Pauline's Crafty Haven: November 2019

Friday, 29 November 2019

Visible Image Stamps, Clean Color Brush Pens, Bockingford Hot Pressed Watercolour Paper, Craft Artist Glitter Touch, Versafine Ink.

Hi there,

It's Fabulous Fortnightly Friday, and my turn to share a creation of mine, using awesome Visible Image products.

This is a new super stamp set, with a retro car, great for men, but equally good for women too. The stamps I used were.......

The Right Direction, it has all the images that I've used, in the stamp set, and, it's in the Black Friday sale, along with loads of other awesome stamp sets, fill your boots before they sell out.

I started off with some Bockingford watercolour 300gsm paper, and gently spritzed it with water, then using Distress inks on my glass mat, picked up the colour, you can also do this with a paint brush, but please don't add any water to your ink pads. Once this was all dry ( I dried it naturally, so's not to lighten any of the colour ) I stamped out the person silhouette, using an Versafine Onyx Black ink pad, I then fussy cut them all, and added some more colour with my Zig Clean Colour Brush Pens. I put these to one side, and stamped out the Car, fussy cut it, and then coloured it blue and added some sparkle with a Craft Artist Glitter Touch.

I cut my background 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" and stamped the building line and Versafine Onyx Black ink, again this stamp is in the Right Direction Stamp set, I used my Distress Inks, water and a brush to add the colour to the sky and the buildings, I also stamped the Steering wheel, top left, above this I added half of the sentiment (Steer Yourself) which I had stamped onto black card with a Wow Embossing Pad, and heat embossed with Fluorescent Blue embossing powder, I repeated that using 'In the Right Direction'.

I attached all the people and the car with 3D Glue Gel, to give dimension, then added some shadow with a light grey Brush Pen.

Here are all the Visible Image places of interest, for you to check out......

The SHOP, where you can find all the Visible Image Stamp collections, and the Black Friday Sale.

The BLOG, catch up with all the Visible Image news.

The FACEBOOK GROUP, where you can enter the 'Show and Tell'.

The FACEBOOK PAGE, where there are exiting weekly giveaways.

and the three social media sites......

PINTEREST, TWITTER and INSTAGRAM.

Thank you for visiting, hugs, Pauline xxxxxxx

Friday, 15 November 2019

Visible Image Stamps, Distress Inks, Translucent Embossing Paste, Indigo Blu Unicorn Sparkle Glitter, Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Pens, Versafine Clair Ink Pads.

Helllloooooo,

It's Fortnightly Fabulous Friday, although you may have noticed that I haven't blogged for four weeks, not two, sorry !!!!

Today's card is very close to my heart, it's made using the gorgeous 'Visible Image', 'Erika's Maple' stamp set, which was designed and made by Helen and Mark at 'Visible Image' as a beautiful tribute to our lovely friend Erika Philpott, who died far too young, earlier this year. She was such a vibrant, exceptionally kind person, who showed great strength and vitality, she absolutely glowed, and brightened up the most gloomy days with her wonderful personality, and zest for life, she is very greatly missed by a lot of people, especially by me.

I made this card with Erika in mind, and I could hear her telling me to add more purple (her favourite colour) and much more glitter, like me, she loved her sparkles !!!!!

I made the background on Glossy Card, cut to 7" x 7", using ordinary Distress Inks, adding the ink to my mat, spritzing with water, and pulling the card through it, until I had covered most of the card, and it looked good !!!! I then used the smaller stamps out of the 'Creative Chaos' stamp set, to give interest, stamping with Oxide inks. I also blended all the edges of the background card with Wilted Violet Distress Ink. I used the 'Visible Image' Meshing Around stencil, placing it in the middle of the background, and with a palette knife spread some Indigo Blu, super thick Slap it on ( which dries clear), after removing the stencil, I added Unicorn Sparkle Glitter, onto the wet paste, and put aside to dry.

I stamped out loads of the Maple leaves, using the medium leaf and the smaller leaves, using Versafine Clair ink pads, in Red, Orange, yellow and green, the colours of Autumn. I then fussy cut all the leaves, and coloured them with Clean Color pens, and blended them with water and a brush. When they were all dry, I used some Craft Artist Glitter Touch, down the middle of each leaf, which gives a subtle Mica Glitter.

Using the fussy cut leaves, and some 3D glue Gel, I fashioned a heart wreath, around the sparkle background, I used some of the smaller leaves to make the initials E P in the middle. I stamped all the words, and the sentiment from Erika's set, onto some white card, fussy cut them, and with a blending tool and some Wilted Violet, I edged the white words and the sentiment, to tie it into the colour scheme, then placed them on top of the leaves.

I hope I've done Erika's memory justice, this card was made with all my love, and the stamp set is a truly beautiful tribute to a very beautiful person.

p.s. we will be using this stamp set at my Warwick Workshop, this Sunday 17th November, I still have some places if anyone is interested, £25 each 10am-4pm. Message me for further details.