Monday, March 18, 2024

Visible Image Cupcakes

Hello Visible Image fans!  For my design team post today, I'm playing with the Blow Out The Candles stamps, and the coordinating die set and Splash stencil which were part of the new release.

I had a background panel in my stash, which was a combination of Mica Sprays.
I sponged some Saltwater Taffee around the edges and where it needed some extra colour.
I stamped and coloured some cupcakes in Versafine Onyx Back and coloured them with Tombow markers and Jane Davenport sparkly markers.
I couldn't decide what colours to make the cases, but in the end I went for brighter versions of the cupcake colours as I thought that was the most eyecatching.
Cutting out was easy with the new coordinating dies.  I only wanted three cupcakes, so the red velvet cupcake was left on the cutting room floor, for a future project as I thought the other three made a more harmonious trio.

I added the sentiments then assembled the card.
I felt the splodge of Frosted Juniper on the background was a little too prominent and unbalanced, so I stencilled some Evergreen Bough through the Splash stencil to balance it out - after I'd assembled the card! 

Pop on over to the Visible Image store for a look at these and other fabulous goodies!


Thursday, March 14, 2024

Seize The Birthday - Coordinating Card and Tag


Hey peeps, we've got a new challenge for you at Seize The Birthday, and this time Jules has given it a bit of a twist - she wants us to create a coordinating tag and card.  It's pretty easy to do because you've already got everything you need all over your desk, ha!

This card was inspired by this journal spread by Vicki Papaioannou.  I loved the Stamperia stencil, so I had to order it immediately, and I love it even more in real life.  The sundae and macarons are from STAMPlorations.  I've used the original stamps but they are only available now as digital stamps.  The sentiments are from MFT.

Pop on over to the Seize The Birthday blog for some more fabulous inspiration from our surprise party guests and the Design Team, and join in the fun.  If you really don't want to make a matching tag (but I think you should, it's fun transferring and adapting the design to a different substrate) you can always play along with our Anything Goes, as long as it's birthday-themed.

Monday, March 04, 2024

Visible Image - Balloon Shaker Card

 

Hello peeps!  I recently made a shaker card for the Visible Image new release launch, so I thought I'd make another for my Design Team post.  One of the things I learned from my last shaker card was to ensure enough depth between the acetate and the card base to allow the sequins/beads to move around.

So, having bought some thicker foam tape, off I set with this version.


For the background, using the Birthday Balloons die set, I diecut some balloon shapes from copy paper to use as masks, and sponged Distress Oxides through, using one mask per colour.  This would have worked equally well by using the Birthday Balloons stamps and just stamping the balloons, but I wanted to do it my way!


Once all the balloons were sponged, I stamped some stars as fillers.


Then I set about creating the acetate frame. 


I edged the acetate with washi tape, then mitred the corners with a craft knife.


Then removed the excess triangle from each end of the washi tape.


A layer of thick foam tape went onto the back of the acetate, covered up by the washi on the front.  You can see I've also stamped the sentiment in the centre of the panel.


Then out came the sequin box.


Once it was all stuck in place I gave it a shuffle to make sure it all worked!


Pop on over to the Visible Image store for this set and many more!




Thursday, February 22, 2024

Seize The Birthday - Use Red As The Main Colour


Hello peeps, we've got a new challenge for you at Seize The Birthday, chosen by JoAnn, and she's gone for using red as the main colour.


I went with this lily from Altenew.  The flower parts were cut from a piece of watercolour card that had been inked and sprayed with Distress Inks and Mica sprays.  the leaves were cut from two shades of green card, with a little shading on the stem.  Carrying on from our last theme, I added some splatter.  I stamped the 'happy' in red and black, and added some scribbles from Tim Holtz Media Marks to emphasise the red.

Pop on over to the Seize The Birthday blog for some more fabulous inspiration from the rest of the design team, and our surprise party guest, Deborah Wheeler, who will be with us for the next two months.

If red's not your colour, you can play along with any birthday-themed project.  Happy crafting!

Monday, February 19, 2024

Visible Image - Blow Out The Candles

Hey, Visible Image fans!  I hope you caught the launch of the new release on Hobbymaker TV last week.  There are some fabulous new stamps, dies and stencils, and also coordinating dies for the Blow Out The Candles stamp set.

For my card I stamped and coloured a lemon spongecake, using varying shades of yellow Distress inks.

I needed plenty of candles for this effect!  I coloured them using Zig Clean Colour brush pens.

They all needed cutting out, and the new dies did the job.


I wanted to make the candles look as if they were being blown right off the cake so I just worked with the flickering candle so that I could angle them, and the Radiate stencil was perfect for the look.


The background paper is watercoloured using Distress Mica Stains, so there's a subtle sheen to it.  I positioned the cake and sentiment to check everything would fit, then stencilled Distress Oxides through.


Then it was just a case of stamping the sentiment and attaching all the candles to the cake.  I adhered some to the front and some to the back of the cake for depth, and one being blown right off!


You can see a bit of the sheen on the background in this close-up.


Pop on over to the new Visible Image website where you can find everything in the new release and, of course, all their other designs.

Thursday, February 08, 2024

Seize The Birthday - Splatter

Hi, it's time for a new Seize The Birthday challenge, brought to us by Glenda, and it's Splatter.  I love me some splatter!

I was quite light-handed with the splatter this time, just adding tiny splatter to the Concord & 9th You Are Loved image.  The stamped and diecut sentiment is from The Stamp Market.

Pop on over to the Seize The Birthday blog for some more fabulous inspiration from the design team and our surprise party guests, and play along with us.  If you're not into splatters, you cn still play along with any birthday-themed project.

Monday, February 05, 2024

Visible Image - Teatime

Hello Visible Image fans!  I've got a tea-themed card for my DT post today.   I wanted to use the Afternoon Tea stamp set in a cafe or kitchen setting, and the Distressed Brick stencil was the perfect background.

I started by stencilling Rustic Wilderness Distress ink through the stencil.
Then I added Cosmic Shimmer clear texture paste straight over the top.  And managed to slice my thumb when I was cleaning the spatula - duh!
I left that to dry overnight, and stamped and coloured the images.
The inspiration for my colour scheme came from a jug that I painted in a pottery painting session many years ago - there's a photo at the end.  I cut a negative mask so that I could stamp the flowers onto the cups and teapots.

When it came to cutting them out, I wanted to remove the white space in the handles, and I have a nifty little trick to make the cutting out easier.  Cut down the outline between the top of the handle and the cup or teapot so that you can manoeuvre your scissors more easily, then you stick the handle back down on the reverse.  You can hardly see the join.
Some woodgrain washi tape from my extensive stash was ideal for industrial style shelving against my green subway tiles.  I stuck it onto strips of white card for stability, then used double sided tape to add it to the panel.
Then I added the pots and cups to the shelves, and a sentiment.
Et Voila!  My industrial style teatime card.
And here's the inspiration.
Pop on over to the Visible Image store to check out these fab stamps and stencil, and loads more!