Monochromatic purple for Country View Challenges

Hello friends. Today I am sharing my 2nd design team make for our current challenge over at Country View Challenges. For this month's challenge we would like to see your monochromatic makes. 

As always there is a fab £20 voucher up for grabs for one lucky randomly selected winner to spend on the website.  You can find all the details of the challenge and more examples made by my talented teamies here.

People often think that monochromatic means using just black and white but it means using all the tones and hues of a single colour and can also include black and white. 

For my first make I went with orange, never my first choice but I really liked it.  I decided to play with something very different again for me, shades of purple. My lovely summer bedding pots again provided my inspiration for today's make.

This is what I got up to;

I worked with the gorgeous dragonfly Visible Image set which is on the website here;

The incredibly versatile fibres stencil

and another sentiment from this lovely set. 

I added a little oxide spray to watercolour card.

Then I inked up the stencil with these 3 distress inks. 

I stamped, cut out and coloured the large butterfly and 2 of the medium sized.

Next I heat embossed the sentiment.

and stamped some of the element stamps from the dragonfly set.

I also made up 2 of the medium sized dragonflies in the set in the same way. I assembled my card, adding some sequins as a final touch. 

Here is my finished card;

a couple of close ups 

and one last shot;

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our August "monochromatic" 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. Once again all the details for the August challenge can be found here.

Susan has recently had a restock the awesome Visible Image stencils and stamps you can see them all here.  Remember that UK postage and packing from CVC is FREE on all orders over £7.50! 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Take care and stay safe. I will be sharing my 2nd design team project on the and that one for that one I have gone with shades of purple.

I would love to see you over on Instagram where I share new creative makes nearly every day. This is my link/profile @jane.tyrrell

Sadly these days I just don't have the time to blog everything! 

Bye for now

Jane x

Thinking of you

 Good morning it's time for my fortnightly blogged Visible Image design team post. Wow it's August already! Visible Image have some awesome A7 occasions sentiment verse sets which are only £5.99 each. These sets are so useful as the bold top words are a separate stamp from the verse. You can use just the words, verse or both. I use them lots for the cards I sell at Dotty's Teahouse, they are very popular. These sets cover all occasions from wedding to birthday to sympathy (there are 6 in total)  and today I thought I would pair the Thinking of you set

with one of my all time favourites the Owl from the Dark owl set. 

This is what I got up to;

I made a distress oxide background using Squeezed lemonade, Mustard seed and Faded jeans (I know that label looks pink but most of my oxide lids are stained and very well loved!) I blended them onto a piece of white card, added some water and allowed it to drip down before drying.

I cut it down to 5 1/4 X 5 1/4" and then stamped the sentiment in the top left corner using black Versafine which I then clear embossed. These sets are brilliant as the sentiment is separate from the verse. So if you want to you can break it up, as I did, for this card. 

I stamped the verse in the opposite corner at the bottom. It really is a delightful and very unique verse. 

I then stamped my owl using black versafine and clear embossed him. I fussy cut him out adding a bit of colour using my Zig watercolour pens. I also repeat stamped the uber useful branch from the owl set using green Versafine Clair ink and put my card together.

Here is is;

with a close up

and 1 last shot.

 All the Visible Image links are listed below

The Visible Image Group page is over on Facebook. Our friendly Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you. You will see lots of gorgeous makes by the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. You will also be able to join in with the monthly Artist Trading Card (ATC) swap which has been such fun. We are now in our 4th month of swapping and have had over 62 people, worldwide, taking part. 

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 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 and shhh a little heads up that for my next post in 2 weeks time I will be sharing a make with one of their gorgeous new autumn release sets. Oh my goodness me you are going to LOVE them..but of course, for now, my lips are sealed 😁Watch this space as there will be some sneak peeks over on Instagram and on social media. If you don't already follow me on Instagram you can do so here; @jane.tyrrell

Back soon,

Take care,

Jane x

A monochromatic August for Country View

Good morning it's August already and time for a new challenge over at Country View.  For this month's challenge we would like to see your monochromatic makes. 

As always there is a fab £20 voucher up for grabs for one lucky randomly selected winner to spend on the website.  You can find all the details of the challenge and more examples made by my talented teamies here.

People often think that monochromatic means using just black and white but it means using all the tones and hues of a single colour and can also include black and white. 

 I decided to play with something different for me, shades of orange. I have some awesome orange flowers in my summer bedding pots.

This is what I got up to. Not only did I use orange based distress stain spays, including crackling campfire but I added some extra yellow and red into the mix to create some extra shades. I used an A4 sheet of mixed media card.

I cut a 5 3/4 square from my A4 sheet then onto a spare piece I stamped the gorgeous large butterfly from Visible Image's  Butterfly effect stamp set.

which I fussy cut out.

Into one corner of the background I stamped one the lovely sentiments from So much stronger

I also added some of the element stamps from the  Butterfly effect stamp set. around the edge.

I found that the tail of the butterfly fits the L of angels perfectly, so I used this as a feature. 

For a final touch I stamped 2 of the small butterflies onto another piece of scrap and cut them out.

Then I assembled my card, adding some sequins as a final touch. 

Here is my finished card;

with a couple of close ups;

and one final shot.

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our August "monochromatic" 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. Once again all the details for the August challenge can be found here.

Susan has recently had a restock the awesome Visible Image stencils and stamps you can see them all here.  Remember that UK postage and packing from CVC is free on all orders over £7.50! 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Take care and stay safe. I will be sharing my 2nd design team project on the and that one for that one I have gone with shades of purple.

I would love to see you over on Instagram where I share new creative makes nearly every day. This is my link/profile @jane.tyrrell

Sadly these days I just don't have the time to blog everything! 

Bye for now

Jane x