Visible Image Wednesday

Hi folks

I hope you have all had a good week and not too affected by the recent snow flurries. We had a couple of days worth but not too much.
Did you all get to enjoy the recent new launch of lots of gorgeous stamps for the fab Visible Image if not I have a card today I did in some really pretty girly colours that I really enjoyed making.

See what you think?  Colours of the  wind.

What an amazing stamp set this is. as soon as I saw it I hoped I could create with this one, I just loved it .
So here is what I did to start.

I took some versamark embossing ink and some clear embossing powder on some white card and took one of the small leaves from the set and stamped a cascading array of little leaves going diagonally across the card . I added my powder and heat set.

Next I chose the colours I wanted on the card, and while I new I wanted this one to be a pretty card, I wasn't sure which colours until I remembered my lovely Seedless preserves Distress ink and so I took my Milled lavender first and started to work this into the page and followed in with the darker shade. just in gentle circular blending movements with a very light hand to keep from getting lines etc. I then took the Milled lavender and the same little stamp and stamped several in the lighter shade which you can just see and then of course I did the same with the darker shade. I also darkened the edges of the card with the Seedless preserves so we had no white edges showing and really darkened the bottom right corner fading up into the card.

Here I took a micro fibre cloth and rubbed the ink off the embossed piece and worked the colour with the cloth into the little leaf edges which casts like a very subtle shadow if you look carefully , which gives the backing a lot of dimension without loading the card with lots of flowers and goodies on top  just for a different look this week.

 I chose to stamp the matching sentiment in simple black archival at the top of the card .

Then mounted it onto black card and then some foam and another matt and layer of white then black card for a classic clean look.

Next I took the large stamp from the set and look at himmmmm wow hes huge, haha and all that veining. stunning just stunning.
So using the same two inks I added the colour to the stamp with the light on one side the dark on the other and sort of blended and got it all covered then stamped it onto some thin white card the bendable type. and heat set it but of course distress is reactable with water so I spritzed it and then dabbed the colour off leaving some droplet shapes here and there. I also took a white chalk pen and flicked it at the leaf and heat set it all again.
I added a few white highlights around the edge and crumbled the leafs edges a little, not too much  and lastly I used a Sakura gel ink pen and traced some of the veins to give some sparkle and shine.
I added this to the the bottom of the card using some dimensional foam to lift it away from the  card too.

This picture shows the shine more and the edge s with the little highlights and a little darkened  and blended edges too.

 I left the leaf slightly off the edge of the card to look almost like it was just floating away .

 I added this angle so you can see how flat this one is compared to usual but yet how much depth you can add with how you stamp your backgrounds. I also went around the little leaf edges with some white highlights as on the big leaf and some sparkle so in the light this looks so sparkly and pretty, I just love these colours, they really are some of my favourite.

This is the set called , Colours of the wind. I used from the Fabulous Visible Image team, My very good friends Helen and Mark.

 Please pop over if you would like to and look at all the new images on the launch there was so many this time, it was a huge huge launch with several different types of stamps this time and we were just sooo lucky to be a part of it on the team .

I thought I would share with you this little girl balancing on the back of my craft chair while I was creating this one for you all to see. My chair is very wobbley so she was hanging on for dear life here haha, meet Duchess my neighbours Kitty giving me an old fashioned look as if to say ... sit still haha.

Well I hope all is well with you all and I look forward to sharing lots more things over the next couple of days.

If you are inspired and would like to see more of the fabby teams work with the 24 sets of new stamps from this launch feel free to pop over to the Visible Image blog and have a scroll through at all the amazing inky goodness from the Design team, so much work goes into these launches and Helen and Mark really do work through the night and make sure everything is all set. This is a true family run business and I love it.
Here is a link to go have a look and leave some love if you would like too.

Lots of love to you all 

Kim

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Creative Expressions Thursday

Hi Folks


Happy happy Thursday and today is the start of course of another month on the DT and so a new set of stamps to play with , this time we have a silhouette type theme and humour thrown in to boot, you will see what I mean once I show you the pictures of the card I have created for today.

I have a huge thank you and a shout out to my lovely friend Carol Clark and hubby David here on the blog for my birthday card, she did a fabulous job on my card and it was so very nice of her to remember so thank you from the bottom of my heart. I will keep it forever as it means such a lot to me. Carol you have a huge heart, bless you.

So who has had Snow then? oh I was so disappointed when I looked out a couple of days ago and there it was all glowing taunting me and twinkling, of course it looked soooo pretty but those of you who are aware of the recent ish foot op you will know I just panic the minute I see any thing remotely slippy so I was hoping I may get out of work that day but no such luck haha.

Ok so here is today's offering lovlies...

Something a little different isn't it.?

 So this is a nice easy one and  just has a little inking and die cutting i used an embossing folder for the background and a gorgeous ribbon and embellishments.

I started with a piece of Milk card which I ran through my Couture Creations embossing folder called Large classics from the Ambassador collection. I cut the card to size and left a section on the bottom to stamp my sentiment which I did using Archival black ink from Ranger.

 I used Vintage photo embossing ink to shade the edges of the card and drag some colour in towards the centre gradually getting lighter on a gradient toward the centre.
I mounted that section onto a piece of black card leaving just a small border to be seen.

I stamped out my lady from the set called 'Chocolate'  I think she stamps soooo chrisp the lines are fab..
I coloured in any parts I wanted blacker and then added some white pen highlights and dots etc on the cakes and shiny things like hair and shoes, I knew I would add a sparkly pen later but thought I would add the white to brighten the sparkle later.

 I cut her out using a die and while it was still in the die I took off the tape and inked it with the same Vintage photo.

 I wrapped the red ribbon that I also got in my DT pack around the edge where the sentiment is and added foam to the back to raise it from the next level on the card

I then cut a black mat for my lady to sit on and added lots of sparkle to her and her cakes and dress etc. I added her to the black mat too and added a bow toed from the ribbon to match

 I tied a double bow and shaped it into a nice chocolate box type bow with little pointed legs and added one of the black embellishments  I love these, they sparkle so much in any light. I also found my black marabou feathers. So I slipped one of those floaty things under the bow also, They always amuse me with the way they fluff about lol daft I know

Ok I thought I would show a  close up after I had coloured the cup cake and dress and hair shoes etc with their sparkles.

My finishing touch was just to add a few little black pearls in the corners and voilla all complete.

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I hope you like this card and the silhouette image.

 Have a great day. 

lots of love

Kim

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Visible Image Wednesday

Hi all

So nice to be here , sorry I wasn't here last week but boy did I miss you all.
I have a sneakie at the new launch of  gorgeous Inkognito,  I for one just love love love them all. Visible image are having a huge launch of not only Inkognito2 but of other ranges coming out very soon In fact they go on pre sale Fri 6/2/15 that's right this Friday.

The stamp set I chose to use for today is called Colours of the wind and I just think it is so classy and versatile, it could be used for so many different occasions and mixed media art would be a dream with this one.
So here is today's card. What do you think?

I thought I would start with a very textured piece with gorgeous bright colours and shiny gold waxes there is so many elements and cute rustic pieces it may take a few minutes to go through this one                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      I took my colours of the wind stamp and some card dusted previously with an anti-static bag

 I stamped out my image using Perfect medium twice ,I also used Clear embossing powder to set my shiny embossed image to the white paper..
The colours I chose for this one were wild honey and peacock feathers as shown below.

You will see here I also have some extra smaller stamps around the main image I actually cut one of the smaller leaves away from the main image so I could have it to use as you see. I took my distress inks and began colouring the page ,the embossing of course is acting as your resist against the water based inks, I used the usual colouring method that's we have discussed many times here on the blog. I also then used the tone on tone inks and stamped some more little leaves.I also stamped part of the sentiment which said colours at the bottom of the page.

 Here I decided to mount this piece onto Kraft card  I also took some treasure gold furniture wax which I use alot in my mixed media projects and canvas arts, and lightly added it to the clear embossed leaves and once dry  (about 10 seconds) took a micro fibre cloth and buffed the whole thing to a real high shine.  I set this aside and moved to the next layer.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
 I took a piece of Kraft card and a couple of types of burlap I secured it to the card and frayed it as I went. trimmed to size and mounted onto a piece of white card. I made one more layer which was another piece of kraft onto white card and gathered all my pieces together.

 I then decided I would keep one of the layers at an angle for interest and to give room for the bow etc.

 I tied a bow from brown silk seam binding and added a small burlap string bow atop of it and lastly added some treasure gold to some broken Cinnamon sticks and used that to add to the knot of the bow.

I stamped the sentiment in the same way with the resist of the clear embossing onto white card and colours with the same colours but added a little vintage photo distress ink around the edges before mounting onto Kraft card. I added some seam binding under that layer on the card too so I could add a little cream resin piece to the side so it looked almost like a opening book.

As I stamped colours at the bottom of the card from the sentiment I decided to add the word wind in burlap which I inked and treasure golded also. And the last touches were to add a few more broken pieces of Cinnamon sticks and the card was complete.

 The finished card .

The stamp set I used was called Colours of the wind and it will be available on Friday from the Visible Image website of gorgeousness.

Have an absolutely great Wednesday Guys and dolls and I will see you all tomorrow.

Love to all

Kim 

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