Find your tribe, love them hard! - by Cheetarah

Hi VLVS! friends! It's Cheetarah here and I've made this fun and Funky note card to share with you. I've used some delish neon inks (Fiona made me catch that bug - LOL!) and some fun VLVS! mixed media stamps. A full list is down below.


How I made this: I took a piece of cardboard, heavy gel medium and scraped it through a stencil (The crafter's workshop obelong) then covered it with a coat of black gesso. Then got an ink palette and poured in a couple of drops of neon ink (from J. Herbin calligraphy neon set) and used my fingers to add the color onto the card, creating the color hue you see on it.

This is how it looked when dried.  When it was drying, I went to work with the focal image, colors and cut that out as well as the arrows and the text. I used some washi tape to ground the "tribe" and added some texture by scribbling in the cut out pieces and stamping in the background.




It was really fun making this card as I got to work with colors I usually do not work with (neons) and I got more use of my calligraphy inks this way as well.

Stamps used:
Find your tribe by Cat Kerr 
Whimsical People
Row of chevrons
Stitching
Writing Chevron

Others:
Heavy Gel Medium
Black Gesso
TCW obelong stencil
J. Herbin neon calligraphy inks
Stazon ink pads
uniball signo blue pen
washi tape

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

January Challenge Inspiration by DeeDee

Hiiii friends! DeeDee Catron here today to share some inspiration for the new monthly challenge! I'm also really excited to show you our first Time 2 Stamp video for 2017.. the design team is working hard on bringing more video tutorials for you to kick back and watch :) So subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date!

We are also introducing a new design team tomorrow... so be back here for that, too!

Now.. this months challenge is as:

Fun right? And my take:

Here's the video followed by closeup shots and supplies:

VLVS! Used:
Deathhead Moth
Find Your Tribe
Waybill/Invoice Background

Others:
UmWowStudio Poppy Pod Skellie
Sizzix / Tim Holtz : #8 Tag Die
Canson Watercolor Paper
Liquited Gesso
Golden Gel Medium
Ranger Ink / Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Vintage Photo & Ground Espresso
Ranger Ink / Tim Holtz Archival Ink in Black Soot
DMC Floss
water, needle, scrap cardstock, paper piercer, heat gun, palette knife, canvas strings, paint brush

Art Journal Page "Find Your Tribe" by Jenn Engle

I have an art journal page to share with you today using some of my current favorite VLVS stamps.

STAMPS I USED:

Doodle Circles

MeshTexture

Find Your Tribe

Hearts

Magic Maker Paint Brush

     I started out by stamping the Doodle Circles and MeshTexture stamps all over my background. The, I sprayed Distress Spray Stain in Cracked Pistachio. While the Distress Spray was still wet, I flicked splatters of Mermaid Lagoon Distress Spray Stain.

     While my background was drying, I started work on my tag. I first ran the tag thru my Big Shot with a geometric embossing folder. Then, I applied Golden High Flow Acrylic in Permanent Violet Dark across the top of my tag. I sprayed the paint with water as I tipped my tag to get the paint flowing down. After that was dry, I flicked Distress Paint splatters in Mermaid Lagoon over my tag.

     On a piece of cardstock, I stamped the Hearts and Magic Maker Paint Brush stamps. I colored the hearts with a yellow Copic Marker. I then stamped the Find Your Tribe stamp on a piece of Gelli printed paper  that sort-of matched my background colors. Before I glued everything down, I stamped Find Your Tribe over and over behind where my tag will go. Then, I glued everything down and journaled around my tag with a White Uni-Ball Signo pen.

Thanks for looking!

~Jenn

Index Card Art by Jenn Engle

Today, I have a simple index card to share with you. I had some extra paint from a project I was working on, so I used my brayer to apply it to my index card. With these new stamps, you don't need much effort to get a beautiful project. 

You can check out the process video at the end of this post to see exactly how this card was made!

STAMPS USED:

Mesh Texture

Numbers Set

Doodle Dots

Doodle Circle

Magic Maker Paintbrush

Find Your Tribe

SUPPLIES (in order of appearance):

Index Card (Super thick, 100lb, great for mixed media)

Speedball Soft Brayer 

Distress Paint in Mermaid Lagoon 

 Distress Paint in Twisted Citron

Distress Paint in Cracked Pistachio

Stamping "Mesh Texture

"Numbers Set"

"Doodles Dot"

Archival Ink in Watering Can

Doodle Circles 

"Magic Maker Paintbrush"

 "Find Your Tribe” Stamps

Copic Marker in Aqua Mint

White Gelly Roll Pen

Black Gelly Roll Pen

Thanks for looking
~Jenn

PLACES TO FIND ME:

Instagram @mixedmediajenn

Facebook: www.facebook.com/jenniferengleart

Blog: www.mixedmediajenn.blogspot.com

YouTube: www.youtube.com/users/jenniferengle22

Gmail: jenniferengle22@gmail.com

Find Your Tribe | Fiona Paltridge

Hello VLVS! peeps Fiona here with you again to share a little card tutorial.

I want to show you how I got this Whimsical Fairy Lady to look like she's poking out from behind the tree.

First I made a mask of the stamp and placed it in my embossing folder where I wanted to stamp her later on. Then using some Distress ink I stamped the Brick Background stamp directly onto the inside of the embossing folder. You have to stamp on the non raised side (the side the writing in on in this case).

Next I stamped the Fairy lady. This time I used archival ink as I wanted it to be really black and permanent so I could do some Distress Ink blending later on and it wouldn't be disturbed.

I also got a wet wipe and removed any excess ink from inside the tree embossing part so it wouldn't transfer onto my card when I ran it through the machine. Seeing that it is Archival ink I did use a little bit of Stazon remover to help with this part.

After running it through my Big Shot I used a brayer and some more Distress Ink to add some ink onto the front of the tree. Later on I blended some ink over the top of it very carefully as well.

I have to be honest, I was worried ..... I was very worried when it first came out of the machine but after some additional Distress Ink blending and the addition of the Stitching stamps (everything looks better with a stitch stamp) plus a title, I was much happier with the results in the end.

Viva Las Vegastamps! used:

Brick Background

Whimsical Fairy Lady

Plate 1478

Find Your Tribe by Cat Kerr

Stitching

Stitching Lines

Sawtooth Stitching Lines

Thanks for popping by xo