Jazz it up birthday card

Today I thought I'd share a birthday card that I made for my brother in law.  As he loves his music I thought this stamp set would be perfect to use.

The Stamps set I used for my card is the Jazz it Up by Visible Image. I heat embossed the main Jazz it Up stamps with black embossing powder and slightly overlapped the saxophonists.

I used glossy accent on the bubble stamp to give it more dimension.

The background was created with Tim Holt distress oxides in abandoned coral and salty ocean.

With a little background stamping with a Crafty Individuals distress diamonds rubber stamp and some frayed burlap distress oxide. 

I stamped the keyboard border and attached it to some foam tape to add more dimension.

I love making backgrounds for cards and find that when I make a men's card I tend to turn to my stamps. I love Visible Image stamps, they are always that bit different and quirky as well as being excellent quality.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

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Monochrome Mens Music Birthday Card

For my men's monochrome music themed birthday card I used the Visible Image Jazz it Up and The Ripple Effect stamp set.

To make this card I used:-

• Visible Image Ripple Effect stamp set
• Visible Image Jazz it Up stamp set
• Sheena Douglass Music & Dance stamp set
• black & white striped vellum
• Hunkydory 250gsm white stamping card
• Crafters Companion matt black card
• Xcut circle dies
• Xcut cog dies
• black embossing powder & versamark ink pad
• black versafine ink and glossy accent

I stamped and heat embossed the trumpet players from the Visible Image Jazz it Up stamp set with black embossing powder.and then I used Sheena Douglass musical notes from her stamp set to stamp a faint background on the card.

This stamp set was free with Issue 52 of the Creative Stamping magazine.

Then I used the keyboard from the Jazz it Up stamp set to stamp the keyboards with black versafine ink. Once the ink was dry I went over the black keys with some glossy accent to give a little texture.

I also created a few vinyl records for the card.

The vinyl records were made with The Visible Image - The Ripple Effect stamp set, which has been heat embossed onto a circle die cut piece of black card with black embossing powder. It has then been finished off with one of the cog dies to make it look like an old 45 inch vinyl record.

It was just a case of planning where I wanted everything to go, combining all the different textures on the card. I used a hole punch to cut out 3 white circles of white card and added some glossy accent to them to make them look like brads.

I added a name to one of my records as this is one of my friend's favourite groups. Being a music lover, I thought he would like a music themed birthday card.  I don't always put a birthday sentiment on the front of my cards even though I always add an insert to them as the card doesn't always need one.

I am entering this into the following blog challenges:-

Mix It Up - ATG
Monochrome Magic - ATG twist of black & white 
We Love2Create - ATG
As you Like It - ATG CAS or Layers? I love adding layers to my cards to add dimension and texture such as heat embossing or glossy accent.
Simon Says - ATG

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Jazz Tags made using Visible Image - Jazz it Up stamps

Made using the Jazz it Up stamp by Visible Image and Tim Holtz distress oxides.

The Tim Holtz distress oxides I used were:-

pickled raspberry

twisted citron

peacock feathers

seedless preserves

Following my post on 11th january 2018, I made this inky background onto my Inkylicious tags using the oxides. The first tag I used for the Inkylicious - "Hope with a Heart Balloon" tag and the second two for this jazz tag project, which is such a rich combination of colours.

The stamps have been heat embossed using black embossing powder onto the oxide tags which have a lovely chalky texture that doesn't transfer onto your hands.

I also added some background stamping using a free stamp set with the Creative Stamping magazine . The generous selection of stamps are from the Sheena Douglass Music & Dance collection. I have used the peacock feathers Tim Holtz oxide ink to do this. The close up shows all the texture from the embossing.

These Visible Image stamps have so much detail to them and I am loving thise vibrant oxides that combine so well with the embossed stamps.

These are all three of the tags. Although each tag is different the background were made at the same time with the same colour inks.

I have just layered the tags onto another tag (as they are a little inky on the back)  and added ribbon to finish them off.

Visible Image.co.uk

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ATC Cards - Be the Hope/Light/Missing Piece

ATC cards  - Artist Trading Cards.  A set of 3.

 Be the Hope in their heart

Be the light that shines bright

Be the missing piece of the puzzle

Made using the Banksy themed - Hope with a Heart Balloon by Inkylicious.and bubble stamps of the Jazz it Up stamp set by Visible Image. The little girl has been heat embossed with black embossing powder along with the balloon.

https://www.inkylicious.co.uk/ 

 Made using the Shine Bright Visible Image stamp set which has been heat embossed with black embossing powder.I then back the card onto black cardstock to coordinate.

https://visibleimage.co.uk/

I used a piece of Atlas backed onto black cardstock and then die cut it with a puzzle die.

ATCs are normally 2.5" x 3.5" but as I was going to layer this card onto more card I made it smaller.

I left the middle piece of the puzzle out and filled in space with some come Ranger glossy accent. When dry it leaves a glossy clear overlay.

I then backed this card onto a slightly larger piece of white card but was looking for something to add to the backing card. In my stash of various things you hope to find a use for one day I found some peel off stickers in the perfect colour that had a grid on the sheet.

I added my sentiments for these cards to finish them off. and attached them with a little Pinflair glue gel.My ATCs are now ready to go up onto the craft group page ready to swap.  Artist trading cards are original pieces of art made by other crafters and artists to trade and not sell. 

Happy Crafting