Mixed media card - three wise monkeys

Hey everyone,

February is cold and dull over here, so I thought I'd bring in some bright colors and created this fun mixed media card.

I'm a little addicted to slimline cards right now, so I started on a die cutted piece of paper and cut another slightly larger one from black cardstock. The background looks way more complicated than it is. I just stamped the harlequin background with two shades of Oxide Ink and sprayed it with water until I was happy with the way the colors dissolved. After it was dry, I added some stamped numbers using one of the background colors.

As a focal point I went with the three wise monkeys and Corrie's overlapping squares as I needed something for the chimpanzees to sit on. I stamped everything down, the squares twice, and colored the images with my alcohol markers.

I cut the images and inked the edges with a black marker. From the second image of the squares I cut some clusters. My plan was to have some parts of it raised with foam tape.
 

Then I built up my focal composition and glued everything down. To finifh the card, I just had to add that quote stamp and put my layers together.

Stamps used:
Harlequin Diamond Background (18920)
Numbers Set (19659)
Chimpanzee Set (10202)
Overlapping Squares by Corrie Herriman (19996)
If This Is Reality (19884)

Other material:
- Canson Watercolor paper
- black and white cardstock
- perfect coloring paper
- Spectrum Noir Illustrator alcohol marker
- Distress Oxide Ink (crackling campfire, rusty hinge)
- Crealies slimline die (clcz184)

 

See you soon with a new project!

November Challenge

November is here and the end of the year is quickly approaching... let's have another challenge shall we? This month is warm and fun!

We'd like to inspire you with words like gold, warm, yellow, tans, browns, vintage, black and white, background stamps, doodles, harlequin, diamond, distressed, polka dots, swirls, circles, hearts, stripes and more!

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!

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March Challenge

Hello Friends :) welcome to our MARCH challenge. .... MARCH of 2014. Already. Seriously.

Meet us back here next week this time to see the winner from our February Challenge. A LOT of goodness was entered!

Now onto March's mood board:

I threw in a little green to get your mojo going if you're wanting to play with a St. Patrick's Day theme. There's also a little bit of whimsy with some Alice goodness, and a bit of oldschool prep with a nice harlequin in the background. Feel free to take inspiration from anything! You can be inspired by the colors, Alice in Wonderland, toadstools, drinks, sweets, mustaches, etc. Can't wait to see what you create!

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!

And visit us back here tomorrow for some inspiration from mellpellmell!

2x the entries for ATC entries this month.. and join us for our ATC Bash :) 

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Sharing a canvas set...

Hi Stampers! DeeDee here, today! 

I wanted to take the spotlight off me for a little while and show you something an avid VLVS! fan made. If you remember I posted a couple months ago about doing an altered canvas set where we use stamps to help us create a background on our canvases!

Well after a few bumps and bruises we got through the first half of our class yesterday and here's what Michele created:

Now I only showed her how to do the canvases, she took it upon herself to use her knew knowledge and alter the tray that she mounted the beauties in!

We used stamps:
Six Hex Background

Harlequin Background
Writing Background

Chicken Wire

and Michele also used on her own:
Line of Chevrons

and Writing Arrow

All the stamps have been stamped in gesso and then colored with glimmer mist and distress stain.
Then the canvases were altered and layered in all types of mixed media goodness! Michele went even further by altering her tray and adding the canvases as their own complete layer.

You can see a close up of the six hex used here:

WELL DONE MICHELE!!!