Visible Image Wednesday

Hi Everyone

I hope you had a fabulous weekend and all that have been away on holiday had a great time too.

Today I used another of the fabulous INKognito range of new stamps from Visible Image and created more of a little mini painting than a card, I also think it would make a fabulous picture for the cover of a memory album or for someone going travelling too. Anyway see what you think, I hope you like it, I have done a little tutorial with a few extra pics for this one as although it is flat and looks fairly simple with just a few colours it has a lot of steps and blends to this one.

So here it is and it measures 7 1/2" by 41/2" finished.

I think I am going through my Blue and brown Phase I just love these colours together, My bathroom is in those colours and has been a while and I keep thinking I will change it but then I love them too lol.
Anyway I digress. I used the Inkognito Butterfly and The Just making memories sentiment. I kept the whole thing clean and simple and let the paint and inks ,sprays and mica speak for themselves on these wonderful images.

 Here is a longer view to try to pick up the gleam on the mica , I used two colours which really stand out when you see it in person.
So to start this one I took a piece of water colour card as I knew I was going to saturate it with water several times during the first processes.
I painted the whole piece of white card with white paint ( hmm seems a waste of time doesn't it, nope bear with me).
I then took 3 Distress inks in weathered wood,Vintage photo and Walnut stain and swiped them in from the outside of the page in randomly I started with Weathered wood then , VP and then WS. I then spritzed them with water, and quite a bit of it too and let it run down the page and dried it the layered the process another two more times. If you want depth, layering is a must.

I then took my paintbrush that had a little white drying on the brush and flicked the brush downward on the tag to create the illusion of water or clouds etc. Then I dried it again. You could at this stage easily turn this into aged wood but I wanted it a little ethereal for my butterfly to rise through.

 I spritzed Turquoise and Chestnut Ink sprays that do not contain Mica and again let them run a little and create splashes and drips and dried them off with my heat tool.I also splashed plain water and dried that. At this stage the paper had absorbed a fair amount of water and was getting quite Pulpy  so I gave it a good long dry and really got into the fibres and I also added a few creases along the bottom and then took some more distress inks in Honey and Mustard seed and peeled paint and salty ocean and randomly swiped the yellows and oranges down from the top and the Green around the bottom and the blue to increase vibrancy but this time I  took a little cut and dry foam wet it and swiped out the inks into the picture and the last swipe was a downward swipe for depth.

I stamped My butterfly in Black Versafine ink and dried it very well again and  then set to work with my trade mark white gel pen, lol I added this to anywhere I felt the light from above would hit and make brighter and I even gave him a cool pattern on his back, I lightened all the dots on him so I could go over with my micas too. I smudged some of the white over the splatters coming off the side and wet it a little to make it look splodgey ( what a word) Kimglish again lol.

 I did the same after stamping the sentiment next and going around it in white to make it stand off the page even though it was a flat picture this time.
Next I took a Versamarker and two Perfect pearls Mica powders starting with turquoise and then Heirloom gold and pulled in some colour from the side in the last layer needed to added shine and yet more dimension.

 I must get some more of these wow they shine so much , never realised the turquoise had violet and gold and even a little peacock type shine to it , love it.

 So now you can see the blues and golds much more vibrant and yet you can still see all those layers going through, If I was then going to make this into a tag I could of used the wonderful Bronte border script and the ink splats to add yet another layer and lots of embellishments to truly add that mixed media feel that I love so much But I almost wanted to show what you can do with a water coloured background with a few simple steps and layers.

Then.....    I heard a faint Meowwwwwww..... from outside  ( it is 1.30 at this point, a.m) I replied with meow ? and then again I heard Meowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww getting louder so up I got and hobbled down to the kitchen ( foot sore this cold evenings and stairs do not help).
anyway I got to the back door and the meowing was getting shrill.. I opened the door and there she was the neighbour over the backs kitty , she was outside in the cold all alone again so I had to let her in for a warm up and there she decided to sit on the back of my chair and hang on for dear life while I moved and spritzed and inked while she waited for me to curl up with her after I finished. funny little thing. I wouldn't mind but she had been in in the daytime and I had sent her up on the fence to go home early evening and she clearly decided not to go lol..... hmmm she looks far too comfy doesn't she haha.

                                       Meet my lodger... "Duchess" ( not my choice of name lol ).

Back to the card, At this point I went over again with my white pen to make sure everything was standing out that I wanted to show up , especially n the butterfly and the sentiment letters , then all I did was mount the entire piece onto some turquoise card and some cream card and called it finished but I could easily have played a lot more , I really just love the simplicity of this though and how water colouring with ink is just as pretty as regular water colour.
This year water colour is becoming huge again and lots of people are trying more techniques and bringing out images that can be coloured this way so enjoy these techniques and have a go yourself , remember I also would love to see any work using anything you have seen or if you have anything you would like me to show you , I am starting to make a list of things for when I start making the videos for You Tube so I will have lots of ideas to film straight away so get your thinking caps on my lovelies and I will note down any ideas which I appreciate greatly as I want to film what you all want to see and at what level you would like too.

 See how the blue looks like sky and the sentiment is up in clouds and the butterfly is soaring up to meet it. ( well that's what I was thinking).

I took it tilted on the table as I was trying to get the crazy shine picked up but this just does not do it justice really, I will of course give it to our Helen and Mark so Maybe if any of you get to the NEC you might see it on the stand and recognise it haha.

The wonderful stamps I used on this one were.

                   Just making memories Sentiment.                     Butterfly INKognito.

So I hope you enjoyed this one today and you will leave me a comment or two and let me know what you think and maybe what else you would like to see on the blog and what you would like me to film for my list.

Have a wonderful Wednesday and I look forward to reading your lovely words later and I truly do thank you all for being here with me and enjoy every single one of your company too. 

Not long til our fab give away too, woo hoo.... 

Lots of love and see you tomorrow.

Hugs

Kim 

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Visible Image Wednesday

Hi Folks

Happy Wednesday to you all and of course for me that means it is Visible Image stamping day and I have a brand new card for the first day in October as a new challenge starts and you could be in with a chance to win £20 worth of Visible Image stamps at the end of the month and you can choose them if you won, all you need to do is get out those Visible Image stamps and make a little something and link it to the blog.

So the theme for October is 'Something Spooky' and I am sure that means all you Halloween lovers and night owls like me will be very excited as I enjoy Halloween more than I like Christmas.

Here is the little card I made for the inspiration post to give people ideas on getting started on a card or something to enter into the challenge this month.

 So I took some white stamping card which is a little smoother than regular card making card so you can blend inks etc and so that you also don't get ink spreading into the paper and bleeding the lines out.
I started with the new INKognito Flower and stamped it three times in Versa fine black ink and then heat set it. I took the stem out of that set and stamped it in the same ink around the page but randomly, not just as is, I added a little here then a bit there , (you get the jist. ) I made sure I stamped off the page also with the flower and with the stem edge to give it a more organic feel on the paper.
I then masked off the are to use for the moon and I wanted a huge bright glowy moon, Do you think I got the effect?

 Here we are a little closer and you can see the detail a little more. I feel like you cannot see all the colours in this although the blue and purple are very accurate the red in the face on the moon and dripping from the flowers is much more vibrant in life so the camera certainly hasn't picked that up.
So next with the mask in place for the moon I began to ink with distress ink, I started at the moon edge with a little Milled lavender as I wanted a wisp of purple before slipping into the blues, I usually go for the dark colours at the top and the lighter down the bottom but this time to create the slightly eerie light I switched it around and did it light to dark in a slow fade down the page from Faded Jeans to Stormy Sky and Chipped Sapphire and finally a little Black Soot which is still not as black as the Versafine so You can still see the edging I added earlier.
I then took the script stamp from the Revolution set and stamped in chipped Sapphire in a couple of places and over the moon mask as I knew I wanted the writing to blur with the water and ink mister coming next.
So I took a water spritzer and misted the page till the writing started to wick out and then I sprayed water into my hand and dripped it onto the page , waited a few seconds and used a tissue to pull up the little patches to create a mottled look on the page, I took a blue ink spritzer without mica and misted the page to give that intense deep look to the colour.

 This stage I dried the card really well with my heat gun. I took a white pen and gently added it to the top of the flowers anywhere the moon light would hit strongly I also added a few white dots in the sky, not actual stars as I new I was adding glitter and didn't want it to then look Christmassy.
I  peeled off my mask and lair it onto a piece of card ad cut around it , I then laid that reverse mask onto the card and took My INKognito Man and stamped his face on to the very edge of the moon in Dusty Concorde Distress and blended the edges out with stormy sky and then a little chipped Sapphire too.

Here is a close up on the moon, I blended some milled lavender and a few tiny swipes of the blue across the moon. Taking away the Reverse mask I added a fang and some bloody lips and drips under the Moon and to the flowers with a red metallic gel pen , I used a Sakura silver stardust pen also and went around the moon and the Sakura white  Gelly roll pen I used earlier too to make the flowers stand forward and the moon although very bright to recede behind a little, The dark shading directly on top of the flowers allows the background to recede back also. Remember white and light colour highlights and pushes things forward, dark and black allows things to recede and push back. And ladies that is the same in make up too, contour areas that you want to hide , highlight areas you want to show off. ( ha make up geek too).
I then added some Treasure gold in a rich gold colour to the edges quite heavily and over the edges of the flowers and top of card just randomly but buffed it in well and brought out the shine.
I also got out the quickie glue pen and some very very fine glitter and added drips of it down the page and across the moon  to give it texture , in the flowers and anywhere that needed a little.

I matted onto plum, white black and white card without dimension and added some antique looking metal corners which had pumpkins in the middle so I couldn't resist them and that finished it off, I felt I didn't want to add any more bling so stuck with the metal corners.

The stamps I used n this one were.

 'Revolution'

'Man INKognito'

'Flower INKognito'

I am not sure how spooky this one really turned out but it does have a bit of an eerie feel to the background.I absolutely love this arty range Mark and Helen have created and called INKognito and even the stem on the flower here makes such a wonderful grungy textures edging on paper so I cant wait to try it with my Vintage photo and walnut stain inks  on a distressed edge piece too, I think it would really create a wonderfully old looking frame.

Anyway guys and dolls its been lovely catching up with you today , I hope you will leave me a message and tell me what you think and I will catch up with you again tomorrow when it will be a new month for Creative Expressions so new goodies to play with on the DT too.

Huge hugs 

From me to you

Love

Kim

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Visible Image Wednesday

Hi Everyone

Hope you are all well, I am missing all the ladies that went off on holiday this week but I hope you all have a wonderful time. I wish I was firmly tucked in your hmm very large suitcase, a small one just wont do. lol
Well I had a wonderful time popping to the Aly Paly show this weekend , I got to meet lots of lovely ladies from here and Facebook, twitter etc and saw lots of lovely goodies and team members I also got to have lots of hugs with the wonderful Helen and Mark , Mr and Mrs Visible Image themselves. We didn't have a lot of time to chat but it was so good to see them as it had been over a year since we last met.
I got given lots of new gorgeous stamps to create with so today I decided I would do a canvas as the first piece I created for Visible Image back for the very first post was a canvas which is still displayed and I love it so I hope this is loved as much as I do.

So here we go my Finnabar inspired 6x6 canvas with Visible Image gorgeous INKognito stamps.

 This is so easy to put together but its one of those that looks more complicated than it is.
To start I got a tissue and separated the plys so you just have one layer and I stamped the Woman INKognito stamp onto it with Versamark pigmant ink and heat set it a little to help it set.
I prepped my canvas with a layer of gesso and dried it with a heat gun.
Next I coated the area on the left of the canvas with some PVA glue mixed with a little water and tore around the woman image and added that to the canvas, I added more glue on top of the image and sealed the edges well.
I then added several more smaller pieces of tissue in single ply in different area on the canvas and on the sides to add some texture and wrinkle it with the glue mix as I went.
I also stamped out my "Imperfection is Beauty" sentiment on white card again in Black pigment ink and then mounted it on to a very thin black mat and set aside.

 I laid it back slightly because the camera really isn't picking up the sparkle , its showing it as quite a flat image but it isn't at all, I have also added some really blingy pieces at the very end also and they have amazing shine that does not show much at all, hey ho.

Anyway back to how I made it.

I really wanted to add a frame around the lady but It really detracted from the beautiful hair splashes so I decided to add more texture to the canvas instead so I took a stencil and some Dreamweaver crackle paste and added some tiny dots, big dots, stripes and splashes all from the one stencil which had 5 sections of small areas of pattern to choose from ( I mostly covered it with flowers etc but it is there under the edges ). Then I lathered it around the sides with a spatula and had it thick in some areas and thin in others and dried it all to crack it.
I chose lots of wooden buttons in all sizes and some wings and lots of different size flowers in any colours cos we will paint them so any old colours will do and then once worked out where all would be placed roughly I went ahead and added the sentiment on foam at the bottom so I knew where I could add everything up to.

I gave the woman a little necklace from pearl strings and this close up here shows the wonderful sentiment and you can see the flowers and bling items a little better here, If you look at the texture on the frame you can also see I added glue in random areas and sprinkled some very fine Micro beads to them.
I also added butterflies in wood and a dragonfly, a heart and few other bits.
At this stage I took a white paint and started to paint over everything accept the Main image and the sentiment which I wanted kept clean.
Once everything was covered, even the metal on the corners and wings. I took two Vintage sprays in a brown and a blue tone with no Mica and sprayed lightly in areas but kept a tissue in my hand to dab the colour to the sides too , rather than get drips running down. Sometimes I want that look but others I want it more controlled like this one.
Once this layer was dry and the sprays had seeped into the cracks and patterns on the canvas I think this is when you really notice them and can see where it needs other things. So I took some gilding wax and rubbed it onto all the textured areas and edges of flowers etc and all them little beads lol.
The last thing was to add the bling cos you don't want it to get spoiled with paint and sprays so I had these little circles that fitted some of the flowers perfectly and left another layer showing so I added them to about five and left the rest bare. No need to over do it.
Voila... all done, quick and simple , this actually took me less time than a card.

 I snapped this shot at the top of the canvas so you can see the slight sparkle on the canvas and the bling piece sparkling too. The sparkle I used a gel pen right at the very end to add a few glittery bits and a water brush to brush a little of the sparkle out further.

 I held it up against my cream wall with both my small lamps shining on it, You will just have to wait til my you tube videos start folks and hopefully you can see them the sparkle better . I absolutely love love love these arty stamps and really enjoyed creating this for Helen and Mark so I hope they like it.

The stamps I used for this one were.

                             Woman INKognito                                Imperfection is Beauty.

So there we have today's piece which I hope you like and will have a go at, You can do this on any size canvas but I recommend starting fairly small if you have never used this technique as you don't have a huge area to try to cover and stick to a few pieces but lots of them rather than 100's of random bits of everything unless you like that look of course, no rules in craft just taste. (whoop that should be a stamp don't you think haha?)

Ok it is now quarter to three a.m and Im getting daffy so I hope you enjoyed, don't forget to subscribe and add me to your facebook, twitter and I also have pinterest so follow me if you would like to and all that fun stuff, don't forget we are nearly at 200 subscribers so we will have a nice giveaway once we get there so keep telling your buddies if you can.

Have a wonderful Wednesday

Hugs

Kim 

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