Make a wish (+ background tutorial)

Hello all! Nataliya is here :)
Happy New Year  and Merry Christmas! Let all your dreams come true!
And I want to show my new card:

It's some kind of vintage, but in a light shining palette:

I love when my card have the many layers & volume:

And background in close:

Do you want to know, how it was making? It's easy peasy!
I took book pages & paper doily laces and glued them on scrap paper:

After that I painted my background with gesso:

and added some stamping with acrylic paint:

Before the paint has dried, I sprinkled little bit of glitter:

mmmm, shiny!

It's time for adding more stamping!

And more...

How about more shine?

And final step: texture paste with sand!

Background is ready ^.^

And my VLVS!
Victorian Flourish 2 1/4 x 5
Stars 2 x 2 1/4
Waybill/Invoice Background 4 1/4 x 5 1/4
Make A Wish 3/4 x 2 1/4

Have a great New Year Party!!!!

Vintage card

Hello all, Nataliya is here!
Today I will show my new vintage card, I love to do card in this style :)

For this card I took not so many embellishments: flower, chipboard, leavs, stamens and paper doily lace.

For doily lace I used VLVS! Medium Doily 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 and hot embossing:

As usually I used a lot of Viva Las VegaStamps for background:

And do you love vintage style?

My VLVS!
Medium Doily 2 1/4 x 2 1/4
Design Open Circles 1 3/4 x 1 3/4
Dictionary Page 4 x 2 1/2
Chicken Wire 3 3/4 x 4 1/2
Victorian Flourish 2 1/4 x 5

TCW and VLVS! {A blog hop} Day 3

Hello friends! Welcome to Day 3 of the blog this week where we're having a big ol' delicious blog hop/product swap with those fantastically talented people at The Crafter's Workshop.

Visit through the week to be inspired and see tons of projects featuring The Crafter's Workshop stencils and Viva Las VegaStamps! rubber stamps. Be sure to comment along the way and be entered to win prizes at the end :)

Today Natasha Serova is inspiring us with a fun graphic card :

Don't Follow You Dreams 2 x 2 1/2 | Dictionary Page 4 x 2 1/2

Mini Stripes Explosion

Visit her blog for more details.

And visit The Crafter's Workshop blog to see what those talented artists are up to. We'll see you back here tomorrow with another project by our Design Team.

StencilGirl & VLVS! Day 2

It's time for another amazing Team Up! This time we're pairing Viva Las VegaStamps! pink rubber stamps with StencilGirl stencils.

It's day TWO of our swap with StencilGirl and we've got another grand slam line up of a blog hop! First.... a couple sneak peeks:




Tina Walker:

Natasha Serova:

Today's hop list:

• StencilGirl Talk 
• Janet Joehlin 
• Julia Kellogg
• Tina Walker 
• Natasha Serova 
• Viva Las VegaStamps!

 And what's a big ol' delicious hop without some PRIZES?!??!?! 2 prizes to be won TOTAL -- so join us ALL WEEK LONG and hop to see the fabulous projects. Let each designer know what you think -- then you're entered to win, every comment is another chance to win. Easy peasy right? 

Both prizes consist of $25 in StencilGirl Products and $25 in VLVS! unmounted rubber stamps.

Who are you?

Hello all :) Nataliya is here :)
Today I'm brought to you my new card about our real "I" that we often hide from everyone, even from ourselves. So who are you really?

I just adore this effect with pearl powder...hidden pattern)

And little tutorial for you :)
I very love to do stamping background! Maybe you have noticed it :)
For the beginning I stamping on the scrap paper using Gelato - what lovely color blends are obtained!

I did a little "script" details with StazOn and Memento Luxe:

It is time to pearl powder! I did stamping with VersaMark.

As you can see, powder stuck on VersaMark and Memento Luxe, but drawing with VersaMark visible only at certain angles.

Adding some blots:

and my fav Be Adorable stamp :)

For Men I used black StazOn, again:

And with Gelato I add shadow:

My VLVS!
Harlequin Diamond Background 4 1/2 x 5 3/4Writing Background 4 x 4
Waybill/Invoice Background 4 1/4 x 5 1/4
Victorian Flourish 2 1/4 x 5
Be Adorable 1 3/4 x 4 1/2
Businessman Silhouette 1 1/4 x 3 1/4

My other products:

Paper - Lemon Owl

Ink - StazOn (Jet Black), Memento Luxe (Rose Bud), VersaMark
Spray - Walnut Ink (Cornflower), Mister Huey's (Inky Black), Adirondack (Red Pepper)

Gelato - Earl Grey, Guava, Metallic Melon

Pearl Powder

IMAGINE Crafts & Viva Las VegaStamps! Day 8

 

 Welcome to the IMAGINE Crafts and Viva Las VegaStamps! Blog Hop. For the next week, our two design teams will be featuring some amazing projects featuring products from both our companies. Amazing stamps require amazing ink, right?

Mixed Media Prize Package

We're proud to announce your chance to win one of three different Mixed Media Prize Packages from IMAGINE Crafts and Viva Las VegaStamps! You have until midnight PST on Sunday, May 31st 2014 to comment on as many of the Design Team Blog Posts from this week as possible. On Monday, June 1st we’ll draw three random blog posts and one comment from each of those posts will win a prize package!

Ready for some inspiration from our artists?

Here's today's posts from IMAGINE Crafts:

Tina McDonald

And from Viva Las VegaStamps!:

Natasha Serova

IMAGINE Crafts used:

Memento Luxe, irRESISTible Sprays, Delicata, StazOn

Viva Las VegaStamps! used:

Lighthouse Scene, Not All Who Wander, Victorian Flourish 

Tasha says "Very soon is summer and so wanting to see the sea ... It's probably why I chose the theme of the sea for my panno. However, it is not all about the sea. Hope is a lighthouse for dreams. And if you believe in your dream, then you can reach it through all the storm. To your Dream coast. For background I used watercolor, stamping with Delicata silver Ink and irRESISTible Gold spray." Visit Natasha on her blog to see the details.

Tera Callihan

IMAGINE Crafts used:
Momento LUXE, Ink Potion #9, IrRESISTable, VersaFine,  Kaleidacolor, Delicata, Tsukineko sponge Daubers.

Viva Las VegaStamps! used:

Waybill/Invoice Background, Butterfly Specimen, Poe, Miracle Tape. 

Tera says "I mainly used a spritz and drag marbling type technique which can be found in my tutorial, as well as ink dauber for sponging on all of my Sepia ink for a fully distressed look." Stop by her blog to get all the details.

If you're just joining us on the Mixed Media Blog Hop, here are the links to the previous days posts: Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday   

***Blog Hop Hint – if you click on a link that takes you to a page saying something like, “Sorry this page cannot be found” just click on the header at the top of the blog (usually a picture or the blog’s name) and it will take you to that blog’s most recent post. That post *should* be our hop. If not, you can probably scroll down a short way to find the hop post.

ALSO >> We're having a DESIGN TEAM CALL. Stop by and check it out :)  Last Day!

Dream Big with PanPastel / Nataliya Serova

Our fifth and final day featuring PanPastels is brought to you by Natasha Serova and she's stamping and pasteling with VersaMark! Here's another shout out to PanPastel and how neat they are to work with. I hope you've enjoyed our week long inspiration!

 Hello all, Nataliya is here :)
I think you have already seen how steep PanPastel! I'm just crazy about them, really :) I was most impressed by the ability to use it with VersaMark - the effect is simply incredible! And with PanPastel, VersaMark and, of course, stamps VLVS! I made a card about how important to dreaming.

Look how chic background turned out! I just toned it using Violet & Permanent Red Tint PanPastel.

And this is another piece of background. Here you can see how PanPastel allocates pattern made ​​using textured paste.

And my VLVS!

Writing Background 4 x 4

Waybill/Invoice Background 4 1/4 x 5 1/4

Stars 2 x 2 1/4

Washi Grid Background 1 1/4 x 5 1/2

Row of Stars 1 x 5

Moon Circle 1 3/4 x 1 1/2

Dream Big 1 x 1 3/4

Boy In Cape 2 1/4 x 3 1/2

Intro : NATASHA SEROVA

Our introduction for the design team today is ...

Natasha Serova:

Tasha is another texture lover, always surprising me with her layers of beautiful stamped goodness. I'm glad to welcome her and her beautiful talents back!

Tasha says "Hello, my name is Natasha & I'm from Ukraine.About myself I can say that I love sunflowers, owls and make a mess at my workplace :) I just adore stamps, VLVS! and glad to be here with you again :)
Lately my favorite thing to stamp is ladies :)"

 

You can find her blog HERE.

 

 Leave a comment and welcome her back to the DT for a chance to win a grab bag of VLVS! rubber.

Vintage butterfly

Hello all :) Nataliya is here :)
Do you love the butterflies? I do!
You can find this pretty creations on most of my work :) And this card - is no exception :)

Beauty:)

And what is this???

This is VLVS! Fancy Hinge Silhouette 1 1/4 x 2

I took the paper, stamp, WaterMark ink and Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder:

The resulting image I cut and made the ink shading:

And I add Glossy Accent+glitter :)

Butterfly is chipboard. I covered it the texture paste.

Now, I sprinkle it with glitter embossing powder and heated. The result is a very interesting texture:

Some ink shading :)

Have a butterfly's day!