Lavinia stamps, Distress inks,

Helloooo,

Today is the start of a new Lavinia Stamps Challenge, 

the theme for June is 'Add some beads or gems'.

I have created 2 cards as my DT inspiration for this months Challenge, 

I hope you like them.

This first card was very simple to do, I used a mask for the sun, and blended distress inks to make the background, I then stamped the bottom with 'Field Grass', and I used the stem of the 'Zen Thistle' for the flower stems.

 I stamped the 'Zen small flowers', and the 'Bee' onto a seperate piece of card, coloured with my Promarkers, and fussy cut them. 

I attached them with glue gel, and added the sentiment 'Fairy Dust is like Love', lastly I added coloured gems to the middle of the flowers.

For this card, I stamped the background using 'Fairy Words', then sprayed the whole thing with Perfect Pearl mists, using 3 colours, although the bling does'nt photo well. I stamped the 'Nigella Damascena', and added some Frantage.

The beautiful 'Zen Butterfly', I stamped onto acetate, and heat embossed, coloured with Promarkers on the reverse, then painted with white acrylic paint, to make the colours pop. I fussy cut it, attached it with glue gel, and added gems.

All the details, DT inspiration, rules etc. for the 'Lavinia Challenge', 

can be found........... HERE, 

please only use Lavinia Stamps in your entry, there's a chance of winning a whopping £40 voucher to spend on the website.

For people who haven't got blogs, you can also enter via Email.

Thank you again for visiting,

Hugs Pauline xxxx

Visible Image, Distress inks, Wow embossing powder, Crackle accents and Glossy accents.

Hi there,

It' the first 1st the month, and that means a new Visible Image Challenge has begun, and the June theme is.....'Man Oh Man',

 this could be for for Fathers day, Birthday's, Anniversary's, or any occasion that needs a masculine card or project.

I've made 2 cards for Fathers Day, each of them using the fabulous Men's Collage, Bronte Script and Tyre Marks.

For the first card, I stamped the Men's Collage 4 times, the first layer I stamped in Broken China ink, also stamping the Winter Tree in Vintage Photo, on this layer too, then ripped the card around the edges. 

The second layer I stamped in Versamark, heat embossed with silver powder, and fussy cut the pocket watch, I also cut out the face of it too.

 The third layer was stamped in Black, out of this I fussy cut the pocket watch again, glued it behind the silver one, then added crackle accents to the face.

The last layer was again stamped in Versamark, heat embossed in black, and the classic car was fussy cut. 

All the layers were then glued into place with Pinflair gel, and mounted on a piece of ripped Kraft card.

The background was stamped with Bronte Scipt, using Vintage photo and Broken China, and mounted onto some ripped Kraft card.

I coloured a piece of American seam binding with the distress inks, then stamped the Tyre marks using black Stazon ink. The finishing touch was the sentiment, taken from the Handy Hints set.

The second card, was made in a similar way, but without ll the layers. I coloured on the reverse side of a piece of Centura  Card, in 4 different Distress colours, and stamped the Mens Collage.

The background was stamped with the Bronte Script in Mustard Seed, then over stamped with the Tyre Marks stamp, which I coloured using the 4 colours, making it multi coloured. 

I added a few black gems and the sentiment.

I hope I've given you a little bit of inspiration, and that you'll have a go and enter the Challenge, there's a chance of winning £20 of new stamps, and there are loads of smashers to choose from, take a look at the other DT creations and enter HERE..

You can also enter via the Facebook Visible Image Group page, if you don't have a blog, take a look at all the going's on HERE.

Thank you again for visiting, 

Hugs, Pauline xxxx

Visible Image Stamps, Distress inks

Hi there,

It's me again, with another creation using some of the fabulous

Visible Image Stamps available.

 When I saw the new Forest Background, I immediately thought of Edward, so decided he needed to be in the Forest !!!

So the stamps I used besides Forest Background are....

Edward is Immortal set, the wings from Time after Time, the new Runic Background Set, and the sentiment is from Free your Imagination set.

I made a moon mask, and coloured the background using Chipped Sapphire, thd coloured the ground with Black Soot. After taking the mask off, I coloured the moon with Mustard Seed, stamped the Runic background with Antique Linen, then stamped the Forest Background each side of the card, added some shadows, then the bats, which I highlighted with a white pen. I threw some antique gold Frantage over the card and heated from the underside. Edward and the wings were stamped with black Memento, coloured with Promarkers, and fussy cut, and added to the card, then added some black Stickles.

The sentiment was stamped onto shrink plastic, and coloured with dark blue Archival ink.

While I was waiting for the Stickles to dry, I found an odd piece of Kraft card which was 2 1/2"x 3 1/2", so I made an ATC, using......

Winter Tree, Tall Grass, the cat from Good Luck Cat set, and the word 'Enchanting' from Winters Miracle.

Such a quick little ATC, coloured with Distress inks, stamped and some Stickles added.

You have 2 days to get your entries into the May Challenge 'Anything Goes',

take a look and enter HERE,

also in the Visible Image Facebook Group HERE.

Thank you so much for dropping in, and for the inspirational comments you leave me. 

Hugs Pauline xxxx

Visible Image, new release 'Fantasy' Stamps.

Hello friends,

Today is the day, that the new 'Visible Image' 'Fantasy' stamps become available, I have had a lot of fun creating with these fantastic new stamps, they are very different, and I hope you'll love them like me.

The first card was created using Fae Hope Set, Forest Background and the stone from Myrddin Magick set.

I used distress inks for the background, with acrylic paint for the leaves, and her wings are acetate, heat embossed, and alcohol inks on the reverse side.

Aren't her wings a fantastic stamp, I also made a butterfly using them....

Again I used acetate, heat embossed, but this time I painted the reverse side with silkies paint. I also used the shield from Orin Destiny set, which was heat embossed in clear before using distress ink.

The next card is stamped using Myrddrin Magick set....

with the addition of the Forest Background, all the characters were coloured with Promarkers.

This one was made using Runic Background set, and embossing powders, with 3 of Orin's shield's on.

Then the heroic Orin Destiny set, again with Forest Background, they are great trees, and the rock from the Myrddin Magick set.

This was made with Orin's set, I love that dragon, and I gave him some acetate fire, and sat him on the Mystical Map.

Orin's set for this tag, I think the dragon got him, hehehe.

And finally, but not least, the beautiful Fae, with the Runic Background set, I do adore her.

I do hope you love these stamps, as you see, they can all be used combined, for different looks or occasions. 

Thanks for dropping in, see you again soon,

Hugs Pauline xxxxx

Visible Image Stamps, Distress inks, Stickles and Glossy accents.

Hi there,

I am going to try and be quick with this post, as I am working with some fantastic, brand new Visible Image stamps, which will be launched tomorrow, Saturday 23rd May, so I'm excited and busy, busy, busy, lol !!!

Today's share is a card with a bit of a difference, using some of the fabulous

Visible Image Stamps available.

I used a circle die in 2 sizes, cut some out and then went through all my Visible Image stamps, to find images that fit. The stamps I used for the background were......

Bronte Script, Grunge Flourish, Ripped Fishnet, and the birds from Free Your Imagination.

The stamps I used on the circles were......

Ink Splat Set, Damask flourish from Immortal Love, stars from Jake Skates set, Butterflies from Katie Kisses set, Hearts from Harley Jester set, and Imagine from Imagine Dream Inspire.

I think you can see how I created this card, just a bit of fun really, lol !!!

Have you entered the May Challenge yet, you just need to use at least one Visible Image stamp, and make a project with the theme 'Anything Goes', simplessss !!! Take a look at the rules and DT inspiration HERE, you could be in with a chance to win stamps to the value of £20.

If you haven't got a blog, and still want to enter, you can via the Facebook group HERE.

Thank you o much for dropping in, and come back again tomorrow to see what I've created with the new Fantasy Stamps.

Bye for now, hugs, Pauline xxxxx

Visible Image Stamps, Sizzix Accordion Flip 3D Die, Distress inks, Perfect Pearls and Glossy Accents.

Hello again friends,

I can't believe that this time last week I was flying up to Aberdeen on this plane for the weekend, it was a tad turbulent, lol !!!

 I went with lovely Helen and awesome Mark from 'Visible Image', to conduct a Demo Day on the Saturday, and we ran a workshop on the Sunday. We met some fabulous people, and we were able to show them how fantastic 'Visible Image' stamps really are.

This is Mark (Owner, designer and maker of 'Visible Image Stamps') and myself, getting ready for the Demo Day, at 'The Papeterie' Craft shop.

Anyway I digress, lol, I am here today to share a card I've made, using some great 'Visible Image' stamps, I hope you like it.

I recently bought myself an Accordion card die, so thought I'd christen it using Visible Image stamps, then made a box to put it in.

This is the front of the card.

The middle of the card.

And the back.

The stamps I used were....

Once Upon a Time set, Winter tree, Butterfly, Tall Grass, Bronte Script, Dream from Imagine Dream Inspire, Birds from Free Your Imagination set, and the Damask Flourish from Immortal Love set.

I covered the frame of the card with the damask stamp, using Tumbled glass Distress ink, and around the edges I used Vintage Photo. I created little scenes using various Distress inks, and the stamps, and popped on pink Liquid pears as blossom and flowers, and used glossy accents here and there.

There's still time to enter the Visible Image Challenge, for a chance to win £20 worth of new stamps, this months theme is 'Anything goes'. Take a look at the DT inspiration, and enter HERE.

If you haven't got a blog, don't worry, you can enter on the 'Visible Image' wall of the Facebook Group, HERE.

Thank you muchly for taking the time to pop by, your comments are always so inspirational.

Take care till next time,

Big hugs, Pauline xxx

P.S. these are the lovely ladies that took part in our workshop, such a happy bunch, it was a real pleasure.

Visible Image Stamps, Distress ink, Wow Embossing Powder and Stickles.

Hello again,

We've had a teamie challenge, at Visible Image Stamps this week, where the Design Team members chose the stamps and the colours for another teamie, and challenged them make a project. 

Tracy Chose the Molly Rules Set in pastel colours for me, and this is what I came up with......

I started with the backgound, using the ink splat from the set, versamark and clear powder, stamped randomly and heat embossed, when it had cooled, I blended 'Shaded Lilac' Distress ink over the top, which gave the effect of clouds.

I stamped Molly, coloured her using Promarkers, fussy cut, and mounted her onto a piece of card, which was stamped with the barbed wire in 'Spun Sugar'. I also stamped the barbed wire onto a smaller piece or card, and stamped the sentiment.

The little flower is made from the heart stamp in the set, stamped in 'Spun Sugar', fussy cut, with a gem added to the centre.

I made the bunting by stamping the skull in different colours and fussy cutting and glued them onto a piece of Tulle. Of course I gave some of the elements a dosing of stickles, lol !!!!

Don't forget to enter this Months Visible Image Challenge, the theme is 'Anything Goes', so as long as you use at least one Visible Image stamp, you could win £20 worth of new stamps, check out the DT inspiration and rules HERE.

You can also enter via the Face Book group, if you haven't got a blog, HERE.

I have to rush away now, lots to do, I am flying up to Aberdeen, with the lovely Helen, and the awesome Mark, AKA Visible Image, to conduct a demo day on Saturday 10th, and run a Workshop on Sunday 11th, at 'The Papeterie', exciting times.

Thank you for popping by,

See you soon, hugs, Pauline