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Art Journal Page by Jenn Engle "Abstract Trash Paintings"

Hey everyone! I have an art journal page to share with you today. I have used some dried paint that would normally get thrown away as a way to spruce up the Banksy Mirror Admirer stamp. If you want to see the entire process, you can check out the video at the bottom of this post.

Stamps Used:

Banksy Mirror Admirer

Stamps Used:

Banksy Mirror Admirer

Other Supplies Used:

Golden Fluid Acrylic in Teal

Dina Wakley Acrylic in Lapis

Dina Wakley Stencil in Spill

Dina Wakley Media Washi Tape

India Ink

Liquitex Gesso

Ranger Texture Paste

Tim Holtz Stencil in Speckles

Thanks so much for Looking!
~jenn

Sundae FUN day!!

So, we went from spring to summer like a race car goes from 0 to 60...in seconds.  I love seeing some sunshine!!!

Michele here today with a fun card for any summer occasion.  And who doesn't love some ice cream?!

Stamps used:  Cherry Sundae, Oh What a Day

The background is Distress Oxide Sprays, cracked pistachio and vintage photo.  The sundae is colored with Prima Colored Pencils and Gamsol to blend.

A little washi tape so the sundae doesn't look like it is floating and viola!

Enjoy your summer!  Until next time...get inky!

Famous

Hello everyone,

For today's VivaLasVegaStamps! post I have made something different. I still haven't a lot of inspiration and what I tend to do when that happens, is trying different things. These things aren't always successful ! lol

So, this really, really simple card was made by stamping the dandelion seed repeatedly over the postcard. I then added black splatters. 

Next I stamped Marilyn, coloured her with Copics, cut her out and adhered her on the card. I then stamped the sentiment, matted it on black card stock and adhered that with dimensional adhesive. Lastly I matted the card on black card stock as well. 

I used three stamps for this card:

20368 - Broke and famous

20395 - Banksy Marilyn Monroe

19959 - Dandelion seed

 Other materials:

Copic Markers

VersaFine Clair Nocturne

Memento

white and black card stock

black India ink

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

Art Journal Page "Original" by Jenn Engle

Hey everyone! I have an art journal page to share with you today. Girls Face by Cat Kerr is the star of this page! If you want to see exactly how I made it, check out the process video at the bottom of this post. 

 

Stamps Used:

Postcard - ATC Size

Butterfly Specimens

Girls Face by Cat Kerr

Stamps Used:

Postcard - ATC Size

Butterfly Specimens

Girls Face by Cat Kerr

Other Products Used:

Lindy's Stamp Gang Sprays

Golden Fluid Acrylics

Liquitex Acrylic Ink

Liquitex Gesso

UmWowStudio Chipboard

Star Brads

Thanks for looking!

~jenn

Happy Days | Sue Plumb

Hi everyone!

It's Sue Plumb here to share my latest design team project with you. Today I have a mixed media scrapbook layout I created using a variety of Viva Las VegaStamps floral stamps. This page was created to document a photo from dress up night at my scrapbook retreat last year, which had the theme "Trouble in Paradise".

For my layout I began with a sheet of Bazzill Marshmallow cardstock and Ranger 'Mermaid Lagoon' Distress Oxide to create a simple watercolour style background. I swiped the ink pad onto my messy mat, added a couple of spritzes of water, then laid the cardstock over the top to soak up the colour and set it aside to dry.

With my background drying, I then set about creating the embellishments for my page. I gathered a variety of floral stamps that I thought would work well for my tropical themed page - Hibiscus Flower; Fancy Flowers; Beautiful Lily; Lilies; and finally Hawaiian Ginger for those fabulous tropical style leaves. I stamped them out onto some smooth white cardstock.

I then used my Faber-Castell watercolour pencils to colour each of the images, sticking with shades I thought would work well with my photo and give my page that "tropical vibe". I then used a water brush to blend the pencil lines, before cutting each of them out.

To construct my page, I started with the photo, adding some scrap cardboard underneath it to pop it up from the page. I then added a Cocoa Vanilla Studio floral cut file that I had cut from some white cardstock along the bottom edge of the photo.

I then arranged my stamped floral images across the page, following along the line created by the cut file. I tucked some underneath, and added others over the top using foam tape, to give the page extra dimension.

To finish off my page I stamped the Seek Paradise sentiment several times using black ink, and used some die cut words from Cocoa Vanilla Studio for my page title. I also added my handwritten journalling with a felt pen.

Thanks for stopping by so I could share this with you. I hope I have inspired you to get inky too!

Stamps used: 

- Hibiscus Flower

- Fancy Flowers

- Beautiful Lily

- Lilies

- Hawaiian Ginger

- Seek Paradise

Other materials:

- Miracle Tape

- Bazzill cardstock

- Tsukineko StazOn black ink

- Ranger 'Mermaid Lagoon' Distress Oxide

- Faber-Castell watercolour pencils

- Cocoa Vanilla Studio 'Colour Me Happy' cut file

- Cocoa Vanilla Studio die cut title words

- foam mounting tape

- felt pen

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Summer Stories

Who is ready for summer to FINALLY be here?!!!  ME!
Michele here with a tag inspired by my LONGING for summer weather.

Stamp used:  Lady Holding Hat

My background was a gelli print with Dina Wakley paints...I have been hord...I mean saving it for quite some time and this was the perfect time to finally cut it up.

Washi tape makes the perfect 'beach towel'!

The lady is colored with Prisma Color Pencils.

Come on SUMMER!  I need to work on my tan...

Until next time...get inky!!

Make art, not war - AJ page by Corrie

Hello everyone,

welcome to the VLVS! blog where today I have an art journal page to share.

I don't think this is my best work, I am just not very inspired at the moment but these things happen and usually they pass ! Anyway here's how I did it :

First I painted the pages roughly with pink, yellow and orange acrylic paints by Amsterdam.

I then knocked it back by brayering white paint over the top. 

I then stencilled over the top with the same three colours of paint. 

Again knocking it back with white. 

I then added some stamping...

...some more stencilling with white paint, doodling and splatters with Posca paint pens also in yellow, pink, orange and white. 

I stamped the man on book pages and cut him out, the sentiment was also stamped on book paper but on the unprinted edge. I adhered everything to the page and added some washi tape here and there. As an afterthought I added some more black stamping with the 'x's'. 

I have used the following stamps :

20419 - Vintage African American gentleman

20342 - Library return dates

20166 - Scribble Circle

20162 - Carved X's

20165 - Cross Marks background

19973 - Banksy make art not war

Other materials;

Amsterdam paints :

Azo Orange - Nickel Titan Yellow - Quinacridone Rose - Titanium White

Posca Paint pens:

Orange, yellow, pink and white

Bookpaper

Washitape

Black fineliner

Stencil

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

Mail Art Monday

Hello Crafty Friends!

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!
Happy Mail Art Monday!

Today I want to share a super fun postcard I created for a friend.

I wanted something fun and bright, so I went with an Alice in Wonderland theme.

Stamps Used:

Plate 1508

This book belongs to

Library Return Dates

Library Return Card

Mad Hatter

Stars

I started with a 4x6 base for my postcard. I started by stamping the Mad Hatter in memento ink and masked it off. 

Next, I stamped return library card in watering can archival ink.  To add extra detail, I stamped library return dates, and "this book belongs to". 

Next, used my distress ink to add a gradient for my background colors. 

After removing my mask, I stamped my stars in cornflower blue. 

I used various markers and colored pencils to color my Mad Hatter. 

I also used a few flicks of black dylusions ink, and perfect pearls sprays to add a bit of grunge.

I hope you all like this postcard as much as I do. 

Index Card Art by Jenn Engle - A Corner of Your Heart

 Hey everyone! I have a 4" x 6" index card made of watercolor paper to share with you today.

Stamps Used:

Young Lady

Cottage Scene

Waybill Invoice

I started out by spraying a few different kinds of spray ink thru stencils. I sprayed this with water to get a very soft look. 

I then stamped Cottage Scene in grey ink. 

I added a few more colors of ink on my background, centering them around the Cottage Scene. I then embossed Waybill Invoice with a shabby blue embossing powder. 

Then, I stamped out my Young Lady and colored her with copic markers. After that, it was just a matter of adding elements around my lady to finish of the card. 

I added some die cut wings, some vintage ledger paper die cuts and some word stickers. The finishing touch was some sparkling clear droplets and some white ink splatters.

Stamps Used:

Young Lady

Cottage Scene

Waybill Invoice

Other Supplies Used:

Lindy's Stamp Gang Spray

Distress Oxide Spray Stain

Tim Holtz Stencils

Archival Ink

Shabby Blue Stampendous Embossing Powder

Tim Holtz Geo Insect Die Cut

Clippings Word Stickers

Liquitex Acrylic Ink

Sparkling Clear Droplets

If you have any questions, let me know!

Thanks for looking!

~jenn