Nature inspiration for Visible Image

Hi everyone and welcome to my latest design team make for Visible Image. The theme for our makes this week is "nature". I recently returned from our annual holiday to Rhodes and during our stay witnessed some amazing sunsets. One night in particular it looked as though the sky was on fire and I decided that when I got home I would use it as inspiration for one of my card makes.

This was the stunning scene I photographed as we enjoyed one of our al fresco evening meals.

and this is the card I made

I used the following products

Bubbles and fizz stencil set for my "sun" as a stencil and mask

and the Stay wild stamp set

This is how I created my fiery sunset;

I pulled the photo up from my phone and chose these distress inks to re create the sky. I used black soot, scorched timber, crackling campfire, carved pumpkin and mustard seed

I placed the circle mask from the stencil (you get this included in the bubbles and fizz set) over the top of a piece of 15cm square smooth white card as shown below

Starting with the lightest colour (mustard seed) I used a round ink blending tool to blend each of the colours around the circle mask. I then removed the mask.

I placed the circle stencil where the mask had been and added a little mustard seed ink. 

By using the combination of the mask and stencil I could achieve a white "glow" around the sun to really make it pop. 

I then cut the background down to a 14cm square and stamped the horse with Nocture Versafine Clair ink and clear heat embossed it.

 

I stamped and white heat embossed the sentiment onto black card and placed it at the bottom right of the card. I also stamped 2 of the little horses and used the "splash" of the horse to stamp as an edge to the sun, which you can see in the finished card. I matted onto black card and then affixed to a white 15.5cm square card blank. 

Here is my finished card again.

I am always inspired by mother nature but I was so pleased that by making this card I was able to bring back a memory of a sunset meal on our recent wonderful sunshine holiday. You could also make something similar to my card in your scrap book or journal to save as a holiday memory.

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. 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 over 3 years ago. 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. 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 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Rhodes photos part 2

I am back with my promised 2nd installment of photos from our recent holiday in Rhodes. Today I thought I would share our day out in Rhodes Old Town, the oldest inhabited walled city in Europe and it has World Heritage protection. It is such fun wandering up and down the ancient cobbled street in the footsteps of those millennia who have walked there in the past. 

We last visited the Old Town a couple of years ago and it has been many years since we went inside the Palace of the grand Master so we decided to remedy that.

There is so much history to this place which changed and developed  after many, different cultural invasions.

How grand the inside was and so vast (and beautifully cool)

We also visited the nearly museum, which was new to us, with fabulous mosaics outside. 

We enjoyed a wander around town too 

before returning to our resort for a cooling late afternoon swim in the sea

and then dinner as the sun set.

Just bliss, such wonderful memories.

I will share one final installment of my Rhodes photos; our butterfly valley visit, very soon.

 My card today is inspired by the sunsets in Rhodes and the rainbows I have seen this week with all the rain and sunshine. It features the awesome Visible Image Cheshire cat. I love this sentiment and it makes me smile, there will be a lot of laughter over our lunch today as we are  celebrating my Dad's 87th birthday.

The background is alcohol inks and I coloured Mr Cat with Promarkers adding Glossy accents to his eyes

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges. 

Crafting by design 1/3 anything goes

I love Promarkers anything goes/cats

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes

Crafty sentiments 1/3 anything goes

Penny black and more 2/3 animals

The house the stamps built 1/3 anything goes

Sweet stampers 1/3 use a sentiment

I will be back again on Monday as we have our upcoming Daisy and Jack visit. Fingers crossed the weather behaves for our Conker treasure hunt. Have a lovely weekend when we get there.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Bye for now,

Jane x

Lindos 2019

I'm back to share my 2nd installment of our holiday photos from Rhodes. We always love visiting nearby Lindos.

It rises like a jewel out of the Aegean Sea and has some pretty bays to look down to.

Bougainvillea hangs everywhere in the cool narrow streets

In the evening the light is very different

Our favourite restaurant looks out to the Acropolis, such an awesome view.

and we even have a Billy like friend who keeps us company.
My memories inspired me to make these artist trading coins.
I made an inky background using brushos and pixie powders.

I then added some white circles through a hand cut stencil

I then built up the inky layers using my Visible Image stamps and also their sentiment from the Create you calm set which I yellow embossed.

Here is one in close up to show the sea effect I added using glossy accents.

I would like to enter my ATCs into the following challenges;

Thank you all so much for stopping by, for your lovely comments you take the time to leave and for following and supporting me.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Still warm enough for swimming in the sea

Good morning it is time for my 2nd DT project for Country View Challenges for our current "Under the sea" challenge. I thought it would also be a good opportunity to share the first of my photos from our recent week in Rhodes where where we spend days on the beach in glorious sunshine.

Our balcony looked out the sea and we had just a minute's stroll down the steps to the sandy beach.

and the crystal clear sea.

I love the play of the light during the day, this is late afternoon

 and even at night it is just as beautiful as the sun sets.

I love swimming in the sea and walking the beach, always on the look out for mermaid of course! Now sadly I didn't spot any but I thought it would be a great idea to try to recreate what that might look like with by making a mermaid card.

I used my I used my Visible Image Mythical mermaid stamp set. 

First I added some distress inks, Fossilized amber, Lucky clover, Tea dye and Mermaid lagoon ( of course!) to watercolour paper. 

Then I used the waves stamp in the set and randomly stamped it across my card, just like the waves on the beach.

 I then stamped using the bubbles stamp. 

I stamped, coloured and cut out my mermaid and 3 of her dolphin friends (you get all these in this gorgeous  stamp set). 

I also stamped some of the shells and the star fish too. The little crab in the set I stamped directly, isn't he cute!

 I also used some die cuts including Tim Holtz' old ornate frame and put my card together.

A few close up photos. You can see I added glossy accents to some of the bubbles.

There is also a really wonderful sentiment in the set....

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

I would like to enter it into the following challenges;

Pixie's snippets playground #361
A gem of a challenge 2/2 anything goes
Allsorts 2/3 anything goes +/- a twist
Take it make it craft stamper 2/3 anything goes
Addicted to stamps 2/3 for a lady/girl
Through the craft room door 1/3 anything goes
Papercraft challenges 1/3 no designer paper

I hope I might have inspired you to take up our Under the sea challenge for September and join us. There are still 10 days left.

You can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with other challenges. There is also a £20 crafting voucher up for grabs to the lucky randomly selected winner to spend over on the Country View Crafts on line store. Remember that UK postage and packing is absolutely FREE! All the details for the September challenge can be found here.

The weather here is still glorious and we spent an awesome day on the beach on Sunday at the south coast with our babies. It looks like it is getting even hotter over the next few days..bliss.

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Bye for now,

Jane x