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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! ♡

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You Got This | Handmade Card

Posted on July 25, 2021July 25, 2021 by helen

Hello! We hope you are having a good weekend, and managing to take a little time out. Ali is here on the blog today with a really inspiring card for anyone going through something difficult or testing. It features 2 of our awesome stencils: SKULL SHADOW + LAVA, with the big butterfly stamp from our BUTTERFLY EFFECT set and the ‘you got this’ sentiment from LOST FOR WORDS…

This week’s blog post is all about me [lol], I’ve had a tough week and my mind is working overtime. Crafting keeps me grounded.

I’ve used a couple of Visible Image stencils on this card – Skull Shadow and Lava, the big butterfly is one I made a couple of weeks ago but didn’t use, and the fab sentiment, ‘you got this’.

You Got This | Handmade Card | Skull Stencil | Butterfly Stamp

Tutorial

Cut a piece of heavy white cardstock (300gm) to 6 7/8″ by 6 7/8″ (17.5 cm x 17.5cm).

Draw through the skull stencil onto copier paper using a pencil and cut out around the edge to make a paper mask.

Spray the back with stencil spray or a little low tack tape folded over itself and put to one side.

skull stencil

Position the Skull Shadow stencil on the left of the card and tape down.

Tip a little black gesso into an old tin and stipple over the middle of the skull and just around the edge with an almost dry brush.

Tap off the excess paint onto your craft mat.

Remove the stencil and draw in the edges of the teeth and the top of the skull with a pencil.

Put your stencil into water with a little dish soap to soak.

Use a bit of kitchen sponge to cover the card with black gesso, use a fine paint brush to do around the teeth and the top of the skull.

Use a heat gun to dry your card then cover the skull with the paper mask you made earlier.

Position the Lava stencil over the top right of the card and tape in place with a little low tack tape.

Apply some holographic or glitter paste using a spatula, avoid going up to the edges of the stencil and having any straight lines.

Gently remove the stencil and position over the bottom left and apply more paste. Then stencil over the gaps. It doesn’t matter if the blobs merge as it will blend in with the design.

You could leave your card to dry between stencilling but don’t allow the paste to dry on your stencil. Better to risk a bit of smudging – it all adds texture 😀.

Gently peel off the paper mask, I found using a pokey tool on the edges helped get it up.

Leave your card to dry – this may take a few hours. You could speed things up with a heat gun but be gentle as the extreme heat may make the paste bubble and crack.

Stamp the large butterfly from the Visible Image Butterfly Effect set onto white card using black versafine ink then heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

Tip some shimmer shaker pigment onto your craft mat and add a drop of water to make liquid paint. I used Bright Sunshine, Tangy Tangerine and Raspberry Rose Shimmer Shakers from Cosmic Shimmer.

Have fun colouring your butterfly with these bright shimmery paints.

Cut out your butterfly leaving a little white border and then cover with Star Dust stickles.

Stamp the “You Got This” sentiment with black versafine ink onto white card, and clear heat emboss as before.

Cut out and fix it to black card matt with a 1/8″ border.

When your skull card is dry, use the Cosmic Shimmer iridescent blue and green watercolours on the skull – leave the teeth white – I painted them orange and had to repaint them white later on.

You could paint just one of the teeth gold, like a pirate 😎

Matt and layer your painted card onto white card with a 1/16″ border, onto black card with a 3/16″ border and then onto an 8″ x 8″ white card blank.

Mould your dry butterfly between your fingers to lift the wings and fix to the skull using 3d glue gel.

Fix your sentiment to the bottom right of your card using 3d glue gel or foam tape.

I added some white dots to the wings and some doodling around the sentiment with an orange pen to finish it.

You could use glossy accents on your skull’s white teeth to finish them off too.

Here is my completed piece.

Supplies

Visible Image Stamps – Butterfly Effect & Lost For Words
Visible Image Stencils – Skull Shadow & Lava
Cosmic Shimmer Shimmer Shakers – Bright Sunshine, Tangy Tangerine, Raspberry Rose
Cosmic Shimmer Iridescent Watercolour palette – Carnival
Black Gesso
Holographic gel medium (That’s Crafty) or glittery gel (Cosmic Shimmer)
Black Versafine ink pad
Clear embossing powder
Paint brush, stencil brush, spatula
kitchen sponge, little tin tray
heat gun
White heavy card (300gsm) and black & white card for matting and layering
Copier paper for masking
Low tack tape, stencil spray
white and orange gel pens
7″ x 7″ white card blank for second card
pva, 3d glue gel and foam pads

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

Ali xxx

Amazing card!!! Loving the combination of stamps and stencils used, and the contrast of the holographic glitter against the black.

Thank you for your fantastic tutorial Ali… YOU GOT THIS! ♡ ♡ ♡

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Have a lovely Sunday.

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Tree of Life | Handmade Cards

Posted on June 26, 2021June 25, 2021 by helen

Hello and Happy Saturday to you! Ali is here on the blog today with 2 gorgeous cards made with our TREE OF LIFE stamp with sentiments from our GO TO WORDS set…

This year is passing so fast, nearly half way through 2021! This week I’m covering a clean and simple, one layer card using the fabulous ‘Tree of Life’ stamp set from Visible Image.

Tree of Life | Handmade Card | Thank You Sentiment | Stamps

Cut a piece of watercolour card 10″ by 5″, score and fold to make a 5″x5″ white card blank.

Use masking tape to cover the front of the card leaving app 3″ x 2 1/2″ rectangle.

Press the tape down around the centre to make it water resistant.

Wet your the open part of your card using water and a large brush.

Start applying your watercolours, avoid mixing any colours that would make brown or green.

Start with the yellows, oranges, golds, allow to dry, then pink and purple and finally a bit of blue.

Carefully remove the masking tape, gently peel it back on itself to avoid tearing the card.

Dry the card thoroughly using a heat gun.

Remove any tape glue from your card with an adhesive eraser, then pat an anti static pad over your card.

Stamp the tree with black versafine ink over the bottom corner of your panel. If you are using a stamping platform, restamp to get a solid black impression.

Heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

Return your card to the stamping platform and restamp your tree then clear heat emboss again, this will make your tree very raised and glossy.

Colour in the leaves on the tree with a gold glitter gel pen.

Pick a sentiment from the Visible Image ‘Go to Words’ set, stamp in black versafine at the bottom right hand side of your card and clear heat emboss as before.

Allow the card to cool for a few moments then wipe off any residual anti static powder with a soft cloth/paper towel.

Finally add a couple of black adhesive gems to the top right hand side.

I repeated this process with White Night watercolours, mounted it onto black card with a 1/8″ border then attached it to a white 6″x6″ card blank for a different look.

Tree of Life | Handmade Card | Happy Birthday Sentiment | Stamps

Supplies

Visible Image Stamps – Tree of Life & Go To Words

Arteza metallic watercolours, White Nights Watercolours

Masking Tape for watercolours – Scotch or Sheena’s

Stamping Platform

Anti Static pad

Black Versafine ink pad

Clear embossing powders

Paint brushes

Gold sparkle gel pen

heat gun

Watercolour card and black card for matting and layering

6″ x 6″ white card blank for second card

pva

black adhesive gems

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

Ali xxx

Gorgeous cards! Our tree of life stamp looks wonderful double embossed with the gold leaves, and your backgrounds are beautiful. Thank you for your fantastic tutorial Ali ♡

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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.

Supplies

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

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Design Team Intro | Merja Sivonen

Posted on April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 by helen

We are really excited to introduce NEW Design Team member…

Merja Sivonen

I’m Merja (or MeSi on my blog) and I live in Finland. I’ve been crafting more or less all my life but been more active since the start of 2020 (not because of covid, it was just the right time to change my life and do more things that I love). Mostly I do cards and my style is pretty simple. I love strong and bright colours but there’s a little goth living inside me as well. Crafting takes me to some fantasy world and you never know what you will find there…

Merja is on our INSTA TEAM!

Follow Merja: @craftingbymesi

Merja’s stunning colouring and beautiful clean + simple cards really caught our attention ♡

Merja created her amazing background with our STROBES stencil and various embossing powders to create wonderful texture and shine. The sentiment is from our BRIGHTEN THE WORLD stamp set, which was embossed in white onto black card and added to the centre of the card as the focal image.

close ups of the gorgeous texture

check out the sparkle!

Supplies

Welcome to the team Merja! We are very excited to work with you!

We will be back here soon with more awesome inspiration.

Helen + Mark xx

Punk Stamp | Sometimes Life Just Sucks

Posted on March 5, 2021March 9, 2021 by helen

Hello and Happy Friday to you! Lynda has made this awesome card with punk stamp from our new REFUSE NORMAL stamp set with our new ‘sometimes life just sucks’ sentiment.

The new Visible Image release, as always, is absolutely fabulous and very unique. I think this stamp set, Refuse Normal, that I am showcasing today is my favourite. The punk stamp is so much fun and reminds me of the era I grew up in. I was too young to be influenced by the punk scene myself , but my older sister most definitely wasn’t and this image really reminds me of her back then!

punk stamp | handmade card | sometime life just sucks | sentiment

I wanted to reflect the current challenging times with this card, and make something fun that could be sent to a friend as a cheer up gift. The hair on this stunning girl just screamed ‘rainbow’ at me of course! I coloured her in with Copic markers, and fussy cut before making my background.

Distress Oxides on black card look really striking through a stencil, and the Ripped Fishnet was the perfect one to use for this. I simply laid the stencil down and spritzed lightly, lifted carefully and heat dried. I did this twice as I knew I would need an extra strip to create my lollipop holder.

ripped fishnet stencil

I then stamped and heat embossed the new Grunge Tones stamps over the top. I measured my lollipop stick, and cut a strip of card a little longer, scored twice at each end to create a pop up stand and pierced holes in it, and using a craft knife I cut slits in the base card, popped each end through and adhered to the back with tape.

grunge background stamps

To add even more layering and colour I splattered acrylic ink in bright tones over the top before mat and layering it onto a card and placing my lolly licking punk on.

handmade card with lolly

The ‘sometimes life just sucks’ sentiment is also from a new set, called Lost For Words.

To finish I added some bright plastic dots to compliment that rainbow hair.

Supplies

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Wow how awesome does our punk stamp look with that incredible rainbow mohican?! We are loving the way you interpreted the ‘sometimes life just sucks’ sentiment with the lolly pop holder.. this card would make anyone smile! Awesome background too, ripped fishnet was the perfect choice of stencil! Thank you Lynda ♡

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NEW STAMPS RELEASE | VISIBLE IMAGE

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

Hello! We have NEW Stamps at Visible Image! We are so excited to launch our first release of 2021 (a little later than planned but worth the wait we think!). This release includes 6 exciting A6 stamp sets which are bound to get your creative juices flowing! Whether you love card making, art journaling or mixed media, we know you’ll love creating with these new designs!

Fearless Tiger

Create dramatic artwork and inspiring cards with our awesome inky tiger stamp and inspiring words.

Nothing to Wear

You can create so many different cards with this really cool t-shirt stamp set! Mix and match the words and images to personalise a look for the recipient!

T-Shirt stamp | personalise | Rubber | Clear | Card Making

Lost in Music

Do you love to lose yourself in the music? Our gorgeous girl in headphones stamp makes a wonderful focal image for your handmade cards. Create fabulous backgrounds with the extra elements

Refuse Normal

Our awesome punk is so much fun to colour and create with! Express yourself with graffiti style backgrounds and plenty of attitude!

Grunge Tones

A must have stamp set which will be permanently on your craft desk, for adding interest and texture to your backgrounds and gelli prints!

Lost For Words

Must have sentiment stamps for your crafty stash! The bold fonts and statement sentiments will be so useful for your handmade cards.

We hope you love our new stamps! Which one is your favourite?

These stamps are available to pre-order now!

All pre-orders will be dispatched prior to release date: March 19th

We are excited to start sharing the gorgeous samples our amazing Design Team have been making to inspire you, so keep your eyes on our blog and socials over the coming days and weeks!

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Spreading Some Love and Kindness

Posted on February 2, 2021February 2, 2021 by helen

Hello there! Thanks for coming to check out today’s inspiration, we hope you are doing ok. Heather is here on the blog today, spreading some love and kindness with a gorgeous mixed media card featuring our ONE KIND WORD stamp set…

One Kind Word. Says it all at the moment doesn’t it? Thankfully I have my art to turn to during these lockdowns, and wow what a saviour it has been.

It seemed appropriate to make something a little more light hearted than maybe I’ve been feeling lately, and I have to admit I love the One Kind Word set. You can sneak quite a lot on that little piece of paper trapped in the typewriter, although this time I’ve gone for just one of the sentiments in the set.

I’ve gone with a pink theme for this make, although I was originally toying with the idea of a blue/turquoise mix, but I had this old gelli plate background in my drawer (that I’ve been saving for ages and didn’t want to use) and picked the pink to go with it. The print is a mop up print (a print you do to ‘clean’ your plate of paint/ink) and I love the mop-ups usually more than the prints themselves. You get these crusty bits of old paint picked up and I just adore the texture it creates. Perfect!

First thing I did was to create the heart. This is just a generic die-cut heart, approx 10cm across that I inked using Spun Sugar and Worn Lipstick. Having then attached the Strobes stencil over the top, I added Picked Raspberry oxide ink. However… it all then went a bit wrong. I was adding some beautiful Tattered Angels Glimmer Spray (Lovely Lilac) for a bit of shimmer and the bottle fell over and went everywhere.. Uh-oh!

So rather than start again, I went with it as actually it looked lovely and heat dried it. The spray gave a really subtle lilac colour and where it had run, the mottled effect was quite pleasing (although I wouldn’t recommend tipping your inks everywhere).

Once dried, I secured the Strobes stencil in place (again) and added the Picked Raspberry. To add to the overall love and kindness theme, I used the Words of Support stencil and just masked off the word ‘love’, adding it using Candied Apple oxide ink pad.

The typewriter was really easy to do. Simply stamp in black and then heat emboss using clear powder. I also heat embossed the sentiment using a grey ink instead (VersaFine Claire Morning Mist).

Once trimmed, I coloured the ‘paper’ in the typewriter using Old Paper and Tea Dye Distress Ink pads (not oxides).

With the type writer added to the heart using foam tape, I used the small hearts from the One Kind Word stamp set to float around the type writer and to add to the general theme. These were just heat embossed onto gold card and attached using teeny tiny foam squares.

I then decided that ‘something’ was needed behind the heart to and so settled on my old favourite stencil, Strobes. Rather than just use modelling paste, I used Izink Ice as it’s translucent and is just fabulous! I applied a thin-ish layer of Freesia using a palette knife and then allowed to air dry.

Once the Ice was dry, I added foam tape to the rear of the heart and to add extra texture (because that’s what I do) I then twisted some black cotton onto the tape to break up the background.

The sentiment was heat embossed using gold powder onto a similar coloured scrap card I had and then matted onto gold card.

With the card complete, I matted it onto the same gold card as the sentiment and then onto black card to make those colours ‘pop’!

Supplies

Catch you all again soon.

Stay safe, do what we have too and don’t put loads of pressure on yourself.

H xx

Amazing card Heather! We love this design, the heart looks fabulous layered on top of the strobes stencil, and your gelli print is awesome! The touches of gold look wonderful with the pink tones. Thank you ♡

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Sending our best wishes to you all, and we hope you have a good day. Most of all… just be kind to yourself.

Stay safe and well.

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Here For You Always

Posted on June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 by helen

Hello! We hope you are well. Nadine Carlier is here on the blog today with a stunning card featuring our gorgeous inky flower stamp with a beautiful sentiment…

Hello! Lately, I seem to be on a watercolor kick. I have been having a lot of fun playing with different ways to use water coloring on cards to create different looks.

here for you always | card | flower stamp

I love these flowers from the Visible Image ‘Creative Chaos’ Stamp Set.

You can watch my video tutorial here to see how I created my card.

I used Pebeo Drawing Gum to create a resist to watercolor the flowers.

For the sentiment, I used the Visible Image ‘So Much Stronger’ Stamp Set.

This is a really gorgeous card and the sentiment is so perfect right now. We love using pebeo drawing gum for masking too, it’s brilliant! Thank you Nadine ♡

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

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Life is What You Make it

Posted on June 4, 2020June 4, 2020 by helen

Hi there! We have stempelfrida here on the blog today with the kind of card that would brighten anyone’s day…

Life is what you make it. Wow, that’s another killer statement, huh? I had this idea some time ago with the hearts, which I would arrange like this on a canvas and then place a saying at the bottom right. The ones who know me, are aware that this happens rather rarely with me. I usually do not know beforehand how my card will look like in the end. But you can be sure, even with this project it wasn’t clear before how it will look in detail afterwards.

happy bright card | hearts | ink splats | life is what you make it

Each of these hearts makes its life as it pleases. And look how beautiful this variety is! Yes, I have consciously chosen something very beautiful for each individual heart. And look at what’s going on around the hearts! But also here: these are splotches and doodle circles, but how great and beautiful is this interaction? Life is what you make of it – look around you!

Life is what you make it – and indeed, isn´t that, what we should always remind us of? Yes, it might be hard sometimes, when you are feeling miserable because life gave you a hard time or you need to deal with a tough task. But in the end it is about YOU! You hold the strings in your hands. Your eyes can make the world grey or bright.

I wish you all have the power to realize this every day and especially when you are down.

I started to paint hearts with my LYRA chalks, which I have used so rarely until now. But I wanted something with great bright colours and actually the result is so wonderfully shiny. Thanks to the clearstamps I was always able to estimate the size I needed to paint, because I wanted to stamp the hearts in black on the edges later. I took the colours of the rainbow for my project.

In a second step I mixed the colours with a brush and water and added light and darker areas. I let them dry well and then stamped the hearts on them with Versafine and fussy-cut them.

Afterwards I made light spots with water and darker spots by spraying paint on the hearts with a brush. On the again dried hearts I set white and black accents with acrylic pencils. I bent the hearts a little bit up at the edges and fixed them with spacer pads of different thicknesses.

For my background I have combined the stamps from several sets of Visible Image stamps. I always call this kind of stamps “grubby maker”. Many stampers use them for mixed media techniques and often they are used in dark colours. But I wanted to use them in the right happy colours to set a perfect scene for my hearts and let them feel good. The lines at the bottom of the square are again painted with an acrylic pencil.

The whole picture is quite very big: 21×21 cm, if you want to make it yourself.

Supplies

Stamps: Visible Image

Stamp pads: Versafine onyx black; Distress Oxides wilted violet, salty ocean, broken china, twisted citron, mustard seed, wild honey, carved pumpkin, barn door, black soot
Lyra Artists’ crayons
Sakura 1.0
POSCA pen – white

This card really makes us smile! The hearts look wonderful coloured with crayons, and the ink splats stamps and scribbled circles behind them look awesome! Great choice of quote too! Thank you stempelfrida ♡

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Look Forward With Hope

Posted on June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 by helen

Hello and Happy Monday to you! We hope you had a lovely weekend ♡ Judy Rozema is kicking off this week’s inspiration here on the blog with a stunning card featuring our ‘Beautiful Soul’ face stamp and an inspiring quote…

Today I am sharing some watercolor painting and a card made with three different stamp sets from Visible Image.

I started out by mixing oranges, yellows, and reds from my Kuretake paints. I didn’t have an image, or idea in mind for what I would make; I was just mixing colors. When it was dry, it reminded me of the gorgeous image from Beautiful Soul.

I used my MISTI to line up where the image might look best, and stamped it with VersaFine Clair Nocturne. I added the sun from Look Forward With Hope in the upper right corner, and the net from Mesh-ellaneous along the bottom and upper left corner in yellow and orange inks.

I stamped the sentiment sentiment in Nocturne ink. I think it’s the perfect sentiment for all that is happening in our world right now. For added sparkle, I used Orange Peel Stickles in three waves of her hair. I love how it turned out!

Stamps Used:

handmade card | hope | face stamp | woman

Thank you for stopping by today!

This card is so striking Judy! Your background is fabulous, we love the texture and interest you added with the fishnet background stamp. Thank you ♡

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Hearts Tag | Visible Image Stamps

Posted on May 26, 2020 by helen

Hello! We hope you had a lovely weekend, we really enjoyed some time off in the sunshine 😀 Macarena is here on the blog today with a fantastic tag featuring the gorgeous little heart stamp from our accessorize set…

Hearts ❤️

Hi there! I definitely love tags and colors from some time.

Maybe it’s a natural need for colors in this dark times…

Anyway, I had so much fun with this tag and hope it will

inspire you to try out some vibrancy on your projects.

heart stamp | mixed media tag | distress oxides | i choose bold colour

I covered the tag with Distress Oxide Antique Linen ink + water.

Stamped the hearts from Accessorize set with brown Archival.

Started to color the hearts and highlighted them using oil pastels

of similar colors.

Finally I played a bit with the shading using Distress Oxide

Walnut Stain ink and a water brush.

In the end I sprinkled the whole tag with white paint.

Visible Image stamps used:

accessory stamps | heart | flower | wings | cupcake | rings

What an awesome tag! The oxides and the white paint add such wonderful texture, and the hearts are coloured beautifully.. thank you Macarena ♡

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Life Can Be Tough | Sentiment Stamp

Posted on May 21, 2020May 21, 2020 by helen

Hi there, thank you for visiting our blog today. Ericka Strange is here with an awesome card featuring a sentiment which is so meaningful, especially at the moment… life can be tough, but my darling so are you.

Happy Thursday and I hope you are all doing well. This was my inspiration for the ‘Red White and Blue’ challenge over in the Visible Image Facebook group.

I started out by smooshing Distress Ink in Candied Apple and Salty Ocean on my craft mat and picking up the ink with Bristol Smooth paper.

flagprep

Once my background dried, I added the safety pin stamp from the Don’t Judge set with Archival Black ink. It’s been a tough year for all of us and in the United States (as many countries) we’ve have been through other hard times and have come through stronger. I like the look of the tears being held together with safety pins signifying our past tough times as a nation but we’re still strong.

flagpt2

I used the Stars and Stripes stencil with texture paste and added WOW! Embossing White Twinkle for some pretty shine.

flagside

I finished my card with the sentiment from the Brave & Strong stamp set which I think is perfect for the time we are going through with COVID-19.

flagup

flagsides

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful week.

Supplies

What a striking card Ericka! Love the mended flag held together with the pins, and the embossing powder really adds the wow factor to the flag!
Thank you ♡

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Look Forward With Hope

Posted on May 12, 2020 by helen

Good Evening, we are back with our 3rd and final inspirational post today. Sharon Traynor has created a gorgeous and really uplifting card featuring stamps from our ‘Look Forward With Hope’ set…

Hello there,

Today’s card is spreading a positive message and was created as inspiration for the ‘Brighten Someone’s Day’ challenge, and what can be brighter or more cheery than spreading a little sunshine and hope, eh?

This ‘Look Forward With Hope’ stamp set is one that I regularly turn to for spreading some cheer or just giving someone a little boost. It is full of beautiful and positive sentiments.

Here is how I made this card:

First, mask off the top portion of the sentiment like I’ve done in this photograph, ink it up, remove the masking and stamp then heat emboss the sentiment onto a strip of vellum.

Next, stamp the sunshine in a rainbow of colours all over a white panel of card.

Now run the panel through an embossing folder for some texture, and distress the edges with some yellow ink.

Add stickles to the centre of each sun and set aside to dry.

Wrap the vellum strip around the panel and mount the panel onto a white card blank with 3d foam.

look forward with hope | card | sentiment stamp

Stamps Used:

Other Supplies:

White card, Vellum, scrap paper and masking tape, Versafine onyx black ink, Wow clear gloss embossing powder, Prism Inks, star dust Stickles, embossing folder (Sizzix), 3dfoam pad.

I hope you are all looking forward with hope to a time when we can all meet our friends and families again. But until that time…. Stay safe and stay home folks.

Sending you all big, virtual hugs,
Sharon xx

This is a really beautiful and very uplifting card. Love the sparkle and rainbow colours!
Thank you Sharon ♡

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Mark & Helen xx

New Leaves Will Always Grow

Posted on May 12, 2020May 12, 2020 by helen

Hi there! We hope you are staying safe and well and coping with this very different world that we all live in at the moment. We are grateful for sunshine and being able to go for walks here in Wales, and we love to see all the signs of spring in the trees, plants and flowers. Jane Tyrrell is here today with a wonderful card featuring our ‘Tree of Life’ stamps, the sentiment in this set is very apt at this current time…

Hello
it is time for my fortnightly design team post for Visible Image. Spring is in full swing now despite the blip in temperatures over the last few days.

The blooms I have seen on my daily walks have been stunning and these inspired both the card and the colour palette for my card today.

The stamp set I am working with today is called Tree of Life

This is what I got up to.

I used blue and pewter distress ink sprays to create a background

I cut it down to a 5 1/2 ” square and then added my stamping. I used the tree in the set as branches around the edge of my card.

I used every stamp in this lovely set.

I stamped both sizes of the leaves onto inky mop up card and cut them out.

I then stamped the leaves onto my card and paper pieced them with the leaves above. I added glossy accents to all the little circles to make them look like dew drops.

Here is my finished card. The sentiment is also so appropriate for now.

With a couple of close ups

Stay safe and stay creative.

Bye for now,

Jane x

What a fantastic card! We love how you have used the foliage around the edges of your card, and that sky blue is stunning! The dew drops look beautiful too. Thank you Jane ♡

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We will be back later today with more gorgeous inspiration.

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Stay safe and well.

Helen & Mark xx

It’s OK To Not Be OK

Posted on April 6, 2020April 6, 2020 by helen

Good Evening, we hope you are staying well during this really difficult and worrying time. We have Lynda Hall here on the blog today with a gorgeous card featuring a sentiment we can all relate to right now…

It’s my day to share some Visible Image inspiration, and I think that in these challenging times that we are facing global wide right now, that the sentiment on this card is a good reminder to us all to take care of ourselves. I don’t think that there is a person out there who isn’t having the odd emotional wobble, I know I certainly have had a few. Fortunately for me I have a hobby and a room full of craft supplies that I can totally immerse myself in, which helps me leave my troubles behind for a while. It’s a huge help and sanity saver as I am sure all of you reading this will also understand.

This was super simple to create as you will see. Here is how I did it:

I placed the Scribble stencil on some black card and sprayed distress oxide inks through it. This stencil is very cool, and it instantly reminded me of how my brain can feel totally scrambled at times so was the perfect background to this card.

Once dry I sprayed over it again with a glitter enamel to add some sparkle.

I repeated these steps on a second piece of card, and using a circle die cut the centre from one to overlay on the base.

I finished by stamping and embossing the sentiment from the Look Forward With Hope set , and the hand from Tree of Life set (both currently reduced on the website so go grab a bargain!), and mat and layered them onto the base.

I hope that you are all managing to find some creative time at the moment. There is an uplifting challenge running over on the Visible Image Facebook group, so why not pop over and check it out and join in if you can .

Products Used

uplifting | inspiring | sentiment stamps

I’ll be back soon with more inspiration, but in the mean time stay safe and well and please take good care of yourselves.

Lynda

xxx

Lynda this is such a gorgeous card, the sparkle is wonderful. The sentiment is definitely one we all need to read at the moment. Thank you ♡

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Butterfly Angels | Handmade Card

Posted on March 31, 2020March 31, 2020 by helen

Hello! We have Jane Tyrrell here on the blog today with a fabulous card featuring our grungy butterfly stamps with an inspiring sentiment…

Good Evening,

A fortnight has rolled round and it is time for my regular design team post for Visible Image. Wow there have been so many changes in these 2 weeks. Helen and Mark aka Mr and Mrs Visible Image have lots of ideas to keep us all entertained, engaged and creative in the weeks ahead and one lovely idea is the start of a new challenge. The theme of challenge #1 is such an apt one, “Brighten Someone’s Day”.

I managed to see my best friend for a long lunch just before this whole situation took hold and we both cherish those few hours and realise it may be quite some time before we see one another again. I decided to make my card to send to her.

I knew just the sentiments to use. This is such a great set:

So Much Stronger

My dearest friend loves her garden as much as I do so I also reached for the Wings of Change set.

Her favourite colour is pink so I made a very pink and girlie background. First I sprinkled on some Infusions and added some spritzes of water.

I then blended on some Distress oxide ink.

I also made some textured butterflies by stamping on some left over inky card, adding crackle accents and a sprinkle of glamour dust for texture and sparkle.

Once dry I cut them out minus the antennae.

I stamped the sentiment and butterflies on the background and then stuck the butterflies on top raising the edge of their wings with foam pads.

Then it was time to put my card together. Here it is;

butterfly card | friends are angels with invisible wings

and one last shot;

There is also a special Mindfulness section on the Visible Image website at the moment which has 30% off, just perfect for crafters who are sending out cards to help raise people’s spirits at this time. Visible Image is a small husband and wife team who are still shipping here in the UK and abroad for as long as they are able to .

And yes my dear best friend received this card last week and told me that it did lift her spirits which was my very intention. I feel empowered by my crafting that during these uncertain times that I can give a tiny moment of positivity to someone’s day.

I do hope you might join us over on FB with this challenge. Perhaps you could then send what you have made to someone you care for and cannot see in person for now?

Back soon.

Stay safe and stay creative.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Thank you for this gorgeous inspiration Jane. Your background is fabulous and the butterflies look wonderful with the touches of sparkle. Thank you ♡

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New Beginnings Vision | Gel Print Cards

Posted on March 7, 2020March 7, 2020 by helen

Hello and Happy Saturday! We have Ericka Strange here today with two gorgeous cards featuring our stunning eye stamp, butterfly stencil and lots of inspiring sentiments…

I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend. I’ve been having lots of fun with making backgrounds with my gel press. Today I’m playing with some Visible Image stencils and stamps to make some more fun gel press backgrounds.

gel print cards

I love the soft look of the gel press background with the distress oxides. To start off I used Bristol smooth paper and then picked out some Distress Oxide inks and used a brayer to apply them to my gel press. If you want a deeper color just repeat the process. For my first card I used Fress Squeezed Lemonade and Lucky Clover. Once I was happy with the background, I added the Collision stencil and pressed that on top of the inked gel press.

gelpressprints

I then used Verafine ink and stamped the eye image from Where Dreams Take You and heat embossed it with WOW Black Glint for a sparkly look.

visioneyeclose

I added the sentiment with Versamark ink and heat embossed it with WOW Midnight Dream. I added a little gel pen to the white part of the eye and finished the card with some ink blending on the edges with Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide.

eye rubber stamp

For my second card, I used the same gel press technique with Distress Oxides in Picked Raspberry and Peacock Feathers. This time added the Butterfly Ink stencil and a second coat on the gel press with Picked Raspberry and Wilted Violet.

butterfly stencil

I then added the sentiments from a Beautiful Soul to the side of the butterfly with white ink.

I added the center sentiment from the Brave and Strong set with Versamark ink and I heat embossed all of the sentiments in white.

butterflyside

To add a little more texture to my card, I used the circle stamp from the Life is Beautiful set and added it to the card in the same Distress Oxide inks.

new beginnings card

Products Used:

Thank you for stopping by today.

These cards are so striking and really inspiring. Thank you Ericka ♡

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Thank You Card | No Lines Colouring

Posted on February 25, 2020February 25, 2020 by helen

Hello! Hope you are ok and staying safe in the crazy weather which seems to be affecting so many people at the moment. Sharon Traynor is here to brighten the day with a beautiful Thank You card, made with our new verse and sentiment with our fabulous new grungy leaf stamp…

Hi! How are you doing? Great I hope.

Today I have some no-line colouring with some of the gorgeous brand new stamps by Visible Image. The latest release from Visible Image has some fabulous stamps and stencils in it; there really is something for everyone.

I love that there is a larger size of this particular leaf in this new set because it is just the perfect size for a bit of colouring. So, I cut a piece of Strathhmore Toned Grey paper to a mat size for a 15cm x 15cm card and added a square post-it note in the centre.

Then the leaf was stamped all around the paper using a light grey ink.

Any gaps were filled in with the flowerhead from one of the flower stamps in the same stamp set, and then I set about colouring it.

When colouring with polychromos pencils, the first thing I do is lay down some white in the areas that I want to have white in them, because it is impossible to add that later. Then I used a light green to softly colour where the leaf appeard inside the bubble, and I used 2 blue pencils to add a bit of shading to the bubbles to make them look 3d. (The arc that you can see in the photo must have been a reflection of something because it’s not there, or it moves, in other photos).

Then I moved on to the leaf veins, which were coloured in the darkest green, and added a little yellow on some of the leaf spots. I varied where theses spots appeared on most of the leaves for a bit of interest.

Next the rest of the leaf was coloured in. Four different shades of greens were used, the lightest at the top and the darkest at the bottom. I also blended some darker shades around the leaf veins,

and then the pink flower heads were tackled. I added blue for shading to separate the petals and just used pinks for the petals, again the lightest at the top by the white and the darkest at the bottom.

Carry on in this way all around the card. A lovely relaxing thing to do!

Now it just needs the sentiment heat embossing in the centre and mounting onto some gold card and a bit more grey paper. Put it all on a card blank and the card is finished.

Stamps Used:

Other Supplies:

Strathmore Toned Grey paper, Square post-it note, Memento London Fog Ink, Polychromos pencils ( 101 white, 104 light yellow glaze, 110 phthalo blue, 112 leaf green, 123 fuchsia, 125 middle pink purple, 129 pink madder lake, 140 light ultramarine, 159 hooker’s green, 171 light green, 266 permanent green), Versamark Clear Embossing ink, WOW! metallic gold rich embossing powder, gold mirror card, white card blank.

That’s it from me for today. Thanks for stopping by and I really hope to see you again soon.

Hugs,
Sharon xx

What a gorgeous card Sharon, your colouring is stunning the leaves look fabulous! Thank you for your brilliant step by step tutorial too ♡

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Handmade Cards | Sentiment Stamps | Part 2

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

Hello! Sharon Traynor is back with her 2nd card making tutorial post today showcasing our gorgeous new sentiment stamps…

Hi! I’m back with my second post of today. Here is another 3 card designs that I came up with yesterday that use some of the soon-to-be-released stamps by Visible Image (you can see the other designs by clicking HERE). These stamps are available on pre-order until 15th February 2020 and they are such fun to use! You’ll be glad to see that this post is much shorter than the other one, and hopefully I’m showing versatility in these cards that I hope will spark some additonal ideas for you.

Let’s start with this striking red card. Honestly, it is SO easy to make if you have some of those inch wide ink cubes.

anniversary card | stamp | verse

First cut a piece of white card slightly smaller than your card blank and stamp your sentiment onto it. Attach it to your work surface with masking tape. Tear a bit of scrap paper and use masking tape to secure it over the top of the piece of white card. Now drag your ink cube from the scap paper onto the white card, reducing the pressure as you get towards the middle of the card. Repeat this all the way down the edge. Now do the same again with a darker ink pad, reducing the pressure a lot earlier.

Before you remove the scrap paper and masking tape, stamp some of the heart images along the red part using your darker ink.

Stamp and heat emboss 3 hearts in gold embossing powder onto gold mirri card and fussy cut them out.

Attach the inked white card to a red card blank (or cut a mat of red card) and then add the golden hearts with 3d foam.

Now for the blue sympathy card.

with sympathy card | stamp |verse

Cut a white panel again and using a light blue ink and a cloud mask, blend some clouds all over the panel.

Stamp the sentiment into place. The stamp the wings into place using 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation ink so that they get lighter as the move further away from the sentiment.

Mount the panel onto a blue card blank (or onto a blue mat, and then onto a card blank).

Finally The ‘Thank You’ Card

thank you card | stamp | verse

Cut a white panel and doodle a border.

Mask off the border and stamp the ‘Thank You’ into place first, then stamp the heart at various heights across the bottom of the panel.

TIP: Always think about your design and what items you are going to use. Don’t do as I did, I used the wrong type of ink for alcohol markers!!! Luckily I manage to work so that the ink didn’t smudge into the coloured area (I should have used and ink like Memento).

Colour the heart at the top of the ‘thank you’ stalk, then doodle some simple patterns into the remaining hearts. Attach this to a black mat and then add the whole thing to a card blank.

Stamps Used:

Other Items:

Papermill card (white hopsack and smooth red, blue and black), gold mirri card, Distress Ink (varn door, aged mahogany, tumbled glass), Versafine onyx black ink, Prism ink (blue lagoon), Versamark clear embossing ink, WOW! metallic gold rich embossing powder, 3d foam pads, cloud mask, blending foam, black micron pen, Promarkers (cerise, carmine and hot pink), masking tap

That’s it from me for now. Don’t forget to take a peek at the other cards I made with these sets by clicking HERE. Thanks for stopping by and I really hope to see you again soon.

Hugs,
Sharon xx

Another stunning trio of cards Sharon, they are all so gorgeous yet so different! Thank you for another brilliant tutorial too ♡

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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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New Stamps Previews #4

Posted on January 30, 2020January 30, 2020 by helen

Hi there! We are so excited to reveal our final new stamps from our February Release! Today we are previewing seven A7 size occasion sentiment sets…

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday verse stamp

On Your Wedding Day

Wedding verse stamp

Happy Anniversary

Anniversary verse stamp

Thank You

Thank you verse stamp

Thinking of You

Thinking of you verse stamp

With Sympathy

With Sympathy verse stamp

Accessorize

sentiment accessory stamps

These really are ‘must have’ stamps for your stash! Gorgeous fonts, original verses, and cute accessory stamps for that extra special touch!

Our February 2020 release will be available to pre-order this Friday January 31st | release date: February 15th.

If you have a store and would love to stock our stamps and stencils please get in touch!

Stay tuned for our NEW stencils reveal tomorrow!

Helen & Mark xx

Valentine Stamps | Pop Art Cards

Posted on January 27, 2020January 27, 2020 by helen

Hello! With Valentine’s Day only a few weeks away, Sharon Traynor is here with some fabulous inspiration featuring our gorgeous lips stamps and some romantic sentiments..

valentine cards | Lips stamp | sentiments

Hi there. I was browsing around the internet the other day when I came across a Pop Art image and I was immediately struck by how clean the lines were, how simple the images were and how the colours were bright and what I call ‘happy’.

Well, that little piece of art got me all fired up to make a card and the first image that popped into my mind was those gorgeous, luscious lips by Visible Image. Then I grabbed a couple of their stencils and set to work.

I firstly blended a couple of backgrounds, making sure the centre of each stencil was off centre, slightly below and to the left, so that they looked ‘right’ when the lips image was added. I did stamp the lips image directly onto these panels too, so that the splatters of lipstick were not omitted, because I wanted to fussy cut the lips.

Then I stamped and heat embossed the lips onto scrap card using distress oxide inks for the first layer of stamping, plus a super-shiny clear gloss embossing powder. I used a stamping platform because I wanted a really fantastic shine, so these were heat embossed 3 times using clear ink for the subsequent stampings. Then I fussy cutting them out.

Just look at that shine!!!!

Next I stamped and heat embossed a couple of sentiments….

…. and drew a speech bubble in pencil around the sentiments before I cut those out too. The pencil lines can easily be erased with an eraser. I edged the speech bubbles with the corresponding distress marker for the colour of the lips.

Then I just added the panels onto card blanks and layered the lips and speech bubbles onto the panels.

There are LOADS of Visible Image images that would work well with this CAS and graphic type of treatment!

Stamps & Stencils Used:

Other Supplies:

White card, Distress Ink (tattered rose), Distress Oxide Ink (squeezed lemonade, worn lipstick, candied apple), Distress Marker (worn lipstick, candied apple)Versamark onyx black ink, Versamark clear embossing ink, WOW! Clear Gloss embossing powder, blending tools, masking tape, Stamping Platform, pencil, scissors, red card blank.

That’s it from me for now. Thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs,
Sharon xx

Sharon these cards are awesome! The lips look fabulous with the triple embossing! Really striking valentine’s cards. Thank you ♡

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Mark & Helen xx