Wishing you a Visible Image Merry Christmas

Hello it's time for my final design team make of 2022 for Visible Image. The DT will be taking a break over Christmas and I will be back with my first make of 2023 on 4th January. 

I decided to use my favourite Christmas release stamp set from 2022, which is the awesome Christmas robin set, and paired it with a few other of my older Christmas favourites. There are live links to the website if you click on them in my post. 

Christmas robin

Sentimental Christmas

and 99% chance of wine

with their co ordinating dies 

This is what I got up to;

I stamped and cut out all 3 robins then coloured them using distress inks. I cut the legs off all the robins. 

I stamped the wine bottle and coloured with Zig markers and then cut out using the coordinating die.

I stamped the glasses and cut them out with the dies ( I always do a big batch in one go as they are so useful for other projects).

I stamped the sentiment and large robin onto kraft card 6 1/2 by 4 1/2"

I stamped the small holly from the sentiment set twice on the card and once to cut out. I coloured them all using Zig markers.

I then stamped the wine splashes.

I stamped a wine splash in the glass and glued it in place so that I could stamp the medium robin on the rim. I then added my images. I also added some extra wine rings and drips to the background using the stamps in the set. The large and medium cut out robins were placed over the images stamped directly on the card to give them their legs back. For finishing touches I stuck the cut out holly into the large robin's beak and added some Stickles glitter glue for sparkle. I then matted onto black card and a kraft card blank. 

Here is my finished card;

with a couple of close ups;

and one final shot;

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 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 a whole year of swapping in May. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Over 110 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. So the next sign up, for January, opens on 23rd December,  if you would like to join us.  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. 

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

Enjoy all the festive celebrations...are you ready? 

Bye for now,

Jane x

Christmas in July ATCs for Visible Image

 Hello again after the fun of my Billy cat taking over my blog on Saturday  I am back with my regular fortnightly blogged design team make for Visible Image. If you missed his blog post you can see it here. For today's make I am sharing the artist trading cards (ATCs) I made recently, one was for our monthly swap over in the Visible Image Facebook group. If you haven't found the group yet do come on over. It's great fun and if you would like to join in with our ATC swap you would be most welcome. It's open to everyone, internationally. If you live in the UK you can also request to swap just within the UK if that is better for you. The theme for this month is "Christmas in July" so I decided to use the brand new gorgeous

Christmas Robin set 

with the awesome script stamp from the Distressed Christmas set. 

And of course added the details on the back using brilliant ATC/Mail art stamp set.

Love of ATCs

 Here are some of my previous backs. I use the reverse of a Weetabix carton for my kraft card.

I always make 4 ATCs; 1 to keep, 1 to swap, 1 for my granddaughter and 1 for a crafting partner I swap with abroad. 

Here ARE some of my previous ATC swaps which have made their way around the UK and abroad.

This is what I got up to;

I made a snowy background using white linen distress ink on black card (technically it is an oxide). I plan to demo this at the Stamperarma show in Bedford in September so if you would like to see it up close and personal do come along. I will give details nearer the time but the date for your diary is Sunday 25th September. 

I cut my card into 4 X 3 1/2  by 2 1/2 inch size pieces for the backgrounds. 

Using white embossing powder I added some text using the awesome Distressed Christmas stamp. 

I stamped all the elements from the Christmas Robin set onto white card

I stamped the holly and branch several times onto white card. The branch is easily repeat stamped to make a longer branch if you need to. I coloured some of the berries red.

After cutting everything out I added some festive frost using Glamour dust and Stickles glitter.

I stamped, coloured and cut out all 3 sizes of the robin.

 I then started to put together 4 different festive scenes.

I stamped a little more snow using the snow flurry stamp in the Christmas robin set  using picket fence ink again. 

I also added a little gold sparkle pen to the robins as a finishing touch.

Here they all are together

individually 

and one final shot.

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. 

 I organize a monthly artist trading card swap there.  We are celebrated a whole year of swapping in May. Whether you are a new stamper or a seasoned one you are most welcome to join us. Nearly 100 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 for each swap are  put up in the group on 23rd of the month. There is no "monthly" commitment, just join in when you have the time! 

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. 

 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