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Under The Sea

Posted on September 1, 2018September 1, 2018 by helen

Hello and Happy Weekend to you! We hope you have something fabulous planned! We have lots of gorgeous inspiration coming your way here on the blog. First up is Jane Tyrrell with a gorgeous under the sea themed card featuring our awesome seahorse stamp…

Hello, I’m here with my weekly design team make for Visible Image and I thought it was a good time to share a card I made earlier in the year which was in the June edition of Making Cards magazine. Myself, Pauline and Sharon from the DT made projects with a red, white and blue colour scheme and used the Create Your Calm stamp set:

I made an alcohol ink sea inspired background

I added some blue archival ink through the Fibres stencil:

I wanted some seaweed for my seahorse to hide in (they are very shy creatures you know 😊) and added some red seaweed using the Dare to Swim stamp set:

I stamped and red embossed the seahorse twice and fussy cut one out.

I stamped out the sentiment and added glossy accents to the bubbles to add some dimension.

I also stamped and white embossed the jelly fish and added glitter and glossy accents to them too.

and the inside of the card continued the red, white and blue theme too.

So here is my finished card…

September is here and the nights are beginning to draw in. I find that my colour palette changes so much with the seasons so expect to see something more autumnal inspired next week.

Thanks so much for stopping by and for all the kind comments that you take the time to leave. Enjoy your weekend.

Back soon.

Bye for now,
Jane x

Stunning card Jane… it looked fabulous in the magazine. Your background has such a wonderful feel to it, perfect for our underwater beings! Thank you ♡

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Sea Goddess Wall Hanging

Posted on July 14, 2018July 14, 2018 by helen

Hello! Happy Saturday! We have a stunning project to share with you here on the blog today! Jane Tyrrell is here with a gorgeous wall hanging which features lots of our beautiful stamps…

Phew it has been so hot that most of our minds have turned to thoughts of the seaside. I decided that my garden studio needed a fantasy seaside goddess wall hanging. Now I know that you will say that there is no sea goddess Visible image stamp… yes I know that too.. but there’s nothing stopping me improvising one. After all I made a mermaid from the leaping Katie stamp!

I used the lady’s head from the No Space For Dreams set

and the seaweed from Dare to Swim

I over stamped and embossed them onto some watercolour paper using Seth Apter baked embossing powders to create my sea goddess. I love the colour mixes in these powders.

I coloured the paper with blue distress inks and added some white stencilling using the Time Tunnel

I also white embossed the sentiment from Own Kind of Beautiful

I wanted my wall hanging to also have a little seahorse…again I hear you say that there is only the one beautiful large seahorse stamp in the ‘Create your Calm’ set…

Correct again, but shrink plastic came to the rescue. You can see the cute size after I had stamped, heated and shrunk the plastic when held next to the original stamp. I also shrunk the large jelly fish from the Dare to swim set

Here is my finished wall hanging..

I made a mixed media frame for it from corrugated card… one of my favourite (and free) substrates. I used gesso, embossing powders, shells, metal charms, pearls and glossy accents.

Here it is hanging in my studio..

You can see I used real shells collected from our seaside holidays over the years. I added pearls and glossy accents to give the feel of the sea.

The little fish stamp is also in the Dare to swim set

and here is one more inside shot..

Thanks so much for stopping by and for your kind comments.

The heatwave appears to still be with us this weekend… this is the first real summer we have enjoyed for some years here in the UK. Keep cool and carry on crafting!

Back soon.

Bye for now,
Jane x

Thank you Jane! Your sea goddess is wonderful, and those shrink plastic sea creatures are too cute ♡

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Thanks for visiting our blog today, have a great weekend.

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Under The Sea Stamps

Posted on July 13, 2018July 13, 2018 by helen

Hello and Happy Friday to you! We have Elisa Ablett here on the blog today with an incredible scrapbook layout featuring some of our stunning under the sea stamps…

Hi everyone,

Elisa here from the design team for Visible Image with a layered mixed media layout featuring an underwater sea theme, utilising the awesome ‘Create your own Calm and Dare to Swim’ stamp sets as well as the ‘Fibres’ Stencil from Visible Image.

To create the background, I used a small petite gel plate along with Dina Wakely Scribble Sticks to create a watercolour ‘bubbly’ scene. Add some stencilling and stamping and you can build a scene to suit your photo!

TIP – to draw your eye to the photo, create a ‘flow’ across your page using your stamps and stencils and then use key pieces such as the black circle and large stamped images to draw the eye to the photo.

under the sea stamps - seahorse - jellyfish - Elisa Ablett

Here are some close ups of the finer details!

Just look at the quality in the stamps, a clean crisp image every single time 💓

create your own calm - visible image stamps

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under water stencil - fibres - visible image

That’s it from me today, I hope you were inspired to try a little ‘scene’ building with your stamps with a little mixed media 🙂

Hugs

Elisa

Another amazing page Elisa! Loving all your layers and the perfect amount of inky! Thank you! ♡

This really makes you want to head to the sea!

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Have a great Friday!

Mark & Helen xx

Underwater Ripples

Posted on May 3, 2018May 3, 2018 by helen

Good Evening! Hope you have had a good week, it has gone so fast here! Can’t quite believe it’s Friday tomorrow.. already!! Thank you so much to everyone who has pre-ordered our NEW stamps and stencils! We are quite overwhelmed by the number of orders we’ve received so far, with initial stock of some designs already sold out, more stock has been ordered! Wow!!! Our Design Team are loving the new stamps and stencils and we will have some fabulous inspiration for you really soon! Today’s inspiration features one of our older backgrounds: ‘The Ripple Effect stamp’ teamed up with our stunning seahorse. Over to Heather Mitchell…

Hello once again…

I’ve been itching to share this Visible Image DT project with you all, as I just love how it’s turned out! It really got my creative juices flowing and I adore all the different textures on there from the stamps I’ve used.

seahorse stamp - ripple effect stamp

I started out by heat embossing The Ripple Effect in white embossing powder onto watercolour card before adding distress oxide inks in a watercolour style around the ripples themselves.

The oxides inks pads are great for creating watercolour backgrounds

To create a hint of sparkle to the project, Fibonacci was heat embossed using a gorgeous metallic copper powder, which looks beautiful when the light hits it. Next, to contrast with the calming hues, I added Infusion powders to the areas in-between.

I used Anita’s 3D Clear Gloss to make the ripples as it has a fine nib so is perfect for smaller areas

To build on the texture, I stamped the net from the Mesh-ellaneous set in a deep blue and then added the shoal of fish and the sea plants (both from Dare to Swim).

I’m a little bit in love with Wow’s Copper Embossing Powders as they add warmth to a project with a hint of sparkle

With everything dry I could begin to add my main focal images; the gorgeous Sea Horse and the sentiment from Create Your Calm.

Even with all the different textures, the make still felt like it needed some dimension to it so I added clear gloss to the ripple areas to make it look glassy and add some movement and I just love the finished effect! The ripple effect stamp works just beautifully with the Create Your Calm and Dare to Swim sets… def more to investigate there!!

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That’s all from me for now… catch up again soon!

H xx

This is incredible Heather! Your background is awesome… loving the ripple effect stamp with the seahorse!
Thank you ♡

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Calming Sunshine

Posted on February 16, 2018February 16, 2018 by helen

Hello! Hope you are enjoying all the inspiration we have been sharing today! It’s been incredibly busy lately with nowhere near enough hours in the day.. so we are having a mega catch up here on the blog this weekend before we get back to normality, and daily inspiration!

Over to Jane Tyrrell…

Welcome to another dose of Visible Image stamps inspiration. Today I am sharing another creation of mine using the stunning ‘Create your Calm’ stamp set.

This is the lovely stamp set I worked with..

I used all the stamps in this set, the little waves/bubbles make such a cool background.

I used Paperartsy fresco acrylics to make my sunny sea background. I swirled my paint around to give a feeling of the sea and added some “sunshine” in the centre

I stamped my sweet seahorse in the sunshine using Versafine Clair ink.

I then embossed the waves in white and blue and the sentiment in white.

I added some white highlights to him

and finished off the edge of the “sea” with more embossed waves

I made a “frame” for my picture using photo corners.

Here it is finished…

This really is such a delightful stamp set to work with… and it makes me long for summer to hurry up and arrive too.

Thanks for stopping by today and for the kind comments you take the time to leave me, I really appreciate every single one.

Have a lovely weekend… It feels so good to be in February, the days are definitely starting to get lighter.

Back soon.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Wow what an amazing background for our seahorse! Stunning Jane! Thank you ♡

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Always There For You..

Posted on February 16, 2018February 16, 2018 by helen

Hi there! We are back with more wonderful inspiration here on the Visible Image blog this evening!

Veerle Moreels has a fabulous video tutorial for you, showing how she created her beautiful new card…

How I love to go through my box of Visible Image stamps and search for some stamps to make a special card. Today’s card… for someone who could use a little reminder that (s)he is beautiful just as (s)he is and not out there on it’s own…

I have taken out some time to show how I color in the beautiful seahorse from Visible Image too. I love coloring it in using my watercolors but I took out my Derwent Inktense pencils for this one ^.^

Enjoy the video…

Stamps used:

Create your Calm

Dare to Swim

Son Definition

Stunning card Veerle.. our seahorse looks stunning ♡ ♡ ♡
Thank you for your fabulous video tutorial too!

You’ll find more amazing projects over on Veerle’s blog.

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There is still lots of inspiration to come this evening and all weekend… don’t miss what our amazing Design Team have been up to!

Thanks for visiting today!

Mark & Helen xx

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