Santa by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello Everyone!

Here is a card for the season for my blog this time- Enjoy.

I stamped Santa and used distress spray stains to paint him, as well as pearl ex paints. I went for a rather vintage feel for him, hence the the brown coat. after painting, I fussy cut him and used foam tape on the back- love that dimension!

Then I cut the gold and red and gold specked cardstock to size. I stamped the snowflake with versamark ink and then used a fluffy brush to put the mica powder over it. Shimmery blue flakes!

I then Decided on a phrase. I think this Santa just looks a bit tired or irritated, which I love. So I went to my computer and typed up the phrase and printed it out on a shimmer blue vellum to match the flakes.

I then layered it onto red cardstock and then attached to the main card.

And that is all there is to this card. Fun, quick, easy.

Hope you enjoyed, and I hope you have great holidays what ever you celebrate!

Stamps Used:

Santa Claus   20357

Snowflake   12923

Other Supplies:

Distress spray stain: Candied apple, Vintage photo, Weathered wood, tea dye, tattered rose, gathered twigs.

pearl ex watercolor paints

foam tape

Versamark ink pad

Chameleon powder 

cardstock

Not a usual Christmas project

Hey everyone,

I thought I'd share some Christmassy inspiration, even if it's not a classical project. We are all facing a Christmas that might be less merry than usual and even the Santa on my Memorydex card is advising to stay home.

I die cut my memorydex card layers from different papers. The base is a simple black card stock, for the middle layer I chose a metallic green one and the top is from watercolor paper.

My background is made with some of the Distress inks that have been released this year: speckled egg and rustic wilderness. I put some color onto a piece of foil, sprayed that with water and added the color to my top layer. Between each layer (I did three of them) I dried my project.

Once the inking was done, I added some stamping to create light visual texture and interest. Therefore I chose the music sheet as a more classic Christmas element and the illustration of the corona virus for the contemporary aspect.

Next, I stamped my waving Santa and colored him with some ZIG markers. After cutting him I inked the edges to make the image blend better into the background later. As I'm not a very passionate Christmas crafter, I never searched actively for Christmas stmaps at VLVS. This one here I got from a pound of rubber and I thought it might be a good idea to give him a go. 

For the quote I used one of the pandemic ones from the last release. "Stay the fuck home" seemed to be the right one, and it also had the perfect size to cut it with the speechbubble die I had.

Now it was time to assemble everything. I glued my three layers of paper on top of wach other and attached Santa. For the speech bubble I decided to do something special and added an action wobble for a fun effect.

 

 

 

 

Stamps used:
Waving Santa (4820)
Stay The Fuck Home (20536)
Coronavirus (20547)
Sheet Music Background (19557)

Other material:
- black cardstock
- Tim Holtz metallic cardstock
- Canson watercolor paper
- Studio Light die for memorydex
- Xcut die (speechbubbles)
- Versaclair ink (nocturne)
- Distress ink (speckled egg, rustic wilderness)
- Archival ink (library green, potting soil)
- ZIG real brush pens
- action wobble (small)

See you soon with another project!

Santa Claus is coming...

Hello crafty friends!

It's time for me to get to work on Christmas cards.  I wanted to create something simple and sort of grungy/vintage so it would be great for anyone. 

Stamps used:

Be filled with Joy

Santa smoking

Using archival ink in watering can grey.  I stamped Santa and my sentiment.  I used distress stains to "watercolor" everything.  The card is A2 sized with each matte being 1/4 in smaller than the layer below.

I hope you enjoy this fun and easy card!

Happy Holidays

December Challenge

It's time to break out your very own MAIL ART! Letters to Santa, Christmas outfits, fluffy hats, postoids, red, glitter, black and white, shades of gray, overstretch belt buckles, trikes, kids, Christmas morning, SANTA himself, stripes and anything else you can draw from our mood board.

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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VLVS! & Die-Namites Dies Blog Hop FINALE

Welcome to the FINAL day of the Christmas Blog Hop between Viva Las VegaStamps! and Die-Namites Dies.

All week long our Design Team has been hopping with the Die-Namites Dies Design Team to bring you tons of Christmas inspiration just in time for the holiday! Be sure to visit each day and leave comments on all the posts involved, because there ARE Prizes to be won! Two big prizes full valued at $50 full of DIES and STAMPS!

To finish off this inspiring week we have Tera Callihan joining us.

Die-Namites Die Leafy Branch

Viva Las VegaStamps! Used
Santa Collage 3 1/2 x 4 1/4
Holly Large 2 3/4 x 2 1/4
Noel 1 1/4 x 2 1/2
Jingle Bells 3/4 x 2
Pen Tips 2 3/4 x 2

Tera says "Today I decided to do a fun new take on using dies. As many of you know I love mail art, but gluing pieces on the outside of an envelope can be awkward. To keep the envelope nice and flat, but add depth and dimension I decided to combine stamping with "masking" with Die cuts! This Is a great technique to use on all of your upcoming Christmas tags, envelopes, and even gift wrapping!!"

And that's it folks! Visit the Die-namites blog for their last day and make sure to catch up on leaving comments. We'll be announcing a giveaway soon!!

Did you get lots of inspiration this week? Maybe you can finish your Christmas cards, make  your own wrapping paper or even put together some beautiful handmade gifts.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Its the the Holiday Season! This year I deiced to make some Christmas cards using Viva Las VegaStamps! of course!

 This first card is a quick fun card I made using Kromecote and Ultra High Gloss clear embossing powder for a fun emboss resist technique.

I stamped the Harlequin Diamond background stamp in clear embossing ink on the Kromecote. I poured the Ultra High Gloss embossing powder over it. After I melted the embossing powder with my heat gun, and it cooled, I took Barn Door distress ink pad and one of the foam pieces and went over the embossed image with the ink. I then took Fire Brick distress ink pad and did it again. I then took a paper towel to wipe off the ink from where it is embossed. it looks like this.

 I trimmed the Kromcote a pit so it can fit on the Kraft card base. I used Miracle tape to attached the Kromecote to the card base.

On white cardstock I stamped the Snow woman in flower hat with black Memento ink pad. I colored her hat and purse with markers. I stamped the head part of the stamp and painted the nose orange. I cut it out and glued it on her. I glossy accented the band of the hat and her eyes. I added some rock candy stickles to her body. I used foam tape to attache her to the card.

On a piece of scrap cardstock I stamped the sentiment, "have yourself a merry little Christmas" and edged it with Crushed Olive distress ink pad.

Stamps I used:
Harlequin Diamond Background
Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Snow woman with flower hat

items used:
Kromecote
Ultra High Gloss Embossing powder
Miracle tape
bard door distress ink pad
fire brick distress ink pad
kraft cardstock
white cardstock
black memento ink pad
orange craft paint
markers
rock candy stickles
foam tape

crushed olive distress ink pad

This card is another fun card to make. Its a triple stamping card technique  I saw a friend make one, then saw a youtube video on where she got the idea from. While watching her make the card I got an idea to use a VLVS! stamp with it. Turned out really cute! This is what it looks like uncolored.

I took the 3 white cardstock layers and stack them on top of each other. I then stamped the Santa hits plane with Black Versafine ink pad and then embossed in Ultra High Gloss clear embossing powder. After I embossed the powder I mounted the three white layers onto the green cardstock using Miracle tape. I then colored the image Artist Loft watercolors. I also used pearlesnt watercolors. I should of done that first before mounting them on the green. but live and learn! :P 

Taking a cue from George of the Jungle I stamped out "Watch out for that plane George" with the small alpha's from the plate 1430 on scrap of white cardsock with black soot distress ink pad. cut the words and mounted that on the bottom white layer. 

stamps used

Santa hits plane

plate 1430

items used

Miracle tape

Ultra high gloss clear embossing powder

white cardstock

green cardstock

black Versafine ink pad

Black soot distress ink pad

artist loft water color

pearlesent water color

Christmas Card & Gift Set

Merry Christmas all you Viva Las VegaStamps fans! 

Pinky here today with a gift and card project using the incredibly crisp and clear VLVS stamps!

I have been playing with enamel powders and decided to create not only a card 

but also a gift canvas. I cannot get over how incredibly clear the VLVS stamp even

while using embossing/enamel powders. See for yourself how clear it is. 

 For this card I 

1. Stamp the VLVS image onto cream card-stock using embossing ink.

2. Sprinkle gently using embossing enamel. 

3. Heat set using heat gun.

4. Trim out stamped image. 

5. Trim out 7X7 cardstock.

6. Coat card-stock with enamel ink and enamels.

7. Heat set entire page. 

8. Trim paper to proper size- use border punch to create decorative border. 

9. Using Miracle Tape-adhere stamped image to punched cardstock. 

10. Adhere metals to card corners.

11. Adhere card face to card base. 

I followed the same steps for the canvas pictured below except

instead of adhering it to the card base I adhered it to the canvas that

I had used embossing enamels on. Then I added the ribbons. 

When you want a clear stamped image, you know you can trust VLVS! 

Until next time!

Pinky Hobbs- Viva Las VegaStamps Design Team

Products Used:

All Aboard For Christmas Plate 1302

Miracle Tape 1/2"

Globecraft Piccolo Enamel Powder

Momenta Metals, Patterned Papers

Ribbon, Viva Decor Pearl Pen, Border Punch by Fiskars

LAST CHRISTMAS in JULY

Last day to stamp my Christmas in July Cards. If your family is like most the budgets are tight. If you are like me you have a ton of pattern paper you have been hoarding. So why not get yourself a few great VLVS! Christmas Stamps and make your cards this year with all of that paper you have been saving for that special project. 

You don't have to make each card the same mix and match the papers.   

VLVS! Santa Face on VLVS! Kromecote Cardstock-Versafine Black Ink and Tim Holtz Distress Marker- Tattered Rose.  Isn't the detail wonderful!!!

VLVS! Santa Face (fussy cut) stmaped on VLVS! Kromecote Cardstock - ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink Prussian Blue

 VLVS! Santa Face - Versafine Black Ink

 VLVS! Santa Face - Versafine Black Ink

 VLVS! Santa Face - Versafine Black Ink

 VLVS! Santa Face - Versafine Crimson Red Ink

 VLVS! Holly Santa -Versafine Black Ink

 VLVS! Santa Filling Bag - Versafine Black Ink

VLVS! Steampunk Christmas Tree - Versafine Black Ink

Make this an OLD Fashion Christmas... get the family involved in making the Christmas cards this year.  

Just around the corner..

is Christmas! and I'm having fun doing "creative" Christmas cards this year... 

I picked up some of the Library Pockets from VLVS! and got to work distressing with a walnut stain distress ink. I then cut a tag from some dictionary paper and distressed with peeled paint distress ink.

I love the cream color that manila comes.. so I seriously stock up on manila folders and use them as a regular stamping surface.. I grabbed a folder and this beautiful new stamp from VLVS!:

Jolly Ol' St. Nick 3 1/4 x 3 - $11.75

I stamped him in Memento Tuxedo and embossed with VLVS!'s Ultra High Gloss EP. 

I then did a little embellishing (I love to deconstruct decorative picks and use bits n bobs as embellishmetns) some extra inking.. ribbon snipping and tying.. and of course adhering everything down with VLVS! Miralce Tape...

and...

VIOLA!

thanks so much for checking out my VLVS! project again this week!! -DeeDee

  

Viva Las Vegastamps! and Creative Paperclay® Ornaments

This month the Viva Las Vegastamps! design team was challenged to use Creative Paperclay® in their post!  I usually give home make ornaments as gifts to some of the people on my Christmas list and decided to make them with Creative Paperclay® this year!  For one stop shopping Creative Paperclay® is now available online at Viva Las Vegastamps! 

Work on a flat surface, a glass surface seems to work the best. Tip: I place a transparency on the glass surface to allow easy moving. Sorry you can't see the transparency, believe me it is there! Work with small amounts of Creative Paperclay®, first roll it into a smooth ball, then between the spacers roll out the clay.   For spacers I used 3 pieces of chip board taped together with Viva Las Vegastamps! Miracle Tape, making them about a 1/4 of an inch thick. The spacers help keep my clay a consistent thickness. While working with Creative Paperclay® be sure to keep the unused portion of the clay sealed or covered in plastic so it doesn’t dry out!

After rolling out the paper clay stamp your image in the clay.  Do this before you cut the clay.  If you stamp after cutting the clay you may distort the shape of the cut image.  Note: Once you use items from the kitchen with clay the tools should be used exclusively for clay or other craft projects in the future!

For my ornaments I used Viva Las Vegastamps! Swirls Plate 1333 and Santa Holly.

After stamping your image cut your shape, press hard so that you feel the glass surface below the cutters.  Tip: Gently pull the extra clay from around the cutters while the cutter is still in the clay.  Using the end of the paint brush put a hole in each ornament.

Halfway through the drying time turn your ornaments over.  Sand the rough edges gently with an emery board or fine sand paper.  For a sealed surface paint ornaments with a matte medium or gesso,  set aside to dry.

Paint your charms with acrylic paints or any other craft paint you may have around, set aside to dry.

With gold paint cover the ornament and then wipe the paint leaving the gold in the impression made by the stamps.

Set aside to dry. 

Add a bow to each ornament and 

a set is ready to give as a gift!

Close up of Holly Santa!

Supplies:

Viva Las Vegastamps! Holly Santa

Viva Las Vegastamps! Swirls Plate # 1333

Creative Paperclay®

Cookie cutters, 

Cutting surface-Glass cutting board 

Transparencies

Roller 

Spacers made from Chipboard

Paint brush

Emery-board

Gesso or Matt medium

Acrylic Paints

Ribbon

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