Crafty As L

Hello everyone! I'm very excited to share with you that I'm now part of the Visible Image Design Team so welcome to my first make for Visible Image.   I’m delighted to be part of their lovely team and I’m looking forward to sharing my makes with you.   The Bee Happy stamp set was my first Visible Image purchase and that large bee is fabulous.   Once the matching dies were released, I snapped those up too!    I love a fun-fold and today I’m making a Z-fold card but you can easily use this design to make a standard card instead. If you'd like to watch a quickie video on how I made this card, pop on over to my YouTube Channel  here . To begin, I made the inked panel that would be used for the hexagons, so that the ink had time to dry before heat-embossing at a later stage.   Using Distress Oxides in Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron and Peacock Feathers, I blended the inks in a random fashion all over the card.   To mute the co...

  Mr L and I recently returned from a fabulous holiday to Bangkok where I purchased this beautiful scarf.  I had walked past it twice, admiring it from a distance, but on the third time I could resist no longer and bought it - because I loved it and you can never have too many scarves! Something about the scarf made me wonder if I could recreate the colours and effects on the scarf for a card and the only way I could think to achieve this was to use the emboss-resist technique and some ink blending. I began by doing some simple emboss-resist by repeat stamping images on white card using Versamark ink and then applying clear embossing powder. Once heat set, I blended pastel inks over the card.  The embossing powder ‘resists’ the ink so the card gets coloured and the images stay white although sometimes a quick wipe with a tissue is needed to clean off any ink from the embossed images. Round one was a success so I decided to try for the recreation of the scarf. ...