Male birthday card making for Visible Image

Good morning and welcome to my fortnightly blogged design team make for Visible Image. For today's inspiration I am sharing a birthday card for a man, I think most of us find these quite tricky to do! Visible Image have a whole "drinks cabinet" of stamps designs which work so well for these cards. From gin to whisky and even cocktails. They all have coordinating dies too which makes layering cards a dream.  There are live links in this post which will take you straight to the VI website. You can check out the whole range here. For my card today I chose to work with the fun

Bring on the beers set

with their co ordinating dies 

I used one of the sentiments from Birthday wishes. This set really is a must have in your stash. It's worth having just for the stars accessory stamp which I use so much on birthday cards. 

 I also used both the positive and negative die cuts using the awesome and versatile

  Framed Fibres layering die. 

This is what I got up to;

I used a rectangle of inky mop up distress inked card, which had blues and brown inks on it. I die cut the aperture for my card using the Framed fibres die. I then stamped and clear embossed the birthday sentiment from Birthday wishes. and the cheers stamp from the Bring on the beers set

Using the star cluster from the Birthday wishes set I repeat stamped it onto a black piece of card using Picket fence distress oxide ink, cut to fit and stuck under the aperture. 

Using the stars again I randomly stamped them using gold ink around the frame of the card.

I stamped the beer images onto white card. I always make these in bulk as they are so useful for my cardmaking and I don't have to start from scratch each time. 

I die cut them out 

with their co ordinating dies  and coloured them using distress pencils.

I added glossy accents to make the drips and froth on the glass and added some glitter to make the "head" stand out even more. 

I also stamped and die cut the bottle caps adding gold pen accents. 

While everything was drying I die cut a white and gold framed fibres

 and replaced these into the aperture, turning one upside down, so that they created a really "fizzy" background. I stuck my card onto a black card blank die which I cut and made from a piece of 350gsm black card. 

I then glued my images in place, adding foam pads to the glass and front right bottle to add dimension. 

Here is my finished card

with some close ups

and one final shot.

All the Visible Image links are listed below;

 Our kind, friendly and supportive customer Facebook Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you join us.  You will be warmly welcomed and see lots of inspiration from the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. 

 I also organize a monthly artist trading card swap in the group.  We celebrated 2 years of swapping in May. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Over 150 members, worldwide, have taken part since it started. It's been such fun and it's so lovely to receive a unique piece of art from your partner in the post. The details and sign up for each swap are posted in the group on the 23rd of the month. The November sign up is open now for our "Shine Bright" swap, but you need to be quick  if you would like to join us, as it closes tomorrow, 26th October.  There is no "monthly" commitment, just join in when you have the time and if you live in the UK can you choose to post to the UK only if that suits you best.

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 their website is here. 

There are some fab seasonal offers currently on the website for autumn and Christmas. The autumn ones are here with up to 30% off some sets. You can also get 30% off their Christmas stamps and stencils using the code CC30 Do check them all out. Stock is limited and when it's gone.. it's gone! 

 You will also find me on Instagram here; @jane.tyrrell where I share many more samples than I have the time to blog. 

Back soon, 

Bye for now

Jane x