Circus Bear by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello everyone!!

Today I made a card for my blog project.

For my background, I used several colors of thick acrylic paint. I put it right on the card and used a brush to spread it around.

Once I had the paint on, I dried it with my heat tool. And then used a pallet knife to put some crackle paste on in some areas. Pro tip: Don't be impatient like me and dry the crackle paste with a heat tool. Let it air dry. You will not get much if any cracks otherwise. As you see on my card. few cracks.

I needed some yellow so I used some distress oxide wild honey re inker on top of the paste. I heat dried it, and kept putting paints and even some red distress spray stain on until I was happy. Its a very textured background.

While that finished drying, I stamped the Banksy circus bear on a piece of cardstock and painted him with distress sprays like watercolor.

I used foam tape to pop him up on top of the background. Then I mounted it all onto a black card. I used some TH small talk words to finish the card. 

I hope you like my card today~ Thanks for looking.

Stamp used:

Banksy Circus Bear       19977

Other supplies:

Various Acrylic paints-see photo above

Crackle paste by Golden

Distress spray stains: Lumberjack plaid., Gathered twigs, Vintage photo, twisted citron, saltwater taffy,

Squeezed lemonade

Dixie bell chalk paint- lemonade

Make art not war - by Corrie

 Hello everyone,

For today's project I have made an artjournal page and I had to use some Banksy inspired stamps again. I simply love them ! 

The background was made by painting it turquoise and lime and adding stencilling with the same colours, white and dark pink acrylic paint. I used Dina Wakley acrylics. I also used a brayer and white paint to tone the whole thing down again. I added stamping, doodling and washi tape and placed the soldiers on the top of the washi tape to ground them. The sentiment was cut apart and glued onto the page. I added some of the dark pink paint along the bottom edges of the words and at the end of the brush that the soldier on the right is holding. 

I have used the following stamps:

20651 - Banksy Soldiers Painting

19973 - Banksy Make art not war

20067 - Banksy By order/Graffiti area

20163 - Typeset scallop

19569 - Mesh Texture

19571 - Writing Triangles

19567 - Writing Circles background

I also used:

Dina Wakley acrylic paints:

Turquoise - Lime - Fuchsia

Amsterdam Acrylics Titanium White

Archival Inks - Aquamarine - Leaf Green - Jet Black

Washi tape

Posca white paint pen

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Snarky Tag by Elisa Ablett

Hi Stamp lovers!

Elisa here from the design team with my latest inspiration for you, a snarky perhaps cheeky mixed media tag.

It must be my sense of humour but the neighbourhood 'peeping tom' scenario came to mind almost immediately after ordering this stamp.

There are a few layers to this tag including hand dyed lace, gold foil, stitching and stencilling with paint BUT lets talk Viva Stamps....

Stamps used:

Lady with Opera Glasses

typewriter-keys-by-cat-kerr

Thanks for stopping by the blog today, make sure you visit the Groupies page on facebook to keep up to date with all things Viva Las VegaStamps.

Hugs from Australia

Elisa x