Stars are not just for Christmas

Another fortnight has flown by and I am here today with my latest design team make for Visible Image. I am delighted to be able to share my first blogged make using one of the new Christmas stamp sets which were released on Saturday.

I know that a lot of you may not yet be considering making your Christmas cards just yet so I am showing today how "Stars" are not just for Christmas. I am using the new Shining Star stamp set. (There is also a gorgeous star stencil in this release).

 This card design would work well at any time of the year and in different colourways.

This is what I got up to; I sprayed Villainous potion distress stain spray and Hocus pocus distress mica stain sprays onto Daylor Rowney mixed media card adding plenty of water.  I also added water droplets to lift the ink.

I stamped the large star onto the background and also onto white card which I coloured with yellow and orange distress ink. I also stamped the smaller stars in the same way and cut the yellow stars out (see the final card for placements) I also stamped and cut out the sentiment from the set. 

I gold embossed the star clusters around the black stars.

I then stuck the yellow cut out stars on top of the black outlines and put my card together. I matted it onto black card before adhering it to a square white card blank, adding a little gold pen detailing for finishing touches. 

Here is my finished card

with some close ups

and 1 final 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 join us.  You will be warmly welcomed and see lots of inspiration from the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. 

 I also organize a monthly artist trading card swap in the group.  We are currently celebrating 2 years of swapping. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Over 140 members, worldwide, have taken part since it started. It's been such fun and it's so lovely to receive a unique piece of art from your partner in the post. The details and sign up for each swap are posted in the group on the 23rd of the month. So the next sign up for July, opens this Friday, 23rd June,  if you would like to join us.  There is no "monthly" commitment, just join in when you have the time and if you live in the UK can you choose to post to the UK only if that suits you best.

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 their website is here. 

 You will also find me on Instagram here; @jane.tyrrell where I share many more samples than I have the time to blog.

Back soon, 

Bye for now,

Jane x

Our 4 legged friends

  Hello everyone and welcome to July. It's time for a new challenge over at Country View. The theme for July is "our 4 legged friends" so your make must have a pet, farm or wild animal with 4 legs....not 2 or 8! You can enter a maximum of 5 times and into a maximum of 10 challenges, including ours. 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.

  Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website UK postage is FREE on orders over £20.00 I have added some live links within my post to take you to some of the products I used.

It's no secret that my favourite 4 legged creatures are cats, especially my Billy cat.

My sweet boy is 15 this month and is enjoying the glorious sunny weather in the garden. So of course my make just had to be of a cat!

 I love the Visible Image cat stencil "The cat's whiskers"

and the "That lovin feline"stamp set and decided to use these for my first make.

At Ally Pally the cat set sold out very quickly on the Saturday. There are also dies for this now which CVC will have in stock soon. I am using both for my design team inspiration today.

This is what I got up to;

I used distress inks through the stencil

I used glitter pen on the nose and mouth

I stamped and die cut 2 cats and stuck them each side. I stamped the hearts inside and added some paw prints.

I stamped the VI Happy anniversary sentiment (Susan can order this set if you would like it) and one of the sentiments from "That lovin feline"stamp set

Here is is my finished card

with a close up

and 1 final shot

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with the challenge this month? Once again here you can find all the details for our July challenge here;

I will be back with my 2nd make on July. 

Bye for now,

Jane x

Summer butterflies

 Good morning and welcome to the first day of summer. It's time for my fortnightly Wednesday blogged design team make for Visible Image. It seemed the perfect day to share the step by step of a card I make using the antisocial butterfly stamp set

with its new coordinating dies.

They cut out the 2 butterfly stamps in the set beautifully. I love fussy cutting but the tiny butterfly is small and these dies make quick work of cutting out.

I also used the gorgeous "Renaissance stencil"

This is what I got up to;

For my background I sprayed squeezed lemonade, twisted citron and broken china distress stain sprays though the "Renaissance" stencil.

I stamped the large and small butterflies in blue ink

and die cut them. I then added some colour using glitter pens and distress pencils.

I stamped the collage into the centre of the background

and added the butterfly sentiment above

I stuck the coloured die cut butterfly over the top.

I placed the small butterflies symmetrically around the background finishing off with some glossy accents in the circles of the collage.

Here is my finished card;

with a couple of close ups

and one final 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 join us.  You will be warmly welcomed and see lots of inspiration from the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. 

 I also organize a monthly artist trading card swap in the group.  We are currently celebrating 2 years of swapping. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Over 140 members, worldwide, have taken part since it started. It's been such fun and it's so lovely to receive a unique piece of art from your partner in the post. The details and sign up for each swap are posted in the group on the 23rd of the month. So the next sign up for July, opens this Friday, 23rd June,  if you would like to join us.  There is no "monthly" commitment, just join in when you have the time and if you live in the UK can you choose to post to the UK only if that suits you best.

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 their website is here. 

 You will also find me on Instagram here; @jane.tyrrell where I share many more samples than I have the time to blog.

A little heads up before I go, as I do love to "enable", that if you use the code DIES20 over on the website there is 20% off the 4 new co ordinating die sets. You will need to be quick though as this end on the last day of June or until the first stock runs out. 

The new Christmas in July release is also available to pre order too...for the 1st July release. Do check it out.

 There are 5 gorgeous new stamp sets and 3 fab stencils. I will be sharing a make with the shining star set for my next design team blog post in 2 weeks time. Here's a little sneak peek.

You can pre order them here. In the meantime I have been sharing some of my samples over on Instagram so do pop on over. 

Happy summer everyone,

Bye for now,

 

Jane x