Christmas stamps Archives

Christmas Stamps | Scribbled Star

Posted on September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 by helen

Hi there! Gosh it has been such a crazy time here, but we are finally catching up with ourselves and we are back to continue sharing some of the incredible samples made with our NEW Christmas stamps and stencils! Up next is Jane Tyrrell with a stunning card featuring our ‘Scribbled Star’ stamp with our fabulous NEW ‘Christmas Eve’ stencil…

Good morning

Today I am delighted to be blogging my first sample using the new Visible Image Christmas stamps and stencils. You can check out all the fabulous newbies here. This is a perfect range to compliment their existing Christmas stamps, and they are so affordable at just £5.99 each!

For my first make I decided to make a mixed media card.

This is what I got up to;

I made an inky background by pressing these distress inks onto my craft mat, adding some spritzes of water and then dipping in my card, drying between layers.

I applied crackle texture paste through the stencil and left to dry. You will see the crackle in the final photos, the photo below is when it is wet. When the crackle was dry I painted it with gold metallic paint which again you can see in the final photos.

I stamped the star onto gold card in black Versafine and clear embossed. I then cut out the centre of the star stamp.

I stamped and embossed the star a second time onto the inky background below the stenciled sentiment and then stuck on the cut out gold star using foam tape to raise it slightly. Using gold ink I repeat stamped the tiny starts from the O Christmas tree set.

I then matted it up using blue and black card onto a 7″ square white card blank. Here is my finished card;

with some close ups..

and one final shot..

Products used

Scribbled Star

grungy star stamp | scribbled | christmas

the sentiment from the Christmas Eve stencil

and the tiny stars from O Christmas Tree stamp set

These gorgeous new Christmas stamps and stencils lend themselves to any card making style from mixed media to clean and simple.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Wow what a stunner! The sentiment looks amazing, especially against your distress background. Wonderful design! Thank you Jane ♡

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

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Stay safe and well.

Helen & Mark xx

Christmas Stamps | Inked Holly

Posted on September 11, 2020September 11, 2020 by helen

Hello! Wow where has the time gone since we last blogged! We have lots of catching up to do… we are releasing some amazing new Christmas stamps and stencils which are available to pre-order now and they are already incredibly popular (thank you!). Our Design Team are having a lot of fun creating samples and we are excited to start sharing them here on the blog. We are starting with an awesome mixed media card by Heather Mitchell featuring our Inked Holly stamp and more…

Hey everyone…

How is everyone? Hope you’re all good.

Hands up who’s seen the new Christmas stamps and stencils for Visible Image yet?! Oh my… aren’t they fabulous?! I love the grungy mixed media sets (endless possibilities) and the stencils give you those two classy ‘Christmas’ titles as well as that cute bauble!

I have been beavering away behind the scenes creating some samples for Helen and Mark and this was one of my first…

holly stamp | grungy | mixed media | Christmas stamps

I adore the Inked Holly stamp. I’ve always loved a good holly and ivy stamp but the take Mark has put on this is fabulous! So, I began by making my typical inky, drippy background using Distress Oxide Sprays (Chipped Sapphire, Faded Jeans, Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass) and after leaving to dry, I added the white heat embossed segments of the stamp around the edges.

I then had a brainwave to use one of the music stamps, Music Speaks, to add the music as I was humming ‘The Holly and the Ivy’ whilst making this! (You are too now, right?!) For the music I used Versafine Clair’s Morning Mist ink pad and wiped any excess off the white heat embossed image.

To add some texture to the background, I used the Mesh It Up stencil. I have a few little Liquid Pearl bottles that I rarely use and thought they would look fabulous through the stencil. Having squished a good lot of the Platinum Pearl out onto my glass mat, I added the medium using a palette knife and left to air dry.

The central focal point of the layered stamp was super easy to make. After die-cutting a circle in watercolour card, I added Distress Spray Stains (not Oxides!) to create a watery effect. I used the same colours as before but obviously you get slightly different colours because they’re not oxides. Once completely dry, I heat embossed the stamp using WOW!’s Metallic Platinum powder and then three times more onto a separate sheet of watercolour card.

The leaves and berries are coloured using my Arteza watercolour brush pens and I’ve then given all three a spritz of Tattered Angels ‘Pretty Pink’ Glimmer Mist. Once dry, I’ve fussy cut each one out of the main stamp and layered the holly leaves at a slight angle to each other using foam tape adding Ranger’s Glossy Accents to the top berries. Then I added some red cheesecloth behind the die-cut to break up the background.

Before adding to the card, I drew around the edge of the die-cut (and the background) using the WOW! Freestyle Tool added the same platinum powder.

This stamp is perfect for creating mixed media Christmas cards and tags but you could simply stamp it in one colour and colour it for bright and gorgeous Christmas tags or cards. So versatile!

Products Used

All the Christmas stamps and stencils are available to pre-order now and are released on Friday 18th September… so plenty of time for all that Christmas crafting!

The design team have been busy making samples to share some inspiration for each of the stamp sets and stencils so keep checking the Visible Image Facebook group for lots of ideas!

Catch you again soon for another Visible Image make… H xx

This is such an amazing card Heather, we are loving all the gorgeous texture! Thank you ♡

You will find more inspiring projects from Heather over on her blog.

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We will be sharing more fantastic inspiration from our amazing team over the weekend! It’s a great time to get distracted and get cracking on those Christmas cards and projects, so we hope to inspire you!

Stay safe.

Helen & Mark xx

Merry Christmas!

Posted on December 24, 2019December 24, 2019 by helen

Hello and Happy Christmas Eve to you!

We would just like to take a moment to thank you for your fantastic custom in 2019.

It’s been a challenging year for us, with 2 house and office moves and some health issues, so we are looking forward to some much needed time off over the holidays, spent with our gorgeous family.

If you would like to place an order during the holidays we have a 25% OFF coupon code for you.. just enter: CHRISTMAS25 at the checkout!

All orders will be shipped on Monday January 6th when we re-open.

The lucky winners of our recent giveaway were:
Karen from Australia
Stephanie from Canada
Kim from the USA
who all won their entire Black Friday orders
Congrats again ladies!

We have another competition running over in our Facebook group over the holidays.. simply upload a photo of your favourite card or project that you have created with our stamps in 2019 and you could be chosen as a lucky winner! You will find the competition album in the photos section.

We have many exciting plans for 2020.. including lots of fantastic new releases, more YouTube videos, weekly Facebook LIVEs with demos from Mark, and… we will be back on your TV screens too!

To get you feeling even more festive, here are some of the beautiful Christmas cards and projects our amazing Design Team have made this year…

We are so lucky to be working with these incredibly talented ladies, and want to thank them all so much for their support and truly wonderful inspiration.

We’ll sign off for 2019 by wishing you and your family a fabulous Christmas and a very happy and healthy New Year!

Mark & Helen xx

Christmas Sprite | Face Stamp

Posted on November 18, 2019November 18, 2019 by helen

Hello and Happy Monday to you! We hope you had a lovely weekend.. don’t they go fast!!! We are kicking off another week of gorgeous inspiration with Jane Tyrrell, featuring our beautiful soul face stamp on a Christmas card…

Good Afternoon,

It is getting much colder now and we really are speeding towards Christmas…just 44 days to go..ho ho ho!

The shops are selling their 2019 festive baubles. I spotted these the other day…so festive and wintry.

I was inspired by the wintry baubles to make something festive to show how incredible versatile the Beautiful Soul girl is

When I first saw this set my first thoughts were to make her into a Christmas sprite. I’m sorry the photo below has shadow but it is getting darker in my garden studio now. It will soon be time for me to retreat indoors again to craft. I blended wilted violet, mermaid lagoon and pumice stone distress oxides across a piece of watercolour card. I then stamped the medium snowflake from Snow is Falling in white ink (this Christmas set has sold out on the website but you may well find it at your local stockist or craft shows) .

Once dry I stamped the girl using Versafine ink.

I stamped and white embossed the swirl and snowflakes from the Snowman Jack set

and a festive sentiment from Sentimental Christmas

I then stamped and white embossed some more small snowflakes in her hair.

Here is my finished sprite..

And a couple of close ups.. I added some blue pen as icy lipstick….brr she looks very chilly doesn’t she!

And one last shot..

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Back soon.

Bye for now,

Jane x

We adore your Christmas Sprite Jane! We love alternative Christmas cards, what a fabulous idea to use her in this way. Thank you ♡

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

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We will be back a little later with an awesome project from Lisa Taggart!

Thanks for visiting our blog today.. hope to see you here again soon.

Helen & Mark xx

Santa Claus Card | Visible Image Stamps

Posted on November 11, 2019 by helen

Hello there! We have Nadine Carlier here on the blog today with a brilliant and fun card featuring our Santa Claus stamp set…

Can you believe Christmas is less than two months away? It will be here before we know it! I have put away all my Halloween card making supplies and have pulled out all my Christmas card making supplies. I have made a few Christmas cards already, but I need to get a lot more done. So get ready for a lot of Christmas card inspiration from me in the next few months.

The Santa Claus Stamp Set by Visible Image is such a fun stamp set. Instead of using the entire Santa image, I just stamped his legs with some VersaFine Clair in Nocturne and colored them in with Copic Markers. For the chimney, I stamped it two times using VersaFine Clair in Acorn but reversed the stamp, so the chimney was stacked up to be taller. Then I fussy cut out both of the images.

I used a Fantastix with some VersaFine Clair in Acorn to color in the white areas of the chimney. Then, I adhered Santas legs to the chimney.

Next, using the Visible Image Cosmic Skies Stencil I used VersaMark and pressed it over the stencil onto a white piece of cardstock.

Then sprinkled some Mboss Embossing Powder in white over it and heat set with my heat tool.

To color the background of the piece I just embossed, I sprayed some Fireworks! Spray in Paris Dusk and Fireworks! Spray in London Fog onto my craft mat and placed my embossed cardstock piece with the embossed side down straight into the liquid. Pressing it down to make sure that the spray fully covers the white cardstock and then carefully lift it up. Wipe the spray from the embossed areas and set aside to dry.

I stamped the Santa Claus sentiment using VersaFine Clair in Nocturne and used a Fantastix with VersaFine Clair in Glamorous to color it in. Once my card front piece was fully dry, I adhere it to my card front and attached the sentiment, Santa legs, and chimney to the front with some 3D Foam Squares.

Then, I used some DecoArt Snow-Tex around the bottom and top of the chimney, and on the Santas pant bottoms, I used some Radiant Neon Amplify in White.

For my final step, I decided to add some irRESISTible Pico Embellisher in clear to Santas boots and to the sentiment.

I then let everything dry, and my card was complete.

This is such a clever and fun Christmas card! The snow looks fabulous and we love the gloss on the boots and sentiment! Thank you Nadine ♡

You can find more of Nadine’s gorgeous cards over on her blog.

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Joy | Snow | Noel | Christmas Card

Posted on October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 by helen

Good Evening, we are back, as promised, with some gorgeous Christmas card inspiration from Sharon Traynor featuring our Christmas Words Background stamp…

Hi!

I just couldn’t resist playing with some of the Christmas stamps and making a non-traditional coloured, sparkly holiday card.

As always, this is super-simple to make and only uses a few supplies too.

First, cut a panel of water colour paper, sprinkle on some brushos and spritz with water to move the colours around. Let it dry completely (ideally leave it overnight). In the photo below I made 2 backgrounds, one where I wet the water colour paper first (on the left – that one was used on a different card) and the other made with a dry background and spritzed after adding the brusos (on the right) that I used on this card.

Once it is completely dry, heat emboss the main ‘image’ i.e. the sentiment panel with a sparkly silver embossing powder. Next rub some clear versamark ink around the outside edges of the panel, sprinkle on the same embossing powder, but before heat embossing, rough up the internal edges with your finger for a more natural distressed look.

Stamp and heat emboss the holly leaf from the ‘Sentimental Christmas’ set, and fussy cut it out. Attach the water colour panel to a card blank and then add the holly leaf to the bottom right of the sentiments, making sure to curl the holly leaves.

On the inside of the card stamp the sentiment and stamp the holly leaf too, to tie it in with the front of the card.

This would be so easy to batch make too. I love that from a batch of brusho backgrounds, none of the cards would look identical, and if you changed the embossing powder too that would add even more variety.

Stamps Used:

Other Supplies:

Watercolour card, Brushos (purple and emerald green), Versamark clear ink pad, Heat It Up! silver tinsel embossing powder white card.

Well, I hope you liked this card. It was fab to see you here today, and I do hope you’ll come back for a visit soon.

Hugs,
Sharon xx

Sharon this is so beautiful, the silver embossing looks wonderful against the vibrant colours! The inside of your card is gorgeous too.. Thank you ♡

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

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We will be back later this evening with brand new inspiration from Mark, using brand new stamps and a brand new video too!

Mark & Helen xx

Searching The Skies | Christmas Card

Posted on October 11, 2019October 11, 2019 by helen

Hello! We have our wonderful designer Lynda Hall here on the blog today with a stunning Christmas card featuring some of our Christmas Eve stamps…

Love it or hate it, there’s no denying the fact that Christmas is on the horizon now. The shops are beginning to sneak their festive goodies on the shelves, and us crafters are beginning to get organised for the season, and that includes me. I have been busy using the stunning Christmas stamps from Visible Image to create some cards.

I don’t know about you, but even though my kids are grown up and no longer believers, I still believe in the magic of Santa and find myself staring to the skies wishing for a glimpse of the big man’s sleigh. So today’s project was created with that in mind.

I began with a piece of cardstock with a blue wash over it.

I used a mask and gesso to create a moon and stamped the trees from the Christmas Eve set in Versafine Clair ink to create my scene, using 2nd and 3rd generation stamping to build depth.

I stamped and highlighted the sleigh, and created a snowy effect using the elements stamps from the set and a splatter or two of white paint. The sentiment is from the Sentimental Christmas set.

Stamps Used:

If you love working with Visible Image stamps do come and share your makes over on the Facebook Group. We’d love to see them.

Lynda
x

This is such a gorgeous card Lynda, we love the texture across the moon and you have created wonderful depth with the trees! Thank you ♡

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We will be back soon with a beautiful card from Ericka.

Thanks for taking time to visit our blog today!

Helen & Mark xx

Christmas Eve Stamps | Visible Image

Posted on October 3, 2019October 3, 2019 by helen

Hello! We have some beautiful Christmas inspiration for you today, courtesy of the incredibly talented Lisa Taggart, featuring our Christmas Eve stamps…

Hello my creative friends. It’s my day at Visible Image stamps today and I’ve decided to share the first of my Christmas samples using the latest fabulous New release Christmas stamps …Visible Image really have got Christmas covered this year!

Here are the sets that I’ve used:

Christmas Eve

Sentimental Christmas

Here are the steps

I’ve mixed ink sprays; ink pads and gesso along with my usual highlighting tricks!

First an ink spray print.

Then some drawing and masking followed by some gesso painting.

I used ink pads and makeup brushes to paint in the shadow details of a moon and foreground.

Then the stamping, remembering that images further away are paler in shade and colour. Strokes of distress oxide across the trees create the illusion of mist. The sentiment was also added.

The small details were stamped and then coloured in white and yellow. Glitter glue touched here and there. The edges were also darkened.

You will find plenty more inspiration from the rest of the team and our group members in the Visible Image Facebook group. Check it out for inspiration and support!

Till next time..

Lisa xx

Woweeee this is absolutely stunning Lisa! You have really captured the magic of Christmas Eve with your wonderful depth, shading and highlights! The mist across the trees is amazing too! Thank you ♡

You will find more of Lisa’s inspiring projects over on her blog.

Hope | Art Journal Page

Posted on October 1, 2019 by helen

Good Evening, we have our wonderful Veerle here on the blog to inspire you today with a gorgeous watercolour art journal page featuring our ‘Hope’ sentiment stamp…

art journal page - butterfly stamp - hope - sentiment

Now who says Christmas stamps can only be used on Christmas projects? I loved this set the moment it was released and I still do. And you want to know why? Well, maybe you can guess… Yes indeed… those words ^.^ And today I’m using one of them on an art journal page, showing you that Santa doesn’t need to be flying by in his slay to go ahead and use them ^.^ I took out some watercolors ( duh) some pastes and my art journal and even a second set of beautiful Visible Image stamps…

Enjoy the video!

So… tell me, what page would be in your art journal?

Thank you Veerle, this is a wonderful art journal page! We love your contrasting circles, and fabulous texture… we could watch you create with water colour all day long ♡

We love the black butterfly edged in silver…

You’ll find so many inspiring projects and videos over on Veerle’s blog.

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We will be back tomorrow with gorgeous Christmas inspiration from Lisa, and some Halloween crafting from Jane!

Have you got your hands on our stunning Christmas stamps yet?

Hope to see you back here soon!

Mark & Helen xx

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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Mark & Helen xx

NEW Christmas Stamps

Posted on August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 by helen

Hello! We are really excited to launch our NEW Christmas stamps for 2019 today! This release includes 2 fantastic character stamps: Snowman Jack and Santa Claus, an awesome mixed media set, and beautiful Christmas sentiment stamps…

christmas stamps - mixed media - grungy

christmas background words stamp

christmas sentiment stamps

sleigh - trees - houses - stamps

santa claus - stamp - father christmas

snowman stamp

We hope you love them!

Pre-order now for FREE shipping on direct orders over £20 with coupon code: CHRISTMAS

Or if you are a store owner – get in touch for wholesale details!

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Thank you so much for taking time to visit our blog today, we’ll be back soon with gorgeous inspiration from our Design Team.

Mark & Helen xx

Hello There! Thank you for visiting our blog today 🙂 You will be very glad you did as we have an overwhelming amount of stunning inspiration for you!

While we were away our team just could not stop creating with our stamps… we are just the luckiest stamp company having such an amazing team of extremely talented ladies showcasing our stamps ♥

If you have joined our Facebook group you may have already seen some of these gorgeous cards and projects… Every single day of the week our awesome team bring you new inspiration! So if you haven’t joined our group yet you will find it HERE! You can also upload your photos of what you have created with Visible Image stamps for a chance to WIN a £25 coupon in our ‘Show & Tell’ monthly challenge!

OK! Are you sitting comfortably? Then we shall begin!

Lisa Nygards has created 2 fabulous Christmas cards…

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - Rockin Around - Christmas Tree - Lisa Nygards 1

Guess what? I’ve played with the brand new Christmas stamps from Visible Image this weekend! Whohooo, they are totally amazing if you like to play around with colors, papers, mixed media or whatever. My passion is spray mists and watercolors, so that is what I have for you today!

The ”rockin’ around the christmas tree” card is colored with watercolors on watercolor paper. Randomly picked and brushed on wet paper. When it was dry I splattered a tiny bit of blue on top and then stamped the tree and the sentiment. Since it’s watercolor paper with a pretty rough surface you won’t get the totally black image you’ll get on smooth paper. I think it just adds texture to the piece, but if you want it perfect black – pick a smooth paper! Stamp set is called Rockin’ Around, and you’ll find it HERE!

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - Christmas Collage stamp - Lisa Nygards

Then I’ve made a pink (!) christmas card. *gasp* But isn’t it kind of cool and pretty? Once again I’ve used watercolor paper, but this time with mists in pink and grey/silver-ish. Let it dry and stamped the beautiful collage stamp ”Christmas Collage” on top. Like the other card, since it’s stamped on water color paper it adds texture to the image since the paper is a bit rough. The big snowflakes are grungeboard that I’ve painted with white gesso and added glitter to. Notice the badge in the middle of the big snowflake? It’s home made, and I’ve stamped the snowflake from the White Christmas set on a pink paper, cutted out in the right size for the badge and put it together. Think it becomes a beautiful center piece.

Now for something rather funky from Kim Robertson…

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - Grungy Lips - Bite Me - Kim Robertson

So I was playing with my stamps and I remembered the gorgeous lips in the Bite Me set so I decided to have some nice bright lips on a grey background.. electric blue lips would look so good here too but I chose to go for red and glittery!

We will be sharing Kim’s brilliant tutorial for this card over the weekend 🙂

Teresa Morgan has created us two gorgeous Autumnal cards…

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - Colours of The Wind - Tree Leaf stamp - Teresa Morgan

I have two different projects to share with you today, both using the fabulous Colours Of The Wind stamp set.

The first card uses the leaf stamp to create a beautiful background for one of the new sentiments..
I inked up the leaf stamp with several colours of Distress Inks and stamped randomly on the page before embossing with clear embossing powder. I then applied Peacock Feathers and Black Soot Distress inks over the remainder of the cardstock, wiping away any excess from the leaves (the embossing powder creates a resist). I sprinkled some water over the card to create a splodgy effect!

I coloured another piece of card with Distress inks and stamped the sentiment, then edged this and the background with gold embossing powder.

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - Colours of The Wind - Tree Leaf stamp - Teresa Morgan 1

My second card uses the leaf as the focus..
I used Brushos to create the splodgy background for the leaf, then embossed with gold embossing powder. The bottom layer is coloured with Dylusions spray inks, and I stamped and embossed the sentiment in the corners.

Pauline Butcher has brought our Chandelier Set to life with stunning colour…

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - Chandelier Set - Stamping inspiration - Pauline Butcher

This is an Anniversary card I made 3 weeks ago, using a fabulous set of stamps from Visible Image, the Chandelier Set.

I used a very old technique on this card, I won’t tell you how I did it, as I shall be using it at my next workshop, but it does make your main images pop!

Next we have a gorgeously stylish Christmas card from Susanne Rose…

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - Rockin Around - Christmas Tree - Susanne Rose

I used the brand new “Rockin’ Around” stamp set from Visible Image for this card. The tree and the sentiment are stamped with Memento Luxe ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. To bring some dimension to my card I added all of my layers with dimensional foam pads.

The tiny trees are cut with a die from Marianne Design. The red background is painted with Neocolor II watercolor crayons. I love this stamp set!!! It’s so modern and very funny!

And now for more gorgeousness from Doreen OBrien…

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - Take The Moment - Butterfly - Doreen OBrien

I am back with some inspiration using the gorgeous Visible Image stamps. I have brayered some Acrylic paints onto some tissue then over stamped with Grunge Harlequin.

Using some PVA glue I then attached this to my board before stamping on my sentiment “Take the Moment” and the “Large Butterfly”

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - White Christmas - Snowflake stamp - Doreen OBrien

Next up I have another Christmas card… I inked up the Snowflake from the “White Christmas” set and stamped all over some white card then inked around the edge using the same colour…

I then covered another piece of white card with the distress ink and white embossed the sentiment and edge.This was then attached to the backing using foam pads.

And here are 2 very different but equally fabulous cards from Karen Liddle showing just how versatile our stamps are…

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - Believe in The Magic of Christmas - Karen Liddle

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - Believe in The Magic of Christmas - Karen Liddle

I inked Distress Ink ‘Evergreen Bough’, through a Memory Box stencil for the panel, and stamped one of the new Christmas Stamps Magic of Christmas

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - Inky Horse stamp - Karen Liddle

And for my second card I’ve been playing with Brushos again……. still loving them!

The stamps used for this card is just one set – Revolution

Kim Johnny is loving creating Mail Art at the moment and our stamps are perfect for it…

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - Inky grungy stamps - Flower - Butterfly - Kim Johnny

Each postcard is just about 4 inches by 6 inches and full of mixed fun!

I used the fabulous Flower INKognito and Butterfly INKognito stamps by Visible Image.

We will be sharing Kim’s tutorial here on our blog over the weekend!

Kim Bacon has played with non traditional Christmas colours with awesome results…

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - Baby It's Cold - Snowflake - Kim Bacon

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - Baby It's Cold - Snowflake - Kim Bacon

I deliberately went colour crazy with these! I just love the hot red which contrasts with the icy cold sentiment and the white embossing powder I used.

I started as I nearly always do by colouring some card with Brusho paint powders made into a liquid paint. A little pinch of powder in a spot of water goes a long way! I painted red, orange and yellow using a broad flat brush.

When this was dry I used the snowflake stamp with a dilute bleach solution first. Once dry I over stamped with a hot pink ink just off centre to make the image look 3D. I then added more snowflakes in red all over the card.

I stamped the sentiment onto a dark red piece of the painted card with white embossing powder before matting and layering with white card.

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - Baby It's Cold - Snowflakes - Kim Bacon

The turquoise and purple card uses white embossing powder instead of bleach. I then used 2 shades of turquoise for the other snowflakes. I distressed the edges of the pieces of card by running my scissors down them and used a pin-wheel to give a faux stitched effect. I also used 2 sizes of white brads in the corners.

If you visit my blog often you will know that I am a frequent user of string! I love adding little knots to break up the long lines of string.

Sticking with non traditional colours, here are two more stunning Christmas cards from Lisa Nygards…

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - Christmas Memories verse - Lisa Nygards 1

Oh, hey, wait…. is that orange? With a touch of turquoise?
Yep! It is, and it is a christmas card!! LOL Why not? Got a crazy feeling of mixing some non traditional christmas colors and I think it become pretty nice! I’ve played with some new and some old Christmas stamps. The orange (cool huh?) card is made with brand new stamps. Snowflake is from the set called White Christmas, and the beautiful verse is called Christmas Memories.

I’ve worked on watercolor paper and just randomly dripped color from mist bottles in orange and turquoise / teal colors. Dryed and dripped again and round up with just mists of water. Continue until you like what you see… not more complicated than that.

I stamped my snowflakes and the verse and then draw a frame (line) around my square of color. Finally I added glitter glue to the snowflakes to have them sparkle.

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For the brownish card I actually used my spray mists as mists! It’s gold and some moss green blended. I dried it with my heat gun and stamped the Christmas Colllage on top. As the paper it’s a bit rough the image will be a bit ”distressed”, just keep that in mind! Finished it up with glitter tape and a button.

And Teresa Morgan shows that traditional ‘silver and white’ give super stunning results too…

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - Sparkle At Christmas - Teresa Morgan

The sun may be shining but my thoughts are turning to Christmas this week. This superb Sparkle At Christmas stamp set from Visible Image is perfect for a classically elegant card.

I stamped with Versamark ink and used Heat It Up Silver Tinsel embossing powder – I love the glittery bits….so hard to photograph though!

Pauline got funky with stamps and colour for our Mark’s Birthday last week…

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - Man Inkognito - finger print - Pauline Butcher

I’m sharing a card I made recently for Mark Alexander’s Birthday! He is the designer, creator and maker of the awesome Visible Image Stamps.

I used Man INKognito, the script from Revolution, and the finger print stamp from the brilliant Drag & Drip set.

2015-08-28 Visible Image stamps - Man Inkognito - Pauline Butcher

And using some of the Visible Image sentiment stamps, from various sets, I stamped my own message !!!!

Happy Birthday from the Captain Awesome Set,

Awesome from the Jake Skates Set,

You Rock from the Max Rocks Set,

You’re entirely Bonkers from the Mad Hatter,

and Love You to Bits from the Zombie Brian Set.

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Mark LOVED it! 🙂

WOW! So much amazing inspiration! Thank you so much ladies xxx

If you want to visit any of our fabulous Design Team blogs, you will find all the links HERE!

There’s still more to come, so we will be sharing that over the weekend along with the tutorials we promised you.

Don’t forget that you can find us at many of the Autumn craft shows here in the UK, all the details you need are HERE!

There’s still time to grab yourself an amazing deal in our 30% OFF SALE too! It ends this Sunday (August 30th).

We are sure that by now you know that our stamps are superior in the stamping world! So thick, so deeply etched, and so unique! Make your Christmas cards stand out from the crowd with our brilliant new designs… Go wild with colour! You’ll find all our gorgeous stamps right HERE!

We hope you have had a fantastic Friday and wish you a wonderful weekend 🙂

See you tomorrow with more awesome inspiration from our amazing team!

Mark & Helen xx

Snowflakes and Butterflies

A beautiful poem written by Helen

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Have a fantastic Friday and a great weekend! 🙂

Mark & Helen xx