Witches Hat flat shaker card by Cathy N

 Good morning, Cathy here with a flat shaker card for you.

I started off making the background with some watercolor paper and 3 colors of orange distress oxide.

I then stamped Victorian flourish and jack-o-lantern in the darkest orange that I used in the background. 

Next, I started to make my flat shaker part of it. I took a piece of package plastic and taped it to 3 sides of my panel. 

Then I added some bat and pumpkin sequence. That was not enough for me, so I added some black and bronze sequence to fill it out.

                                                              Stamps Used:

Lastly, I stamped Striped witch hat on white cardstock and colored with copic and cut out. Added to the front and then added some black stickles to the hat. 

I added some Halloween washi to the bottom so the hat could sit on top of and added a little bat die cut.

                                                       19204 Striped witch hat

                                                       10366 jack-o-lantern

                                                      19417 Victorian flourish

                                                                Other Stuff:

                                                         watercolor paper

                                                         distress oxide

                                                         sequence

                                                         stickles 

                                                         washi tape

                 

All how wander by Cathy

 Cathy here and today I have a card for you. 

I started out with watercolor paper and 3 colors of green distress inks. I smooched it on my craft mat and added some water to blend the colors. I started with the lightest color and worked my way to the darkest. I dried in-between the colors so they could layer.

Next, I grabbed a Tim Holtz dot stencil and added it the background with the darkest green ink to add a layer.

 

Next, I stamped the Butterfly Specimens in the middle of the panel with black ink. I then stamped Victorian Flourish with the same dark green ink. I only used a corner of the stamp. After that I then stamped Waybill background in brown distress ink randomly over the whole panel. I only used the top part of this stamp. 

To finish it off I edged it in drown distress ink and on top of that I added a layer of black distress ink. Lastly, I stamped Not all who wander saying on white cardstock and layered it on black cardstock and stuck in in the middle of the card. 

Stamps Used:

Butterfly Specimens

Victorian Flourish

Waybill background

Not all who wander

Other supplies used:

watercolor paper

distress ink

amalgam ink

white cardstock

black cardstock

Mail Art Monday with Susanne

Hi my dear crafty friends.

Susanne writing today! It's Mail Art Monday here and I am sharing a mixed media envelope today.

I have a process video for you! So sit back and enjoy!

Here are some close-ups:

Thank you for stopping by today!
xx Susanne.

Supplies:
Viva Las VegaStamps!:
Stars
Victorian Ornamental Flourish
Lace Background
Dream Big
Unicorn
French Writing Background
Waybill/ Invoice Background 
Others:
Acrylic Paints
Gel Medium
Gesso
Archival Ink
STAMPlorations stencils
Neocolor II Crayons

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!!!!

Guest Designer : Corrie Herriman x2

Today is our second post from the talented Corrie Herriman:

www.MadeByCHook.blogspot.nl. 

 

Hello everybody !

This is my second project as Guest Designer for VLVS! I have really enjoyed doing the projects. For this last one I actually did two little projects and couldn't decide which one to use so I'll show them both. Here goes. The first one is a series of three ATC's with the lovely Banksy stamps in the spotlight :

They were all made in the same way. The background is a gelli print. I have lots of them because they are so handy to use in your projects. Of course you can just paint your background, I do that too sometimes. I used two VLVS! stamps for the background : 19415 – Butterfly Specimens and 5210 – Collage writing. I used some black and white ink to make some splatters. Next I stamped the main images :19488 – Banksy Diving Helmets / 19434 – Banksy Gas Mask Flower girl / 19421 – Banksy girl floating with balloons. 

Any spots that were not stamped right, I just filled in with a black marker. I then looked for suitable sentiments and decided on : 18408 – I'm not weird / 19423 – BANKSY / 18409 – Share your Sparkle.

I also used a black ink pad to ink the edges.

I also used the following supplies : Pieces of gelli printed paper. Grey StaZon ink, Black Archival ink and white and black India Ink.



The second project was a postcard. I really liked how this came out :

I made the background by dragging a piece of cardstock through some Dylusions spray inks that I sprayed on my craftsheet with some water. I dried it and repeated the first step until I liked the result. I then stamped the flourish with Versamark ink and heat embossed it with silver embossing powder. When it was cool I rubbed it lightly with black Archival Ink. Next I stamped the background and the sentiment. I used the following VLVS! Stamps : 19417 – Victorian Flourish / 19416 – Waybill/Invoice Background and 8225 – Attention le ballet...

For the main image I used 9883 – Striped dancer jumping which I stamped on white card, coloured, cut him out and adhered him on the postcard. Some doodles with a black fine tipped pen and a white paint pen finished it off. Some close-ups:

I also used the following supplies : Cardstock, black and white markers, Ranger Silver embossing powder, Versamark Ink, Archival ink, Memento ink, Dylusions spray inks in pink and orange. StaZon Dove grey ink.

I hope you enjoyed my contributions to this fabulous blog !

Thanks for looking !

Live in the moment

Hi!! Karen here with you again today!

 Hope you are having a wonderful week!

 

I absolutely adore this stamp, and have been waiting patiently for it to arrive.

 

Girl in princess costume

 

 

Finally this week I found it in my letter box.. so I knew exactly what I was going to be creating my tag with for this post :)

 

 

I started with a distress inked base for my tag... added in some background stamping using

 

Victorian flourish

 

 

Line of Grass

 

 

 and my favourite -

 

 Waybill /invoice background

 

 

I added in some stitching and a crinkle ribbon bow a few  idea-ology few trinkets

 



I then stamped the Girl in Princess costume onto some blank pages of an old book, and cut her out.. isn't she just adorable. I also added in some fussy cut butterfly wings.. turning her into a fairy princess!!

 

Next up I layered  her onto my tag, 

 added in a Tim Holtz ornate plate and word band, and some more baubles

 

and my tag was finished!
 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope I've inspired you a little,

until next time..

Happy Stamping!

Karen xx