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Moth Stamp On Fishnet Stencil

Posted on October 16, 2020October 16, 2020 by helen

Hello and Happy Friday to you! Today’s inspiration comes from stempelfrida who has made a fantastic mixed media card featuring our moth stamp and ripped fishnet stencil, with some elements from our ‘Somewhere in Time’ stamp set…

You cannot turn back the clock and change the past. That’s the way it is, and I think it’s also pointless to think about “what would have happened if…” because who knows if things would have turned out differently again.

With this attitude I managed my life well so far. It has helped me a lot to take decisions. In this moment, in this situation, with this mood and at this point in time you made your decision. And that is good. Fate contributes its part. This situation will never come back. It is about standing by your decision and moving on. Do not look back, but enjoy the moment and look ahead. If it is intended differently for you, something will happen to you again, someone will meet you, something will happen…

moth stamp | fishnet stencil | handmade card | alcohol inks

For this collage I used a special technique to transfer an alcohol ink background from Yupo paper to normal paper. You use Alcohol Lift Ink Reinker. From this you put some drops on the background, spread them with a brayer, put a paper over it and smooth it with your hand.

The wonderful thing is that you can stamp and emboss on the “normal paper” this way. On the three photos you can see it well:

1. alcohol ink background on Yupo paper

2. transfer on normal paper

3. stamped background

On the background I applied colorless embossing paste through the ripped fishnet stencil. When it was firm in consistency but not yet completely dry, I applied Perfect Pearls in gold. So you can see through the structure, but it has a nice golden shimmer.

I also added Nuvo Drop pearls.

I stamped the moth with Ink on 3 and fussy cut it. I then coloured it with Copics. I shaped it and glued it to the background with distance pads.

I rounded off the corners of my card and the base and knotted some bast around the text.

Supplies

Stamps:

Somewhere in Time

Glimmer of Light

Stencil:

Ripped Fishnet

Stamp pads: Ink on 3; Distress Oxides – wild honey, brushed corduroy, aged mahogany
Copics E53, E19, E97, YR14, R11, R22, R46, R59
Alcohol Ink Ranger cranberry, sunset orange, lemonade
Alcohol Lift Ink Refiller
Perfect Pearls sunflower sparkle
Nuvo Crystal Drops Metallic auburn pearl
Sakura 08
Polychromos 101, 177, 199
Dreamweaver Embossing paste translucent

Wow what an amazing card! These colours are stunning together and the background is so atmospheric! Our moth looks wonderful too. Thank you stempelfrida ♡

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Time | Make It Count

Posted on October 6, 2020October 6, 2020 by helen

Hi there! We have Sharon Traynor here on the blog today with a vibrant time themed card featuring our COUNT ME IN stencil with a sentiment from our SOMEWHERE IN TIME set..

vibrant time themed card

Hello there. My isn’t this year just flying by? We really do need to “live in the now and make every moment count” so that we don’t miss anything, don’t we?

Today it’s time for some of my Visible Image design team inspiration and I thought I would do something different from all those autumnal colours that are around at the moment, so I created a card with fresh, bright colours.

I’ve been experimenting with a bit of mixed media recently and this was one of my first attempts at making an ‘un-grungy’ (is there such a word?) mixed media card. The idea is that I will eventually, over the winter, train myself to do a little more mixed media in my CAS cards. I really like how this one has turned out with such pretty colours.

So in the time honoured tradition of my DT blog post, here’s how I made this:

First, wet your card panel with some water and then add some distress stains. As the distress stains are sadly no longer being sold, you could achieve a similar result using a tiny drop of re-inker or maybe some brushos, but I’m sure that many of us still have some stains laying around that need to be used up.

Next, take the stencil and add coordinating colours of Luna paste through parts of the stencil.

Cosmic shimmer luna paste | numbers stencil

Remove the stencil and wash it immediately, then set the card panel aside to dry. I love how the paste actually dries in such a random pattern that it kind of looks like an animal print.

Once the card panel is dry (I left mine overnight but it really doesn’t take that long), partially stamp into the blank areas, using some of the smaller stamps in the set, with matching distress inks and distress the outside with a blend of one of the inks.

Now comes the fiddly part. Stamp the word TIME and heat emboss it with a clear sparkle embossing powder, then fussy cut each letter separately. Also stamp the rest of the sentiment and cut it into a banner.

To assemble the card, mount the card panel onto a card blank with fun foam, affix the TIME letters and add the sentiment banner with fun foam for a little more dimension.

Doesn’t the Luna paste sparkle beautifully and give that little bit of texture and dimension?

Stamps and Stencil Used:

Other Supplies:

White card, Distress Stains and Distress Inks (picked raspberry, mustard seed and salty ocean), Luna Paste (stellar champagne, moonlight rose, moonlight ocean), Versamark onyx black ink, WOW! clear sparkle embossing glitter, fun foam.

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

Hugs,
Sharon xx

Wow this is amazing Sharon! The stencil looks stunning with the sparkle of the luna paste, and we love the vibrant colours! Thank you ♡

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2020 Vision | Eye Stamp

Posted on January 9, 2020January 9, 2020 by helen

Hello and Happy New Year to you! We are very excited for the year ahead with lots of exciting new releases planned and an incredible Design Team inspiring you with their amazing projects! Kicking off a brand new year of inspiration is Jane Tyrrell with an awesome New Year card featuring our iconic eye stamp and more…

Good morning,

Today I am sharing my first make for Visible Image in 2020. I decided that I needed an injection of colour. I chose to use the iconic original large eye stamp from Where Dreams Take You

I teamed it with some of the words from Destination Unknown

and the time spiral stamp from Ahead of our Time

I also wanted it to have the new decade on it so I used the numbers from Alphabetical to make a card.

This is what I got up to;

First I stamped and embossed the eye onto white mixed media card

I used these distress inks

I masked the eye and blended the colours onto the card

Once finished I removed the mask

I then stamped the time swirl using archival ink

and added the words

I added 2020 using the 2 and 0 and stamping them twice

I finished off by adding some green gel pen to the pupil of the eye

Here is my finished card;

Some close ups..

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Back soon.

Bye for now,
Jane x

What a way to kick off the new year Jane! Awesome card design and wonderful vibrant colours! Loving this mix of stamps and sentiments too. Thank you ♡

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Don’t Judge | Mental Health Awareness

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

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

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

mental health awareness stamps | mindfulness | don't judge

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

Here the stamps and stencil used:

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

And here is the process video

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

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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:

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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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The Future is in Your Hands | Smashed Clock Stamp

Posted on June 5, 2019June 5, 2019 by helen

Hi there! Heather Mitchell is here to inspire you today with an amazing card featuring our smashed pocket watch stamp with some stencilling, background stamping and gorgeous gold embossing…

Hello everyone…

Today I’m sharing a card using the Visible Image Somewhere In Time stamp set.

I just love this set as the clock face is brilliant for fussy cutting and layering up using foam dots (which I’ve done here).

So, for the background I’ve used the 1983 stencil and inked through it using Distress Oxides and then turned it 90 degrees and layered up the colours. I’ve then carried on with the number theme and used the Count Me In stencil over the top.

Further layers have been added by stamping the number stamp from the set randomly around the clock face and then adding the Fibonacci stamp

For the clock face I’ve squished some Distress Oxide Ink Pads on a glass mat and spritzed lightly with water and dried using a heat gun. Once dry, I’ve given it a little spritz of a gold shimmer spritzing spray (which you can barely see but I know it’s there!)

Before starting work on the clock face, I’ve heat embossed the inky splodge using Wow’s brilliant Rich Gold powder. I love watching it melt… totally mesmerising!

Then, after heat embossing the clock face three times, I’ve secured one full face onto the gold image and then fussy cut the different shards of clock out and layered them up using foam dots.

Some I’m kept at two layers and others I’ve used three. The clock hands are old Docraft stock that I had laying about and were perfect! Having made a hole in the centre shard, they’ve been secured using matching brad that come with the set.

I then decided (rather late on) to heat emboss the cogs around the edge of the card too. Have to admit, this would’ve been easier if I’d done it before gluing the clock in place but hey-ho, you live and learn!

I was debating which sentiment to add to the card and then realised I had the perfect one! The fabulous In Your Hands is oh-so perfect!

After stamping, I’ve used a black fine liner to draw squiggly boxes around the sentiment so it’s encased nicely and then I attached these using foam tape.

To finish the card, I’ve mounted it on another oxide background of the same colour as the clock face so it all ties in nicely.

The Visible Image Products I used for this make are…

Visible Image have some utterly fabulous new stamp sets coming out in a few weeks, available for pre-order from Friday 8th June, so keep an eye on the Facebook page and instagram for previews!

I’m off to cut the grass…

Catch up soon, H x

Heather this is such an awesome card! Love this sentiment with our smashed clock, and the gold embossed cogs look so good against your background! The metal hands on your layered up clock look great too. Thank you ♡

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Time.. to be happy again

Posted on May 15, 2019 by helen

Hello! Veerle Moreels is here on the blog today with an emotive card featuring our skulls and hearts stencil with an inspiring time themed quote…

How little can make you happy when creating? One layer, two… nine? I think it’s already known that I’m not the girl of many layers. I’m also not the girl of loads of color or bright colors. So yes, today I’m sharing yet another piece with loads of white, greys and blacks and just one pop of color. But Visible Image their stamps and stencils are strong enough to hold as little layers or colors and still stand out above loads of other stamps I have here at home.

So what did I put on my table?

Some greys, black, and that one pop of red that I love so much in combination with my greys and blacks ^.^ And of course words, the perfect words for my image <3

How it was made?

You start by masking of the shape of a heart. Not hard at all to make your mask as you can just go and trace the heart using the stencil.

Then I layed down a layer of grey watercolor… can’t go without my watercolors can I ^.^

Then remove the mask and lay down your stencil to brush on a thin layer of grey which will have your stencil appear in the background. Gradually built up on the black the closer you get to your heart.

You then color in your heart in red… and finish it off with some glossy accents before you put down the words…

Products Used:

Fantastic card Veerle, that pop of red is perfect. Thank you ♡

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We Always Think We’ll Have Time..

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

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

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

smashed clock - pocket watch - stamp

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

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

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

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

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

Some shards were glossed and others glittered for variety.

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

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

Stamps Used:

Other Supplies:

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

That’s it from me for now.

Hugs,
Sharon xx

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

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Moth Stamp On Fishnet Stencil

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Time | Make It Count

Stamps and Stencil Used:

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2020 Vision | Eye Stamp

This is what I got up to;

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Don’t Judge | Mental Health Awareness

Here the stamps and stencil used:

And here is the process video

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Searching The Skies | Christmas Card

Stamps Used:

The Future is in Your Hands | Smashed Clock Stamp

Hello everyone…

The Visible Image Products I used for this make are…

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Time.. to be happy again

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How it was made?

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We Always Think We’ll Have Time..

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