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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Visible Image Sunday

Hi all.

Today is my Visible Image  posting day and I really enjoyed creating this with the new sentiment stamp that I finally had time to play with haha. While I am posting this Visible Image are on the road at the NEC showing all the fabulous stamps and hopefully having a fun time at the huge Craft event on over the whole weekend

I went all girly this time with pinks and Yellows. So here is my card.

•  I started with a piece of white card and added lots of Distress Ink too in in Seedless preserves,Mustard seed,dusty concord vintage photo on the edge. Then spritzed with a mica based spray for a little shimmer.
• Next I stamped on some crackles from the Time set and brushed over a silvery iridescent Mica powder.
• I stamped on the dream ,imagine stamps and the bronte background and embossed some with white powder and some with silver powder. I also stamped some wings in black archival.
• I made sure all the background inks were blended and added drops of mica spray and flicked water to create interest , then dried thoroughly. I then added some embossing ink all over the edges and used gold to emboss all the edges.
• Next I matted onto cream and then gold cardstock and set aside.
• I stamped the sentiment in black archival and and embossed with clear powder. and cut out using a spellbinder die. I also cut some leaves and several layers of flower in differing pink shades and added all of the above to bottom left of the card. I added some sparkles to the flower and a little leave with sparkle to the bottom right of the card. Lastly added some flat metal pearls to the corners and all done.

 Here is a close up of the lovely sentiment and flower.

These are the set I used for this one all found at 

Visible Image.

 Hopefully you will all make something if you have some Visible Image stamps and then join in with the November challenge of All that sparkles and maybe win your self £20 worth of stamps of you r choice too and you can create anything as long as you use at least one Visible Image stamp so come on ladies give it a go.

So I hope you enjoyed today's card and see you soon

best wishes

Kim 

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1 November Visible Challenge

Hi all

Today is the first of November so that means a new challenge over at Visible Image The winner of Octobers challenge of Autumn colours is  Karen P and she wins a whopping £20 of Visible Image stamps. So Congratulations to her , your going to enjoy choosing your prize.

So Novembers theme is 'Make it Sparkle' and anything goes so long as you don't use Digi stamps and the stamps you use must include at least one of Visible Image stamps other than that as the saying goes. Fill your boots... the winner will again win £20 in stamps so get your entre's in soon.

Here is my Inspiration but bear with me as it so difficult to photo sparkle and hold the camera and try to sparkle the item etc etc.

 There is pink and gold glitter around the wings and all the edges of the main photo and inthe clock etc but as I said hard to photograph.

 Just see the pink sparkle here.

And the gold under the wings.

I used alot of distress ink and crackled background , bronte border  not to mention the time set  to create this. I am looking forward to seeing what you create with yours.

Best wishes 

Kim 

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Time.

Evening Blogland!
How's your day been?

This is a late post but I simply had to put up a card, even though the photography in this light is not great at least you knoq I'm here everyday to show you lots of crafty goodness.

This card is one I made a short while ago. It was when I first got some Debbie Moore Embossing Powders.

I also used the technique of stamping into melted ultra thick.

• I took a Kraft card base distressed the edges and added a ton of ink to the edges (good old Tim).
• Next I chose a Craftwork Cards Vintage 8x8 paper in a tan colourway, cut it down slightly and used three different Distress Inks to add colour and blend the paper really well at the edges. I used Vintage Photo, Walnut stain and Aged Mahogany. 
• Leave the paper aside to dry a little, or you could use a heat tool. I took some Ribbon and Bakers Twine and coloured them with the Inks to match. 
• After drying the string thoroughly I wrapped it round the paper and secured on the back, cutting off any bulkiness (if only it was that easy to diet lol).
• Next I secured the paper with string and ribbon attached to the card base and set aside. I took a Mat and Layer and ran them both through my little textured impressions machine, the larger piece is actually Mirri card, I sanded them both back a little to reveal the embossed clocks.
• I covered them both in Versamark which is really a sticky ink that embossing powders or Micas etc can adhere to. Then added little blocks of matching colours ready to be melted with the heat tool.
• Once melted and sanded  I roughed up the card, reopened and flattened out, I took some Glossy Accents and highlighted the clock faces in places.
• I took a pile of ultra thick and put it on my craft mat (non-stick, Heat proof) and very slowly melted it down. 
• I stamped my clock from Creative Expressions into a part of it waited for it to harden a minute and then bent the craft mat so it popped off . That's a great technique and it looks so cool.
• I laid all the pieces so far onto my card base that already had the paper and string etc stuck down.Adding ribbon to the small Mat. I found how I wanted them and stuck them all atop of the ribbon and twine with Pinflair glue gel. I also stuck my melted utee with this.
• Lastly I took my small pocket watch embellishment and stuck it to the card dabbing the edge with a little Versamark, sprinkled on some utee and carefully melted it, taking care not to remelt the piece we stamped into earlier. 
• I added a sentiment on the top right hand corner which I distressed with the same inks to match.
• To finish wrote a nice quote in white pen on bottom right.     

I wonder if you will try that or it isn't your thing?  For me this is one of my favourite things to do, just to sit and play and see what happens and how the art takes you. I was pleased with the result and enjoyed the process and was up to my knuckles in Ink and un melted utee that I managed to blow everywhere. I've seen a much better heat tool by Sheena Douglas, whose art I love, which disperses the heat much more gently so you don't lose half your powder! Haha!

Thanks for stopping by
Kim x