"Blame My Gypsy Soul" An Art Journal Spread by Fiona

Hello my lovely Viva Las Vegastamps friends. Fiona here with you today to share a little journal spread I created using the gorgeous rubber from VLVS.

Lots and lots of layers went into this one!

And then I decided I needed a little feature piece so I created this little boy from the "Striped Leggings" stamp, the "Crown" stamp and the "Horned Boy" stamp. I think together they make a very cool Elizabethan style boy!

Right down to the red tights!!

You can see some of the layers I created in this close up photo below.

I love just playing and creating freely on pages. No commitment to an art journal. If I like it I'll stick it in, if I don't I'll chop it up and use it on another art journal page!

Viva Las Vegastamps used:

Whimsical Horned Boy

Crown

Striped leggings

Clock Face

Freud Writing Background

Sawtooth Stitching Lines

Stitching Lines

Stitching

Doodle Frame

I hope you like my little creation. I'll see you all again very soon.

Challenge - Accepted!

Hi Everyone - Karen here with you again today. Have you seen the awesome new inspiration challenge that we have here at VLVS this month??

 



 

I love the colours.. So I decided that I would use this as my inspiration ,

 

This is what I came up with..
 

 

 I used a base of the VLVS Grunge writing 1787 , then layered down  lots of different elements, including book pages and lace added in some Tim Holtz embellishments and some hexagon chipboard from UmWow Studio .  I've coloured the chipboard with brown ink, even though I love the natural colour of the UWS chipboard, I wanted it a little darker this time, and  lastly some stitching and flowers.

 

and a couple of close ups..

 

I love the detail in this crown.

 I stamped  both the crown and the bee on manila coloured cardstock, the inked the edges with walnut stain distress ink.

 

I've  used Miracle tape to stick my vintage lace down..  Is there anything this tape wont stick??

 

I used three different VLVS images for this one..

 

Crown

 

 

 For the background  I used

Grunge Writing 1787

 

And I fussy cut the bee from

 

Italian Sonnet Background

 

 

Thank you for stoping by,

I hope you have a fantastic day, and get a little stamping in

 

Happy Stamping..

Karen.

A Journal page layout hybrid.. Photo Booth

DeeDee filling in today and here is a journal page/scrapbook layout I did to preserve the fun memory of my husband and I taking our little guy into a photo booth:

The Faded Raven (2.75x2.25 - $9.50)and Crown (2x2.5 - $7.25) really made this piece!!
The raven was stamped in Archival Black by ranger on the journal page, but the crown was stamped with archival on Kromecote and fussy cut to attach to the corner of the photo.

The brad is BasicGrey, the Webbing and Burlap string are May Arts, the mist is glimmer mist. I also used floral beads, a dymo label maker, a black pen, and gesso.