The leaves begin to fall

 Welcome to September, wow autumn is just around the corner now and I am the host of the brand  new challenge over at Country View challenges. I thought that I would chose, "the leaves begin to fall" as the theme for the month. So I would like to see leaves as a main part of your project, no tiny single leaves please! 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.

The leaves on my potted acers in my garden are already changing colour and served as my inspiration for my first DT make. 

I have added live links for you to click for those items in stock on the website. I really love all things leaves and for my first make I turned to on old Tim Holtz die (no longer stocked) called tattered leaves and his fun Snarky cats stamp set.

I made a slimline birthday card using the great Visible Image birthday sentiment from the Lost for words sentiment set

This is what I got up to; I used one of my distress ink shaving foam marbled backgrounds from my stash.

I used the small size Tim Holtz leaf stencil and added some distress inks. 

I die cut my leaves and stamped my Snarky cat.

I added some text stamping to the leaves using archival ink.

I then stamped the birthday sentiment. Then it was time to put everything together. 

Here is my finished birthday card

with a close up;

and one last shot.

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our September "the leaves begin to fall " 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 September challenge can be found here. 

Remember that the Country View Crafts website has FREE UK postage for any orders over £7.50 and international postage is very reasonable. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Take care and stay safe. I will be back to share my 2nd design team project on Friday. 

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

Believe with your mind

   Good morning it's time for my fortnightly blogged Visible Image design team post. The new autumn release is now for sale worldwide and has gone down a storm. There are 9 gorgeous new sets to choose for and if you have been sleeping under a log (with the cute hedgehog) and missed them do check them out on the website here. I have already shared lots of my makes with the 3 nature sets so I thought I would share something different today. 

I used one part of the gorgeous new Create with your soul A7 size set . This emotive sentiment was written many years ago by Helen, aka Mrs Visible Image and was a best seller. It has been updated and this new variation is now in 3 parts, it is not a single stamp, which makes it so versatile. You can use any part or all 3!

I teamed it with the delightful tree and birds from the VI minis #1 set. This a a set with some of their iconic stamps....in ATC or mini size. I am hoping to see lots more of these sets in the future. 

I wanted to capture a moonlit autumnal moment so I created a distress ink background first.

I took a square of super smooth 300gsm card stock. I used salvaged patina, kitsch flamingo and dusty concord inks. I masked off a moon after I had added a little smudge of kitsch and patina ink and then blended out from the moon starting with kitsch, then patina and finally dusty colours.  I then ripped some copy paper to make the "hills" and added a little more patina and dusty ink colour.

This was my finished background. 

I then stamped the tree in Versafine clair

with the birds flying out.

The Create with your soul set is in 3 parts so you can mix and match as you feel or use all 3 parts. I chose to you just the "Believe with your mind" part as it really fitted the scene I had created. I stamped it just under the moon and clear embossed it for extra texture and shine. 

Finally I mattted and layered my card. 

Here it is;

A close up, where you can see I added a little shading under the tree.

and one final shot.

I really enjoyed created my moonlit card and hope it will inspire you too. I can't believe we have reached the end of August and September and autumn are just around the corner now. 

 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. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you will be most welcome.  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 5th month of swapping and have had over 66 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.

Do check out social media too you will find me on Instagram here; @jane.tyrrell where I share many more of my makes and sneak peeks than I have time to blog. 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Introducing the amazing autumn Visible Image stamp release

  Good morning it's time for my fortnightly blogged Visible Image design team post. Today I could not be more excited as I am able to share my first make with the brand new autumn release! OMGoodness you are going to love them. They are so "me" and there is something for everyone from cute hedgehogs (or hedgepigs as I have always called them!) a squirrel with acorns to positive and inspiring words to toadstools, mini stamps and most exciting a backing stamp for Artist trading cards! Wow. Do check them all out on their website here. Pre release orders are being taken now and the worldwide release date is 27th August. I have been sharing lots of sneak peeks of my makes over on Instagram.

I have made samples with the all the new release and it was a really tough call for me to chose just 1 for today but chose I had to and I went with one of the 3 new Nature sets; 

Totally toadstools.

 I have a real "thing" about all things fungi (plus mermaids, strawberries, hedgehogs, pigs, seashells and the Man in the Moon, yes I know I am mad!) and I have wanted Mark, aka Mr Visible Image to design a fungi set for a long time. I was so delighted to see it come to life and it really is everything I love about toadstools. The beautiful nature sentiment, written by Helen (Mrs Visible Image), as always works perfectly. 

This is what I got up to;

I wanted to make a really organic, fungi inspired background. There is nothing better for this than Yupo and alcohol inks, so that's what I did. I got out my inks and dripped...

and dropped...

and mixed 

and blended until I had achieved the organic fungi inspired background I wanted. 

I stamped lots of the toadstools onto different offcuts of inked card and cut them out. Then I chose the ones I wanted to use.

I added some white gel pen and then decoupaged them (which you will see in the finished photos)

I decided I wanted more of a 3D card so I cut out the centre of my Yupo

and backed it with another piece of yellow inked card. I stamped some of the foliage inside. I then added some 3D foam tape and stuck it under the Yupo. 

I also cut an upstand from inky card and repeat stamped some more of the foliage, cutting around some and also cutting one piece out to layer up with and to add depth. 

I then assembled my focal, adding the toadstools, which I decoupaged.

finally adding the wonderful nature sentiment at the base. 

I stuck the focal in place and matted and layered my card. 

Here it is;

with a close up

and 1 final shot.

I really do adore this set and I have so many plans for future makes using it too. It really is a must have in your crafting stash and works so well with the new hedgehog and squirrel sets too.  You will find all the new release stamps here.

 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.

Do check out social media too you will find me on Instagram here; @jane.tyrrell where I share many more of my makes and sneak peeks than I have time to blog. 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x