A Face it success

Wow did you see Visible Image on the Create and Craft show on Saturday? If not it is still available on catch up here for the next 5 days here

How am-az-ing it was!! The Face It stamp set sold out in 26 minutes!! And the Curious Cat set within the first half hour. All but a handful of stamps sold out within that hour. Mark's demos were fabulous and it was such fun spotting all 5 of my cards on the show together with the other awesome samples my fellow Design Team members had created.

Today is my first official Design Team post for Visible Image. This will be shared over on the VI Facebook pages. If you are a first time visitor via Facebook, can I extend a very warm welcome here at Jane's Journal. If my regular blogging friends would like to join Visible Image over on Facebook I have shared the links below, just click on them. The VI group page is such a friendly creative place to be...just send a request to join and Helen will gladly add you. The main Visible Image page is available for any one to view.

Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/visibleimage where you can enter our monthly ‘Show & Tell’ challenge! Facebook PAGE https://www.facebook.com/visibleimage exciting giveaways every week!

I have already shared one of the 5 sample cards I made, Billy's Fence, last week. If you missed that post you can see it here. You all saw that my sweet Billy Cat was the inspiration for all my cat cards...you all loved seeing his photos so here's another one ;0)
At the moment I am having to craft in the kitchen as it's far too cold in my garden studio. Billy sits next to me at the breakfast bar...here he is keeping check on what I'm doing.

Sooo back to my design team card for today. It is the 2nd sample I made for the Create and Craft TV show.  This amazing set is called Face It  Although the stock sold out so quickly on Create and Craft Helen is expecting a new delivery on Monday 13th March, at Visible Image HQ. You can buy direct from them or from the many craft shops (international ones too) who are stocking them...there is an extensive list over on the Facebook page. You can also order from overseas directly from VI and the postage is only £3...(£1.50 for the UK) if you don't have a stockist near you.

I also used 2 sets of words from the sentiment set, called Own It which works perfectly with Face It...and of course just about any other stamp you own. This set will also be perfect for my art journal Moments.

I made 2 Face It cards, I'll share the second one soon..if you saw the show it's the very retro rainbow striped card. I decided to make an easel card as it's been so long since I have made one and they are always fun to do, if a little fiddly. The cards I make that sell in Dotty's Tearooms need to be flat and not too thick for posting, so this was an great opportunity to do something different.

I had a brain storm with my sketch/ideas book (yes I do keep one as I have flashes of inspiration at all sorts of times...often when I wake up and if I don't write them down straight away I forget them!) for a few days to consult my "inner muse" 😉 and decided to use both the eyes open and closed stamps....my idea was that the face was "closing her eyes" and "making a wish". I wanted the wish inside to be quite dream like. I'm afraid I took only a couple of WIP photos...I got so carried away creating and my messy play is not conducive to keep stopping and taking photos. This is what I got up to...

I stamped and embossed both eyes open and eyes shut onto my card. I masked off the open eyes and both set of lips.
For the front of the easel I used Distress inks and blended a background. I added a little bit of stencilling. I then added some Sparkle Medium through a heart stencil for some glittery texture.

I changed my mind re the sentiment, see the photo below. I decided to cut up the words on snippets of cards and then mount them on a snippet of black card.

 I coloured the lips and added Glossy Accents for dimension and left them to dry.

For the inside I masked as before and used a mix of Infusions and distress inks and also added some more Sparkle Medium, this time using a star stencil, my idea was that she was making wish...(stars) hmm are you still with me 😄

Then I put everything together.

Here is my easel card...which I saw as the show opened on TV....great fun to see it there. Below are my photos...it's really hard to show up how glittery it is in real life but here goes....

Here is the front close up

the inside

The "wish" as seen from the side...

I used these 2 sets of sentiments so that when the easel is stood up and the front slotted into place it reads "Close your eyes make a wish"

and here is a collage

I would like to enter my Face It card into the following challenges

Pixie's Snippets playground #271 and 272
Addicted to stamps and More anything goes
Ribbon Girl 1/3  March card challenge
Fussy and Fancy 2/3 anything goes
Crafty Catz  2/3 anything goes
Simon says stamp Monday based on a book mine is While my eyes were closed by Linda Green
Sweet Stampin 1/3 no designer paper
Creative Artiste 1/3 anything goes mixed media
Happy Little stampers March watercolour challenge anything goes

I thought I would also put a link up today to my Pinterest Page where I share all my latest work. You can see it here and I have put it up in my side bar too. If you don't have a blog and would like to read my newest posts you can also receive them by email. There is a link in my right hand side bar.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, for your ongoing support of my creative journey and for the kind comments you take the time to leave me . I really appreciate them. Have a lovely week.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Dancing flowers and girls

Hello, it's Friday already and the weather is feeling pretty March like...windy but some great sunshine and awesome extra day light. Thank you all so much for the amazing comments and support you have given me re my new Design Team work for Visible Image. It's such an exciting journey for me.

I wanted to share some recent photos from a day out I had with my DD and Daisy. We visited Hillier Gardens in Southampton and wow what a beautiful spot it is.

There were drifts of snowdrops, cyclamen and hellebores everywhere

 My little sweetheart took her toy camera and bent down to take photos just like Nanna 😂

Daisy took her Teeny Tiny Tears with her (yes mine from the 1960s!)

a bit of dancing

and nappy changing...Teeny Tiny Tears certainly looks good for 50 doesn't she!

Daisy loves her.

Today's card is a very girlie spring one. The stamps are more from the awesome new Visible Image release.

I made my own music paper from sheet music. The stamps are from the Born to Perform set and the sentiment is from the Own it! set

This is not one of the samples I made for the show...for my samples I chose to work with the Stay Curious Cat and Face It sets.  If you missed my Billy the cat inspired sample post do have a peep here..all very exciting. 

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

The Artistic Stamper Springtime
Ribbon Girl any image
In the Pink For a special lady mine is for my darling Daisy.
Memory Box Ribbons my oval is a MB stitched oval die cut.
Addicted to stamps and More anything goes
Dies R Us something new my new is my brand new Born to Perform Visible Image stamp set.
Fussy and Fancy 1/3 anything goes
Crafty Catz 1/3 anything goes
Creative corner 1/3 girlie fun
WOW Spring the ballet dancer has been clear embossed , fussy cut out and the ribbon wound round her.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Remember that the new Visible Image stamp release is on Create and Craft TV at 10 am tomorrow (Sat 4 March. Channel 23 Freeview, Virgin 748, Sky 674 or you can watch on line here.  Mark will be doing some awesome  live demos.  The show is also available to watch on line for 7 days after it has aired. I have my recorder set and I will wave if I spot any of my Cat or Face It cards over there there.

Back soon,

Have a lovely weekend,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Marching into March

Goodness me here were are in March and let's see if the old saying In like a lamb out like  a lamb is true? We seen to have had all the season's in the last few days...storm Doris was pretty awful!  I'm keeping my supply of daffs growing on my window sill in the kitchen. These pretty flowers greet me every morning.

As it's the first of the month it is of course time for my next DT card for Country View and for this month's challenge Christine has chosen the theme "Inspired by Tim Holtz". For me that's an easy choice as I love all things Tim but if that's a tough one for you think, vintage, inks, mixed media etc etc. There is also plenty of inspiration over on the challenge blog from my talented Teamies and all the details can be seen here. You might even be lucky enough to win the £20 voucher which is up for grabs to a random winner.

Today I also want to show that you don't have to go totally over to the brown and grungy side to make something Tim inspired. For my project I have made a girlie celebration card.

I can share my process with some photos I took as I went along.

I stuck strips of aluminium tape onto card and then used various tools to leave marks like rivets and metal joints. I then black acrylic paint and when it was nearly dry I buffed most of it off with a cloth.

I then added and some Remnant Rubs.

I die cut a weathered clock using off cut of the aluminium card. I rubbed it with Decadent Wine gilding wax.

My other elements got textures too....using various embossing folders, stamps and crackle paste

Then it was time to put on my creative hat. Once I had played with my design I came up with this card. 

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

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday anything goes

More mixed media anything goes

         Craft Catz anything goes

       Lil patch of crafting friends anything goes

Words 2 Craft by celebrations
Simon says stamp Monday based on a book mine is The Time Traveller's wife...one of my all time fave reads.

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

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x