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

Good morning all.

Hope you are all having a good weekend and you aren't affected by the floods or snow, Oh gosh I hate this time of year when people have such a hard time. I hope none of you are affected too badly and you are still able to get about. I am quite passionate about looking out for the elderly in your area so if you know of someone living alone who may need some help with a hot meal or a hot blanket do check in , I know we are all naturally like this us crafters for some reason we all love our pets and families and are nurturers aren't we.  Better to be over cautious than not cautious at all I think.
Anyway back to today's gorgeous stamps , I consider myself very lucky to be given Visible Image stamps, they are such good quality and extremely deeply etched so give an amazing print every time.

This month sees the start of a new challenge over on The Visible Image blog and the theme of course is loooooooooooove. hehe..So back into the room of stash I went and created this pretty little number for inspiration .I've done my usual step by step photos so here is this little cards story.

I wanted to try to create a card with just a few ingredients so I used 2 of the gorgeous Visible Image stamps.card.wooden heart,ribbon,embossing powder,bella rose die cut swirl(leaves cut off).1 Dazzler.A few white and clear embellies. That's about it other than foam and glue.

Here's the step by step.

I started with some red card from Creative expressions, some versamark embossing ink and The Bronte border script stamp from Visible image which I love. I stamped all around the edges , no overlapping this time girls.

Next I tipped on the True White embossing powder and heat set it on to the red card.

 I had some wooden hearts , quite large in my stash from Hobbycraft I believe so i used my Fired Brick distress Ink from Lord holtz and pushed the heart into it until it was stained, then I applied lots of heat to dry it and lighten it slightly.

Once it was dry I used the versamark again and stamped The Bronte border onto the heart and again used the white embossing powder, I used it all around the edges too. Once set I used a quickie glue pen all around the edges and made it sparkle like crazy, it so hard to pick up sparkle on camera but the surface looks like a fruit pastelle (only way I can describe it, relate it to a sweetie haha)

 So then I set about matting the red onto black then coconut white card. then I raised it onto foam and matted onto a couple of layers one pierced of more coconut white. I don't follow any set pattern here oh how you layer just don't raise every layer on foam or leave every layer flat and it works out .

 You can see the ribbon was wrapped around the first two layers then raised on foam, then the next two were glued and more foam then the last 2 layers had very think foam between just to raise the pierced layer to show the tiny wholes.

 This is blurred slightly as it focused in on the little stone for some reason but you can see more of the sparkle on the wooden heart and a little gilding wax too.

Here is the feature stamp, Live,Laugh, Love by Helen and Mark over at Visible Image based in Wales and I just love them. I stamped that once only and it just came out perfect. |I used versafine detail archival ink and used a little fired brick to blend in the edges, we don't want to see any white edges glaring at us lol then matted onto red and black, I used a deep foam to raise it up and added my heart on the right.

Here's my lovely bow tied with Red Creative Expressions crinkle edge Ribbon, I added the bella swirl die cut from  Heartfelt creations with the leaves removed to go around the bow and a black dazzler for the centre to cover our knot.

Voila a love themed card for Visible Image.

So now if you are lucky enough to own any of their stamps why don't you make a little something and enter into the challenge , the rules are really simple, no digi stamps and your item must contain at least one Visible Image stamp, the winner is chosen at the end of the month and you win £20 to spend on any set or sets of stamps you like from The Visible Image online shop and there are some gorgeous stamps there, I love them all. and soooo reasonable too.

I used.

                                 Bronte Border                                      Live Laugh Love

They are both such useful stamps and I know I will use them over and over.

 

I wanted to again thank you all for your kind words yesterday when answering my question about the free card giveaways. You were all concerned for me and I think it was very lovely of you all. I am not sure I will do weekly just yet but I have plenty to give away so we will see how it goes and get that up and running.

Now don't forget to go enter your cards in the challenges and I'd love to see one of my ladies win it, I'd be like a proud mother hen. I felt exactly like that when you all sent in your emails to the shows haha.

Right have a great Sunday and I will will speak to you all later I am sure. 

Hugs 

Kim 

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