery snow using the cosmic skies stencil.

This is what I got up to in my studio, the photos are a bit dark as I don't a lot of natural light down there now that the nights are drawing in.
 I used Tumbled glass and a few dabs of Pumice stone Distress inks and lots of water.

 I added more Tumbled glass ink through the time tunnel stencil to create my snow storm.

I then added some metallic inks through the Cosmic skies stencil

and got this lovely effect

I then stamped and embossed my snowflakes in silver and added the stamped sentiment from the set using black ink.

I added some die cut snowflakes and gems and layered them up to finished off my card.

Here it is.

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

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes

Thanks so much for stopping by and we hope to see lots of you joining in with our "Stencils" challenge for November over at Country View. All the details again are  here

Bye for now,

Jane x

Exciting new Visible Image products

Good morning, welcome to the last Monday in August. It's a bank holiday here in the UK and as a double bonus the sun has shone all weekend and it might reach the dizzying heights of 26c here in the South of England. 

Today I have a bit of a red white and blue theme going on here....

red tomatoes

 my white geraniums

 and the gorgeous blue skies we have enjoyed.

So if I'm thinking red, white and blue I might be suggesting a theme for my Monday DT card for Visible Image....hmmmm...something patriotic,

like the Union Jack...

yes Visible Image have brought out a brand new range of stencils and the first I have had the pleasure to play with is none other than the brilliant Grungy Union Jack which can be pre-ordered for September release here

Isn't it gorgeous...I love those grungy drips. These have been designed by Mark and made for Visible Image by Tando Creative. They are fab quality and thickness, a generous 6X6" size and are available to pre order here There are 10 designs, all are awesome, do check them out.

As soon as I saw this stencil I knew just which stamp would go perfectly with it...

yes the bowler hatted man from the

ahead of our time  stamp set

I kept to the red. white and blue of the flag and inked it up using Distress inks.

I then stamped and embossed the man and added the flying birds...I had been up to London the day before and it got me thinking of Mary Poppins and "feed the birds"...yes I know it's quite scary inside my head sometimes! I also used the very apt creativity sentiment from the 

Express yourself set

Here is my first DT card using this awesome stencil.

Meet Mr Union Jack 😉

and here he is in close up

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

Simon Says work it Wednesday 3/3 Favourite stamps This is one of my favourite male stamps

Addicted to stamps and more 3/3 anything goes

Deep Ocean 3/3 fave colour combo I love using a red, white and blue colour palette

Craft heaven 2/3 anything goes

Noor UK anything goes

All this week we will be sharing the new stencils over on the Visible Image social media pages.

All the Visible Image links can be found here;

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group can be found here ...it would be lovely to see you there. You can add work to the "Show and Tell" album where one randomly chosen winner each month wins a £25 coupon to spend on the website. Our monthly themed challenge is on summer break and will return in September. 

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. 

You can also follow via:

 Pinterest

Twitter

 Instagram

I am loving playing with these new stencils and have been making more samples for the next Create and Craft TV show on 8/9th September. I will also be sharing another of my stencil makes next week.

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

Enjoy your day off and I hope you have some of this lovely sunshine. If not I will blow some your way. I have enjoyed spending the whole time in the garden and in my studio creating some samples for the next Create and Craft TV show which is coming up 8/9 September.  I will be sharing some of those makes very soon.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x