Autumn leaves inspiration for Visible Image

 Good morning it's time for my fortnightly design team post for Visible Image. 

Autumn continues to inspire me with all her glorious colours.

For today's make I used the awesome

autumn leaves stencil 

with Erika's maple 

To make a canvas/wall hanging.

This is what I got up to;

I sprinkled PaperArtsy Emerald Isle infusions onto mixed media card and added water. I dried with my heat gun and applied crackle texture paste through the stencil. 

While still wet I added distress embossing glazes tapping off the excess.

I left this to dry overnight and then heated from below to melt the glazes.

Just look at all this yummy texture and glaze..it reminds me of pottery mosaics. 

I then blended distress inks around the leaves to add colour.

I stamped some of the small leaves onto book pages and cut them out. I  also stamped and white embossed the sentiment onto black card. To finish off I distressed the edge of the cardstock for extra texture.

Here is my finished wall hanging.

with a close up

and one final shot.

I would like to enter my wall hanging into the following challenges;

As you like it 2/3 favourite non card project the reason why is that sometimes I like to make a larger statement piece when I craft.

Stamping sensations 2/3 autumn glory

Chocolate baroque 2/3 anything goes

Try it on Tuesday 2/3 autumn colours

The library challenge 2/3 what to look for in autumn

Not just cards 1/3 anything goes

Crafters castle 1/3 anything goes 

Creative artist  anything mixed media goes 

Simon says stamp Monday dry embossing 

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.

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Pumpkin patch

Last week I visited Wisley RHS gardens in Surrey again and I was stunned to see how much the colours had evolved in just a matter of weeks. We have been watching the pumpkin patch there grow too. Over the summer months we have seen some superb pumpkins and squashes growing in the experimental fields. If you follow me on Instagram here you may have seen a few of these photos 

I never knew there could be so many varieties! 

The autumnal hues at Wisley were stunning.

A few weeks back we saw a small arrangement of some of the ripened pumpkins.

However at this visit they had made a huge display at the entrance. How cool is this!

So inspired by everything I saw at Wisley I made my October artist trading cards and came up with these.

All the products, stamps and dies are Tim Holtz. The background is one of my distress reinker shaving foam makes I made with Daisy in the summer. 

Here they are individually

and one last group shot.

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

As you like it 1/3 favourite non card project the reason why is that I can swap my coins and they are quick to make.

Stamping sensations 1/3 autumn glory

Chocolate baroque 1/3 anything goes

Try it on Tuesday 1/3 autumn colours

The library challenge 1/3 what to look for in autumn

Thanks so much for stopping by and for the kind comments you take to leave. I really appreciate and love reading them.  I am back on Monday with my fortnightly Visible Image design team post.

Take care and stay safe,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Creating another Halloween scene for Country View's October Challenge

 Good morning I am back with my 2nd project to hopefully inspire you to join our October, "Halloween, make a scene" challenge over at Country View Challenges.  You can find all the details of the challenge and more examples made by my talented teamies here.

It certainly turned chilly at the weekend and felt very autumnal. It rained for hours.  It was good weather for ducks though and my sweet dinos. Ringo came out of the water to say hello and eat some food from my hand...

She is just the sweetest!

For my 2nd make I decided to use my new Tim Holtz curio box XL Bigz die to make something for decorating my porch for Halloween. 

This is what I got up to; I used crackling campfire, mustard seed and barn door distress oxide sprays on  watercolour card and then die cut the front of the box,

I stamped and white embossed spiders' webs using my Tim Holtz skulls and cobwebs background stamp set. 

I die cut his new spider and web thinlets set in glitter card and stuck it in place.

For the inside of my box I stamped and white embossed on black cardstock and also added some more die cut webs. 

I stamped and coloured a Tim pumpkin, of course, and propped it upright on the base. I also stamped and cut out a skull. These are stamps from the Halloween 4 set. 

I added a few finishing details.

 Here is my finished box.

with some close ups..boo!

and one final shot.

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our October, "Halloween, make a scene" 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 October challenge can be found  here.

This spooky box will be making an appearance in my porch when I decorate it at the end of the month. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Back soon

Bye for now

Jane x