Visible Image Wednesday

Good Morning folks.

I have a card which I really enjoyed making today with a slightly masculine feel.
Today would have been my dad's birthday if he was still with and so if no one minds I should like to dedicate today's card to my dad and all the dads no longer with us. God bless them all.
Happy Birthday to my wonderful father who was also  the one who raised me and gave me all the values I carry with me today. xxx

Here is today's card using just the Believe stamp set from Visible Image who are enjoying their honeymoon as we speak , they made a fabulous Bride and groom last week in wales.

So today's card has quite a few elements but is fairly easy to do depending how many embellishments you choose to add or whether you decide to keep it clean and simple with the handmade back ground.
So as aways I have a full tutorial on how I put this together so with out further ado let us begin

 First the Believe stamp set comes with two separate word stamps follow your dreams and Believe of course and I used Brown archival ink here with follow your dreams on white card for the background.

When you have staggered all the words and cut it to the size you require ink around the edge lightly with Walnut stain distress ink and it should look as it does here.

 Next in a zig zag pattern rather than straight down start to rip the card as above. Once done add extra ink to the back of the split on the white card.
Once the ink is on the card spritz the ink with water and curl the card back so the curl goes back on itself as below.

Next take a piece of black card and add to the back of the above piece then cut out the Central area behind.

 Take a larger piece of white care and stamp Believe onto it in back archival once dry at some white gel pen in a few places on the lettering if you have it as it aways makes it ook shiny.

 I took three of Tim Holtz tickets and mounted them onto black card and cut them into three.

 The larger card you stamped believe in the centre of, add some picture you love, we like music so this was nice to add in so that it shows through the split in the paper.

Wrap a piece of brown satin ribbon around the bottom of the piece you made earlier

Add the three tickets on the bottom left of the card, sightly overlapping each other near the satin ribbon.

 I thought I would keep the ribbon simple and not add a bow as such so I just folded over a coupe pieces of ribbon which I adhered in the middle and added a silver button to the centre of the bow.

 I used embossing ink and gold embossing powder to stamp and heat set the small follow your dreams added to the bottom of the card and inked the edges of it before sticking it to the backing matts.

 I took a photo of a lady from one of Tim Holtz pads and I used one of his square fragments to stick the photo onto the back of the fragment so I could add it to the card in the corner.

I also used treasure gold polish to add some god to the button and to the card curl backs and some of the ribbon and embellishments to tie it all together.

 I added the lady to the card and a vintage looking embellishment which I added some gold to the little flower also.

 Here is the compete image with another flower added to the left to finish this card off.

A slightly different angle. I hope you like this male themed with a twist card all and I send my love to all.

Here is the stamp set used on this one.

Believe

Unfortunately this has now been discontinued ( I did not realise until I had made the card unfortunately and i really wanted to show it to you today) but you will find so many wonderful word and verse stamps over at Visible Image and I have linked it here for your ease to look if you should like to.

I have you have a wonderful Wednesday folks and i look forward to catching up with you all really soon.

Take care

KIM

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Visible Image Wednesday

Hi Lovely blog family folks

Thank you all so very much for your kind words of support last week  it meant the world to me and I am very grateful to have such wonderful ladies and gents (maybe)popping in each week to see me.

Today of course is the turn of my very special team Visible Image to be featured on our little  blog
each week I have been featuring just a couple of stamps to do some different styles of cards each week without using too many stamps but I really wanted to use a few more this time so I used quite a few on this one.
A few weeks ago I don't know if you remember but I did a card in all grey (not quite 50 shades but a few haha) with a pop of colour  and I just love that style its so elegant so I thought Id have another go at it, I hope you like it , I really truly love this style and enjoy creating it for you all to see.

I just love the dreamy soft background effect , with the grasses billowing at the front .

So to start this one I took some plain white card and perfect medium sticky ink with some clear embossing powder  to create those gorgeous billowy white strands of grass which seem to sit right at the front of where your eye is pulled to look with the sentiment , below you can see that the melted embossing powder really stands proud once the inks start to be rubbed into the images.

                                                                                                   

Here I moved on to the sides of the card and began stamping some of the Bronte border stamp randomly, in fact, I love this stamp so so so much I ended up putting a lot more on the card than I originally intended haha I was using a combination of 2 different Momento Grey ink pads for this stage London Fog and Grey flannel were the shades.
I also stamped some of the Small butterfly stamp flying off the top of the page.

This is where I knew I had to leave a gap but had no clue what size haha.. I started to add some of the momento inks to the edges to give the card a good grounding and pull the eyes to the centre.

This is the first layer of ink and you can already see a huge difference cant you  folks.

Next I used the grey momentos again and re stamped the grass over the white embossing so that there is darker grass peeking from behind the white, I also stamped out 2 of the larger butterflies I also took a couple of shades in the Ice greys from the promarker alcohol pen selection and drew close next to the blades of grass created before. I have also given the butterflies a very small outline around the butterflies too which again is all designed as an illusion making it look like the blades of grass could almost be walked through and I just love it all in grey scale too. 

So here is where I start to bring in a little colour , I stamped out my two dragonflies, I used my momento ink and a water brush to pull out a little colour and add some little extras to the butterflies too.
I also stamped the word believe from the  Follow your dreams set, I again used my promarkers in a few shades of ice grey to make it pull off the page a lttle.

Here are the two blues I used to pull in some colour on the dragonflies etc.

 I also stamped out the other sentence in the little Follow your dream set, and rolled up the corners a little flicked some water and highlighted the edges of the little circles to make them look like bubbles. I used a white gel pen for that.

 So the last couple of pictures were just a few final finishing touches really, with the tiny burlap bows with the little sparkle stones for the centre. I added the sentiment onto foam and added it to the card and used bucket load of glitter onto some glossy accents but as per usual you cannot really see too much of the glitter picking up the light through the screen but this one really does sparkle lots.

I was really please how this card came out you could do this style with any colour , using just a couple of shades of a bland colour on its own but as soon as you add the .

Believe

 Bronte Border 

 Tall grass.

 Large Butterfly

                                        Dragon fly.                                                                                                                       

Butterfly.

  I said I used a few  lol......

So I hope you will dig out whatever stamps you have and have a go at creating something like this with a sepia background or a black and white background or maybe you will attempt the grey scale, it truly is great fun to try and looks stunning with just that suggestion of colour. 

I would love to see your finished pieces as you know I am always happy to show anything off that you are proud of so do not hesitate to show off your work .

Lots of love and hugs       

Kim 

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