Hello and Happy weekend! We have Heather here on the blog today with an amazing mixed media canvas featuring lots of our stamps and stencils with our ‘How Fragile We Are’ sentiment stamp…
Hello to you all and a very happy new year to all of you. I’m back with some new Visible Image inspiration for you and I’m hoping to ‘up my game’ a bit this year and push myself into new directions.
My first make for 2021 is this 8×6″ canvas using Shining Bright, Glimmer of Light and How Fragile for the main focal images of the piece.
I’ve been having a bit of a clear out in my craft room of late. I gave a huge amount of paper pads away to some neighbours and in my clearing up I found some half used canvases of which this is one.
Before I gave it a couple of coats of gesso, the canvas was a pale blue with various stamped images, it even has some tissue paper strips down one side but none of the bothers me as I love a bit of texture!
Once I’d gesso’d it (gesso is a primer so is a good base for most surfaces) I clear embossed Fibonacci in a couple of random places so that once I added ink, the image would come through and give some white texture in the background.
I used Distress Oxide Sprays (Chipped Sapphire, Rustic Wilderness and Evergreen Bough) for this make as I love their matt and almost chalky finish and just dabbed them on using the tiny straw in the bottle and brushed them on. I did go over them using blender brushes just to neaten the surface slightly before adding crackle paste with the fabulous Count Me In stencil.
While the crackle pastes dries I began on the little circle (5″ in diameter) and this is just to break up the rectangle really, to add more interest and somewhere to focus the images. I’ve used Organics to continue the crackle theme that I’ll be using on the main bulb. Having stamped it using VersaFine Clair Morning Mist, I used a clear embossing powder to add a bit of sheen and to protect the stamping as I wanted to add Distress Oxide inks over the top.
Like the canvas, I added crackle paste through the Count Me In stencil again to tie the two together.
With this complete, I dripped Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (Bittersweet Vine) onto both the circle and the canvas and then used a watercolour fan brush to sprinkle on watered down gesso.
When stamping the bulbs, I masked out the middle images from the larger ones. To do this, I used masking tape cut to cover the image and removed it after the ink. Having then stamped the bulb onto a sheet of scrap paper, I cut out the bulb interior so I could stamp the shattered glass effect from How Fragile We Are. The bus were stamped in VersaFine Clair Nocturne and the shattered glass in Morning Mist. Both were heat embossed using clear embossing powder.
You could use whatever you prefer to colour the bulbs but I love these Arteza Brush Pens as the colour is beautifully vibrant and that’s kind of what you want in a bulb, no?! With the colour in place, I used a watercolour brush pen to blend and neaten them up.
To highlight the broken effect, I used Glossy Accents to add a glass look to the bulb and Organics on the circle and it looks amazing!
With the bulbs and crackle paste drying, I turned my attention to these gorgeous moths from Glimmer of Hope. Stamped in Nocturne VersaFine Claire again, these too were heat embossed using clear powder before being coloured with brown shades of the Arteza pens.
Having trimmed all the images, I added foam tape to the backs to give them extra dimension on the project. Having looked at the bulb wondering how to attach it, I decided to wrap some wire around the cap so it looked like it was almost hanging.
With everything made, it was time to layer the images up and secure them into place. It was at this point I felt the larger moth needed some extra dimension so I stamped the wings again onto vellum and attached them slightly lower than the original so you can see his second set fluttering away.
I now have this hanging in my craft room and it looks just fabulous (even if I do say so myself!). Although your eyes are naturally drawn to the bulbs, you’re pulled down by the texture from the Count Me In stencil, and the smaller moth.
These are the Visible Image stamps and stencil sets I’ve used for this make…
I’m really excited to push myself this year… get out of that comfort zone and experiment more than I usually do and I’m excited to see what new designs Mark and Helen make for us because I know they’ll be spectacular as they always are!
There’s been lots of inspiration over the Christmas period in the Visible Image Facebook group so do pop in and if you’ve made anything new why not post it up! I love to see everyone’s makes and ideas.
Thats’ all from me today. Look after yourselves and I’ll catch up again soon.
H xx
Woweee this is an amazing canvas Heather! So much detail, gorgeous layers, and wonderful texture! Your sentiment choice is so perfect right now. Thank you ♡
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Sending our best wishes and we hope you have a good weekend.
Stay safe and well.
Helen & Mark xx
Shine | Robot Stamp | Fishnet Stencil
Hello! We are back with more awesome new stencils inspiration today! Macarena is here with fantastic mixed media tag featuring an amazing textured background for our Robot stamp using the NEW Ripped Fishnet stencil…
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This is such a great tag! Amazing texture and a perfect background for our robot stamp… thank you Macarena ♡
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Stay safe and well,
Mark & Helen xx
Shine Bright
Good Evening! We are back with our final post today which comes from Pauline Butcher…
I had a Workshop planned for last Sunday, but as we had snow, I decided it was better to cancel it, to keep everyone safe.
Three of the Crafters were all together, so I challenged them to make an ATC (Artist Trading Card, which are 2.5″ x 3.5″ ), to use 3 colours plus Black, 2 stencils, and some Visible Image Stamps, and to also add some dimension.
Their creations were fabulous, but I decided to expand the one I made, into four and mount them, so here is the result…
The stamps I’ve used are…
Stars & Stripes (with paste through),
I used Distress inks, the images were all stamped onto white card, and heat embossed, and the light bulbs were stamped onto acetate and heat embossed.
Thank you for popping in.
Hugs, Pauline xxxxx
Wow this is awesome.. what a great way to use your ATC’s Pauline! Thank you for the brilliant inspiration ♡
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Have a great weekend!
Mark & Helen xx
Don’t Let Someone Dim Your Light
Good Evening! We have a super shiny card from Becca here on the blog this evening…
Let’s talk about glitter. Basically, it’s my favorite thing in the world, and my least favorite thing all in one. There is nothing that makes a card sing more than some open sprinkles of shimmer… but it gets EVERYWHERE.
I am fairly certain my vacuum cleaner is the sparkliest and fanciest sucking machine around.
I started my design with some black cardstock and nice layer of Fossilized Amber Distress Oxides. I spritzed it with a little bit o’ water to create some dimension.
Next, I used some gold texture paste through the Strobes stencil and then pressed some loose glitter into it.
I used my heat tool gun to make the texture paste dry. I also love the way it makes the paste crack and bubble.
I stamped and embossed a lightbulb from the Shining Bright stamp set on a piece of heavyweight vellum.
LOVE this card.. OMG just look at that glitter! And the golden texture!!!
Thanks Becca! ♡
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Mark & Helen xx
Shine Bright Girl!
Hi there! We’re really excited to be featuring the very first project by NEW DT member Tenia Nelson on our blog today…
Hey Y’all!!!
Happy Tuesday and hope all is well!! Today is my first post for the Visible Image Design Team….Woot Woot!!!
Here is my fun creation….. CHECK IT!!!
I had a lot of fun with this card!!!
I created this card using the Shining Bright set:
Here are the directions for this card..
1. Create card from white cardstock.
2. On another piece of embossed white cardstock add splatter, stamp sentiment (and heat emboss), add letter stickers and washi tape.
3. Stamp, heat emboss and cut out images.
4. Adhere images onto tag as well as adding twine and a bow to tag.
5. Adhere image panel onto card (using foam adhesive) and adhere tag onto image panel using foam adhesive.
I hope y’all like this fun card!!!
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!!!!
-t
Card Recipe for Shine Bright Girl Card:
Stamps: Visible Image
Paper: Ranger, Michaels, Tag
Inks: IMAGINE Crafts
Embellishments: Twine (The Twinery), Washi (Queen and Co), Letter Stickers (Michaels), Bow (Studio Calico)
Tools: Heating Tool (Marvy Uchida)
Totally awesome card Tenia! Loving those colours and what a fantastic design! Thank you ♡
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Pop back tomorrow to see NEW Design Team member Lanette Erickson’s gorgeous first project!
Thanks for visiting us today!
Mark & Helen xx
Shine Bright
Hello! We hope you have enjoyed seeing all the latest inspiration our amazing team have been creating with our NEW stamps!
This final post is sharing a few of the incredible cards created with our NEW Shining Bright stamp set.
Just look at the clever designing by Mark… LOVE the rays of light over the word SHINE and the lightbulbs are awesome!
The quote is so inspiring and the words mean so much to us.. especially at the moment!
‘Don’t let someone dim your light simply because it’s shining in their eyes’
(keep moving ahead and let your light shine even brighter!)
These stamps also work brilliantly with another very popular set we released last summer…
Here are some of the stunning cards that have been created with these incredible stamps…
Created by Teresa Morgan: the background was created with brushos and distress inks.
Isn’t it awesome! Thank you Teresa ♡
Created by Nicky Gilburt: the background was created with distress inks,
using darker and darker shades to build up the depth.
Looks amazing! Thank you Nicky ♡
Created by Nicky Gilburt: I found my UTEE and made a quick stencil by stamping
and cutting out the lightbulb on spare card. Then, once I’d coloured it, I coated it with Versamark and got melty!
Stunning effect on the lightbulb! Thank you again Nicky ♡
These stamps are flying out the door… thank you so much for loving them!
It means the world to us ♡♡♡
Wow! Well we hope you have enjoyed all the amazing inspiration we have shared here on our blog this weekend.
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Mark will be on Create and Craft TV next Saturday, March 4th at 10am with some of our fantastic new designs!
And, we will be back here on the blog sharing lots more inspiration from our amazing team this coming week…
we have a NEW Design Team member to announce tomorrow too… although you may already know her 😉
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Much love,
Mark & Helen xx
Glimmer of Light – Visible Image Stamps
Hello! Thanks for visiting!
Pauline is here to inspire you today with an amazing project featuring stamps from our Summer Release and our brilliant MDF Monoliths…
Hugs Pauline xxxx
Amazing Monolith Pauline! So much fantastic detail.. Thank you ♡
We’ll be back soon with more awesome Design Team inspiration!
Have a great day!
Mark & Helen xx
