Visible Image - Celebrate!

 

It's Christmas Day, and the theme this week at Visible Image is, not surprisingly, Celebrations!  My brief was Clean and Simple - simples!

A bottle of bubbly is great for any celebration, so I stamped the bottle and cork from the Anyone For Bubbles set, and coloured them with markers.

The co-ordinating dies making cutting out so much easier!

I arranged the pieces on my blank card panel so that I knew where to stamp the bubbles, then stamped in Versamark and embossed with gold embossing powder.  I also stamped the sentiment in Versafine Onyx Black to balance the black of the bottle.

The gold embossing catches the light beautifully.

I matted the panel onto gold card to pick out the gold embossing, then placed the bottle outside the mat.  Originally I was going to trim the bottle to the bottom corner of the white panel, but changed my mind.

The card base is a two-tone bottle green that also catches the light beautifully.

When I'm stamping and cutting images, I always do a few extra - (a) in case of mistakes and (b) if Im lucky, no mistakes but a little stash for future projects!

Merry Christmas, and I hope Santa brings you everything you wish for!  And if he hasn't, go treat yourself to some Visible Image goodies!

Visible Image - Thank You

Our theme at Visible Image this week is 'Thank You', so what better than a thank you card?

The background on this card is a monoprint mop-up from when I made this card for a recent release which included the stencil 'Fragments.  

After you've stencilled inks onto a card, there is always a residue of ink on the stencil.  If you spray lightly with water you can then 'print' with the stencil to get the negative image.

I used the daisies from "A Friend Like You' stamp set, and the stem of the rose to create my focal image.

Then I fussy cut the image, including between the flowers.

An easy way to get into that central white area when you're fussy cutting is to cut straight across along a stamp line, then you can add a little tape on the back to secure it after you've cut out the centre for an invisible mend.

I arranged the vase on the background in the stamping platform to help with deciding where to place the sentiment from 'Go To Words', then stamped.

I stamped the 'thank you' after I stamped 'friend', rather than trying to squeeze them both together for one stamping.  Sometimes you can't get stamps close enough to each other for a good single impression.

I added three black gems on the background and two on the flower centres to pick up on the black sentiment and vase outline.

Here's another look at the finished card:

You can find the stamps and stencils used for this card, along with plenty of inspiration from the Design Team, on the Visible Image website,