Visible Image Sunday

Hello my lovely blogglies.

Hope you are all having a fantastic weekend and the weather is nice and warm where you are still, we had a little rain yesterday but it wasn't too bad,it didn't cool it off a lot though which is nice.

Thank you for all your lovely comments this week, I have had a little creating session for today and this card is a bit different for me I think but I wondered if I could create what looked like backing paper with my Visible Image stamps today and yet still manage a little layering with the embossing powders and stamps.

I want to send my love and thoughts to all my lovely ladies who have friends who are ill or have lost people this week , I am thinking of you all and them and I hope the long days ahead will bring some relief into their lives with time. I do understand their pain and I know how desperate they will be feeling right now. My heart is with you guys Mwah xxx

Here is today's little card which  I made into kind of a tag card with room for little gifts or vouchers etc, see what you think.

I took two 5x7inch cards and attached them together in the back , then I trimmed half of each front side into the triangle shapes you see here. I then took my Polka dot Background and stamped all over both sides matching up the pattern as I went, I used Versamark and embossing powder in clear so the white of the cards would show through while I inked the card front.

These are the two colours I used to Ink the card at this stage and I used a cloth to buff the polka dots so they were free from ink after, nice and white.

 I am not sure if you can see well in this one but I used my Ink splats stamps to also create some tone on tone layering in the background too with the same distress inks. I also used my Grunge flourish stamp with versamark and bronze embossing powder to create the bottom edge interest here.

I thought I would stamp out my little tag/bookmark at this point and inked the edges simply in weathered wood Distress ink to match the card , punched a little hole in the top and added some skinny ribbon to match and a little pearl heart.

 I opened the card and covered both inside parts in Aqua card to match and cut little pockets for each side to hold a little voucher card or something, I punched a little half circle in each for ease of removing the gifts etc and of course a little ribbon and bow. Inside you can see I created a pocket for the tag and covered it in Hessian fabric, a hessian ribbon bow with a skinny bow on top I also added a wooden button with a pearl heart which would show through once the card closes. I also added letters made from Hessian spelling heart to match the tag.,

 Here is the first side , with more hessian letters saying " live", again like Helen's lovely verse I used on the tag. You can see the splats a little clearer here too, blue on blue and tea dye on tea dye, I added a strip of the ribbon so it can be closed and a bow tied to keep it shut. I also added some flowers in half a spray here which would close together with the other side and more flowers to complete the Rose spray.

Here is the other side with more letters this time "love" from the verse too. the other half of the rose spray is now seen here and some little pearl hearts plus the stamping can be clearly seen here too.

 Sorry about my gear in the background (pretend it isn't there ) haha. Here is the card standing open with its little pockets and tag on show too.

And here it is standing closed with the Rose spray meeting and the bronze embossing on the Grunge flourish at the bottom of the card showing and the tag poking from the main pocket too.

Here's that embossing and splats behind with the polka dots behind that , even embossing can be layered with these deeply etched stamps.

 A couple more of the sides and pockets here.

I held it up against my cream wall here to let you see the colours better here and you can see the shine on the embossing too.

Here are the stamps I used from Visible Image this week.

                                   Grunge Flourish                                     Live love,laugh

                               Polka dot background                                     Ink splats.

I hope you liked this little one for today and I will go back and answer all your comments today so please go read your replies of course, sorry I am late with them this week.
Here is a link to the Visible Image blog and a post on my Utee card with The Newly launched Revolution set if you would like to see the instructions again and this week I will do a full tutorial on the technique part , if you get a minute pop over and have a look at the wonderful work by the team there too.

Ok friends have a wonderful Sunday and I look forward to reading and answering your lovely comments as always.

Love and hugs 

Kim 

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Visible Image Sunday.

Hi everyone

Firstly, I would like to welcome all the new ladies to my blog , I can see I have had a few new lovelies join this week and I have been saying that once I hit my first 100 followers I will do a little competition with some fab prizes so watch this space guys and welcome, I love to read your comments so dont be shy, also If you have a blog join up so I can come follow you too.

Today is Visible Image Sunday and I have used their fabulous Chandelier set as the main focus.

My favourite colours are Purple and Green at the moment and so when I decided to use this stamp I thought hmmm purple it is then , however it does come over slightly different on camera as I used Seedless preserves and black soot distress inks to create this colour which does look a little pinky in the flesh as it were.

Here is a close up.

So to create my card which finished up measuring 7x6 inches.

Recipe

•  I first started with a piece of off white card and using perfect medium I stamped the chandelier several times and embossed it with a white powder. This creates a resist so that I can ink around the designs yet still leave my chandeliers white.
• I used my inks and got my shades nicely blended and dark on the edges. 
• Then took the grunge flourish stamp with black soot Distress Ink and stamped randomly on the top and 2 side edges. No need to do the bottom as  I wanted to add the ribbon there.
• I matted this piece onto  black card , then I used the grunge flourish again around the edges but this time with perfect medium and gold embossing powder.
• I wrapped my ribbon around the bottom of the card and matted this onto plum card. And set aside 
• Next I took a smaller white card and stamped the chandelier in black archival ink and I used two sentiments from the set, Just to brighten your day and Hang in there, also in black ink. Heat set them and then inked with the same colours on the main card.
• I took a water brush and swept it around the main image and blotted the distress as it reacts with water you can remove some colour this way and the look I wanted way almost rings around the image like the old Warner Bros sign at the beginning of old cartoons. So I did the same thing with the water brush and blotting several times til I had several rings. then I dried the image with a heat gun. I emphasised the rings by dotting quickie glue around the rings and adding some clear glitter to it. 
• I added flat back black gems to the chandelier image and glittered around them, I also used a white pen to highlight the chandelier too, I then used foam to add it to the card created earlier to raise it up a little.
• Lastly I tied a double bow and added it to the ribbon I wrapped around the card earlier and took a cameo for the centre of the bow, however it was a salmon pink colour so I used some treasure gold in Amethyst and then classic gold to highlight the face. A few more flat back gems in the corners and the card was complete.

Here is the finished look again 

 

The Visible Image stamps From lovely Helen and Mark  I used are

 

                                   Grunge Flourish                                           Candelier set.

I hope you enjoyed today's card , have a great Sunday and hopefully get chance to do some fabulous crafting, leave me a comment and let me know what you have been creating today.

Crafty Hugs.

Kim 

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Visible Image and Free your Imagination Sunday.

Well Hello to all on my little bloggly site.

Firstly I have to say to all who have had internet issues arrrgggggggggh, how annoying is it that you can't blog and who said it is easy to blog from your phone because Noooooooooooo it isn't haha, well it isn't if your me that is but Despite a shaky two calls to India Virgin redeemed them self by sending a very very nice man who gave me a shiny new contraption, housing not just a new modem but a new router and all is well in blogland again.. he even made sure me and number two child's phones connected to the net too so here I am to thrust upon you some new artliness ( is that a word.. hmmm well it is to me and I speak Kimglish).

I missed last weeks Sunday post for Visible Image so here is this weeks to make up for it I hope.

I used lots of their gorgeous stamps for this piece and I really enjoyed getting my inks out and getting mucky again.

• I started with the Background and used the Crackled Background and my Frayed burlap Sir Tim of Holtz ink.and stamped all over an A5 piece of white card.
• Then I took  more inks and blended them into the background , I used tumbled glass and dried marigold to start ,Then on the outer edged I used faded jeans and Rusty Hinge on the colours respectively.
• I then took the Bronte border and stamped randomly in Versamark brown ink. and dried with my heat gun to set it all. I ran an anti-static pad over the whole thing then several times to dry it thoroughly.
• Next I took the same stamp and used my versamark all over it but keeping a random pattern stamped over the background again, this time I sprinkled a True white embossing powder all over it and heat set again.
• I then took the Grunge flourish and Walnut stain and stamped it just in 2 of the corners and blended the ink a little on the orange shades on the outer edges.
• I used the Ink splats and Chipped Sapphire ink and stamped randomly just 3 times was enough and also used it on the edges of the blue shades on the background. A lot of work goes into the backgrounds but it is so worth spending the time on them as it looks amazing when put together.
• Ok so now I mounted it first onto a piece of black card and then onto a piece of white leather effect card and set aside. I stamped the free your Imagination Phrase from the stamp set of the same name on black card and embossed it, along with 2 of the large feathers in gold embossing and 4 of the small feathers in true white embossing powder. I also stamped the inky bird from the same set onto white card which I cut and mounted on black and  then white card.
• I cut out all the feathers leaving a tiny border of the black card showing, just enough to make it stand alone from the background.
• Then I took a large piece of black card and mounted the background to it. I added the two gold feathers to the top and the four white at the bottom in the middle I raised up the bird on foam to stand out from the back ground and I did the same with the phrase at the bottom.

           voila my  piece of art with these fabulous stamps is created. I have so many pictures so I will add then below along with the stamp pictures too. Let me know what you think as you all know how much I love your feedback.

 Free your Imagination in gold embossing power on black.

 White Embossing powder on black, remember the tiny black border,see how it pulls it out form the background.

 Nice close up of the background texture and the gold feather here.

 A slightly closer look at the finished project.

                                Ink Splats.                                                    Bronte border.

                                     Crackled Background.                     Free your Imagination set.

                                                                 Grundge flourish.


Well I used a lot of stamps this time to build the layers needed for a truly textured background and your eye travels straight to the bird and then to all around the scene and can do so comfortably without getting a sense of emptiness in any part of the frame.
Technical hey lol
Who cares as long as you love it as much as I do and as much as I loved making it. I hope you have a lovely restful Sunday and I look forward to seeing your comments.

Lots of crafty hugs , I missed you guys this week in internetless baron lands.

Hugs 

Kim 

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