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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Helmar & VLVS! Inspiration {Lea}

It's day three of our inspirational week with Helmar and we sure hope we've inspired you!

Today we've got one beautiful piece to share...

.. and it is heavily loaded with technique and awesomeness! This is by Lea:

Lea has used VLVS!'s Time passes friends stay the same, dotty background, Stain glass mosaic background, Grid washi background and Lines washi background. She's also used 450 Quick Dry by Helmar, a chipboard daisy and arrow from UmWowStudio, Kandi hot melt wax too, tips and melting wax. Take the time to stop by Lea's blog for full details on collaging and waxing this piece together!

Now, like days past, don't forget to stop by Helmar's Blog and see what they're sharing for the day!!

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Helmar & VLVS! Inspiration {Sheri, Pinky & Kersten}

Hello Folks!! Welcome back for more Helmar and Viva Las VegaStamps!

Our design team is so impressed with the quality and versatility of Helmar adhesives.. just see what they're sharing today!

First up is Sheri with a superb altered clothespin:

It has tons of materials.. wood, plastic, fabric and more! It's all been held together by the superb quality of Helmar adhesives.

Sheri used the following stamps from Viva Las VegaStamps!: washi chevron background, grid washi background, sun bathing bird, dream big and yes, I'm afraid it's true (item 4081), the following adhesives from Helmar: 450 Quick Dry and Craft and Hobby PVA glue.

She used the following items: Kromecote, clothes pin, gesso, craft paint, Licorice colorbox ink pad, pinkalious colorbox ink pad, denim, book paper, tatter floral die, bling, Inkssentials black and white Enamel accents. Check out more details on Sheri's Blog.

Second up is Pinky and this great card!

She's built flowers with her Helmar 450 Quick Dry and stamped the inside of her card with VLVS's Everyone Likes A Little Ass 3/4X2 1/2 Plate 192 Item 4313, VLVS Miracle Tape 1/2" and Echo Park's Documented 2.

And last for the day is Kersten with Birds of a Feather:

She always uses these intense colors with our stamps, and today we're adding some top notch glue!! VLVS! stamps used: Feather Silhouette and Mounted Bird Head, Helmar products used: Quick 450 Quick Dry Adhesive and Decoupage and Craft Paste. And there's a great tutorial on this vivid beauty at Kersten's blog.

Now run to see what Helmar has up their sleeves today!

Monday, May 20, 2013

Helmar & VLVS! Inspiration {Judy & Lyneen}

Welcome to our Helmar/VLVS! Inspiration week :)

Today I'm bringing you two glorious projects!!

The first is by member Judy, and she's got this gorgeous bright altered tomato container!!

Judy has used:

Helmar's Decoupage and Craft Paste and Craft and Hobby PVA Glue

with Men in Ballon Basket,

and Time Flies

by VLVS!

For a full tutorial check out Judy's Blog!

Our second post comes from Lyneen and she's brought us a Whimsical Neighborhood Wall Hanging:

She used:

Supplies:

VLVS! Plate 910A

Helmar 450 Quick Dry Glue

Helmar Craft & Hobby Glue

Muslin, Black Stazon, Twinkling H2O’s, Alcohol Inks, May Arts Lace & Fringe, Felt RicRak, Bird, Cat and Squirrel buttons, Heat Gun.

Stamp images on muslin, paint the images with Twinkling H2O’s and Alcohol Inks, dry with heat gun to keep the colors from running too much, color lace with Alcohol Inks and fringe with Twinkling H2O’s, adhere fibers with Helmar Craft & Hobby Glue, adhere buttons with Helmar 450 Quick Dry Glue. Check out more info on Lyneen's Blog!

Now don't forget to check out what's going on over at Helmar!

Sunday, May 19, 2013

The Early Bird Gets the Worms!

Good morning everyone! I'm sharing with you this fun card front that I've created using the fantastic Kromecote cardstock, alcohol based markers and a wonderful Mary Vogel Lozinak stamp! Kromecote has a shiny finish and makes creating backgrounds with your alcohol inks and pens fun and easy...long strokes can mimic grass and tree bark textures, short tapping can mimic leaves and large swirling can mimic cloud movement. The early bird was stamped and also colored on kromecote and then fussycut and adhered to the foreground. I hope you enjoy my project! Thank you for looking~

For this project

Spectrum Noir Markers

Beacon 3in1

Mix'd Media Inx Black
Kromecote Cardstock

Bird with Worms

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Spring Enchanted

Awwwwwwwwwwww spring is here in Ontario Canada in full bloom and i just love it.

So for the last time i am showcasing the stamp "Enchanted" Its so versatile!

ENCHANTED

The flowers are Peel Stickers, and then I chose three colors that looked great together, blue, yellow and green. I covered my entire paper with water, and then dropped in the different colors.
Letting it completely dry and the place the stickers in the center, stamped "Enchanted" in a monochromatic color and outlined a rectangle to enhance the flowers.

Yum!

Happy Spring my art friends,
L.
ANg

Friday, May 17, 2013

Guest Designer..... DONNA SALAZAR!!

Hi everyone :) Today I have the utmost pleasure (and total dream come true) of introducing our Guest Designer for May ... Donna Salazar!!

Donna Salazar is a wife, mom, soon to be grandma, artist, designer, teacher and kid at heart. She loves Inky-Painty-Glitzy-Grunginess... what she calls her “Girlie Grunge” look. Her style is especially appealing to mixed media artists; however, her love of flowers and all things sparkly appeals to crafters of all types and styles. She currently has licensed products with 5 companies.

A cute story... Donna and her daughter Genna found VLVS! through our most popular stamp.. Blue Police Box:

Genna Salazar is a senior in high school, is planning on being an art major in college and is Donna's daughter. The two have created a mother-daughter-denim-lovin' Etsy shop called "Blue Gene Baby" where they sell reclaimed, repurposed and upcycled denim items.

Links on where to find Donna and Genna:

Blog: http://donnasalazar.typepad.com

Facebook (4): https://www.facebook.com/Donna.Escuadro.Salazar, https://www.facebook.com/DonnaSalazarDesigns, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Distrezz-it-All/197195867045333, https://www.facebook.com/BlueGeneBaby

Twitter: https://twitter.com/donnasalazar

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/donnasalazar

Instagram: http://instagram.com/donnasalazar

Website: http://donnasalazardesigns.ning.com

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/donnaescuadrosalazar

Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/BlueGeneBaby?ref=si_shop

And onto the beautiful project Donna has to share today... a layout!

Donna has used our Camera Logo and Dictionary Page on this piece. She's really done a wonderful job stamping in slightly off color inks from the paper base to create a sort of watermark feel.

We'll have one more project from her coming up this month!
Thanks so much Donna for stopping by today!

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

My cup of care is empty!

Hi everyone, Glenda here and I made a new ATC using the fabulous Drinking Lady stamp!

How fun is she?? I stamped the image onto cardstock and then used watercolor pencils to color her. I loved her fluffy feathers so I also used a white craft feather and stapled that on for added texture. Here she is:

Supplies used:

Drinking lady stamp

Miracle tape

Versafine ink

Staedtler Watercolor Pencils

Prima flower

Stickles

Tattered Angels Glimmermist

Basic Grey paper

Cardstock

A feather

I also made an art journal page as it's that time again. Yep, the new prompt from the A Year in the Life of an Art Journal has been posted and here it is:

PROMPT: What if?

SHOOTERS: Shoot your mug with one of your what if's.
BOOKERS: Create a page about something you always think "what if" about.... use thought bubbles.

I used one of my favorite lady stamps, the Leaning lady

as well as the Man and woman symbol

(but I cut the man off and only used the woman! haha) to make this art journal page

Do you ever wonder "what if?" If so hop on over and play along as I would love to know your story!

Supplies used:

Leaning lady stamp
Man and woman symbol stamp
Miracle tape
Various scrapbook papers
Chipboard embellishments
Letter stickers
Paint
Rub ons
Stencils
Glimmer mist
Watercolor pencils
Black ink pen

I hope you enjoyed my projects and until next time,

Glenda

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Sailing Away on Bleedthrumanade Seas

Front of journal page Back of journal page

Supplies:
VLVS! Stamps used:
Don't Follow You Dreams-Item 19003 Plate 893
Triple Mast Sailing Ship-Item 19026 Plate 890
Graphometre-Item 19017 Plate 890
Dictionary Page-Item 19015 Plate 890
Nautical Collage-Item 19016 Plate 890
Whitelines Hard Cover A5 Notebook (5.8 x 8.25)
StazOn-Jet black, Saddle Brown
Faber-Castell Stampers Big Brush Pen-White
White Gellyroll Pen
Bic Fine-line Alcohol Markers-Tranquil Teal, Hot Aqua, Lime Sorbet, Marquerita Green, Oceanview Blue, Blue Skies Blue, Polynesian Purple, Petal Pink, Pink Flamingo, Lemon Bliss, Yellow Blaze
Scrap of Silk Tissue Paper (mulberry paper)
Golden Soft Gel

Got Lemons? Make lemonade! Got marker bleed-thru? Make Bleedthrumanades!

For a long time, I avoided alcohol markers because the color bleeds through to the back of the page, unless you have really heavy or specially-coated paper. The rare times that I used them, I avoided using the back of the page.

Then one day I had an epiphany (or something hit me in the head, more likely) and I thought, "Why not just use both sides of the paper? The color will be the same but I can always do something different on both sides." And thus, the bleedthrumanade was born, lol. I get to use the scrumptious brilliant colors that alcohol markers have, provide myself with a challenge, and I only have to color once for two pieces!

I've had Plate 890 for a while, and I just love it, but I hadn't settled on a project to use it with yet.

Then recently, I was creating a bleedthrumanade in one of my notebooks (I usually color first before stamping or drawing). When I finished, the colors looked rather map-like to me, and Plate 890 popped into my head.

The process went something like this:

I colored the front of the notebook page with the alcohol markers.

Except for the ship, I stamped the images, in brown, on both sides of the page.

I stamped the ship's image on the silk tissue paper, and decoupaged it to the front of the page. When the gel medium was dry, I used a blue Bic marker to color around the ship.

The stamper's big brush pen was used to lighten the areas around the images and to cover up some of the bleed-thru from the brown ink (the stamper's big brush uses India Ink, which won't bleed-thru). I decided I didn't want to change much about the back--I liked the way it looked.

With the white gel pen, I added a few highlights to the front and picked out smaller areas of the stamped image. I didn't try to bring out the entire image on all of them. I definitely left the graphometre looking like a watermark.

I had to laugh--while tangling, I noticed this strange blob, that made me think of an angel or soldier holding a spear, so I highlighted him a bit. Do you think he's watching over the ship?

Staying with the white gel pen, I added a few Zentangle® -Inspired patterns around the edge of the page, and then decided to call it a day.

Are these pages done? They feel done to me right now. But bleedthrumanades are like most art journaling. Some pages you keep coming back to and never finish, and others are done in one go. It all depends on the mood of the day.

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