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Free Your Imagination | Card + Bookmark

Posted on November 22, 2021 by helen

Hi there! We hope you had a good weekend. Jane is here on the blog today with a gorgeous card and co-ordinating bookmark featuring the stunning inky bird, old book, feather, splats and sentiment from our FREE YOUR IMAGINATION stamp set …which is in our amazing Black Friday sale right now! Have you checked it out yet? Over to Jane…

Good afternoon, and I hope you might have enjoyed some sunshine last week? We have had the most glorious sunny week here in Surrey and the Autumn leaf colour has been spectacular. It really does inspire my making.

Today I am sharing a slimline card and bookmark.

I worked with the Free Your Imagination stamp set, using every stamp in this awesome set:

I added some stenciling using the Lava stencil

and some background stamping with some of the uber useful stamps in Universal. If you don’t have this in your background stamps stash it really is one to have!

This is what I got up to..

I used one of my A5 size distress re-inker shaving foam backgrounds from my stash and then added the gorgeous new Villainous Potion distress ink through the stencil.

From the card I cut a piece for a slimline card and a bookmark.

I stamped the bird in black Versafine ink and clear heat embossed.

I then added gold heat embossed swirls and stars using the Universal set. I also stamped some of the double rings in the set using red ink. This gave the backgrounds lots of texture and depth.

I stamped the books in blue and also for just the card the open part in grey ink and cut them out.

I also stamped and white embossed the feathers on black card, seen below, and some of the potion pots and the sentiment (seen in the final photos.) I cut everything out, adding some gold ink to the pots and a black mat to the sentiments.

Then it was time to put my designs together.

Here is the finished card.

and the bookmark.

Card | Free Your Imagination | bird | book | stamps

and one final shot.

Handmade Card + Bookmark | Free Your Imagination | bird | book | stamps

I really enjoyed making these and creating a card with a matching bookmark always makes such a unique gift.

You will find me on Instagram @jane.tyrrell where I share more inspiration.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Wow these are stunning! Such a fabulous background, so much to discover and the focal images look so striking! Thank you Jane ♡

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Stay safe! Stay creative!

Helen & Mark xx

Creative Chaos | Inky Flower Stamp

Posted on November 14, 2021November 14, 2021 by helen

Hello! We hope you are having a good weekend with some time to relax. Ali is here on the blog to inspire you today with a stunning card with beautiful shimmer featuring our CREATIVE CHAOS inky flower stamp and and brilliant background elements from this fantastic stamp set and our GRUNGE TONES background stamps which co-ordinate perfectly…

I have been playing with my watercolours and Visible Image stamps this week – had a lots of fun, it goes through a messy phase but once the shimmery yellow flower heads are on, it looks great, super blingy. Happy crafter here! 😀

Creative Chaos | Inky Flower Stamp | Handmade Card

Tutorial

Cut a 6″ square (15cm x 15cm) white heavy card stock, 300gsm.

Colour your card with blue and green watercolour paints with blue at the top and various shades blended into each other.

You could use watercolour inks or distress inks.

Dry with a heat gun.

Position the scribble stencil over a corner of your coloured card, apply white gesso or Cosmic Shimmer matt white chalk polish through the stencil.

Move the stencil to a different part of your card and repeat this twice.

Dry your card again.

Pick 3 blue and green distress oxide inks and stamp the Visible Image ‘Grunge Tones’ background stamps over your card.

Dry your card again.

The next steps use stamps from one of my all time favourite sets – ‘Creative Chaos’.

Pat an anti static pad over your card.

Stamp the border stamp on three sides of your card in versafine black ink and then heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

Stamp the 42 and bubble stamps over your card with black versafine and clear heat emboss as before. Stamp over the edges in some places.

Stamp the large flower twice and the small flower 3 times with versafine black ink and this time heat emboss with black embossing powder.

It will look a bit busy at the moment.

Pat an anti static pad over a piece of white card.

Stamp the chaos sentiment, 2 of the large flower heads and 3 of the small ones with black versafine ink and heat emboss with black embossing powder.

Colour your flower heads with yellow and orange shimmer paints.

Use your shimmer paints to colour the circles and bubbles on your background.

Ignore the ones that will be covered by your flower heads.

Use a blending tool and black ink to add an inky vignette around your piece.

Use pva glue to matt and layer your coloured piece onto white card with a border of approx 1/8″ (3mm) and then onto black card with a border of about 3/16″ (5mm).

Glue this to a 7″x7″ white card blank. (177mm x177mm)

Cut out the flower heads and sentiment.

Colour the edge of the white sentiment with yellow ink and matt it onto black card with a border of about 1/8″ (3mm)

Use your fingers to curve the flower heads a little then fix them in place with 3d glue gel .

Attach the sentiment using 3d foam pads .

Doodle some faux stitching around the edges of your card and sentiment with a gold sparkle gel pen, draw around the large circles and add highlights to the flower stems and petals.

Admire the shine and shimmer under the lights. You could add glossy accents at this point too.

Very shiny! With lots of layers!

My finished card

Creative Chaos | inky flower stamp | mixed media card | Visible Image

Supplies

Visible Image Stamps – Creative Chaos and Grunge Tones
Visible Image Scribble Stencil
White Nights Watercolours
Cosmic Shimmer Iridescent watercolours – Carnival Brights (CSIWPSET2)
Distress Oxide inks – Mowed Lawn, Peacock Feathers and Lucky Clover
Cosmic Shimmer Matt White Chalk Polish (CSMCPOWHITE)
Black Versafine ink pad
Black and clear embossing powders
Gold glitter gel pen
Cosmic Shimmer Colour Cloud Blending Ink Midnight Clouds
PVA glue, 3D glue gel and double sided foam pads
Heat gun
anti static pad
black and white card
7″ x 7″ white card blank

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

Ali xxx

This card is stunning! The shimmer is so beautiful against the grunge background. Thank you for another brilliant tutorial Ali ♡

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Have a lovely Sunday.

Take care,

Helen + Mark xx

Beer Stamp Set | Handmade Card

Posted on October 17, 2021October 17, 2021 by helen

Hello and happy Sunday to you! Have you checked out our NEW stamps yet? Our Design Team have been creating some amazing inspiration with them, so do check out our project gallery and socials! Lynda is here on the blog today with the very first card made with our BRING ON THE BEERS stamp set, and it is awesome… beers stamp handmade card

I am so excited to share my first project for the brand new Visible Image release. There are 6 incredible sets to choose from, something to suit everyone!

Personally I always find male cards a struggle for some reason, but this ‘Bring On The Beers’ set makes them so easy. I have yet to meet a fella who doesn’t enjoy a beer so this will get lots of use!

I wanted to create a bar scene for this card. I started with a distress oxide background, and added a layer of interest by swiping ink through the Square Route stencil. I then added the beer bubbles stamp over the top.

I created the bar itself with a Sizzix woodgrain embossing folder, and coloured it with distress ink.

I stamped the bottle and glass onto pre inked card and fussy cut. I wanted to add a glassy effect, and so on the bottle I added a layer of green Izink Ice and on the pint glass I applied a generous layer of Glossy Accents. Once dry, I gave my beer a frothy head using a tube of Fluffy Stuff I had in my stash ( as you heat it, it puffs up- very cool!). I also stamped and fussy cut the bottle lid.

To add to the bar feel, I used a stamping platform to stamp the smaller bottles along a pencil drawn line in the background and coloured them in and painted a shelf under them.

I adhered the glass, bottle and sentiment with 3D gel glue to add more dimension to finish.

beer stamps | glass | bottles | handmade card

Supplies

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The design team have all been really busy behind the scenes making some fabulous samples, so hit the links below to check them out on social media!

What an awesome pub scene! Fantastic card design, and the frothy beer head looks superb! Thank you Lynda ♡

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Release date is October 29th so not too long to wait!

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We hope you have a really lovely Sunday.

Helen & Mark xx

beers stamp handmade card

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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Hedgehog Hugs Stamp | Forest Stencil

Posted on September 1, 2021September 1, 2021 by helen

Hello! We have Stempelfrida here on the blog today with a fantastic card created with our *NEW* HEDGEHOG HUGS stamp set and THE FOREST stencil…

The temperatures are dropping and it’s raining again and again. I wonder if autumn is already here. But the hedgehogs still need to build up a cushion and feed on snails and worms. Besides, they need big piles of leaves to nestle under. So, dear sun, stay a little longer with us and keep us warm. Until then, I send hedgehugs with this sweet representative.

hedgehog hugs stamp | leaves | forest stencil | handmade card

I have put the cute hedgehog from the set “Hedgehog hugs” of Visible Image in front of a tree background in scene, which I made with the stencil “The Forest”.

To do this, I first stamped the hedgehog and a second time on non-permanent stickers to use it as a mask.

I coloured the good print with Copics.

Next I fussy cut the mask of the hedgehog by hand and glued it on the colored hedgehog.

Then I attached the stencil over it with washi tape and wiped the blue background with Distress Oxides.

Afterwards I sprayed water drops on it.

After I removed the stencil of the forest and the hedgehog mask, and the background was well dried, I traced the edges of the trees with black.

I stamped the leaves several times, colored them with Copics and fussy-cut them.

I put a design paper on the card background and painted dots on the edges with a sakura pen

Did you already check out the hedgehog stamp set from the new release? I copied it for you into the supplies list below.

Supplies

hedgehog stamp | trees stencil | forest | autumn card | fall

Stamps: Visible Image Hedgehog Hugs

Stencil: Visible Image The Forest

Stamp pads:
Ink on 3
Distress Oxides: chipped sapphire, tumbled glass, salvaged patina

Copics: 100, E51, E55, E57, E81, E84, E87, E08, E97

Sakura: 0.8, 1.0

This card is amazing! The hedgehog stamp and leaves look wonderful, and the geometric papers give a great frame to the gorgeous forest scene. Thank you stempelfrida ♡

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If you missed Friday night’s new stamps launch show do check out all the incredible inspiration we shared!

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Stay safe. Stay creative.

Helen & Mark xx

Want To Hibernate | Hedgehog Stamp

Posted on August 22, 2021August 22, 2021 by helen

Hello! We hope you are having a lovely weekend. Lynda is here on the blog today with a fantastic handmade card created with our *NEW* HEDGEHOG HUGS and TOTALLY TOADSTOOLS stamp sets and THE FOREST stencil… hedgehog stamp handmade card

I don’t know about you but I get so excited by Autumn. I love the rich colours and cosy feeling it brings. So when I saw the brand new release from Visible Image I was just thrilled to be amongst the first to get to play with them as they are just perfect for the season.

This card showcases the set called ‘Hedgehog Hugs’. This cute little guy is just adorable don’t you think?

hedgehog stamp | leaves | forest stencil | handmade card

I started with a background sheet that I created with Distress Ink by applying to my glass mat, spritzing with water and dabbing it into. Once dry I used a circle mask and inked around the outer edge to create the effect of a setting sun.

I then used my gelli plate and the Forest stencil to create a woodland backdrop. This was achieved by applying a thin layer of brown paint to the plate, laying the stencil over the top, and using a piece of copy paper to lift the paint between the trees. I then lifted the stencil, revealing the tree shapes, and placed my backing paper down over it to lift the image to it.

I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the hedgehog and leaf piles, and also one of the toadstools from the incredible ‘Totally Toadstools’ set, and using 3D gel glue created my woodland scene.

Doesn’t he look cosy?!

Supplies

hedgehog stamp | handmade card | I want to hibernate

Mark and Helen have done such an amazing job on this release and the design team have been working hard to create some stunning samples. Do take a look at the following social media links below if you’d like to see all the inspiration. Release date is the 27th August, but you can pre order now to be sure that they land on your doormat quickly. How exciting!

This card is awesome! What a gorgeous Autumn scene, our hedgehog definitely looks all cosy for winter! Thank you Lynda ♡

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Helen & Mark xx

hedgehog stamp handmade card

Toadstools Stamps | Nature Heals | Card

Posted on August 17, 2021August 17, 2021 by helen

Hello! Have you checked out our new stamps yet? Do you have a favourite? One of Jane’s absolute favourites from this release is our TOTALLY TOADSTOOLS stamps, and we adore the very first card Jane created with these fabulous stamps… and nature heals sentiment

Good Afternoon, today I could not be more excited as I am able to share my first make with the brand new autumn release! OMGoodness you are going to love them. They are so “me” and there is something for everyone from cute hedgehogs (or hedgepigs as I have always called them!) a squirrel with acorns to positive and inspiring words to toadstools, mini stamps and most exciting a backing stamp for Artist Trading Cards! Wow!

I have made samples with the all the new release and it was a really tough call for me to choose just 1 for today, but choose I had to and I went with one of the 3 new nature sets.

Totally Toadstools

I have a real “thing” about all things fungi (plus mermaids, strawberries, hedgehogs, pigs, seashells and the Man in the Moon, yes I know I am mad!) and I have wanted Mark, aka Mr Visible Image to design a fungi set for a long time. I was so delighted to see it come to life and it really is everything I love about toadstools. The beautiful nature sentiment works perfectly too.

This is what I got up to

I wanted to make a really organic, fungi inspired background. There is nothing better for this than Yupo paper and alcohol inks, so that’s what I did. I got out my inks and dripped…

and dropped…

and mixed…

and blended until I had achieved the organic fungi inspired background I wanted…

I stamped lots of the toadstools onto different offcuts of inked card and cut them out. Then I chose the ones I wanted to use.

I added some white gel pen and then decoupaged them (which you will see in the finished photos)

I decided I wanted more of a 3D card so I cut out the centre of my Yupo paper

and backed it with another piece of yellow inked card. I stamped some of the foliage inside. I then added some 3D foam tape and stuck it under the Yupo.

I also cut an upstand from inky card and repeat stamped some more of the foliage, cutting around some and also cutting one piece out to layer up with and to add depth.

I then assembled my focal, adding the toadstools, which I decoupaged.

finally adding the wonderful ‘nature heals’ sentiment at the base of the toadstool stamps.

I stuck the focal in place and matted and layered my card.

Here it is…

with a close up…

toadstool stamp | nature heals the soul | stamps

and 1 final shot…

I really do adore this set and I have so many plans for future makes using it too. It really is a must have in your crafting stash and works so well with the new hedgehog and squirrel sets too.

It would be lovely to see you over in the friendly Visible Image Facebook group! You will see lots of gorgeous makes by the Design Team and customers to inspire your own creativity. You will also be able to join in with the monthly Artist Trading Card (ATC) swap which has been such fun. We are now in our 4th month of swapping and have had over 62 people, Worldwide, taking part.

Do check out social media too you will find me on instagram @jane.tyrrell where I share many more of my makes and sneak peeks!

Bye for now,

Jane x

This is an absolutely stunning card! The focal image of the toadstools and grasses looks wonderful against the amazing alcohol inks background, very fungi-like indeed! Thank you Jane ♡

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We’ll be back here on the blog soon with more gorgeous inspiration.

Hope you have a good day.

Helen & Mark xx

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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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Shop where you will find all our stamps and stencils
Blog see all our latest posts
Facebook group show us your Visible Image projects, and enter our giveaways & challenges
Facebook PAGE like and follow our page to ensure you hear all our news and don’t miss our LIVE demos!
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Do show us what you make too by sharing in our Facebook group or tagging us on instagram.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for LIVE DEMOS every week plus pre-recorded tutorial videos!

We will be back tomorrow with a new week of gorgeous inspiration here on the blog. Do check out all the fabulous inspiration from our instagram team too!

Have a lovely Sunday.

Take care,

Helen + Mark xx

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Butterfly Stamp + Ripples Stencil Card

Posted on July 15, 2021July 15, 2021 by helen

Hello! We have Stempelfrida on the blog today with a beautiful layered card featuring the big butterfly stamp from our BUTTERFLY EFFECT set, with our gorgeous RIPPLES stencil…

In one of my last posts I had described to you that things often go differently when crafting than you might have imagined. I had made a background, but then it did not fit at all to the flowers I wanted to arrange on the card. I used this background from the former project as one of the starting points for this card. I really wanted to showcase this amazing butterfly. It’s honestly huge, but looks smaller here since the card is so big overall.

Butterfly Stamp | Ripples Stencil | Handmade Card

So, where do I start? Let’s first take the wonderful butterfly. I stamped it with Versamark and embossed it with an embossing powder that contains small golden flakes in addition to the turquoise base colour. This adds a great vintage touch and shimmers wonderfully. I wanted to have a delicate butterfly, so I chose the contrast not too big and did not colour the white paper much further. I only traced the edges even towards the inside with a dark turquoise shade of a polychromos pen. Although the butterfly is actually the main element of the card, it was supposed to not be too dominant, but be played around in the overall collage.

As described earlier, I then took the background from my previous project. This is how I made it: I had attached the Ripples stencil over a white cardstock, coated it with a shimmery texture paste, sprayed it with Distress Oxide sprays, took an impression, and carefully removed the stencil. Since it was an expanding mousse, I still heated it up a lot.

The result is the wonderful metallic shimmering raised rings. In addition, I then had the print, part of which I used for the left part of my collage.

On the background I stamped the collage stamp from the ‘Butterfly Effect’ set here and there with a turquoise tone Distress Oxides. At the edges I have attached colour matching eyelets. Around the white cardboard I wrapped the strings and then set the print over it with spacer pads.

For the birthday greeting, I made a marbled paper by applying ink to the white cardstock with the Distress Oxides stamp pad and then spraying it with water. This I dabbed with a cloth and then dried well before stamping the greeting. I tore off the upper part and added a dark brown paper behind it.

The frame I also had left over from another project. I have also applied color directly with the stamp pad, stamped the sentiment on it, and knotted two bows with a wide ribbon to it.

Supplies

Stamp pads: Versamark; Distress Oxides – ground espresso, salvaged patina
Embossing powder: Ranger mint chip speckle
Polychromos 156
Distress Oxide Sprays – fired brick, spiced marmalade, vintage photo

Nuvo expanding mousse – white russian

Stamps: Visible Image

Stencil: Visible Image

This card is so gorgeous, the colours are really beautiful together and we love all the layers and the bow. Thank you stempelfrida ♡

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Butterfly Card | Geometric Background Stamps

Posted on July 9, 2021July 9, 2021 by helen

Hi there! Wow it’s been a busy week here.. thank you so much for all the orders placed! Sadly our blog has been a little neglected of late, but we will be catching up with all the latest Design Team tutorials over the coming days. Ali is here today with a beautiful card created with our BUTTERFLY EFFECT stamps and VISOMETRY geometric background stamps, which are looking stunning embossed in white…

This week I am sharing a butterfly card using my current favourites Cosmic Shimmer Powders and Visible Image Butterfly Effect stamps. This is a 7″ x 7″ card and good fun to make. Butterflies come in all colours so you could change the colour scheme to reflect your favourites.

big butterfly stamp | birthday card | white embossing | stamping

Tutorial

Cut a piece of watercolour card 6″ x 6″ and pick out some of your favourite Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powders or Shimmer Shakers. I used Lime Burst, Grass Green, Denim Dash, Electric Blue and Cornflower Blue.

Spritz a little water on the back of the card to keep it flat,.

Then spritz all over the front of the card.

Starting with the lighter colours first, tap each of the colours in 3 or 4 places around the card.

When you have applied all of your powders, your card will look a bit like this.

Lightly spritz water over your card again and watch the colours burst into life as they activate.

Every time you do one of these backgrounds it will be different, pigment powders are so cool 😎

Leave your card to dry naturally if you have lots of patience, otherwise blast it with a heat gun to dry it, turn it over and heat from the other side too.

When it is completely dry it may look a little rumpled. To flatten it out, roll your card backwards and forwards to release the fibres, it will flatten out again.

Pat an antistatic pad over your card, then take the largest geometric circles stamp from the Visible Image ‘Visometry’ set and stamp it in the centre of the card, and twice just off the edges of the card using a light coloured pigment ink, I used Hero Arts Unicorn White. Heat emboss with white embossing powder.

Repeat stamping and white heat embossing using the largest geometric flower stamp.

Continue stamping/embossing with the middle size stamps and use the tiny ones to fill in the gaps.

Stamp the big butterfly from the ‘Butterfly Effect’ set onto white card with versamark ink. Then heat emboss with white embossing powder.

Tap a little of the Electric Blue, Lime Burst and Grass Green shimmer powders onto your craft mat.

Add a drop of water from the end of your paint brush and mix into liquid paint.

Paint your butterfly, blending the colours on the wings.

Add more water, powder to your paint as required. It dries out quite fast at the moment, I’ve noticed.

The heat embossed lines will repel the watercolour paint, any mica which dries on the top of the white areas can be wiped off with a kitchen towel.

Cut out your butterfly leaving a slight gap around the outside. If you cut into the embossed lines they can crack and flake off.

Apply black ink around the edges using a blending tool.

Wipe over the edges with a kitchen towel to remove the excess ink off the white embossing.

Use your blending tool to apply black ink around the edges of your card to create a vignette.

Mount your coloured card onto black card with a border of 1/16″, then onto white card with a border of 1/8″ and then onto black card with a border of 1/8″.

I use an edging ruler and craft knife to do my card matts and gut the card where possible.

Then fix this to a white 7″ x 7″ card blank using pva glue or double sided tape.

Stamp a sentiment from the ‘Lost For Words’ set onto a scrap of white card using black versafine ink, then heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

Cut out the sentiment and mount it onto black card leaving approx 1/16″ border.

Draw around the outside of the white Visometry images with a medium grey alcohol pen and then a lighter grey to make them stand out. The colour does fade as it dries.

Curl the butterfly wings using your fingers before attaching it to your card with 3d glue gel.

Fix the sentiment to the bottom right using 3d gel or foam pads. Add black gems to the butterfly body and a couple at the top right to balance the card.

Here is my finished card 😊 I really like the bling from the shimmery paint.

Supplies

Visible Image Stamps – Visometry, Butterfly Effect & Lost For Words

Cosmic Shimmer Shimmer Shakers – Lime Burst, Grass Green, Denim Dash, Electric Blue and Cornflower Blue

Anti Static pad

Hero Arts Unicorn white pigment inkpad, Versamark inkpad, Black Soot Distress ink & Black Versafine ink pad

Clear & White embossing powders

Paint brush

Grey Spectrum Noir Triblend alcohol marker

heat gun

Watercolour card and black & white card for matting and layering

7″ x 7″ white card blank for second card

pva, 3d glue gel and foam pads

black adhesive gems

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

Ali xxx

What a stunning card! Our big butterfly stamp looks so beautiful, and the white embossed geometric background stamps look wonderful against those fabulous colours and shimmer. Thank you for your fantastic tutorial Ali ♡

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Where Flowers Bloom | Birthday Card

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

Hello and Happy Friday to you! We have some wonderful inspiration to share with you here on the blog today! Angie has a fantastic new video tutorial showing how she made this gorgeous Birthday card with the large flower stamp from our WHERE FLOWERS BLOOM set, stencilled faux water droplets and fabulous Birthday sentiment…

Where Flowers Bloom | Birthday Card | Stamps | Stencils

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This is such a gorgeous card, the flower looks stunning and the water droplets look wonderful. Thank you for your fantastic video Angie ♡

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Mythical Mermaid Stamp | Handmade Card

Posted on June 11, 2021June 18, 2021 by helen

Hello! Thanks for visiting our blog today, it’s been a busy week so we have lots of wonderful Design Team inspiration to catchup with here on the blog. Lynda has made a really beautiful handmade card with our gorgeous Mythical Mermaid stamp, on a fabulous gelli print background..

As you may have been made aware, this week has seen World Oceans Day being celebrated to raise awareness of the importance of looking after our seas. Todays project for Visible Image was made with that in mind. Obviously mermaids don’t really exist, but I like to think they do , and in this card the Mythical Mermaid is watching over her sea creature pals keeping them safe.

mythical mermaid stamp | handmade card

My card started from a circular gel print that I had made a while ago while creating backgrounds for the recent summer release of stamps. I made it on my round gelli plate using acrylic paints and the fabulous Ripped Fishnet stencil.

I started by stamping my mermaid in position using a stamp platform. Once stamped, I kept the paper and stamp in place as wanted to lay down a layer of white gesso in the areas for colouring, and then once dry I was able to stamp in the details.

I painted her with skin tone acrylic paint, and used a Sparkle Pen on her top and tail to add some shimmer.

I then stamped the dolphins, and background stamps inside the circle, embossing the bubbles in white and the fish with Distress Glaze.

I coloured the dolphins and sand with Polychromo pencils, and also added some shading to the mermaids features.

To finish, I coloured the bubbles and added glossy accents, and mat and layered on complimentary blue card.

The beach really is my happy place, so creating this sea themed card was so relaxing to do. Hopefully I will find time to visit the coast for real soon, and who knows, I may even spot a mermaid !

Supplies

What a gorgeous card! The circle gelli print looks fabulous and perfect for our mermaid stamp, surrounded by all her under water friends. Thank you Lynda ♡

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Embossed Dragonfly Stamp | Coloured Bubbles

Posted on June 5, 2021June 4, 2021 by helen

Hi there! We hope you are having a nice weekend so far. Sharon is here on the blog today with an absolutely stunning card created with our DRAGONFLY REFLECTION stamp set embossed in glitter, and some fabulous coloured bubbles.

embossed dragonfly stamp | coloured bubbles | layered wings | handmade card

Embossed Dragonfly Stamp | Coloured Bubbles

Hi! For a long while now I’ve admired the beautiful cards made by Rahmat where she draws bubbles and colours them with her colouring pencils. So when the amazing Dragonfly Reflection stamp set from Visible Image arrived I knew I wanted to have a try at colouring some bubbles, using the round stamp with the grid as a base. I need more practice, but for a first attempt I think it doesn’t look too bad.

Here’s how I made it

Use a stamp positioner for these first steps creating the bubbles.

Stamp the circle in antique linen and leave the stamp in the stamp positioner.

Colour the circle with coloured pencils.

Return the card to the stamp positioner and re-stamp the circle with versamark clear ink and heat emboss with white embossing powder.

Repeat this process twice more to get 2 more bubbles.

Coloured Bubble stamp

Stamp the dragonfly onto the card panel and emboss with a lilac glittery embossing glitter, then roughly colour the wings with the same colours you used for the bubbles.

grunge dragonfly stamp

Stamp the sentiment onto the panel, blend some light blue ink around the corners and add a little doodling to the edges. Back the panel onto black card.

Edge the card blank with the same coloured pencils and set this aside.

Heat emboss the dragonfly onto heat embossable acetate using a sparkly light blue embossing glitter.

Cut the dragonfly out.

Heat emboss the additional wings with a clear multi sparkle and cut these out leaving a little tab on the inner part of the wings.

Place the acetate dragonfly on top of the image on the panel, secure it with low tack tape, then cut two slots either side of the dragonfly’s body for the wings to slot into (cutting the slots through only the acetate dragonfly, the embossed image on the cream card and through the black mat too).

Slot the extra wings through the slots on the acetate dragonfly, then feed them through the slots on the cream panel and secure with tape on the reverse.

Add the panel to the card blank and you are done!

Here is an alternative version of this card using black card as a base.

Supplies

Cream card, Black Card, Distress Inks (antique linen, tumbled glass) Versamark clear ink, Polychromos pencils (I used 101 white, 109 Dark Chrome Yellow, 110 Phthalo Blue, 124 Rose Carmine, 131 Medium Flesh, 134 Crimson, 140 Light Ultramarine, 141 Delft Blue, 154 Light Cobalt Turquoise, 168 Earth Green Yellowish, 171 Light Green, 177 Walnut Brown), WOW! Embossing Glitters (royal crush, coastal, clear multi sparkle), WOW! embossing powder (opaque bright white).

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Thanks for stopping by today and I will see you here again soon.

Hugs,
Sharon xx

Wow this is so beautiful! The glittery embossed dragonfly looks wonderful, and the layered wings are stunning. The gorgeous coloured bubbles look fabulous too. Thank you for this brilliant tutorial Sharon ♡

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Hi there! We hope you are having a nice weekend. Ali is here on the blog today with an amazing handmade card featuring our FEARLESS TIGER stamp with our gorgeous FIBRES stencil.

I’ve been playing with the fab new tiger stamp from Visible Image called ‘Fearless Tiger’. I had a ball making this card – shiny metallic polish, matt black gesso and the stunning, stunning tiger stamp.

fearless tiger stamp | handmade card

Instructions

Cut a piece of heavy stock white card 6″ square, load up a stamping platform with the tiger stamp and stamp the image onto the centre of the card with black versafine ink just once to show where the tiger will be going.

Leave the tiger stamp in place on your stamp platform for later.

Lightly spritz your stamped card with water and then apply some of the red and orange Cosmic Shimmer Metallic Gilding Polishes up to the edge of the tiger and over the rest of the card.

Dry your card with your heat gun then wipe it over with an anti static bag.

Put your card back in your stamp platform and re-stamp the tiger image with black versafine until you have a nice solid black image.

Then heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

Your card will look a bit like this – probably better than mine if you didn’t paint over his ears 😀

Pour a little black gesso into a scrap foil container

Tape the Visible Image Fibre stencil over the your card and stencil a little black gesso over the metallic background, allowing the gesso to dry before moving the stencil to a new part of the card as the stencil is slightly smaller than your card.

When the gesso has dried, paint in the tigers face using an orange watercolour pen and a damp brush.

Paint the eyes with green and yellow and re-paint in any white bits using white acrylic paint or a bleed proof white ink.

Pat your anti static bag over the tigers face then return your card to the stamp press.

Use a gold or any other pigment ink to ink up the tiger’s mane, avoiding his face then heat emboss with gold embossing powder.

Use a sponge to apply a little glycerine or versamark ink around the edges of the card and then heat emboss with gold embossing powder.

Use the remaining ink left on the gilding polish applicators to colour the edges of a square of white card just over 6 1/2″ square and also scrap of white card for the sentiment.

Attach your tiger card onto black card with a 1/16″ border and then onto your coloured card with approx 1/4″ border.

Then attach onto another black card layer with approx 1/4″ border and finally onto a white 8″ x 8″ white card blank.

Using your stamp platform again, stamp the Fearless sentiment onto the coloured scrap with back versafine ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder, repeat inking and heat embossing a second time so it is really glossy.

Cut out the sentiment, sponge a little black gesso around the edges then attach it to a piece of black card, leaving a border of approx 1/8″ and fix to the bottom right of your card with double sided foam tape.

Finally apply glossy accents to the tiger’s eyes and glue a few sequins on the background.

Here is my finished card

tiger stamp | face | embossing | stencil | handmade card

Supplies

Visible Image Stamps – Fearless Tiger
Visible Image Stencils – Fibres
Cosmic Shimmer Metallic Gilding Polishes in Rich Red & Tangy Tangerine
Black Gesso & Stencil brush
Watercolour pens eg Zig clean colours or Koi brush pens
Black Versafine ink pad
Gold pigment ink
Versamark ink pad or glycerine
Masking tape
Sponge
Clear and gold embossing powders
Glossy accents
Dark sequins
Heat gun
White stamping card (300gsm), Black & white card for matting & layering
8″ x 8″ white card blank
double sided tape or pva
3d foam pads

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

Ali xxx

Woweeee our tiger stamp looks amazing Ali! Loving the fibres textures and the stunning metallics and gold embossing… gorgeous! Thank you ♡

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