Hippo ride by Cathy N

 Hello, I have a fun card for you today.

                                                             Stamps Used:

                                                             19837 hippo racer

                                                             19563 grunge circles 

I stamped the grunge circles with blue distress ink, and I edged the card with the same color.

I then made alcohol ink background.

 Next, I stamped hippo racer on top of the grunge circles and then layered it on the background paper.

Lastly, I added to gray card base. 

Haunted AJ page by Arwen

 Hi VLVS fans ❤

Today, it's my turn to share a project with you.

I created this Art Journal page and you can have a look on the single steps below.

Close-ups:

 The single steps - I choose some Design paper and stick some other DP on it.

 After adding a little "Month" sticker and stiching some parts by hand, I used Lindy's colorspray and some splatters of Dylusions spray.

As next step, I stamped two different images as a background.

Close-up:

At last, I choose my images, I want to use for this page, colored them, cut them and stick them onto my page.

all stamps, I used: 

- Vampire Boy 15165

- Dressform 19641

- Eye Ball 10398

- Haunted Board 19734

- Bat Skeleton 19742

- Writing Chevron 19824

 

other materials:

- Design paper

- Lindy's spray

- Dylusions spray

- Alcohol Inks

- Staz on

- ColorBox

- Distress Reinker

- Brads

- Yarn

- Sticker

 

See ya soon 

xx

Halloween tags with witch and death moth

Hey everyone,

just two days until Halloween, so of course I have another inspiration project for this. Today I want to share these two tags. I know, it might be a bit hard to see on the photo, but guess which material I used as a base?

... it's foil! Windmill foil to be exact.

I cut my two tags from the foil and colored them with alcohol inks and some blending solution. I worked on them as long as I was happy with the look.

 While they were drying, I stamped and cut two focal points - the witch with her broom and the death moth - on watercolor paper. I left a white boarder around both images. I usually don't do that, but I thought they needed a little more contrast to stand out against my colorful tags. Bonus: it made the cutting much easier. ;-)

To add more interest I chose a chipboard element for each tag and heatembossed it - my favorite thing to do with chipboard.

As my backgrounds have dried in the meantime, I could work a little more on them. I decided to turn the tag around and stamp on the smoother side without the alcohol ink. For stamping I used a white Stazeon ink which works really well on foil. I stamped the row of chakras as well as part of the tree stamp on the red tag and two different skulls and the branch antlers on the blue one. The tree and the antlers both create a similar look when you just stamp parts of it, but I wanted to give you double the inspiration. 

I finished the tags by glueing the chipboard pieces, the cutout images and a lot of thread on them and added one of the Tim Holtz stickers on each.

I haven't had my alcohol inks for a while now, but it was fun playing with them on the foil. And of course there are some cool possibilities of using foil tags for decoration such as placing them in front of an electric candle.

Stamps used:
Witch Holding Broom (19705)
Death Moth (20056)
Weathered Tree (19467)
Realistic Skull (19724)
Branch Antlers Set of 2 by Cat Kerr (20147)
The Head Figure by Cat Kerr (20138)
Chakras (20246)

Other material:
- windmill foil
- watercolor paper
- Versaclaire Ink (nocturne)
- Stazon ink (opaque cotton white)
- Ranger alcohol inks + blending solution
    red tag: sunset orange, purple twilight, wild plum
    blue tag: denim, turquoise, raspberry
    on both: pitch black
- Scrapiniec chipboard elements (spiderweb 4967, boarder 4614)
- Embossing powder (Lindy's Gang - chalk it up)
- black and white thread

See you soon & happy Halloween!

I'm not insane...by Elisa Ablett

Hi everyone,

Elisa here from the design team with the first of my creations for March, a colourful card/journal page with some interesting mixed media techniques!

Let's take a closer look before we start the step by step tutorial..

Here are some of the great stamps I used to create my project by Viva Las VegaStamps:

 

https://vlvstamps.com/i-m-not-insane-1-3-4-x-1-1-2.html

https://vlvstamps.com/musical-note-calligraphy-1-1-4-x-1-1-4.html

https://vlvstamps.com/crackle-background-4-3-4-x-5-3-4.html

https://vlvstamps.com/banksy-wall-singer-2-3-4-x-3-3-4.html

Step by Step Tutorial:

First step is stamping onto a sheet of Acetate, I use Staz on black ink and I tap the ink over and onto the large background stamp and not the other way around. I ease the stamp over the top of the Acetate and press gently, you don't want to press down to hard onto the Acetate.

The next few steps cover making your background with Alcohol inks and pure Alcohol of 96% or more which I purchased from the Pharmacy and distilled into a Fineline Applicator bottle. 

Using a paint palette, squeeze a few drops of your desired Alcohol ink colours into your palette, then squeeze a fine line of your pure alcohol onto your yupo paper down the bottom like the first photo. The add your colour using a paint brush. Repeat with your different colours, you can also add more 'cells' to the background by squirting with your pure alcohol. Work in a ventilated area!

If you want to blend the straight lines a bit, while you have the alcohol on the page tip the paper up and back to make the colours blend a bit.

Using a distress tool and once your background is dry, ink gently around the edges of your background. Stamp your musical notes and title onto cardstock.

Using distress oxide ink pads, smoosh your favourite colours onto a craft messy mat and spritz with water and dip your white cardstock into the different colours spritzing the cardstock as well to create the oxidising effect on the paper. 

Once dry, stamp your Banksy Wall Singer stamp using Black Archival ink over the top of your background. Also stamp your stamp onto white cardstock. 

Fussy cut your two Banksy Wall Singer stamped images, then cut a few pieces off the coloured stamped image and using 3d foam mounting tape, stick them over the top (don't forget to line them up).

Attach your stamped acetate, I used staples and then adhere your black and white stamped image on the left hand side of your card/journal page. I then also cut a few of the coloured off cuts and adhered them so they continued up above the stamped image.

Then adhere your fussy cut musical notes and title to your page and some last minute edging with a fine black marker and you are done!

Thanks for stopping by the blog today, make sure you leave some love in the comments.

Hugs 

Elisa x

Skull ATC's

Trick or Treat!!
Michele here with a couple of Skull ATC's for the last of my Halloween shares for this year.

I created an alcohol ink background and used the new lift ink.

Stamps used:  Skull, Spooky, Mwahahahahahaha

This ATC shows what the 'lift' looks like on the alcohol ink background on Yupo paper.  It will be a great background and I love the detail!

The skull is then stamped on white card stock using what was lifted.

A little fussy cutting and distressed edges on this one for some great depth!!
Are you still creating for Halloween??  We would LOVE to see!  Share over on our Facebook page!!

Until next time...get inky!!

You color my world : stamping on acrylic board tutorial

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my September tutorial made for VLVS blog.

This time I decided to be totally colorful and to use a lot of alcohol inks over my piece as they look gorgeous over acrylicfragments  and this altered deco is all  done from tons of acrylic fragments.

 But first lets see the stamping part of it.

So here we go!   

Step by step directions:

1. Take your Whimsical Jester stamp and stamp over the large (4*4'' ) acrylic fragment with black StazOn ink. Also this ink should be permanent over acrylic it takes some time  to dry, so I added a few blows of my heat gun.

2.Now add some butterflies using Butterfly Specimens stamp in the very same way. As you can see we have a perfect space for this butterflies strip.

3. Now for the fun part: add a mix of your favorite alcohol inks on the BACK of your stamped piece. 

4. Grab some smaller acrylic fragment and arrange them over the stamped piece using a few drops of Glossy Accents. You glue over the stamped surface and not over the colored one.Let the glaze dry for a few minutes.

5. Pick another acrylic piece and stamp this gorgeous " YOU COLOR MY WORLD" VLVS sentiment over it with white pigmented ink and white powder heat embossing.

Glue the sentiment as shown over the main piece. Add a few pearls over the piece. You stamped art deco is done! Enjoy!

And this is how it looks  on a stand!

 Another possible way to display this art piece hanging on the wall:

VLVS used to make this piece:

Whimsical Jester Item 19682 Plate 1457

Butterfly Specimens  Item 19415 Plate 1440

You color my world Item 19344 Plate 1435

Other  products:

Black StaOn ink- Tsukineko

Tim Holtz Acrylic fragments

Ranger Alcohol inks

Glossy Accents Ranger

Pearls