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Eye Rubber Stamp | Rocker Card | Distress Inks

Posted on April 16, 2019April 16, 2019 by helen

Hi there! We have Jane Tyrrell here on the blog today with a fabulous rocker card featuring lots of our stamps, including our stunning new eye collage stamp..

For this week’s project, I worked with 4 of the new mixed media stamp sets and my colour palette was inspired by all the spring colours around at the moment.

Stamps Used:

I decided to make a rocker card, as I have not made one of these for years and it is a fun card shape. There are lots of tutorials of how to construct the card on the Internet. The circle dies I used to cut the layers and rocker are from The Works.

I stamped the eye image onto card and coloured it with distress inks

then masked it before adding some more distress inks

The background layer is a gelli plate print using the Random Art of Kindness set

I cut the rocker using pink card and then put everything together.

I fussy cut my butterflies which were stamped on pink card, I also added some colour to my focal image using gel pens.

Here are some close ups..

and one last shot..

Thanks for stopping today and enjoy the wonderful fresh colours of spring.

Back soon.

Bye for now,

Jane x

What a fabulous card.. gorgeous colours and so much to discover. Thank you Jane! ♡

You will find more of Jane’s fantastic cards and projects over on her blog.

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Metamorphosis | Butterfly Stamps | Visible Image

Posted on April 15, 2019April 15, 2019 by helen

Hello! Wow it is over a month since we blogged last.. so sorry for neglecting you! Sometimes life just gets in the way and something has to give.. but, we are back and we have so much inspiration to share with you over the coming days and weeks! Pauline Butcher is kicking things off with a gorgeous card featuring our new Butterfly stamps, Visible Image style…

Hellooo,

It’s time for me to share something I’ve created using the Wings of Change stamp set and the Fibres stencil.

My background was a piece of white card, with the brightest colours of Distress re-inkers dripped down it. When it was dry, I placed the Fibres stencil on my background and, using a palette knife, I put Liquitex heavy gel medium through. While it was drying, I stamped the butterflies onto another piece of white card, using Versafine onyx Black ink, fussy cut them, then coloured them with Distress Inks. I then stamped the sentiment onto a piece of pink card, and fussy cut that too.

I blended blue ink over the dry gel medium, to tone the colour down a little, added the butterflies and sentiment using 3D glue gel. To finish, I added some highlights with a white gel pen, and some stickles onto the wings for a touch of sparkle.

Products Used:

Hugs,
Pauline xxxxx

Your background is awesome Pauline! And our butterflies look fabulous 3D’d! Thank you ♡

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We will be back a little later with some fantastic inspiration from Jane featuring our ‘See Everything’ stamp set.. and more butterflies!

We hope you’ll stop by again soon.

Mark & Helen xx

Tranquility | Rose Stamp | Visible Image

Posted on March 10, 2019March 12, 2019 by helen

Hi there! Veerle Moreels is here with a new video today showing how she created these beautiful tags featuring the quirky rose stamp from our ‘Random Art of Kindness’ stamp set…

Crazy rebel or just tranquility…

It was the tiny rose that got me started on todays project as I new I wanted to create a row of them. and it wasn’t that hard to figure out what my focal image would be…

The words, that’s where I couldn’t decide. As I know some people may think I’m a bit of a crazy rebel for going for a black rose instead of a beautiful bright colored version. But what can I say. I am me and black gives me peace of mind. And I did add some color in the background ^.^

How to create that two toned border can all be seen in the video, as well as how I colored in my focal image.

Have fun!

Stamps Used:

Random Art of Kindness

Art Rebel

Gorgeous tags Veerle.. Thank you ♡ We are loving your black rose!

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Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Helen & Mark xx

Creative Chaos | Inky Flower Stamps | Visible Image

Posted on March 10, 2019 by helen

Hello! We hope you are having a good weekend. Lisa Taggart is here on the blog this evening with a stunning card featuring the inky flower stamps from our ‘Creative Chaos’ stamp set…

I have the pleasure today to share more new release stamps from Visible Image. This time it’s the mixed media collection and oh my goodness what exciting new designs we have! You are going to love them.

I’ve kept my first sample simple. The stamps speak for themselves!

Here are the steps..

To begin, as ever… inky scraps! These were created using spectrum noir aquatint ink placed onto acetate and pressed against card then lifted. It’s a cool technique and gives interesting colour combinations and patterns.

I enhanced the colours with ink pads and then began to build the layers.

I hope you like it!

Till next time…

Lisa x

Altered Bottle | Visible Image Stamps

Posted on February 28, 2019February 28, 2019 by helen

Hello! We have Veerle here on the blog today with a super gorgeous project. Veerle has altered a bottle using one of our stencils and lots of texture paste and paint, and features our new inky flower stamp with some inspiring words..

This beautiful flower… it was just calling me to color it in and have a play with it. And I just knew what I wanted to do with it. Well I have to admit I have a LOT of ideas for it ^.^ but today I wanted to add it to a little mixed media project.

So I went and had some fun on a bottle with pastes, glaze and a lot of layers of paint.

I wanted to add something at the back too. So I took out all the new stamp sets and had my brain just go and look for what I wanted to put together. And then I got to this..

altered bottle - mixed media - stamps

inky flower stamp - altered art

That word strength is so beautiful. Such a small word yet so strong… you’ll see that one come back ^.^ Who am I kidding… they will all be used on many projects as they are just gorgeous ^.^

Products Used:

Wow what a beautiful ornament you have created Veerle.. Thank you ♡ The delicate flower looks gorgeous against the dark texture.

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Helen & Mark xx

Kindness | Flower Stamps | Visible Image

Posted on February 28, 2019February 28, 2019 by helen

Hi there! We have Pauline here on the blog today with a really striking card created with some of our new quirky flower stamps…

Hello,

I’m back with a card I’ve created using one of the fantastic new stamp sets from Visible Image: Random Art of Kindness, with their super Stars and Stripes stencil.

On a piece of watercolour card, I placed the stencil, and blended through it with Salty Ocean Distress ink on the stars side, and Picked Raspberry on the striped side, then with a water spritzer, I soaked the card, and held it to drip, stars up, so’s that the ink ran and spread, I left it to dry naturally.

Then on a piece of smooth white card, I stamped six of the daisy flowers using a Versafine Onyx Black ink pad, I coloured them in with Clean color brush pens, and fussy cut three large flowers, and just the centres of the other three.

Going back to the dry background, I blended lightly with Salty Ocean Distress Ink, on any of the white area’s, I stamped three flowers with black ink, then using the funky stem with Salty Ocean Oxide Ink, I stamped the stems. I added the flowers using 3D glue gel, stamped the words onto a piece of blue card, and added them to the background. I used a 5B pencil to put shadows on the stars, and also highlights with a white pen, also around the words, and black Stickles in the middle of the flowers.

Products Used:

Hugs,
Pauline xxxxx

What a fabulous combination Pauline! Loving the vibrant colours too. Thank you ♡You will find more of Pauline’s fabulous cards and projects over on her blog.

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Mark & Helen xx

Kindness | Flower | Card

Posted on February 18, 2019 by helen

Hello! Do you love clean and simple cards? We adore them, and our new stamps really lend themselves to this style of card as well as for more inky mixed media styles. Sharon Traynor has created such an elegant and striking card with our NEW ‘Random Art of Kindness’ stamp set, which includes some really funky hand drawn flowers…

Oh boy!

I am absolutely LOVING this latest release from Visible Image.

flower stamp | kindness | card

I know the images in some of the stamp sets were made with art journalling in mind, and that they suit mixed media really well…. but they are also PERFECT for the CAS genre. So I guess that’s why I’m a happy bunny. I made 12 cards with the new sets in 2 afternoons at the weekend, including a bit of glossy accents and other stuff. The most cards I’ve managed in one afternoon before now is 3 – so I doubled my productivity with these new sets. It’s easy when you love the stamps you are using!

Want a peek at the samples that I sent to Helen and Mark at Visible Image last week?

Ha ha! I can’t give too much away because I’m sure there will be a Facebook Live event sometime soon where some of these will be shown….. and of course there are one or two that I would love to blog about! Anyway, in that stack somewhere is today’s card.

As soon as I saw this Random Art Of Kindness stamp set I knew it was going to be a firm favourite, and the first thing that I wanted to do with it was something that you wouldn’t necessarily associate with the beautiful grungy and mixed media pieces that everyone makes with Visible Image stamps. For me, this particular stamp was just crying out to be zentangled – so I did.

I am no expert in zentangling, in fact I’m not sure that I have ever made a card with zentangling on it, but this is a passable try. Anyhow, in an effort not to completely overload this post with photos.

I have set up two different pages for the full step by step of how I did these Zentangled petals…
which you can see by clicking HERE for part 1 and HERE for part 2.

This next bit however, is the step by step tutorial for everything else with just the final photo of each petal.

To make this card:

Stamp the flower twice, and then colour in the flower ‘centre’ on one image with the black micron pen (this will be the one we zentangle on). Colour the other flower centre with a versamark clear pen and heat emboss with black embossing powder, then fussy cut that embossed centre piece out (that one will be raised up on foam on the final flower).

These are small pictures of each petal as I completed it.

Petal 1 and 2

Petal 3 and 4

Petal 5 and 6

Petal 7 and 8

Petal 9

Once the flower has been completely zentangled, fussy cut it out and set it to one side with the heat embossed flower centre.

Take a piece of 13cm x 13cm white card and make the border like this

When you have completed the border, stamp the stem into place. You can use the flower stamp to help get the placement correct.

Mount the panel onto some white and black paper and attach it all to a 15cm x 15cm card blank.

Layer the flower up using 3d foam pads, add a pearl to the centre and attach it to the card.

Finally heat emboss the sentiment with white embossing powder on black card, cut it into a banner and attach that to the front of the card on 3d foam too.

So I had to actually recreate this card because I was so ‘in the zone’ when I created the original one that I forgot to take the step by step photos. Here are both cards.The original card is on the left and the reproduced one is on the right. The only real difference that I can see is in the size of the zentangled border, so I’d say that you could quite easily batch produce some of these cards.

Stamps Used:

Other Supplies:

Versafine Obyx Black ink, Versamark clear ink and pen, Heat it Up! Black embossing powder, WOW! Opaque Bright White Superfine embossing powder, Pigmaa Micron Fineliner pens (sizes 005, 0.5 and 0.8),3d foam, pear centre, black and white card and paper.

I hope you enjoyed this trip down zentangle lane! I will be back a little later with a masculine card!

Hugs,
Sharon xx

Thank you for your tutorial Sharon, we adore this card! It is so striking! ♡

You will find more of Sharon’s brilliant cards and projects over on her blog.

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Her Spirit Was Strong

Posted on January 16, 2019January 16, 2019 by helen

Hello! It’s a rainy day here in Wales, so Jane’s latest inspiration is just perfect for today! Featuring our sassy rain lady and Dream Big quote, this card has a fabulous inky feel with a touch of sparkle…

Good Afternoon,

January always seems to be a long month. Christmas seems long ago and spring still seems a long way away.As I walked down to Dotty’s Teahouse in the High Street of Carshalton, I decided to look for some sparkle and shine and even on such a dull, dreary day I spotted some of Mother Nature’s sparkle and shine on the plants;

rain sparkling on the winter aconite..

on the plucky viburnum flowers..

and on new shoots..

So for this week’s design team inspiration, I went with the sparkling rain theme using the fab Sparkle in the Rain stamp set

The background is a stencilled ink one using the Grungy Union Jack stencil

I added some distress oxides to my card

then stenciled salty ocean and squeezed lemonade oxides through the stencil

These photos are quite dark you will see the true colours in my finished photos.

I stamped the rain in blue Archival ink

and then I added my lady by embossing her in blue and also stamping the quote ‘Dream Big’

You can see that I masked and split the words. The top words are stamped and embossed in black, and the unrivalled in green glitter

Our Christmas/Winter challenge on Facebook runs until the end of January, a couple of weeks left to make something and be in with a chance of winning the £40 voucher to spend! The winner is selected by random so everyone has an equal winning chance.

Back soon.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Gorgeous inspiration Jane, thank you ♡
Our lady looks fabulous embossed in that pale blue, all shiny against the matt of the oxides in the background. The sparkle of the sentiment really finishes it off perfectly!

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We will be back later with some inky inspiration from Heather featuring our seahorse stamp!

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We can’t wait to start sharing some sneak peeks soon!

Thanks for visiting our blog today.

Mark & Helen xx

Inspiring Words Stamps for 2019

Posted on January 9, 2019 by helen

Hello and Happy New Year to You! We are excited to be back after a good break and today kicks off another year of amazing inspiration from our wonderful team. Jane is here with some inspiring words stamps on a gorgeous wall hanging…

Good morning it’s time to get back to “normal” after all the excitement and celebrations of Christmas and the new year. The Visible Image team have all been on a break but today I’m delighted to be kicking off with the first Design team inspiration post of 2019.

I do love the new year…. I never make resolutions but I do think it’s a good time to take stock of our views and hopes in life. I love the inspiring words that Helen writes which Mark turns into amazing stamps which I can incorporate into my crafting.

I decided to use the words from Voices in your Head to create an inspirational wall hanging for the year.

I made some backgrounds with my small Gelli plate (lucky me got an 8″ by 10″ one from Santa so watch out for more larger projects using this).

I used some DecoArt media acrylics and stamps from the Visometry set

the Universal background stamps

and also the Two Tone stencil to pull some prints

I made a whole batch of prints

and selected 3 to make into ATCs.

I gold embossed the words and added some more patterns with gold ink using universal. Sorry the photos are a little dark, there is so little daylight this time of the year when I am crafting inside.

For the wall hanging I used some corrugated card on mount board. I exposed some of the core and added paints and crackle paint. Once dry I rubbed on some Treasure gold. I attached some string using my mini stapler.

I also stamped the year using the numbers from Alphabetical onto scraps of gelli prints and mounted them on card.

So here is my finished wall hanging..

Our Christmas/Winter challenge on Facebook runs until the end of January so you still have a whole month to make something and be in with a chance of winning the £40 voucher to spend on some gorgeous new stamps or stencils! The winner is selected by random so everyone has an equal winning chance.

Thanks so much for stopping by and for the kind comments you take the time to leave. There are lots of exciting Visible Image newbies in the pipeline, and I am so looking forward to designing with them! An exciting year is ahead and I am going to try to remember these inspiring words during 2019.

Back soon.

Bye for now,

Jane x

We were the lucky recipients of this plaque at Christmas! Thank you again Jane it is absolutely gorgeous and very inspiring! We look at it every morning when we arrive in the office!

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Mark & Helen xx

Visible Image Design Team | Best of 2018

Posted on December 30, 2018December 30, 2018 by helen

Hello! As we say goodbye to 2018, we thought it would be nice to share our favourite 3 projects from each of our Design Team members. How to choose just 3 from all their amazing creations though…? Such a difficult task! But, after much deliberation, we have decided on these…

21 incredible works of art! We hope you have enjoyed seeing our favourites from 2018.

We want to say a HUGE thank you to our Design Team for all the amazing inspiration they have created and shared over the last year, and for all their wonderful support. They showcase our stamps and stencils so brilliantly!

If you want to be first to see all the new Design Team inspiration, then make sure you join our Facebook group!

We can’t wait to launch lots of new stamp and stencil designs in 2019, along with some brand new products, and something else that we are really excited about!

Wishing you a very Happy New Year! May it be filled with good health, and lots of creativity and laughter.

Thank you so much for all your custom in 2018.

Mark & Helen xx

Treat Me Like a Queen

Posted on November 30, 2018November 30, 2018 by helen

Hello! Pauline Butcher has given our sassy Queen of Hearts stamp an inky makeover and we are loving it…

Hi there,

It’s time for me to share another of my creations, using some of the fantastic Visible Image products.

This card was created using:

The Queen of Hearts stamp set

and The Time Tunnel stencil

My background was actually some waste from another card I’d made.. I had used the Time Tunnel Stencil with Pixie Powders through it, and there was still a lot of product left on the stencil so, rather than waste it, I spritzed it with water, and pressed the stencil onto a piece of white card, like taking a print. I often use my stencils in this way, two for the price of one, so no wastage !!!!

As my background was covered with speckles, which were super shiny (unfortunately my photo’s don’t show the true extent of the shine from the pixie powders, which are full of mica), I decided that I wanted the Queen to have speckles too, so I splattered some Distress inks, mixed with a little water, using my fan brush, onto white card, then stamped Queenie onto it, and fussy cut her. I then used some watercolour pens to colour her in, and added Stardust Stickles to give her that extra bling!

pixie powders - stencil - queen of hearts - stamp

Before attaching her with 3D Glue Gel, I blended some Picked Raspberry Distress Ink along the bottom of the background card, to ‘ground’ her, and also gently blended some Black soot around all the edges. To finish off, I stamped the hearts around the Queen, again using Distress Ink.

Thanks for dropping by.

Hugs,
Pauline xxxx

Your background is awesome Pauline! Perfect for your inky Queen of Hearts! Thank you ♡

You will find more of Pauline’s fabulous cards and projects over on her blog.

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We Always Think We’ll Have Time..

Posted on November 30, 2018November 30, 2018 by helen

Hi! Sharon Traynor is here with a beautiful canvas featuring the smashed clock stamp and more from our brilliant ‘Somewhere in Time’ stamp set…

Today I have taken a break from cards and I’m sharing a canvas that I made with some Visible Image stamps that also featured in the October edition of Craft Stamper Magazine.

smashed clock - pocket watch - stamp

The inspiration behind this canvas came from the sentiment used, and the thought that if we procrastinate and delay doing things in life for too long, we may miss amazing opportunities. The missed opportunities are represented by the sparkling shards of clockface and glass falling from the clock as it speeds along on it’s flight.

This is a 5 minute video showing how the canvas was made…

For a light and airy canvas I used a limited colour palette and left lots of white space.

Texture comes from the dimension paste added through a homemade wing template. Once dried, distress inks created a second wing and were also used to add additional sweeps of light colour.

Several clocks were stamped and coloured in matching colours before being cut into the ‘shards’.

Some shards were glossed and others glittered for variety.

A complete clock image was placed at the top of the wings and the shards were then attached, at varying dimensions, both on top of the clock and falling in a wave downwards.

The sentiment strips were also raised on foam. More inking and shards complete the design along the canvas edges.

Stamps Used:

Other Supplies:

Pre-primed canvas picture, Distress Inks (peacock feathers, shaded lilac),Versamark clear ink, Versafine Onyx Black ink, Distress Marker (shaded lilac), Versamarker watermark pen, scrap card, Paper Artsy Grunge Paste, WOW! embossing powders (opaque bright white and cha cha cha embossing glitter), stardust Stickles, Docrafts Chronology metal clock hands, Papermania X-cut Chronology Cogs, a brad, Ranger Glossy Accents, mod podge, fixative, scrap paper. Craft knife, spatula, blending brushes, die cut machine, stamping platform, stamping blocks, tweezers.

That’s it from me for now.

Hugs,
Sharon xx

This is really beautiful Sharon, loving the white space and the sparkle on the broken pieces. Thank you ♡

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Time for The Next Chapter

Posted on November 30, 2018November 30, 2018 by helen

Hi there! Lisa Taggart is here on the blog today with an amazing card featuring our ‘One Kind Word’ stamp set which includes a fantastic typewriter stamp with different greetings which fit on the paper…

hello - typewriter - stamp - card

These are the main products used:

I used watercolour card. The background was created using inktense blocks. The colour was brushed on with a large brush and blended. The block colour along with white for the top was sponged through the stencil using the square part.

The typewriter stamp was stamped and heat embossed in black on to white card and cut out.

The letters and hearts were stamped in teal ink (first and second generation ink). The centre letters were highlighted using a black posca pen and then black and gold ink splatters added. The main image was added below raised on foam pads. The sentiments were added.

jumbled letters stamp

typewriter stamp

As usual the artwork was edged in black and mounted on to complimentary card stock.

Hope you like it!

Till next time…

Lisa xx

We adore this card! The jumbled letters stamp looks amazing with the combination of first and second generation stamping and all the ink splatters! Gorgeous colours! Thank you Lisa ♡

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Angel of Peace

Posted on November 19, 2018November 20, 2018 by helen

Hi there, Jane Tyrrell is back with more beautiful inspiration this evening, combining our gorgeous Angel stamp with our grungy snowflake…

Good Evening

I’m sharing for my latest card for Visible Image today, and as we are fast approaching the time to finish getting our Christmas cards made today’s inspiration is one using 3 sets from their fab Christmas collection. We have an “add some sparkle” challenge over in the Facebook group, so I thought I would go to town with the sparkle today!

I used the smaller angel and the star from the Angels stamp set

together with the snowflakes from Snow is Falling

and the Peace sentiment and star from the Peace Love and Hope set

grungy bauble stamp - peace - love - hope

I went for a relatively simple design on plain black card stock as I think these gorgeous images just speak for themselves. I used silver ink first to stamp the snowflakes. When dry I white embossed the stars. Afterwards I used some ultra sparkly WOW gold glitter embossing powder to really make the angel stand out.

I also white embossed the peace sentiment.

Here is my finished card…

Angel stamp - Christmas card - snowflakes

I hope that all your Christmas preparations are going to plan… 🎅😄?

Thanks for stopping by today.

Back soon.

Bye for now,
Jane x

Wow Jane this is stunning, our Angel stamp looks so gorgeous in the gold sparkle embossing powder.
Thank you ♡

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We hope you have a great evening.

Mark & Helen xx

Hi! We are back with our second dose of inspiration from Jane Tyrrell today. Are you in the mood for something spooky? We love how Jane has combined our NEW hand stamps with our skeleton and skull stamps to create her awesome Halloween tag…

Good Evening

We are already a week into October which is still sharing its glorious colours everywhere.

Today I am using the new “You Are Not Alone” set

together with the Mr Bone Jangles stamp set

the moon from the Believe in Unicorns Set

the fab text stamp from the Scripted Streets stamp set

and the Skull Shadow Stencil

As soon as I saw the new “You Are Not Alone” set I had two initial design ideas. The first I had was for the sky inspiration card I created here . The 2nd was to get the hands to hold Mr Bone Jangles skull! Yes I know that my imagination works in very strange ways.

At the end of the month it’s Halloween, when things go bump in the night and ghouls and witches fly…mwwhhha haa haaaa so I thought it a good time to put my second idea together.

I always create tags for my big and small kids goodie bags so today’s make is one of them.

I started with a kraft tag to work on. I stamped the moon in white ink and added some splatters of distress ink to make an autumnal coloured primary layer. I also stamped some of the clouds (you can see this further down)

I gradually built up the background, by stencilling on the skull, and then stamped on Mr Bone Jangles. I also red embossed one of the star bursts from the Rays of Light stamp set and added some text from scripted streets in red ink.

I added some white pen and red embossed the edges.

This became the base of my tag.

Next it was time for some Hammer Horror! (I’m showing my age now). I was also really fascinated by the anatomy dissection lectures I attended as a student at King’s College during my physiotherapy training and I still love anatomy now. A few years back my daughter and I really enjoyed the Body Worlds show which came to this country and I drew on all these memories for my inspiration.

I red and black embossed the hands

I amputated trimmed off the tip of the back finger 😉 so that the hand could hold the skull.

I then added a little more shading using distress inks.

I also have a fab skeleton hand in my charms collection and a saw brad so I bloodied them up!

It was then time to put my tag together.

Here it is…

with some close ups…

and one last shot…

I really had some great Hammer Horror fun making this and plan some more Halloween tags in this vein (pardon the pun!)

Thanks so much for indulging me in my Halloween fun. I hope you might be inspired to try something similar with these fab stamps? They are so versatile for so many very different themes.

Back soon.

Bye for now,

Jane x

This is so awesome Jane! Love all the dripping blood.. the hands work so well for Halloween! Thank you for the brilliant inspiration ♡

You will find more of Jane’s fantastic projects over on her blog.

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