Life is Beautiful by Fran Chalmers

Hi everyone!

Today I've made a card  to say that Life is Beautiful! I hope you  like it.

I made the background  by smooshing distress inks in Peacock Feathers, Dried Marigold and Spiced Marmalade on a piece of card.  I dried between each layer so the colours didn't go too muddy.

 I then used a gold glitter pen to draw around some of the shapes that the ink had made.

I used a mask with musical notes on, with distress ink in Lucky Clover.

I stamped out the main image and cut it out.  I did try colouring the whole image, but it didn't really work and got a bit lost in the background, so I decided to keep her monochrome apart from a red lip.

I stamed the sentiment and decided to cut it up so I could place it differently on the card.

Lastly, I drew round the edges with a fine black liner, then layered the card onto black card, and then onto cream card.

Hope you enjoyed this card.  See you next time!

Stamps Used:

Banksy Life is Beautiful 20292

Banksy Wall Singer 20303

Other Items Used:

Distress Inks : Dried Marigold, Spiced Marmalade, Peacock Feathers, Lucky Clover

Versafine Clair ink in Nocturn

Black fine liner

Red Copic Pen

Gold Glitter Pen

Stencil of musical notes

Black backing card

I'm not insane...by Elisa Ablett

Hi everyone,

Elisa here from the design team with the first of my creations for March, a colourful card/journal page with some interesting mixed media techniques!

Let's take a closer look before we start the step by step tutorial..

Here are some of the great stamps I used to create my project by Viva Las VegaStamps:

 

https://vlvstamps.com/i-m-not-insane-1-3-4-x-1-1-2.html

https://vlvstamps.com/musical-note-calligraphy-1-1-4-x-1-1-4.html

https://vlvstamps.com/crackle-background-4-3-4-x-5-3-4.html

https://vlvstamps.com/banksy-wall-singer-2-3-4-x-3-3-4.html

Step by Step Tutorial:

First step is stamping onto a sheet of Acetate, I use Staz on black ink and I tap the ink over and onto the large background stamp and not the other way around. I ease the stamp over the top of the Acetate and press gently, you don't want to press down to hard onto the Acetate.

The next few steps cover making your background with Alcohol inks and pure Alcohol of 96% or more which I purchased from the Pharmacy and distilled into a Fineline Applicator bottle. 

Using a paint palette, squeeze a few drops of your desired Alcohol ink colours into your palette, then squeeze a fine line of your pure alcohol onto your yupo paper down the bottom like the first photo. The add your colour using a paint brush. Repeat with your different colours, you can also add more 'cells' to the background by squirting with your pure alcohol. Work in a ventilated area!

If you want to blend the straight lines a bit, while you have the alcohol on the page tip the paper up and back to make the colours blend a bit.

Using a distress tool and once your background is dry, ink gently around the edges of your background. Stamp your musical notes and title onto cardstock.

Using distress oxide ink pads, smoosh your favourite colours onto a craft messy mat and spritz with water and dip your white cardstock into the different colours spritzing the cardstock as well to create the oxidising effect on the paper. 

Once dry, stamp your Banksy Wall Singer stamp using Black Archival ink over the top of your background. Also stamp your stamp onto white cardstock. 

Fussy cut your two Banksy Wall Singer stamped images, then cut a few pieces off the coloured stamped image and using 3d foam mounting tape, stick them over the top (don't forget to line them up).

Attach your stamped acetate, I used staples and then adhere your black and white stamped image on the left hand side of your card/journal page. I then also cut a few of the coloured off cuts and adhered them so they continued up above the stamped image.

Then adhere your fussy cut musical notes and title to your page and some last minute edging with a fine black marker and you are done!

Thanks for stopping by the blog today, make sure you leave some love in the comments.

Hugs 

Elisa x

Where are You?

hello.. and Happy Boxing Day..

the day where MOST of us are recovering from Food Coma's....

I'm here to share my last post for 2019.. 

so it seemed fitting to create an Art Journal page reflecting on where things are 

right now for me....

I started the piece of with swipes of Atelier Gesso Primer, Liquitex Matt Gel Medium and DecoArt Media Crackle Paste. let that dry.

then added a wash of Atelier Free Flow Acrylic: Paynes Grey and wiped it back...

Next up I stamped the Banksy Marionette Girl on some used Tissue paper in Stazon Ink: Jet black.

I then added the Banksy Wall Singer onto tissue just like the marionette girl. 

and the "You are Here" on an index card and cu it out to size. 

and then I added it all together.

 I used Matt medium to glue the tissue down and then went over it with a light wash again so it

all disappeared into the background. 

 I also Stamped the Writing Triangles and one of the hands from Set of Two Hands Pointing

directly onto the page

Then I used a Kinder Kreations stencil to add the rays of sunlight.

adhered the Banksy Wall Singer tissue and added a dress made up of 

Invoice/Waybill stamp and featuring the Doodle Frame to add a frill to her dress.

Lastly I found the letters from a magazine and brought the piece together.

I love the statement that is contained within this piece..

How are you sitting right now? Do you feel like a Marionette girl.. or a Fierce Woman shouting from the roof tops.

VLVS! Used: 

You are Here (sku: 19178)

https://vlvstamps.com/you-are-here-1-1-2-x-2-1-2.html

Set of 2 hands Pointing (sku: 19175)

https://vlvstamps.com/set-of-2-hands-pointing-1-x-1-1-2-each.html

Banksy Marionette Girl (sku: 19971)

https://vlvstamps.com/banksy-marionette-girl-1-1-2-x-4-3-4.html

Waybill/invoice Background (sku: 19416)

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

Writing Triangles (sku: 19571)

https://vlvstamps.com/writing-triangles-1-1-4-x-3-1-4.html

Doodle Frame (sku: 19825)

https://vlvstamps.com/doodle-frame-1-x-4.html

Banksy Wall Singer (Sku: 20303)

https://vlvstamps.com/banksy-wall-singer-2-3-4-x-3-3-4.html

Other Products used:

Dylusions Art Journal

Stazon: Jet Black Ink

Liquitex: Matt Gel Medium

Atelier: Gesso Primer

             Free Flow Acrylic: Paynes Grey

DecoArt Media: Crackle Paint.

Kinder Kreations Stencil

Dina Wakley Media Acrylic Paint: Lemon, Magenta

Vicki Boulton: Orange Splice

Stabilo All Pencil: Red

Magazine Letters. 

Thank you for stopping by and having a look at what I created today.

And thank you so much for all your love and feedback throughout the year.

Live with Respect.

Leanne xo

You gotta fight - Art Journal Page || by Elisa Ablett

Hi everyone,

Elisa here from the design team for VLV Stamps with my latest design team inspiration for you, a very bright and funky art journal page.

I adore the Banksy Wall Singer stamp and decided I wanted to create something a little different with her. I was at a craft retreat recently and I pulled out my stash of stamps ready to create my latest design team projects and a friend of mine suggested using little pieces of paint chips!

I was intrigued by the idea and took it a bit further by expanding the paint chips to look as though they were coming from her mouth as she was singing....

Let's take a closer look - 

To create a multi coloured embossing effect can be quite tedious but the results are amazing, you just have to layer in lines of colour and clean up in between each colour!

Torn bits of coloured washi tape over the top of the Rows of Numbers stamp to create a grungy effect.

I also like to recycle old paper a fair bit so I used a small piece of old dictionary paper, fussy cut a circle out and stamped with punchinella-sequin-waste-border , Cross Marks background and Cross Stitch stamps to create a 'spotlight' or focal point for our main stamp - Banksy Wall Singer.

I created the lines of paint chips by brayering paint onto white cardstock, letting it dry then randomly cutting small pieces and patterns from each colour. Then the painstaking part..... adhering them to your page using glue. Then once dry, I added a border of doodling to the paint chip rainbow and then adhered the musical-notes over the top.

The quote are lyrics from a song by the Beastie Boys called - 

Fight for your Right and printed from the computer but I think it would make an awesome stamp.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today, make sure you leave me some love 

💙💚💛💜

Hugs 

Elisa xx

Stamps used:

- Banksy Wall Singer

 - Punchinella Sequin waste border

-Rows of Numbers

-Cross Marks Background

-Cross Stitch

-Music Note Calligraphy

Other materials used:

Art by Marlene Art Journal

Black Gesso

Colour Blast Embossing Powders

Versafine Ink

Washi Tape

Decoart paint

Dictionary Paper

White Posca Paint Pen

Bookmarks and Notebook - Gift Ideas | Sue Plumb

Hi everyone!

It's Sue Plumb here to share my latest design team project with you. As we head into the festive season, I thought it would be a good time to share a couple of simple appreciation gift ideas with you. There are always people in our lives that deserve a small token of our thanks - whether that be teachers, neighbours, friends, the mailman, or even the staff at the local store. So I decided to whip up some simple stamped bookmarks and notebooks featuring some of my fave Banksy stamps to give out.

For the notebook, I started with a plain, kraft cover notebook (purchased from Kmart). I used Dina Wakley acrylic paints, applied with a brayer and layered randomly to add some colour. I then took the recently released Victorian Flower Background and used it to stamp a border around 3 sides of the cover.

Next, I chose the fabulous Banksy Wall Singer for my feature image on the cover, before I also stamped the Banksy Life is Beautiful as the accompanying text. I love how it turned out! I paired it with a pen before wrapping it up.

After I created the notebook, I decided to re-visit a project I have created previously and shared here - bookmarks. (You can find my original watercolour bookmark post HERE) This time however, I wanted to use a more minimalist style to showcase some cool Banksy stamps. 

I started by cutting some smooth white cardstock into strips measuring 2x8.5". I then stamped a focal Banksy image onto each one, and an accompanying quote as well. 

Here is a list of all the stamps I used on the bookmarks (as shown from left to right above):

- Banksy Man on Bicycle and You Only Live Once

- Banksy Frida Kahlo and Banksy Just Because

- Banksy Spray Can Cop and The Unicorns Made Me

- Banksy Einstein Protestor and Banksy Love is the Answer

- Banksy Girl Floating with Balloons and She Was a Dreamer

- Banksy Ladder Painter and Banksy Life is Beautiful

- Banksy Gas Mask Flower Girl and Where is My Mind?

- Banksy Child Sitting and I Hope You Know

- Banksy Swing Girl and She Spread Her Wings

I also stamped the back of each bookmark with the Banksy stamp.

Once they were all stamped, I used Faber-Castell gelatos to add a splash of colour to each one. I wanted to keep them simple, so I only used a single colour on each one and left the focal images uncoloured.

I then took all the bookmarks and laminated them, trimming off the excess laminate with a trimmer.

I then punched a hole into each bookmark and added a variety of twine, tassels and a metal charm to decorate them.

I am so happy with how these turned out and cannot wait to gift them to their new owners! Thanks so much for stopping by so I could share this with you. I hope I have inspired you to create some special handmade appreciation gifts for the people in your lives too. 

Stamps used:
- Victorian Flower Background
- Banksy Wall Singer 
- Banksy Life is Beautiful
- Banksy Man on Bicycle 
- You Only Live Once
- Banksy Frida Kahlo 
- Banksy Just Because
- Banksy Spray Can Cop 
- The Unicorns Made Me
- Banksy Einstein Protestor 
- Banksy Love is the Answer
- Banksy Girl Floating with Balloons 
- She Was a Dreamer
- Banksy Ladder Painter
- Banksy Gas Mask Flower Girl 
- Where is My Mind?
- Banksy Child Sitting 
- I Hope You Know
- Banksy Swing Girl 
- She Spread Her Wings
- Banksy

Other materials:
- Plain notebook
- White cardstock
- Tsukineko StazOn ink
- Faber-Castell Gelatos
- Dina Wakley acrylic paints
- Laminating sheets
- Assorted twines, tassels and charm

Banksy Wall Singer || Art Journal Page

Hey everyone! Jenn here. That's right, I am back on the team and I couldn't be happier!
I have an art journal page to share with you today using some of the new Banksy stamps. 

This Banksy Wall Singer really caught my eye and I had to make her the star of my page.

If you wanna see exactly how I made this page, you can check out the process video at the bottom of this post.

 STAMPS USED:

Mesh Texture
Banksy Wall Singer
Cross Marks Background
Love Repeat

Watch the Process Video Here:

Thanks for looking!
~jenn