Visible image - Jake

 Today I am showing you Jake from Visible Image Stamps.

I coloured Jake in using my pens and then created a stipple background for him.  I love the bright spots on these digi papers, and matted onto black they are really effective and great for those boys cards.  I added some die cut banners and some card candi that I coloured black using my pen.

 And for more inspiration don't forget to check out the Visible Image's facebook page, and the Visible Image blog where we have a monthly challenge.  This month's theme is Spring.

Supplies:

Image: Visible image Jake

Sentiment:

Colouring medium: copics

Skin:E000 E00 E11 R20

Hair:YR20 E33 E35 E37 E39

Clothes: B91 B93 B95 B97
R22 R24 R27 R29
C9 C7 C5 C3 C2 C1

Papers: Funky Hand rainbow dots

Embellishments: card candy

Tools: Dienamics fishtail stax

Challenges:

The Paper Shelter - punches and dies

PartyTime Tuesday - die cuts

 

laser cuts and WoW!!

I love these gorgeous laser cuts from Kobie's Hobbycutz shop - they are really good quality mdf laser cuts, and they smell gorgeous when they arrive (if you like the smell of wood, which I do!!).  You can stain or paint them as well as just use them as they come.  I sprayed the dotty flower with distress ink reinker and left it to dry.  The cardstock was embossed and I cut the banner out and layered it up.  The doily was scrunched to make it smaller and more posy like, and then I added the laser cut, and a pearl to its centre.  I added lace, ribbon, a bow and the cute laser cut butterfly, which I added pearls to.
 

Supplies:

 Image:

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: Distress ink victorian velvet reinkerhttp://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.co.uk/

Embellishments:  Hobbycutz dotty flower, butterflies mixed pack, 

lace, organza ribbon, pearls, doily

Tools: Dienamics Fishtail stax, embossing folders

Challenges: 

Cards and More - lace and pearls

Creative Card Crew - ribbon

Everybody Art - butterflies

Tuesday Throwdown - lace and doillies

Papertake Weekly - anything goes

Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon 

Sweet Stampin' - embossing

My Time to Craft-  embossing

Ribbon Girl - ribbon or twine
FLutterby Wednesday - open
Paper pretties - texture

 

Edgar from Visible Image

 Today I am showing you Edgar from Visible Image Stamps.

I coloured Edgar in using copics for a change and then created the sticked background.  I embossed the purple kraft core coredinations cardstock in using my gears embossing folder and sanded it to expose the core. I cut the cogs and gear border and birdcage die out of more kraft core cardstock and sanded that.  The image and cardstock have all been distressed.  I added some twine and brads.

 And for more inspiration don't forget to check out the Visible Image's facebook page, and the Visible Image blog where we have a monthly challenge.  This month's theme is Spring.

Supplies:

Image: Visible image Edgar

Sentiment:

Colouring medium: copics

Skin: E11 E00 E000 R20

Hair: W7 5 3 0

Clothes:W7,5,3,2,1,0, E70,74,77,79, V12,15,17

Papers: Coredinations kraft core cardstock

Embellishments: twine, brads, diecut bircage

Tools: Tim Holtz gears border die, bird cage die, 
paper distresser, gears embossing folder

Challenges:

Just Us Girls - sketch

Sweet Stampin' - embossing

My Time to Craft-  embossing

Ribbon Girl - ribbon or twine
Stamp with fun - brads
Paper playtime - anything goes
Anything Goes - make it manly
Papertake Weekly - anything goes

 

Passion for Promarkers DT card

 Its time for another Passion for Promarkers challenge and the theme this week is One for the Ladies.
 

How fabulous does Jasmin look, all dressed up and straight out of Chicago - I love that flapper dress!!  I coloured her in using my pens and then added some stickles round her feet. The boa is glamour dusted and I added pealr pen to the string of pearls.  I love the sentiment, it really suits her.  I added some lace and a gem swirl, and went with quite dark, but vintagey patterned papers to tie in with the '20s feel of the stamp.  As my Mum isn't very girly, but loves her vintage this is going to be her Mothering Sunday card :)

Supplies: 

Image: Crafty Sentiments - Jasmin Feathers

Sentiment: Kraftin Kimmie Katherine

Colouring medium: promarkers 

Skin: sunkissed pink, blush, ivory, pastel pink

Hair: burgundy, crimson, poppy, lipstick red, pale pink

Clothes: burgundy, crimson, ruby, lipstick red, 
black Cool grey 5,4

Papers: Bo Bunny Serenity and Enchanted

Embellishments: gem swirl, lace

Tools: 

Challenges: 

Cupcake Craft - sparkle
Creative Creations - Just for Mum

The cupboard Trilogy - a mothers love
Allsorts- for a lady
One Stop Craft - mother's day
Glitter n Sparkle - Mothers day/ladies card

Songbird - Mama I love you

Paper playtime - anything goes
Bearly mine - Mother's Day
Creative Craft - Mother's Day

 

Visible Image DT samples

 Today I am showing you 2 stamps from from Visible Image Stamps.

 And for more inspiration don't forget to check out the Visible Image's facebook page, and the Visible Image blog where we have a monthly challenge.  This month's theme is ...

I love Katie, she looks so happy with all those butterflies round her - and would be perfect for this month's Spring challenge.  I coloured her with my pens, and paper pieced the butterflies. I added some flowers I was sent form a lovely crafting friend, a gem swirl and some lace and organza ribbon.  I wouldn't normally mix gems and pearls on a card - but the poorly 8 year old insisted!!!

Supplies:

Image: Visible Image Katie

Sentiment:

Colouring medium:copics

Skin: E11 E00 E000 R20

Hair:E50 E31,E33,YR31

Clothes: R81 R83 R85 BG05 BG07 BG09

Papers: MME Dolled Up

Embellishments: gem swirl, flowers, lace, organza ribbon

Tools:

Challenges:

Charisma Cardz - use at least 5 different patterned papers

Creative Inspirations - buttons and bows

Joanna Sheen - lots of layers

Flutterby Wednesday - lots of layers
Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon

 My heart pieces - use three of your favouirte things (lace, pearls, butterflies)
Creative Stamp friends - spring colours

Craft your passion - that's odd

For my second card I carried on with the butterfly theme and used the Large Butterfly.  I stamped it twice and cut it out.  I went for a WoW card, simply embossing the layers, distressing the edges of the cardstock, adding some ribbon and pearls, and then adding one of the butterflies.  I then coloured up the second one using my pens, curled the wings and placed it on top of the first, adding pearls to its centre.  Finally I stamped the Butterfly Sentiment.

 Supplies:

Image: Visible Image Large Butterfly

Sentiment: Visible Image Butterfly Sentiment
Colouring Medium: copics

Papers: white cardstock

Embellishments: organza ribbon, flat backed pearls

Tools: embossing folders, Tim Hotltz paper distresser,  Spellbinders Circle nestibilities

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
Alphabet Challenge - anything with wings
Make My monday- inspired by nature

Make it Monday

 

Charlotte

I coloured charlotte in using my pens, and the glamour dusted her wings.   I love the blue/yellow colour combination and these MME papers are perfectfor me!!  I added some pearls, ribbon and a bow, diecut flowers and the laser cut letters.

Supplies: 

Image: Sugar Nellie Charlotte

Sentiment: Hobbycutz laser cut letters

Colouring medium: promarkers and copics

Papers: MME Bluebell

Embellishments: ribbon, die cut flowers, pearls

Tools: Memory Box phlox flowers

 Challenges:

 Sketch Saturday - sketch

Cupcake Craft - sparkle

Creative Creations - Just for Mum

Creative Stamp friends - spring colours

Craft your passion - that's odd

Cutie pie - Magical

Cardmakers Circle  - make beleive

Addicted to Stamps - bring on Spring

2 Sisters - fairytales/make believe

The cupboard Trilogy - a mothers love
Allsorts- for a lady
One Stop Craft - mother's day
Glitter n Sparkle - Mothers day/ladies card

Songbird - Mama I love you

Paper playtime - anything goes
The Sugar Bowl - anything goes

 

That Craft Place Challenge

Its time for a new That Craft Place challenge and we have a brand, spanking new DT for you, and they are all fabulous!!!!  This fortnight's theme is Anything goes ...

I made a box card ...

It looks fabulous, and quite complex to make, but it is really quite easy.   The flowers were created using grungepaper and fabric, and I added pearl brads, and some love gem swirls to the front.

The flower on the inside is set into silicon so it stands proud of the bottom of the box.

And this is how I did it:

You will need cardstock 13x28cm, scored at 13cm and 15cm
4 x 11.5cmx 18cm pieces of cardstock, scored every 2cm.
Decorative items - tape/tissue/design paper, flowers, brads, gems - anything you want really.

Concertina fold the 4 p11.5x18cm peices of cardstock like this ...

You really need to creasde the folds to keep them tight.

Now you need to assemble the 'box' - take 2 of the concertinaed strips and add wet glue or glossy accents to one of the edges of each.  You the need to slide them together so they form an L

Repeat for all the pieces so you have a square.
I prefer to use glossy accents as it dries much faster - if you are using wet glue you may want to let each corner dry before doing the next.

Now to decorate - I decided to use tissue tape, so I covered a square of cardstock 12.5cmx12.5cm with the tape, and also stripes of card to cover the binding and the tops of the 'box'.

I then used distress inks to colour the cardstock and tape, and let it dry. Distress inks give quite a subtle colour - stains will give you a darker effect.

 

Then I covered the box tops ...

and lined the box in purple cardstock, before gluing the box frame down.

Onto the decoration - I decided to use a couple of flowers, so I cut flowers out of covered and stained grungepaper, hession and linen.

I layered them up, using the fabric ones as well, srunched them up and distressed the edges using walnut stain distress ink, and then added a large pearl brad.

 

Supplies: 

cardstock

Tim Holtz tissue tape

Distress inks

grungepaper

blending tool

hessian and linen

brad

gem swirls

Challenges:

Hotshot - anything but a card

Tim Hotlz - tattered flowers challenge
Come and get it - anything but a card
The cupboard Trilogy - a mothers love
Allsorts- for a lady
One Stop Craft - mother's day
Glitter n Sparkle - Mothers day/ladies card

 

The first Hobbycutz challenge and a blog hop

Hi and Welcome to the Launch of 

The HOBBYCUTZ CHALLENGE BLOG...

I was so excited when Kobie picked me to be part of this fab, new and exciting challenge blog.

 We will be running a bi-weekly challenge and we hope you will enjoy the creative projects we will showcase, and that we will inspire you all to come and take part in our challenges.

The Story:

  Kobie is the Owner and Designer of Hobbycutz Lasercutting & Designs.

She  grew up in a Crafty family, with a very creative Gran, Mum and even Dad...he was always into woodworking....

Kobie acquired a laser cutter early December last year after having her second child, which made it nearly impossible for her to return to work because of expensive child care, so she had to look for something she can do from home.

It was the biggest learning curve of her life and she never really realised what she was getting myself into until the machine arrived.

But anyway not going to bore you with the rest,Kobie is heree and we will have to see what the future holds.....

So to celebrate the launch of this new adventure we are having a blog hop and you have 2 weeks to join in the fun and try and win some prizes.
So I hope you arrived here from Lorraine

If not please go back to the Hobbycutz challenge blog and start the Hop there as You need to collect a letter from each member.
The rules of the hop are as follow:

 1. Leave a comment on each of the DT posts as you hop, this is a must to qualify for the prize.

2. Collect the letters from the DT's blog and email Kobie at  hobbycutz(at sign)gmail.com with the word you spell 

(ps the letters are mixed up and not everyone has one) 

3. Leave a comment on the Challenge blog letting us know which design from the website you like best

 4. Display our badge in your side bar to spread the word. 

 The winner of the hop will receive a £15 Voucher to spend on the website and two runner ups will receive each a £5.00 voucher to spend on the website.

Not only can you do the hop and win a prize .. but we also have First Challenge running which is

 ANYTHING GOES

The prize for the overall challenge which will be picked by the Random thingy will be

a £10 Voucher to spend on my website, and there will also be a £5.00 Voucher in every challenge for a Random winner using a 'HOBBYCUTZ' product.

Thank You for taking time to visit my blog. 

My Letter is ***  A ***,  

so  please hop on now to .....

***** Hobbycutz challenge blog *****

And now onto my creation for the Anything goes theme ...

I made a canvas for the girls' bedroonm door as we have just decorated it for them.  I got hubby (the technical one) to line up 4 photos of the girls and then printed them off, before sticking them behind the film strip. I painted the canvas with a coat of the blue emulsion that we have decorated the girls room in - their choice not mine!!  The I stamped their names on the heart plaque and the distressed round using worn lipstick distress inks.  I sprayed the butterflies and the scalloped heart border with tattered rose glimmer mist and then added pearls to the butterflies.  Finally I cut the flowers out of felt left over from the bunting I made for the room, and layered them up with pearl brads for the centres.

If you have got lost along the way, here is the order of the hop ...

Hobbycutz Challenge Blog

Hobbycutz Blog

Mags 

Kim  

Valou 

Chris 

Natali 

KathyK

The Cook

Wenche

Denise 

Lorraine

Cathy 

Hobbycutz Challenge Blog

Supplies: 

Stamps: IndigoBlu Circus alphabet

Embellishments: Film strip, swirly decorative border, heart, butterflies, felt flowers, pearls

Tools: Tim Holtz Tattered flowers die, distress ink, canvas

Challenges:

Challenges:

Hotshot - anything but a card

Tim Hotlz - tattered flowers challenge
Come and get it - anything but a card 

 

Visible image Edward

I love this stamp from Visible Image - he is Edward and I think he looks a little like Spike from Buffy and the Vampire Slayer , one handsome dude!!  I coloured him with my pens and then fussy cut him out, thanks to a cat print in just the wrong place. I popped him onto foam pads to give him a bit of dimension. The dp is from MME and I simply added some twine and a button.

Supplies: 

Image: Visible Image Edward

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: promarkers 

Skin: coral,sunkissed pink, blush, ivory, pastel pink

Hair: gold, mustard, pastel yellow, primrose 

Clothes: umber, walnut, cocoa, cinnamon, tan, 
twilight sky, denim blue, grey green, pastel blue

Papers: MME Paris and Co

Embellishments: twine, button

Tools: 

Challenges: 

Creative Craft - sketch
DutchDare - 1 for the boys
Anything goes - make it manly

 

Visible Image March Challenge - DT

Its my first challenge as part of the Visible Image DT.   I am really excited to be part of this fabulous DT and the stamps are absolutely gorgeous, a bit of something for everyone and all styles.
Anyways, we have a monthly challenge, which you can find over on the Visible Image blog.  The theme for March is Spring.

I made a tag ...

I cut my tag out using my TH die, and the distressed it using the spring and summer limited edition inks.  I simply swiped them onto my craft mat, spritzed with water and then dragged my tag through.  I dried the tag and repeated to get a real depth of colour.  I flicked water across it and dried it.  While the ink was on the mat I squidged some seam binding through it and left it to dry.  I stamped the retro dots background in pereserved persimmon distress ink and tumbled glass distress ink, and the crackled background in picked raspberry.  I stamped and masked the large butterfly and butterfly onto the tag using versafine ink, and then stamped them in picked raspberry and peacock feathers distress inks and cut them out.  I layered the cut out butterflies over two of the stamped butterflies and added pearls to their centres.   Finally I stamped the butterfly sentiment on to the tag and added a butterfly charm to the seam binding.


 And for more inspiration don't forget to check out the Visible Image's facebook page.

Supplies:

Stamps used: Visible Image large butterfly, butterfly, butterfly sentiment
retro dots background, crackled background

Colouring medium: distress inks

Embellishments: flat backed pearls

Tools: Tim Holtz large tag die

Challenges:

Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon 

Everybody Art - tag
Stampavie and more - Tag it
Addicted to stamps - addicted to stamping
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
Alphabet Challenge - anything with wings
My Mum's Craft Shop - spring has sprung
Inspire Me Friday