Visible Image - Album Covers

 

Hello!  We've got a brilliant theme for you this week - Album Covers!  The Design Team were challenged to recreate an album cover using Visible Image products.  I knew immediately which album I was going for - Let It Bleed by the Rolling Stones, one of my all-time favourites.  Unfortunately I no longer have the vinyl (much to the disgust of my vinyl-collecting son), as it seemed pointless hanging on to our old records when we didn't have a record player any more.  But a quick Google will bring up the original images for you if you're not familiar with the album.

I started off by stamping the whole of the cake from Blow Out The Candles, and again onto masking paper.  

I trimmed the lower portion of the mask away so that I could stamp another couple of layers without the dripping icing.  I used a pen to infill the missing lines.

For the vinyl, I stamped the large image from Particle in Versmark onto black card and embossed with clear embossing powder, die-cut it, then cut a red circle and white ring for the label.

I added more stamping to the centre of the label,

then added a strip of semi-metallic card for the spindle.

I used candles to represent the figurines, colouring with Tombow markers.

Once I'd assembled the cake layers I coloured the buttercream to represent the tyre.

Before adding anything to my card base, I stencilled Antique Linen through the Halftones stencil, then it was just a case of adding a stylus arm fashioned from gold card,

and some gems for the glacé fruits.

The sentiment is also from Blow Out The Candles, done in black and red to match the album cover.

You can see the Visible Image products I used in this photo. 

I had great fun making this card, and when hubby saw it he said he would have that for his birthday card, so that's what he got!

Fun fact:  Delia Smith made the the cake for the album cover shoot.

I hope it's inspired you to look at your stamps differently, and to get inspiration from the most unlikely places!