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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.

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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.

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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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Butterfly Canvas | Rainbow Distress Inks

Posted on May 13, 2021May 13, 2021 by helen

Hi there! We are back with more fabulous new stamps inspiration today! Jane has made an incredible butterfly canvas with the gorgeous butterflies, grunge elements and sentiment stamps from our BUTTERFLY EFFECT set with a wonderful dripped rainbow of inks…

Hello, I am super excited today as I reveal my first make with one of the brand new A5 stamp sets!

For my first sample I used the gorgeous ‘Butterfly Effect’ set.

To showcase it I made a canvas and, as I could not decide which colours to use, I went for them all….a rainbow of butterflies!

This is what I got up to;

I took my distress spray stains and sprayed across an A4 sheet of watercolour paper, adding water and allowing plenty of drippage.

rainbow dripped distress ink spray stains

I then stamped around the edges with the “collage” element stamps which are really gorgeous in this set. There is a butterfly flourish (seen in the final photos) and these lovely circles.

grunge circle stamps

grunge bubble stamps

I stamped the large butterfly, coloured it with zig markers and cut it out minus the antenna.

large butterfly stamp

I stamped out 9 small butterflies and cut them out in the same way. I coloured them in a shades of 1 or 2 colours.

butterfly stamps

I also stamped the sentiments and matted them on black card, adding my signature glossy accents to the circles/bubbles. Finally I adhered it to mount board. It is A4 size and destined for my little granddaughter who adores all things butterflies and spotted this!

Here it is;

Butterfly canvas | stamps | mixed media art | rainbow inks | distress spray stains

with some close ups

and one final shot;

butterfly canvas | stamps | distress spray stains | ink drips | rainbow

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This set will be going onto my all time favourite stamps set list (yes I know this list constantly grows but this really is a real stunner of a set).

There will be lots more makes shared in the coming weeks using this fab new release so do check out the Visible Image social media. I do not blog everything I make, so if you would like to follow me on instagram you won’t miss anything! You can find me here: @jane.tyrrell

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Amazing canvas! All the stamped elements look brilliant and the butterflies look beautiful! Lots of fussy cutting but so worth it! We are loving those rainbow drips too! Thank you Jane ♡

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Where Flowers Bloom | Flower Stamps

Posted on May 12, 2021May 12, 2021 by helen

Hello! We are excited to start sharing more of the gorgeous inspiration made with our new stamps. Lynda has made a fantastic gardener’s journal using our WHERE FLOWERS BLOOM flower stamps…

Today I’m sharing my first inspiration piece with one of the brand new stamp sets, called ‘Where Flowers Bloom’. It’s a gorgeous floral stamp set with the inky, creative edge that Visible Image are known for.

I decided to create a gardeners journal, using an Eileen Hull Sizzix journal die. I used grey board from the back of used paper pads as my substrate and applied a coat of white gesso before applying layers of acrylic paint with a brayer.

I stamped the main flower first using my stamping platform, and embossed. I repeated this a couple of times until I was happy with the depth and colour of the embossing powder.

I then stamped the other flower and background stamps randomly over the rest of the cover and painted the open flowers with acrylic ink.

I wanted to add some embellishments to the spine, so I also stamped onto shrink plastic, painted then heated. I love doing this- it’s like watching magic happen before my eyes!

How cute are they?! They finish it off perfectly I think.

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large flower stamp | acrylic paint | embossing | gardeners art journal cover

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This is amazing! The texture is gorgeous and the large flower looks wonderful embossed in black against the gorgeous yellows and greens! Those shrink plastic flowers are so cute! Thank you Lynda ♡

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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.

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

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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!

Gill is on our TV SAMPLES TEAM!

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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 | Elena Shundik

Posted on April 8, 2021April 8, 2021 by helen

We are very excited to introduce NEW Design Team member…

Elena Shundik

I’m Elena. I’m in love with interesting techniques and unexpected stamp-storming.
Based in Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 and blessed to see beautiful mountains every morning through my window.
I’m crazy about Visible Image Stamps and Stencils. I’m going to share with you my inspiration vibes ))))

Elena is on our INSTAGRAM TEAM!

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Elena’s incredible mixed media projects and her love of our stamps + stencils made her a perfect choice ♡

Elena was inspired to create this wonderful canvas by her yoga class. The amazing texture was made with our COUNT ME IN stencil and acrylic paint and paste, and our MINDFUL MOMENTS stamp set created the focal image and sentiment.

Close ups of the gorgeous texture..

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Welcome to the team Elena! We are very 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 amazing inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Helen + Mark xx

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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Grungy Heart Stamp | Mixed Media

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

Hi there! We are back with more gorgeous inspiration today, spreading some LOVE! Ericka has embossed the amazing grungy heart stamp from our FOLLOW YOUR HEART set to create a stunning mixed media card…

Happy Monday! Today I’m playing with the Visible Image Follow Your Heart Stamp Set for a colourful Valentines Day Card.

I love this set and for my card paired it with a background I made previously using a brayer and paints in my stash.

I then used the Visible Image Ripples Stencil with texture paste and sprinkled WOW! Embossing powders from the Trio ‘Pick Me Up’ set.

While My background dried, I stamped the heart from the ‘Follow Your Heart’ set and heat embossed it with the Punch embossing powder from the Trio ‘Pick Me Up’.

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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This is what I got up to;

Here it is;

with some close ups

and one final shot;

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We are really excited to introduce NEW Design Team member…

Gill Sansom

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

We are very excited to introduce NEW Design Team member…

Elena Shundik

Elena is on our INSTAGRAM TEAM!

Follow Elena on instagram: @shundik.e

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