Visible image Sunday

Morning all.

How are you guys doing? enjoying the bank holiday weekend ? My daughter has gone off to London and is having a great time apparently . Just what is a foam party anyway and why on earth after spending an hour straightening your hair would you want someone throwing foam in it and not be cross about it..... Oh no a big fat your getting old, just slapped me in the face lol ... ah well.

It's Visible Image Sunday yay and I am blogging all the goodies I have worked on this week for the launch of their new Limited edition Lone Ranger inspired stamps which are just amazing.
I have to say I had some Visible image stamps already in my stash so I new they were deep etched and really good quality but this week having used so many I am sooo happy to say a huge WOW to Mark and Helen, they stamp perfect every time and the image is always crisp and clear, well done you guys!.

 Here is Clayton from His set , which includes a fab Bullet and bullet hole ,gun also and the piece of wood which can become anything like a fence,gate,arrow etc.

 Some close ups!
Here I melted some layers of UTEE and stamped into it to give me the sheriff's badge and bullet holes . I used alot of masking techniques too to get the fence and grass, bullets and Clayton in front of the fence.
He is coloured with Promarkers.

 

 This is all the items in the set,great hey!

Next we have Silverheels .
I made an easel card for this and stamped silver heels and masked him off with a post it. then added the fire and tomahawk, birds too.
Again coloured with Promarkers and distress inks + some treasure gold wax to the edges.

This card features Tala.  I did more masking for the background to create the moon,clouds and smoke for the fire etc.

 I drew the chain for the dream catcher but the dream catcher stamp is just fab isn't it and has so many uses.

Pretty Tala.

 I used a stepper card here to feature all three sets and all the goodies each one has included. The fire. dream catcher and the bow and arrow is all amazing.

I oped the card flat here to show how to arrange it . The follow your dreams was again 3 layers of UTEE melted and the stamp was pushed in which molten this gives you the technique to create the metal sign.

 Here's the guys all coloured in.

So let me know what you all think, I really enjoyed colouring them all in and adding all the little touches. 

If you want to see what the rest of the team created for this launch pop over to the blog or the facebook page and scroll through , the guys have done some amazing cards and if your like me and need to get things finished if you start them, you will sit up until 5.30 a.m colouring away happily not knowing that the birds are going to start singing away very soon haha.. but it was definitely worth it as it all looks stunning.

On a personal note I received a gorgeous bunch of flowers and voucher form my buddy down the coast to say thank you for staying at hers and looking after her Kitty while she was away which I was more than happy to do as I got to see my son everyday while I was there too so I would like to say a huge Thank you to her and to give Jasper some love from me. Joanne I had a great time thanks honey xxx

My best friend..

Evening Crafty people.

How was your Tuesday? Good, I hope. I still have a snotty nose but the cold is starting to go. Yay.

I received news that some cards I designed for Stamp Addicts are going on Create and Craft TV on Thursday! The show times are at 4pm and 6pm, so I'm looking forward to seeing them on TV! Of course, I have photographed them, and I will upload them here after the shows, as I don't want to spoil their new stamp reveals!

Anyway, of course, I have a little offering for today and so here goes, hope you like it.

A cutie for today. This is a Crafters companion Swalk range stamp.

I think the image is really sweet and the words very true... I actually just stamped out the image to have a play with my Sakura pens, which I brushed out with a water brush and I quite like the effect.

Not too keen on the psychadelic pink of the dress but it can be changed, even some paper piecing would be fun if I couldn't cover it with colour.

• I started by colouring the image on some really good stamping card. I always recommend Centura pearl turned over, although I recently discovered Stamp Away stamping card which is very reasonable and holds the image well too.
• Next I matted the white card onto some black. I added some little jewels in the corners for balance.
• I chose my backing paper from yet another free pack, this time out of a mag, and matted that onto black also.
• I had a ribbon in my stash that matched nicely and wrapped that around my backing paper mat.
• I layered them up and tied a pretty bow for the corner, I dressed the bow with a nice big jewel and added small ones at the corners of the card.
• Lastly, I had a craftwork cards flower which I added a bit of sparkle to and placed it at the front for dimension. It was actually a raspberry sort of colour in pearlised card, but it came out quite dark in the pic.

So, a sweet card but I love the way I managed to get the hair to shine and nice rosey cheeks too and I did not use anything but Sakura pens and water. I love alcohol pens and Distress inks, water colours and other mediums, but I wanted to show how it can all be very simple too.

Have a good wednesday and I will meet you back here tomorrow, don't forget Create and Craft Thursday 4&6.
Kim x

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

                                                                                                                               

Engagement Card

Using my lovely new chloe stamps from Donnington Park show last week.

I had a great time staying in a local B&B and spending all day at the show on Saturday!