NOT ALL WHO WANDER - by Fran Chalmers

Hello everyone! Today I have made a quick tag for you.

 For the background, I blended distress inks in blocks of colour.

I splashed some water on the colours with a fine fan brush, making sure the splashes were only small.

I stamped the swirl in black, with the looping heart trailing from it.

I then stamped the man, and embossed him so that he stood out from the other stamps.  I wanted him to look like he was beginning to walk down a tunnel.

I shaded the swirl with pastel pencils, then stamped the sentiment (slightly crooked, unfortunately!) and drew a line round the tag in fine liner.  

To finish it off, I added a ribbon.

Stamps Used:

Twilight Zone Swirl 20506

Looping heart line 20443

Not all who wander 19413

Businessman silhouette 19418

Other Items Used:

Distress inks in Mowed Lawn,  Squeezed Lemonade, Wilted Violet, Twisted Citron, Peacock Feathers and Blueprint Sketch

Versafine Clair in Nocturn

Black fine liner

Pastel pencils

Ribbon

Art journal page - Perspective

Hello everyone,

In this little tutorial I'm going to show you how I created this art journal page which is all about perspective. And I think this business man is one of the best stamps for this topic, don't you agree?

I started with layering some chalk paint to the background. Therefore I used both a babywipe and a brayer. Also, I added a stencilled layer to have some visual texture. At this stage the background was very light, but I was happy with it and moved on to my focal points.

I stamped the business man onto some cardstock, cut him out and inked the esged with a black marker. Doesn't the stamped image look dynamic with the imperfections on the left side of the man? It was a happy little accident. Then I stamped the window on some tissue so it blends easily to the background. I just didn't want to risk messing up the stamping because I'm working in a book with some textured pages behind. With a wet brush I "cut" the image on the napkin.

Next, I glued the napkin to the page. The background looked a little to light for me now and I wanted to add a little more depth. So I darkened up the edges with a brayer and some black chalk paint. I also added a few splatters, not only in black but also in the blue and rose tone I had already used in the background before.

Then I glued down the man except from his upper body which is a little raised from the page and enhances the play with perspective. I also found the word "perspective" in my stamp collection and thought it would make a perfect caption. I heatembossed it on black cardstock, tore the edges and glued it to the page backed with a little thread behind it.

 

Stamps used:
Triple Window (20563)
Banksy Businessman Falling (20398)
Perspective by Cat Kerr (20136)


Other material:
- Dylusions art journal
- black and white cardstock
- chalk paint (Chalky Finish: blue grey, rose, white, ebony)
- Versafine Claire Ink (nocturne)
- stencil (Finnabair - victorian tiles)
- tissue
- thread


See you soon!

Not all who Wander

Hello everyone.... 

I’m back for another month. And I’m going to be straight up honest. 

This month’s challenge has me freaking stumped. 

Homecooked!!!....

(#noventry19)

So I digressed for this first post. But I won’t let the challenge defeat me. (Stay tuned for that!!).

Without further ado...

Not all who Wander!!

I started with a 4x4 piece of watercolour paper that I smeared a layer of texture paste and then let it dry a little then stamped into it with the Waybill/invoice stamp.

Then I added the stamped image of the Businessman Silhouette straight onto the textured background. I know it doesn't give a perfect image but I love it anyway... 

what are your thoughts? 

can you handle the not quite so crisp stamped image?

Then I added some colour washes so it looks like the man is standing on a mountain, a few random alphas. 

Then I stamped the sentiment onto a piece of resined book text. 

I just love that caramel coloured goodness!!!!

Lastly, just to finish some stitching around the piece to give the whole piece a super easy border.

All of the stamps featured here are from Plate 1440....

Viva Las VegaStamps used:

Waybill/invoice Background (sku: 19416)

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

Businessman Silhouette (Sku: 19418)

https://vlvstamps.com/businessman-silhouette-1-1-4-x-3-1-4.html

https://vlvstamps.com/not-all-who-wander-3-4-x-2-1-2.html

Other materials used:
Liquitex modelling paste
Stazon Jet black ink
Dina Wakley Media paint: Ocean
Thickers alphabet
Art Alchemy wax, Bronze
Resin paper.

Don't forget to leave some love.

Live with Respect. 

Leanne xo

Life is not a movie: August challenge inspiration

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my August challenge inspiration for our VLVS challenge.

First let  me show you our gorgeous August inspiration:

This inspiration is SO MUCH ME!! 

Even as a new DT member I already own most of the stamps on this inspirational photo and I love them.

So here is my art page made with this inspiration.

I made it in my usual Mixed Media style using lots of mediums, paints, stencils and ... stamps, sure.

Also this inspiration is in black and white, I thought that adding a bit of color on the corner can be interesting. So I used stencil to make the texture over stamped Dictionary page  (keeping the main image of Businessman  Silhouette on the corner). The Film strip that was on the inspirational piece gave me the words of my art piece: Life is not an old movie, but a new rainbow dream.

Totally my own quote, believe me... 

The quote was made with my very old letter stickers and as those became totally non adhesive, I added a thin line of glaze to keep them in the place.

And now for some close- ups too:

I used Sepia black ink and not the  real black one, so you see a bit of dark brown on the background stamping. The man image was outlined with white paint around to make it " standing out".

The word life is a die cut  that I glued on my piece.

And here is a full sentiment  (you sure can use it, but remember me if you do so)

And here is a list of stamps I used for this inspirational piece:

 Businessman Silhouette Item 19418 Plate 1440

Film strip Item 18921 Plate 1428

Dictionary page Item 19015 Plate 890

Other products:

Stencil- Tando Creative

Die- Cherry Lynn Designs

Letter stickers

Paints, mists, gesso : Ranger

So now it's your time to play with our inspirational challenge!

Who knows- you can even win!!!

August Challenge --

Thank you so much for all the beautiful entries in our July Challenge!

We are jumping into August with a black and white newspaper feeling!

We'd like to inspire you with words like BOLD, newspaper print and dictionary text, heritage, black, white, gray, monochrome, film reel, movies, black AND white, tire swings, business, suits, man, briefcase, tire swing, grungry, distressed, vignette, trees, pensive, lost in thought, contemplating and silhouettes.

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

(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!

An InLinkz Link-up

Going in circles and never stop: art journal page

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my very first post on VLVS team.
This is an inspirational post and not a tutorial, so I am just going to share my thoughts, tips and the way I worked on this art journal page.
Lot of people ask me about the way I get my inspiration. Usually I begin with products I own. Like if I need to make a project for a stamp company, I try to figure what stamps I have and how I can combine them into a finished art piece.
As I already own quite a lot of VLVS stamps (about a hundred, I think) it was not so easy to group them into  some themes and to see what stamps are going to be used for the first project.
So I grouped the circles first as they were pretty large.
The huge Clock face,Coffee ring  stain, Solid color wheel and  another circles were the first. Then I  began to look for something that is connected to circles and to time and the result was this song line that says" Going in circles like a faceless clock with a timeless hope that never stop".
Perfecto! Now I looked for an image of someone who  was standing, walking scrolling etc. The only one I found in my stash was this Businessman Silhouette , but it was the best of the best. I stamped him on the corner as this was my whole page anchor and added Brick background around him. All stamping process over this page done with pigmented inks and clear embossing powder and all inks I used are Clearsnap Crafter's inks as those are very wet and perfect for heat embossing inks.
Now I started the process that was to stamp all images with different colored inks and to make the circled
background and to arrange the circles to the way that will make my stickers sentiment placement possible.
On the way I added more circled  VLVS  images around as  you can see on the full product list below.

The whole piece was misted, inked and painted with a wide mix of Gelatos, mists and acrylic paints and I even added some spots of gel medium around before (those are bare, non colored spots).

I arranged the sentiment around the circles and added this huge NEVER STOP central title with vinyl stickers.

Then I just added a couple of metal clock pieces and some glitter over the glue.

VLVS stamps used to make this project:

Brick backround- Item 19077 Plate 917

Clock face- Item 19468 Plate 1444

Solid color wheel-Item 19339 Plate 1435

Thick to thin round-Item 900 Plate 272

Coffee ring stain-Item 19230 Plate 926

Color wheel lines-Item 19338 Plate 1435

Hand holding circle- Item 15977 Plate 1271

Charred wood background- Item 16387 Plate 1301

Bussinessman silhouette-Item 19418 Plate 1440

Watch movement-Item 18457 Plate 1388

Other products used:

Inks- Clearsnap, Ranger

Embossing powders, glitters: WOW! Embossing Powders

Metal trinkets:  Paper Studio

Letters- American Crafts, Glitz Designs

I hope I inspired  you a bit with my way of making art journal pieces and you are welcome to try this way of  creating art.

Inspired

Hello Everyone! Karen here with you again today..

for all of us inspiration comes in all sorts of forms, and at all different times..

For me,  as soon as I saw the Businessman Silhouette,

 

it's like a little light bulb went off inside my head.. I knew he just had to be paired Big Ben.

 

 For me they just go hand in hand.. and then August 1st came along and Tim Holtz posted his tag and technique for his August tag...and bang, there it was again, this stamp combo popped straight into my head  and I knew what I would be sharing with you all today.

 

I've also used the waybill/invoice background

  in my background layer as well ( this one is another favourite!!)

 

and

Not all who wander.

 

 

 add in a little distress ink, tissue tape and a few idea-ology embellishments and rub-ons, and I was done

 

 

and as always I can't not share a few close ups with you..

 

 

We'd love to hear about what you find inspiring, or a VLVS! stamp or combination of stamps that inspire you..

 

Thank you so much for stopping by,

until next time.. Happy Creating

 

Karen xx