Getting my spook on for Visible Image

 Hello everyone it's time for my fortnightly blogged design team post for Visible Image. 

We are just 10 days away from the start of autumn and of course that also means that the "Spooky Season" is coming soon  My grandchildren have turned me from someone who hid on Halloween from the Trick or Treaters to someone who decorates the porch, lights a pumpkin and greats them now with sweets and a huge smile. I honestly love Halloween and last year ran out of sweets as we had some many callers at our door.

So I thought today would be a good time to get you thinking about some fun Halloween makes. 

Boo!

I used the following products;

skull shadow stencil

with one of the fun sentiments from  Happy Halloween

This is how I made my card.

I used a piece of inked card from my stash.

 This one was made using lumberjack plaid, scorched timber and lost shadow distress inks. I pressed them onto my craft sheet, added water and dipped in my card. By drying between the layers I was able to achieve this look. I then blended on a little extra scorched timber to add some spooky dark  areas.

 I placed the skull shadow stencil near the top and blended black soot distress ink through the eyes and mouth and a little way around the skull.

I stamped the Trick or treat sentiment from Happy Halloween onto scraps of white card in black ink and distressed the edges with a distressing tool. I did the same to the edges of the card. I edged the sentiments with candied apple distress ink allowing it to get messy with my fingerprints as this all adds to the fun Halloween look. 

I stuck the sentiments in place. Next I used a pipette and sucked up some ink from a bottle of candied apple spray stain. I then applied the ink as dripping "blood" from the underside of the sentiments and around the skull. 

I left the stain to dry overnight and then cut  my card down to 4 1/2 by 6 1/2" . I matted it onto red glitter paper and then onto a black card blank.

Here it is again

with a close up

and I final photo.

I hope my card wasn't too ghoulish for you. You can obviously leave the dripping blood off if you prefer but for me the more Hammer Horror the better! 

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. 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 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 August sign up will be in the group next week on 23rd August. 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.https://www.instagram.com/jane.tyrrell?igsh=dzJsbnFoYnR5dzV5tyrrell most days, where I share many, many more makes than I have the time to blog. 

Bye for now.

Jane x

Treats not tricks, Halloween 2020

Halloween is just  2 days away and it will be a very different one this year. There will be no rings on the door bell and excited children in costume hoping for some treats for their Halloween buckets. Until my granddaughter was 4 I had no interest in Halloween at all but since she has been Trick or Treating I have totally embraced it!

I will still decorate my porch this year and I have made my treat bags for my big and small babies but sadly that will be it. I so hope that this time next year things will be more normal.

I have been sharing my 2020 Halloween tags over on Instagram over the last month. You can see my posts here or there is a link in my side bar.

I thought today I would show them all together and also give you a little peep inside at the goodies.

My big babies have these in their treat bags

My grandbabies have books, as neither are huge sweet eaters yet, wrapped in hand stamped gift wrap. This is for 3 year old Jack who adores dinosaurs.

and for Daisy, 7, who loves this series.

These are my 2020 tags I made, as a group

Here are the goodies all together

It's been such fun making these ghoulish tags. 

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

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes

Simon says stamp Monday movie inspiration mine is The Witches 

Allsorts celebration time mine of course is Halloween

So it's a wrap (literally) for 2020. The treats have all been delivered and will be opened up on Saturday.

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy Halloween however you might be celebrating it (if you do) this year. 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

The witching hour draws near

Good morning, in 2 days time it is Halloween, when ghouls and ghosts are the order of the day. Since the birth of my grandchildren I have thoroughly embraced Halloween fun.  I also enjoy making special tags and then giving them on treat bags to my big and small babies.

You will have seen most of them over the weeks on my blog and today, for my Monday Visible Image design team inspiration,  I have a final one to share. These are the four Visible Image stamped ones I have shown so far.

So this is what I got up to with my final one:

Again I used the  brilliant skull stencil

I cut a black card tag and stencilled the skull using silver ink. I outlined it with white pen and red embossed the small "splat" from organics

into the eye socket.

I stamped out and coloured several poison bottles from Alice in Wonderland

 and I teamed up the small skulls from
Mr Bone Jangles

with a die cut spider.

I also used Alphabetical

to stamp the word BOO and also red embossed a small cat from Curious cats

I red embossed a pair of hands onto black card from You are not alone.

and fussy cut everything out.

I then put my design together;

with a few close ups

and one last shot

and here it is on my Son's treat bag.

For my big children (average age 30 (!)) I make up their treat bags with Halloween chocolate but also some other non sweet goodies, as my son is not really a sweet eater.

This is this years offerings.

On the chocolate front;

 Also some nuts and savoury crunch

 and a Costa voucher each to treat themselves to a drink and pastry. 

I buy my small babies (age nearly 5 and 17 months)

books. This year Jack has

and Daisy

I also made them Halloween gift wrap..I often make my own gift wrap for family presents. It makes a gift very personal.

I used Mr Bone Jangles  again to stamp onto brown paper.

and yes you will spot another tag above....this one is Daisy's using the Dark hearts stencil , Into the woods stamps and part of the sentiment from the Queen of hearts set.

Below are a few of them all ready to be opened on Wednesday...made with lots of spooky love!

I would like my BOO red/black tag
into the following challenges;

Simon says stamp Monday Halloween/spooky
Simon says stamp Wednesday Halloween/spooky
Sweet stampin 1/3 humour
Crafty catz 1/3 anything goes/Halloween
Moving along with the time Halloween
Emerald Creek Dares 1/3 all things in the night
Try it on Tuesday 3/3trick or treat/Halloween

All the Visible Image links can be found here;

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you. You can add work to the new challenge album where one randomly chosen winner each month wins a £40 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 their gorgeous stamps and stencils can be purchased. 

You can also follow all the latest news and inspiration via

Pinterest

Twitter

and 

Instagram

Remember to add your "autumn colours" to the FB album here The challenge
ends on 31st October. It will be great to see them all. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today and remember to look out for the witches on their brooms on Wednesday night....whoooooohooo!

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone...we have reached 31 October and there will be lots of knocks on my door tonight with the local children trick or treating. I didn't really get into Halloween until Daisy was born. My children are too old for it to have been part of their childhood. However I do make them up a little treat bag tied with one of my Halloween tags. Daisy and Jack have Halloween books as neither eat chocolate (yet).

I bought Jack Meg and Mog

 and Daisy the new Julia Donaldson book.

These are the chocolate treats for my big kids....spooky chocolate!

Popped into bags and tied with one of my handmade tags.

I am sharing my last Halloween 2017 tag today.

It's the tag below which is for Jack. We call him our little Pumpkin King so it's right that his featured pumpkins.

The image is one of my sadly no longer available Nicecrane digis. I stamped lots of spiders on the backing card and layered up with a mixed media die but plus some other spooky ones. I stamped my Tim Holtz skull onto book pages and added one of my mixed media leaves. 

I would like to enter Jack's Halloween tag into the following challenges;

A vintage journey crazy for autumn colour
Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes

Emerald Creek Dares Freaky fun

Frilly and Funkie 2/3 trick or treat my treat is that there is a real treat (Jack's book) that it is attached to and I also made some matching gift wrap.
Noor UK fall colours
Cupcake Inspirations orange, green, brown

This is my matching stamped wrapping paper...here is Jack's pressie all ready to open.

and here are Jack and Daisy's gifts together.

So that's me done for Halloween 2017, no more Halloween crafting until next year.

I have my head down now for my most favourite time of the year..yes Christmas is only 54 days away.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I'm back in the morning as it's 1 November and time for our new challenge over at Country View.

Nearly time for the witching hour....have fun 👻

Bye for now,

Jane x