Thursday, April 25, 2024
Seize The Birthday - Off The Edge
Monday, April 15, 2024
Visible Image - Creative Chaos
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Seize The Birthday - Any Colour Plus Green
Monday, April 01, 2024
Visible Image - Field of Tulips
Hello peeps! For my Visible Image design team post today I've created a journal spread using the Sketched Tulips stamp set. It's been a good while since I created a journal spread, so I started small, using a 5.5" square Arteza watercolour book.
Again using a palette knife, I added tulip heads for background,
I stamped several tulips in both sizes, together with the leaf sprig and watercoloured with Distress inks, then fussy cut them out.
For balance, I wanted three large tulips and three small tulips, but the spread actually looked unbalanced, so I added a fourth small tulip.
Once I'd stamped the words, I edged them with black pen and trimmed them, leaving a fine white border.
I added some partial stamping in the gaps using the text stamp from the set.
It's quite freeing to play around in a journal, make mistakes and cover them up, and it doesn't need to be perfect like a card, because nobody sees it except me - oh, and you!
By coincidence, the day after I'd finished this spread, look what I got as part of my Mother's Day present!
Pop on over to the Visible Image blog for the stamps and stencils that I used. There's a huge selection of stamps, dies and stencils that are perfect for use in journals.
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Seize The Birthday - Spring Florals
Did you see the toilet roll heart Valentine's cards circulating on the interwebs in February? I'd already made the card for my valentine, but I still tried the technique, inspired by Tiffany Solario and Rieslingmama's instagram posts. These were my attempts:
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Birds of a Feather
Hello, I'm actually entering a challenge, well a joint one between Time Out Challenges and Just Us Girls where they're having a joint collaboration with the theme Birds of A Feather.
I made this card with some Tim Holt Sizzix dies - Papercut Cafe, Brushstroke Flowers Mini and Feathered Friends. The background is part of a Stamperia Coffee and Chocolate Plates stencil coloured with Distress Oxide sprays.
I'd actually made the card before I saw the collaboration challenge, but it fits the bill perfectly!
Monday, March 18, 2024
Visible Image Cupcakes
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!