Mother's day tag using the new floral Visible Image release

Hi everyone. I am delighted to be sharing my first design team make and blogged tutorial for Visible Image using their brand new florals release. You can check them all out here.

The theme for our makes this week is "for Mum" and my brief was to make something "other than a card". I chose to make a tag for Mother's day using the beautiful new Precious life stamp set.

I also used the Mother's day sentiment from their existing Golden Daffodils stamp set. 

This is the tag I made.

Here is how I made it;

I die cut a tag using super smooth 300gsm white card.

I stamped the flower from Precious life and sentiment from Golden daffodils using black Versafine and clear heat embossed them.

I used this palette of distress inks;

and picked the inks up with a paintbrush and a little water to paint the flower.

Once painted I added some micro glaze to the main part of the flower and leaves to seal them. 

I then pressed each of the distress inks onto my media mat, spritzed on some water and then tapped in the tag to pick up the inks. I did this in layers, drying with just a heat tool NOT an embossing gun between layers. Too much heat will melt the embossing.

Using the accessory stamps in the Precious life set I then stamped the rest of my design. I used green and yellow Versafine inks. 

To finish off I backed the tag onto black card, added some of my signature sequins and a green check ribbon to give a real spring feel.

This tag is perfect for attaching to a bunch of flower or any present you might be treating your Mum to on Mother's day. If you use a different sentiment it would also work well with any spring gift. 

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 the monthly artist trading card swap in the group. It is open to everyone worldwide. Over 150 members, worldwide, have taken part since it started over 3 years ago. 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. So the next swap sign up will open on 23rd March  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. Do come over and join us, you will be most warmly welcomed. 

The main Visible Image Facebook business page is here

Their website 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 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

It's spooky season at Country View Challenges

 Hello everyone, it's time for my first blogged design team make for our October Country View Crafts challenge hosted over on Facebook. 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 350 crafters 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.

The theme for October is "Halloween" so we would like to see all your spooky makes. I love Halloween crafting and each year make 6 Halloween tags to add to the little Halloween gifts I give to my kids and grandkids.

Obviously my go to products to reach for are from my Tim Holtz stash. This man has so many amazing products to choose from and CVC stocks loads.

This is my first tag

and this is how it came together.

I used my fab Tim Holtz 3D wings Impresslit to create some spooky wings for one of my Paper dolls. I used black card and added some distress crayons . My paper doll  from an old pack but there are plenty of solo Paper dolls available on the CVC website here. 

I made my background using the Acorns texture fade. Again I used black card and distress crayons then I splattered on some distress mica sprays for some added bling and interest.

I also stamped out a pumpkin, a sentiment and an old Tim spider die cut and put everything together, Here is my finished tag again. 

with a couple of close ups 

and 1 final shot.

I hope I might have inspired you to give our October "Halloween" challenge a go. There is a fab prize up for grabs too for one randomly selected and you can enter up to 5 times!

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

I will be back to share my 2nd design team make for the challenge on Saturday 26th October. 

I would also like to give you a heads up that my 2024 Inky cardmaking Christmas workshop at Dotty's Teahouse in Carshalton, Surrey will be held on 2 dates this year; Thursday 21st and repeated on 28th November, 7.30-10pm. The cost is £30 which includes my tuition, workshop notes, all materials, a take home bag and a hot drink and festive bake. Bookings are open NOW. 

 Just telephone 020 3754 4613    This is the link to Dotty's website. This is the 3rd year I have hosted  these workshops, they are such festive fun! Please feel free to contact me via Instagram messenger. 

Bye for now,

Jane x

Missing you with Visible Image

Hi there, it's time for my fortnightly blogged design team make for Visible Image. Today I am showcasing some old with the new again. I used the awesome new "I miss your face" sentiment from

 Lost for words

with the incredibly versatile new 

Grunge tones set

plus their gorgeous "rose" from the

Random art of kindness set

and their beautiful ink swirls stencil

I decided to make a tag. Here's what I got up to;

I smashed some some squeezed lemonade and fossilized amber distress inks onto my mixed media mat, added some water and created a watercolour background to my tag.

Next I blended speckled egg distress ink through the ink swirls stencil

Then I stamped using all 3 stamps from the Grunge tones  set using salty ocean ink and first and 2nd generation stamping to give a subtle background

I also stamped and embossed the sentiment  from Lost for words and the numbers stamps from Random art of kindness set and carried on building up the layers.

I added some alcohol ink pearls to heat resistant acetate. I have shared this technique many times before and also demoed it at many a stamp show in 2019. I stamped and clear embossed the roses and cut them out.

I stamped the roses again on the tag and then layered everything up

using glossy accents as my adhesive.

Here is my finished tag which I mounted onto black

a couple of close ups 

and one final shot.

All the Visible Image links are listed below

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

The main Visible Image Facebook page is here; there are regular giveaways...open world wide. Do check out the Facebook LIVES and videos where you will be able to see lots more samples and ideas. 

Their Instagram page can be found here 

Pinterest here

And once again the shop web site is here; where all their gorgeous stamps and stencils can be purchased.

This is the link to the new release. 

 If you would like to follow me on Instagram where I share all my makes, many more than I get the time to blog,  this is the link to my account.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

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

25 days of Christmas tags 2020

Hello and a very warm welcome to my blog.  I am delighted to be a part of the 2020 25 days of Christmas tags which is 10 years old this year.  This brilliant event is organized by the lovely Tracey of In My creative Opinion. Please do check out her blog. Today is Day 6 and if you have missed any of the previous days do check them out. I think this year we need every piece of glitter to cheer us along through the coming months. 

There are no less than 26 companies taking part and I am appearing today as part of the STAMPlorations design team. I have affiliate links within this post which simply means that if you make a purchase via any of my links I will earn a small fee at absolutely no cost to you at all. A little heads up too that if you use my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at the checkout you will also be able to take 20% off the total! We have 2 $25 gift codes up for offer so do visit Day 6 here for the details

Here are all the fab companies taking part. If you have missed any so far do visit  Tracey of  In My creative opinions' blog who has all the details. There are some AWESOME prizes up for grabs so do check out the main post.

This is my make

I worked with the following fab STAMP products;

Manilla tags nesting dies

Snowflakes stencil

Christmas baubles stamp set

and 

Let it snow sentiment die

and here is how I made it;

I pressed salty ocean, tumbled glass, frayed burlap and weather wood distress inks onto my craft sheet adding some spritzes of water and then picked up the colours, drying between layers.

Using the largest die from the Manilla nesting dies 

I die cut a tag.

Then I applied glitter frost through the snowflake stencil

I stamped and gold embossed 3 ornaments from the Christmas baubles set onto a spare piece of the inky card .

I cut them out and then added glitter thread strings and satin glitter ribbon bows. 

I also die cut the Let it snow sentiment die in gold card. I then assembled my design.

Here is my tag again

and a final close up.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and do remember to check out all the other tags for this event. 

Here is the link again and for today's Day 6 post it is here.

Before I go let me also give you a heads up for getting some great bargains on the STAMP website. All the Christmas/holiday themed items have between 10 and 20% off and that is on TOP OF any discount you can get by using my STAMPGIRLJANE code at checkout. This is the link. That's win win in my books so don't forget to type in my unique code. This offer ends on November 30th.  Enjoy! 

Remember that at any time if you order more than $15 of product from the website (after discounts and before shipping) and quote my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at checkout not only can you get 20% off your order you can also choose a product for FREE up to the value of $7! Here is a link to the website.

Remember that by just leaving a comment here you will get an entry into the giveaway draw! 

I hope you all have a peaceful and healthy festive season ahead. Stay safe. 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x