More family time with STAMPlorations

Hello today I am sharing my 2nd mid month post for STAMPlorations

I am Guest Designing with these great stamps until July.

This the link to the main website, do check it out, there are some really fab designs there and Shery posts worldwide at a really reasonable rate.

The theme for June is Stamps and Family. You can find all the details here

For my first project I used the sketch to make an anniversary card for my Hb. If you missed this you can find it via this link.

For my 2nd project I thought of something very dear to my family's heart...drinking tea. Yes seriously in our family some of our most important decisions and discussions are made over a cup of tea. My family smile at how many times I will say
 "OK let's have a cuppa."
I even have some gorgeous cups and saucers which I like to occasionally serve my Earl Grey in.

There is nothing quite like a cup of tea in my books.

I used these products to make my tea inspired card;

Hello stamp from the Bold sentiments available here

and the cup of roses stamp available here

I used my roses and teacup stamp which I stamped onto my card base made from a D'Oxide piece of mop up card.

I then laid down some distress inks and used the wrinkle free distress technique to add my colours to another piece of card...building up the layers..................

I then stamped some of the words from the cup of roses set, randomly in the background.
I used some inky left overs to punch out 5 flower bases using my Tim Holtz flower punch. I layered them up and added a gel sticky brad to the centre of each one for some extra dimension.

. I stamped and embossed the hello sentiment from the bold sentiments set and fussy cut it out.

Here is my finished card.

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

Noor summer

Fashionable Stamping 2/3 feminine

Simon says stamp Monday 2/5 touchy feely
WOW embossing powder Summer
We love to create 2/2 #12

STAMPlorations are having a birthday blog hop to celebrate their 4th Birthday very soon. There are over $200 worth of prizes to be won.This is really not to be missed!

I will be a part of the hop on 28th June. All the details can be found via the main STAMPlorations blog here from Monday 19 June.
Here is a brief breakdown

*Participants must go to stamplorations.com, create an account, and add items to their wishlist. Then they add the link to their wishlist to the Inlinkz on the blog.

*Wishlist link up will open a week before the blog hop, on June 19. That post will contain the link up + step-by-step & a short video on how to link up their wishlist.

Prizes:

• Three (3) randomly drawn winners from all comments left on the STAMP blog and participating designers blog will each receive a $25 gift certificate to the store
• One (1) randomly drawn winner from comments left on our Facebook page will win a grab bag consisting of new products worth up to $30
• One (1) randomly drawn winner from comments left on our Instagram page will win a grab bag consisting of new products worth up to $30
• Two (2) randomly drawn winners from the Wishlist Link Up will each win the products in their wish list (up to $50 MSRP)

Shery, the owner of STAMPloarations is also offering a very generous discount to the readers of my blog. Just quote the code STAMPGIRLJANE at the checkout and get 20% off your order of regular or sale items. This is for stencils as well as stamps and you can even combine my code with any offer! Wow, amazing savings to be made. She posts internationally. 

Meanwhile I hope you enjoy a lovely weekend ahead. The weather here has been just amazing....sending sunshine to those who don't have any....we have a bumper amount! I will enjoy my cups of tea in the garden.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Schools out

Yesterday I finished my jewellery/silversmithing class for this year so yes School's Out for summer! Does anyone else remember Alice Cooper's 1972 single...I still love listening to it and it takes me right back to my childhood with my brother and I blasting it out in my dad's car on my yellow plastic radio 😂😂😂  I had just left primary school and was looking forward to my secondary education. Those were fun time and great memories.

There is always an end of year exhibition at my college and I took a couple of photos I thought I would share.  It is set up in Sutton library until 16th June.

 Below is a list of all the departments who take part in the show.

 It's always fun to see your name in print..here I am at Number 15 (I'm still in Top of the Pops mode with Alice Cooper now!!) In case you are wondering the NFS stands for it's Not for Sale... we could sell our work but I either wear mine or make it for family so there is never anything spare.

The blue cabinet below contains my exhibit..

I made the ball part form fold forming and etching and I hand made the complex chain...it is a multiple loop .never again...LOL! It's hard to photograph through the glass but you can see it here. 

I thought I would also share a very recent make using a stone I have had in my stash for a while. I etched the background and used none other that peel offs (remember them!) to give the resist. How amazing it is that my crafts cross over so much. I did not make the chain for this one.

I made the claws by cutting them into the backing and pushing them through. That was very fiddly indeed. I also hand made the bail to hang the chain from. It's a gorgeous agate stone and I had been waiting to set it for a couple of years.

So a card to share today.....as it is nearly time for everyone's summer holidays I thought I would share something very summery. I wanted to enter a few challenges too. I created this for selling at Dotty's and it features a Lili of the Valley pair of mermaids.  I really love this stamp.  I don't often hand colour images now as it does not pay me with the time involved, but every so often I get the urge to break out my Promarkers. I made myself a seaside backing using my new acrylic inks (great fun) and some white acrylic paint. I used them on top of a rejected oxide background and I liked the way a tiny edge of colour remained!

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

Penny Black and More 2/3 anything goes

Passion for Promarkers add a sentiment

Rubber dance 1/3 blue, sea green and sand

Noor summer

Fashionable Stamping 1/3 feminine

Allsorts 1/3 use at least 2 dies I have used 9!

Pixie's snippets playground #285/6 I used snippets of card for all my die cuts.

Simon says stamp Monday 1/5 touchy feely my card has lots of texture..the seaweed die cuts, the glossy accents over the bubble and the glittery hair shells!
Deep Ocean die cuts, chipboards and/or punches

and just in case you want to listen to Alice... whom I still love...because deep down I am still a hardened rock chick ....I have a link to You Tube....enjoy 😎

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBEcLxnXVAc

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

I've got my eye on you

Good morning, another Monday and my weekly dose of Visible Image DT inspiration.   Did you see Visible Image on Create and Craft TV on Friday? If not you have missed a treat but you can watch on catch up via this link for the 11am show. The 4pm one is here. The set looked awesome and Mark and Pauline were so relaxed with their brilliant demos. I am so proud to be a part of this amazing team and I loved seeing all my samples on TV..it is such a fun feeling

I  smiled to see my camera card on TV, which I shared last Monday. The vintage photo of my brother and I as kids is such fun...my Dad took it in 1963...I bet he never realised at the time that one day he would see it on the TV! If you missed that post and my card you can see it here

If you have already watched you will have seen that my eye card opened the 11am show. I chuckled when the  presenter held it up to her face. It is such an amazing stamp, so realistic.

 Today I am going to share details of how I made it. First I stamped and embossed all 3 stamps from the "Go where your dreams take you" set. I then made a cloudy sky using a die cut cloud and distress inks

I covered the eye with masking fluid and added a sun ray using archival ink through my stencil.

I added some star stencilling and also stamped the stars from the Believe in Unicorns set.

I added some green glitter pen and glossy accents to the eye and some Frantage to the card. Below is the wet eye...with glossy accents applied. It's fun watching it dry....from cloudy to clear...

 Once the eye was dry I then had my finished card....
Here it is...
I have my eye on you.........😉

and a couple of close ups. It's really hard to seen the sparkle in the eye from my photo, but if you watch the TV shows on catch up you will see it very clearly.

and here it is once more in its entirety.

This really is the most amazing stamp set. If I had to choose a Top 3 Visible Image stamp set, this would be it. I have owned my eye since it was first released many moons ago and use it so often.

If you would like buy directly from the Visible Image website just follow this link.
All the links to Visible Image are below;

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 chose winner each month win a £25 coupon to spend on the website. Our 2nd themed challenge, "dimension", is  also up and running until 28 June. There is another £40 voucher up for grabs for the winner of this. 

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. 

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

 Stamping sensations 3/3 favourite stamp I think the eye is my all time favourite stamp ever!
Penny Black and More 1/3 anything goes

WOW embossing powder Summer
Stamps and stencils 1/3 words with meaning
We love to create 1/2 #12
Happy Little Stampers Mixed media  1/3 June, use some glitter I think you can see the glitter in my eye..if not just click on the link to the 11am TV show above!

Thanks so much for stopping by today and for the very kind comments that you take the time to leave. Thanks also for all the lovely message sent to me after seeing the Create and Craft show too. I would also like to warmly welcome my newest followers. Thanks for joining me on my creative journey and I hope that you find something here at Jane's Journal to inspire you.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x