Crafty As L

It’s new release time over at Visible Image!   Tomorrow’s Memories is the amazing new release designed by Mark Alexander and it’s not just stamps and stencils this time.   Oh no!   There’s a gorgeous paper pad, tags and some cool continuous PET tape too.   The full collection can be found here . Today’s make is a Z-fold card and is one of the samples you might have seen during Mark’s Live on You Tube.  I started by stamping and silver heat-embossing the butterfly in Counting Moments  three times on one of the pink/purple paper pad sheets .   They were fussy cut and I neatened the cut edges with a silver Sharpie pen. After silver heat-embossing the butterfly clock on Arden’s Pitch Black card, this was fussy-cut and one of the butterflies from above was glued on. Next, I cut the card blank, 12” x 4”, from a 12” x 12” sheet of Arden Pitch Black linen effect card, scored it along the long side at 3” and 6” and folded it into a Z-shape.   ...

First of all, I have good news - our missing cat from last week’s post has been found!   She was in a neighbour’s shed all along, despite them checking.   We believe she was afraid of their dog and wouldn’t come out.   I wish I’d gone around and checked myself, she might have come to me.   Anyway, she was checked out by the vet and, despite losing a third of her body weight, she is absolutely fine.   Having not eaten for 3 weeks, we’re having to feed her a small amount, slowly increasing her food allowance over a week so that she doesn’t have complications from refeeding syndrome.   She’s not very impressed with her meagre rations though! It was my brother-in-law’s birthday earlier this week and, having watched Visible Image’s Live earlier in the week, I grabbed the same sets Mark used, Grunge Birthday Words and Blow Out The Candles.   I also got out some other favourites, Stamper’s Anonymous Snarky Cats and Snarky Cats Halloween.   I white heat...

  Our Visible Image DT theme this week is “Gratitude & Reflection” and it’s been a tough one for me to do.   Our little girly cat went missing almost 3 weeks ago and despite all our efforts, there has been no news.     She was a real home body so this behaviour is most out of character.   My husband and I are very worried and it’s been a distressing time.   So, my inspiration for my art journal page was to try and get myself into a more positive mindset with a calm, misty mountain scene. A muted colour scheme seemed appropriate so I selected Distress Inks in Stormy Sky and Weathered Wood and blended them onto the sky area before spritzing with Lost Shadow Distress Spray Stain and Iced Spruce Distress Oxide Spray. Using a torn paper mask and the smallest fir tree from Christmas Eve , I spritzed the page with water and then stamped the trees in Bundled Sage and Iced Spruce Distress Inks, using second generation stamping for some more distant trees. ...

My project this week was the card and ATC I made for this month’s Visible Image ATC swap.   Our theme this month was “Say it with words”.   I've found it hard to be creative as our little girly cat disappeared almost 3 weeks ago and, despite all our efforts, there has been no news and Mr L and I are feeling very sad.   Looking through my VI stash, the sentiment in Glimmer of Light   spoke to me so that’s where I started. On an inky mop-up piece of card, I trimmed it make my ATC and card front and started by stamping and clear heat-embossing the moth, sentiment and light bulb. Next, I used the Strobes stencil, with the central blob masking the light bulb, and blended Black Soot Distress ink, fading to the outer edges.   I also blended ink around the edges too. I repeated these steps on the card front too, adding a large light bulb from Shining Bright .   To make the light bulb glow, I added some gold metallic watercolour paint, flicking it out alo...