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Squirrel Stamp | My Kind of Nutty

Posted on September 22, 2021September 22, 2021 by helen

Hello! Thanks for visiting our blog today! Ali is here with an amazing handmade card created with our NUTS ABOUT SQUIRRELS stamp set which includes the super cute squirrel stamp, fabulous acorns, a log and some fun sentiments…

Autumn is one of my favourite times of year, the beautiful colours, the nights starting to draw in plus new stamp releases from Visible Image 😀 I’ve used the new ‘Nuts about Squirrels’ stamp set, and the ‘Autumn Leaves’ stencil which goes perfectly with this new release.

Tutorial

Cut a piece of white stamping card 145mm x 145mm.

Apply Scattered Straw distress oxide ink over 3 sections of your card using a blending brush.

Repeat with the Carved Pumpkin, Salvaged Patina and Seedless Preserves. Blend the colours where they touch.

Spritz a little water over your piece, leave for a few seconds and blot with a paper towel.

Dry with your heat gun.

Position the ‘Autumn Leaves’ stencil over your coloured card and tape down with low tack tape.

Colour the leaves with your oxide inks.

Remove the stencil and spritz with a gold spray such as Cosmic Shimmer Pearlescent Gold Airless Mister.

Dry with your heat tool.

Wipe over your coloured panel with an anti static pad.

Stamp the squirrel silhouette stamps around the edge using brown versafine ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

Stamp the large squirrel, one of the sentiments and quite a few leaves and acorn stamps with brown versafine ink, and clear heat emboss as before.

Colour your stamped images using watercolour markers and cut them out.

Apply a little gold gilding wax using the tip of your finger over all of your clear heat embossing.

Leave for a few minutes then burnish with a paper towel to bring up the metallic effect.

Cut a 9cm square from the centre of your panel.

Matt the large panel onto black card with a border of 5mm.

Matt your 9cm centre piece with a black border of 3mm.

Cut out your sentiment and matt it onto black card leaving 1.5mm border.

Attach the large panel to a white 7″x7″ card blank directly using pva glue.

Fix the centre panel with double sided foam pads so it is raised.

Mould your cut out pieces between your fingers to curve and shape them.

Attach the squirrel, leaves, nuts and sentiment using 3D glue gel.

Supplies

Visible Image Stamps – Nuts About Squirrels
Visible Image Stencil – Autumn Leaves
Distress Oxide Inks – Seedless Preserves, Scattered Straw, Carved Pumpkin and Salvaged Patina
Low Tack tape
Blending brushes
Versafine Clair inkpad Fallen Leaves
Clear embossing powder
Gold gilding wax
Heat gun
Water Spritzer
Watercolour pens – Zig Clean Colour
Cosmic Shimmer Airless Mister Pearlescent Gold
White stamping card (300gsm), Black card for matting & layering
Vellum
7″ x 7″ white card blank
Foam pads, pva, 3d glue gel
Square die 9cm x 9cm

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I hope you have enjoyed this project and thanks for stopping by 💖

Ali xxx

What a fantastic card! It’s a fabulous design and is so full of life.. it captures the ‘nutty squirrel behaviour’ perfectly!

Thank you for your brilliant tutorial Ali ♡

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Squirrel Stamp Handmade Card

Moonlit Autumn | Winter Tree Stamp

Posted on September 7, 2021September 7, 2021 by helen

Hello! We hope you are well. Jane is here on the blog today with a beautiful card featuring the winter tree stamp from our VI MINIS #1 stamp set with our ‘Believe in Your Mind’ stamp, to create a wonderful moonlit Autumn scene…

Good Afternoon

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. 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, rather than 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 ink

with the birds flying out.

As 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 matted 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.

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

Bye for now,

Jane x

Such a beautiful scene for our winter tree stamp, and sentiment works wonderfully. Thank you Jane ♡

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Autumn Stamps Release | Visible Image

Posted on August 16, 2021August 16, 2021 by helen

Hi there! We are really excited to introduce our Autumn stamps release… Visible Image Autumn Stamps Release

HEDGEHOG HUGS

This fantastic Hedgehog Hugs stamp set includes 2 gorgeous hedgehogs with co-ordinating elements of grass and leaves, enabling you to create wonderful Autumn scenes, and clean and simple cards with the fun sentiments.

hedgehog stamps | i just want to hibernate | handmade card

hedgehog stamps | sending hedgehugs | handmade card

hedgehog stamps | leaves | nature | handmade card

hedgehog stamps | sending hedgehugs | CAS Card

TOTALLY TOADSTOOLS

This fabulous Totally Toadstools stamp set includes 3 individual toadstools and a group of smaller ones, with spores, grasses and rocks, enabling you to create wonderful Autumn scenes.

toadstool stamps | mushrooms | handmade card | nature heals the soul

toadstool stamps | handmade card

toadstool stamps | tag | handmade crafts

toadstool stamps |handmade card

NUTS ABOUT SQUIRRELS

This wonderful Nuts About Squirrels stamp set includes a realistic squirrel stamp and 2 small silhouettes, with co-ordinating elements of acorns and a log, enabling you to create fabulous Autumn scenes, and clean and simple cards with the fun sentiments.

squirrel stamps | handmade tag | you're my kind of nutty

squirrel stamps | are you nuts | handmade card

squirrel stamps | acorns | leaves | handmade card

squirrel stamps | acorns | leaves | hibernate | handmade card

LOVE OF ATCs

This fantastic stamp set includes an ATC back stamp for all your essential ATC swap details, along with some fabulous mail art stamps to decorate your envelopes!

ATC stamps | mail art

ATC stamp | mail art | handmade with love

VI MINIs #1

This set of 5 mini versions of our gorgeous butterflies, feather, seahorse and bare tree stamps are perfectly sized for ATCs and tags, for smaller cards and projects, or combining with the standard size stamps!

Miniature stamps | butterflies | CAS Card | Affirmations

Miniature stamps | seahorse | CAS Card | Affirmations

Miniature stamps | ATC | bare tree | Affirmations

Miniature stamps | butterflies | CAS Card | Affirmations

AFFIRMATIONS

These positive affirmations sentiment stamps can be used in your art journaling, or for handmade cards to lift others.

ATCs | Affirmations sentiment stamps | stamping

Affirmations sentiment stamps | grunge flourish swirl | CAS card

Affirmations sentiment stamps | ATC | Bare tree | stay humble

Affirmations sentiment stamps | handmade card | mail art

SMILE BIGGER

This bold statement sentiment stamp contains 3 separate stamps: Laugh louder, Smile bigger, Love deeper which can be used together as the focal point of your card, or used individually.

Laugh Louder | Smile Bigger | Love Deeper | sentiment stamps | handmade card

Smile Bigger | sentiment stamps | handmade card

Laugh Louder | Smile Bigger | Love Deeper | sentiment stamps | handmade card

Love a little Deeper | sentiment stamp | seahorse | handmade card

CREATE WITH YOUR SOUL

This gorgeous sentiment stamp in a beautiful font contains 3 separate stamps: Love, Believe, Create which can be used together as the focal point of your card, or used individually.

Believe with your mind | sentiment stamp | handmade card

Create With Your Soul | sentiment stamp | handmade card

Love Believe Create | sentiment stamps | handmade card

Create with your soul | sentiment stamp | handmade card

GRUNGE FLOURISH

Our stunning Grunge Flourish stamp creates beautiful edging for your handmade cards and projects, giving you the versatility of the elegant swirls or the grungy side.

Grunge Flourish Swirl Stamp | CAS card | sunset | Create with your soul sentiment

Grunge Flourish Swirl Stamp | handmade card

Grunge Flourish Swirl Stamp | affirmations | handmade card

Grunge Flourish Swirl Stamp | i am grateful for every day | handmade card

Thanks for checking out our new stamps today… we hope you love them! ♡

PRE-ORDER NOW FOR DISPATCH BEFORE RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 27TH!

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Helen + Mark xx

Visible Image Autumn Stamps

Beautiful Rose Stamp | CAS Card

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 by helen

Hi! Sharon is here on the blog today with a really beautiful CAS card featuring the rose stamp from our FLOWER ART set with our RIPPLES stencil…

Hello there. Today I have a quick CAS [clean and simple] card for you using some Visible Image stamps and a stencil. I really hoped I’d have time to make a few more cards using the other two flowers in the stamp set… but as usual, time ran away from me.

Beautiful Rose Stamp | CAS Card

Here’s how I made this one:

First swipe some ink onto a glass mat and spritz with a tiny bit of water. Press some acetate into the ink and then place the acetate onto a piece of card to transfer the ink, making sure to leave a large area of gorgeous white space for the sentiment. Dry the ink and then add some more ink to the card using the same technique to add droplets.

Now blend the same colour ink through a stencil over the top of the ink added in the previous step.

Wait for the distress inks to completely dry, then stamp the flower onto the card panel and heat emboss it.

Heat emboss the sentiment too.

Heat emboss the flower once again onto a piece of water colour card.

Take some pens, or water colour paints, and colour the rose and the leaf on the watercolour card, then cut them out.

Layer the panel onto the card blank, then layer the rose and leaf onto the panel. Add a few nuvo drops in white for some texture, and your card is good to go!

Supplies

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Other Supplies:

White card, water colour paper, piece of acetate, lucky clover Distress Ink, water spritzer, blending brush, Versamark clear ink, WOW! primary ebony mbossing powder, Zig clean color real brushes ( Greens: 040, 048, 049, 400. Pinks/red: 024, 027, 202, 260), Nuvo Crystal Drops Gloss (simply white), 3d foam pads.

That’s it from me for now. Thanks for stopping by and I will be back here again soon.

Hugs,

Sharon xx

This is such a beautiful CAS card, the delicate splashes of ink and ripples look fabulous, and the rose is coloured wonderfully. Those white Nuvo drops really finish it perfectly! Thank you Sharon ♡

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Rose Stamp CAS Card

Visible Image | Worldwide Stockist List

Posted on July 2, 2021August 27, 2021 by helen

Hi there!

Here is a list of the craft stores and online retailers where you can find our products.

If your local craft store is not listed and you would love them to stock our stamps + stencils, please do ask them to get in touch with us!

AUSTRALIA

Peninsula Paper Craft Boutique
1081 Frankston – Flinders Road
Somerville Victoria 3912
Australia

Scrapbooking Delights
Shop 1/38 Burke Rd
Dapto
New South Wales 2530
Australia

The Scrapbooker’s Confetti Box
114 Pacific Highway
Swansea
New South Wales 2281
Australia

BELGIUM

Createlier Caracolle
rue de Herve 543
41
4030 Grivegnée

CANADA

Paper Art Creations
Unit #2 5910 50 St
Leduc AB T9E 0R6
Canada

Scrapbook Centrale
3349 Sources Blvd
Dollard des Ormeaux QC H9B 1Z8
Canada

Scrapbooking Fairies
Unit 3, 5606-55 Street
Box 6123
Drayton Valley Alberta T7A 1R6
Canada

CZECH REPUBLIC

Scrap Art
Sokolovska 342/19
18600 Prague 8
Czech Republic

DENMARK

Hobbyboden Scrapworld
Østervej 1, Kolby
8305 Samsø
Denmark

FINLAND

Piia Paper

FRANCE

CREASCRAP BY SYL
110 RUE DE LA MINÉE
45500 SAINT MARTIN SUR OCRE
France

GERMANY

Stamp Corner
Friedrichstr. 79
24837 Schleswig
Germany

StempelBar
Weimarer Str. 17
StempelBar Bathke GbR
10625 Berlin
Germany

Stempelfee-Shop
Daimlerstr. 26
40721 Hilden
Germany

Stempelmühle
Letzlinger Landstraße 50
39638 Gardelegen
Germany

Stempeloase
Orthstrasse 42
81245 Munich
Germany

HUNGARY

Pippi Kreativ
Budapest, XVIII.
Üllői út 737.
Üzlet
1182
Hungary

JAPAN

Ciao*Carina

NETHERLANDS

De Hobbystudio
Langestraat
65
8281 AG genemuiden
Netherlands

Hobbycompleet De Duif
Voorstreek 7-9
Leeuwarden 8911JH
Netherlands

Stamping Corner
A. Schelfhoutrade 26
2908CM Capelle aan den IJssel
Netherlands

NORWAY

HobbyMagneten
Berfjordveien 156
8820 DØNNA
Norway

Kort Hobby
Einerskaret 55
6521 Frei
Norway

NEW ZEALAND

Imagine If
181 Thames Street
Morrinsville 3300
New Zealand

SWEDEN

Pyssloteket
Anna Molin
Valhallav.48
11422 Stockholm
Sweden

TAIWAN

Perfect Marcom Company

USA

online retailers:

craft stores:

Urban PaperCrafter
9810 Edmonds Way
Edmonds, WA 98020

Scrappy Chic
33523 W. Eight Mile
ste c2
Livonia, MI 48152

online retailers:

Country View Crafts

Crafts 4 Less

Stampers Grove

craft stores:

Crafts @ The Malthouse
Hailsham Road
Herstmonceux
BN274LH

The Forget Me Knot Kraft Kabin
Rochford, Essex [shop by appointment]

Unicorn Crafts
29 Thorncliffe Close
Swallownest
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S26 4SY

Where Flowers Bloom | Birthday Card

Posted on June 25, 2021June 25, 2021 by helen

Hello and Happy Friday to you! We have some wonderful inspiration to share with you here on the blog today! Angie has a fantastic new video tutorial showing how she made this gorgeous Birthday card with the large flower stamp from our WHERE FLOWERS BLOOM set, stencilled faux water droplets and fabulous Birthday sentiment…

Where Flowers Bloom | Birthday Card | Stamps | Stencils

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Supplies

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This is such a gorgeous card, the flower looks stunning and the water droplets look wonderful. Thank you for your fantastic video Angie ♡

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We hope you have a great Friday!

Helen + Mark xx

Where Flowers Bloom Birthday Card

Heart Plaque | Equality Sentiment Stamp

Posted on June 21, 2021June 21, 2021 by helen

Hi there! We hope you had a lovely weekend, doesn’t Monday come around quickly! It’s the longest day of summer today (although we haven’t seen any sunshine here in Wales today), but Jane is here with a wonderfully vibrant heart plaque to brighten the day, and also celebrate PRIDE with fabulous rainbow inks and our Equality sentiment stamp.

Good Afternoon

As June is Pride month I could not let the month pass by without making something to celebrate this most important annual event. I decided to make a mixed media heart plaque. Equality in this world for everyone is so very important, so the Equality Hope + Love stamp set below seemed perfect to use. I love this definition of the word Equality.

I also wanted to share some love so I also used the gorgeous grungy heart from the Follow Your Heart stamp set

and I added some background stamping using the uber useful Grunge Tones stamps

This is what I got up to;

I used an MDF heart from my stash and painted it with gesso.

Using yellow acrylic paint and one of the grunge tones stamps I repeat stamped all over.

I repeated this using the other stamps in the set using red and blue paints. Do remember to wash your stamps immediately after using paint.

I stamped out the equality sentiment from Equality, Hope and Love, cut it up and matted it onto red card.

I then cut out a smaller heart shape from card by hand and coloured it using a rainbow of distress inks.

I then stamped the Follow Your Heart in the centre and clear embossed it, adding some white pen and then added some more grunge tones stamping around the edge.

Here is the finished plaque with its gorgeous rainbow ribbon.

A couple of close ups where you can see I added some glossy accents to the bubbles, and decoupaged a couple of the elements in this lovely heart stamp.

Supplies

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Wow! This heart plaque is amazing! Our grunge heart stamp looks stunning against the fabulous rainbow inks, and the sentiments are perfect for PRIDE month! Thank you Jane ♡

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We’ll be back here on the blog tomorrow with more gorgeous inspiration!

Hope you have a nice evening.

Helen & Mark xx

Butterfly Effect Stamps | Handmade Bookmark

Posted on June 18, 2021June 18, 2021 by helen

Hello! It’s almost the weekend! Yay! We hope you have some good things planned. Ericka is here on the blog today with a gorgeous handmade bookmark created with our stunning BUTTERFLY EFFECT stamps…

Happy Friday! I hope you are all doing well. Summer is in full swing at my house which means some time to relax and hopefully read a couple of books. What better way to keep track of my page than to create a bright and pretty bookmark with the Visible Image ‘Butterfly Effect’ stamp set.

butterfly stamp | big | large | bookmark | handmade

big butterfly stamp | handmade tag

To start making my bookmark, I took out a leftover background I had made using Distress Oxides in Kitsch Flamingo and Savage Patina and a brayer. I then added the smaller images from the Butterfly Effect stamp set in the same colours of Distress Inks. I then added some WOW! Embossing clear powder to add a little dimension.

I stamped the butterflies on Bristol Smooth paper and heat embossed in WOW! Embossing Carnival which is a pretty dark blue with sparkle. I then used my Zig watercolor pens to watercolour them. Once my images were dry, I cut them out and added to my tag.

I added the sentiment from the set and added a big pink ribbon I had in my stash.

handmade tag | butterfly stamps | distress oxide inks

Supplies

handmade tag | distress oxide inks | big butterfly stamp | visible image

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a good weekend and have a little time to relax.

What a stunning bookmark, loving those colours and the butterfly looks beautiful! Thank you Ericka ♡

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Take care.

Helen + Mark xx

Butterfly Effect | Circle Gelli Print

Posted on May 21, 2021May 21, 2021 by helen

Hello and Happy Friday to you! We are very excited as it is release day for our NEW stamps! Woo! We are so pleased that they are already loved by so many. We have lots of amazing samples to share with you still, and are kicking off release day with a stunning piece of wall art by Lynda, featuring our gorgeous BUTTERFLY EFFECT stamps on a fabulous circle gelli print…

I have had such a lovely time playing with the brand new Summer release from Visible Image this month. They are such fantastic stamps, and a really great size for home decor pieces, so I decided to make some wall art using the Butterfly Effect set and my round Gelli plate for this weeks design team inspiration.

butterfly effect stamps | wall art | circle gelli print

I am not overly well practiced in using the gel plate I must admit [it is definitely on my ‘must use more’ list!] so I was unsure how my print would turn out, but that is part of the fun of creating papers with it so I just had to make myself relax and go for it!

My first layer was created by applying paint through the ‘Butterfly Ink’ stencil.

I then took ‘Ripped Fishnet’ stencil and applied paint through that, framing the butterfly.

Once dry, I applied another layer of paint through the ‘Mesh It Up’ stencil.

Again, once dry I added another layer, this time with the ‘Time Tunnel’ stencil.

Then came the scary part- pulling the print [after adding a thin layer of fluid acrylic].

I was SO relieved that the finished print turned out well!

As you can see, the ‘Butterfly Effect’ large stamp fits the stencil perfectly.

I stamped the large and smaller butterflies in Stazon ink on an alcohol ink background and fussy cut once dry.

I wanted to stamp and emboss the background stamps inside the circle, so drew round my Gelli plate onto copy paper and cut to create a mask. I embossed in white to help make the image pop.

I inked a drop shadow around the central image to help add dimension, and mounted it with glue gel. I stuck the smaller butterflies around the edge of the circle, and added the sentiment before mounting onto black card and framing.

butterfly effect | large stamp | Visible Image | Gelli Print | Art

Supplies

This is stunning! The gelli print worked out wonderfully, lots of fabulous texture and the white embossing looks fantastic against it. The butterflies look beautiful and this art work definitely needed to be framed! Thank you Lynda ♡

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We are hoping to stream live from our NEW studio this evening [Mark is busy doing the final testing], so keep your eyes out for details on our Facebook PAGE!

We hope you have a good day!

Helen & Mark xx

butterfly stamps gelli print

Sometimes Life Just Sucks | Canvas

Posted on May 1, 2021May 1, 2021 by helen

Hello and happy weekend to you! Lynda is here on the blog today with a stunning mixed media canvas, featuring our ‘sometimes life just sucks’ sentiment with our Daisy and smashed vase stamps…

Today’s project is a mixed media canvas, featuring the stunning ‘Break Free’ stamp set as the main focal point. This was so much fun to make!

sometimes life just sucks stamp | mixed media canvas | daisy

I started with a piece on thick backing board recycled from a paper pad. I adhered corrugated cardboard and used the ‘Ink Swirls’ stencil and texture paste for my base layer.

Once the texture paste was dry, I applied generous smatterings of Izink sand texture paste and left to air dry.

The next stage was to cover with gesso and again. leave to dry ( I am SO impatient when it comes to things drying so these steps were very frustrating for me haha!)

Then came the fun part! I set to work with a combination of spray paints and distress oxide sprays.

They reacted beautifully together and just look at that texture!

Once the paint was dry ( yes, more drying!!) , I used the fabulous new ‘Grunge Tones’ stamps with white paint to add more texture, and added paint splatters with a fan brush.

I used the ‘Break Free’ stamp set, embossed in white, on an inky mop up sheet I had to hand, and fussy cut. I added more texture by mounting it on top of some sisal. I just love the natural fibres for creating interest.

I added the sentiment from the ‘Lost for Words’ set and layered on black card to finish.

Supplies

Wow that texture is incredible! Stunning colours and wonderful layers! Thank you Lynda ♡

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We hope you have a great weekend!

Helen & Mark xx

Love Postcard | Grungy Rose Stamp

Posted on April 27, 2021April 27, 2021 by helen

Hello! Thanks for visiting our blog today! Jane is here with a stunning postcard today, created for our upcoming Create + Craft TV shows this week. Jane’s postcard features the gorgeous grungy rose stamp from our FOREVER LOVE set with our LOVE definition stamp…

Hi there, today I am sharing a postcard. These are fun to make and even to swap, and measure 6″ x 4″, the size of a UK standard postcard. The stamps I used are all on the shows this week.

I worked with the love sentiment from Equality, Hope and Love

and the gorgeous roses and barbed wire stamps from Forever Love

This is what I got up to

I used a piece of shaving foam marbled card I made with my granddaughter using distress reinkers and sprays. This is a really old crafting technique (I did it as a child with food colouring) and there are lots of on line instructions and videos. I cut it to 6″ x 4″

I stamped and embossed the love sentiment from Equality, Hope and Love and then stamped the barbed wire using archival ink onto the left side. These would be my flower stalks.

and then to the right side.

I stamped several of the roses from Forever Love (I only ended up using a few) onto red card using black ink and clear embossed them. I also cut out some of the centres of some more of the large roses to use for decoupaging.

I stamped and embossed the large rose onto the postcard using red embossing glitter

then I adhered the large rose. I decoupaged it with a couple of extra layers of petals. I added a small rose at the top of each barbed wire plant stalks. I finished off with some dewdrops of Glossy accents for extra shine, drippage (is that a word?!?) and dimension.

Here is my finished postcard

grungy rose stamp | love sentiment | postcard | handmade

with a close up of the decoupaged dewy rose

and a couple more photos

grungy rose stamp | love sentiment | postcard | handmade

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Love Postcard Rose Stamp

What a gorgeous postcard! Our rose stamp looks stunning layered up with the dew drops on the amazing background! Thank you Jane ♡

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Summer Butterfly Card | Video Tutorial

Posted on April 22, 2021May 17, 2021 by helen

Hello! We have a brand new project from Jen here on the blog today! Jen has created a stunning summer butterfly card video tutorial featuring our WINGS OF CHANGE stamps and RIPPED FISHNET + WORDS OF SUPPORT stencils…

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This card is so beautiful and summery, the background is stunning! We love the use of the zip! Thank you for your fantastic video Jen ♡

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Summer Butterfly Card Video

Design Team Intro | Gill Sansom

Posted on April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 by helen

We are really excited to introduce NEW Design Team member…

Gill Sansom

As a mum to two teenage boys, crafting has been both my therapy and escape, my bit of time out for myself to immerse myself in the colourful creative world of messy painted backgrounds and beautiful stamped and coloured images. My mindful messy moments of joy!

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Gill’s gorgeous cards and mixed media projects with fabulous inky backgrounds really caught our eye ♡

Daisy stencil | canvas | stamping | grungy butterflies | kindness

Gill made her fantastic background with acrylic paints and tissue paper then added more texture by randomly stamping our GRUNGE TONES stamps using rose, yellow and green inks. Next Gill added more interest by inking through our WORDS OF SUPPORT stencil. To create the gorgeous flowers Gill used our DAISY DAISY stencil as a template, painted the petals with white acrylic paint, then coated them with Starlights metallic paint in ‘clotted cream’. The centres were painted to co-ordinate with the bright oranges and yellows in the background, and gold paint was stippled to create the stamen. The grungy butterflies from our WINGS OF CHANGE set were stamped with Versafine Clair ink onto smooshed inky backgrounds made with ‘scattered straw’ and ‘worn lipstick’ distress oxide inks. The sentiments were stamped and then clear embossed, and Gill finished by hand drawing doodled frames around the sentiments and canvas edges using a black fine liner pen.

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Welcome to the team Gill! We are really excited to work with you!

We will be back tomorrow with some fabulous new inspiration from Ericka.

See you then!

Take care.

Helen + Mark xx

Design Team Intro | Leanne Harris

Posted on April 7, 2021April 7, 2021 by helen

We are very excited to introduce NEW Design Team member…

Leanne Harris

I have been crafting for over 25 years and have enjoyed every single moment of it! I love stamping with inks and paints on card stock to fabric, and am also a mixed media artist. You never stop learning!

Leanne is on our TV SAMPLES TEAM!

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Leanne is a very talented artist and her wonderful way of using inks and watercolours really caught our attention ♡

Leanne created her gorgeous background using distress oxide and dylusions sprays, then splattered with sterilising fluid to lift the colour out. Next Leanne made a heart stencil out of copy paper to match the size of the heads which were stamped with Versafine Claire nocturne ink. [Leanne filled out the heads to match the shape of the heart with some extra stamping of the elements]. The stunning rays were created using our STROBES stencil and Izink white pigment ink, and a scattering of white embossing powder close to the heart edge which was then heated up. Some blue and white card candi and the LOVE IS LOVE sentiment finish the card perfectly.

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Welcome to the team Leanne! We are so excited to work with you!

We will be back tomorrow to introduce more of the super talented creatives on our team, with more of their wonderful inspiration.

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Helen + Mark xx

Design Team Intro | Jane Tyrrell

Posted on April 5, 2021April 6, 2021 by helen

Hello! We hope you are enjoying the lovely long Easter weekend! It’s an exciting week here at Visible Image as we start to introduce our amazing and much bigger Design Team, who will be inspiring you with a mix of tutorials here on our blog, photos over on instagram, and also with some fabulous videos!

First up is…

Jane Tyrrell

Jane is on our BLOGGING TEAM!

Many of you will have already got to know Jane who has been with us for almost 5 years now! We love how Jane interprets our stamps and sentiments so brilliantly, and her compositions are always full of wonderful inkiness and fabulous layers!

I have been paper crafting since the early 1990’s and stamping has always been my first love. I love getting very inky and working and designing with mixed media. I always enjoy experimenting and trying out new ideas and products. Since retiring from my medical career in 2016 I am lucky enough to be able to be to be creative virtually every day.

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For today’s make I was inspired by my “not going to happen big birthday plans”. I had a big birthday last Thursday and all the plans we made a few years ago have gone out of the window courtesy of Mr Corona.

We had planned a celebratory trip and a lovely meal out, but as that wasn’t going to happen I created an imaginary “sunshine holiday” birthday on a canvas. A girl can still dream can’t she? Confused…. well that’s how my creative brain works. All will be revealed…

I worked with these sets:

the birthday sentiment from Lost for Words

sentiment stamps | greeting cards | handmade | stamping

Random Art of Kindness

quirky flower stamps | hope | kindness | sentiments

and the Count Me In stencil

This is what I got up to;

I added drops of picked raspberry, squeezed lemonade and crackling campfire distress reinker to a rectangle of water colour card and added water using my distress sprayer.

Once dry I added these distress inks through the Count Me In stencil

count me in stencil | numbers | distress inks

I also machine stitched around the edge of the card

Next I created a circle frame for my flowers using 3 die cut scallop circle edges

I stamped the flowers from the Random Art Of Kindness set onto inky mop up card and cut them out. I decoupaged the centers of the circular ones and adding glitter pen details to them all for extra sparkle.

I then glued them around the circle frame.

I stamped the birthday sentiment onto card and stitched a border. I also did this to a coloured card mat and stuck them together.

I glued this into the centre of the floral circle.

I made a corrugate card base for my canvas by adding a little red ink and then some embossing powders to it for extra detail and texture

I ripped off some of the covering and used a brush to add embossing ink to areas around the visible edges only.

I sprinkled in the powders and heat embossed them from underneath.

Then I matted the finished canvas onto blue card, adhered it to the base and added sprinkle of sequins to finish.

Job done!

Here it is…you might need sun glasses!

with some close ups showing the details

and one last shot of my Calypso birthday canvas

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Wow this is one amazing Birthday canvas! Loving all the texture and vibrant colours! Thank you Jane ♡

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Fearless Tiger Stamp | Handmade Card

Posted on March 27, 2021March 27, 2021 by helen

Hi there! We hope you are having a nice weekend. Ali is here on the blog today with an amazing handmade card featuring our FEARLESS TIGER stamp with our gorgeous FIBRES stencil.

I’ve been playing with the fab new tiger stamp from Visible Image called ‘Fearless Tiger’. I had a ball making this card – shiny metallic polish, matt black gesso and the stunning, stunning tiger stamp.

fearless tiger stamp | handmade card

Instructions

Cut a piece of heavy stock white card 6″ square, load up a stamping platform with the tiger stamp and stamp the image onto the centre of the card with black versafine ink just once to show where the tiger will be going.

Leave the tiger stamp in place on your stamp platform for later.

Lightly spritz your stamped card with water and then apply some of the red and orange Cosmic Shimmer Metallic Gilding Polishes up to the edge of the tiger and over the rest of the card.

Dry your card with your heat gun then wipe it over with an anti static bag.

Put your card back in your stamp platform and re-stamp the tiger image with black versafine until you have a nice solid black image.

Then heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

Your card will look a bit like this – probably better than mine if you didn’t paint over his ears 😀

Pour a little black gesso into a scrap foil container

Tape the Visible Image Fibre stencil over the your card and stencil a little black gesso over the metallic background, allowing the gesso to dry before moving the stencil to a new part of the card as the stencil is slightly smaller than your card.

When the gesso has dried, paint in the tigers face using an orange watercolour pen and a damp brush.

Paint the eyes with green and yellow and re-paint in any white bits using white acrylic paint or a bleed proof white ink.

Pat your anti static bag over the tigers face then return your card to the stamp press.

Use a gold or any other pigment ink to ink up the tiger’s mane, avoiding his face then heat emboss with gold embossing powder.

Use a sponge to apply a little glycerine or versamark ink around the edges of the card and then heat emboss with gold embossing powder.

Use the remaining ink left on the gilding polish applicators to colour the edges of a square of white card just over 6 1/2″ square and also scrap of white card for the sentiment.

Attach your tiger card onto black card with a 1/16″ border and then onto your coloured card with approx 1/4″ border.

Then attach onto another black card layer with approx 1/4″ border and finally onto a white 8″ x 8″ white card blank.

Using your stamp platform again, stamp the Fearless sentiment onto the coloured scrap with back versafine ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder, repeat inking and heat embossing a second time so it is really glossy.

Cut out the sentiment, sponge a little black gesso around the edges then attach it to a piece of black card, leaving a border of approx 1/8″ and fix to the bottom right of your card with double sided foam tape.

Finally apply glossy accents to the tiger’s eyes and glue a few sequins on the background.

Here is my finished card

tiger stamp | face | embossing | stencil | handmade card

Supplies

Visible Image Stamps – Fearless Tiger
Visible Image Stencils – Fibres
Cosmic Shimmer Metallic Gilding Polishes in Rich Red & Tangy Tangerine
Black Gesso & Stencil brush
Watercolour pens eg Zig clean colours or Koi brush pens
Black Versafine ink pad
Gold pigment ink
Versamark ink pad or glycerine
Masking tape
Sponge
Clear and gold embossing powders
Glossy accents
Dark sequins
Heat gun
White stamping card (300gsm), Black & white card for matting & layering
8″ x 8″ white card blank
double sided tape or pva
3d foam pads

I hope you have enjoyed this project and thanks for stopping by 💖

Ali xxx

Woweeee our tiger stamp looks amazing Ali! Loving the fibres textures and the stunning metallics and gold embossing… gorgeous! Thank you ♡

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T-Shirt Stamp | Rock Star

Posted on March 23, 2021March 23, 2021 by helen

Hello! We are back with more new stamps inspiration today! Lynda has made an awesome grungy card with our T-Shirt stamp and rock star icons, perfect for teens and rockers of all ages!

I really am loving the new release from Visible Image right now. So much so that I am blogging an extra card today as I just can’t stop playing with them!

The set I am featuring today is called NOTHING TO WEAR. Well, with this versatile T shirt, there’s a whole wardrobe full of options! The T Shirt stamp itself is blank, so imagine the possibilities for filling it. Perfect for male and female cards and works with all your smaller stamps. It also comes with some very cool stamps of it’s own which are perfect to make backgrounds as well as stamping on the top itself. Fabulously versatile!

T Shirt stamp | rock star | Birthday card | handmade | grungy

I started this card with a gelli print that I had previously made using the COUNT ME IN stencil.

I stamped and embossed over it with the new GRUNGE TONES stamp set, also from this release.

I added another layer for more texture and interest, spreading Izink Ice through the SQUARE ROUTE stencil.

As it dries opaque it doesn’t cover up the detail, which makes it a great medium for adding depth to a project.

I stamped the t shirt onto a piece of card that I have previously painted wavy lines on using a splatter brush and fussy cut it, stamped and embossed some stars to layer over the background.The Birthday sentiment is from the new LOST FOR WORDS set.

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This is such an awesome grungy card! Loving all the texture and layers on the background! Thank you Lynda ♡

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T Shirt Stamp Rock Star

Punk Rocker Card | Stamp + Stencil

Posted on March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 by helen

Hello! Jane is here to inspire you with a brilliant ‘punk rocker card’ created with our new REFUSE NORMAL stamp set and RIPPED FISHNET stencil…

Yes you read the title of my post correctly! Today I am showcasing another of the fab brand new Visible Image stamp sets. I used the fun and very unique set called Refuse Normal!

As soon as I saw this set I thought of a punk rocker and a rocker card came to mind, so that is exactly what I made!

punk stamp | rocker card | handmade | ripped fishnet stencil

Here is how I did so;

I die cut 2 circles from black card. One 4″ and one 6″.

Using the Ripped Fishnet stencil and kitsch flamingo oxide I added some stencilling to the “Rocker” part of the card (This stencil works so well with this set). I then folded it in half to make the rocker.

ripped fishnet stencil

I then made the front.

I stamped the punk, cut her out and coloured her with Zig watercolour pens

I also stamped and coloured some extra hair so that I could layer it up. I snipped into the top of the hair so that it could look more layered when put together.

I used one of the sentiments in the set and then put everything together.

Here is my finished Punk rocker!

You can see that I added a little bit of chain too.

This really was great fun to make and although I was never a punk (I was a heavy rock chick…LOL) I always remember a work colleague’s daughter was a punk. People would cross the road when they saw her in full punk mode…but she was the sweetest girl you could meet. It really proves true the saying, “don’t judge a book by its cover”!

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It would be lovely to see you in our friendly Visible Image Facebook group. You will see lots of gorgeous makes by the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity!

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Bye for now,

Jane x

This is such a brilliant idea! Your punk rocker really does rock!!! The fishnet stencil looks awesome with our punk stamp and we are loving her rainbow mohican! Thank you Jane ♡

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Fearless Tiger Stamp Set | Canvas

Posted on March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 by helen

Hi there! We are very excited to be sharing the very first samples created with our new stamps over the next few days! Jane couldn’t wait to get her hands on our FEARLESS TIGER stamp and has created some incredible inspiration…

Hello, this is a very exciting post as I can reveal my first make with the brand new Visible Image March release!

I decided to make canvas/wall hanging to showcase the gorgeous Fearless Tiger.

tiger stamp | mixed media canvas

There are lots of photos ahead to share my process.

Here we go

I had the idea to have my tiger hiding in the jungle undergrowth so first I wanted to make some jungle foiliage. I drew some leaf shapes on white card and cut them out. I made some distress ink backgrounds and cut out my leaves using the shapes as a template

I then used the Grunge tones to make them more realistic, adding depth and texture

I also added depth by moulding them with my ball ended tool

I stamped my tiger onto an alcohol ink background and a distress ink one, you will see why in a moment

My plan was to have the tiger emerging from the jungle so I cut into the distress ink one leaving the ears and some of the outline behind. I cut into these to make “tabs” which I pulled forwards

I added some ink and the grunge dots again to both the folded back tabs and the background

I stuck the alcohol inked tiger in place and decoupaged his ears so that they stuck through the aperture

It was then time to add the foliage

and finally the sentiment which I matted with black card

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Thanks so much for stopping by.

Bye for now,

Jane x

This is an amazing canvas! We are loving your grungy jungle plants and our tiger stamp looks stunning! Thank you Jane ♡

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Have I Told You Lately?

Posted on February 8, 2021February 8, 2021 by helen

Hello! We hope you had a nice weekend. We have lots of gorgeous inspiration coming your way this week, and there’s definitely love in the air with Valentine’s day approaching! Jane is here on the blog today sharing a gorgeous romantic card featuring our fabulous Always + Forever stencil and a love-ly sentiment…

For my make today I decided to make a “Love” themed card. This design would work well not just for a Valentine card but for a card to send to someone you love.

This is what I got up to;

I sprayed a piece of A4 mixed media card with cracked pistachio, fossilized amber, mowed lawn and candied apple distress stain sprays. When dry I cut it down to a 5 1/4″ square.

I put the Always and Forever stencil in place and blended spiced marmalade distress ink through it give a golden glowing image.

I then added a little more ink to the background.

I stamped the book stamp from the Free your Imagination set once onto inky mop up card and again on plain white card. I cut out just the top of the book on the white book.

I stamped some of the hearts from the Have I Told You set

and then one of its lovely sentiments. For a finishing touch I added a little glitter overlay pen and Glossy accents to some of the hearts.

Here is my finished card

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Bye for now,

Jane x

This is such a beautiful romantic card Jane! Fabulous ‘love story’ design with the book stamp. Thank you ♡

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How Fragile We Are | Canvas

Posted on January 16, 2021January 16, 2021 by helen

Hello and Happy weekend! We have Heather here on the blog today with an amazing mixed media canvas featuring lots of our stamps and stencils with our ‘How Fragile We Are’ sentiment stamp…

Hello to you all and a very happy new year to all of you. I’m back with some new Visible Image inspiration for you and I’m hoping to ‘up my game’ a bit this year and push myself into new directions.

My first make for 2021 is this 8×6″ canvas using Shining Bright, Glimmer of Light and How Fragile for the main focal images of the piece.

how fragile we are | moth stamp | lightbulb | mixed media canvas

I’ve been having a bit of a clear out in my craft room of late. I gave a huge amount of paper pads away to some neighbours and in my clearing up I found some half used canvases of which this is one.

Before I gave it a couple of coats of gesso, the canvas was a pale blue with various stamped images, it even has some tissue paper strips down one side but none of the bothers me as I love a bit of texture!

Once I’d gesso’d it (gesso is a primer so is a good base for most surfaces) I clear embossed Fibonacci in a couple of random places so that once I added ink, the image would come through and give some white texture in the background.

I used Distress Oxide Sprays (Chipped Sapphire, Rustic Wilderness and Evergreen Bough) for this make as I love their matt and almost chalky finish and just dabbed them on using the tiny straw in the bottle and brushed them on. I did go over them using blender brushes just to neaten the surface slightly before adding crackle paste with the fabulous Count Me In stencil.

While the crackle pastes dries I began on the little circle (5″ in diameter) and this is just to break up the rectangle really, to add more interest and somewhere to focus the images. I’ve used Organics to continue the crackle theme that I’ll be using on the main bulb. Having stamped it using VersaFine Clair Morning Mist, I used a clear embossing powder to add a bit of sheen and to protect the stamping as I wanted to add Distress Oxide inks over the top.

Like the canvas, I added crackle paste through the Count Me In stencil again to tie the two together.

With this complete, I dripped Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (Bittersweet Vine) onto both the circle and the canvas and then used a watercolour fan brush to sprinkle on watered down gesso.

When stamping the bulbs, I masked out the middle images from the larger ones. To do this, I used masking tape cut to cover the image and removed it after the ink. Having then stamped the bulb onto a sheet of scrap paper, I cut out the bulb interior so I could stamp the shattered glass effect from How Fragile We Are. The bus were stamped in VersaFine Clair Nocturne and the shattered glass in Morning Mist. Both were heat embossed using clear embossing powder.

You could use whatever you prefer to colour the bulbs but I love these Arteza Brush Pens as the colour is beautifully vibrant and that’s kind of what you want in a bulb, no?! With the colour in place, I used a watercolour brush pen to blend and neaten them up.

To highlight the broken effect, I used Glossy Accents to add a glass look to the bulb and Organics on the circle and it looks amazing!

With the bulbs and crackle paste drying, I turned my attention to these gorgeous moths from Glimmer of Hope. Stamped in Nocturne VersaFine Claire again, these too were heat embossed using clear powder before being coloured with brown shades of the Arteza pens.

Having trimmed all the images, I added foam tape to the backs to give them extra dimension on the project. Having looked at the bulb wondering how to attach it, I decided to wrap some wire around the cap so it looked like it was almost hanging.

With everything made, it was time to layer the images up and secure them into place. It was at this point I felt the larger moth needed some extra dimension so I stamped the wings again onto vellum and attached them slightly lower than the original so you can see his second set fluttering away.

I now have this hanging in my craft room and it looks just fabulous (even if I do say so myself!). Although your eyes are naturally drawn to the bulbs, you’re pulled down by the texture from the Count Me In stencil, and the smaller moth.

These are the Visible Image stamps and stencil sets I’ve used for this make…

I’m really excited to push myself this year… get out of that comfort zone and experiment more than I usually do and I’m excited to see what new designs Mark and Helen make for us because I know they’ll be spectacular as they always are!

There’s been lots of inspiration over the Christmas period in the Visible Image Facebook group so do pop in and if you’ve made anything new why not post it up! I love to see everyone’s makes and ideas.

Thats’ all from me today. Look after yourselves and I’ll catch up again soon.

H xx

Woweee this is an amazing canvas Heather! So much detail, gorgeous layers, and wonderful texture! Your sentiment choice is so perfect right now. Thank you ♡

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HOPE | Phoenix Stamp

Posted on January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 by helen

Hello! We hope your week is going ok. It’s been a busy one here behind the scenes as we continue working on our new studio, and of course shipping all the orders placed this week. We have some wonderful inspiration for you today from Stempelfrida, featuring our Phoenix stamp with the oh so relevant HOPE sentiment on a really striking card…

I would like to send you a lot of hope for the new year. Something that you must never lose. There is always a way and so we will be happy again. You can see this hope in my card, as it rises with the phoenix and carries warming power. In mythology, the Phoenix burns and rises again from its ashes.

phoenix card | hope | handmade | stamping

The trick with my card is to use a stamping platform. With that tool you can impress a stamp over and over again in the same position. This way you can achieve great effects. I stamped with Versamark each time here. I use it exclusively when I want to emboss. It is just perfect. I embossed the first layer in white. Then I left the stamp on the platform, wiped it off again and applied Versamark in the lower areas and stamped it off again. I embossed these areas with a yellow powder. I continued like this and dabbed smaller and smaller areas at the bottom with Versamark and used the colors orange and red one after the other.

For the flames under the bird I used a black embossing powder, but you can also use a colourless one. I have preferred black, because mine has a very fine grain and so the details are well visible.

I used black embossing powder for the word hope also. This way it looks as if it was left blank.

Supplies

Phoenix Stamp | embossing powder | stamping | handmade card

Your card design is amazing! The flames look gorgeous in black and the phoenix looks awesome!
Thank you stempelfrida ♡

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NEW Midnight Sky Stamp Set

Posted on November 18, 2020November 18, 2020 by helen

Hello! We want to say a MASSIVE THANK YOU to everyone who has ordered our new stamps! We are overwhelmed by how loved they are and it means the world to us. We are back to sharing the amazing Design Team inspiration on the blog from today and have lots of inspiration coming your way! First up we have stempelfrida with a beautiful card featuring our MIDNIGHT SKY set which includes our wonderful man in the moon stamp and some gorgeous sentiments…

This saying here becomes so true again especially in our days currently: “No matter where we are, we all gaze at the same moon”.

man in moon stamp | card | alcohol inks sky

My sky is a collage of blue toned alcohol inks.

As a basis for my moon and the stars I glued a layer of gold leaf to a white piece of cardstock with glue spray. When it was all dried well I stamped the motives onto it with Versamark. I embossed them with a shiny fine embossing powder. Then I fussy cut the motives, covered them with Versamark and embossed the surface with transparent embossing poder.

I added the motives with distance pads to my sky. The gold spitz is made with Bronze powder and a brush. I also used the bronze powder on the lower part of the sentiment.

Supplies

main in moon stamp | midnight sky stamp set | visible image

Stamps: Visible Image Midnight Sky

Stamp pads: Versamark; Ink on 3
Embossing powder: Rayher transparent; Moon Glow Midnight Obsession / Emerald
Alcohol Ink: Ranger aqua, sailboat blue, indigo
Gold leaf
Bronze powder

This is so beautiful! The alcohol inks are stunning, so atmospheric for the moon.
Thank you stempelfrida ♡

You can find more of Stempelfrida’s gorgeous inspiration on her blog.

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Autumn Leaves Canvas

Posted on October 12, 2020October 12, 2020 by helen

Hello, we hope you are keeping safe and staying well. Autumn is in full swing here in the UK so it’s perfect timing for Jane to share a wonderful canvas created with our AUTUMN LEAVES stencil with stamps from our co-ordinating ERIKA’S MAPLE set…

Good Evening

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

leaf stencil | maple | falling | blowing

with Erika’s Maple Stamp Set

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

autumn canvas | leaves | stamps | stencils

with a close up

and one final shot

autumn leaves | canvas | stencil | stamps

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Bye for now,

Jane x

This looks absolutely stunning Jane! The crackled texture is wonderful, especially with the glaze. We are loving the leaves stamped onto the book pages in contrast, fabulous! Thank you ♡

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Christmas Eve | Stencil & Stamps

Posted on October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 by helen

Hello! We hope you are doing ok. Lynda Hall is on the blog today with a fantastic Christmas card created with our NEW ‘Christmas Eve’ stencil which works wonderfully with our Christmas Eve stamp set…

It’s time for my fortnightly share for Visible Image and this week we on the DT are all feeling festive because the NEW Christmas stamps and stencils have been released and they are AMAZING!

I love to create scenes on my cards, and the Christmas Eve stencil is so perfect for this. I am afraid I got so carried away getting inky that I failed a little on the step by step photos, but I will explain my method.

I started with a piece of blank card, and used Black Soot Distress ink and the stencil to create rows of buildings. I faded them out towards the back rows to add a sense of dimension. I then re inked rows on another piece of card, as I wanted to layer them up for more depth.

Using the cut away part of the stencil to cover the top row, I applied blue inks to the top half to create a sky. To create the moon I applied darker ink around a die cut circle.

I then stamped the sleigh from the Christmas Eve stamp set, and added stars and embossed snowflakes. White splatters added to the snowy feel, and I used a gel pen to add highlights.

I added lights to the buildings with a paint pen, and edged the roof line with puffy snow and glitter for some added sparkle. I built up the layers with 3D glue gel and added the sentiment from the Santa Claus set, and a message inside using the Sentimental Christmas set.

Supplies

Christmas Eve Stencil

Christmas Eve Stamp Set

Christmas stamps | trees | sleigh | roof tops | stars

Santa Claus Stamp Set

santa claus stamp | chimney | boot prints | naught nice list

I really love how the new release links so well with last years Christmas stamps. It really does mean the possibilities are endless!

This card is awesome! The layered buildings look amazing, such wonderful depth and the snow looks great! Beautiful sky too. Thank you Lynda ♡

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Under The Sea | Mixed Media Card

Posted on July 25, 2020July 24, 2020 by helen

Hi there! As summer is in full swing there’s no better time to create ‘under the sea’ themed cards and projects! Our NEW Ripped fishnet stamp is a perfect fit for this, and Heather Mitchell has combined it with our gorgeous jellyfish stamp and more to create an amazing mixed media scene for today’s inspiration…

Hello everyone…

Today I’m sharing a bit of a busy make using the new Ripped Fishnet stencil from the wonderful Visible Image.

under the sea | card | stamps | jellyfish | fishnet stencil

I started with a basic green and grey shaded background to which I then added the Ripped Fishnet stencil. Over the stencil I added a mixture of Chipped Sapphire, Stormy Sky and Faded Jeans Oxide Ink.

For some reason (and I have absolutely no idea why) I decided to add these large green bubble shapes which I’m not sure about now. I used the Mesh It Up and centre of the Daisy Daisy stencils to add some interest to them and splattered them with white Posca pen and indian ink.

The Ripped Fishnet stencil is crying out for sea themed makes and I had to do one to get it out my system so I grabbed the Dare to Swim and Art Rebel stamp sets for those gorgeous fish! The fish were heat embossed onto a tag I hadn’t made into anything… and the jellyfish stamped and then clear embossed to seal the colours.

The jelly fish was coloured using a mixture of Derwent Intense pencils and Arteza Brush Pens before being trimmed and set aside.

I decided to add some fine-liner scribble around the bubble shapes and then added the Scripted Streets text stamp dotted around for some extra texture. For a little bit of sparkle, I added the cute shoal of fish in WOW’s Aquamarine powder and they do look lovely and shimmery.

For the seaweed, again I’ve clear embossed over Distress Oxide inks and coloured as I did the jelly fish. They’ve then been layered on the card using foam dots with the fish woven in and out.

The images have been layered and I’ve added some glossy accents to the circles on the jelly fish and dotted a few around as bubbles.

The sentiment, courtesy of the 2020 Vision set, has been stamped twice to create a slight shadow and I’ve given the large circle the glossy accents treatment to match the rest of the card.

It’s a very busy card and a bit quirky but I kind of like that! Here are the Visible Image products I’ve used for the make…

If you’re a Visible Image fan, I hope you’ve managed to catch some of the Facebook Lives Helen and Mark have been doing. Mark has been demoing the new stamps and stencils and showing the design team samples we have all made. Loads of new inspiration every day on both instagram and Facebook group, and not just by the DT, by everyone… and every one is amaaaazing so do check it out.

I’ll be back soon with another Visible Image make… bye for now xx

This is so awesome Heather! There’s so much to discover and we love all the details! The underwater creatures look fabulous and we love those bubbles full of texture! Thank you so much ♡

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Distressed Heart | Mesh Stencil

Posted on July 20, 2020July 20, 2020 by helen

Hi there! We are back with more wonderful inspiration this evening. Our fabulous Design Team member Ali Carubia is here with a stunning card featuring our NEW ‘Mesh it Up’ stencil with our amazing ‘Organics’ background stamps and more…

Wishing everyone a very Happy Monday!

I’d like to share this card I’ve made using the left over bits from sample making with the fab new stencils.
This is a simpler version of one of my samples💖

heart card | mesh stencil | love is love sentiment

Creating a heart mask – I took a piece of copy paper, folded it in half, drew half a heart and cut it so the heart shape measures approx 6″ x 6″. I was careful to leave the outer part in one piece for the mask. ✂

I sprayed the inside edge of the heart mask with stencil adhesive – Stick and Spray, waited a couple of minutes for it to dry off then laid it over a piece of white card.

I coloured the heart shape with Cosmic Shimmer Lavender Blue Opal Polish and Bubblegum Lustre Polish, the blue down the left hand side and blended into the pink. Then dried it with a heat gun.

I used the remaining pink polish left on the applicator to colour a scrap of white card then stamped one of the flowers (Random Art of Kindness stamps) in black versafine ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. ⚘

I sprayed stick & spray over the back of the stencil, waited a minute and then laid it over my 💜 heart.

I applied black texture paste with a spatula over the stencil. You could use an old credit card if you haven’t got a spatula.

Then lifted off the stencil and lashed it into a bowl of water. 🚰

The texture paste takes a while to dry, you can speed it up with a heat gun.

I coloured the centre petals with a little watered down Lavender Polish and cut it out. ✂ I snipped between the petals then shaped it using a ball tool and the back of a foam mat.

I had some tropical leaf die cuts left over from a previous project which went really well with the colour scheme – Tim Holtz’s Tropical set by Sizzix.

When the texture paste was dry, I peeled off the paper mask and cut out the coloured heart. I sponged a little black gesso around the edge to add a vignette.

I stamped the splats from the ‘Organics’ stamp set in black Versafine ink on an 8″ x 8″ white card blank, working outwards from the centre.

I also stamped the Love is Love sentiments onto white card and matted them onto black card.

I fixed the heart onto the centre of the card with double sided foam and the flowers and leaves with 3d glue gel.

I also used the glue gel to add the sentiments to the right hand side of the heart.

Hope you like it and I have inspired you to have a go. Please come and share your makes with us in the Visible Image Facebook Group 😎

heart | handmade card | love is love sentiment | grungy

Items used

Visible Image Mesh It Up stencil

Visible Image Stamp Sets: Organics, Random Art of Kindness, Love is Love

Cosmic Shimmer Lavender Blue Opal Lustre & Bubblegum Lustre Polishes

Black leaf die cuts

Black Structure Paste

Black Gesso

Black Versafine Clair ink pad

Clear Embossing powder

Tools – Heat gun, spatula

3D glue gel, double sided foam tape

Stencil Adhesive/Crafter’s Companion Stick & Spray

300gsm Craft UK Premium smooth white card

8″ x 8″ white card blank

love is love | face stamps | mixed media | pride | equality

quirky flower stamps | kindness sentiment

Thanks for stopping by.

Ali xxx

This design is so striking! We love the organics stamps surrounding the heart, and the mesh looks fantastic! Those pinks look awesome against the black… thank you Ali ♡

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Daisy Daisy | NEW Stencil

Posted on June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 by helen

Hello! We hope you had a lovely weekend. We are very excited to be previewing our awesome NEW stencils this week! Our Design Team have been having so much fun with them over the weekend! Ericka Strange is kicking off this week’s inspiration with 2 vibrant summer cards featuring our gorgeous ‘Daisy Daisy’ and ‘Mesh it Up’ frameless stencils…

Happy Monday! Today, I’m showcasing a two of the new Visible Image stencils and different ways to use them.

For my first card…

I used the new Daisy Daisy stencil along with Mesh It Up.

daisymain

I started with a gel press print that I had created with Distress Oxides and paint. Originally it wasn’t anything too great, but then I added embossing ink with my blending tool to the Mesh It Up stencil, and sprinkled WOW! Bahama embossing powder on it.

I love the chunky texture both the stencil and the embossing powder give the panel.

I then took some Bristol Smooth paper and the Daisy Daisy stencil and blended Distress Oxides in Squeezed Lemonade, Dried Marigold, and Marmalade.

daisyside

I cut the outline of the stencil out and stamped the sentiment from the Beautiful Soul stamp set in black on the daisy.

daisy stencil | mesh stencil | gelli print | distress oxide inks

For my second card..

I used the same Daisy Daisy stencil but on a panel I created with Distress Oxide reinkers on photo paper.

ddaisymain

For more information on how to create the background check out my blog post here.

I then used the stencil and applied Frayed Burlap Distress Oxide lightly around the stencil with a blending brush.

ddaisycloseup

I stamped the butterflies from the Wings of Change set in Chipped Sapphire Distress Oxide. I also used the sentiment and stamped it in black archival ink.

ddaisyside

I love the grungy but bright look the distress oxides have on the photopaper and the different layers.

daisy stencil | butterfly stamp | grunge | distress inks

Thanks for stopping by today!

We adore these cards! So summery! So vibrant! And they showcase the new stencils wonderfully… thank you Ericka ♡

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We will be back to show you more new stencils projects here on the blog tomorrow, but if you can’t wait… check out our instagram and Facebook group for loads of sneak peeks!

Stay safe and we hope you have a good Monday!

Mark & Helen xx

Summer Kindness | Dragonfly Stamp

Posted on June 25, 2020June 25, 2020 by helen

Hi there! Wow it’s another scorching hot day here in the UK! So perfect for more gorgeous summer inspiration… Jane Tyrrell has a beautiful card to share with you featuring our new dragonfly stamp…

Happy summer! Yes we have enjoyed our longest day too and the long summers days loom ahead. I live very near the River Wandle as it winds its way back up to London and I delight in my walks along it.

As I walked along yesterday I saw a flash of colour in the undergrowth

I only had my phone with me (very unusal for me!) but I managed to snap a very summery visitor, a shimmery dragonfly.

This leads in perfectly to my latest design team project for Visible Image and I am sharing another sample I made using the brand new stamp release which is released tomorrow!

I made a summery card using the lovely dragonfly from the Summer Wings set:

I decided to get out my alcohol inks and made a summery background

I cut it down for a 7X5″ card

I stamped all the images onto acetate which I had also added alcohol ink to (I will use the butterflies for another project).

I also gold embossed some of them (sorry no photos!) I decided to use just the wings of the gold embossed acetate dragonfly and gold embossed another on some inky mop up card. I used the 2 together to make a real statement dragonfly.

This was just right for my alcohol ink background.

I also decided to use one of the fab sentiments from the new Equality, Hope and Love stamp set

equality | hope| love | sentiment stamps | definitions

Here is my finished card.

kindness sentiment stamp | dragonfly | alcohol inks

with some close ups..

and one last shot:

dragonfly stamp | acetate | embossing | alchohol inks

I have LOTS more samples to share over the coming weeks and do keep an eye out on social media where mine and my teamies samples are being shared.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Bye for now,

Jane x

What a stunning background for our dragonfly stamp Jane! The colours are fabulous together and the gold embossing and acetate layer look really beautiful. Thank you! And thank you for sharing your photos of the wonderful dragonfly you spotted too ♡

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Creating Calm | Seahorse Stamp

Posted on May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 by helen

Hello! We have Lynda Hall here on the blog today with a gorgeous underwater themed card featuring our lovely seahorse stamp…

The sun is shining, it has been a glorious week, and oh how I have been dreaming of a trip to the seaside. However, as it’s still not safe to indulge such whims I have instead lost myself under the ocean for this weeks inspiration project for Visible Image.

There really is something magical about seahorses, and this handsome one from the ‘Create Your Calm’ set is stunning!

I started this card with an inky mop up sheet of card. I am on a bit of a mission at the moment to use up my scraps. No idea why as I am constantly creating more so I am sure I am fighting a losing battle!

I used the ‘Two Tone’ and ‘Fibres’ stencils with distress ink to add a layer of detail to begin with, and then stamped some detail stamps in Archival Ink.

I took delivery of some Izink Ice this week, and some layers of that over the top really added some depth and shine and enhanced the colours.

While that was drying I stamped and embossed the seahorse on heat resistant acetate, and painted the colour onto the back of it so it just showed through the clear areas.

Once the Ice was dry, I stamped more images over the top from the Dare to Swim set, and added some embossing.

The WOW embossing brush is brilliant for applying thicker embossing powder around edges of your work to frame it.

I stamped seaweed onto another mop up scrap and fussy cut in order to create another layer of interest, and along the sea bed I added texture sand , shells and jewels.

The final step was to adhere the seahorse and sentiment with 3D glue to really make him stand out.

Visible Image Products Used

Fibres stencil

Two Tone stencil

Live In The Moment stamp set

dragonfly stamp | ripples | live in the moment

Create Your Calm stamp set

seahorse stamp | underwater | create your own calm

Dare to Swim stamp set

jellyfish stamp | fish | bubbles | underwater

Lynda this is amazing, there is so much to discover! Your sea bed is stunning, love all the background detail and little embellishments, and our seahorse stamp looks awesome! Thank you ♡

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Break Free Stamp Set | Daisy

Posted on April 7, 2020April 7, 2020 by helen

Hi there, thanks for visiting us here on the blog today. Ericka Strange is here to inspire you today with a super stunning card featuring stamps from our ‘Break Free’ stamp set…

Happy Tuesday!

I hope you are all doing well and staying healthy and sane. Today I’m playing with this Break Free Stamp Set from Visible Image which mirrors my sentiment as we start our 3rd week of social distancing and in close quarters with my wonderful family.

I love this stamp set and the great images and had a fun time coloring and embossing it.

I started by stamping my image in InkOn 3 Fade Out ink to do some no-line watercoloring with my Zig Real Brush Markers. I then added colored pencils to the image for additional shading.

I wanted to add a little more to the image, so I used Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide and lightly blended it around the flower. I then took the Strobes stencil and used Spun Sugar and Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide to color in the rest of the card.

I added some embossing details on the broken glass using Emerald Creek Fractured Ice Embossing Powder by painting on WOW Embossing Ink on my image. I love the glass look this powder gives the image.

flowerdetails

Once I was done embossing, I added the sentiment on vellum and then did additional embossing on the vellum to continue the shattered glass look.

Check out the video here.

Supplies

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day and stay healthy!

This is stunning Ericka! You have made the smashed vase look so real and your colouring of the daisy is so beautiful… Thank you ♡

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Total Chaos | Inky Flower Stamp | Mixed Media Canvas

Posted on March 9, 2020March 9, 2020 by helen

Hello and Happy Monday to you! We hope you had a lovely weekend, they just go too fast don’t they! We have loads of inspiration coming your way this week from our wonderful Design Team. First up this morning is Jane Tyrrell with a gorgeous canvas featuring our ‘Total Chaos’ stamp set which includes our incredibly popular inky flower stamp in a new larger size…

inky flower | stamp | creativity | mixed media

This is a large A5 size set which means that there are now 3 sizes of the awesome inky flower. A tiny version is in the new Accessorize set:

card making stamps | cupcake | flower | wings |rings

and this of course is the original set called Creative Chaos which is an A6 size set.

This is the very first card I ever made with ‘Creative Chaos’ back in January 2019:

stamping on book pages | card | inky flower stamp

I used book pages from my beloved A Tale of 2 cities for the bloom and it is my most pinned card on Pinterest!

So when I saw the new ‘Total Chaos’ I knew I just had to use book pages again, as I did for my first make with ‘Creative Chaos’, and this time I decided to make a canvas.

This is what I got up to..

(Apologies that there are not a lot of process photos here as I have been so busy making samples. I just did not get time to stop and keep taking snaps especially with very inky hands).

I decided I wanted to make a background to make me think ahead to spring days and used lots of ink sprays and water on heavyweight watercolour paper. They are a mix of distress sprays; pine needles, mustard seed, wild honey, grass and turquoise Dylusions greens plus some tarnished brass metallic spray.

I cut myself a 5 x 7″ piece from it and stamped the flower to get an outline and placement for my canvas.

I then stamped the scribble stamp over the top in orange archival ink.

Out came my well used Tale of 2 cities and I stamped the flower and 2 of the small flowers onto a page and cut them out. I also added some stamping around the edge of the canvas using archival ink and the other background stamps.

I stamped the sentiment onto a snippet of card, cut it out and mounted it on black card. I added Glossy Accents to the large circle and to some of the circles in the background, I wanted it to appear as dewdrops.

Here is my finished canvas:

mixed media canvas | inky | flower stamp

with some close ups

and one last shot..

inky flower | stamp | canvas | ink sprays

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

If you would like to see me in action, I will be demonstrating on the Stampers Grove stand at the NEC in Birmingham on Thursday 19th and Friday 20th March, sharing lots of tips and techniques with the new Visible Image stamps and stencils plus lots of oldies too.

Back soon.

Bye for now,
Jane x

We love how our flower looks stamped on the book pages Jane, and your background is amazing! The dew drops add that extra special touch.. Thank you ♡

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Total Chaos | Mixed Media Card

Posted on February 18, 2020February 18, 2020 by helen

Hi there! Sorry we’ve been a little quiet, it’s been rather hectic with our new releases (which is a good thing!) but now it’s time to catch up with the amazing samples our DT have been making! First up is Heather Mitchell – our Queen of texture – who has been playing with our ‘Total Chaos’ set which features our large inky flower stamp…

Well hello…

Goodness. I’ve been in a crafting frenzy since the latest stamps form Visible Image arrived as I cannot get enough of them!! How fabulous are they?! I totally take my hat off to Mark and Helen as once again they have produced a fabulous array with something for everyone.

Creative Chaos was a hugely popular set and I have seen it on many pages and instagram posts so when I found out they were doing a bigger version I was super excited! Total Chaos is an A5 set, the larger flower being 1/3 bigger than in Creative Chaos. There is also a fabulous funky flower, a leaf that is to die for and that scribble stamp!! Arghhh!! Heaven!!

This is my first make using the set and I’ve used a gelli print background I had already made. I loved this print as it’s pretty textural and the paint has crackled around the edges slightly.

You can see that I’ve used the Stars and Stripes stencil on both the gelli print and then used it to stencil on some Tonic Studios Nuvo Embellishment Mousse (Poppy Pink) down one side.

The background was made using Distress Oxide Ink Pads and Spray Stains. I’ve just smooshed the ink pads over the watercolour card, spritzed with water and then, while wet, spritzed on the Distress Spray Stains. I wanted the colours to blend and bleed in to each other and by adding lots of water and the spray stains that’s exactly what I got!

I left the background to air dry as I didn’t want any warping and once dry added a good spritz of Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (Pretty Pink) to get a beautiful shimmer to the card. With this dry, I stamped the large flower head four times using Versafine Clair (Nocturne) and then the leaf three times. I managed to squeeze on the small flower head a few times too!

To emphasise the beautiful flower, I trimmed and layered up different elements and used foam dots to achieve this look. Having stamped the full flower where I wanted it onto the gelli print, I then stamped the scribble stamp several times around the edges so it appeared behind the flower.

Before adhering the flower head in place, I scrunched white cotton thread to it acted as a 3D scribble almost… if you get me?!

I treated the leaves and little flowers the same way, layering them up before gluing in place.

With everything added to the background, I stamped the ‘Chaos Theory’ stamp in the top corner, almost like a postmark and then added Ranger’s Glossy Accents to give yet more texture. With the addition of a few adhesive gems, the card was matted onto black card stock before adding to an 8×5″ card blank.

Here are the Visible Image products I used for this make…

Check out all the February 2020 releases all the DT inspiration for the new stamp sets on Visible Image’s Facebook group and instagram and don’t forget to upload your own makes in the group!

Thanks for reading… catch up soon,

H xx

Heather this is awesome! The texture is gorgeous, we adore all your layering and those colours are fabulous together! The touches of glossy accents and the gems really add that something special to it. Thank you ♡

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Thinking of You | Verse Stamp

Posted on February 7, 2020 by helen

Good Evening! We have stempelfrida here on the blog today with a beautiful card featuring our new ‘Thinking of You’ verse stamp…

You know the beautiful flower from the Creative Chaos set, right? This and some more great stamps are now available in a sibling set called ‘Total Chaos’. And that’s huge! Of course I really wanted to make a card with it. I combined them with these beautiful text stamps written by Helen. There are six of them in this release. All of them contain a main message a bit bigger and then another stamp with a longer text in various fonts.

First I stamped the flower with Versamark on a piece of watercolour cardboard and embossed it in white. Then I used watercolours to make the colouration. The texts I stamped with Versafine on vellum. This one I pulled as tight as possible over the watercolour cardboard. I cut the upper edge of the cardboard curvilinear and added sequins to the collage. I backed the collage with brown card stock.

Supplies

inky flower | stamp | creativity | grunge

Stamp pads: Versamark; Versafine onyx black
Embossing powder: Stampendous! detail white
Water colour: HORADAM
Polychromos 177

This is such a beautiful card stempelfrida. We love how the verse looks stamped on velum, and the flower looks stunning in the delicate watercolour. Thank you ♡

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Helen & Mark xx

Handmade Cards | Sentiment Stamps | Part 1

Posted on February 6, 2020February 6, 2020 by helen

Hi! Do you love making cards? If so, you are in for a treat as we have not one but two posts from Sharon Traynor today, as she showcases some really beautiful cards featuring our new sentiment and verse stamps…

Hello there. There’s some fantastic new stamps and stencils by Visible Image that are due to be released on 15th February (they are available on pre-order at the time of writing this post) and I managed to get my hands on 3 of the sentiment stamps and the accessory stamp set that compliments the sentiments. The accessory stamps are beautiful and they will also make some brilliant stand-alone cards.. watch this spot.. ;-).. but I had a play with all 4 of these sets yesterday and came up with 6 cards.

verse stamps | handmade cards

The cards in this post show that a beautiful verse is not just for the inside of a card….. they work equally well as the main focus. These verses are absolutely gorgeous!

My first idea was to make a ‘set’ of cards that it would be easy to replicate, but that had a timeless, elegant look, because I love to inspire people with cards that are easily achievable. I say ‘set’ because the basic design for these cards is the same, however I’ve changed how the accessory stamps are used as well as the shape of the apertures in each card.

ALTERNATIVE DESIGN IDEA: There are always new people coming into this wonderful crafty world and hopefully a set like this won’t scare them away. However, for people looking for something a little more advanced, it would be very easy to make these into shaker card.

TIP: Although I’ve used a lot of dimension on the layers in these cards, it would be really easy to omit the foam to make flat cards for posting.

Let’s take a look at how these were made.

Firstly, cut 2 pieces of card to size for the front layers and die cut an aperture in each one. TIP: If I made these cards again, I would arrange both layers and secure them with low-tack masking tape, place my die where I wanted the aperture to be and die cut both layers at the same time. That way you can be sure that the holes with line up beautifully.

Once you have the layers die cut, lay the larger one on top of a card blank and lightly mark the aperture opening on the card blank with a pencil.

If you intend to use an open image on the card blank area such as I have done here with the wedding rings, stamp and heat emboss that into place, then use some masking fluid (or a mask) to cover up any parts you wish to remain white. (You should be able to make out the pencil marks I made to mark the aperture in this photo.)

Tape the edges of the card blank with low-tack tape to stop them getting inky, then blend inks to create an ombre effect where the apertures will be. Make sure to leave a little area of white that will appear at the top of the aperture. Set these aside to dry completly.

Once dried, stamp and heat emboss the sentiments. To line up the sentiments into the apertures it is a good idea to place the card blank into a stamping platform, lay the largest mat on top and align the stamp with the opening before getting the stamp to stick to the stamping platform door. Remove the mat and stamp as normal then heat emboss.

You can always stamp some additional images for interest, as I have done on the green version before moving on to assembling the card.

If you are stamping images onto the very top layer do that next. I stamped the wings on the sympathy card, and the flower stalk on the thank you card and heat embossed those with clear embossing ink. I also added some sparkle to the wings with a gel pen.

Assemble the card by firstly erasing any pencil marks, then adding foam (either foam tape or fun foam) to each layer and adhere those to the card blank. Add any additional pieces of the accessory images, like the flower (which I heat embossed, water coloured and glittered with a gel pen)

Here are the cards with the products that have been used.

Stamps Used:

Other Supplies:

Papermill white hopsack card, Spellbindrs deckle edge rectangles and square dies, MFT stitched circles die, Distress Inks (tumbled glass, broken china, peacock feathers, bundled sage, twisted citron, mowed lawn, spun sugar, worn lipstick and picked raspberry), Distress Oxide Inks (tumbled glass, mowed lawn, wilted violet, shaded lilac), Versamark clear embossing ink, WOW! Embossing Powder (gold sparkle, primary ebony, clear gloss, platinum, metallic gold rich), waterbrush, Sakura Gelli Roll Pen (clear star), pencil, eraser, masking tape

You can see my second 3 cards (which have very different designs) by clicking HERE.

Hugs,
Sharon xx

These cards are all so gorgeous Sharon! We love how well our verses work for aperture cards, and you have used the accessory images so beautifully in your card designs. Thank you for your great tutorial too ♡

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Shining Bright | Handmade Card

Posted on December 10, 2019 by helen

Hi there! Ericka Strange is here on the blog with a striking card featuring our light bulb stamp with one of our new sentiments, we think they work brilliantly together… what do you think?

Happy Tuesday! I hope you are all doing well and had a wonderful weekend! We’ve had a couple of gloomy days so I thought I’d brighten up my craft room with this Shining Bright set from Visible Image.

shine bright | handmade card

I love this light bulb and thought I’d play with the Strobes stencil and creating shining rays using Distress Oxides and Distress Inks.

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I started by blending Squeezed Lemonade and Mustard Seed Distress Oxides on Bristol smooth paper. Then I masked the bottom of my card and pulled out my stencil and used a little Chipped Sapphire Distress Oxide to darken the upper portion of the card.

stencil

I then masked the upper portion of the card and used Black Soot Distress Ink to darken the bottom half of my card base. I stamped the light bulb and gold heat embossed it as well as stamped another one that I fussy cut to attach to give the light bulb some depth.

layers

I stamped the sentiment from the new release Night Owl and heat embossed it in gold. I love how easy it is to mix and match the Visible Image sets with each other.

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I attached the bulb with some foam tape to complete and used a some Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers to brighten the edges of the rays.

It’s hard to see, but I also used some Spetrum Noir Sparkle pen to add a little extra shine to the bulb.

lightbulb card | stamp | let your intuition guide you

That’s all for me today and I hope you have a wonderful week! Cheers!

Supplies

Wow what a stunner! The lightbulb looks great embossed in gold and we love the chalky feel of the oxide ink against the black. Thank you Ericka ♡

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Don’t Judge | Mental Health Awareness

Posted on November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 by helen

Good Evening! We are here with our last inspirational post for today. Martha is here with an amazing card featuring our NEW ‘Don’t Judge’ stamps, and a brilliant tutorial video too…

The new autumn stamps release by Visible Image is just amazing and so inspiring

mental health awareness stamps | mindfulness | don't judge

I love mix and match old stamps with the new one, and so I created this card with the focal point from the ‘Don’t Judge’ stamp set, a man silhouette and lot of sentiment stripes from this set and from the ‘Somewhere In Time’ set, all this sentiments are in the background but also strike the man who is maybe overwhelmed inside and outside, but…ehi…don’t judge 🙂

Here the stamps and stencil used:

courage | broken | live in the now | compassion | sentiment stamps

And here is the process video

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Wow this is such a fantastic card! Brilliant combination of stamps and some very clever stamping of the words! Your background and all your extra touches are awesome! Thank you for another really inspiring project and video Martha ♡

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Flying Owl Stamp | Visible Image

Posted on October 31, 2019 by helen

Hi there! It’s release day for our NEW stamps! Our Design Team are loving them so much, so we have loads of inspiration to share over the next few days! Lisa Taggart is here on the blog this evening with an incredible project featuring our gorgeous NEW flying owl stamp called ‘Night Owl’…

Hi there, how is everyone? What have you been creating? I’ve been very fortunate to be working on the new release autumn stamps from Visible Image. My sample today uses two sets.

I’ve used the following sets:

Night Owl

Deep in the Forest

The steps:

I began with another ink spray background.

I drew round a large die cut circle and painted it with white gesso. I then added soft pastel to create the moon shading.

I darkened the moon using pencils, my Stabilo charcoal pencil, paint pen and iridescent blue ink. I also later added soft pastel as a moon glow in blue/grey.

I stamped the owl on a separate piece of stamping card and coloured it with my zig clean colour watercolour pens. I then cut this out and lightened the edges using white gel pen.

I stamped the trees using the deep in the forest stamp and the branch from the owl set.

I added the owl, raised on a foam pad. I then added stars with my white pen. Finally I added stickles glitter around the owl and the moon for extra sparkle.

Till next time…

Lisa xx

Oh my! Just look at that sky! What fabulous colours and depth… the perfect night setting for our Night Owl stamp! Thank you Lisa ♡

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Halloween Tag | Guardian Angel Stamp

Posted on October 4, 2019October 4, 2019 by helen

Hi there! We have the super talented Jane Tyrrell here on the blog today with a fantastic Halloween tag featuring our Guardian Angel, moth and skull stamps…

Well here we are in October, racing towards the final months of 2019. It is time for my Design Team make today for Visible Image, and I decided that I should make a start on my Halloween tags I make for my big and little babies!

Now this is not supposed to be at all morbid but I really enjoy walking through our parish church graveyard. I appreciate that it is where souls are buried, but I think it is also a celebration of their lives rather than a focus on their death. On a walk a few weeks back I spotted some awesome guardian angels on some of the gravestones.

The graveyard is a haven for Mother Nature and wildlife, and is a such a peaceful spot to reflect in. The light which shines in through the trees is so very peaceful and uplifting.

For my project own “Guardian angel” project I decided that I would use my Guardian Angel stamp

together with some stamps in the Glimmer of Light set

This is what I got up to…

I stamped the angel onto a piece of black card altered with distress oxide and cut it out.

I stamped and embossed some of the moths on acetate, cut them out and added gold Glamour dust to the underside of the wings.

I sprayed a mix of pewter distress spray and yellow brushos and pixie powders onto watercolour card and die cut a tag.

I stamped some bulbs, colouring one of the filaments in red and also stamped and cut out half of the sentiment.

I added a mixed media gothic die cut to the tag, rubbing on some metallic gilding wax for some detailing.

I also added a spider’s web for effect and distressed the edges.

Then it was time to put my design together and add a black card border just to focus the detail. I also used one of the small skulls from the Mr Bone Jangles set which I stamped onto a book page and cut out.

Here is my finished tag..

With some close ups of the details..

And one last shot..

Thanks so much for stopping by today and taking a walk with me through my local very positive, inspiring graveyard. In all situations, as the sentiment states, “there is always a glimmer of light”.

Back soon.

Bye for now,

Jane x

What an awesome tag Jane! These stamps all work so well together, and it’s great to see the inspiration behind your project. Thank you ♡

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Mixed Media Christmas Card | Visible Image

Posted on September 13, 2019 by helen

Hi! We have Heather here on the blog this morning with a gorgeous mixed media Christmas card featuring stamps from our awesome ‘Christmas Chaos’ stamp set…

Hello everyone,

I’m here today sharing a Christmas make for Visible Image. I’ve used the fabulous Christmas Chaos and the Christmas Backgrounds sets which are just brilliant especially if you like grungy makes like I do!

mixed media Christmas card

I kept the background for this card nice and simple, using Distress Oxide’s to create a traditional coloured background to which I added Paperartsy’s Infusions to give a little more depth and then spritzed with some shimmer spray for some glitz.

For the Tree, I coloured some card using Distress Oxide’s again and then heat embossed the beautiful Christmas text using Wow’s Metallic Gold powder to give a rich, warm colour. Over this I stamped the tree outline from the Christmas Chaos set and fussy cut it out.

I’ve heat embossed the star image three times onto gold card and trimmed two and then trimmed just the star.

After adding foam dots to one of the images and to the trimmed star (so I can layer it up over the top of the tree) I’ve popped this to one side to add some dyed cheesecloth.

The cheesecloth was dyed using Distress Spray Stain and I used the Candied Apple red to match the background of the card. I didn’t want it to stand out too much, just provide a hint of texture under the tree.

The cheesecloth has been glued into place and then the tree added over the top with foam dots behind it. I added two dots stacked together in the middle of the tree and just one on the outer edges as I wanted a curved look rather than just a flat finish.

For the sentiment, I ripped two sections of vellum and stamped on the top one before stapling it in place and winding round some twine. This was them matted onto gold card (same card as I stamped the stars onto) and adhered to a card blank.

Fairly simple card for me and it’s a traditional card with a modern edge, if you get me.

Here are the gorgeous Visible Image stamps I’ve used for this make…

Don’t forget you can get all the latest Visible Image news, and inspiration from the Design Team by joining our Facebook group! Some lovely (and might I add super talented ladies) guest designers have joined us on the permanent DT and are making some amazing projects so keep an eye out for them!

That’s all from me today but I’ll be back soon!

H xx

This is such an awesome Christmas card Heather! Our tree looks so striking against your red background, and we love how you’ve embossed the Christmas Words background onto it, and the fabulous cheesecloth texture behind it. Stunning! Thank you ♡

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Altered Book Cover | Learn To Fly Again

Posted on September 10, 2019September 10, 2019 by helen

Good Morning! We have giogiocraft here on the blog today with an inspiring project featuring stamps from one of our older (but still fabulous) sets, which has the beautiful sentiment ‘take your broken wings and learn to fly again’…

altered book cover | rubber stamps

I have a big news: I am happy to announce I am part of the Visible Image Design Team, their stamps and stencils are so inspiring! And today I use a couple of them to embellish a book cover (I altered dozens of them until now, I confess)

I inked for the first time the set Learn To Fly Again, so meaningful

And I had some fun making a couple of pendant out of acetate and wire

handmade pendants | rubber stamps | feather

The focal point with the sentiment:

Tutorial:

I stamped on cardstock the sentiment and cut it out. Then I sponged through Strobes stencil with yellow Distress Oxide.

I glued the cardstock to a piece of wire and filled with Glossy Accents.

In the meantime I glued a book page to the book cover and then I sponged it with Distress Oxide through Distorted Chess and Time Tunnel stencils.

I stamped more details from the Learn To Fly Again set. I glued the focal point and I attached the handmade embellishments to the spine.

rubber stamping | inspiration | visible image

Products used:

Gio this is awesome! We love your handmade pendants, and what a great idea to create your embellishment with wire and glossy accents! Thank you for the wonderful inspiration ♡

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Have a good day!

See you later.

Mark & Helen xx

Memories Tell Our Story | Guardian Angel Stamp

Posted on September 6, 2019September 6, 2019 by helen

Hello! We have Stempelfrida here on the blog today with a gorgeous card featuring our Guardian Angel stamp with our beautiful ‘Special Memories’ sentiment…

It is with great pleasure to show you this card today. Because, …..after my 3-month guest design time at Visible Image I was invited to join the main design team, hooray!!!!!!! From today on I will have a “Visible Wednesday” every other Wednesday for you, so to speak 🙂

special memories sentiment stamp - guardian angel

I made the background for my card with the Gelli Plate and the Fibres stencil from Visible Image. In the middle it looks like there is no colour, but this is a trick: I used white acrylic paint there. It creates, for example, space for the text that I stamped with Versamark on it and embossed in black.

I stamped the angel from the set guardian angel with Memento and coloured it with Copics. Then I cut it out by hand. I did the same with the leaves. The drops on the leaves are Glossy Accents. On my background I added a few drops with Nuvo Drops. Some of them are translucent. At the edges I have torn off my background. The white dots on the card base are made with a marker.

Visible Image Supplies

Other Supplies

stamp pads: Memento tuxedo black, Versamark
embossing powder: Print Art detail black
Copics E00, E31, E55, E87, V01, V06, V09, BG10, BG23, BG15, BG49
Polychromos 101, 103, 132, 119, 133, 249, 180, 154, 156, 153, 155, 149
Signomarker white
Nuvo Jewel Drops: key lime
Nuvo Crystal Drops Gloss: blue babe
Glossy Accents

guardian angel stamp - special memories sentiment

Stempelfrida this is stunning! Your background looks amazing, we love how your gelli print came out! This sentiment is beautiful with our Guardian Angel stamp ♡ Thank you!

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Fragile Summer | Butterfly Stamp | Visible Image

Posted on September 3, 2019September 3, 2019 by helen

Hello! Jane Tyrrell is here to inspire you today with a stunning card she created for a feature in Craft Stamper magazine. Jane’s card features stamps from our ‘How Fragile’ and ‘Wings of Change’ stamp sets which work so well together…

Good Evening

I thought that today it would be good to share a card I made for the Craft Stamper magazine July edition, when summer was still in full swing. It still feels like summer in my garden and my buddleia is still blooming beautifully. I even spotted this gorgeous butterfly at the weekend, which I quickly snapped with my camera.

I was asked by Visible Image to design a summer card for the magazine and I chose to use the Wings of Change stamp set. Such a fab butterfly set! I called my card “fragile summer” in honour of how fragile the life of a butterfly is.

These are some of the colours I associate with summer and I chose for them for my palette.

I added some drips of water to my background and then added some background stamping using the Organics set to make some branches.

I stamped using green versamark clair ink.

I stamped some more butterflies and coloured them with the same distress oxide colours. I then added a wink of Stella for sparkle and then Crackle Accents to give some more fragility.

I wanted the butterflies to emerge from my card so I stamped and gold embossed the cracked glass from the “How Fragile” stamp set

cracked glass - stamp - how fragile we are

and cut an opening for a butterfly to emerge from

I also used some beading wire to fashion a set of antennae

and stamped, highlighted and distressed the words.

Here is my finished card..

summer card - butterfly stamp - how fragile we are

and some close ups..

and one last shot…

Thanks for stopping by today.

Back soon.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Jane this is absolutely gorgeous! We love your design of the butterfly coming out through the cracked glass, and such fabulous summer colours too. Thank you ♡

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