Visible Image "Where Dreams Tag You" Card

 

After the clean lines of the previous cards, this one is a bit more busy.

I started by using two shades of Distress Ink, using "Old Paper" and "Weathered Wood", slightly spritzed on my craft mat and then dragging the card through the ink on the left hand side only.

Once dry, I used the Visible Image "Supernova Stencil" with "Saltwater Taffy" Distress Ink, to create the circular shape.

I then used Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink to stamp the eye, which is part of the Visible Image "Where Dreams Take You" stamp set.

Next, I added the dots, using the Visible Image "Two Tone Stencil" with "Sky Blue" Archival Ink.  I then went around each circle with a black fine line pen to accentuate them more.

Returning to the eye area, I added colour to the eye itself by using "Salvaged Patina" Distress Oxide Ink, then coating it with Ranger "Glossy Accents".  

Finally, I added black and white dots around the eye area using Ranger "Enamel Accents", then set to one side till the Glossy Accents had set, which actually took about three hours!

Visible Image "Live In the moment" Dragonfly Card

I'm still in Visible Image mode today, making this dragonfly card.

I started by stamping the dragonfly (part of the Visible Image "Live in the moment" stamp set) in two colours of Versafine Clair" inks, "Twilight" for the body and "Warm Breeze" for the wings.  I then coated the stamped area in Wow! Clear Embossing Powder and heat set. The sentiment, also by Visible Image, part of their "Happy Birthday" stamp set was also stamped in "Twilight" and heat embossed in the same way.

I then started on the background, using a paint brush and different strengths of four shades of Distress Oxide Inks:  Tumbled Glass, Salvaged Patina, Cracked Pistachio and Mermaid Lagoon, fading the colours out towards the top left corner.  I then used a heat gun to dry the surface.

Next I used the Visible Image "Ripples" stencil with two shades of Archival Inks:  Garden Patina and Shadow Grey.

I then used the dots in the Visible Image "Two Tone" stencil with a gold shimmer pen to add tiny shimmery sparkles.

Next, I painted the wings of the dragonfly.  I created a beautiful shimmer look by painting green Cosmic Shimmer "Iredescent Shimmer Water Colour", which although green also has a hint of gold to it too.

Now I added the finishing touches to the card.  I used Ranger "Glossy Accents" to stick some flat backed beads to the surface of the card.

I used a metallic gold pen along the right hand and bottom edge of the card. I then added green dots using a unibal Signo pen.

Visible Image "Love Is Love" tag

While I had lots of my Distress Oxide Inks out to create Tag 20, I decided to make a wash of colours across a tag.  

First I dampened the surface of the tag with a good spritz of water.  Using a wet paint brush I dragged the brush across the surface, moving on to the next colour and so on, till the colours merged and blended into each other like a water colour effect. 

I used the following Distress Oxide Inks:  Cracked Pistachio, Tumbled Glass, Weathered Wood, Shaded Lilac, Picked Raspberry and Wilted Violet.  I then gave the tag a blast with the heat gun to dry off the surface.

Using Versafine Clair "Twilight" dark blue ink, I stamped the right hand side face of the Visible Image "Love is Love" stamp set.

Using the same ink, I stamped the sentiment, which is also a Visible Image stamp from their stamp set called "Equality, Hope and Love". I also used the same ink to edge the tag.

I felt the tag needed something else, so using the Visible Image "Two Tone" stencil and a white Posca Pen, I added some spots to the background.

I then used different coloured Posca Pens to add interest to the stamped image.

Visible Image Stamps - a random recovery piece

Tidying my craft surface today, I came across a piece that I had started for a project that wasn't working how I had it in my head!  Today it was see if I can rescue it.

This is made up of several layers.  The base was Brusho paint granules spritzed.  The next was the Visible Image "Ripples" stencil with Iced Spruce Distress Oxide inks, which is where it was when I picked it up today.

 I decided to use the Visible Image "Kindness" sentiment from their "Equality, Hope and Love" stamp set.  Stamped in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink and then sprinkled with Wow! clear embossing powder and heat set.

I then stamped the leaves, which are part of the "Total Chaos" stamp set, stamped in Versafine Clair "Summertime" orange ink.

Still unsure where I was going with this and it was getting very close to going in the bin, I decided to stamp the flower, also part of the "Total Chaos" stamp set.

I used the Visible Image "Two Tone" stencil with Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink to create the polka dots.  I used the same ink to edge the piece.

Visible Image - Imperfection is Beauty Tag

This afternoon I pulled my Visible Image stamps out for a play.

I used two Dylusions Ink Sprays for the background colour (Squeezed Orange and Bubblegum Pink).

Once dry, I stamped the flowers from the Visible Image "Imperfection is Beauty" stamp set in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink and "Summertime" orangne ink.  

I used Versafine Clair "Charming Pink" ink the Visible Image "Two Tone" stencil to create the circles.

I splattered a white Posca pen over the tag and then drew horizontal lines from top to bottom, finishing by inking the edges of the tag in black ink.

Visible Image Butterfly Ink Stencil Card

Today I decided to use one of my gelliplate backgrounds I made a week or so back.  

You may remember that I had seen a video link using Pan Pastels through stencils.  Well today I used the first pull image (the one that was a bit blurry).  Here's it is, it's the one on the left of the photo.

I decided to use the Visible Image "Butterfly Ink" stencil.  I used low-tack masking tape to keep the stencil in position on the gelliplate background.

First I ran round the edge of the stencil with a thin point pen (also filled the inky dots too).

Using Distress Inks, in the shade of "Black Soot" I inked the edge of the butterfly drawing the ink from the stencil onto the inside edge/outer edge of the butterfly itself.  

Using a finger dabber, I used Distress Ink in the shade of "Chipped Sapphire" up to the "Black Soot" area.  

Finally, I filled the rest of the butterfly using a Distress Ink called "Wilted Violet" with a finger dabber.  Because  have only lightly inked the area you can still see the gelli plate pattern which I quite like.

I felt the butterfly area needed something else, so I pulled out the Visible Image "Two Tone" Stencil and added some dots using a Memento Luxe ink called "Wedding Dress".  I think the dots just add a subtle additional layer.

Finally, using Versafine Clair ink in the shade of "Nocturne" I stamped the sentiments.  Both are from the Visible Image set called "Somewhere In Time".  I edged the top of the butterfly using a shimmery gold Sakura Gelly Roll pen.

Week 5 - 52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2019

The prompt for Week 5  is "Geometric Shapes".

For my tag, I started by making a background of three shades of Distress Oxide Inks:  Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron and Tumbled Glass.  Once dry, using a Visible Image stencil called "Two Tone" I covered the service with dots of Twisted Citron Distress Ink.

Using a Versafine Clair ink pad called "Paradise", I stamped concentric circles from the Visible Image "Shape It Up" stamp set across the surface of the tag.

In Versafine "Stormy Grey" ink, I stamped three images of artist supplies, using IndigoBlu sets: Collector's Edition no.17,18 and 20 (Pencils, Brushes and Paint Tubes.  Which I then die cut into circle shapes. I also die cut different blue cardstock in different size circles.

Returning to the stamped, circle images, I coloured them using Distress Inks, using a silver Signo Pen on some areas too.

I arranged the blue discs and the stamped images into a pleasing arrangement and stuck them into position.  Some are flat, others are elevated on foam pads.  To finish, I lightly inked the edges of the tag.

~~~

Would you like to know more about this challenge?  Click this link to find the info you will need.

There is also a Facebook Group for this challenge, where you can share your makes and chat to others taking part in the challenge.  It is a very relaxed group.  There is absolutely no pressure to keep up, you do what you want, when you want to do it.  The weekly albums are there to be added to when ever is convenient to yourself.  Why not pop by and say hello.  The more the merrier.  Sam x