Life is a Carnival

 As Summer slowly fades into Fall, county fairs start up. Using the Spinning Swing Ride stamp and some Distress Oxides on a tag, reminds me of simpler times.

Supplies:

Spinning Swing Ride

Distress Oxides: Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade and Squeezed Lemonade

Blending Brushes (or any blending type tool)

Chipboard Tag

White Gesso

Black Pigment Ink

Black Embossing Powder 

Stencil Flower Dot (use any stencil you have on hand)

Texture Paste Copper Crackle

 

Directions:

1) Cover chipboard tag evenly with white gesso (if you have a tag that is on white chipboard, skipp this step).

 2) Stamp and emboss the stamp, positioning it to the left of the tag.

3) Apply in strips horizontally each color, purple, pink, orange and yello.

4) Blend colors with blending tool, color to color, edge to edge of pigment.

5) Find stencil and add texture metallic pastes.

This tag can have a tassel added and the sides inked with black as well, but I ended up leaving this as is.

Hope you enjoyed this quick project! See you on the flip side!

A Carnival of Happy

It's Amy here today to share a blast from the past, the HERE stamp.
I had fun getting this funny Mardi Gras gal ready for a carnival atmosphere, on this layered ATC (I'm clearly big on those these days).

I used my gelli plate to make the background, using purple and green paints, and neon pink Hero Arts ink, spreading it with a brayer, over a stencil. I then added some drywall tape, cut down, for texture, and rolled the brayer over the top.

For the ATC card with the Mardi Gras Mask stamp on it, I stamped with IMAGINE Crafts Neon and Memento inks in Pink and Green shades, and colored it in with watercolor pencils. The background is shaded with purple watercolor pencil.

Finally, I added layers of embellishments, including the vintage plastic ballerina. I tried to keep everything light and fun, using some cupcake flags from Ruby Rock-it for little banners.







Thanks for having a look today, and I hope you enjoyed taking a trip back in time, to find a new stamp!
Loves,
Amy

Supplies:
Stamp: Mardi Gras Mask
Adhesive: Miracle Tape, E6000
Ink: IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko
Chipboard Frame/Hearts: Studio Calico/Pink Paislee-Heidi Swapp
Metal: Bead Landing/Tim Holtz
Ballerina/Laces: Vintage
Cupcake Flags: Ruby Rock-It
Rhinestone word: Unknown

Welcome to the MIDWAY!!! Taking a Little Field Trip to the Carnival...

Welcome to Viva Las Vegastamps! Susan here today to bring you take you on a trip to the Carnival. I've spent the last couple weeks taking some workshops in my free time and learning some new things and replenishing my inspiration before heading into the busy holiday crafting season. Today's project uses a couple of fun techniques I picked up at the Creative Chemistry 102 classes last week. I'm totally stuck in all things Halloween - but the current "CARNIVAL" challenge #145 at Drunken Stampers Challenges had me running for the bright bold colors and my new plate #949 of carnival stamps.

Firstly - I took an A2 piece of Kromecote Glossy Cardstock and painted with an assortment of Ranger Alcohol inks and Silver Metallic Mixative using Monoprinting technique. Dripping the metallic along with several colors of ink on the craft mat, then add a little blending solution - then swipe the paper into the colors until it's covered as desired. 

It makes a stunning marbled background. I have a very natural colored variation

also from the ink cleanup... no waste of precious ink here!

The final step is to stamp in the scene using Ranger Black Archival Ink and heatset.

I finished the edges with some Seedless Preserves and Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

For this background paper - I applied the stamping resist technique using Antique Linen Distress Paint. I daubed gently the paint across the stamp, then applied to the patterned paper, then set aside to dry.

Then using an ink blending tool, I blended in several colors of Ranger Distress Inks -

including my hands-down favorite... Seedless Preserves!!!

Lastly, using a damp papertowel - I gently swiped the color off of the painted stamp pattern.

Miracle Tape made this card assemble a snap to showcase these awesome results!

Welcome to the MIDWAY!!!

The finishing touch was to add some Diamond Glaze Dimensional adhesive to the Shoes Hanging from Wire #19194 to make them "POP". I overstamped the Circus Strongman #19189; filling in the missing section of barbell using ink blending tool and seedless preserves ink through a matching sized circle on my circle stencil.

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Viva Las Vegastamps! used: Stamps from plate 949 - "The Midway" #19201, Zoltar Machine #19191, Bulls Eye Target Open # 19193, Spinning Swing Ride #19203, Circus Strongman #19189, Shoes Hanging from Wire #19194, Bulls Eye Target Solid #19196; also Triangle Banner #19043; Chevron Banner #19042; and Harlequin Diamond Background #18920. Supplies used: Kromecote cardstock; various Ranger Alcohol inks and silver metallic mixative; various Ranger Distress Inks; Ranger Black Archival Ink; Antique Linen Ranger Distress Paint; Miracle Tape, Diamond Glaze Dimensional adhesive; Circle Stencil and Patterned Cardstock Scraps for card base.

Thanks so much for dropping by. I invite you to play along with the monthly challenge - make a creation using the inspiration and your stash of VLVS! stamps... you could win! CLICK HERE for challenge details. Also, you definitely want to subscribe to the blog feed and to the Viva Las VegaStamps! newsletter to be IN THE KNOW of everything going on at the Viva Las Vegastamps! store. There's so much amazing inky inspiration to see!

If you would like to see more of my creations please visit my blog, sbartist : painting in the dark HERE. I'll be back soon with another stamping adventure!  Sb