Bright Lights of NYC!

 I used Aquatints for the background on this card, sprinkled onto wet water colour card.  I also splashed some plain water over the top and dabbed off to reveal lighter speckles.  Then I stamped over with a stamp from Altenew.  The set is called 'Sketchy Cities America'.  I think this stamp works well with this background, the bright lights of New York! (yes I'm still in love with NYC)

Going Green with Visible Image

I've just realised I've got 2 green cards this week.........duhhhh

I used Aquatints to colour the background, just one colour brushed over wet, water colour card.  I did a couple of brushes across either side, leaving the middle pretty clear, the inks blended nicely in the middle.  I used a stencil for the tiny dots then used Ink Splats stamps around the edges, heat embossed Flower Inkognito and the sentiment stamp is Imperfection is Beauty.

I made my own stencil for this one, just a square nestie cut through mylar.  I then inked through it with Diestress Ink, and stamped the snowflakes in the same colour.  I heat embossed the sentiment.  Only one stamp set was used which was White Christmas.

And here's all the links you need for everything Visible Image -

Visible Image Website - Buy stamps, get lots of inspiration, newsletter sign up, and contact details.

Visible Image Blog - Daily inspiration from the DT.

Visible Image Facebook Group - DT inspiration, monthly 'Show & Tell' contest, and the place to find lots of other Visible Image fans.

Visible Image Facebook Page - Where you'll find all the latest news and information.

Anniversary card

I made this card for my neice for her 2nd Wedding Anniversary, then forgot to blog it!  This is using a stencil from Clarity Stamps, which I inked through with Distress Ink Abandoned Coral, 

 the couple, is one of the Wee Folk stamps, from Clairty.  I cut a corner of a background stamp for the hearts, as I don't have any tiny heart stamps, hard to believe with the hundreds of stamps I own..... lol.

Christmas with Clarity

I love these Wee Folk stamps from Clarity Stamps.  I've made a few of these cards, just in different colours.  I think they're quite cute!

I made my own masks, just the right size to cover these cards, nice easy cards.

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I used Distress Inks for the background, blended with sponges.  Colours used are Dusty Concord, Mustard Seed and Picked Raspberry.  I also splashed drops of water over the ink and dabbed off, this removes the colour and creates white spots, love doing this.

 Stamps used are - Bronte Script and White Christmas.

The background for this one was made by 'smooshing' the card through Evergreen Bough Distress Ink, on my craft mat.  I then splashed drops of water over the ink and dabbed of with tissue, leaving white spots.  I love the pattern created with the inks.  Stamps used are Vision Inkognito, Never Grow Up Set.

And here's all the links you need for everything Visible Image -

Visible Image Website - Buy stamps, get lots of inspiration, newsletter sign up, and contact details.

Visible Image Blog - Daily inspiration from the DT.

Visible Image Facebook Group - DT inspiration, monthly 'Show & Tell' contest, and the place to find lots of other Visible Image fans.

Visible Image Facebook Page - Where you'll find all the latest news and information.

Easy stuff....

I've been a bit stuck on what to do this last couple of days, so off I went Googling....... came across a few things which were quite straight forward and didn't need much thought...... lol.  So out came my Distress and Adirondack ink pads and away I went.

 I blended 3 colours of Distress Inks for this one, Peacock Feathers, Picked Raspberry and Fossilized Amber and used brushes to apply the ink.  The birdie stamp is from Inkylicious, and the Happy Birthday a stamp I've had for years.

2 colours of Adirondacks were used for this one, Stonewashed and Lettuce, again applied with brushes.  The stamp is also from Inkylicious and I coloured the red flowers with a Promarker.

Visible Image, Brusho's & Christmas

I've been playing with Brushos again....... still loving them.....lol

 The stamps used for this card is just one set - Revolution.  Sorry I didn't take note of the colours I used for this one.

I inked Distress Ink, Evergreen Bough, through a Memory Box stencil for the panel, and one of the new Christmas Stamps - Magic of Christmas.

And here's all the links you need for everything Visible Image -

Visible Image Website - Buy stamps, get lots of inspiration, newsletter sign up, and contact details.

Visible Image Blog - Daily inspiration from the DT.

Visible Image Facebook Group - DT inspiration, monthly 'Show & Tell' contest, and the place to find lots of other Visible Image fans.

Visible Image Facebook Page - Where you'll find all the latest news and information.

Christening Cards

A couple of commissioned Christening cards I've made this week.

For Mr & Mrs Visible Image.....

This is the wedding card I made for Helen and Mark, the owners of Visible Image, who got married yesterday.  The stamps used are from their Wedding Set.

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My DT cards for this week.

I love simple cards like this one.  I started by stamping the swirls with VersaMark then I added a light cover of colour using PanPastels, the powder sticks to the VM.  I then heat embossed the flowers with white embossing powder.

Stamps used for this card are Revolution (swirl), Thank You Set (flower) and the sentiment from the Happy Birthday Set

I love, love, love these new Christmas stamps.  Nice and simple this card,  heat embossed with WOW Gold Sparkle embossing powder.

I used the Sparkle at Christmas set for this one.

And here's all the links you need for everything Visible Image -

Visible Image Website - Buy stamps, get lots of inspiration, newsletter sign up, and contact details.

Visible Image Blog - Daily inspiration from the DT.

Visible Image Facebook Group - DT inspiration, monthly 'Show & Tell' contest, and the place to find lots of other Visible Image fans.

Visible Image Facebook Page - Where you'll find all the latest news and information.

Butterfly Butterfly & Christmas

Sundays are my days on the Visible Image DT, to show you a card made using their fab stamps.

I used Brushos for the background on water colour card.  I then stamped the Butterfly Inkognito with Brushos and stamped again onto water colour card, simply because I wanted the colours to be the same.  I then stamped and heat embossed the large Butterfly stamp onto acetate and cut it out.  Next I attached the acetate Butterfly by the body, to the Butterfly Inkognito and bent the wings up just a touch, and added the pearls to the body.  This was then mounted onto the background with sticky pads.  The sentiment is just perfect with these stamps.

The stamps used are:-

Butterfly Inkognito

Large Butterfly

Butterfly Sentiment

Now we go from Summertime Butterflies to Christmas sparkle!
I've just received some of the brand new Christmas stamps and I've got to say they are just fab!

 For this one I also used the Crackled Background stamp embossing it with clear embossing powder, then adding the colour with Distress Ink and blender tool.  I stamped the larger stamp and embossed over the top with WOW Sparkling Snow embossing glitter, and WOW Silver Sparkle embossing glitter for the sentiment.

Clean and simple for this one, heat embossed with WOW Gold Sparkle.

The stamps used for these 2 cards are -
Sparkle at Christmas
Crackled Background

And here's all the links you need for everything Visible Image -

Visible Image Website - Buy stamps, get lots of inspiration, newsletter sign up, and contact details.

Visible Image Blog - Daily inspiration from the DT.

Visible Image Facebook Group - DT inspiration, monthly 'Show & Tell' contest, and the place to find lots of other Visible Image fans.

Visible Image Facebook Page - Where you'll find all the latest news and information.