Lynda's Crafty Hall: April 2023

Thursday 27 April 2023

Face Your Fears

Today I am sharing a card using the spectacular Fearless Tiger stamp set from Visible Image. This image is so striking, you can almost feel his eyes staring into yours. The detail is amazing!

I began by stamping and heat embossing the main image in black on watercolour card stock.

I wanted a jungle feel to this card so added liquid watercolour in green and yellow, after spritzing the card with water as this helps create a smooth blend.

While the ink was still wet, I sprinkled over some Brusho paint powders and re spritzed with water to help them dilute. Its been a while since I used my Brushos and I had forgotten how much I enjoy them!

When the card was dry I coloured the tiger with Inktense watercolour pencils.

To finish, I added some background stamping using the handy Grunge Tones set, and coloured in the circles with paint pens. This just adds an extra layer of interest. Mounting the image and sentiment on black card really helps the main image 'pop'.

Visible Image have lots of exciting things happening at the moment, including a Hobby Maker show on Sunday 30th April at 2pm and an ATC swap in the Facebook fan group with amazing giveaways, so do follow along on the social media channels linked below to keep up with the news and join in the fun.

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Thursday 13 April 2023

Bee Happy

The sun has started to shine here in Hampshire and Spring is finally in the air, which means the bees are starting to buzz about as they set to work. There is something about bees that just makes me smile, and they are the inspiration for this weeks project for Visible Image.

I began with some watercolour card stock and the Daisy Daisy stencil, which I sprayed a combination of Dylusions and Distress ink sprays through to create a background.

I then stamped and embossed the large bee from the Bee Happy set.

I used the honeycomb background stamp with Distress Embossing Glaze around the edge to frame the image and randomly coloured some of the hexagons in coordinating colours.

If you look closely at a bees wings they are so detailed, so to emphasise this I added a layer of crackle glaze over the top, and I used watercolour paint to colour his body.

I then decided that there was space for the smaller bees too, so added those around the sentiment before mat and layering on black and gold card to finish.