Snowflakes and Stars by Lynn Robinson-Hunter

Hi! I'm Lynn, some of you may know me as 'InkyArtitude' - my blogs name, which evolved from my love of Inks and Art of all descriptions. I have always loved art and crafting and after school I attended Hartlepool College of Art & Design until an exciting opportunity took me off in a completely different direction.

I've never lost my love for the arts and whilst in the USA in the early eighties, I found and bought my first rubber stamp and that was it... I was hooked!

I am one of the luckiest individuals to walk the face of this earth. Why? Because, not only am I grateful to be a member of the amazing Elusive Images Design Team but I'm also privileged to work for Elusive Images as their Sales and Marketing Manager. I get to work with fabulously talented people every day, to meet and chat to wonderful individuals in the trade who choose to come to Elusive Images to purchase stock for their stores and websites and I get to work with and demonstrate THE most incredible products (sometimes on TV to boot) and they call this Work!

OK, enough of me. Let me show you what I've been playing with today.

Snowflakes and Stars:

Ingredients:
Pale Pink Pearlescent Card folded to A5 size
Fuchsia Satin Mirri Card
White Tag
Elusive Images Christmas Themeplate - Lace Tree, Star and Snowflake images.
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist - Pink Taffy
Tattered Angels Glimmer Screens
White Embossing Powder = EP
Selection of dye based inks and a pigment ink pad
Length of Organza Ribbon and a brad.

Method:

1. I started by sponging some pink dye ink around the edges of the folded card and randomly stamped the star all over the card using the same colour dye ink.

2. Dry the card with a heat gun. Stamp the snowflake randomly around the four sides of the card with pigment ink. There's no need to go into the middle, it will be covered by the tag. Then emboss with white EP.

3. Now it's time to work on the tag. Using Pink Taffy Glimmer Mist spray, spritz the whole surface of the tag - lightly. Dry the tag and apply a second misting. Dry thoroughly.

4. Place a Glimmer Screen on the tag and sponge some pink dye ink over the screen. Change to a smaller screen and position at the top right of the tag. Sponge a darker pink dye ink over this screen. Dry well.

5. Using the snowflake stamp again and pigment ink, stamp twice on the tag and emboss with white EP.


6. Add some small adhesive pearls to the swirly branches of the tree and a brad to cover the hole in the tag.

7. Layer the tag to a piece of Fuchsia Mirri card pre-cut to size. Attach the mounted tag to the front of the card.

8. Finish with a length of matching organza ribbon tied in a bow along the crease of the card.

I am not normally a 'Pink' person but when I picked up that bottle of Pink Taffy I just knew it had to be pink. Yummy!

And a final word - if I had to choose my favourite Elusive Images product I think it would have to be the stamps. I am a stickler for detail, quality, cutting edge design and value for money and these stamps hit the mark every time. With just one themeplate, some plain card and a selection of inks you can create your own backgrounds, the focal image of the card and if you've chosen wisely, the sentiment too.

Happy Stamping!

Helen - In the Pink

Hi! I'm Helen, (aka A Splash of Colour), and I'm lucky enough to be on the Elusive Images Design Team, so get to play with all the new stamps and lots of other lovely products as well. I also design some of the stamps and write regular articles for Craft Stamper.
As my blog name suggests, I love colour, and experimenting with different ways of applying it to my project. Glimmer Mists and Stampbord are two of my favourite products apart from the stamps, and I've spent many hours happily creating works of art with these. As I'm also a great fan of patterned paper, having the Artylicious CDs means I've got an ever ready supply to choose from!

I've been lucky enough to have the new Elusive Images Christmas stamp plates to work with and this is one of the cards that I made::It was inspired by a scrap of Artylicious paper and some of the pink/red Glimmer Mists.

Step by step:
1.Spray some white card with the Moulin Rouge Glimmer Mists. Overstamp the berry sprig in a deep red dye inkpad.Cut out a tag and a square.

2.Stamp the Silent Night script in black onto the tag. Cover the lower left corner of the tag with some Artilicioous paper and stamp the large star and emboss in gold. Add a large gold brad and some ribbon behind. Mount the whole tag onto gold paper:3.Stamp the word 'Joy' in black down the left hand side of the square background and colour the letters with pink and red pencils: 4.Add a strip of the Artilicious paper down the right hand side, put gold paper corners under the background and layer onto red and then pink card.

Materials used:
Elusive Images stamp plates
Artylicious Paper - Filigree Fusion
Glimmer Mists - Pink Bubblegum, Oriental Poppy, Black Cherry, Cranberry Zing

Enjoy!

Helen

New Christmas Stamps

I think this is my favourite card of this batch, very simple black white and silver. The background paper is from the Christmas CD but instead of printing out in colour I used grey scale which was very effective. I went over the holly image with crystal glitter. The very elegant tree was stamped and embossed in silver onto a background made with the silver glimmer mist. I then added a tiny amount of glitter to the tree.


I loved this tree design and thought that it was best kept simple. The background was made using a gold glimmer mist spray but I painted this on rather than sprayed.


The trees were stamped in gold pigment ink and brushed over with a mica powder to set and give more shimmer.

The background on this card used glimmer mists in gold and bronze shades and then stamped over with a gold ink.

The front image was stamped and embossed in gold and then painted and cut out. I used a piece of embossed text card which I rubbed over lightly with a gold ink pad.

The background for this card was made using two shades of blue glimmer mist. I then used three different sizes of snowflake stamps to stamp the background, these were then embossed with glitter embossing powder. ( I found it easier to do this in stages as the ink may dry if you try to do the whole background in one go).

I attached a piece of fabric silver net using some ribbon to cover the adhesive. The large snowflake was stamped twice onto acetate and embossed with glitter powder, heat proof acetate is necessary for this technique. I then cut out the 2 images and glued together at the same time adding a piece of thread for hanging.

The text was stamped onto another piece of card painted with the glimmer mist but a slightly deeper shade.

This image was stamped on to acetate and then glittered on the same side. The image was then reversed when mounted on to a gold mirri card. The text was stamped with a gold ink. This card was made from 2 A4 cards joined together and then trimmed to make a large tall card as the image is quite large.

Hope you enjoy

Sandra

Elusive Images provide the inspiration.

Hi, I'm Sandra and very honoured to be chosen as one of the E.I. design team. I have been crafting for as long as I can remember and craft is my major hobby. ( My husband and I have our own business which is not craft related). Any spare time that I have will find me in my craft room. I have been card making for just over ten years now and am absolutely addicted!

The products I receive from E.I. provide me with a lot of inspiration, It is so exciting to receive a new package with brand new designs to work with. I have recently become obsessed with the glimmer spray inks, there are some beautiful colours to play with, I can quite easily spend an evening just playing and making background papers.

I hope you enjoy viewing my work.

Sandra

Hello and Welcome to our World

Hi, I'm Lesley (nicknamed the Paper Engineer because I try to come up with new and interesting ways to construct with it!). I have been crafting for nearly fifty years - oh my goodness, that's probably longer than many of you have been on this earth! Still I have never looked upon age as a barrier to anything - well unless I want to join 18 to 30 that is!!. Anyway I have a passion for stamping, spraying, inking, paper, almost anything really that feeds my crafting alter-ego. Most of all I enjoy sharing this with others.

I can only echo my fellow design members in that it is a true privilege to be part of this wonderful, and inspirational, creative team. Our world is filled with fabulous stamps, cd papers, glimmer mists and inks. When the envelopes drop through the postbox, it's like Christmas all the time. A new batch of stamps will have arrived and the excitement to get into the envelope to see what wonders are inside is hard to describe. My favourite products from Elusive Images...? Well it just has to be the stamps. Everything from the designs to the quality of the product ensure that you can create your own piece of unique artwork.

Here are a few just a few pics to whet your appetite for the new range soon to be launched.

This is glimmer mist spray onto bazill card stock and stamped and embossed in gold.

The tag was sprayed with glimmer mists and the background of the card has been stamped and embossed using holographic powder.

Another glimmered tag, stamped with Olive Green Versafine and the large tree has been embossed with Gold Detail powder.

Glimmered tag (again!) This time the bauble was painted with Adirondak inks then, once dry, painted over with Sakura Clear Stardust. The brad was dipped into PVA glue, then crystaline glitter and left to dry.

A touch of black and white. This is one of the tree stamps embossed with detail black and stardust powders.

I hope that when you step into our world you will be inspired as much as we are.

Lesley

Meet the birds by Glenda

No, I'm not referring to the awesome girls behind this Design Team, I'm talking about our recently launched bird stamps. Birds are such a huge trend right now and we have put our own twist on the theme.

From left to right, Wise Owl, Let Your Heart Sing and Dawn Chorus

They are just lovely to work with, I found myself reaching straight for the Stampbord!

They're great on ATCs - the ones in the photo above are Stampbord, and here's a pair of wise owls, a very simple monochrome one and a more colourful variation on the theme.

All the best,

Elusive Images...Simply The Best! by Annette Lee

What a privilege it is to be able to spend time doing what you really love.... I love stamping and have done so for over twenty years....I love creating... and even after all this time I still love to watch that gold embossing powder totally transform before your eyes....and I have to say I love Elusive Images Stamps and I believe they provide craft retailers with some of the most irresistible stamp images and products on the UK craft market and I consider it an honour to be part of their design team, working alongside some amazing people.

The background for this card actually came from the Peacock Summer Party CD, which highlights the versatility of the CD. The focal image is coloured with chalk inks using the direct to paper technique and then overstamped with the Madonna image, inked with Stazon. The image was then cut out, inked with versamark and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

Please do leave a comment and let us know you've passed by our blog.

TFL

Annette

Christmas stamps

Elusive Images Christmas stamps - what a treat to create samples with! This angel was painted with glimmer mists onto vellum and then mounted onto glimmer misted card.

The star was created with 6 small Christmas trees embossed, cut out and assembled to make a star with the central and backing stars added.

My lilac angel is glittered all over but of course the scan doesn't really do it justice!

This is on a 3 fold triangular card which has different coloured trees on each section.

My white and silver sparkle embossing powder was used on this dark blue cardstock and the same stamp and greeting in blue added to tags from the Season's Greetings CD

I think this is my favourite from this batch of samples and so simple to makewhich is essential when we are busy running around at Christmas. I stamped Madonna using black Stazon onto the backing paper, used a gel pen for faux stitches round the edge and heat embossed the greeting. A few faux gems completed the topper and was then mounted onto lilac card stock.

I have a friend who loves to send small Christmas cards so this one fits her bill! Stamped with cranberry detail powder onto backing paper, this is another easy card that looks so effective.

Last but not least is my green tree, embossed with green sparkle powder, offset over Christmas tree ribbon and mounted onto green holographic card.

I hope you've enjoyed looking at these samples and reading how they were made.

Cheers Rosie

EZ Mount

How many stamps can you fit onto one sheet of EZ Mount? My record is 31. I cut out the rubber stamps first and then work out the most economical positions as use crafters don't like to waste anything, do we?

Cheers Rosie

Autumn Leaves by Sandra

This is a piece of stampboard with an autumn theme in mind. For details on how I did this please take a look at my blog.

Sant.

Dragonfly by Rose

Hi I'm Rose and I've been designing cards for Glenda since the very early days back in 2003.

This was created using the dragonfly from the Flora and Fauna themeplate and the central square is from the Texture Blocks plate.

Rose

Welcome from Glenda

The purpose of this blog is to be a showcase for Elusive Images rubber stamps and other products distributed by Elusive Images. We are the UK distributor for Stampbord and Glimmer Mists as well as the exclusive distributor for my own range of Artylicious CDs.

I hope you will find this blog inspiring and informative. We have an amazing design team who have a wealth of talent and imagination and I hope they give you the inspiration you need to get the most out of our products.

All the best