Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear!!!!!

Jingle Bells.. Jingle Bells....

It is DECEMBER...

Holy Snapping Ducks it's almost Christmas...

Time to Head to the shops...

Can you guess what the theme is for this Art Journal page......

 Started off with smoshing Distress Oxide Inks (Peeled Paint and Peacock Feathers) activated with Water onto my page.....

 Next I added the Invoice Waybill stamp and Row of numbers (yep going with the spending money theme) with Ground Espresso oxide ink.

 WHOOOPS>>.. I forgot to take a photo of the next step...

I stamped the Shopping Trolleys with Stazon onto some white cardstock.

Heat embossed Lindy's Angel Wings Embossing powder on top to give it a shimmer..

cut it the trolleys out....

added some Stenciling with Paynes Grey acrylic pant and a Kinder Kreations stencil to the background and some Heidi Swapp Acrylic Letters

 I then stamped the Sentiment onto an index card because I wanted the lines representing the list and checking it twice......

 And we have the finished Piece.. 

Really really simple.. but YES.. 

FUCK Christmas is getting closer by the second.. 

Don't forget to Follow our Facebook Groupies page..

enter the December Challenge to win yourself a 

POUND of  RUBBER....

#decentry19

VLVS! Used:

Warning: Dates in Calender (Sku: 170)

https://vlvstamps.com/warning-dates-in-calendar-1-x-2-1-2.html

Banksy Shopping Cart 2 (sku: 19431)

https://vlvstamps.com/banksy-shopping-carts-2-3-4-x-2.html

Waybill/invoice Background (sku: 19416)

https://vlvstamps.com/waybill-invoice-background-4-1-4-x-5-1-4.html

Row of Numbers (sku: 20170)

https://vlvstamps.com/rows-of-numbers-1-x-4-1-4.html

Other Materials Used:
Stazon Jet Black Ink Pad

Dylusions Art Journal

Distress Oxide Ink: Peeled Paint, Peacock Feathers, Ground Espresso

Lindy's Stamp Gang: Embossing Powder, Angel Wings

Heidi Swapp Acrylic Letters

Kinder Kreations Stencil: Fuck Yeah

Atelier: Free Flow Acrylic Paint, Paynes Grey. 

Staples, Index Card

I'll be back again before Christmas,

but for now remember...

Live with Respect.

xo

December Challenge Inspiration | Fiona Paltridge

Hello my VLVS lovelies! Fiona here with you today to share a little tag I have created for the December challenge.

We'd like to inspire you with frames, scallops, doodles, vintage tones, teal, gray, tan, white, black,Christmas, trees, WINTER, snowmen, squirrels, snow angels, Victorian, house, scenery, road, snowbanks, family & more! Just be inspired ^_^

 Brown and teal together is one of my most favourite colour combinations! So I was very keen to create a background that would represent the mood.

Seeing that it's December I also wanted to give my tag a little Christmas theme so I popped the Santa and Reindeer stamp on it too.

Viva las Vegastamps! Used:

Santa and Reindeer

Doodle Frame

Sawtooth Stitching Lines

Stitching

Stitching Lines

Girl in Bonnet

I hope you will join us. The link to take you to the monthly challenge is HERE! 

Don't forget the rules:

-Create a new project based on our inspiration board (it has to be posted this month, but you can certainly link up to other challenges as well!)

-Use at least one (but certainly more if you want) Viva Las VegaStamps! rubber stamps

(We are now allowing competitors stamps to be on your work, but please make VLVS! the focus of the project, thank you.)

-Post it to your blog with a link back to us

-Upload to our linky using your direct blog post link (You may also upload via facebook, flickr or other gallery)

You could win a Project Spotlight post on our blog + some new rubber of course.

And visit us back here for inspiration!

Good Luck!

Santa Mail Art

Have you all stopped by to play the December challenge yet? If not stop by because today I am here with a little challenge inspiration!

I wanted to have fun and try my hand at some Mail Art!!! 

I am not sure what to think about it all as I love it and it was my first try.

I started with a cover for where you would write the address. Then I stamped 19314 - Santa Smoking.

I stamped it again and created a mask for the santa. 

Then I used some washi tape to create my own stripes. 

Then I used some Fired Brick Distress Paint to paint on my stripes. 

This is what you get after you removed the mask and washi tape. 

I used a Pitt Pen to outline where the addresses would go. 

I added some additional stamping and thought to finish it off add some black splatter. 

Stamped Used:

19562 - Deliver To

19314 - Santa Smoking

19643 - Sawtooth Stitching Lines

19578 - Six Staples

VLVS December Inspiration Challenge!

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  Tina here today with my interpretation of the December Challenge!  If you haven't seen the challenge yet, here's a peek at the amazing December inspiration piece!

I wasn't sure what type of project I wanted to create for my inspiration piece - a card, an art journal spread, a layout, or a assemblage type project.  So many options!

After much deliberation, I decided on an assemblage type project.  I used a an Amazing Alterable from Paper Whimsy as the base for my project and used the inspiration image color palette and design as a beginning point.

I was immediately drawn to the gorgeous Blues in the inspiration image, so I layered multiple shades of Shimmerz Paints to achieve the hue I was looking for.  I aged the edges with Distress Ink for a more vintage feel.

Using these 3 Snowflake stamps, I heat embossed the images all over by piece, with white embossing powder.

Small Snowflake
Medium Snowflake
Large Snowflake

(BTW - these snowflakes are part of Plate 887, which is a great Christmas Plate, that includes the ornament shapes in the inspiration image.)

I LOVE how the embossed snowflakes turned out!

Once I was happy with the embossed piece, I added several vintage inspired embellishments to finish it off.

 

You can't see the detail in the pictures, but there is a subtle stripped image on my background.  Using a stencil, I inked the stripes before I embossed it.  You can see the striped effect in the above image, on the inside of my piece.

We hope you play along with the Challenge this month!  For all of the details, please Click Here!

Thanks for stopping by today!  Have a wonderful December!

December Challenge

1st of all.. I can't believe it's DECEMBER already. JEEZ. SOARing right along to 2014. Thanks to all the beautiful entries from November's Challenge!

 It's now time to delve into Christmas and all the wintery goodness that comes at that time! This month's inspiration is all about green and red, trees, washi tape, and silhouettes!
See you this time next week for December's winner.

Don't forget the rules:

-Create a new project based on our inspiration board

-Use at least one (but certainly more if you want) Viva Las VegaStamps! rubber stamps (please no competitor stamps on your entries)

-Post it to your blog with a link back to us

-Upload to our linky using your direct blog post link (You may also upload via facebook, flickr or other gallery)

You could win a Project Spotlight post on our blog + some new rubber of course!

You are welcome to draw inspiration from any portion of the board, as well as create any type of project. Cards, layouts, tags, altered bits n bobs. Draw inspiration from the color, the stamps, the FEEL, the images.. whatever! You do it, we wanna see it!

Visit tomorrow for inspiration from NATASHA!

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