February 2022 new Visible Image release

 Hi it's Jane here with a very quick post just to wet your appetite with the new Visible Image release which is out today and in stock over at Country View. (If anything is out of stock, just add your email address and Susan will contact you when she restocks.) Postage is FREE in the UK if your order is over £20

Do check out the whole of the release, there really is something for everyone from fun characters with co ordinating cutting dies, spring flower stamps, background stamps, stencils and awesome new layering dies. 

Here are just a few of my makes as I am lucky enough to also wear a DT hat for Visible Image. You can see lot more of my makes over on Instagram here.

Here is Sassy Molly with her co ordinating dies. I have also used the torn fishnet die cut into pieces and it also forms the aperture for this card. 

The awesome layering dies, these ones are Broken mesh and torn fishnet die 

More of the layering dies, Broken mesh and Framed fibres below.

There are new dies for the Wonderland stamps

and background stamps (this one is round in circles )and a cool brick stencil.

I blogged this one below for my CVChallenge post last week, this is a link to my post using the gorgeous new sketched tulips

Do check the whole release out here; there are lots more to see!

All the stamps are here

the stencils and dies are here

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane xx

A lockdown catch up with Visible Image and distress embossing glazes

Hello, it's Jane here with a better late than never catch up with the Visible Image (VI) products Susan has in stock over on the CVC website. With all the chaos happening worldwide over the last few months I did not get round to writing my usual new release post here when the most recent release launched in late February. So I thought I would have a "mix it up" Lockdown VI catch up today. Susan stocks a very wide range of the VI catalogue plus all the "new release". I have put lots of live links in this post. If you would like to buy any mentioned products just click on them. They will take you to the Country View Crafts website. If anything is out of stock, just fill in your email address and Susan will contact you when she gets them back in. Remember that any UK orders over £7.50 are FREE postage too which is win win in my books.

I hope you are all keeping well and staying safe? Most people will be staying at home and you may have even had more time to do your crafting. I hope it is bringing you some healthy distraction and enjoyment.  Some of you though may well be key workers and be busier than ever. Others like my daughter, who is a doctor, may be on the NHS front line. Thank you to you all, whether you are staying at home to keep others safe or out there helping others. We are all in this together and we will come out the other side eventually. 

OK so let's get started with my lockdown Visible Image catch up. Grab a cuppa and take a seat as this is a bit of a long post and there is a step by step of a project I made at the end too.

I thought I would start with a card to hopefully make you smile.  

 I recently made a few rainbow unicorn cards using the Visible Image Believe in unicorns set, Happy birthday sentiment and the strobes stencil. Rainbow projects are everywhere at the moment and they are so cheerful to see. I made birthday cards but with a different sentiments they could be a fitting tribute to send to a friend or family member being such a bright and happy card.
You may also notice that the unicorn looks translucent, well he is and I had my first play with the new Tim Holtz embossing glazes ( but more of those at the end of this post.)

The February Visible Image release included 6 new verse sets which are really useful. The little poem is separate from the sentiment which makes them very versatile to use. At £5.99 they are really good value too.
There are 5 other sentiments to cover all occasions including "With Sympathy",
"Thinking of you"

Thank you (shown with the Life is beautiful humming bird)

 "Happy Anniversary"

 and "Wedding"

There is also a super small "accessorize" set with these lovely accent stamps which I have used in the cars above,

including a tiny version of the gorgeous ever popular creative chaos inky flower. 

The not so new release also has 3 larger A5 sets which include 2 larger versions of existing A5 sets but they are not just a bigger version, they have new accent stamps with them.

2 of my faves are 2020 vision. (This was one I made for the recent "The eyes have it" challenge I hosted over on the Country View Craft challenge blog)

and Total chaos.

 In the 6 new A5 sets my faves include Free your imagination,

and the super cute Robot Data. I have a Design Team project coming up on 1st May on the CVC challenge site using this set but here is another card I made for my grandson's recent 3rd birthday and some matching tags.

Also "Break free"

There are 6 new stencils and one of my favourites is "Breaking glass"which you can see in my Free your imagination sample above and in a simple black and white one below.
I used it here with the awesome Night Owl set

There are lots more to check out, do have a look through the lovely stock that Susan has over on the website here.

So back to the Distress embossing glazes which I mentioned at the beginning of this post. I bought 3 colours a while back and as you saw in my rainbow card I used the Broken china to emboss my unicorn.

I have wanted to have a play using it with stencils so yesterday I did just that and I thought you might like to see my results.
There are 12 colours so far. The colours I have are Broken china, Fired brick and Cracked pistacio.

So first of all I just used embossing ink on a piece of foam and applied it through the VI Count me in stencil.

I rather liked that but then I took it one step further and added some stamping under the VI Fibres stencil. That was also interesting...the stamps are from Dare to swim

So I thought I would go for more texture so I got out my Texture Crackle paste and applied it though the same fibres stencil over some stamped text.

I sprinkled on the powders and being impatient got out my heat gun as I know that the paste will bubble and thought that might be interesting.
Pre heating....

post heating...very bubbly!

Here are all 3.

 I made one more which I decided to leave to dry overnight. 

This was crackle paste through the VI entwined butterflies stencil
In the morning I saw these gorgeous crackles.
Now the observation I will made is that less of the powder stuck to the paste when left to dry.  Once heated this was the result, still rather lovely!

I decided to make the butterfly background into a mini canvas. First I added some yellow distress inks to the background as I found the white too pale. I used stamps from the "wings of change".
I stamped and coloured the butterflies and fussy cut them out.

I also used the sentiment from the Life is beautiful set which I distressed using my tool and vintage photo distress ink.

Here is my finished canvas.

with a couple of close ups

The crackle really looks like a mosaic in real life and the butterflies sparkle vividly.

 I really had a fun day playing with the new glazes and my VI stash and needless to say I have just ordered a few more colours of the powders from Susan.

If you got all the way to the end of this post, thank you.  I think you deserve more that just a cuppa now.

I hope my post may have shone a little sunshine into your day and perhaps given you some creative inspiration too?

Take great care during these very different times we find ourselves in.

Life is indeed beautiful.

Stay safe,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Visible Image new mixed media stamps and stencils

Hi it's Jane here, I am back as promised with my "part 2" showcasing the new Visible Image release. 

I shared a post here  a few weeks back showcasing the fab Wizard of Oz stamps and dies. Today I am going to walk you through the brilliant new mixed media stamps and stencils. There are live links to the Country View Crafts web site throughout this post and if anything is out of stock just add your email address in the box and Susan will email you as soon as she has them back in stock.

There are 6 new stamp sets and 3 stencils.

These are the stencils;

Atomic flower

Entwined butterflies

and Ink swirls

 I will point out the stencils in the projects where they have been used in the backgrounds.  Some of my projects were made for my design team work for Visible Image and others for CVC DT posts.

So here we go with the first stamp set, the very funky

Art rebel

I made an art panel which also used one of the sentiments from the new art inspired sentiment set

The world needs art

 The background is a gelliplate print, these stamps are such fun!

Next up is Random art of kindness

 and See everything 

 I made an art panel and used See everything on the vase. The Atomic flower stencil is in the background.

the flowers are great to layer up and colour.

The Atomic flower stencil also features in the background of my daughter's birthday card and one of the flowers from the Random art of kindness is there together with an old favourite of mine, the hummingbird from Life is beautiful

Next up is

Wings of change

Here are a couple of projects I have made with them

 Below you can see the entwined butterflies stencil in the background

In the sample below you can also see I have used the butterfly flourish and shadow from the Live life now set and another sentiment from The world needs art

and the 6th set..the gorgeous 

Creative chaos

My cards below show 2 colourways of a very similar design where I used book pages to decoupage the flower.

Finally I just want to show how versatile the new stamps and how they work so well with other stamps.

I made the background of this card with a gelli plate using blue acrylic ink and silver paint. I simply stamped the Random art of kindness set into the ink and pulled the print. I embossed the smile, sparkle, shine sentiment and added some die cut stars.

Here is a close up

I also have one more card I made using a gelli print and the wake up awesome sentiment stamp but you'll have to pop over to my own blog here to see what I made...here's a little sneak peek...

Thanks for getting to the end of this post and I really hope that I may have inspired you to add some of this fab new release to your stamping stash.  Whatever your style of crafting these new stamps and stencils are great additions to your stash. There is something for everyone. 

Remember that Country View Crafts offers FREE UK POSTAGE on everything you buy!

You can see the whole Visible Image range that Susan stocks here and if anything is out of stock just add your email in the box and she will contact you as soon as they are back in! 

Now that is win win in my books. 

Enjoy your art....

Bye for now,

 Jane x