Hello there. Finally I can start sharing a card made with some of the new release stamps by Visible Image. They will be available to buy from tomorrow at the Visible Image online shop. It's taken me a long time to make a card because my stamps were held up in customs for over 2 weeks. 😒🙅 Really frustrating! But there was nothing I could do except twiddle my thumbs and wait patiently.
This 'Nothing To Wear' stamp set comes with amazing little stamps to add to the T-shirt, but I wanted to show that you don't need to be confined to just using those, because many of the sentiments work well too.
PLEASE DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SETS (as we used to say in the days of old TVs). You may think this funky sentiment font comes textured like this, but you'd be wrong. I wanted to add that textural interest so I stamped on a piece of textured card (hessian, I think). It's fun to do that sometimes to change up the look of the stamps.
So, its a quickie make with some stenciling, stamping and heat embossing.
Use the Drizzle stencil on a piece of spare card and add a rainbow of colours. I found that I already had enough ink left on my blending brushes, but if you need to start with clean brushes I'd advise you to be very gentle with the blending.
Next stamp and heat emboss the t-shirt and the sentiment. As the card was textured, I stamped the t-shirt 2 times in black ink (using my stamp positioner) and then over-stamped again with clear ink before heat embossing. Cut the t-shirt out and set it to one side.
Take your card blank (or a mat the size of your card blank if you don't want to work directly onto the finished article), and blend through the stencil all around the edges. You will need to move the stencil around so make sure you clean it between each move to stop any contamination of the ink.
Use the Distress Oxide ink to stamp the word 'Smile' around the edges too.
A few final steps. Doodle a 'dot and dash' border around the background. Add some colour to the hem, cuffs and neckline of the t-shirt. Cut a white mat and back it with a thin layer of black card, and stamp & heat emboss the word 'Smile' onto it.
Assemble the card by attaching the white mat to the background with fun foam, and then add the t-shirt onto the white mat, again with fun foam.
I think this t-shirt is going to come in really handy for all sorts of occasions. All you need to do is change the image, pattern, colors or the sentiment that you add to it. Perfect!
Stamps and Stencil Used:
(please click on the picture to be taken direct to the stamp set in the online store):
Other Supplies:
Distress Inks (at a guess my brushes contained picked raspberry, carved pumpkin, mustard seed, cracked pistachio, salty ocean), blending brushes, Distress Oxide (antique linen), Versafine Onyx Black ink, Versamark clear ink, WOW! clear embossing powder, black micron pen, pink marker pen, fun foam, textured white card, black card.
Visible Image social media and other links (just click on the words in capital letters):
SHOP where the fantastic stamps are sold
BLOG with all the latest news and posts
FACEBOOK PAGE with info, inspiration and giveaways
FACEBOOK GROUP come share your work with us
INSTAGRAMPINterestTWITTERThat's it from me for now. Thanks for stopping by and I really hope to see you again soon.
Hugs,
Sharon xx
