Visible Image Wednesday

Hi Folks

Today I have a different card using some more of the gorgeous Verse stamps recently launched in Visible Image's massive new stamp launch they recently had.

I hope you are all well, I have had certainly a weird few weeks with loss of Internet ( sorry if anyone emailed as it has been hit or miss to say the least then I had crazy blogger issues that would not upload then  hurt my back at work which is causing no end of issues then last week it was migraine week so definitely not been the best of blogging weeks but this week all is behaving and here I am, bear with me and I will catch up with all your emails too and please don't think I'm ignoring anyone it has been challenging for sure.
So this card is quite small for me as I tend to make the larger sizes and this one is around 6x6 inches .
Here is what I finished with .

In right life the colours do pop really nicely and the blades of grass have a highlight side and a shadow side with gold sparkles along each strand as is the strands through the writing on the sentiment.
Several flowers and embellishments finish this simple piece allowing those words be special and speak for themselves.
Here's how to.

 I took a piece of card and the brick wall background stamp and stamped it out several times in Aged mahogany distress ink I covered the sheet and then inked the edges too so no white card edges showing. Completely dry with a heat gun or allow the ink to dry next.

 Here is the dried result, the wall fits together so well and you can distress it further in places than others simply by inking more in certain sections of the stamp.

 Next I took my tall grasses stamps and used the same Aged mahogany ink and stamped the grass several times sometimes tall and sometimes smaller.

 I took a white sakura gelly roll pen and used it alone one side of the grass blades which means the other side of the blades need a shadow so a black pen did the trick  I also used a gold sparkly pen to add a few just subtle shines not seen in this picture but in a later one.

I added a white mat to this piece which neatened the edges nicely too.

                    and again a layer of foam and another white mat to finish off the base .

 So here I stamped out the sentiment in black Versafine ink and cut out with a tonic square die.I added a little aged mahogany ink very lightly around the edges  I then inked up my tall grass stamp and stamped the main lot of ink off onto paper 3 times before adding it across the writing just done. I took the sparkly gold pen and very lightly added it to just one side of each grass blade very subtly.
I added foam to the back and added it to the centre of the card .

 I embellished the card with several different flowers from my stash and a metal ring carrying relevant to the phrase words and a couple of resin flowers. I added tiny 2mm sparkles to the corners and to the little flower centres in the metal ring and then this piece was finished.

 Here is a couple extra photos  I was trying to zoom in on the grass but you know how sparkle is difficult to pick up on cam unless it the super super sparkly stuff that blinds ya as you open the pot and angels can be heard humming the A ! Music note in unison... ( well maybe not but to me is what should happen when you open a pot of something special and the light catches it... AaAAAAAAAA) lol.

And of course the star of the show that fantastic sentiment that stamps absolutely Chrystal clear every time and you can see the little flowers I added each side too for a little fun almost like a memorial plaque on a wall for someone very special.

Ok folks here is the very gorgeous Visible Image stamps used for this one.

 Brick wall Background.

 Tall Grasses.( unfortunately this was reduced and discontinued in April in a massive 50% off sale so I hope you got yours if not you can always uses the edges of any of the Visible image stamps for instance butterfly wings would look fab behind the writing very feint too)

A Best friend stamp.

So I hope you enjoyed this little card and it is something fairly simple you could recreate in an hour free in the evening or two. Thanks to all stopping by and I will see you tomorrow for something very very sparkly.. 

Lots of love to you all 

Huge Hugs

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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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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