March is Birthday Month at Viva Las Vegastamps!!!

MARCH is BIRTHDAY MONTH

and this month holds a very special birthday

Terri Sproul (the Design Team Lead) is 29 again!!!

Be sure to stop by

 and wish her Happy Birthday 

with a card in the MONTHLY CHALLENGE!!!

For this card gather supplies listed at the end of this post.  All stamps used are from Viva Las Vegastamps! the Basset Hound Dog Rocketeer, "May the Steam be with you!", Happy Birthday, Nesting Gears, Fancy Key-Vintage and a Swirl from Swirls Plate 1333. All images were embossed with Viva Las Vegastamps! Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder.

First stamp Happy Birthday on a strip of paper and adhered with VLVS! Miracle Tape to the bottom of the panel. Next stamp the Basset Hound Dog Rocketeer, masking the dog stamp the Fancy Key-VIntage to make it look like the Basset was a wind up.  Stamp the Swirl from plate 1333, and "May the Steam be with you!"  Mask all stamped images and the flags on the pattern paper and stamp the Nesting Gears with Versafine Olympia Green ink. Once all images are stamped and embossed. Using COPICs add a little color to the rocket with gray and brown to the Basset.

Mix Sakura Crystal Lacquer with Terri Sproul Mixers Gold.  Paint thickly on the rocket and lightly on the Basset.  Set aside to dry 

After the panel has dried attach it to the card base with Viva Las Vegastamps! Miracle Tape. Add locking washers! 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TERRI!!!

Supplies

Viva Las Vegastamps!Basset Hound Dog Rocketeer

Viva Las Vegastamps!May the Steam be with you!

Viva Las Vegastamps!Happy Birthday 

Viva Las Vegastamps!Nesting Gears

Viva Las Vegastamps!Fancy Key Vintage

Viva Las Vegastamps!Swirl from Swirls Plate 1333

Viva Las Vegastamps!Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder

Viva Las Vegastamps!Miracle Tape

Stewart Superior Memories Madonna Blue Ink

Stewart Superior Memories Black Ink

Versafine Olympia Green Ink

Sakura Crystal Lacquer

Terri Sproul Mixers Gold

Pattern Paper - My Minds Eye

Locking Washers

Remember to enter the Monthly Challenge 

The theme this month is Birthday!

You could win $25 to the VLVS! on-line store 

To read more about the challenge click HERE!

TH Inspired Tag using VLVS! Swirls

Hey Everybody!! DeeDee here!! Have you seen the 12 tags of 2012 TH is now doing?? 

well I wanted to participate.. but As a design team member for VLVS! it is our duty to promote as much VLVS! as possible, and it's QUITE easy when you love a company as much as I do VLVS! The images that Wayne and CO produce are just ... the best. so I took on TH's tag challenge.. but with a VLVS! twist.. 

First.. Pick a background! 

I chose a combination of three stamps:

  Swirl 2 1/2 x 3 1/4 - $10.25

Swirl 3/4 x 1 1/4 - $5.00

  Swirl 3/4 x 1 - $4.50

Then.. grab your tag and stamp them in WHITE ACRYLIC PAINT. I stamped them sort of haphazard all over.. and I wasn't careful about covering the entire stamp in paint either.. it sort of made this.. fun swirly collage with an almost foliage resemblance! 

Give the paint ample time to dry and then ink your tag. I used Spun Sugar Distress Stain.. and sponged some Festive Berries and Brushed Corduroy ink over it. spritz with water.. and wipe the ink off of the painted parts!! Background CHECK!

(here's a closeup of the background)

I then embellished with a 3D heart made from punched hearts that I folded in half and glued sides together. There's a bit of old pattern wrinkled up underneath the heart.. and I used some vintage lace and snug hug for my trim embellishes! 

The Cupid was hand cut, inked and crackled! What do you think?? Aren't the VLVS! Stamps just SUPERB! they do the same thing as tim's giant stamp, but only BETTER!! 

Let me know what you thiiiiiiiiink!! -DeeDee