Free your imagination, Visible Image style

 Good morning and I hope you might have enjoyed some sunshine last week? We have had the most glorious sunny week here in Surrey and the autumn leaf colour has been spectacular. It really does inspire my making. Today I am sharing a slimline card and bookmark made for my Visible Image design team post. Before I start I would like to give you a heads up that they have a HUGE Black Friday sale going on at the moment and all the products I am using today are in it. Some have 70% off! Do check it out. I have added some direct link to the products in my post but you will find all the sale products here.

I worked with Free your Imagination using every stamp in this awesome set (and yes all the products I worked with are in the sale, this set is just £7.99 instead of £11.99)

I added some stenciling using the Lava stencil (£2.99 from £5.99)

and some background stamping with some of the uber useful stamps in Universal. (Just £5.99 from £11.99!) If you don't have this in your background stamps stash it really is one to have! 

This is what I got up to ;

I used one of my A5 size distress re-inker shaving foam backgrounds from my stash and then added the gorgeous new Villainous Potion distress ink through the stencil.

From the card I cut a piece for a slimline card and a bookmark. 

I stamped the bird in black Versafine ink and clear heat embossed. 

I then added gold heat embossed swirls and stars using the Universal set. I also stamped some of the double rings in the set using red ink. This gave the backgrounds lots of texture and depth. 

I stamped the books in blue and also for just the card the open part in grey ink and cut them out. 

I also stamped and white embossed the feathers on black card, seen below, and some of the potion pots and the sentiment (seen in the final photos.) I cut everything out, adding some gold ink to the pots and a black mat to the sentiments. 

Then it was time to put my designs together. Here is the finished card;

and the bookmark;

with a close up of the card;

and one final shot.

I really enjoyed making these and creating a card with a matching bookmark always makes such a unique gift. 

 All the Visible Image links are listed below;

The Visible Image Group page is over on Facebook. Our friendly Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you. You will see lots of gorgeous makes by the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you will be most welcome.  You will also be able to join in with the monthly Artist Trading Card (ATC) swap which has been such fun. The sign up for the December swap will be live in a few days, if you would like to join us. We are now in the 7th month of swapping and have had over 67 people, worldwide, taking part. 

The main Visible Image Facebook business page is here

Visible Image also has its own You Tube channel here where you can see videos and Lives to give you lots of inspiration and ideas. 

Their Instagram page can be found here 

Pinterest here

And once again the shop web site is here; where all their gorgeous stamps and stencils can be purchased. Don't miss out on the amazing Black Friday sale. Stock is limited so fill you boots (or even Santa's stocking!) It ends on Monday 29th November.

 You will find me on Instagram here; @jane.tyrrell where I share many more samples than I am able to blog.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x