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Try-mendous!

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It’s my turn on the Visible Image blog this week and I’m sharing a couple of cards I made for a friend and my Dad.   They both enjoy the 6-Nations rugby so the Try-mendous Day stamps and coordinating dies was a perfect choice for their cards.   I was inspired by a page I made in my art journal for a Facebook challenge with the theme “Ireland”, which I made back in March when Ireland had just won the 2024 6-Nations Championship. My Dad is English so I used sticky notes to mask the Grungy Union Jack stencil to create the St. George’s cross and blended Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink through.   I concentrated the ink in the central area and faded out as I didn’t want square edges. I blended Mowed Lawn and Salty Ocean for the sky and the grass. My friend is also English but now lives in Scotland so for the St. Andrew’s cross, I used masking tape for the cross.   It was too perfect though so I used the dots from the Union Jack stencil to add a little grunge. Next, I used the
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A Bunch of Roses

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This week’s post stars some Altenew goodies that I bought a while ago but hadn’t got around to playing with.   I’ve got the die version, called Rolled Roses, but I really liked the look of these Charles Rennie-Mackintosh style roses and I loved the fact that they also came with stencils for easy colouring and coordinating dies. As I planned on batch making a few of these cards, I set up the stamps in my Misti and stamped each image twice, rotating 180˚.   The stencils come with both the positives and negatives so I used these as masks when stamping the overlapping roses. I stamped and clear heat-embossed 6 panels plus some of the smaller roses that I could die-cut later. The stencils made the colouring super-easy! After stamping the sentiment, I used the Wavy Grid stencil and a very light blending of black ink to lightly stencil the pattern.   The tiny roses were die-cut and fixed in place with foam tape. To add a more organic feel to the panels, I put them into my spray bo
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Location: Fareham, UK
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Paper Quilting

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Have you ever done any quilting?   My earliest memory was doing what I now know is English Paper Piecing when I was a child, using paper hexagons, folding and tacking fabric over them and then hand stitching them together to make a cushion cover.   Over the past few years, I’ve made a few quilts as gifts using half-square triangles (HST) to create the pattern and there are lots of patterns to chose from.   Here is one of the pinwheel quilts I made. I have quite a collection of patterned paper, that I tend not to use very often, and it occurred to me that I could make quilt cards with it.   For the first couple of cards, I cut 1½” squares of paper and white card and then cut the paper in half diagonally to make HST. Each triangle was glued to a square and then the squares glued onto a piece of paper.   I used an invoice from my paper scrap bin as it wouldn’t be visible, it is purely a carrier. The next stage is to dry emboss the panel to give it the look of quilting.   I used the
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Location: Fareham, UK
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