The Butterfly by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello Everyone!!

Today's project is a mixed media on canvas board. Enjoy~

To start This piece, I got a 4 x 5 canvas board. I sprayed on some distress spray stains, Dried them with my heat tool, And  then stamped the writing background ..  I then   randomly put white crackle paste over it leaving empty spots. I used a small pallet knife That has to dry overnight for the cracking to happen.

Once dry, I sprayed some more spray stains making sure some went down in the cracks.

While I waited for that to dry, I stamped the butterfly three times and cut it out in varying parts, and then colored it in with alcohol ink markers.

I wanted kind of an old look so I cut a strip of silk to have coming out of one of the layers-

I used foam tape between the layers to get some great dimension. I started to assemble my butterfly onto the canvas. I shaped the wings a bit using my fingers to roll the edges. I went back in with the blending marker because I was not happy with how the markers were blending. I ended up going over it with some spray stains and a paintbrush just to refine the blend a bit more. I put some inks on the silk to grunge it up a bit.

Then of coarse it needed some black crystals - and a little face bead. Last I Found a little verse board and added a green crystal and some foam tape and applied it to the canvas. And that is it! Done!

Stamps Used:

Butterfly Gossamer, lg.     7760

French Writing     20646

Other supplies:

Ohuhu alcohol markers

Ink- Versaclair pinecone, Nocturne

Distress spray stains: Vintage photo, Gathered twigs, Twisted citron, Victorian velvet, Tea Dye, Antique linen

Crackle paste by Golden

Silk gauze

4 x 5 board canvas

Moon bead

Black and green crystals

TH Quote chips

 

What A Lucky Prick! made by Madisen Hernandez

Hello stamping friends! I hope this title and sentiment isn't too crass for you, but if you're a fan of VivaLasVegaStamps, you've probably seen a naughty stamp or two! I made this scene with my husband in mind, {we've been together for 13 years so I'm allowed these type of jokes!} Hope you all like this card! 

I began stamping and masking using these stamps

Cactus Lovers

Cactus Clump

Yucca Large

 

I then used a piece of wavy cut out paper to design some sandy hills and a desert sky

took the masks off and began to color! 

 

I finished off the design by using my label maker to have my crass sentiment and adding seemingly the internet's favorite border

Typeset Scallop

That's it for today! Thanks for stopping by! -Madisen 

 

Take time and play…ATCs

Hi guys!

Today I wanted to make something I rarely create…ATCs.

I cut black and white 2x3 cards.

Then I stamped these cute pets, cut them out and used Distress Inks to prepare my background.

I added some circles, crosses and small numbers and glued my cats and a lonely dog:)

Stamps I used:

https://vlvstamps.com/plate-1396/ - doggie 

https://vlvstamps.com/cat-in-bonnet-2-x-2/

https://vlvstamps.com/cat-with-antlers-1-3-4-x-2-1-4/

https://vlvstamps.com/plate-1495/

Plus Copics & Distress Inks 

Have a great weekend!

 

Make a wish ► Majo

 

Hi Lovelies,

 

today I show you a card I made for a friend who doesn’t like Birthday presents, so I let it be her choice. Maybe she just wants some of my time?

 

I create my background with distress inks and cut the sentiment with Tim Holtz “Bold text #1”.

 

I added the following stamps:

 

19045 from plate 918

16685 from plate 1311

19827 from plate 1471

 

And adhered the tag to my card base. Ready, set, go.

 

You’ll have a good start into the new week and have fun cratfting!

 

Luv ya ♥

Dance in the Moonlight - Fran

Hi everyone!

Today I have made a tag/bookmark.  Here's how I did it.....

To make the background I used a gelliplate.  I brayered Elements Ink "Della Blue" onto the gelliplate and then sprinkled watered down Brushos onto the gelliplate.  I put my card onto the gelliplate to then get the mottled effect.

I then stamped the moon and embossed it with silver.

I put a mask over the moon, and went round it with distress inks.  I then splashed water on the ink to give the illusion of stars and a bit of texture.

I stamped the lady dancing onto the tag, and then onto thick paper, coloured her and cut her out.

After writing the sentiment (as I don't have a computer!) onto card, I cut it out to add to the tag.  I then went round the edge of the tag with glue and added some silver gilding flakes.

Stamps Used:

The Moon 20157

Dancing Lady 19183

Other Items Used:

Gelliplate

Elements Inks in Della Blue

Brushos in Prussian Blue, Purple

Distress inks in Chipped Sapphire, Wilted Violet, Faded Jeans

White pastel pencil

Moon mask

Polychromos pencils

Black fineliner

Silver gilding flakes

See you next time!

Freaky little Flamingo by Arwen

 Hi Lovelies

Back on the Blog with a new card 💗

Close-ups:

And that's the way, how I made it.

I used watercolor paper and a round gelliplate.

Add some Dylusions Spray with lots of water.

The result - a blurry circle :) 

Now, time to add rubberstamps...

Not enough - so let's add some more.

Ok, perfect. Now I add some colors and some hand drawings.

All stamps, I used:

- Flamingo

- Typeset Scallop

- She was a freaky

Other supplies:

- Watercolor paper

- Staz on

- Distress Reinker

- Dylusions Spray

- Gellyplate

- Posca Pen

- Cardstock

- Brads

See ya soon *mwah*

A Springtime Visit by Madisen Hernandez

Hello Stamping people! It's Madisen here with some mail art today! I named this piece a Springtime Visit because of the nature of the bird being visited by this awesome little spaceship. I added some vintage stamps along with some modern forever stamps. I didn't plan to do negative coloring for the stamps, but it just looked too cool when I took the masks off. I hope you like this mail art and tutorial!

I started by picking out my springtime stamps and setting the layout of my mail art card. Stamps included are listed below

Whimsical Long Beak Bird

Birdhouse/Peaked Roof

Birdhouse Four Hole

I'm sure most on this blog are advanced stampers BUT if you didn't know this little stamp hack I'm going to share it...

If you don't have time to foam mount your stamp, or weren't able to purchase the wooden block, OR were just too darn excited to use your stamp, you can improvise and use an acrylic block and double sided tape to create a mount.

I will be transparent and say that this method of mounting is NOT my preferred choice. Typically, it leads to more mistakes or less pigmented stamping but again, it's a hack if you're in a pinch. 

Next I created a mask for my stamps, added a stand to one of the bird houses with my mask, and masked an area for the address.

I chose some Distress Oxide inks to blend and coming up is a happy little accident as they say. 

I wanted to have a white checkered background by using this stencil BUT I didn't take into account the previous ink, turning my white checkers maroon. Despite this, I enjoyed the look nonetheless. 

I chose these awesome mixed media background stamps and went to town with navy, orange, and black ink. Stamps used listed below with a link. 

Texture Background

Ink Drips

Cross Marks Background

I always love the final reveal after the masks are pulled off, it's like unwrapping a present! I added this Spaceship stamp earlier as a little fun detail and colored it with some alcohol markers for it to stand out. 

SpaceShip

Here we are, our final product! Thanks for stopping by and sharing my love for mail art and rubber stamping. Until next time, 

-Madisen