Elisa Ablett Designs

Friday, 27 April 2018

Visible Image and My Sweet Petunia Blog Hop

Hi friends, welcome to my blog!

Today the team from Visible Image is teaming up with My Sweet Petunia for a fantastic blog hop

In case you are not familiar with Visible Image which is a UK based company shipping internationally -

The company is a family based business with Mark as Creative Director and Helen the Sales and Marketing Director.

"Visible Image have been designing exciting and very different stamps since 2012, and now we design stencils too! Our striking images, brilliant background elements and inspiring quotes are loved by card makers and mixed media artists all over the world. The really deep etching on our clear photopolymer stamps means you’ll always get perfectly stamped images, and our stencils are gorgeously thick for creating divine texture! We are so proud of the quality of our products, which are all made in the UK. We are so passionate about what we do, and we have an amazing team who love creating incredible samples to inspire you. We know you will love creating with our awesome designs!"

They can be found here:

Store - https://visibleimage.co.uk/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/visibleimage/

Facebook Shares Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/visibleimage/

Blog - https://visibleimage.co.uk/blog/

You can read more about the Original Misti here

https://www.mysweetpetunia.com/MISTI-p/original-misti.htm

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I’m excited to share with you what I created, so let’s have a closer look!

After you’re done here be sure to hop on over to the other blogs and comment along the way for a chance to win the Giveaway!

My first card 'Be your own kind of Beautiful' features a repeating stamping technique using the precise stamping of the Misti Original, stamping on Acetate plus the following products from Visible Image:

Be your own kind of Beautiful

Cosmic Skies Stencil

The Misti features these awesome Magnets to hold your paper steady.

Cosmic Skies Stencil

I used this stencil plus a blending tool to create a shower of colour behind my card.

My second card 'Live in the Moment' features a collage stamping technique using the Misti Original and features the following Visible Image products.

Live in the Moment
Visometry Background Stamp
Fibres Stencil

Use your Misti to precisely line up and centre your stamps. Use glitter waterbrush markers to colour in part of your stamped image as a great feature!

Blog Hop Order -

Veerle Moreels

Ilina Crouse

Lisa Taggart

Jeanne Streiff

Sharon Traynor

Kia Gibson-Clapper

Becca Cruger

Ceal Pritchett

Pauline Butcher

Giovana Smith

Josefine Fouarge

Chris Dayton

Jane Tyrrell

Stephanie Severin

Tenia Nelson

Janine Tinklenberg

Elisa Ablett - YOU ARE HERE 💓💓💓

Dina Kowal

Heather Mitchell

Kyra Sanders

Lynn Good

Susan Wymer

Lanette Erickson

Joan Bardee

Aga Baraniak

Judy Rozema

Eileen Godwin

My Sweet Petunia

Two very lucky participants from the hop will be chosen to win one of two prizes: a $50 shopping spree at www.mysweetpetunia.com and a $50 shopping spree at visibleimage.co.uk - To be eligible to enter you must leave your comments on each blog no later than Monday, April 30th, at 11:59 PM Central time (about 3pm Sydney Australia EST) and winners will be announced on Tuesday May 1st, on the Visible Image and My Sweet Petunia blogs.

Thank you for following along. Please leave a comment below for a chance to win the giveaway prize!

Hugs xx

Elisa

First 2Crafty Chipboard Design Team Post

MY FIRST 2CRAFTY POST!!!!

"Adore You"

Hi there 2Crafty friends !

Elisa here from the design team with my first post and inspiration as part of this fabulous team.

Here is a list of the 2Crafty products used -

Morrocan Bits

Sharon's Butterflies

Adore You Title

Film Strip medium

For the title - Adore You, I heat embossed it with Colour Blast Black Charcoal Embossing Powder

To add some texture to my background, I added the Morrocan Bits, heat embossed with Colour Blast Royalty Embossing Powder. I also added a couple of pieces to the top left and bottom right clusters of my layout.

Another great technique to cover chipboard is to ink your pieces with an inkpad and sponge dauber.

I love a chipboard film strip piece to add a vertical line to your layout. I heat embossed the film strip with Colour Blast Black Charcoal Embossing Powder. I find the Ranger embossing liquid dabber excellent in covering large pieces of chipboard.

To create my background, I stamped with a Prima Marketing Inc flower stamp and handpainted with water colour paints and a fine round paintbrush.

I also stencilled with black modelling paste through a new Aga Baraniak stencil.

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My second layout for this month is titled

'' Shine ''

Here is the list of 2Crafty products used -

Chevrons

Fine Words 2

Star Frames

Stars

I painted a few of the stars and chevrons with a lovely buttercream coloured paint from Ceramcoat. I also inked a few of the stars with black ink.

Once I inked a few of the stars and star frames with black ink, I used a quick and cheap foiling technique that I discovered using a bostik glue stick, foil sheets and a large stiff paintbrush. It creates a lovely distressed look to your foiling.

I painted the title chipboard piece very carefully as its quite fine, while it was drying and pliable, I molded it around the large star frame.

I created the large background circle with my 8 inch circle gel plate and combination of a navy and buttercream paint. I also added some black ink around the edges of the circle and some stencilling.

I have a favourite technique at the moment which is adding scribbly writing around my frames.

I hope you have enjoyed looking through my first post, I know I feel incredibly honoured to be offered a position on this team full of so many talented people working with amazing products.

Make sure you leave me some love xx

Hugs

Elisa

Wednesday, 25 April 2018

Soul Starter 12 by Elisa Ablett

Hi everyone,

I have added a new video to my shiny new Youtube Channel.

Here is the link - https://youtu.be/Rhl1FPdqzu0

Make sure you head on over to subscribe and have a look !

Wednesday, 18 April 2018

'Create your own Calm' by Elisa Ablett

Hi Visible Image lovers,

My turn up on the blog today with my latest layout showcasing a number of new stamp sets and stencil from https://visibleimage.co.uk/.

One of my favourite design techniques is to use frames on my layouts, squares, circles, flowers ...well you get the picture.

For this layout I used a square to contain my background, which features stamping using colourful inks. The Visible Image stamp set - Organics was perfect for this technique.

I also love using stamping on acetate as a technique, using Staz On ink, you can stamp and fussy cut images to go with your themed background. In my layout, i used the Create and Calm seahorse on acetate to add a feature stamping piece to my layout.

Its perfect to use on layouts as you get to see your background through your embellishment.

Here are some close ups of my stamping using the Visible Image products -

Here are some of the products used -

https://visibleimage.co.uk/product/fibres/

https://visibleimage.co.uk/product/create-your-calm/

https://visibleimage.co.uk/product/organics/

https://visibleimage.co.uk/product/dare-to-swim/

That's it from me today, make sure you leave me some love xx

Hugs xx

Elisa

Tuesday, 17 April 2018

#youmyloveareawesome by Elisa Ablett

Hi everyone,

Elisa here from the design team for Scrap Matrix with my latest layout based on the current April Challenge - a double moodboard (Monochromatic and pick a line from the Tic Tac Toe Board).

I chose to do a mixed media layout using shades of Turquoise AND stamps, a large title and German Scrap from the Scrap Matrix Store. Now if you know me I LOVE turquoise, teal and blue on my layouts, there are a lot of different mediums in the store - Sprays, inks, crayons etc. I used a combination of two 13 arts products including Ayeeda Water Ink and Turquoise Chalk spray

Here is the challenge link in the group, head on over to have a look and please place your entries, we love seeing your work!

Scrap Matrix Shares Group - Tic Tac Toe Challenge

Here is my layout -

As you can see the title is huge! it is fussy cut from the Pink Fresh Boys Fort paper (bold) collection and high lighted by a white gel pen. I also fussy cut some of the triangles from the Boys Fort (thumbs up) paper.