Hello! Welcome back to all you regular readers of the blog but a MAHOOOSIVE welcome to any new readers today! It is such a privilege to do what I do and I love letting other people know all about the fab stamps that Visible Image let me play work with!
All the links to the Visible Image website, blog, challenges, etc can be found at the bottom of this post or in the banner on the right. Also over on the left, yes, there, you will see links to the other DT members blogs. We publish all through the week, each one of us on a different day, hopefully inspiring you to get creative with your Visible Image stash. Each DT member creates something using stamps from the range of their choice and using their own techniques. So whether you like CAS work, full on embellished pieces, cards, paint, inks, sprays, there is always something different going on with Visible Image.
Today I am showing you a useful project in the form of a gift bag. Now I used a gift bag board template. There are several on the market and there are also lots of How2s on YouTube telling you the steps to follow if you don't have a board template.
The main thing for this project is in the making of the patterned paper. I know I tell you this regularly, but making your own backgrounds is such fun, as well as meaning you have totally co-ordinated papers for your project!
I started with an A3 sheet of card. I coloured it with Brusho paints. Check out YouTube for some inspiring techniques. This piece required lots of watery splotches. I mixed Brusho powder with water to make a wash in the 3 colours I wanted to use. You only need a small amount of powder for this as it's quite potent stuff! You can always make more! I will show you in the How2 I'm planning OK? I will make time this week to do it.
Once dry I took the large squiggle and small squiggle, and stamped them all over the page using inks in shades of green and blue.The stamps are officially called Plasma (the large one) and Universal (the smaller one from 6 piece set) but squiggle works for me.
I made the tag and added the sentiment which is from the Be Happy set in the Express Yourself collection which I have embossed in black.
All the stamp images I used below are 'click to link' so you can have a look in more detail on the Visible Image website.
Right, here are the links I was telling you about, enjoy!
Ask to join if you haven't already.
It links to the group where you can upload
your projects and tell us all about it!
DT inspiration projects and check out the Gallery.
See you next week for another Marvellous
Monday and in the mean time enjoy your week, get crafty and show us what you
have been up to!
Happy Days! Kim
P.S. Why am I late today? Well, there are lots of things to do in my part of the world and sometimes 'LIFE' takes you by the hand and says 'come play'.
Such a cool bag! Creative Blessings, Tracy x
ReplyDeleteFabulous gift bag :) Awesome paper! xx
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