Visible Image Sunday is here again.!

Hi Folks

How the cotton candy are you all? I have been creating again and I don't mean having a moan... I have been getting all inky with the gorgeous Visible Image stamps.
what do you think?

I liked it and all with just a couple of colours Distress ink and several stamps. Here's how .

• I took a piece of off white card and Black archival ink and stamped the Imagine ,Dream Inspire stamps in rows over the page. Once done I cut the best bit which was 18 cms long x 11cm high.
• Dry and rub and anti static pad all over. Then use Versamark and clear embossing powder and stamp the Grunge flourish in two of the corners.
• Choose two contrasting colours, here I used Seedless preserves and Peeled paint. and randomly colour your first layer , then add a second layer ,making it darker at the edges and corners.
• Dry and rub the colour off the clear embossing with a dry piece of kitchen towel. Use anti static again. Then I took the Bronte border and silver embossing powder and added some writing here an there again random is the word.
• Next I stamped three Dragonflies and embossed in white. I also stamped a few of the Tall grasses in black archival just along the bottom and side areas.
• Once dry I cut this sheet into three pieces each measuring 11x6cms and then stuck them down with foam to raise them a little onto black card, leaving a small gap in between and around them.I then added a piece of black crochet ribbon to the top with gold glitter in the gaps onto the tape for sparkle.This was then mounted onto white card.
• I took a smaller piece of white card and inked again with same colours and stamped 'It takes a long time to grow an old friend' and mounted that onto black card and used foam to attach to the main card in the centre. 
• I tied a twine bow and used a pink dazzler in the centre with some flat back gems in the corners 
• Lastly I stamped out the dragonfly onto the same inks and poured on some purple sparkle embossing powder and heat set, I cut it out and inked the edges in black. I then added this to the sentiment. I drew some small faux stitches around the sentiment and some small white dots along each blade of tall grass. 

Here is another angle

I hope you like it and would like to try for yourself ,If anyone has any questions or would like to know how to do anything please do not hesitate to ask.

Below are the stamp sets I used for this one.

                          Imagine, Dream, Inspire                             Bronte Border.

                                   Grunge Flourish                                            Tall Grass  

Dragonfly.

There is also The Visible Image Blog where you can find all the teams latest inspiration posts and any event news etc so please check it out if you want to be involved in any competitions or the monthly challenge which this month is a Christmas theme and you can win £30 worth of your choice of stamp sets from Visible Image too.

All you need to do is create a little something with at least one of Te Visible Image stamps and enter it .. Simplesssss ,at the end of the month the winner gets picked at random so woop de dooo new stamps for you (If you win of course) But you can't win unless you enter so get arty peoples.

Have a great Sunday

Crafty Hugs

Kim 

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Creative Expressions Thursday.

Hi Everyone

Its my turn to blog for Creative Expressions today and feature on their blog or if you have come over from there to here you will find a step by step today how to create my Just Because card.
I would like to welcome all the new people again to my blog and hope you will join in and leave comments and get involved with little competitions for blog candy etc, as soon as I reach 100 followers I have some fab prizes for you to try to win so please encourage your fiends to come join up and follow me too.
I had a question asked recently from Rachel how I created the letters on my 'HOME SWEET HOME' wall hanging so I thought I'd answer here in case anyone else wanted to know. I used air dry clay and a Martha Stewart alphabet Mould and once the clay had dried I used Treasure Gold wax and painted the letters then adhered them to the hanging. Hope this helps you Rachel and thank you for your question.

Back to today's Card so here it is.

'Just Because'

With the start of December we received a new Design pack so this month we will be focusing on the new Henna range of stamps, The ones used on this card are the Henna floral corner and the Henna floral border stamps from the singles range which come already mounted on foam and are yummy.

I have taken lots of pics for you today as a step by step.

 1. I embossed a piece of white card and then took three shades of distress ink and added them to the card, randomly with cut and dry foam.Set aside.

 2. Take another piece of white card an inch bigger all around. Use perfect medium and stamp your Henna border stamp all the way around the card and emboss with Clear embossing powder.

 3. Next use two of the same inks and colour over the embossing to leave a resist pattern on the card.Set aside

4. Take a small piece of black card ad stamp out your Henna floral corner opposite each other diagonally using distress stain in Picket fence. Then cut down to size, I went over the design with a white pen to make it a little brighter.

5. I stamped out My 'Just because' sentiment from the cathedral lace stamp set. and Cut out with one of the fancy Label 4 gold dies from spellbinders.I also dotted some white dots around the edge of the black card too.

6. I brought back the other two pieces and mounted them all together here, The middle one I wrapped some crochet ribbon and a some seam binding round it also before adding onto the bottom Matt.I  cut a larger diecut  from the gold 4 and sat a frame just under the black piece shown in this photo.You can see the seam binding I will be using for the bow etc too, I also cut and created two leaves from Heartfelt creations stamp and dies, also made by spellbinders.

7. Here is the bow assembled with the leaves and the Creative expressions ribbon rose in silver and seam binding in teal.

 8 I used a Wendy Vechi art piece and used our waxes to colour the flowers slightly too.

 Here is a closer look at the beautiful colours of the patina and enchanted gold waxes.

 I also added small blue flat back gems to the centre of the flowers and some gold wax on the stems.

9. Lastly I added some larger gems to the corners to complete this card, you can see the resist embossing here really well with the crushed olive distress ink in this corner.

Here is the completed card again.I did Matt this whole thing onto another black mat in the end for a double effect and to strengthen the card just a little more.

So I hope you enjoyed today's card, the finished dimensions are an 8 inch square just over. Feel free to ask any questions and leave your comments of course. I will be back very soon so take care.

Happy Crafting.

Kim

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Visible Image Sunday.

Hi Bloggers and happy December the 1st!

                      Can you believe we have got to December again?. Gosh this year has flown by.

So being the first means that the 'Make it sparkle November challenge' has ended and we will have a winner for all the gorgeous entries on The Visible Image blog, they win £20 of stamps of their choosing. Please check the Blog to see if it is you.
It also means a new challenge has started but not only that with it being December the prize has gone up to £30 worth of stamps of your choice for the winner. How cool is that, you can get tons of gorgeousness with that! You must of course use at least one Visible Image stamp for the challenge but all you lovelies that got loads in the Black Friday sales come on and get entering to win more!!! you know you want to.
We have a Christmas theme for this December Challenge,  here is my Inspiration for it.

I really enjoyed using these stamps and making the trees come to life.

•  I started with white card and cut my moon mask and  used low tack adhesive to add to the white card.
• I used Distress inks in blue and purple hues from Tumbled glass to Chipped Sapphire and a little black soot to achieve the graduate sky. I had some cloud masks and added some faintly in the sky each side of the moon.
• I stamped the trees in Black archival and also some purple Adirondack ins and used second generation stamping for the trees in shadow too. 
• I took away some ink from the cloudy areas and under the moon using a water brush and Kitchen paper to bleach it out. 
• I removed the moon mask and added some distressing to the paper to make craters in the moon and a little misting. I then dried it all and stamped the sleigh in black archival over the moon and sky. Dried again with a heat gun.
• I stamped and embossed in silver the seasons greetings along the top. 
• Then used a quicky glue pen and various coloured glitters on the trees and the sleigh, Rudolf needed a red nose and the tress all needed shadow and highlights with black and white pens to make them 3D.
• Once finished I matt and layered the image a few times with colours to compliment and some Nail head metal flat back gems to the corners. Voila all done.

The stamps I used were.

                                       Tree Trio                                         Sleigh Silhouette

Season's Greetings.

As it is Sunday you get a twofer as It is my normal day to blog for Visible image therefore I have a card I created to show you for today.

This one uses the Hearts entwined verse. love immortal set and Bronte border stamps for the background.

 A close up of the verse in the gorgeous font.

And here you can see the rose buds and part of the spun sugar background and the matts, including the pierced layer giving it a professional finish.

• So I started with a 5and half inch square piece of white card and I used Versamark ink to stamp the damask stamp from the Immortal love stamp set which I embossed with white powder.
• I then took the Bronte border and did not put it on to a block I merely held it in my hand and pressed it in the gaps between the damask shape. I also embossed this in white and it gave an interesting finish.
• I took spun sugar distress ink and inked the whole page then reworking the edges and corners to tone it darker and focus the eye inward.
• I dried it thoroughly and matted onto Soft gold card. I wrapped some white crochet ribbon round the bottom of the card and then some thing pink ribbon over the crochet piece. and set aside.
• I measured a piece of white card slightly larger than the piece set aside and pierced the edge using the creative expressions piercing ruler and a pokey tool. I added foam to the back and raised it onto another white matt. Then added the other piece onto foam and added them together.
• I stamped my sentiment and embossed in gold detail powder and cut out using a spellbinder label and I also cut a frame using the same shape and the size smaller, all pieces I gently inked with Spun sugar to tie all together. I then added my sentiment to the card and added the frame raised onto foam too.
• I used a want to scrap pearl element onto the frame and took three paper Rose buds and twisted them together using florist tape, I added a little gold trim and some leaves and added it to the card. 
• Lastly some heart shaped Pearls to the corners and to the decoration. A tiny bow in the same thin pink ribbon with a matching pearl centre was the last touch.

The stamps I used were.

                                 Love Immortal                                              Bronte Border

                                                                    Hearts Entwined.

So feel free to leave me a comment I do love to hear your thoughts and what you have been making over the weekend too.
Congratulations to the winner for Make it Sparkle November and I look forward to seeing your creations.

If any of you are around Birmingham Next weekend Visible Image will be at the Motorcycle Museum for The Excalibur craft fair and would love to meet you all so get on over and say hi to Helen and Mark.

Please remember we are up to 89 followers now on my blog and I have a brilliant competition for you guys  when I get to my first 100 followers and then I will be doing regular freebies so make sure you join up to be in with a chance to win.

Have a great Sunday

lots of Inky love

Kim 

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Creative Expressions Winter flowers.

Hi Folks

Hope all of you are well and having a good week, It is going really fast for sure.

I want to say a huge congratulations to Lucy Edmondson who was the randomly chosen winner chosen from my blog and congrats to the other 9 winners from the other girls blogs after the Creative Expressions blog hop finished last Friday. There are however a few prizes still unclaimed so please click the link and go check if you are a winner. Well done Lucy for claiming yours I am sure it is winging its way to you as we speak.

Ok so today I have a nice little card using the last flower in the Winter flowers November  stamp pack for Creative Expressions.

The card I used is foundations card in plum from creative too but in the pictures its much more mauve than plum but it definitely is plum lol.
I also used a spellbinder die and a Heartfelt creations leaf die from the Sweet Juliet collection.
I used a Couture creations embossing folder over the background I stamped out in green and is the same flower I used for the focal point, which is the Cyclamen.

I have really enjoyed using Novembers set and made 5 pieces with it which i will recap at the end of this post. Here is some close ups of this weeks piece.

 Close up of the Sweet Juliet die that just had its debut with Julia watts on Create and craft last week.

 I added one of the sentiments from the pack under the bow for added interest.

Hopefully you can see the stamped and embossed background and also the pierced edge on this one.
So the items I made with this months set are as follows.

Next month we have some new stamps to make with from the singles Henna range so I am looking forward to creating something with them and I will be back with some Heartfelt Creations cards Friday.

Have a great Thursday.

Hugs

Kim 

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Visible Image Sunday

Hi Everyone.
Welcome to all the new ladies that joined this week from the Blog hop we have been running for Creative Expressions this week, the winners will be announced on their news blog on Monday and I of course will post the winners here too once they have all been announced. On that note I am up to 89 followers now and as promised I will be running a competition once I get my first 100 followers too and I have some lovely Candi stashed away for this occasion so tell your friends and get joining we are nearly there.
Anywho,
Wow doesn't the week fly by so quickly. Here we are again and time for my post for Visible |Image. I just love creating backgrounds and getting all inky and today was no exception and I love how it came out with lots of layers.

I have used a couple of different Sets on this piece and lots of Distress inks.

 

• Firstly I took the Barbed wire stamp from the Immortal Love set and stamped it several times with Archival ink, I used Versafine but you could use any that you have. Give it a blast with the heat gun and set it well. I ran an anti static pad over it too to make sure.
• Next I used The Bronte border stamp with London Fog memento inks and stamped it all over the page too. Again dry well.
• I then took the crackled stamp from the Time set and stamped and embossed in clear on 2 diagonal corners. 
• At this stage I chose my colours Tumbled glass,faded jeans and aged Mahogany Distress Inks and blended them all over the card.Dry with your heat gun in between every layer.
• I then added some ink splats in chipped sapphire Ink in the odd place and some bronte border in chipped sapphire too. 
• Next I embossed some white ink splats randomly.Mat this piece onto some white card then black and another white and set aside.
• Stamp the sentiment , I used the gorgeous Create with your Soul and cut out with the spellbinders label of your choice or any die, I used labels 4 and inked through the die with a little faded jeans.
• I then cut out 6 very small leaf sprigs and attached 2 of them to a larger leaf in tonal colours and added a small red rose bud to each, I added these under the label and added more to the opposite diagonal corner and added  a smaller tonal blue rose bud to each side. 

Here is a close up of the sentiment.

 Its quite difficult to make out the writing from the Bronte border as I did it in a medium colour but in real life you can see it easily and it is very pretty.

The finished card is 5 x 6 and 1/2 inches.

Here are the sets I used 

                                   Ink Splats.                                           Bronte Border

                                  Immortal Love                                           Time

Create with your Soul.

 

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and that you give it a go , Please leave your comments below as always  I read every one and appreciate them so much. Have a wonderful Sunday and I will be back soon.

Hugs

Kim 

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