All wrapped up with Visible Image

Hi everyone today I'm sharing my latest Visible Image Design Team make, and this time I've been having some festive fun with the fabulous All Wrapped Up stamp set!

Rather than making a Christmas card, I decided to create a pair of handmade gift tags, perfect for adding a personal touch to Christmas presents. 🎁

These are great fun to make;

 I stamped and the gorgeous parcels and wrapping paper from the set onto pink and green patterned papers and onto white card.

I cut out the small patterned paper parcel and the one from the background and added gold pen accents to the ribbons. I also cut out the patterned end of the roll of the paper and the turned over corner. I cut around the whole scene on the white card

I then layered them on top for some dimension. I used kraft tags for a lovely vintage feel, and stamped the spool. I also stamped the sentiments in pink and green adding the fun  "tape" stamp to the edges.

I added the little coordinating presents and two of the fun sentiments, "No Peeking!" and "Handmade with love at Christmas".

 I mounted them on gold card  and some gold ribbon finished them off.

I love how these turned out. They're a little different from traditional Christmas tags and would look lovely tied onto gifts wrapped in brown kraft paper.

It's always fun finding different ways to use our stamps, and these tags were a lovely change from making cards.

I hope they give you a little inspiration for your own Christmas gift wrapping this year?🎄❤️

You can check out all the Visible Image range on the website here. and once again the All wrapped up set is here

Remember to check me out on Instagram here where I share my creative makes most days. 

Bye for now,

Jane x

The new Simon Says Stamp Sending Cheer release

Hi everyone, today the gorgeous new Sending Cheer release from Simon Says stamp launches. You can see it here.

I am delighted to share some festive inspiration using the new Christmas Ornaments 2466msc stamp set available on the website here.

This set is a gorgeous set of layering stamps. I’ve made four projects with this one set — two cards and two Christmas gift tags — and deliberately gave them quite different looks to show just how versatile these fun retro-style ornaments can be.

For my first card I went for a cool, frosty look with a watery blue distress ink stain spray background and three brightly coloured hanging ornaments. I added white die-cut foliage using my Tim Holtz Holiday Greens mini along the top edge, a little sparkle and the Deck the Halls sentiment. A few gems on the ornaments added even more Christmas sparkle.

My second card takes a much bolder direction, with a vibrant rainbow distress stain sprays background. I added playful streamers made using the Tim Holtz streamers die set. I stamped and cut out one of the ornaments to create a dimensional focal point, finishing the design with colourful sequins. The Glad Tidings sentiment from the set finished it off.

And I couldn't resist making a couple of coordinating gift tags too. I kept these much clean and simple, using individual ornaments with the stars stamp and sentiments from the set. A little red and white twine and they are all ready for Christmas parcels.

I always enjoy finding different ways to use the same stamp set, and I think these would be great designs for batch-making Christmas cards and tags too.

The new Sending Cheer release launches today, 8th October over on the Simon Says Stamp website  with lots more festive inspiration to come! 🎄❤️

Remember to check me out on Instagram here where I share my creative makes most days. 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

The stunning new The light you carry release from Visible Image

I'm very excited to share my first Design Team make from the brand new Visible Image release, The Light You Carry. It is a set of 4 wonderful thought provoking stamp sets and 4 wonderful stencils. You can check it out on the website here

This beautiful new collection has been created to coincide with Mindfulness Month (October), making it the perfect time to pause, reflect and enjoy a little creative time for ourselves.

For my first card I chose to use the gorgeous new Take a Breath stamp set.

HEADS UP; There is a special launch bundle price for all 4 new stamp and stencil sets on the website here as well as bundle deals for the stamps and stencils. 

 I wanted to create a peaceful sunset scene, with the girl sitting quietly on the rocks looking out across the water — and I think it fits the mindfulness theme perfectly. First I stamped the girl and horizon onto my mixed media card.

Then I started to colour the whole scene using my Distress Watercolour Pencils, building up layers of pinks, purples and warm sunset shades. This was inspired by the beautiful sunsets we see on our holidays in Rhodes. Here are the stages

The sentiment “pause. breathe. repeat.” seemed the perfect finishing touch for such a calm and reflective scene. I also finished off with some white posca pen detailing on the waves.

Here it is once more.

I really enjoyed working with this beautiful new set — and this is just the first of my samples from The Light You Carry, so I'll have lots more from the new release to share with you very soon. 💜

Remember to check out this gorgeous new release here 

And remember to follow me over on Instagram where I share my creative makes most days. 

Bye for now,

Jane x