Wednesday 17 September 2014

Visible Image Wednesday

Hello my lovely folks

I hope you are all doing ok this Wednesday, today I have my first post for Visible Image and the lovely Helen and Mark since all the hospital trips began. I would like to take this opportunity to thank them from the bottom of their heart for all the patience and support Helen has given me not only as co owner of Visible Image but as my friend too. Helen you are a lovely kind lady and I am proud to call you my friend , I really have appreciated your kind words and you are very special to me.

Also I want to thank all the wonderful Internet family  ( that's all you lovelies) who leave me such wonderful kind  whole hearted messages everyday , I wish I lived near each one of you so I could pop in with treats as I am so pleased you are all on my blog as part of the family. Huge hugs of appreciate from my house to yours ladies.

Ok back to today's card , I know its still a little early but I thought I'd do a little Christmas theme card , You all know how I love Visible Image stamps and these are from 3 little sets and I chose a gorgeous red with Festive berries distress ink and a purple  seedless preserves and at first thought I would think hmm not sure but I love how it came out.

What do you think?

I cut myself a piece of white stamping card and used black archival ink to stamp my Enchanting snowflake stamp randomly over the page, stamping off the page too. I then heat set them and took the script stamp from the Revolution set but first I used an anti static pad to run over the page to ensure no transfer of embossing powder on the snowflakes, I used the script in just two places on my background and embossed  with Clear detail powder.
I then took my inks 
 Festive berries and Seedless preserves from Lord Holtz of distress mansions.

I used the two colours in my usual way and blended them together in two layers on the background , I also took my snowflake and stamped it in each colour tone on tone and added a little interest into the background too. 
I took the swirl from the Revolution set also and stamped it randomly in the top right and the bottom left corners and added parts of the swirl here and there with versamark again and embossed with bright gold powder, I also took a piece of card and stamped and embossed in gold 3 snowflakes which I cut out and stuck together to stick to the card on the left of the sentiment.
 Here us another full view, You can see the lovely Winters miracle verse written by our lovely Helen of course. I cut it out with a Sissix framelet die and I just love the shape , it is so pretty and fits the verse perfectly, I decided  I didn't want to cover the lovely background more so I just inked the edges of the sentiment slightly and sprinkled glitter all over the edges and all over the snowflake too.

 I then did lot s of matting and layering , some on foam some flat and wrapped a piece of purple ribbon over each end of one of the mats and added a little bow in opposite corners with the snowflake hanging (kind of) on the left with a pretty bit of bling in the bow centres.

 Here you can see I  also pierced one of the mats for this card as it looked so pretty.
And lastly a long look at the card from the corner so you can see the layers and the dimension on the snowflake, all I did was fussy cut out the three snowflakes and bend them n the middle and hot glued them together , I threaded and glued a piece of gold string through the snowflake and added it to the ribbon on the card, i added the little bow on top and the bling to finish it off. 
adding a few little pearls to each ribbon too.

Here are the stamp sets I used for this one.


                  Enchanting Snowflakes                                     Revolution
Winters Miracle.

Well I hope you enjoyed today's post and You will all leave me a comment so I can see what you think and I will see you back here tomorrow for CE weekly DT post.

Huge hugs and lots of love

Kim 
XXXX



20 comments:

  1. Morning Kim

    Another stunning card, love the colours you have used and love the verse
    Your cards are always appreciated by us bloggers
    Hugs
    Carol x

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    1. Hi Carol
      Your not only a blogger you are a lovely friend too, which most of the internet family started the same way. Blogging is a great way to begin friendships as we have proved.
      Thank you for your lovely words as always they are appreciated immensely.
      Hugs
      Kim xxx

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  2. Good Morning Kim!
    I really like the gold embossing used on the coloured background. The shapes of the Snowflakes are pretty too!
    I noticed you use the hot glue gun but I'm a bit wary of it...I did notice how neat your work is, I am really tempted now !
    Hope you ankle is feeling OK Kim!
    Take care
    Love Marg

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    1. Hi Marg
      I Thank you Marg fro stopping by and leaving a nice comment as always and yes I do use hot glue sometimes for speed but I can tell you elements on cards stay on much longer if you use wet glue and not hot glue but for things like rolled roses etc they last much longer as it bonds in the fibres of the fabric as it were. But you are right to be wary of the glue guns, I burn myself everytime and end up with blisters so be very very careful my dear.
      Hugs
      Kim xxx

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  3. Hi Kim,
    Such a beautiful card - you've gone right up my street with the festive berries inkpad. It is a very striking card, I love it. How did you cut out the snowflake?
    Hope your foot is improving all the time and by Xmas you'll be dancing a little Xmas jig.
    Hugs, Rose

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    1. Hi Rose
      Oh good, yes I remeber youare a bit of a red addict, well I have another red one thursday so you should love the colours.
      I fussy cut the snowflakes by hand and adhered them together, I added some glue and glitter on any edges not even, You would never know.
      Hope you are ok.
      Hugs for you
      Kim xxx

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  4. Back again................
    it's called "old age" - for some weird reason couldn't find the comments box on your previous blog so posted a reply (there'll be some confused recipient of my ramblings).
    It can only get better.........
    Hugs, Rose

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  5. Hi kim wow this card is beautiful the colours are so vibrant love the stamps used thank you for sharing special love nanna June xxx

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    1. Hi Nanna
      I am so glad you like it my lovely. Don't forget you can email me when ever you would like you dont have to just send here if you fancy a chat just type away nanna.
      Hugs
      Kim xxx

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  6. Morning Kim, I'd never have thought to put those 2 colours together, but they really work. Love the 3D snowflake too. Hope your ankle is getting better? Lots of love Sarah

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    1. Hi Sarah
      Good to see you as always.Thank you for your kind words as always . I hope you feel good this week and yes ankle is meding just very very slowly and suffers for everything extra i do but I will get there in the end. I know I will.
      Hugs
      Kim xxx

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  7. Welcome back Kim! Fabulous card! The colours are divine! Brilliant Background... Love the gold on the deep purple and red. Thanks for your wonderful words my lovely friend, looking forward to a real hug instead of a cyber one very soon ;) Helen xxx

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    1. Hi Helen.
      Ahhh thank you and so am I very much. 2 more sleeps haha.
      hugs
      Kim xxx

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  8. Hi Kim,
    Glad you are ok.
    I think these two colours work really well together, sadly i do not have them !
    I have had my eye on the seedless preserves for a while , it really is fab!
    I like the embossing too , and the script stamping is great.
    A very opulent looking card !
    Take care Kim and don't forget to put your foot up!
    XxxRuth

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    1. Hi Ruth
      Ahhh you are so very kind, thank you so much, I appreciate you being here with me. I hope we get to meet up one day.
      Yup rest the foot whenever i get.
      Hugs
      Kim xxx

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  9. Evening Kim, you are very generous but you deserve all the nice comments you get for sharing your expertise with everyone though your blog. This card is another stunner, such wonderfully rich colours and that gold embossing just sets everything off.

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    1. Hi Stephanie
      Thankyou thats so very nice of you to say that. I am glad you like the card, berry colours, I just love them
      Hugs
      Kim xxx

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  10. Morning Kim, I missed this yesterday, I'm usually looking at Blogs first thing in the morning (apart from today which is 'clean all day' and I'm having a quick coffee break haha).
    A fabulous, sumptuously coloured, card, I love it !!
    Lots of love from Patricia xx

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  11. I'm a newbie to Visible Image, loving their stamps and this card is fab! Love the colours you have used, I love the vibrancy and depth of it xx

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