Hello! We have Lynda Hall here on the blog today with a gorgeous underwater themed card featuring our lovely seahorse stamp…
The sun is shining, it has been a glorious week, and oh how I have been dreaming of a trip to the seaside. However, as it’s still not safe to indulge such whims I have instead lost myself under the ocean for this weeks inspiration project for Visible Image.
There really is something magical about seahorses, and this handsome one from the ‘Create Your Calm’ set is stunning!
I started this card with an inky mop up sheet of card. I am on a bit of a mission at the moment to use up my scraps. No idea why as I am constantly creating more so I am sure I am fighting a losing battle!
I used the ‘Two Tone’ and ‘Fibres’ stencils with distress ink to add a layer of detail to begin with, and then stamped some detail stamps in Archival Ink.
I took delivery of some Izink Ice this week, and some layers of that over the top really added some depth and shine and enhanced the colours.
While that was drying I stamped and embossed the seahorse on heat resistant acetate, and painted the colour onto the back of it so it just showed through the clear areas.
Once the Ice was dry, I stamped more images over the top from the Dare to Swim set, and added some embossing.
The WOW embossing brush is brilliant for applying thicker embossing powder around edges of your work to frame it.
I stamped seaweed onto another mop up scrap and fussy cut in order to create another layer of interest, and along the sea bed I added texture sand , shells and jewels.
The final step was to adhere the seahorse and sentiment with 3D glue to really make him stand out.
Lynda this is amazing, there is so much to discover! Your sea bed is stunning, love all the background detail and little embellishments, and our seahorse stamp looks awesome! Thank you ♡
You will find more inspiring cards and projects from Lynda over on her blog.
All our social media links:
Shop where you will find all our stamps and stencils Blog see all our latest posts here YouTube watch inspiring videos from Mark Facebook group show us your makes and enter our giveaways and challenges Facebook PAGE …like and follow us to be first to hear our news
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…
I was fortunate to have this piece appear in the March 2018 issue of Craft Stamper magazine as part of a team feature…
The design also appears on the introductory page of the Visible Image catalogue.
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 :
<
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.
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 Monthly Challenge! Facebook PAGE …give us a like and enter our weekly giveaways!
Good Evening! Hope you are having a good week. It’s certainly gone incredibly fast here, can’t believe it’s Friday again tomorrow.. so soon!
Sharon Traynor is our ‘Queen of Clean and Simple Cards’ and she has another stunning one to inspire you today…
Hi!
It’s time to share another card that I’ve made with some of my fabulous Visible Image stamps. Today I’m using the wonderful seahorse from the Create Your Calm set and teaming it up with some Ink Splats (to represent bubbles) and the Fibres stencil for a bit of movement in my inky panel.
I left the camera running whilst I made this card…
I’m loving how I can take a large stamp and yet still create something wonderfully clean and simple with it. This is such a beautiful seahorse stamp, but as Veerle has shown how to expertly colour it (which you can see by clicking HERE for her video), I thought I would leave it in monochrome for a contrast on my inky band.
How to make this:
First heat emboss the seahorse with clear ink and a sparkly black embossing powder, then mask the seahorse with either a post-it note or some masking fluid.
Next mask off a section of your card for the inked band and blend 3 colours of distress oxide ink (cracked pistachio, peacock feathers, salty ocean) into the unmasked area to create a smooth ombré look.
Blend more ink through the fibres stencil using broken china and peacock feathers distress oxides and next splatter water droplets onto the panel.
Use second generation ink with the two remaining stamps (the ovals and circles) in the Create Your Calm set, to add more subtle interest to the background, stamping these in faded jeans and peacock feathers distress oxides.
Remove the masking, and add your sentiment. I split the ‘own’ and ‘calm’ into two separate words using a masking technique, shown in my video, so that I only inked the word I wanted at each place.
Now ink the splatters from the Ink Splats set in salty ocean, peacock feathers and cracked pistachio distress oxide.
Use a clear sparkle pen on the water droplets in the inky band to give them some shimmer. Use the same sparkle pen in the white areas of the seahorse.
The final part is to add glossy accents onto the ink splat ‘bubbles’ and also randomly across the band.
Stamps Used:
(please click on the picture to be taken direct to the stamp set in the online store):
Stencil:
Other Supplies:
White Card, Versamark clear ink, Stampendous disco black embossing powder, Distress Oxides (salty ocean, peacock feathers, cracked pistachio, broken china, faded jeans), blending tools and foam, water, paintbrushes, heat tool, low-tack masking tape, post-it notes, scrap paper, Misti, Versafine Onyx black ink, Sakura gelly roll pen (clear star), Ranger glossy accents, 3d foam
Thank you for stopping by today,
See you again soon.
Hugs,
Sharon xx
This is such a striking card Sharon! Our seahorse looks fabulous against your inky panel and we are loving those glossy splats! ♡
You will find more of Sharon’s gorgeous cards over on her blog.
Follow Sharon’s YouTube channel for more wonderful inspiration!
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’ challenge! Facebook PAGE give us a like and enter our weekly giveaways!
Hello! We have another amazing project to share with you today!
Over to Lisa Taggart…
Hi everyone, today I’m featuring the fabulous new Seahorse stamp teamed up with one of the wonderful new backgrounds. It’s an mdf tag mixed media piece. It’s a more masculine project- makes a change!
The tag uses a mixture of materials. I decided to use acrylic paint for the background. I mixed in a little Brusho powders for good measure. The stamped images were heat embossed and when coloured foiling was added using teal foil.
Here are some of the basic steps.
A few bits of twine, leather, a metal compass embellishment and ribbon added extra interest.
Hope you like it.
Till next time..
Lisa xx
Incredible project Lisa! That teal foiling is stunning! Your texture and design are amazing! Thank you ♡
You will find more of Lisa’s inspiring 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! Facebook group join in with the banter and enter our Monthly Challenges! Facebook PAGE …give us a like and enter our weekly giveaways!
Afternoon! Thank you for visiting us here on the blog today.
We have a weekend packed full of amazing inspiration from our wonderful Design Team! It has been so busy since getting back from Creativation, so we are having a huge catch up of all the latest cards and projects created with our gorgeous NEW stamps!
Pauline Butcher has not one, but two amazing cards to share with you today featuring our ‘Organics’ stamps…
Hellooo,
Here I am again, sharing a couple of cards that I made with the awesome new stamps from ‘Visible Image’, If you followed Helen and Mark’s progress in Phoenix, you will know what a fantastic success they and their products were, everyone loved all the Visible Image collection, they were definitely flying the flag for Britain.
My first card was shown on a few videos, so you may have already seen it, the stamps I used are:
I stamped and fussy cut the seahorse, then coloured it.
I heat embossed the Organics onto acetate, and fussy cut, I also did the same with the sentiment, but onto blue card. The background was achieved by adding acrylic paint, onto the card with a palette knife, adding the stencil, and pouncing through with some white acrylic paint. I then stamped the fish and the organics stamps.To finish off, I added the fussy cut components with some 3D glue gel.
My next card was a little play for fun, I used some Distress Inks, along with the ‘Organics’ stamps as trees and bushes.
Your seahorse card is incredible Pauline… all that fussy cutting was so worth it.. the stamps look amazing! Love your second card too, it’s fabulous! Thank you ♡
You will find more of Pauline’s fabulous 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! Facebook group join in with the banter and enter our Monthly Challenges! Facebook PAGE …give us a like and enter our weekly giveaways!
Make sure you show us what YOU have created with our stamps/stencils by uploading your photos in our Facebook group! Add them to the ‘Show and Tell’ album for your chance to WIN a £25 coupon!
We will be back later with a stunning tag from Veerle Moreels!
Hi there! We hope you are enjoying all the gorgeous inspiration we have been sharing here on the blog.
Lots more still to come today too!
Next up.. Jane Tyrrell is back with another stunning seahorse project…
It’s a cold day and time for another dose of inspiration for Visible Image. The new release stamps have gone down a storm in the crafting world. America has fallen in love with their stamps at Creativation, just much as we hoped (and knew!) that they would. I am so proud and delighted for them.
I have a real “thing” about seahorses (as I do mermaids) and I was thrilled to see that in the new release Mark had designed this totally awesome seahorse… with a little Visible Image grunge of course.
Isn’t he gorgeous! The words and the little ripple stamps in the set are fab too.
I decided to make a wall hanging for my sample and this is what I got up to.
We had just had our son’s dog to stay. These dog food boxes are made of very sturdy cardboard and I use them lots in my crafting. I cut my card to size and used 2 pieces glued together to give a sturdy base.
I then covered the base with hessian.
I used lots of sunny alcohol inks to create a seaside background and stamped and coloured my seahorse on tissue paper. I stuck this to card and fussy cut out.
I then added the sentiment and some waves using the other stamps in the fab seahorse set.
I embossed some “seaweed” over the top of my seahorse using stamps from the Organics stamp set.
These stamps are perfect for tree, branches, seaweed and anything “organic”.
I mounted it onto my hessian hanging and added photo corners and some handmade artisan lampwork glass beads to represent glass sea buoys.
I added a string hanger and my seahorse was ready to wave.
My seahorse has been waving from the side of the Visible Image desk at Creativation.. I hope he is enjoyed his trip the the USA! It has been amazing to see my artwork helping to decorate their amazing booth. Do check out their photos on Facebook… it has been a showstopper and their trip a total success. An even greater crafting journey now awaits Visible Image… a vision has come true… through creativity, originality, dedication and sheer hard work by Helen and Mark. It is so well deserved.
Back soon,
Bye for now,
Jane x
Your wall hanging was adored at the show Jane! Your background is absolutely stunning for him! Thank you ♡
You will 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 products! Blog see all our latest posts here! Facebook group join in with the banter and enter our ‘Show & Tell’ competition and themed challenges! Facebook PAGE …give us a like and enter our weekly giveaways!
Make sure you show us what YOU have created with our stamps/stencils by uploading your photos in our Facebook group! Add them to the ‘Show and Tell’ album for your chance to WIN a £25 coupon!
We will be back later with more fabulous inspiration!
Hello! Hope you are enjoying all the inspiration we have been sharing today! It’s been incredibly busy lately with nowhere near enough hours in the day.. so we are having a mega catch up here on the blog this weekend before we get back to normality, and daily inspiration!
Over to Jane Tyrrell…
Welcome to another dose of Visible Image stamps inspiration. Today I am sharing another creation of mine using the stunning ‘Create your Calm’ stamp set.
This is the lovely stamp set I worked with..
I used all the stamps in this set, the little waves/bubbles make such a cool background.
I used Paperartsy fresco acrylics to make my sunny sea background. I swirled my paint around to give a feeling of the sea and added some “sunshine” in the centre
I stamped my sweet seahorse in the sunshine using Versafine Clair ink.
I then embossed the waves in white and blue and the sentiment in white.
I added some white highlights to him
and finished off the edge of the “sea” with more embossed waves
I made a “frame” for my picture using photo corners.
Here it is finished…
This really is such a delightful stamp set to work with… and it makes me long for summer to hurry up and arrive too.
Thanks for stopping by today and for the kind comments you take the time to leave me, I really appreciate every single one.
Have a lovely weekend… It feels so good to be in February, the days are definitely starting to get lighter.
Back soon.
Bye for now,
Jane x
Wow what an amazing background for our seahorse! Stunning Jane! Thank you ♡
You will 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 products! Blog see all our latest posts here! Facebook group join in with the banter and enter our ‘Show & Tell’ competition and themed challenges! Facebook PAGE …give us a like and enter our weekly giveaways!
We are kicking off this week’s inspiration with a stunning tag by Lanette Erickson…
Hello All!
Today it is my turn to share & hopefully inspire you here on the Visible Image Blog.
So I thought I would share a layered tag I created featuring one of our fabulous new release stamp sets! This set is sure to be come one of my favorites, because I just love this seahorse he is absolutely stunning!!
So lets take a peek at my Tag…
Products Used: Visible Image ‘Create Your Own Calm’ stamp set & Fibres stencil, Lindy’s Stamp Gang Sprays: Tibetan Poppy Teal, Time Travel Teal, Shabby Turbine Teal, Sea Mint Green. Creative Embellishments Chipboard. Art Anthology Sorbet -Splashed. Tim Holtz- Distress Oxide Ink -Faded Blue Jeans, Glossy Accents, Foam Tape, Watercolor Paper & Clear Acetate. Versa Mark Stamp Pad, Stazon Ink Pad, Prima/Finnabair Acrylic Sparks Paint- Ginger Magic & Raven Black and Metallique -White Pearl & Mermaid Teal. A bit of ribbon and Twine. Dew Drops and a couple eyelets from my stash.
See, he really is just beautiful and makes an excellent focal point!
Now you can see why he is my favorite seahorse ever!
Now before you go let’s take a closer look at my tag…
Here you can see the layers of both tags each with the same beautiful background.
I created this background using Lindy’s Sprays on watercolor paper and I let them air dry, for a soft smooth shimmer. After my color was dry I added a Art Anthology’s Splashed Clear Coat through our Fibres Stencil, for a bit more sparkle.
Here you can see the lovely Chipboard frame
that I cut in half to create this layered embellishment.
We have a lot going on this month and you don’t want to miss anything!!
I hope you are enjoying all the New Release this month!!
Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope that I have inspired you in some way!
Ohhh isn’t this absolutely beautiful ♡♡♡
Thank you so much Lanette we love it!
You will find more of Lanette’s amazing 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! Facebook group join in with the banter and enter our Monthly Challenges! Facebook PAGE …give us a like and enter our weekly giveaways!
Hello! We are back with more exciting NEW stamps previews today!
Launching at Creativation in Phoenix next week..
pre-orders from Friday January 12th!
Let us introduce..
We hope you love our awesome inky seahorse, and beautiful sentiment ♡
Brilliant blueprint elements which will add so much dimension to your backgrounds!
Our Design Team are loving creating with these stamps…
These incredible projects will be blogged soon.. so keep an eye out for them!
Thank you so much ladies, you have done an awesome job ♡ ♡ ♡
We really hope that you are loving our new stamps, all designed (of course) by Mark Alexander!
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’ competition and themed challenges! Facebook PAGE give us a like and enter our weekly giveaways!
