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Underwater Canvas

Posted on April 15, 2018April 15, 2018 by helen

Hello! We have even more awesome inspiration coming your way here on the blog today!

Lisa Taggart is here sharing an incredible canvas she created for a magazine feature earlier this year…

Hello today I am happy to be sharing a canvas I made for Visible Image a while ago using some of their new 2018 stamp releases and a couple of items from existing designs. Thus combining the old with the new…

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I was fortunate to have this piece appear in the March 2018 issue of Craft Stamper magazine as part of a team feature…

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The design also appears on the introductory page of the Visible Image catalogue.

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Links for the products can be found here:

I wanted to create a multi layered piece to give the impression of an underwater mirky depth. I did this using a variety of mediums and masking tricks.

I masked using a combination of heat resist embossing for the sea horse and some of the foilage and fluid masking through the stencil. When colouring I used a combination of brusho powders, Spectrum Noir sparkle pens and acrylic paint.

To create dimension and light I payed particular attention to the placement of the dark and light colours both for the foilage and the background water. I also concentrated a fair bit on the finer details- the colouring of the seahorses, gelli fish and the bubbles.

I decided to use the reverse of the canvas to create a box frame. I used texture paste through the stencil and embedded art stones for extra bubble like texture. I wanted to mirror the scene inside the frame. I painted the inside of the frame using the aqua colour to reflect the light and highlighted the stones using gilding wax and glitter kiss.

Finally the rusty wire around the frame as well as adding texture in a similar shape to the stencil it also depicted a metaphoric contrast- the calm scene as against life’s stresses on the surface.

Here’s a closer look :

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Well I hope you like it!

Lisa xx

This is such a stunning piece of art! Thank you so much Lisa.. the depth, texture and colours are incredible ♡

You will find more of Lisa’s inspiring projects over on her blog.

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We’ll be back tomorrow with more gorgeous inspiration.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Mark & Helen xx

Happy Heart

Posted on December 11, 2017December 16, 2017 by helen

Good Evening! We are back with more fabulous inspiration this evening.

Heather Mitchell has been creating fabulous texture with our ‘Fibres’ stencil…

Hello again everyone,

I’m back again with my latest make for the Visible Image DT and this time I’ve concentrated on texture using the stencils and the background stamps… and who doesn’t love a bit of texture!

I started by adding Distress Oxide Ink Pads to watercolour paper to create a watery background and then, using the ‘Fibres’ stencil, I’ve applied modelling paste. Once fully dry, more colour has been added before flicking white Gesso over the 8×8″ background.

I love the added texture the stencil gives over the already textured background

You can see from the photograph, I have then used various stamps to add yet more layers before stitching around the corners to frame the card.

Once the background was a wash with colour, gilding wax was added to some of the raised areas to add a muted sheen

I’ve then randomly stamped the number stamp from the ‘Somewhere in Time‘ set before adding the parallel lines from ‘Sparkle in the Rain‘ and the script from ‘Scripted Sheets‘.

The heart was die cut from watercolour paper before having the colour applied

I didn’t want to add too much more detail to the card, so kept it fairly simple by adhering a die-cut heart that has been coloured and then had a thick layer of crackle paint added. Again, I love the extra texture this adds, especially as it’s flaking away in parts.

To finish the card, I added a simple sentiment courtesy of the ‘Just be Happy‘ stamp set which has been backed onto black card and adhered to the card using 3D foam dots.

Regular followers will know what a huge advocate of texture and layering I am and the Visible Image stencils are perfect for this. When combined with the stamps, the images you can create are never ending!

And here’s the list of the lovely ingredients I’ve used:

Visible Image products:

Fibres stencil

Distress Ink Pads:
Mown Lawn, Shabby Shutters, Crushed Olive Oxides: Cracked Pistachio, Peeled Paint, Peacock Feathers, Faded Jeans, Picked Raspberry, Abandoned Coral, Worn Lipstick

Other products used:
Distress Crackle Paint, Liquitex Modelling Paste, StazOn Jet Black ink pad, Archival Watering Can ink pad

Thank you all for looking… see you again soon!

Heather

Love love loving the texture Heather! Great card.. thank you ♡

You will find more of Heather’s gorgeous projects over on her blog.

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We will be back tomorrow with gorgeous inspiration from Lisa Taggart!

Mark & Helen xx

Be Brave

Posted on November 13, 2017November 13, 2017 by helen

Hello! We have so much wonderful inspiration to share with you here on the blog today!

Veerle Moreels is up first with not only an amazing project but a brilliant video tutorial too…

I really wanted to go and play with a Visible Image Monolith again, as it has been so long.

So I did, and had my camera running…

Curious on how you can get plastic wings to stand up without any support? I show you in my video ^.^ Enjoy!

Stamps and stencils used

Monoliths

Son Definition stamp

Scripted Streets stamp set

Distorted Chess stencil

Just Be Happy stamp set

Live Life Now stamp set

Own Kind of Beautiful stamp set

Awesome project Veerle… thank you ♡
Loving those warm sepia tones and the texture is gorgeous!

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

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Shop where you will find all our awesome stamps!
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We will be back later with a gorgeous card from Jane Tyrrell, and the very first DT project from Heather Mitchell.

Mark & Helen xx

Showcasing Veerle Moreels!

Posted on November 4, 2017November 4, 2017 by helen

Hi there! We hope you are having a great Saturday.

This weekend we are showcasing some of our favourite cards and projects from the awesome designers who are staying on the team.

Next up is the incredible Veerle Moreels!

My name is Veerle, I’m married and proud mom of 3 teenagers and I live in Belgium.

I’m a kindergarten teacher but I don’t teach anymore. I kind of rolled in the creative world when my kids were young and I had to find a way to take on all the photo’s I made of my children. That’s when I discovered scrapbooking and it all started for me. I started as a scrapbook consultant for a company in The Netherlands and internet brought me to mixed media and cardmaking today.

I love trying out all kind of different techniques and materials so I end up with all different styles of projects. My personal style however is the less cute style but slightly rougher style. Even though I do like to make CAS cards as well.

Here are just some of our most favourite projects from Veerle, who has now been on our Design Team for almost 2 years…

You will find more of Veerle’s beautiful projects over on her blog.

And of course you will find all the stamps used in these projects over in our SHOP!

We look forward to sharing more wonderful inspiration from Veerle over the coming months.

We will be back tomorrow with some stunning projects from Jane Tyrrell and Eileen Godwin.

Mark & Helen xx

Showcasing Pauline Butcher!

Posted on November 4, 2017November 4, 2017 by helen

Hello and happy weekend to you!

We have announced the TEN amazing new designers joining our team, so now we are showcasing some of our favourite cards and projects from the awesome designers who are staying on the team…

First up is the very fabulous Pauline Butcher!

I discovered card making and paper crafting years ago, and couldn’t get enough of patterned papers, and then stamping came into my life, which is now my passion. I demonstrate for Visible Image on Create and Craft TV and run my own ‘Inky Workshops’ in Warwick and at venues around the UK.

Here are some of our most favourite ‘Pauline makes’ (there are just so many to choose from as Pauline is in her 5th year on our Design Team!):

You will find more of Pauline’s stunning projects over on her blog.

And of course you will find all the stamps used in these projects over in our SHOP!

We look forward to sharing more gorgeous inspiration from Pauline over the coming months.

Thank you for stopping by today.

If you missed any of our announcements you can find them HERE!

We will be back later with some of our favourite projects from Veerle Moreels.

Mark & Helen xx

Welcome Heather Mitchell!

Posted on November 3, 2017November 3, 2017 by helen

Hi there! We are really excited to announce the last 2 awesome designers joining us here at Visible Image to inspire you over the next year!

First up today is Heather Mitchell who lives in the UK…

Hello everyone… My name is Heather and I am super chuffed to have been chosen to be part of the amazing Visible Image DT. I’ve been crafting for about 8/9 years although I’ve always been drawn to creative pursuits and as a small girl was always drawing/colouring painting. I studied textile design and surface pattern for 4 years after leaving school and this has totally influenced the way I work as I love to layer papers and images and add textures to all my makes – it just feels naked otherwise!

I live in Surrey with my partner and our two naughty little Dachshunds, Stan and Syd, who are often found asleep in the craft room under their duvet while I work. I work full-time for London Underground so my days can be nights and nights days but I always try to find time to create as it keeps me balanced and sane… I honesty don’t know where I’d be without my craft room retreat.

I’m so looking forward to working with Mark and Helen and the Visible Image team as I’ve been an avid watcher from the wings for a while now and just love what everyone creates… I’m a little excited to be chosen as part of the new team so bring it on!!

Here are some of Heather’s stunning creations that caught our eye…

You will find more gorgeous projects over on Heather’s blog.

Welcome to the team Heather! ♡

We love Heather’s style… all that texture & colour, and her ‘inky’ backgrounds are fabulous!
We cannot wait for Heather to start inspiring you with our stamps and stencils!

Come back later to meet the last NEW designer joining the team here at Visible Image…
and tomorrow we will be re-introducing the awesome ladies who are staying here on the team for the next year (and hopefully longer!).

Have a great Friday!

Mark & Helen xx

Welcome Josefine Fouarge!

Posted on November 2, 2017 by helen

Hi there! We hope you are enjoying all our announcements this week!

The next awesome designer joining our team is Josefine Fouarge who lives in the USA…

I discovered my creative side in 2014 when I moved from Germany to the US to be with my very supportive husband and our Rat Terrier “Freedom”. It started with simple layouts and handmade greeting cards and evolved into art journaling and mixed media over time. Today I love to experiment with different mediums and techniques (my favorite types of projects are messy and/or snarky) and inspire others by sharing my enthusiasm online and as a teacher in my local craft store Scrapbooking Forever & Crafts.

Here are some of Josefine’s awesome creations that wowed us…

You will find more gorgeous projects over on Josefine’s blog.

Welcome to the team Josefine! ♡

We love Josefine’s style, her backgrounds are just stunning.. all that gorgeous inky-ness!
We cannot wait for Josefine to start inspiring you with our stamps and stencils!

Come back tomorrow to meet our last 2 NEW designers joining the team here at Visible Image…

Mark & Helen xx

Breathe…

Posted on September 3, 2017September 20, 2017 by helen

Good Evening! We have some beautiful inspiration for you from Veerle Moreels, featuring another of our new stencils…

Sometimes when you see something there immediately pops an idea into your head and you can’t wait to go ahead and give in to that idea. So I was very happy when the stencils from Visible Image arrived here at home. Yes you are reading it right: stencils from Visible Image ^.^

And of course I filmed my first play with the stencils…

That tiny spot in between the strobes is just perfect to put tiny elements in and get them in the spotlight. Keep an eye out because I still have loads of ideas for this stencil ^.^

Products Used:

Strobes

Imagine Dream Inspire

Stunning tag Veerle ♡ And a fabulous video too, thank you!

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

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We will be back with an awesome card from Jane Tyrrell tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by today, and if you have missed any of our recent posts check them out HERE.

Mark & Helen xx

Captured Moments

Posted on August 21, 2017August 21, 2017 by helen

Hello! We are back this evening with an incredible project by Teresa Morgan…

My Visible Image project today is a mixed media Monolith full of texture and layers. This was produced for Craft Stamper earlier this year.

The background is created with layers of crackle paint and vintage ephemera, giving a feeling of timeworn decay. I stamped words directly onto the background as well as onto paper that was collaged over the ephemera.

Stamped words add interest to the background

My cage is half of a Christmas ornament, given a rusty makeover with paint and sand texture paste. Inside is a Prima lightbulb embellishment which I coloured with alcohol inks. My stamped moths are backed with gilding flakes for a beautiful metallic glow.

I hope you enjoyed taking a closer look at my piece today and are inspired to create something similar.

Stamps Used:

We adore this… so much to discover. Incredible texture and a brilliant interpretation of the quote!

Thank you Teresa ♡

You can find more of Teresa’s inspiring projects over on her blog.

All our social media links…

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We will be back a little later with another awesome project!

Mark & Helen xx

Time Spirals

Posted on June 21, 2017June 21, 2017 by helen

Good Morning! (or afternoon/evening!)

We have 3 amazing Design Team projects to share with you today, first up is an awesome MDF Monolith by Veerle Moreels…

When you first see new released stamps all those ideas start spinning around in your head. Especially when seeing all these lovely words in the ‘Somewhere in time’ set. I’m a sucker for word…and have a soft spot for strong words.

And one of the first ideas when seeing the clock in ‘Ahead of our Time’ was this… trying to create a fossil look. As the shape of this clock immediately reminded me of that shape of old fossilized shells.

To get the word time to pop up I stamped it onto paper and fussy cut them out. Another layer of texture ^.^ Remember the June challenge over at Visible Image is called ‘dimension’ …you can still join in for your chance of winning a £40 coupon!

The complete project was made onto a monolith so I can put this little reminder out to see every day. Now to figure out what to put on the back ^.^

Stamps Used:

Ahead of our Time

Somewhere in Time

MDF Monolith

Incredible project Veerle.. what an amazing idea to create a fossil with the time spiral stamp! Stunning.. thank you ♡

You will find more gorgeous projects over on Veerle’s blog.

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Shop where you will find all our awesome stamps!
Blog see all our latest posts here!
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We will be back soon with more fantastic inspiration! Thanks for visiting us here on the Visible Image blog today.

Stay cool…

Mark & Helen xx

Billy’s Summer Garden

Posted on June 20, 2017June 20, 2017 by helen

Hi again! Wow we are spoiling you with inspiration today!!!

Up next is Jane Tyrrell with a superb project featuring our awesome Curious Cats stamps…

A while back I shared a sneak peek of the Visible Image Designer 3D challenge feature for Craft Stamper Magazine. This piece is also very relevant inspiration for the “dimension” challenge running over in the Visible Image Facebook group. All the details and links for this will be at the end of this post.

As you may know, my garden is a constant source for my crafting inspiration. Billy my cat is also a constant shadow out there and he really loves the summer months when we spend many pleasant hours outside.

Billy has a friend called Blackie who visits, so when it came to choosing a set of stamps to work with for my project, I did not hesitate to chose this one…

the amazing Curious Cats set…

I used a Visible Image MDF Monolith and added some die cuts for initial texture

and gave it some colour using these “garden inspired” PaperArsty fresco paints.

I also added some texture paste through my dots and floral stencil.

To give me this base.

I added some shading and the fun paw prints from the set

I stamped my Cat face and carefully applied it.

I then stamped a small dragonfly from the Live in the Moment set

I stamped, embossed and fussy cut out the small cats and die cut some floral elements

It was then time to put on my creative hat..

and here is my finished ‘Billy’s Summer Garden’ Monolith

and a few close ups…

I made a picket fence from coffee stirrers and added a texture paste path

and Glossy Accents to his eyes and his sweet pink nose….?

and to prove that Billy really has a friend called Blackie who visits I took this snap last week..

Thanks so much for stopping by today and for the very kind comments that you take the time to leave. Thank you also for all the lovely messages, texts and emails sent to me after seeing the Create and Craft show too. I love finding out that I can inspire people in their own crafting. I am happy to share my knowledge and techniques.. sharing is caring in my books and we are all on a fun creative journey.

Back soon.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Awesome project Jane… so much fabulous detail and texture! Love your inspiration for it too! ♡

You can find more of Jane’s inspiring cards and projects over on her blog.

All our social media links:

Shop where you will find all our awesome stamps!
Blog see all our latest posts here!
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We will be back later with our last post for today…
Veerle Moreels will be sharing a stunning project featuring our NEW stamps.

Thanks so much for visiting us here on the Visible Image blog today!
If you have missed any of our recent posts you will find them all HERE.

Mark & Helen xx

Live Life

Posted on June 19, 2017June 19, 2017 by helen

Hi there! Wow summer is well and truly here.. we don’t often have such high temperatures here in Wales but it’s been scorching the last few days! We actually took some ‘time out’ over the weekend which made a nice change.

We are kicking off this week’s inspiration with a fabulous project by Veerle Moreels…

I love to pimp up objects and when finding this little wooden tool box I immediately knew what I wanted to do. Sand off the text that was on it, give it a new coat of white paint and stamp it with Visible Image stamps ^.^

The original text was to big to put on the front but leaving the ‘now’ off still gives you a beautiful reminder.

Stamps Used:

Live Life Now

Love this Veerle.. what a great little box! Thank you for your fabulous inspiration ♡

You will find more gorgeous projects over on Veerle’s blog.

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We will be back soon with more fantastic inspiration!

Mark & Helen xx

May Challenge – Express Yourself!

Posted on May 1, 2017May 1, 2017 by helen

Hi there! We have a brand new themed challenge starting in our Facebook group today!

We will still be running our ‘Show & Tell’ challenge every month too, where you can upload photos of anything you create with our stamps for the chance to WIN a £25 coupon! The winner is always chosen at random, to make it fair for everyone 🙂

From this month we will also be giving you a theme to play along with, and there is a massive £40 coupon up for grabs for the lucky winner!

So here is our theme for May…

We challenge you to make WORDS the focal point of your card, tag, project or journal page!

You can create absolutely anything, but you must include some stamping and any stamps you use must be from Visible Image – you can use any other products you wish to!

Whether you decide on your quote or sentiment first, or build your background and then decide, it’s all just about having fun!

The challenge closes on the 28th and the winner will be chosen at random from all the entries on the 1st day of the following month.

We hope you will come and join our Facebook group if you haven’t already joined 🙂

We will be back with some gorgeous inspiration from Jane Tyrrell later today,
and we will be sharing more inspiration for this challenge theme throughout the month!

Have a good Monday.. Bank Holiday and raining here in South Wales!

Mark & Helen xx

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Reveal Yourself

Posted on April 14, 2017 by helen

Hi there! We are back with more fabulous inspiration for you here on the blog today!

Veerle Moreels is here with a stunning tag….

It’s no secret I love all of the Visible Image stamps and I love creating using their word stamps. That’s no secret either ^.^

Today I focused on this “Own it” set. Beautiful words you can use just as they are. But they can be easily be combined…

And of course this new text needed some color and the Face it stamps…

Stamps Used:

Own it

Face it

This is so striking! Love how you used just part of the face and the quote works so well. Thank you Veerle ♡

You will find more gorgeous projects over on Veerle’s blog.

All our social media links:
Shop where you will find all our awesome stamps!
Blog see all our latest posts here!
Facebook group join in with the banter and enter our ‘Show & Tell’ Monthly Challenge!
Facebook PAGE …give us a like and enter our weekly giveaways!

You can also follow us on:

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We have a fabulous project from Jane up here on the blog next today!

If you have missed any of our recent posts you will find them all HERE!

Have a great day!

Mark & Helen xx

Dream

Posted on March 30, 2017 by helen

Hi there, we have another incredible card to share with you today, created with our Face it stamps.

Over to Teresa Morgan…

Good Morning

It’s time for another dose of Visible Image inspiration from me. I have been combining the old with the new again this week and have a serene card using the fabulous new Face it! stamps.

I began by spritzing some acrylic sprays on my base card – yellow, red and a slight touch of blue. Once dry I added some larger splats with black, white and green acrylic paint and a fine brush. (Thin the paint with a little water, load the fine brush, then tap the handle to flick spots of paint randomly over the background.)

I stamped and embossed the sentiment onto white card then matted onto black and set aside.

Once completely dry I stamped and embossed the face with black embossing powder, and the Visometry stamps with white embossing powder. I wanted some dimension to the card so embossed some of the smaller shapes onto heat resistant acetate and layered over the larger ones with 3d gel. Some super sparkly Prima gems in the centres finished the card.

Stamps used:

Face It!

Own It!

Visometry

Wow! What a stunner.. thank you Teresa ♡ Loving our super cool Visometry stamps with the face stamps!

You’ll find more fantastic cards and projects from Teresa over on her blog.

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Stay tuned for more awesome inspiration here on the blog… coming up next we have a brilliant card from Dot!

Thanks for visiting,

Mark & Helen xx

Born To Dance

Posted on March 30, 2017 by helen

Hi there, we have lots of inspiration still to share with you here on the blog. Our Design Team have created so many wonderful projects with our new stamps, so we hope you will leave feeling really inspired!

Over to Corrie Herriman who has a gorgeous journal page to share…

Hello everyone,
today I am sharing an art journal page I made with Visible Image Stamps.

These stamps are all from the newest release.

I painted the background with acrylic paints.

Here’s a detail of the little sparkly bits around the ballet dancer. They are so much more sparkly in real life !

I have used the following stamp sets:

Born to Perform

Scripted Streets

Thank you so much for stopping by today !

Such a stunning page Corrie thank you! ♡ Love those colours and the focal point around our gorgeous ballerina!

You will find more of Corrie’s fantastic cards and projects over on her blog.

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Next up here on the blog we have an awesome card from Teresa created with our Face it stamps!

Mark & Helen xx

Face it… she’s fabulous!

Posted on March 30, 2017 by helen

Hi! Thanks for coming to visit our blog. We are having a massive catch up of all the latest Design Team projects,
after neglecting our blog for a few weeks!

There have been so many amazing cards and projects created with our NEW Face it collection,
and Nicky Gilburt is here with a very special canvas she has created with these gorgeous stamps…

Hello and today I am sharing with you my very first ever canvas, created with the Face it and Create It Stamps by Visible Image.

It measures 20 x 20cms and was created in an evening with plenty of stamping, colouring and cutting, and lots of fun!

I simply stamped the features onto the canvas, using a large stamping block behind it, to get a good pressure with my stamp, and coloured from the edge with shades of green distress ink and a blending tool and paintbrush to keep the edges soft.

I added crackles from the fabulous ‘create it’ set, and if you look closely, you’ll see I coloured the eyes in purple,
just to reflect the other-worldliness of the girl. (I also did this on very thin card which I then stuck to the canvas,
so that I could capture the accurate detail of the iris and pupils).

The flowers were simply stamped in Distress ink onto thin card, and then coloured with a waterbrush. I used all three sizes of flower from the Create It set, on some of them, to build up depth a bit more, then finished off the centres with Liquid Pearls.

For the leaves… I simply stamped the flowers in green, and from each flower I snipped out two pairs of leaves and one single, which, by the time they were strategically positioned behind the petals, were unrecognisable as the same thing!

The finishing touch was the butterfly, Visible Image of course, from the ‘Own Kind of Beautiful‘ set from last year.

I am so excited about this project, and even more so that it was featured in the Visible Image Create and Craft TV show
a few weeks ago. I have never seen stamps like this, with which you can construct both human and feline features
(and look out for a mixture of both from my fellow Visible Image design team…!)

Stamps used:

Face it

Create it

Own Kind of Beautiful

Feedback from the release of these sets has been phenomenal, particularly because the crafter can choose the level
of difficulty – she looks as beautiful just stamped onto plain white, or softly coloured paper, as she does all adorned with flowers! So I can’t wait to see lots of interpretations shared in the Visible Image Facebook group.

Happy crafting!

Nicky

Thank you Nicky for this gorgeous project, she looks fabulous surrounded by all those flowers and the pretty butterfly ♡

You can find more of Nicky’s fabulous cards and projects over on her blog.

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Stay tuned for a fabulous journal page from Corrie up next here on the blog!

Mark & Helen xx

Swim Deeper

Posted on February 26, 2017February 26, 2017 by helen

Hello! We are back with more gorgeous inspiration as promised.. show much to share with you today!

Over to Dot Leathbridge…

Dare To Swim is one of the new stamp releases from Visible Image.

Blue Bottles are the jellyfish in our region that we often see washed up on the beach… painful too if you go swimming when they are about! They are only tiny, but they pack a fair punch.

This set has everything! From jellyfish, to weed, to fish, to bubbles – along with a sentiment.

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For this card my distress crayons were used for the background.

It gives a lovely muted look and reminds me of what it looks like underwater.

The drips are done with the crayons too – so versatile!

Stamp set used:

Dare To Swim

This is such a gorgeous scene Dot.. beautiful background ♡ Thank you!

Stay tuned for more…

Mark & Helen xx

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Reveal Your True Colours

Posted on February 10, 2017 by helen

Hello! Thank you for coming to check out today’s inspiration!

Pauline Butcher is here today sharing her latest card and WOW is it fabulous…

Hi there!

Another week has passed, does it go quickly or is it just me, lol !!!!

It’s Fabulous Friday, and I’m here again to share a card I’ve made using some of the awesome
new Stamp sets available from ‘Visible Image‘, they really are fresh and exciting.

So today I’m sharing a card made using.. Face It!

The sentiment is from Own It, the stars are from Born to Perform, and the paw print is from Curious Cats!

2017-02-10 Visible Image - face stamps - reveal your true colours - Pauline Butcher

I created the background using Distress Inks, stamping the ink pad onto my glass mat, one colour at a time,
spritzing with a little water, then gently tapping the card into the mixture, then drying it. I continued doing this with as many colours as I wanted, until I’d achieved a background I was happy with.

After drying it, I stamped the face masking off one eye, using Versamark, then heat embossing with
Wow Black glint embossing powder. Then I stamped one closed eye, lining it up, and also heat embossing it.

I then stamped the other elements, except for the paw print, again using Versamark,
and heat embossing with the Black Glint powder. The paw print was stamped using
Wilted Violet Distress Ink, I also used this ink with a paintbrush for the eye liner, and the lips.

To finish off I used Lilac Stickles for the eyes, and Stardust Stickles on the stars and lips.

I hope all you lovely people who pre-ordered these super new stamps, have got them now or you very soon will!

Please put them to good use and enter the Visible Image ‘Show and Tell’ challenge..
there’s a chance you’ll win a £25 voucher, to spend in the shop! So get you photo’s into the album HERE.

Thanks for visiting.

Hugs, Pauline xxxx

Incredible card Pauline! Thank you! Loving that background so much, and just look at those lips… ♡
You can find more of Pauline’s fabulous cards and projects over on her blog.

We received this card in the post today and it is even more spectacular in real life!
It will be proudly displayed on our stand at the CHSI trade show next weekend.

We are so excited to see what you all create with your Face it stamps! And we cannot wait to share
more inspiration from our incredible team over the next few weeks!

Here are the awesome stamps Pauline used:

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Mark & Helen xx

Dance Dance Dance

Posted on February 9, 2017 by helen

Hi there! We promised you more awesome inspiration so here we are delivering!

Check out this amazing tag by Teresa Morgan…

I have never considered myself to be a ‘girly’ girl, but I fell in love with the Born To Perform stamp set when I first saw it.

Today’s project is a bright and colourful tag using some of the stamps in this set:

2017-02-09 Visible Image - dance - inky ballerina stamp - Teresa Morgan

I die cut a large tag from black card using my Sizzix Alterations die, then stamped the word ‘Dance’ onto strips of white card using Distress Inks. Once these were trimmed to size I glued them in place then stamped and embossed the ballerina over the top. Some rainbow ribbon completes the project.

Born To Perform - Visible Image stamps, ballet, dancer, ballerina

Stamps used:

Born To Perform

Love this tag Teresa! The silhouette against the colour is fabulous! Thank you ♡

You will find more of Teresa’s inspiring cards and projects over on her blog.

We will be back tomorrow with some Face it! inspiration from Pauline.

See you then!

Mark & Helen xx

Dare To Swim

Posted on February 6, 2017 by helen

Hi there! Helen here sharing some NEW stamps inspiration from me today!

I created this pretty much as soon as the new stamps arrived here, as I could not wait to get my hands on them.

I have used our beautiful Dare To Swim set…

First of all I had lots of fun creating a sea background using turquoise, green and yellow brushos,
letting the colours merge and run

I decided I would make a piece of home decor rather than a card, so once dry
I cut the card to size and painted the edges and base of my Monolith using Dylusions paint

I stamped and embossed the large jellyfish using red/gold embossing powder
which turned more of a copper colour on my background which I really like.

I stamped the fish and sea weed using distress inks, and then dabbed the fabulous little bubbles stamp into
white dylusions paint and added randomly.

I used some diluted white paint to create a glow on the jellyfish.

Lastly I stamped and embossed the beautiful quote using white embossing powder.

How beautifully it stamps…

So here is my finished project…

2017-01-28 Visible Image - Dare To Swim - Jellyfish - MDF Monolith - Helen Alexander

I really love it ♡ Hope you do too!

Products Used:

Dare To Swim

Monoliths

Thank you so much for visiting our blog today!

Pop back soon for more fabulous inspiration from our amazing team.

Helen xx

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Destination Unknown

Posted on February 4, 2017 by helen

Hello! We promised you more NEW stamps inspiration this weekend so we are here to deliver!!!

Over to Nicky Gilburt who has created something rather awesome…

Another sample from this month’s launch of Visible Image’s new collection of stamps, today I’m sharing a card I made with two sets, Destination Unknown, and a pair of awesome background stamps, Scripted Streets

2017-02-04 Visible Image -paper boats - paper planes - stamps - Nicky Gilburt

I first prepared my background with my new Tim Holtz distress crayons. I used the neutral tones, the main colour being my new favourite, Rusty Hinge, but I mixed it with lighter and darker tones to achieve an aged, rustic look.

My whole background sheet was a piece of A5 Mixed Media card. From this I was able to make my square background AND my tag.

TOP TIP! If you are preparing backgrounds in advance of a project, always cover an area larger than the one you might choose to use; you then have spare colour matched background for text or testing mediums on (which was how this tag started, if I’m truthful! I was testing the background stamps on it)

So as you can see, I used the background stamps first, to add a little interest to the square, and then I stamped the words around the page, and triple stamped a few for shadow.

I filled spaces with arrows and arranged my tag, using string to secure it to the card.

Although the base card is kraft card, as you can see, all the work was done on white card, which I then distressed round the edges and mounted onto black, with just a tiny border, This works in two ways; it strengthens and flattens the mixed media card which by now has been quite ‘worked on’, and it draws the eye to the detail.

The planes and boats….! Adorable, and inspired!

I stamped onto thin white card, used grey distress ink to watercolour a small amount of shadow onto each one, and adhered them to the card, some flat, some on pads.

All of the stamps used to make this card are available on preorder (although not long to wait now!)

Destination Unknown

Scripted Streets

Helen, Mark and the Design Team will be showcasing all the new stamps from the February release, so be sure not to miss out by liking and following their Facebook page.

Happy crafting!

Nicky

AMAZING card! WOW! Thank you Nicky ♡

Love how the monochrome of the paper boats and planes stands out against the rusty sepia tones of the background.

You will find more of Nicky”s inspiring cards and projects over on her blog.

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Thank you so much for visiting our blog today, please pop back tomorrow to see what Veerle has been playing with…

Have a great Saturday!

Mark & Helen xx

Perrfectly Flawed

Posted on February 3, 2017 by helen

Hello! Thank you for visiting us here on the Visible Image blog today!

Our amazing team have been creating awesome things with our NEW stamps,
and Pauline Butcher is here today to share her first project with our super gorgeous
Cat Face stamp…

Hi there,

Have you seen the fantastic brand new Stamp designs from Visible Image,

I was so excited when some of them popped through my letter box, and I’ve had so much fun creating with them too!

They are all available to pre-order now!

So……. today I am going to share a card made using the awesome Curious Cats set.

2017-02-03 Visible Image - stamps - Cat face stamp - perfectly flawed - Pauline Butcher

I used Brusho’s in Black and Gamboge, spritzing the card with water first,
then a gentle sprinkle of the Brusho’s. I then stamped the beautiful Cat’s face stamp
with Versamark, added the Wow Black Glint Embossing Powder, and heat set it.

I used household bleach to whiten the eyes and the nose, then coloured them with Blue and Gamboge for the eye’s,
and Gamboge for the nose. I then stamped the sentiment, again with Versamark, masking off some of the letters,
to get the Purr bit, and heat embossed using White Embossing Powder.

Thank you for popping in, hugs Pauline xxxxx

Stamps used:

Meow! This is incredible Pauline! Those eyes…. and what a superb background too! Thank you ♡
You will find more of Pauline’s gorgeous projects over on her blog.

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Thanks again for visiting today… Hope you will pop back tomorrow
as we have more awesome NEW stamps inspiration to share with you!

Mark & Helen xx

Final Reveal – Introducing… FACE IT!

Posted on January 27, 2017January 27, 2017 by helen

Hello there! Thank you for visiting our blog on this very exciting day!

If you have been following us on social media over the past few weeks you will have seen all the exciting previews of our NEW stamps. We hope you are loving what you have seen so far… we have received so many amazing comments and messages, it’s absolutely brilliant!

So today is the final reveal, and we are incredibly excited about this collection as we have been working on it for quite some time.

Introducing…

Face It logo

Visible Image - stamp - Face It WBG

Stunning realistic face stamps with the option of open or closed eyes

Visible Image - stamps - Create It WBG

A fabulous set of quirky little extra stamps to decorate the faces

Visible Image - stamps - Own It WBG

Amazing words and sentiments to ‘own’ the look you have created!

Visible Image - mask - stencil - Face Shape WBG

AND lastly, a mask & stencil to add definition to you faces…
Draw around the mask for a complete face shape
Use parts of it to add definition
Cover your face with the mask to protect it when splattering paint on your background!
Blend distress ink inside the outer stencil to add shading to your face

Here are some of the fabulous ways you can use these totally awesome designs…

Visible Image - Face It - cards - Promo
Don’t they look amazing!!! Just imagine what you will create…

We will be sharing some amazing projects from us and our awesome Design Team
over the next few weeks to inspire you further!

All our NEW stamps will be available to pre-order from tomorrow.. Saturday January 28th,
and we will be shipping worldwide week commencing February 13th.

If you have a store and want to stock our stamps please get in touch!
Email: [email protected]

You can also follow us on:

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Thanks again for visiting us here on the blog today..
we hope it’s not too difficult to choose which stamps you will be ordering first!!!

Have a fantastic day, we are off to get inky and will share the results with you soon..

Mark & Helen xx

New Stamps Preview #16

Posted on January 26, 2017 by helen

Hi there!

We are down to the last few previews from our February release now! Hope you are loving our NEW designs! We have been getting so many awesome comments and messages on social media ♡

So it’s time for preview #16… and it’s a must have quote for anyone who loves to create!

Introducing…

Creativity Promo

Amazing words… awesome design! ♡

All our NEW stamps will be available to pre-order from Saturday January 28th,
and we will be shipping worldwide week commencing February 13th.

If you have a store and want to stock our stamps please get in touch! Email: [email protected]

Come on over to our Facebook group to join in the chat about our NEW releases!

You can also follow us on:

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Make sure you come back tomorrow for our final reveal ♡
There may even be a sneak peek over on Facebook this evening!!!

Thanks so much for visiting us here on the blog today!

We hope you have an awesome day.

Mark & Helen xx

Dream…

Posted on January 26, 2017 by helen

Hello there! We have some stunning new inspiration to share with you from Teresa Morgan…

This week I have been using my Gelli Plate to create some fun backgrounds for my stamping projects. I have prepared a video for you showing how easy it is to whip up a batch of monoprints ready to be turned into cards, journal pages, tags and more.

I took one of them and added more details with my Visible Image stamps and WOW powders embossing powder to create this cool card:

2017-01-26 Visible Image - clear stamps - imagine dream inspire - dream catcher - Teresa Morgan

The dreamcatchers are stamped and embossed onto heat resistant acetate before being attached with 3d glue gel.

I hope you enjoyed the video, don’t forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel to see more fun techniques and projects from me.

Stamps Used:

Visometry

Imagine Dream Inspire

No Space for Dreams

Universal (featured in video)

Teenage Kicks (featured in video)

Wow! We absolutely love this card.. such a gorgeous background and our dreamcatchers look beautiful ♡
Thank you for your fantastic video too Teresa! You will find more of Teresa’s cards and projects over on her blog.

Did you see NEW stamps preview #15 earlier today???

Preview #16 will be along shortly… and do not miss tomorrow’s final reveal!
We hear there may even be a sneak peek shared on Facebook this evening!

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Thanks for stopping by! Hope you’ll visit again soon.

Mark & Helen xx

New Stamps Preview #14

Posted on January 25, 2017 by helen

Hi there! It’s the final week of NEW stamps previews and we are so excited to show you the rest of our February release!

Today is Day 14… and it’s a gorgeous sentiment.

Introducing…

Scars Promo

Really inspiring words don’t you think? ♡

All our NEW stamps will be available to pre-order from Saturday January 28th,
and we will be shipping worldwide week commencing February 13th.

If you have a store and want to stock our stamps please get in touch! Email: [email protected]

Come on over to our Facebook group to join in the chat about our NEW releases!

You can also follow us on:

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Make sure you come back tomorrow for previews #15 & #16… !!! Then on Friday for the final reveal ♡

Thanks so much for visiting our blog today!

We hope you have a great day.

Mark & Helen xx

NEW Stamps Preview #11

Posted on January 22, 2017 by helen

Hello there! It’s now Day 11 of our NEW stamps previews here on the blog!

We’re showing you something awesome from our February release every day up until January 27th!

Today’s new set will be incredibly useful for using in the background…

Introducing

Scripted Streets Promo

You will never tire of using that awesome inky script!

And the old French street map will work perfectly with our NEW Destination Unknown set!

All our NEW stamps will be available to pre-order from Saturday January 28th,
and we will be shipping worldwide week commencing February 13th.

Come on over to our Facebook group to join in the chat about our NEW releases.

See you back here tomorrow for preview #12… more brilliant words for journaling!

Thanks for visiting us today!

Mark & Helen xx

NEW Stamps Release Preview #9

Posted on January 20, 2017 by helen

Hello there! It’s Day 9 of our NEW stamps previews here on the blog!

We’re showing you something awesome from our February release every day up until January 27th!

We are super excited to share today’s preview…

Introducing

Destination Unknown Promo

How cool are Mark’s paper boats and paper planes!!! And great words you will use and use!

All our NEW stamps will be available to pre-order from Saturday January 28th,
and we will be shipping worldwide week commencing February 13th.

Come on over to our Facebook group to join in the chat about our NEW releases!

See you back here tomorrow for preview #10.

Thanks for visiting today!

Mark & Helen xx

Feel The Beat

Posted on January 20, 2017 by helen

Hi there! Thank you for stopping by today!

We are really excited to be sharing preview #9 from our February NEW stamps release a little later!

But before that, Pauline Butcher is here with some amazing music themed inspiration for you…

Hello again,

It’s Fabulous Friday, and I’m here to share a creation I’ve made, using some fantastic Visible Image Stamps.

2017-01-20 Visible Image - music stamps - Pauline Butcher

I started with some white Water colour card, and sprinkled various colours of Brusho’s randomly on to it, then spritzed with water ( the more water you add, the more the colours will run into each other, and the paler they become). I dried it with my heat tool, (Brusho’s become permanent when dry) I then repeated the application.

When it was dry, I stamped the two figures in the foreground, using Versamark, and heat embossed them using Black Glint Embossing powder. I then made masks out of a couple of post-it notes, and covered the figures, so’s I could stamp the Drummer behind them, he was heat embossed using Black powder.

Whilst the masks were still in place, I put a stencil on top, and added some Diamond Sparkle Medium through it, using a palette knife, this looks like laser lights on the stage.

Using some silver paint and a white pen, I added all the highlights to the ‘Band’, to give them some perspective. The sentiment was added using Versamark and some Red Glitter Embossing Powder.

To finish off, I ‘grounded’ the Band, using some red Distress Ink, stamped some little stars in Black Versafine, and then added Stardust Stickles wherever I fancied !!!

The stamps I used are..

Sing

Rock Out

Feel the Beat

Thanks for dropping in.
Hugs, Pauline xxxxx

Wowza! Incredible scene you have created there Pauline! You can feel the beat just by looking at it! So atmospheric!
Thank you ♡

You will find more of Pauline’s fabulous cards and projects over on her blog, including the results of a recent workshop she held using our MDF Monoliths!

We hope you are feeling inspired to get out your stamps and have a play!

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Thanks again for visiting today!

We hope you will pop back later to see preview #9…. something really different!

Have a fantastic day!

Mark & Helen xx

Live In The Moment

Posted on January 19, 2017January 19, 2017 by helen

Good morning, afternoon or evening! Wow this week is going quickly!

Teresa Morgan is here to inspire you on the blog today with a fantastic mixed media project…

Good Morning!! Have you been enjoying the new release previews?? The DT have and we can’t wait to get our hands on them to start creating some inspirational samples for you all!! For now we are contenting ourselves by playing with our existing stash…this week I have a mixed media journal page to share – I have lots of step by step photos to help you through the creative process, hope you enjoy it!

2017-01-19 Visible Image - stamps - dragonfly - live in the moment - Teresa Morgan

I started by Mod Podging some book page and corrugated card to my background piece of cardstock:

I added some lace and mesh before painting a layer of gesso to blend it all in and prepare for ink/paint:

Sprays are so easy to use:

Some are misted over the page, others I tapped in blobs to create more visual interest:

Let this dry… and work on the tag. I stamped the music score and blended inks around the edge:

The dragonfly is stamped with Archival ink and coloured with the Dylusions and Cosmic Shimmer sprays:

Back to the main piece – I added some stencil detail with black modelling paste:

The sentiment is embossed with black powder and highlights added with a white gel pen:

You can see some of the pretty gold shimmer here too:

I love all the texture details:

Little doodled detail:

Even the lace picks up the sparkle and shimmer:

Some details added with a white gel pen and black fineliner complete this page….
thanks for sticking through all the pictures, I hope that they help explain how I build this type of project!!

Stamps Used:

Live In The Moment

Music Speaks

Wow! Absolutely love this Teresa thank you ♡ Great to see how it came together too! You can find more of Teresa’s cards and projects over on her blog.

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Thanks for visiting today 🙂

We hope you will pop back later to see preview #8.

Have a great day!

Mark & Helen xx

NEW Stamps Release Preview #7

Posted on January 18, 2017 by helen

Hi there! It’s Day 7 of our NEW stamps previews here on the blog!

We’re showing you something awesome from our February release every day up until January 27th!

Today’s preview includes our amazing Unicorn stamp which is back in a stunning new set.

Introducing…

Believe In Unicorns Promo

Just look at that moon… ♡ and the clouds… and that fabulous quote!

All our NEW stamps will be available to pre-order from Saturday January 28th,
and we will be shipping worldwide week commencing February 13th.

Come on over to our Facebook group to join in the chat about our NEW releases!

See you back here tomorrow for preview #8.

Thanks for visiting!

Mark & Helen xx

New Stamps Release Preview #6

Posted on January 17, 2017 by helen

Hello there! Wow it’s already Day 6 of our NEW stamps previews here on the blog!

We’re showing you something awesome from our February release every day up until January 27th!

Today’s preview is the next of our new words stamps.

Introducing…

Bold Colour Promo

Fabulous statement! ♡ Great for your art journal!

All our NEW stamps will be available to pre-order from Saturday January 28th,
and we will be shipping worldwide week commencing February 13th.

If you have a store and want to stock our stamps please get in touch! Email: [email protected]

Come on over to our Facebook group to join in the chat about our NEW releases!

See you back here tomorrow for preview #7.

Thanks for visiting us today!

Mark & Helen xx

It’s Good To Be Different

Posted on January 17, 2017 by helen

Hi there! Thanks for dropping by 🙂

Corrie Herriman is here with some awesome inspiration for you today…

Hello everyone,

For today’s post for Visible Image I have made a card.

2017-01-17 Visible Image stamps - Cheshire Cat - circles - dare to be different - Corrie Herriman

I used a gelli printed background. I think this one was from mopping up leftover paints from the plate. I added the white circles by stamping with VersaMark and white embossing. I also added some black splatters by diluting black acrylic paint with water and using a round paintbrush to splatter; I just tap it onto another brush or pen to make the paint come out in splatters.

I then stamped the sentiment and stamped the cat on top of it. This is really easy as the stamps are clear and you can see what you are doing. I then stamped the cat again on white card stock and coloured her (I added eyelashes to make her a girl) with Copic Markers, cut her out and adhered her on top of the one on the card. I then glued the panel onto a white card base.

I used the following stamps:

Universal

Dare to be Different

And of course: Cheshire Cat …which has been so popular it has sold out!

Social Media links..

Shop where you will find all our awesome stamps!

Blog see all our latest posts here!

Facebook group join in with the banter and enter our ‘Show & Tell’ Monthly Challenge!

Facebook PAGE …give us a like and enter our weekly giveaways!

You can also follow us on:

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Thank you so much for stopping by today !
Corrie

Amazing card Corrie thank you! Adore that background ♡ You can find more of Corrie’s fantastic work over on her blog.

We will have NEW stamps preview #6 here on the blog later today!

And Dot will be here tomorrow with more fantastic inspiration!

If you have missed any of our NEW stamps previews or recent posts, you will find them HERE.

Mark & Helen xx

New Stamps Release Preview #5

Posted on January 16, 2017 by helen

Hi there! It’s Day 5 of our NEW stamps previews here on the blog!

We’re showing you something awesome from our February release every day up until January 27th!

Today’s stamps take us under the sea!

Introducing…

Dare To Swim Promo

Just imagine the Jellyfish all colourful and sparkly. And how gorgeous is our quote ♡

All our NEW stamps will be available to pre-order from Saturday January 28th,
and we will be shipping worldwide week commencing February 13th.

Come on over to our Facebook group to join in the chat about our NEW releases!

See you back here tomorrow for preview #6.

Thanks for visiting!

Mark & Helen xx

New Stamps Release Preview #3

Posted on January 14, 2017January 14, 2017 by helen

Hello there! It’s Day 3 of our NEW stamps previews here on the blog!

We’re showing you something awesome from our February release every day up until January 27th!

You may have already seen some of the stamps in today’s preview…
our awesome light bulb stamp is making a come back!

Introducing…

Shining Bright Promo

Some clever designing by Mark going on here! And we both love the quote, as it has real meaning for us.

This set works brilliantly with our Glimmer of Light set which contains our awesome moth!

All our NEW stamps will be available to pre-order from Saturday January 28th,
and we will be shipping worldwide week commencing February 13th.

Come on over to our Facebook group to join in the chat about our NEW releases!

See you back here tomorrow for preview #4.

Thanks for visiting!

Mark & Helen xx

The Ripple Effect

Posted on January 12, 2017 by helen

Good morning! Or maybe it’s afternoon or evening where you are! Thank you so much for visiting our blog today.

Teresa Morgan is here with some awesome inspiration for you…

Welcome back to today’s Thrilling Thursday post for Visible Image stamps. Today I am sharing the project I created for the January issue of Craft Stamper magazine – a gorgeous canvas!

2017-01-12 Visible Image - ripple effect stamp - canvas - Teresa Morgan

I used a 12 inch square black canvas – if you can’t get a black one, then just paint a white one with black gesso or acrylic paint and allow to dry.I stamped the ripples in a diagonal design across the canvas using Versamark ink so I could emboss with metallic embossing powders. Don’t worry if your stamped images aren’t perfect – canvas is textured and can be tricky to get a clean image. A lot will be covered once the canvas is finished.

Visible Image Stamps - The Ripple Effect, Tomorrow Doesn't Exist, wall art, canvas

I took some black card and stamped and embossed several sets of ripples before cutting the different rings apart with a sharp craft knife. These are attached with Pinflair glue gel to create a dimensional effect.

Visible Image Stamps - The Ripple Effect, Tomorrow Doesn't Exist, wall art, canvas

Finally I stamped and embossed the sentiment on black card, cut apart and attached with glue gel before setting aside to dry.

Visible Image Stamps - The Ripple Effect, Tomorrow Doesn't Exist, wall art, canvas

Stamps Used:

The Ripple Effect

Tomorrow Doesn’t Exist

Stunning canvas Teresa and it looked great in the magazine! Thank you ♡

We absolutely love how Teresa used our Ripple Effect stamp! You can find more of Teresa’s awesome cards and projects over on her blog.

Are you intrigued to see our first NEW release of 2017.. well the wait is almost over!

We will be starting to preview our new stamps this evening!

So pop back here later or come on over to our Facebook group to join in with the excitement!

All our social Media links..

Shop where you will find all our awesome stamps!

Blog see all our latest posts here!

Facebook group join in with the banter and enter our ‘Show & Tell’ Monthly Challenge!

Facebook PAGE …give us a like and enter our weekly giveaways!

You can also follow us on:

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Mark & Helen xx

There Is Always A Glimmer of Light

Posted on January 3, 2017January 4, 2017 by helen

Hi there! We have some awesome inspiration for you here on the blog today from Corrie Herriman…

Hello everyone,

Welcome to the first post for Visible Image from me for 2017 ! Back in December I bought a Verday Paint kit and I couldn’t wait to try it out. It comes with 4 acrylic paints; iron, copper, brass and bronze and a bottle of patina. I used the copper on my Monolith project.

visible-image-mdf-monolith-moth-stamp-corrie-herriman

Front of the Monolith. Love the copper with the blues and greens.

The back

Some detail

Close up of the moth

Close up of the texture and sentiment.

So, to make this, I started with a gessoed Monolith on which I glued some metal rings and some art stones. I then put on a coat of the copper paint. This has to dry and then I put on another coat and while this is wet I put on the patina. I love the blues and greens you get while it oxidises.

I then added some stamping to the back and heat embossed with copper embossing powder which happens to be exactly the same shade so it is only a texture I have added.

I coloured a piece of paper with blues and greens and stamped the sentiment, layered it on some black card stock and adhered to the back of my Monolith.

For the front I repeated the paint/patina steps until I was happy with the result. Next I stamped the moth on white card stock and coloured it, cut it out and adhered it to the Monolith. I used the same-ish blues and greens for the wings.

I think it turned out fab !

I used the following stamps and a Monolith of course..

Monolith

Glimmer of Light

Universal

Social Media links..

Shop where you will find all our awesome stamps!

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Absolutely stunning Corrie ♡ Thank you! The greens against that copper is just.. wow!

You will find more of Corrie’s fantastic projects over on her blog.

Thanks for visiting!

Mark & Helen xx

News & 25% OFF code @ Visible Image

Posted on October 29, 2016October 29, 2016 by helen

Hi there!

Thank you for taking time to visit our blog today.

As you may know, we have recently re-branded and we’re loving our ‘new look’ colourful packaging…

visible-image-promo-oct-2016

We have now stopped manufacturing the stamps ourselves but we continue to package them all in house,
and everything is still designed by Mark.

As quality is always top of our list, the etching is the deepest possible for clear photopolymer stamps,
so as always they stamp beautifully.

We had struggled to keep up with the demand for our stamps with just Mark making them,
and the waiting time for orders was long.

So we are very happy to announce that orders placed by 2pm Monday to Friday
will now be dispatched the same day!

Our stamp sets are now larger in size so we have been busy designing additional stamps
to compliment our existing sets…

You will find ALL our current designs HERE!

Sadly due to family commitments we aren’t at the Hobbycrafts show at the NEC this year.
We will really miss seeing all our regular customers at the show.

But… to celebrate our ‘new look’ we are giving you 25% OFF our stamps!*

Just enter coupon code: newlook2016
at the checkout!

*offer ends midnight UK time on Sunday November 6th

Thanks again for taking time to read about all our changes. We have lots of exciting plans for the next year!

Have a great weekend.

Mark and Helen xx

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Glimmer of Light – Visible Image

Posted on October 17, 2016 by helen

Hello 🙂 Thanks for visiting our blog!

Susanne Rose is here with a fantastic tutorial today…

Hi everyone!

Today I’d like to share some spooky Artist Trading Cards with the awesome Visible Image “Glimmer Of Light” stamp set. I also have the step by step instructions for you:

An ATC is a card that measures 2.5″ by 3.5″. I cut two from a Brusho background.

I used my square mini Gelli Plate to add some texture. I used the mini Honeycomb Delight stencil by STAMPlorations plus “Wedding Cake” paint from Martha Stewart. I stamped the sentiment, which comes with the Visible Image stamp set, randomly on top. Just to create more texture.

Í stamped the main image – the death’s-head hawkmoth – on my cards and also onto some white cardstock.

I used Distress Inks to color the moths.

I adhered the butterflies after I stamped the light. I stamped the light on white cardstock and adhered it, too.

I inked the edges with Distress Ink “Black Soot”.

For a special finish, I used some silver embossing paste and scribbled it all arround the edges.

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Thank you for stopping by today.
Susanne xx

Products from Visible Image

Glimmer of Light

Thank you Susanne they are awesome! ♡

See you soon with more gorgeous inspiration!

Mark & Helen xx

Glimmer of Light Monolith – Visible Image

Posted on October 4, 2016 by helen

Hi there, thank you for visiting us today.

Corrie Herriman is here on the blog today with a super project for you…

Hello everyone,

Today I’ll be sharing a monolith for Visible Image.

I think these are so versatile, you can decorate them any way you want…

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I gessoed this freestanding Monolith first and then glued some pieces of book text on it. I then painted it with Acrylic paints. I used yellow, orange, pink and white. Next I stamped the background with a variety of stamps and Archival Inks in the same colours as the background. The black script stamp I did later.

You can still read the book title here…. (something wicked this way comes). Next I stamped the Moth both on the Monolith and on Bristol Card stock. I coloured the one on the card stock with watercolours and then heat embossed it. The body with clear powder, the wings with holographic powder. You can see it in the detail photo below. I also stamped the skeleton on the back of the monolith and used a white pen to highlight him here and there. I then decided it didn’t have enough white so I filled in the circles with white paint and stamped a text stamp over the top.

The moth was adhered on top of some thread for more interest.

I used the following stamp sets :

Mr. Bone Jangles

Glimmer of Light

Revolution

The Ripple Effect

Scratch the surface

and

a Monolith

Thank you so much for stopping by today !

We love this so much Corrie! Thank you ♡

Have you played with our Monoliths yet? We’d love to see what you create! We have a monthly challenge over in our Facebook group… why not come and join us there!

We hope you will be back soon to check out more gorgeous inspiration from our amazing team!

Mark & Helen xx

Just Be Happy @ Visible Image

Posted on September 7, 2016September 7, 2016 by helen

Hi there! Thank you for visiting our blog today!

This week we are previewing some of the stunning samples made for our shows on Create and Craft TV this coming weekend.

Nicky Gilburt has created this totally gorgeous project. Over to Nicky…

Visible Image stamps - MDF Monolith - Just Be Happy - Nicky Gilburt

Another marvellous monolith to share with you, from Visible Image, decorated this time with bright funky colours and more stamps from the fantastic Summer 2016 collection, to be shown (with never seen before extra features) on Create & Craft UK on Saturday 10th September at 4pm. (and on the US show on Friday night!)

I absolutely LOVED putting this piece of work together, especially as the Just be Happy slogan pretty much sums me up right now ( and it has nothing to do with the kids being back at school this week, either!) I prepared the monolith with white gesso, then white acrylic paint, and stamped the arty splodges ( from the new version of Music on World off) directly onto the MDF with distress ink. I added the sun effect by masking the largest circle , then stamping, applying white embossing powder and heat embossing The Ripple Effect and added the smaller circles randomly too. The funky large heart is a new add-on to the set Own Kind of Beautiful.

Visible Image stamps - MDF Monolith - Be Your Own Kind Of Beautiful - Butterfly stamp - Nicky Gilburt

Reverse: Pinks and greens and Be your own Beautiful – but two of the butterflies have been stamped onto shrink plastic – now that was fun! I made 3 large ones on plain white card and matched them all up.

The wrap with the words on came about as I was test-stamping the colours on an off-cut from a previous card – and I thought ‘ooh that works for me!’ so I put my text on both sides of my wrap, sealed it at one end and carefully positioned it on my monolith.

Dare I say that this is my favourite piece of work from the new Summer release? I love everything that Visible Image has ever released but there is something really special about these stamps that just makes me…HAPPY!!! Thanks for reading!

Don’t forget to tune in!

4pm UK time AND…..

6pm and 9pm UK time!

It’s going to be AWESOME!

Nicky

Thank you so much Nicky, this is such a stunning Monolith! We cannot wait to show it off on screen ♡

We hope Nicky has inspired you.. you’ll find more of her gorgeous work over on Nicky’s blog.

Come back and see us tomorrow for an awesome card by Teresa!!!

Come and find us on Facebook too…
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Give our Page a like!

We’re also on instagram and pinterest!

Have a great evening!

Mark & Helen xx

World Off @ Visible Image

Posted on September 5, 2016September 5, 2016 by helen

Hello there! It is an incredibly exciting week here at Visible Image leading up to our shows on Create and Craft TV this weekend!

On Friday (September 9th) we make our debut on Create and Craft USA!

We have two shows @ 13:00 EST & 16:00 EST (that’s 6pm & 9pm UK time)

DISH (Channel 221), DIRECTV (Channel 85/222)
OR watch online here!

AND… We are on Create and Craft TV here in the UK on Saturday (September 10th) at 4pm!

SKY 674 – Freeview 23 – Virgin 748 – Freesat 813
OR watch online here!

Mark and Pauline have some amazing demos planned, and the Design Team samples are incredible!

All week we will be sharing some of the outstanding cards and projects created by our brilliant team for our shows.

Today Veerle Moreels is here with a project which makes you just stop and stare! Over to Veerle…

When I saw the Summer Release 2016 from Visible Image… this idea started growing in my head and I had so much fun creating it. Starting out with a plain wooden box that has a little window I ended up with a finished project that has a lot of meaning for me. I’m not going to tell you how I see it, what I was thinking making it. Everybody should fill it in, in their own way. But I can tell you that every structure and every single stamp was placed with a meaning, they all carry a little part of me.

I’m not going to put down every single picture here…I made to many ^.^ But I have put them together in a little video so take a look while I show you round the outside and the inside of my altered box…

Stamps used in my project:

Veerle we cannot thank you enough for letting us have this for our shows… it is clear to see how much you put into making it and how very special it is ♡

We just have to add a few photos here to gaze at…

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Amazing! We are in awe ♡

You can see more of Veerle’s gorgeous work over on her blog

We hope you will come back tomorrow to see a fabulous project by Nicky Gilburt!

Thank you so much for visiting our blog today.

Mark & Helen xx

Angels @ Visible Image

Posted on August 4, 2016 by helen

Hello there! Susanne Rose is here with another stunning project to inspire you today…

Hi everyone!

Today I’d like to share a new Visible Image Monolith. I used the brand new Angel stamp set. It is so so awesome!!!

Visible Image stamps - MDF Monolith - Angel stamp - Susanne Rose

I used stencils from STAMPlorations together with Texture Paste on my background. I colored it with Gelatos. Some of the color was removed through the stencil with a wet baby wipe later.

The white splatters are made with Vallejo liquid watercolor.

The black angel is embossed with WOW! Black Glint Glitter. The metallic one is embossed with WOW! Bonding Powder and covered with Mica Flakes.

Visible Image stamps - MDF Monolith - Angels - Angel stamp - Susanne Rose

Products from Visible Image:
Angels
Monoliths

Products from WOW! Embossing Powder:
Bonding Powder
Black Glint

Products from STAMPlorations:
Delicate Links
Stars Align

Thanks for stopping by today!
Susanne

Absolutely gorgeous! Doesn’t she look amazing in gold ♡ Thank you Susanne!

We hope you are feeling inspired!

Thanks for visiting us here on the Visible Image blog today. You will find our online shop HERE where you can get your hands on our amazing stamps and brilliant Monoliths! And if you have missed any of our latest posts you’ll find them HERE!

Hope you’ll visit again soon.

Mark & Helen xx

Glimmer of Light – Visible Image Stamps

Posted on August 4, 2016 by helen

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…

Hi there,

I thought it was about time I decorated another Visible Image Monolith, they are such fun to do, and there are endless possibilities.

I used one of my fave Visible Image Stamps sets, from the new releases, for this project, it’s stunning and I love it, it’s called……

Glimmer of Light, plus the fabulous Rays of Light, and the Shine Bright set, you see the theme, lol !

And of course don’t forget the fabulous MDF, which come in a pack of 5…… Monoliths.

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I used Dylusion Paints on the front, a Black base, then combination of colours on top, then stamped the Rays, using white Ink, where I wanted the little light bulbs to hang. I then stamped the little bulbs and the sentiment in Black Versafine Ink, and heat embossed the wonderful Moth, onto card , coloured them in using Distress Inks, and fussy cut them all.

I added glossy accents to the bulbs, and Stickles to the Moths.

Visible Image - Glimmer of Light - Pauline Butcher 2

On the other side, again I painted the MDF in Black, added some paste through a stencil, and when it was dry, used Gilding wax to highlight it.

I stamped the Ray into Acetate, and heat embossed it in Yellow powder, and the large light bulb, again onto acetate, and heat embossed in Black powder. I stamped some more small light bulbs using Black ink, coloured them and then fussy cut, glued them to the MDF, and used Glossy Accents.

I wasn’t happy with the large bulb being black, so using a white pen I highlighted the outline. The Moths were stamped with Stazon, onto Shrink Plastic, and I coloured them with crayons, fussy cut them, then heated and watched the magic happen……

I hope I have given you a bit of inspiration on how to decorate the MDF Monoliths.

Check out the Visible Image places below for more inspiration……

FACEBOOK GROUP

FACEBOOK PAGE

I am running an Inky Workshop, near Warwick,

on Sunday 14th August, 10am – 4pm,

please email me for details,

[email protected]

Thanks again for your visit.

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

MDF Monoliths @ Visible Image

Posted on August 1, 2016August 1, 2016 by helen

Hello! Thanks for visiting 🙂

We have a totally awesome project by Veerle Moreels to share with you today! You have probably already seen our brilliant MDF Monoliths which we launched in January.. they have been incredibly popular! Free-standing and reversible, they are so versatile as Veerle will show you…

Do you know the monoliths? They are beautiful MDF pieces Mark Alexander designed for Visible Image and give you so much possibilities to go and create awesome projects. Today I want to share my latest creation using a monolith. I had so much fun even more because I had beautiful new stamps from the Visible Image Summer release 2016 ^.^

Visible Image stamps - MDF Monolith - Paper Holder - Moth & Skull stamp - Veerle Moreels 2

Getting curious…you can see it start-to-finish in the video I made…

I have shown the close ups pictures in the video but I do want to share the end result here too. I bet you I’ll never forget what I need to remember ^.^

Visible Image stamps - MDF Monolith - Paper Holder - Moth & Skull stamp - Veerle Moreels

Visible Image stamps - MDF Monolith - Paper Holder - Deaths Head HawkMoth stamp - Veerle Moreels

Now, I know not everybody loves skulls…but why not make this project using only butterflies, flowers or a beautiful colored in piece and use bright colors. This idea can be made in different styles, and these monoliths give you so much possibilities. If you are looking for some inspiration, head on over to the project gallery to see what my talented teamies already made using them.

Want to go and create? Visible Image send their products without any trouble and very cheap postage too! You can find everything in their online webshop.

Materials used:

Thank you Veerle! Such a brilliant project and a great video 🙂

We hope you are feeling inspired! If you are new to trying mixed media, Monoliths are a perfect first step as they are not too big.. just a coat of gesso or acrylic paint and you can stamp away, or simply stick your card or favourite papers onto them!

Thanks again for visiting us today and be sure to pop back soon to see what the rest of the team have been creating!

Mark & Helen xx

Here To Inspire You @ Visible Image

Posted on April 4, 2016April 4, 2016 by helen

Hello there! Thank you for visiting our blog today 🙂

We have some wonderful inspiration to share with you today, created by our amazing Design Team. Whether you have already got your hands on some of our latest releases, or have them on your ‘wish list’, we are sure these awesome samples will make you want to get out your stamps and inks and PLAY!

Visible Image stamps - Trust Your Madness - Teresa Morgan

Teresa Morgan created this brilliant card with our awesome ‘Trust Your Madness‘ quote stamp, and Teresa has used our fantastic ‘Scratch The Surface‘ stamp in the background. You’ll find more details over on Teresa’s blog.

Visible Image stamps - Teenage Kicks - stand out - converse trainers - Sue Joseph

Sue Joseph created this awesome card using our ‘Teenage Kicks‘ stamp set! More details over on Sue’s blog.

Visible Image stamps - Bite Me - Grungy lips stamp - Wilma Voermans

Wilma Voermans has created these awesome mixed media journal pages featuring our ‘Bite Me‘ stamp set. You’ll find a video tutorial over on Wilma’s blog showing how she created her wonderful texture!

Visible Image stamps - Sparkle In The Rain - Pauline Butcher

Pauline Butcher created this super sparkly card using our ‘Sparkle In The Rain‘ stamp set. Head over to Pauline’s blog to see how she created it.

Visible Image stamps - Dragonfly - Live in The Moment - Susanne Rose 1

Susanne Rose made this stunning mixed media wall hanging with our beautiful ‘Live In The Moment’ stamp set. You’ll find more details on Susanne’s blog.

Visible Image stamps - Unicorn - Mixed Media MDF Monolith - Denisa Gryczova

Denisa Gryczova created this fabulous mixed media Monolith featuring our ‘Unicorn Magic‘ set. More details can be found over on Denisa’s blog.

Visible Image stamps - Broken Wings - Kim Johnny

Kim Johnny has decorated one of our MDF Monoliths using our ‘Learn To Fly Again‘ stamp set. Amazing texture and brilliant interpretation of these gorgeous words. More details on Kim’s blog.

Visible Image stamps - Visometry Set 1 - Geometric shape stamps - spirograph stamp - Teresa Morgan

Fabulous card created by Teresa Morgan featuring our funky ‘Visometry Set 1‘ stamps and the words from our ‘Shine Bright‘ set. You’ll find more details over on Teresa’s blog.

Visible Image stamps - Don't Let The Rain Dull Your Sparkle - stamp - silhouette woman with umbrella - Elina Stromberg

Amazing card created by Elina Stromberg with our ‘Sparkle In The Rain‘ stamp set. If you head over to Elina’s blog you’ll also find Elina’s brilliant Monolith featuring this set!

Shilpa Nagaonkar has used our awesome ‘Just Hit Play‘ stamp set on her brilliant canvas. You’ll find more details on Shilpa’s blog.

Visible Image - Music Speaks - sound wave stamp - Sue Joseph

Sue Joseph has created this awesome card with our fantastic ‘Music Speaks‘ stamp, and the sound wave stamp from our ‘Background Noise‘ set.

Visible Image stamps - Shine Bright - Light Bulb stamps - Pauline Butcher

Brilliant card by Pauline Butcher using shrink plastic with the light bulb stamp from our ‘Shine Bright‘ set! Pauline has also used our ‘Ink Splats’ stamps for a really cool effect on the brick wall. Head over to Pauline’s blog for more details.

Visible Image stamps - Jazz It Up - Silhouette Sax player stamp - Corrie Herriman

Corrie Herriman has created this awesome card featuring our ‘Jazz It Up‘ stamp set. You’ll find more details of how she created her fantastic background over on Corrie’s blog.

Visible Image stamps - Capture The Moment - camera stamp - Susanne Rose

Susanne Rose has created this fabulous shaker card using our brilliant ‘Capture The Moment‘ stamp set. More details over on Susanne’s blog.

Visible Image stamps - Learn To Fly Again - Feather stamp - Kim Bacon

Kim Bacon created this stunning MDF Monolith featuring our ‘Learn To Fly Again‘ stamp set, and the fabulous feather from our ‘Angels Are Near‘ set.

Visible Image stamps - sparkle in the rain - silhouette woman with umbrella - Katy Leitch

Katy Leitch created this fantastic card with our ‘Sparkle In The Rain‘ stamp set. You’ll find a great tutorial video for this card over on Katy’s blog.

Visible Image stamps - Go Where Dreams Takle You - Dragonfly stamp - Dot Leathbridge

Dot Leathbridge has used the dragonfly from our ‘Live In The Moment‘ stamp set, and the gorgeous words from our ‘Vision INKognito‘ set to create her stunning card. You’ll find more details over on Dot’s blog.

Visible Image stamps - Shaped Cards - Dragonfly - Unicorn - Rain lady - Carol Fox

Carol Fox has created this fabulous trio of really cool shaped cards featuring our ‘Live In The Moment‘ ‘Sparkle In The Rain‘ and ‘Unicorn Magic‘ stamp sets! More details on Carol’s blog.

Visible Image stamps - How Fragile We Are - Cracked Glass stamp - Veerle Moreels

Veerle Moreels created this stunning tag with our ‘How Fragile We Are‘ stamp set. You’ll find more details over on Veerle’s blog.

Huge ‘thank you’ to our awesome team… you are all so talented ♡

NEWS…
We are really excited to be back on Create and Craft TV in less than 2 weeks time, as part of their 13th Birthday celebrations! Tune in to watch Mark and Pauline’s brilliant demos on Saturday April 16th @ 1pm! And as always there will be some great multi-buys on the show! More details soon!

Our April ‘Show & Tell’ challenge is open for entries, so whatever you create with our stamps this month, be sure to upload your photo to our challenge album over in our Facebook Group! You never know, it could be you winning the £25 voucher this month!

Thanks for visiting and we hope you leave us feeling really inspired.. perhaps you are heading straight to our shop!!!

We will be back with more gorgeous projects from the team later today! We have so many amazing projects still to share with you! And our daily blog posts will be resuming this week too 🙂

Just want to finish by saying a massive ‘thank you’ to everyone who has ordered our stamps and MDF Monoliths over the past few months, we have been overwhelmed by the number of orders placed, and we are thrilled to bits that you are loving our designs! There is so much still to come this year… exciting times!!!

Have a really great day 🙂

Mark & Helen xx

Moments in Blue – Visible Image Stamps

Posted on February 4, 2016February 4, 2016 by helen

Hello! Thanks for visiting our blog today 🙂

We have some fabulous inspiration for you this evening, so let’s get started!

Over to Dot Leathbridge, our Australian DT member…

New Stamps, New Products!

It is all happening at Visible Image at the moment…

with lots and lots of new stamps (yummy)

and something else altogether completely new ~ MONOLITHS.

Monoliths are MDF boards which come with a stand.
You can work on both sides.
~ and that is double the fun!!!

You can even use them as a kind of mood board ~ so either side reflects a different feeling…there are soooo many possibilites…

They are perfect for anything mixed media.
And they come in packs of 5.

Oh, and not so big that you can’t use your stamps on it,

in fact…they are specifically designed for our stamps!

So here is my first MONOLITH…

Visible Image stamps - MDF Monolith - Live IN The Moment - Dragonfly - Dot Leathbridge

After I did this I then did the other side ~

and forgot to take a pic. Sorry about that.

Stamps Used:

Live In The Moment (new ~ & available for pre-order)

This side was sprayed with some mica’s from Finnabair,

and the other side was dribbled with some alcohol inks…in similar colours.

I wanted it to be similar, but different – if that makes sense.

The butterflies were stamped onto tissue paper and then applied.

To finish, I decided to paint around the base and edges with some black gesso…

ooops, sorry, I didn’t take that pic either…

Visible Image will be on Create & Craft this Valentine’s Day

(10am) for those who would like to see Mark and Pauline play with the new products.

I still haven’t got around to blowing ink around through a Bic pen yet after the last show!

It is on my to-do list though.

It is absolutely awesome to be able to see what people look like and hear the sound of their voices…

it makes the world that bit smaller I think.

SO, new stamps (pre-ordering is under way)
new MDF boards
Create and Craft on TV (Feb 14th, 10am)
and the UK Trade Show (end of Feb)

~ are all things happening with Visible Image over the next few weeks! Busy times!!!

And it’s so exciting to be a part of it all.

Enjoy!

Dot

This is absolutely stunning Dot.. the colours and texture are really beautiful ♡ Thank you!

We will be back soon with Shilpa’s Visible Image debut! And an awesome card from Teresa too 🙂

See you soon!

Mark & Helen xx

Introducing… Monoliths @ Visible Image

Posted on January 28, 2016 by helen

Hello! It’s a really exciting day for us here at Visible Image!

We wanted to design something NEW that would be perfect for our stamps, and for all the mixed media lovers out there! And we wanted to work with someone who has the same high standards for quality as we do.

Introducing for the very first time…

Designed by Mark, and made by the very talented Roy Pakeman at Candy Box Crafts Ltd, these awesome freestanding MDF Monoliths are just waiting for you to turn them into something spectacular… a stunning piece of home décor… inspiring artwork to look at every morning… a fabulous gift… or something just for you!

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They’re made from superb quality 3mm MDF, laser cut and perfectly smooth ♡

Sometimes, the simplest ideas are the best ideas!

Our Design Team are LOVING them…

Pauline Butcher

Double sided…. So you can reverse it to suit your mood!

And of course they work brilliantly with our NEW stamps…

Susanne Rose

Corrie Herriman

Teresa Morgan

Don’t they look amazing! We have lots more samples to show you over the next few weeks!

Stand one on your fireplace… your desk… move it from room to room.

Use your favourite quote on one side, and create amazing artwork on the other!

We hope you love them as much as we do ♡

All our NEW releases will be available to pre-order this weekend 🙂

Thank you so much for visiting our blog today! Hope you’ll leave us a comment.

Come and join us on Facebook too!

Mark & Helen xx

February 2016 release – Window To Your Soul – Visible Image

Posted on January 21, 2016 by helen

We are back with another preview from our February release…

‘Window To Your Soul’ is the perfect sentiment for our gorgeous Vision INKognito stamp ♡

Window to your soul PROMO

Great for art journaling and mixed media projects! And how awesome is that font!

We’re very excited to share tomorrow’s preview so we hope you will come back and visit then 🙂

Pauline will be here with her fabulous Friday post too!

Have a great evening.

Mark & Helen xx

February 2016 Release – Sparkle In The Rain – Visible Image

Posted on January 19, 2016January 19, 2016 by helen

Hello! Thanks for visiting our blog today.

We’re excited to be sharing another preview from our February release…

This fabulous stamp set is called ‘Sparkle In The Rain’ from our ‘Inspire’ collection, which we are launching on Create and Craft TV on February 14th…

Sparkle in the Rain PROMO

The image is super cool, and can be used for all kinds of projects, and the words are so apt for our UK weather!

We will be back later with Corrie Herriman’s Design Team debut!

And.. the next preview from another of our awesome new quotes stamps 🙂

Have a great day!

Mark & Helen xx

Artist Trading Block – Visible Image White Rabbit

Posted on November 22, 2015 by helen

Good Evening! Hope you are having a nice Sunday.

Susanne Rose is here with her latest inspiration…

It’s my day today to share some inspiration with the super unique Visible Image Stamps.

I made a Artist Trading Block (ATB) with the awesome “White Rabbit” stamp set. I colored the rabbit with Distress Inks (Mermaid Lagoon, Barn Door and Pumice Stone).

I cut the cube with the Silhouette Cameo and primed it with gesso. I inked it with the Gelatos (Metallic Mint, Magarita Mix, Chocolate and Black Licorice).

I added some texture with modeling paste and a stencil. I used a stamp from the “Ink Splats” set from Visible Image to add more interest. The gears are cut with a die from Noor! Design.

2015-11-22 Visible Image stamps - Artist Trading Block - White Rabbit - Susanne Rose

I hope you like my ATB.

See you all soon! Susanne.

Stamps from Visible Image:
White Rabbit
Ink Splats

Fantastic work Susanne.. thank you! ♡

You will find our whole Alice In Wonderland collection HERE

Thank you so much for checking out our blog today.

We’ll be back with Kim Johnny’s latest project!

Mark & Helen xx

Design Team Call @ Visible Image

Posted on November 17, 2015 by helen

We are recruiting NEW Design Team members here at Visible Image…

Do you love stamping and creating mixed media projects?

Do you enjoy inspiring others?

And most importantly.. Do you LOVE our stamps?

If the answer is YES then you might be interested in joining our team!

We are incredibly passionate about what we do!

And we’re extremely proud of our unique designs and the superb quality of our stamps.

If you aren’t familiar with our stamps, all our stamp designs can be found HERE

We are looking for new team members who are passionate about creating…

If you love making mixed media pieces, then you might just be who were are looking for!

You’ll find all the latest samples from our amazing team here on our blog, and you can find out more about us HERE

We also have a Facebook PAGE and a fabulous customer group on Facebook too!

We’re also on pinterest, twitter and instagram

Requirements:

Have an active blog with regular detailed posts, photos & links to products used
Facebook user as our DT hub is on Facebook
Take great photo’s of your work
Create at least 2 projects per month which will be blogged, and photos/links posted in our Facebook group
Create additional samples for new stamp launches and TV shows
Send us your work to showcase on TV and on our stand at craft shows (postage cost will be reimbursed)
Promote Visible Image stamps on your Blog / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest / Instagram (whichever you like to use!)

What you will receive from us:

An initial supply of stamps, and regular new stamps
We will feature your work on our website, our blog and on our Facebook/Twitter/Pinterest/Instagram accounts
Your samples will be showcased on TV and on our show stands
The opportunity to have your work featured in magazines
The possibility of demonstrating our stamps in the future, should you wish to
Design Team badge for your blog
DT guidelines document
Support from us and the existing Design Team members
A happy, friendly, welcoming team

DT positions will be for 6 months initially, with a 1 month trial period

Applications by email please to: [email protected] with the subject ‘Design Team Call’

Email to include:

3 photos of projects you are proud of that showcase your stamping (at least one of these must be a mixed media piece)
A link to your blog and any other social media platforms you use to showcase your work
Tell us why you would like to join our Design Team, and why you’d like to work with our stamps
A short Bio including current and past Design Teams (although previous DT experience is not essential)
Any crafty achievements or magazine features, and whether you have any experience of demonstrating

We are looking for both UK and international team members

Our DT Call closes on Tuesday December 15th and we will contact you shortly after this date

Positions will start in January 2016, working with our brand new stamps prior to release!

Thank you for your interest and good luck!

Mark & Helen

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30% OFF SALE @ Visible Image Stamps

Posted on August 25, 2015August 25, 2015 by helen

Hello 🙂 Thank you for visiting our blog today!

As you may know we got married on August 7th

And we have been closed for the past few weeks while we honeymooned in beautiful Portugal

Well we are back! And to celebrate we wanted to do something nice for all our wonderful customers.

So… we added up the date of our marriage…

7 + 8 + 15 = 30

and decided to knock a HUGE 30% OFF selected stamps!*

There is a brilliant selection to choose from so there are bound to be some from your ‘I WANT’ list!!!

*Stocks are limited however at these prices so check out our sale at your earliest convenience to ensure you don’t miss out on your favourites!

Whether you are into card making, scrapbooking, mixed media, or if colouring is your thing.. you will find awesome stamps you’ll love at amazing prices!

So head over to our website shop and find our 30% OFF SALE HERE! From midnight Wednesday August 25th until Sunday August 30th or as long as stocks last!

We also want to say another massive THANK YOU to everyone who took the time to send us emails, messages, cards and wonderful wishes for our special day. It really meant the world to us!

You can find more Wedding photos on our blog post HERE

Check out our EVENTS PAGE too for all our upcoming show dates!

We will be at Ally Pally on September 19th & 20th and our fabulous Kim Robertson will be demonstrating and holding Make & Take sessions on our stand!

Hope to see you there 🙂

We also have 12 pairs of fast pass tickets to give away.. so head over to our Facebook PAGE for your chance to win some!

We hope you enjoy our sale 🙂

We will be back tomorrow with a massive catch up of all the gorgeous cards and projects our amazing Design Team have been creating while we were away!

See you then…

Mark & Helen xx

Be Inspired – Visible Image stamps

Posted on August 11, 2015 by helen

Hello There! I know I know.. we are supposed to be on holiday!!! But we just had to pop in and share the latest inspiration from the amazing Visible Image stamps Design Team before we head off to beautiful Portugal for our honeymoon 🙂

So here is a wonderful collection of the latest cards and projects.. kicking off with some gorgeous work with our NEW Christmas stamps…

Sue Joseph

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Kim Robertson

Visible Image stamps - Sparkle At Christmas - Kim Robertson

Sue Joseph

2015-08-11 Visible Image stamps - Baby It's Cold Outside - Snowman stamp - Christmas Tree - Sue Joseph

Karen Liddle

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2015-08-11 Visible Image stamps - Sparkle At Christmas - Karen Liddle

Doreen OBrien

2015-08-01 Visible Image stamps - Snowflakes & Butterflies verse - Doreen OBrien

And now moving away from Christmas with more awesome cards and projects from the team…

Kim Bacon

2015-08-11 Visible Image stamps - Life Is What You Make It - Kim Bacon

Karen Liddle

2015-08-11 Visible Image stamps - Butterfly stamp - verse - Karen Liddle

Kim Johnny

2015-08-11 Visible Image stamps - Wake Up And Be Awesome - Kim Johnny

Teresa Morgan

2015-08-11 Visible Image stamps - Best Days Of Your Life - Teresa Morgan

Karen Liddle

2015-08-11 Visible Image stamps - Happy Birthday - Karen Liddle

Kim Johnny

Visible Image stamps - Journal Page - Kim J

Doreen OBrien

2015-08-11 Visible Image stamps - Best Days Of Your Life - Doreen OBrien

Susanne Rose

2015-08-11 Visible Image stamps - Smile Sparkle Shine - Susanne Rose

And now for a few of the beautiful Wedding cards we received…

Kim Bacon

2015-08-11 Visible Image stamps - Fairytale Ending verse - Kim Bacon

Karen Liddle

2015-08-11 Visible Image stamps - Wedding card - Karen Liddle

Pauline Butcher

2015-08-11 Visible Image stamps - Wedding Day verse - Fairytale Ending - Pauline Butcher

Thank you everyone… awesome work as always 🙂

All these amazing cards and projects were of course created with Visible Image stamps… you will find our shop HERE!

If you click on the DT names it will take you over to their blogs for more details of how they were created and which stamps they used.

There are lots more gorgeous Wedding cards over in our Facebook group.. We were presented with an overwhelming number of fabulous cards on our Wedding Day.. a secret group had been created on Facebook for anyone wanting to send us a card, and Pauline brought them all with her on the day. It really touched us.. we have so many wonderful caring customers <3 Thank you! xxx

We will be back to work on Monday August 24th.. so if you want some gorgeous new stamps to create with, you won’t be waiting too long now!

Come and join our Facebook group… Upload photos of what you have made with our stamps for a chance to WIN some more in our ‘Show & Tell’ challenge!

And we’d love it if you gave our Facebook Page a LIKE too 🙂

If instagram, pinterest or twitter are more your thing… you will find us there too!

We will be sharing some photos from our very special day here on the blog a little later.

Have a great day 🙂 And thank you for visiting our blog today… we hope you have been inspired.

Mark & Helen xx

It’s Time To Wake Up And Be Awesome!

Posted on July 13, 2015 by helen

Hi There! Thanks for visiting us here on the Visible Image blog 🙂

We have more awesome inspiration for you this evening from Doreen OBrien and Karen Liddle who have both been creating with our NEW Express Yourself sentiments.

Here’s Doreen…

Hello…

I am back with some inspiration using the gorgeous Visible Image stamps.I have another Gelli Plate background for you today……I have teamed up the “Large Butterfly“ with the “Wake up Awesome ” stamps. xxx

Loving this monochrome effect from Doreen!

And now for Karen’s latest card…

I used the ‘Bleeding Tissue’ technique for the centre of this card..

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Visible Image stamps - Time - What Really Matters - Inky Bird - Ink Splats - Karen Liddle

I then over stamped with a stamp from the Ink Splats set, love these. I used a couple of different sized tops, pressed into the ink pad, for the circles. Finished off with a little bit of distressing round the edges.

The stamps used for this one are as follows –

Ink Splats

Free Your Imagination Set (bird)

What Really Matters

Fabulous card from Karen.. loving that background! Isn’t our inky bird awesome!

We still have more inspiration to come this evening from Kim J and Kim B! So pop back later…

Mark & Helen xx

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Have No Fear – Visible Image stamps

Posted on June 29, 2015 by helen

Good Evening! Hope you’ve had a good Monday 🙂

We are kicking off a new week of fabulous inspiration from the team with Kim Bacon…

Hello!

Another Monday has arrived! Hopefully you all had a good weekend?

Today I am featuring a card I made using one of the totally awesome Visible Image stamps along with a piece of paper that very nearly went in the bin!

You know I love making backgrounds? Well, I cover my desk with a piece of cheap paper before starting any painting and spraying so I don’t get the cutting mat dirty. I have a huge mat and am just too lazy to move it off the desk.

Anyway, as I am also a bit careful with my supplies, I keep these pieces of paper to use again and again. The resulting ‘mess’ can sometimes be very pleasant. Here, let me show you what I mean…

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Kim Bacon - background 2

The card I made with a piece of this paper features the lovely flying bird and tree silhouette..

Leave your Fears

I stamped the image using a Tim Holtz distress embossing powder hence the grainy look.

I covered a piece of card with the image because the paper is quite thin. I didn’t leave enough space for the sentiment so I stamped it onto a piece of heat resist acetate which I secured with some eyelets and beads at one side. The curve helped fit the sentiment on!

Hope you like it?

See you next week for another Marvellous Monday and in the mean time enjoy your week, get crafty and show us what you have been up to!

Happy Days! Kim

Fantastic card from Kim.. stunning background and it just goes to show that you shouldn’t throw anything away! You will find more of Kim’s inspiring work over on her blog and on her KimzKrafts Facebook Page 🙂

We will be back tomorrow for Soozie Tuesday with Sue Joseph!

Have a great evening… Mark is busy designing after a busy day of stamp making! No rest for the wicked hey 😉

Mark & Helen xx

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Inky Birthday Flowers – Visible Image stamps

Posted on June 28, 2015 by helen

Good Afternoon! Hope you are having a fantastic weekend!

We have so much gorgeous inspiration to bring you today from our awesome team! 🙂

First up, here’s Pauline Butcher with some very special cards…

Hi there,

This will be my last Visible Image Stamps blog for a couple of weeks, as I’m off to the seaside for a well earned rest, lol !!!!

My first card was made for the lovely Helen Michelle’s Birthday (Visible Image Stamps co-owner and marketing wizard, stamp packer, blog writer and general dogsbody, lol)

This is the card I made her, using her favourite stamps and colours (I hope)…..

The stamps I used were…….

Flower Inkognito and Happy Birthday Set.

I created the background using shaving foam and Dylusion sprays, I heat embossed the Flower Inkognito using black powder, and then painted them with purple Stickles, I used the flower from the Happy Birthday set around the edges, and heat embossed the sentiment to match.

My second card is a little ‘Thank you’ card….

The stamps I used here are…..

The feather from Angels are Near and the sentiment from the ‘Thank you Set’.

The background is Alcohol Inks on a Glossy Card, the feather was first stamped in Black Stazon ink, along with the sentiment. I then stamped the feather using Versamark onto some black card, and heat embossed in White powder. I fussy cut this out, shaped it and using Gel Glue, added it to the background but offset it a little to give the illusion of a shadow, I put some Stickkles on the top for sparkle.

A few days left to enter the Visible Image ‘Show and Tell’, for a chance to win some new stamps, all the details are HERE.

Check out the Visible Image Facebook Group, with lots going on HERE.

Thank you for visiting, and I shall be back a little browner, if English weather permits, and a lot rested.

Big hugs, Pauline xxxx

Thank you so much Pauline for your gorgeous Birthday card (yes definitely my fave stamp & colours!) and thank you for your very special ‘Thank You’ card too <3 They are even more stunning in real life! Have an awesome holiday 🙂

You’ll find more of Pauline’s gorgeous work over on her blog.

We will be back soon with a stunning canvas from Doreen! A brilliant project from Susanne! Some gorgeous cards from Karen! And something dark from Kim J!!!

So make sure you pop back later 😉

Mark & Helen xx

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Making Memories – Visible Image stamps

Posted on June 25, 2015 by helen

Hello 🙂 We are back with more gorgeous inspiration for you!

Here’s Elena Smoktunova with her very first Design Team projects…

Hello dear friends!

I want to show you my first projects for Visible Image with their amazing stamps!

I very much love dragonflies therefore made at once two cards with them!

I made a bright card, for summer. I love such a palette, and these tremendous stamps are perfect for it!

I used these wonderful stamps:

Visible Image Just Making Memories stamp

And one more card with these wonderful stamps! The card made in the same palette. Look how beautiful these tremendous stamps look on my cards!

Visible Image stamps - Dragonfly - Just Making Memories - Mixed Media - Elena Smoktunova

You can check into our Facebook Group for news and chat and to share your Visible Image creations!

I hope that you like my projects!

Have a lovely day!

Elena 🙂

Such gorgeous cards from Elena… fabulous style! You can find more of Elena’s amazing work over on her blog.

Tomorrow is a rather special day… it’s Helen’s Birthday! And we hear that Pauline Butcher will be here with a special ‘Fabulous Friday’ post! So we hope to see you here tomorrow evening for that 🙂

Have yourselves a great Friday!

Mark & Helen xx

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Colourful Projects – Inspiring Words – Visible Image Stamps

Posted on June 20, 2015 by helen

Good Morning and Happy Saturday to you! 🙂

We have a weekend packed full of amazing Visible Image inspiration for you! So many of you have bought our NEW stamps and we know you love to see lots of different ideas to get your creative imagination flowing 🙂

Over to Pauline for a very colourful start to your weekend…

Hello Crafty Friends,

Today I’m sharing some projects I’ve made, using some of the new ‘Express Yourself’ sentiment stamps from Visible Image.

I had great fun making these, and used various crafty products whilst creating them.

This is a 8″ x 8″ hardboard plaque, the stamp I used is…..

Smile Sparkle Shine.

The next one is a 8″ x 8″ canvas board, and the stamp I used is….

Stay Strong.

This one is a 6″ x 6″ card and the stamps I used are…

Wake up and be Awesome and Butterfly.

The stamps I used on this 7″ x 7″ card are….

Take the moment and the flower from the Thank you Set.

This 6″ x 6″ card has two stamps on it……

No Space for Dreams, and Classic Face.

And a couple of tags, this one uses….

Time to be Happy, the birds form Free Your Imagination, the smiley face from Robot Data Set and the edge stamp is the free flourish that came with the Craft Stamper magazine.

Last one is……If you have Hope, and again, the free flourish that came with the Craft Stamper magazine.

Visible Image stamps - If You Have Hope - Pauline Butcher

I hope these projects have given you a bit of inspiration, and I hope also that you have started making a creation for the ‘Show and Tell’, using Visible Image stamps of course, for a chance to win some new stamps.

Visit our ‘Visible Image Facebook Group‘ for all the gossip and loads of questions, banter and inspiration.

Thank you for visiting, only 9 sleeps until I go on my holibobs, yipeeee.

Big Hugs, Pauline xxxxx

Woweee! Amazing projects from Pauline… so colourful as always and showing how these NEW stamps work brilliantly with some of our older designs. You can find more of Pauline’s work over on her blog. Pauline will joining us on many of our show stands this Autumn, demonstrating our awesome stamps… so excited about that!

We’ll be back a little later with some Wonderland inspiration from the amazing Susanne Rose! And Doreen OBrien has some absolutely stunning ‘Express Yourself ‘projects to inspire you too.Have a great Saturday whatever you are doing… we will be mostly decorating!

See you later 🙂

Mark & Helen xx

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I can see a rainbow – Visible Image stamps

Posted on May 13, 2015May 13, 2015 by helen

Good Evening 🙂 Thanks for coming to visit us.

Here with some Wonderful Wednesday inspiration is Lisa Nyards…

You can’t guess what I’ve done! Oh, maybe you can, the pictures will tell… lol.

I’ve digged through my boxes for some rainbow ink pads, and I found a bunch of them. To my surprice they worked just perfect and I had to play some. I’ve used the leaf from Colours of the Wind from Visible Image. The rainbow pads are small so I used three of them, one green, one blue and one red/yellow one. Dabbed them direct to the stamp and made sure they didn’t overlap too much so they would misscolor from each other.

Then I used a fine spray mist and misted water over the stamp to blend the colors a bit. Stamped the image on watercolor paper. I hold the stamp down for a few sec before I lift it up to let the paper absorbe some color. As I could see there was color left on the stamp, and wanted to see how much, I misted the stamp once again with water and stamped again. It become a lighter impression, fully usable.

Then I stamped the words in black on top.. Imperfection is beauty and All my Tomorrows.

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And a card made from the second stamped image without inking up the stamp again.

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Stamps: Visible Image
Papers: Watercolor paper
Embellishments: Bling, Sequins, Lace,
Tools: Stitched panel (Lawn Fawn), Stitched Cirkle (CC-design), Scalloped cirkle (Spellbinders) Stars (Lawn Fawn)
Other:
Medium: Blending Blox – rainbow ink pad from Marvy Uchida.
Colors: Blue, Green and Red.

You will find all the amazing Visible Image Design Team inspiration here on the BLOG. Come and JOIN the Facebook Group where you can enter our NEW ‘Show & Tell Challenge‘ for your chance to WIN some awesome Visible Image stamps! And don’t forget to LIKE the Visible Image FACEBOOK PAGE too.

Two stunning cards! What beautiful effects you get with this technique… gorgeous <3 You’ll find more of Lisa’s fabulous work over on her blog.

We will be back in the morning with a brilliant tutorial from Kim Robertson, and some fantastic new inspiration from Teresa Morgan aswell 🙂

See you then!

Mark & Helen xx

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Pauline’s Colourful Workshop with Visible Image stamps

Posted on April 25, 2015April 25, 2015 by helen

Hello There 🙂 Thank you for coming to visit us here on the Visible Image blog today! Hope you are having a good weekend.

If you follow us on Facebook, you might know that we have both been struck down with flu for the last two weeks, so we are playing catch up at the moment! If you are waiting for an order, it’ll be with you soon… lots of stamps are now drying waiting to be cut and packaged! 🙂 SO sorry to keep you waiting xx

We also missed yesterday’s Fabulous Friday post by Pauline 🙁 BUT… Here it is a day late, and it’s definitely worth the wait!

Over to Pauline…

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are feeling crafty and well.

Today I’d like to share a couple of cards that I made recently, using some unique Visible Image Stamps.
I created these cards for 2 workshops I was luckily enough to conduct, on behalf of Visible Image, at a fabulous shop in Studley,Pink Tulip Creations Ltd. I had a fantastic day, showing a group of lovely Ladies, the quality of the Visible Image Stamps, along with a few techniques using Distress Inks and heat embossing. Thank you to Sheila, (the owner of Pink Tulip), and her two right hand women Tracey and Angela, for organising such a great day and looking after me too.

Here are my samples…

The stamps used on this card are the Colours of the Wind set.

Visible Image stamps - Drummer - Feel The Beat - Pauline Butcher

And on this card I used Feel the Beat, Soul Music and Plasma.

The workshop Ladies made such fabulous cards, they are a very talented group, thank you for putting up with me, and my warped sense of humour lol, I hope you all had as much fun as I did.

Do pop over to the Visible Image ‘Show and Tell’, take a look at the wonderful works of art that people have made with the awesome stamps, it’s not too late to enter your creation, for a chance of winning new stamps.

Check out the Visible Image Facebook Group, if you haven’t already, there’s a friendly buzz going on there, with loads of inspiration along with some spot competitions.

Many thanks for visiting,

Hugs, Pauline xxxxx

These cards are both awesome, and we know all the ladies had a fantastic day creating them with Pauline 🙂 You’ll find more of Pauline’s inspiring work over on her blog.

**We are looking for some NEW Design Team members here at Visible Image! So, if you love our stamps and fancy joining our team you can find all the details you need right HERE!**

Well be back soon with more fantastic inspiration from Amber 🙂

Mark & Helen xx

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Making Memories – Visible Image stamps

Posted on April 23, 2015 by helen

Good Evening! Thank you for coming to see us today 🙂

Apologies for missing yesterday’s posts, been catching up with orders and having some internet issues!

We have some absolute stunners to inspire you! Our amazing team never fail to deliver 🙂

Here’s Kim Robertson…

Hi Folks

I hope you are all enjoying your week and that you are getting some nice sunshine , it has been so very nice to get out of work at night and still see the sun streaming through the trees.

After last weeks quite complicated tutorial I thought this week I would do something a little simpler for folks in the clean and simple vane. I used three stamps from Our Visible Image Friends and they will of course be listed below or if you have any similar or you would like to substitute one of your favourite quotes or sentiments it is just another way of doing a very quick but smart card to give to someone special. It is funny isn’t it , when we make cards/ gifts we all seem to put our heart and soul and a bit of ourselves into the design and the way we compose it for that person , I feel like I am making it for all of you when I do them as I share the details so much with you all.

Here is today’s card and I hope you like it.

I used two distress inks on this one in Vintage photo and Seedless Preserves. I used off white and black cardstock. Lots of matting and layering with foam in between too.

Firstly, I took some off white card and my Grunge Polka Dot background stamp with Vintage Photo DI and stamped a few dots on opposite corners and then took a piece of cut and dry and a little ink with a light hand and added to all the edges and corners of this piece

I then took my Ink Splat stamps and used a few different ones with the purple Seedless preserves DI and stamped that randomly, I did keep in mind the sentiment would be around the centre and it would be good to still see some of the inking once attacked to the card etc. I then matted this onto another piece of off white and another larger mat again in off white and then a black layer.

Here you can see the above mat and layers and how it is starting to sit together already.

I took a left over piece of the off white card and stamped my Just making memories sentiment which I adore in Versafine black ink and added one of the purple large splats to it, I used some of the Vintage Photo to edge this piece as before and then mounted it onto black card.

Here are two more photos of the card up til now just as I am choosing which way I will go for this one with embellishments. Sometimes I love to match lots of accessories to the card and other times I just want to leave it clean and speak straight to the point and I believe this is in the later category this time.

I added a couple of small sparkly stones to the corners and a twine in matching purple bow with a sparkly and pearl stone to cover the knot and another of the same sparkle with pearl in the centre to the large splat on the sentiment.

I also decided on one more layer of the off white and black layers to finish off and give the card some real height and dimension after all clean and simple doesn’t mean boring and bendy does it folks hehehe.

Ok so the stamps I used from my good friends at Visible Image are listed here.

Ink splats

Grunge Polka Dots.

Just Making Memories.

So you can see how simple it all came together once it is broken down can’t you? Perhaps you can tell me whether you like the mix of tutorials I do each week or if there is a particular type you like best, maybe paper pads or inky ones , maybe the embossing techniques or paints and colour etc, let me know in the comments if you would like too.

Here again is the finished image..

Visible Image stamps - Just Making Memories - Kim Robertson

I wish the camera picked up the vibrancy of the cards made but it really does not pick up how fresh and bright a card is or the sparkle we like to add sometimes it just does not matter how many pictures you take it just does not translate so well to the computer.

However I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, thank you for stopping by and looking through. I will see you next week with some more inspiration.

Love and hugs to all the lovely folks.

Kim

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Thank you Kim for your brilliant tutorial… gorgeous gorgeous card. Fantastic background… don’t you just love this sentiment? You’ll find more of Kim’s stunning work over on her blog.

We will be back soon with a fabulous work of art from Lisa Nygards…

Mark & Helen xx

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Good Times @ Visible Image

Posted on April 15, 2015April 15, 2015 by helen

Good Afternoon to you 🙂

It’s time for some more gorgeous inspiration! This time it’s Kim Bacon here with a fabulous new card using some of her favourite Visible Image stamps…

WOW! WOW! and again WOW!

By all accounts the Bosses had a mega time at Ally Pally over the weekend!

Did you go? Did you meet them? What did you buy from the Visible Image stand?

Oh I am soooooo nosey! Maybe you will show us what you make in the Show and Tell soon. yes?

Right, today I have for you a bright little card I made using one of my favourite images, the butterfly. Not the INKognito butterfly that I usually use but the traditional butterfly. In fact I used both the large and the small one on this card.

I started by simply stamping directly onto a piece of white card with the 2 different colours of dye based stamp pad to create the block background. No stamp, just use the ink pad as the stamp. I left a bit of white space and kept the pressure to a minimum so as not to squish too much ink out from the pad. Once this was dry I used a very dry brush with white gesso to mute the colours further. Taking the mini dots stamp I then stamped in both colours over the dry gesso. Butterflies were also added in the 2 colours.

Using Stazon in Dark Cherry and black I stamped a big and a small butterfly onto acetate before cutting them out and sticking them to the card base using a clear silicone glue.

The sentiment was stamped onto another piece of the card in black ink and mounted across the card.

Here is the ‘Stamps I Used’ list and as always just click on the image to link you directly to the Visible Image shop page for that stamp…

Click HERE to go to the Facebook group – Ask to join if you haven’t already.

Click HERE to ‘Like’ the Visible Image Facebook page

Click HERE to find out about the monthly Show & Tell challenge – It links to the group where you can upload your projects and tell us all about them!

Click HERE to go to the Visible Image blog Homepage to see the latest DT inspiration. You can also check out the Projects Gallery HERE

Click HERE to subscribe to the Newsletter

Click HERE to go to my KimzKrafts Facebook page

See you next week for another Marvellous Monday and in the mean time enjoy your week, get crafty and show us what you have been up to!

Happy Days!
Kim

What a fabulous card and gorgeous background 🙂 You’ll find more of Kim’s awesome work over on her blog. Kim is doing a 365 day ATC challenge with a random word theme for each day.. the results are brilliant 🙂

Come back a little later for something rather bright and funky from Pauline Butcher!

Mark & Helen xx

Posted in Butterflies, Design Team inspiration, Express Yourself, Feminine Inspiration Tagged Good Times, mixed media, stamping inspiration, Visible Image stamps

Awesome Background Stamps – Visible Image

Posted on April 14, 2015April 14, 2015 by helen

Hello There! We hope you are having a good week so far 🙂

We had an amazing time at The Big Stamp and Scrapbooking Show at Ally Pally at the weekend, we met lots of our fabulous customers and Facebook group members, and we met lots of new customers too! Some of them are already addicted after just a few days 😉 We had quite a few sell outs so we came home with a full order book! We did manage to grab a day off yesterday (did nothing much except sleep!) so today there’s a lot of catching up to do!!!

There’s loads of amazing NEW Design Team inspiration, so we shall start with Teresa’s post from Thursday last week. Over to Teresa…

Where does the week go, I can’t believe it is Thursday again already and my turn to share some more stamping inspiration for the Visible Image team!

This week I have two cards to show you using some of the fantastic background stamps that are available in the shop.

First up is is a cool ‘graffiti’ style card:

I stamped the Brick Wall stamp twice with black Versafine ink then added the Ink Splats and drips (from the Drag and Drip set) using Versamark ink and WOW fluorescent embossing powders.

I stamped and embossed one of the Ink Splats onto another piece of card then stamped and embossed the sentiment in black over it.

Stamps Used:

Brick Wall

Ink Splats

Drag and Drip

Imperfection Is Beauty

My second card…

I love the new squiggly doodly background stamps in the shop!

I stamped one of the stamps in the Plasma set randomly with Mustard Seed, Peacock Feathers and Picked Raspberry Distress Inks. Once dry I stamped and embossed(in black) one of the stamps from the Orbital set to frame each circle.

The sentiment is stamped and embossed in black, then matted onto yellow and black card.

Stamps Used:

Plasma

Orbital

Just Making Memories

We are having a big 3000 members party on Facebook – contests, prizes and much more!! If you haven’t found us yet then follow the links below..

All the links you need:

Visible Image Website – buy stamps, get inspired, contact details and newsletter sign-up

Visible Image Blog – daily inspiration from the DT

Visible Image Facebook Group – DT inspiration, monthly Show and Tell contest, hang out with other Visible Image fans and share your work

Visible Image Facebook Page – all the latest news and information

Two awesome cards from Teresa! Love the splats and drips with the Brick Wall 🙂 And the Plasma and Orbital stamps work so well together… such versatile background stamps!

Thank you for dropping in today… we hope you have been inspired 🙂

Back soon with more fantastic inspiration from the team.

Mark & Helen xx

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Wise Words – Visible Image stamps

Posted on April 8, 2015April 10, 2015 by helen

Hello There! Thanks so much for coming to visit our blog today 🙂

It’s Wonderful Wednesday which means the fabulous Kim Robertson is here to inspire you…

Hi Folks

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter and got to see family etc.. Maybe enjoyed a little chocolate egg or two hehe!

Isn’t the sunshine soooo good to see, it was so cold and windy last week and now the sun is ablaze, our weather really is soooo indecisive but now it’s just not sure haha… but I will happily take a few more days like today with the big old blazing yellow ball in the sky.

Without further waffling I have a card I made for Visible Image today and I love the contrast between grey,black and white and the bright blue of the Inkognito flower… See what you think lovelies.

Here is today’s Art.

Something a little different , still in keeping with my style of background though I think. What do you think, Is it me?

Ok I have a full step by step for you today so lets get started , I hope you will get out a piece of scrap white card and a few stamps and join in with me to practise your backgrounds too.

I took my anti static bag and ran it over some white card first. I then took the long stem stamp from the Inkognito flower set and with Perfect medium stamped a few random size images all differing heights and embossed them in clear embossing powder.

You can see the few embossed pieces we just created at the top of the white card here. Next take the same stamp and use Versafine Black archival ink and again randomly stamp images on the paper coming in from the sides again in varying heights.

You can see the last stamping we did does not have to be perfect It will all come together. Next take some grey ink and the Bronte Border backing stamp and begin randomly stamping this also coming in from the sides .

This is what we have so far, at this stage wipe off any ink from the heated and set embossing as it will stay wet on the embossed areas which is now resisting the colour. I also added another layer of bronte border clear embossing but over top of the black to add another layer in dimension on the backing.

Here you can see it now has a very slight grey/blue hint I achieved this by using black soot distress ink on the very edges and bringing in just a tiny touch of Stormy sky Distress ink too to slightly tint the card. Right up to this stage I knew I wanted the backing grey/white/black but I had not decided what colour the flower would be I just knew I wanted a bright colour to really stand out of the grey/black backing.

I added the backing piece now complete to a white mat then a black layer and then another white mat and set aside.

Here is a section which I zoomed in on so you can try to see the layers in the stamping.

I stamped my INKognito Flower in Salty ocean distress with a little stormy sky on the outer petals and then I went in with a white gel pen for the highlight etc and the blue stardust sparkle for the outlines on the petals . I also went around the flower with a very light grey Promarker to lift it off the page with a shadow. I also stamped my stamp from the Sunshine sentiment set. I cut this all out and again inked the edges.

Here is the centre piece completed and edged to draw your eye into the picture. The flower is very sparkly and metallic but this light just does not do it justice I am afraid.

I took some wooden letters which are around and Inch tall and inked them to match just on one side I also went around the letters and filled in the outline of each in white. and to finish off I simply took a dry cloth and polished the surface of the metallic inks in the flower and the shine on the embossing to make it get really shiny and have that almost water look about it.

Here you can see the letters really well.

The gorgeous sentiment comes from the Sunshine Set, and I stamped it in the black archival and heat set. I quickly went round the very edge in grey Promarker just as I did the flower image too to pull it forward with a little shadow.

Here are the sets I used today..

INKognito Flower

Bronte Border

Sunshine set

Well I hope you like today’s card using the fabulous Visible Image stamp sets I know I really enjoy them and they really fire up my imagination .

Have a wonderful day ladies … and gents.

Love to you all

Kim

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This is awesome! Love what Kim has done with the flower and the background is superb. Wise words indeed! Thanks Kim for the brilliant tutorial 🙂

You’ll find more of Kim’s gorgeous work over on her blog.

Have great evening 🙂

Mark & Helen xx

Posted in Background stamps, Design Team inspiration, Express Yourself, Mixed Media stamps, Stamping techniques Tagged grungy flower, inky fower, inspirational quotes stamps, mistakes make us wiser, mixed media, Visible Image stamps

Colourful Inky Inspiration with Visible Image stamps

Posted on April 3, 2015 by helen

Hi! We’re back with our Fabulous Friday post from Pauline…

Hi again,

Today I’m sharing a couple of 6″ x 6″ cards I’ve made using some fantastic Visible Image stamps.

My first card uses…..

Butterfly INKognito and Butterfly Sentiment.

I created the background using Distress Inks in 3 colours, and then used a stencil over the top and spritzed with water, to give the sun ray effect. I stamped the butterfly and sentiment with versamark and heat embossed with black powder. I then added 3 colours of Stickles to the butterfly to give the sparkle.

The stamps used on the second card are…..

Woman INKognito, Ripped Fishnet and ‘Love Yourself’ from the No Regrets Set.

The background for this card was created with Brusho’s and water, left to dry, then stamped the Woman in Versamark and heat embossed using Black Embossing powder, I masked her off and stamped the Fishnet with Versamark, and heat embossed that using Pink Embossing powder. I then went over the Woman with a Black Viva Perlen Pen, to make it very dimensional, I also added some Stardust Stickles, and some Pink Stickles for sparkle of course. I coloured a small piece of card with Distress inks, spritzed with water, then stamped the sentiment with Versamark and heat embossed with Black embossing powder.

I am now going to spread a little ‘Visible Image’ love..

I never tire of using these fabulous stamps, apart from the superb quality, these thick polymer stamps are made in house, hand poured and hand cut by Mark, the designer himself, so they are very very unique in every way. Helen does all the packaging, administration, and networking, together they make an Awesome Team. So if you’ve not tried the stamps yet, have a go and see what you think.

A new Visible Image ‘Show and Tell’ challenge has started, so get stamping, and produce some work to enter it, details HERE.

Check out the Visible Image Facebook group too for news of goings on, HERE.

Big hugs, Pauline xxxxx

Two absolutely stunning cards from Pauline! Isn’t that background incredible and so perfect for our inky butterfly! And the second card is just so funky! LOVE that pink <3 Woman INKognito looks superb!

You can get your hands on these gorgeous stamps HERE. Why not treat yourself?!

If you are coming to Ally Pally next weekend you will be able to see these gorgeous cards displayed on our stand, along with so many more from our amazing team… they always make our stand look totally awesome!

Have a fabulous Friday, and a brilliant weekend. Hope you have something good planned! We are off to see Olly Murs on Saturday night and then we have a family get together on Sunday.. So we will get a few hours off!!! 😉

Bye for now. Come back tomorrow to see new inspiration from Amber.

Mark & Helen xx

Posted in Butterflies, Design Team inspiration, Express Yourself, Feminine Inspiration, Mixed Media stamps, Stamping techniques Tagged distress inks, inky butterfly, love yourself, mixed media, ripped fishnet stamp, Visible Image stamps

Time is Precious – Visible Image stamps

Posted on April 3, 2015 by helen

Hello 🙂 Happy Good Friday to you! No day off here sadly, as we are in ‘show prep’ mode with just 1 week left before we set off for The Big Stamp and Scrapbooking Show at Alexandra Palace… One of our favourite shows 🙂

Yesterday was so busy I didn’t get a chance to share Teresa’s Terrific Thursday inspiration with you, so sorry about that! So today we will have 2 amazing posts for you!

Here’s Teresa…

It’s time for another dose of thrilling Thursday inspiration from me for the Visible Image team, and I’ve been mixing my media once again to create a richly textured canvas.

I used some Coarse Texture modelling paste through a spider web mask to create the background texture on a blank canvas. (I left the area where the chipboard ‘shrine’ was going to be blank, so that I would be able to glue it into place more easily). I love the little grains in this, it allows you to create extra depth as it is quite stiff, and makes a change from the smooth finish that ordinary modelling/texture pastes produce. Once that was dry I glued the ‘shrine’ in place and coated it all with black gesso, making sure to get into all the little cracks and crevices.

Thankfully gesso dries quite quickly so I was soon able to get to work with my Inca Gold gilding waxes – I used green, blue and purple colours, applying them with my fingers. They really pick up the detail on the texture paste. I used gold gilding wax on the shrine area. I used Glossy Accents to attach some little glass ‘bubbles’ randomly on the web design, just to catch the light and add some extra shine.

Then I got to work with my stamps. I randomly stamped the cogs onto the shrine and added gold embossing powder. Then stamped and embossed the sentiment across the bottom. I stamped and embossed the clock and wings onto black card, embossed then carefully cut them out before mounting on 3d foam.

Stamps used:

Time Is Precious

Time After Time set

If you haven’t joined our Facebook community yet, then now is the time – we are having a 3000 members celebration very soon, so check out the links below!!!

All the links you need:

Visible Image Shop – buy stamps! You can also sign up to the Newsletter HERE and you’ll find more inspiration in the Project Galleries

Visible Image Blog Homepage – daily inspiration from the DT

Visible Image Facebook Group – DT inspiration, monthly Show and Tell contest, hang out with other Visible Image fans and share your work

Visible Image Facebook Page – all the latest news and information

Wow check out all that fabulous texture, gorgeous canvas from Teresa! Our Time is Precious set is really versatile and great for masculine projects too 🙂

We’ll be back shortly with our Fabulous Friday post from Pauline Butcher 🙂

See you soon!

Mark & Helen xx

Posted in Design Team inspiration, Masculine Projects, Mixed Media stamps, Stamping techniques Tagged dali inspired stamp, melting clock, mixed media, Time is Precious, Visible Image stamps

Creativity Is Good For The Soul

Posted on March 25, 2015 by helen

Hey! Thanks for visiting 🙂

We are back with today’s second post, so it’s over to Kim Robertson…

Hi folks

Hope you are having a good week , I cannot believe how fast weeks pass by.

A while ago we were challenged by Visible Image to create something with a stamp thought of as a backing stamp. I was sent the stamp set called Edgy and I used one of the Verses from the Make Me Smile set to create this shimmery card below.

It has lots and lots of texture and glitter too.

See what you think?

A little different hey, I kinda think it has that Girly Grunge vibe to it hence why I think the Edgy stamps were perfect for this one.

You can see the backing as created in layers of inks and embossing then glitter before adding its central section.

Here is a couple of shots showing the background and how I coloured it with the inks and then some copper embossing and some turquoise embossing, I flicked paint in Sepia colours and white ink also to add to the images but the Edgy stamps give that random but uniform dotty pattern that looks so great stamped in so many different ways here from ink to water bleaching on ink to paints and embossing.

Once this was complete I added some black and white mat and layers to finish it off nicely and set aside to start on the centre piece.

For the central section I stamped out the Perfect sentiment in Versamark ink with clear embossing and used my Tumbled glass Distress ink to filter the blue from the writing out onto the white card , Usually when we cut a die cut or something like that we bring in the colour from the edge inwards so the darkest is at the very edge then gets lighter toward the centre well If I did that I would or could have used a different colour embossing like the copper or a Gold to match but sometimes that isn’t as punchy as white and I knew I didn’t want to use a plain one colour piece of card so I worked very lightly and brought in the ink from behind the writing and filtered it outwards and then added more layers until it had the saturation I was looking for behind the white.

I then added some more edgy stamping in Rusty Hinge Distress ink around the edge and filter in a little Vintage Photo ink and heat set all. I then added some more versamark ink and some WOW embossing powder in clear with turquoise glitter to give it its sparkle. again more mats and this centre was complete.

I added some small card pieces I inked and embossed to the top and bottom of this too before mounting onto the background finished earlier.

The finishing touches once assembled was the tiny Turquoise stones on the decals top and bottom to keep with the colour. I know I have said this many times and I am sure Mark and Helen from the fabby Visible Image Team that make these lovely stamps for us would agree this is so so sparkly when you have it in your hands, probably one of my sparkliest cards actually and yet without the wonders of technology my little camera just does not seem to pick up how encrusted with sparkle and shine it truly is. But believe me this is like a party in a glitter ball explosion haha or something like that haha…

So the stamp sets I used to create my little Glitteratti Girly Grunge affair was…..

Make me smile set.                                     Edgy Set.

I really enjoyed creating this and I hope you all try something simple with stamps you think is only a backing stamp because just by using a tiny part of the stamp randomly you can build patterns and depth with tone on tone inks and embossing and so many different mediums including simply water spritzed onto a stamp to remove colour too. Try it by just limiting the stamps you used on one small piece of left over card first and maybe two or three ink colours you love together and see what happens…. I would love to see it too…

Have a Wonderful Wednesday my friends.

Love

Kim

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It REALLY is incredible sparkly and shimmery, and the texture is superb! Love the turquoise against the coppery tones. Awesome work Kim! You’ll find more of Kim’s inspiring projects and step by steps over on her blog.

Thanks again for dropping by today 🙂

See you tomorrow for some musical inspiration from Teresa Morgan!

Have a great evening.

Mark & Helen xx

Posted in Background stamps, Design Team inspiration, Mixed Media stamps, Sentiment stamps, Stamping techniques, Tutorials Tagged Creativity Is Good For The Soul, Edgy Background, grunge edge stamp, mixed media, Visible Image stamps

Inky Lips – Visible Image stamps

Posted on March 15, 2015 by helen

Hi there! Thanks for coming to see us here on the Visible Image blog today.

Today’s inspiration comes from our awesome US Design Team member Amber Kroening…

Hey guys! Visible Image has a TON of new stamps!

On today’s card I used Bite Me. =D  How cool is this little stamp set!!??

I started by lining my card base with black and white polka dot paper. Next I stamped my lips and sentiment, and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder. I trimmed it down to size, and used a black marker to add a thin border around the edge. I added a black and white twine bow, matted this layer with pink cardstock, and adhered it to my card.

Don’t forget to join in on our March Show and Tell!

For more Visible Image inspiration check out the Facebook group, and Blog homepage.

That’s all for today, thank you for stopping by!

LOVE this card! So striking! That pink is awesome 🙂

We’ll be back tomorrow with another week of amazing inspiration from our fantastic team.

Hope you are having a good weekend!

Mark & Helen xx

Posted in Design Team inspiration, Feminine Inspiration, Mixed Media stamps Tagged Grungy Lips, Inky Lips, mixed media, stamping inspiration, Visible Image stamps

Time is Precious – Visible Image stamps

Posted on March 5, 2015March 5, 2015 by helen

Hi there! Welcome to our blog 🙂 Today we have more NEW stamps inspiration for you.

Over to Teresa Morgan…

It’s my turn to inspire all you Visible Image fans out there, and today I am using one of the fabulous new INKognito 2 stamps – Time Is Precious.

I wanted to create something a little different this week, so have chosen a mixed media canvas. (I have used this technique before, if you would like to see some step by step photographs for creating this type of piece then please click here.)

I coloured some Stampbord with Distress Inks them stamped the clock and words with black Staz-On ink. Using a scraper tool, I added the white highlights (my favourite part of using Stampbord).

I took a 7×5 inch canvas board and arranged a selection of textured objects (metal charms, buttons, wooden shapes, lace, etc) on it, leaving space for my Stampbord to be added later. I glued everything in place with Pinflair glue gel and let it dry. Then I covered everything with a generous coating of black acrylic paint.

Once that was dry I took some Viva gilding wax in red, blue, purple and gold, and added highlights to the piece. Then finally I glued the Stampbord in place and allowed it to dry.

I hope that you are inspired to try something different with your stamps, they are not just for cardmaking, but ideal for all types of creative projects. Thanks for stopping by!!

All the links you need:

Visible Image Website (HERE) – buy stamps, get inspired, contact details and newsletter sign-up

Visible Image Blog Homepage– daily inspiration from the DT

Visible Image Facebook Group – DT inspiration, monthly Show and Tell contest, hang out with other Visible Image fans and share your work

Visible Image Facebook Page – all the latest news and information

A stunning piece of art Teresa! Love it!

You will find more of Teresa’s fantastic work over on her blog

You can get your hands on our brilliant ‘Time is Precious’ set and all our other new releases HERE

Hope you have a great day… it’s almost the weekend 🙂 Come back tomorrow for fabulous Friday with Pauline Butcher.

Mark & Helen xx

Posted in Design Team inspiration, Masculine Projects, Mixed Media stamps Tagged melting clock, mixed media, Time is Precious, Visible Image stamps

Scribbled Circle stamps @ Visible Image

Posted on March 4, 2015March 4, 2015 by helen

Hi there! Thanks for coming to visit the Visible Image stamps blog today. We have double the inspiration for you today, as always on a Wednesday… In fact we have FOUR amazing cards to share with you! Yes FOUR 🙂

Lisa has been creating some truly stunning backgrounds, so make sure you pop back later on to see what she’s been making!

Here with today’s first post it’s the lovely Kim Robertson…

Hi folks.. Happy Wednesday!

I hope you all had some of the nice sunshine we had yesterday, it was good to leave work A. in the daylight and B. in the sunshine and no rain wow… could it be that Spring is starting to wake up.. Oh I hope so.

Anyway I hope you are all doing well and I have a really different card for you today using a background stamp called Orbital from the new launch which really could be turned into anything, or used for anything. It could be used for mixed media and journalling also and would look great in white on black or in bright neons as a colour flash too. I used it in conjunction with one of the more recent word stamps with a different edge.

I did lots of layering as usual to enhance the backing to keep it neat and added a couple of little wooden dragonflies colouring with inks to match and some sparkle to catch the light in a couple of the corners and on the body of the dragonflies too.

I love the colour combination of teal and duckegg blue with latte and browns.

I also blended some Vintage photo distress ink over the edges to make it pop from the white and black of the background too.

Heres is the background alone so you can see the mix of colours on the backing with the layers etc before I go in with the sentiment raised up on foam for dimension.

I stamped out my sentiment from the Express yourself range of sentiment stamps from the Be Happy set and cut it out with a small tonic circle die and inked through the die like a stencil to give it a faint blue tone and cut a mat a little larger in black for it to sit on.

This is a close up of the little sparkle on the dragonfly and how the sentiment is slightly raised from the card. This is slightly flatter without all the frills on this one so it could easily be posted in an average envelope as opposed to my usual embelished style.

Another look at the finished results, I know this saying is sometimes used if someone is upset with another and people say this as a just deserts, and they will get theirs type thing, but this was never originally meant this way. It was a much more philosophical saying more for a good deed and how folks would be rewarded in richness of life and after life for kindness in this life, so then you see it with new eyes don’t you.

But mostly I just like how the little card flows for such a simple stamp an the possibilities are endless.



Orbital Background.                                     Be Happy stamp set.

These are the stamp sets I used and you can see how they all have sooo many uses , the possibillities are so endless here I sometimes look at lots of stamps and get a little lost as there are so many beautiful stamps to choose but if I limit myself to choosing just two or three and working with that I have so many more ideas so sometimes it is worth keeping it really simple.

Have a wonderful Wednesday.

Lots of love to all you wonderful ladies (and maybe couple of gents haha)

crafty hugs

KIM

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Amazing background, simple yet so effective layering up the scribbled circles in different colours! Orbital reminds us of when were were kids using a spirograph! Love Kim’s colour combo too. You’ll find more of Kim’s fabulous work over on her blog

Hope you’ll be back later to see 3 awesome cards from Elisabeth Lisa Nygards 🙂

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Thanks for stopping by.

Mark & Helen xx

Posted in Background stamps, Design Team inspiration, Express Yourself Tagged Background stamps, inspirational quotes, karma, mixed media, scribbled circles, Visible Image stamps

New Inspiration – Visible Image stamps

Posted on February 18, 2015 by helen

Good Evening! Thank you for coming to visit us today here on the Visible Image stamps blog.

We had a fantastic time at the CHSI show at the NEC! It was great to see lots of our fabulous customers, and to meet and chat to so many people.

We were very proud of our stand… and we have to thank Sue, Pauline, Kim B, Kim R, Hazel and Teresa for their stunning samples 🙂

We even had sweets!!!

Our stamps may be coming to a shop near you soon 😉

Time to catch up on what our amazing Design Team have been up to…

click on their blog links for more details about their projects

Amber

Awesome card created by Amber featuring one of the brilliant quotes from our No Regrets set
Amber’s blog

Zoey

Brilliant ATC featuring our NEW Time is Precious set
Zoey’s blog

Kim Bacon

Amazing card created with our NEW Play It Loud set and Universal Backrounds set
Kim’s blog

Suze

Awesome card created with our NEW Wonderland Mad Hatter Set
Sue’s blog

Kim Robertson

Stunning card featuring our NEW Behind Every Mask set. Kim used our Orbital set for the moon
Kim’s blog

Lisa

Superb card created with our NEW Rock Out and Universal sets

Stunning card featuring our Imperfection is Beauty sentiment

Beautiful card created with our Roses Set and All My Tomorrows sentiment stamp

Lisa’s blog

We hope you have been inspired!

Come and join our Facebook Group where you’ll find our daily inspiration, you can share your Visible Image cards and projects, chat, and enter our monthly show & tell challenge!

Give our Facebook PAGE a like too 🙂

Thanks again for visiting us and pop back tomorrow to see what Teresa has been busy creating with our fabulous Queen of Hearts <3

Mark & Helen xx

Posted in Alice in Wonderland, Blog, Character stamps, Design Team inspiration, Express Yourself, Mixed Media stamps Tagged ATC, cardmaking, character stamps, mixed media, stamping inspiration, Visible Image stamps

Leave Your Fears – Visible Image

Posted on February 12, 2015 by helen

Good Evening… Another late post! It’s a crazy week but we are getting very excited for the CHSI show at the NEC now 🙂 2 more sleeps before we head off to Birmingham!

Today we have some stunning NEW stamps inspiration for you from Teresa Morgan! It’s Teresa’s Birthday tomorrow so after 3… 1 2 3 “Happy Birthday To You, Happy Birthday To You (come on sing along!!!), Happy Birthday dear Teresa, Happy Birthday to you! 🙂

Over to Teresa...

It’s been a busy few weeks for the Visible Image team as they have just launched an amazing collection of new stamps. Today I’m sharing one of the new Inkognito II range.

This one is called ‘Leave Your Fears’ and is so beautifully detailed in it’s design.

I created the background using shaving foam and Dylusions spray ink – great fun, if you haven’t tried it!!

I then stamped the image and words with Versamark ink and used black embossing powder.

Stamps used:

Leave Your Fears

If you would like the chance to win this, or any of the 24 new sets of stamps, then make sure to head over to the Facebook PAGE for details of a great giveaway!!!

Come and join the Visible Image Facebook Group too, for daily DT inspiration, monthly Show and Tell contest, hang out with other Visible Image fans and share your work

Amazing card Teresa! Love the background!

We hope you are loving these stamps! (We know lots of you are). You can pre-order yours HERE

Thank you for visiting us today here on the Visible Image stamps blog.

Come back tomorrow as we have some totally rocking inspiration from Pauline Butcher!

Mark & Helen xx

Posted in Design Team inspiration, Mixed Media stamps Tagged crow mask, mixed media, NEW stamps release 2015, Visible Image stamps

Just The Way You Are – Visible Image

Posted on February 7, 2015February 8, 2015 by helen

Good Morning! Wow you are love love loving our NEW stamps 🙂 So happy!

If you haven’t see them yet you will find them HERE!

Today we have fabulous inspiration from Zoey, who hasn’t got her hands on the new stamps yet but she will soon and we can’t wait to see what she makes!

Over to Zoey…

Hello Crafters!

Here we are again at Saturday and as every Saturday here’s my ATC of the day! For this ATC I used colors that I am not really keen about — I choose them to challange myself a bit, I like to do this from time to time.

I used stamps from Visible Image….
I suggest you to check out their site, they are UK based and they have high quality stamp. Recently they came out with their new release that you can check it out by clicking here!
I love them all and I can’t wait to play with them!

The stamps I have used for this ATC are:

– Ripped Fishnet
– Sunshine Set

I started off by adding IZINK color to a pre cut card stock , I used yellow and shocking pink!
I added color without caring if the two color were mixing, and actually I was hoping for that to happen! I wanted to see a gorgeous orange in between… I didn’t achieve that result quiete much , but I loved the result nonetheless!I used archival ink and the Ripped Fishnet stamp to add texture on the corner of my ATC to not leave a plain backgroundI also added texture paste through Kasia Kryzminska’s stencil from TCW.When the texture paste was dry, I stamped my sentiment – always using archival ink, the same sentiment (that you find in the Sunshine Set) I stamped it over another card stock I had in my stash. From this, I cut off the heart and the “you are” part that I then added to the background with foam adhesive.The last step was to cut some twine and randomly glue it to the back of the ATC before gluing everything to a recycled cardboard.And here’s the finished ATC :

What do you think about it?

Make sure to visit the Facebook Group!! Enter our  “SHOW & TELL” Challenge where we ask you to share with us your creations using Visible Image stamps and also telling us the story behind the creation!

I hope you will like the result, as always for any comments, questions, suggestions etc etc please leave a comment HERE !

Stay happy, stay creative! Till next time, xoxo!

What a gorgeous ATC… Perfect with Valentine’s Day approaching next weekend. You will find more of Zoey’s awesome work over on her blog

If you missed yesterday’s post, come and see what our UK Design Team have created with our NEW stamps HERE

Help us to spread the Visible Image LOVE by LIKING our Facebook PAGE… help us hit 2000 likes!

Have a great Saturday!

Mark & Helen xx

Posted in Background stamps, Blog, Design Team inspiration, Express Yourself, Mixed Media stamps, Stamping techniques Tagged ATC, mixed media, Visible Image stamps

NEW stamps release – Visible Image

Posted on February 6, 2015February 9, 2015 by helen

Hello There!

Thank you for taking time to visit our blog 🙂

Today we are launching 24 NEW stamp sets! So Exciting!

They are all available to pre-order right now… release date is Saturday 21st February.

Here are some of the amazing samples our Design Team have been creating with them…

INKognito II

Amazing images with perfect words! Great for mixed media projects, art journaling, card making and more…

Sue Joseph

T
Teresa Morgan

Kim Robertson

Hazel Eaton

Pauline Butcher

Kim Bacon

Play That Funky Music…

We’re very excited about this collection! Something that little bit different! And really versatile!

Pauline Butcher

Kim Bacon

Kim Bacon

Hazel Eaton

Pauline Butcher

Sue Joseph

Hazel Eaton

Wonderland

If you didn’t already know, the amazing Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland is 150 years old this year!

You will absolutely love colouring and creating with Alice, the White Rabbit, Cheshire Cat and more of their friends…

Anyone for a tea party?!

Absolutely timeless characters! And of course, in true Visible Image style, they each have their own unique set!

Pauline Butcher

Pauline Butcher

Sue Joseph

Sue Joseph

Teresa Morgan

Teresa Morgan

NEW Backgrounds…

Perfect with our ‘Express Yourself’ Quotes stamps

Kim Bacon

Teresa Morgan

Hazel Eaton

Hazel Eaton

Pauline Butcher

Kim Robertson

We’d like to say a massive ‘thank you’ to our AMAZING Design Team for creating such stunning samples for us! xx

You will find more NEW stamps inspiration over in our project galleries too…

INKognito
Funky Music
Alice in Wonderland
Brilliant Backgrounds

SO… 24 NEW sets! Unique designs, gorgeously thick, deeply etched, clear photopolymer stamps.

We hope you love them  Leave us a comment telling us which is your favourite! And be sure to join our Facebook Group too!

You will find full details, prices, and images of the NEW stamps HERE… You can pre-order your favourites right now!

Have an awesome weekend.

Mark & Helen xx

Posted in Blog Tagged Background stamps, Funky music, mixed media, NEW stamps release 2015, Visible Image stamps

Mixed Media Dragonfly – Visible Image stamps

Posted on February 2, 2015 by helen

Good Evening! We are back with an awesome tutorial by Zoey Emanuela Scarpelli…

Hello Crafters!

For today’s ATC I was inspired by the super talented artist that you all know for sure: Finnabair .

I love her style and the way she creates and after taking part of one of her workshop I wanted to try to use her technique in my works.

And today I used stamps by Visible Image….

The stamps I used for this ATC are:

– Grunge Polka Dot
– Dragonfly

For my base I used Lindy’s Stamp Gang sprays that I love. They are awesome and they perfectly blend with eachothers.
I then stamped part of the background with Grunge Polka Dot and archival ink. As always I didin’t use the acrylic block since I was not looking for a perfect background.

I kept adding dimensions and colors to the background and then I added through a stencil the modeling paste.

While everything was drying I stamped this wonderful Dragonfly over a white cardstock, also with archival ink.

I then colored the stamped image with Primary Elements.

And here are the photo of the final project.

As you notice, you can clearly see I was inspired by Anja, I still hope I was able to put in a bit of my style… eheh 😉

What do you think about it?

Make sure to visit Visible Image Blog and also the Facebook Group!!

Over in the facebook group we have a new challange called “SHOW & TELL” where we ask you to show with us your creations using Visible Image stamps and also telling us the story behind the creation!

I hope you will like the result, as always for any comments, questions, suggestions etc etc please leave a comment HERE !

Stay happy, stay creative! Till next time, xoxo!

Wow! Love this! Such amazing texture and so beautiful <3

You will find more of Zoey’s inspiring work over on her blog

See you tomorrow! Thanks for visiting 🙂

Mark & Helen xx

Posted in Background stamps, Design Team inspiration, Mixed Media stamps, Stamping techniques Tagged ATC, mixed media, Visible Image stamps

Behind Every Mask – Visible Image stamps

Posted on February 2, 2015February 2, 2015 by helen

Hello and thanks for visiting us here on the Visible Image stamps blog today 🙂

It’s Marvellous Monday, extra marvellous because today we are sharing an awesome project created by Kim Bacon with one of our BRAND NEW stamp sets! Not yet released!!!

Kim has been working with our ‘Behind Every Mask’ set…. A stunning crow mask with great words! Don’t we all sometimes wear a mask? Put on a brave face and hide our true feelings.

Perfect stamps for journaling and mixed media projects.

Over to Kim…

* NEW STAMPS * NEW STAMPS *

* NEW STAMPS * NEW STAMPS *

I am really excited to be able to finally show you what I have been doing recently! The guys at Visible Image have done it YET again with their latest release. Or maybe that should more accurately be releases as there are quite a few stamps in total being launched in the next few weeks and ALL of them are on pre-order from 6th February.

If you are a Facebook Group member then you will have seen most of them by now. There’s a hint for you as to why it is essential to join the group, they get all the juicy bits first!

What I have got for you today is part of the INKognito II release. Isn’t it an amazing stamp? And what about that sentiment? Perfect isn’t it?

I have made a card this time but this ‘family’ of stamps is great for all sorts of different types of project. I think these would be perfect for journaling.

Check out the other DT blogs over the next couple of weeks to see even more of the new stamps and get inspired by the projects they have made.

Hope you like this project and that it encourages you to check out what else Visible Image have been up to already this year!

Click HERE to go to the Facebook group – Ask to join if you haven’t already. This is where you will find out about competitions and get all the gossip on new products

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See you next week for another Marvellous Monday and in the mean time enjoy your week, get crafty and show us what you have been up to!

Happy Days! Kim

Amazing card! Love Kim’s background with these stamps! You will find more of Kim’s work over on her blog.

Come back tomorrow to see what Sue Joseph has been creating with our NEW stamps <3

Enjoy the rest of your day 🙂

Mark & Helen xx

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