PARTY ANIMAL by Fran

Hello eveyone! 

Today  I have made a card for all you party animals out there, what with New Year on the horizon! 

First of all I made a couple of masks out of the Twilight Zone Swirl stamp.

I then stamped the swirl in different colours, using the masks so I could overlap the stamps.

I stamped the dog on thick paper and coloured him in with pencils.

 I had a wooden word "Party" in my stash, which I coloured with Posca Pen.

Using Idea-ology Label Letters, I made the word "Animal" on a piece of thick paper and then cut the whole thing out.

I added the "Sometimes I Like to Drink" thought stamp too

I put some chevron washi tape under the dog and stuck everything onto the card.  I then mounted it onto black card.

Stamps Used:

Twilight Zone Swirl 20506

Pit Bull Party Dog 9170

Sometimes I like to Drink 2658

Other items used:

Versafine Clair Inks in Summertime, Verdant, Golden Meadow, Nocturn

Washi tape

Wooden words

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Label Letters

Polychromos pencils

Black card 

And that's it! Hope you like the card.

 Have a very Happy New Year!

Be Happy!

Good morning everyone!

DeeDee here today sharing with you a tag I made at last week's Saturday Craft Fair. 

Saturday Craft Fair is a time on each Saturday where crafty folks gather and stream live to do projects with you! I'll be there every last Saturday of the month from 11 am to 12 pm. And I'll ALWAYS be using VLVS!  :) Our very own Susan streams every week and lots of other great crafters, too!

Here is the tag I made:

I used the following stamps:
Flying Bird Trio 4.25x1 - $4.50

Elephant on bike 2.75x5 - $13.00

Party Hat 1.25x1.5 - 6.25

The paper is by Teresa Collins, The ribbon May Arts, the brad Basic Grey. The washi tape is from Gauche Alchemy, the mist is Tattered Angels, the layered chipboard is UmWowStudio. I used a black pen to draw the lines on the outside, a dymo label maker for the Be Happy and distress makers to color the hat. All stamps are stamped in black archival ink.

You can watch a full video here (beware.. it's a recorded session almost an hour long with converstaion) here. 

(give it time to load :) )

Halloween Party Day #2

Welcome back to our Halloween Party! It's Day #2 and we're super pumped to share with you our Halloween inspiration for the day....

... but even more we're excited for YOU to share YOUR Halloween inspiration with US! We're inviting you to play along with us today! Just create a brand new Halloween project that has at least one VLVS! Stamp in it. It doesn't have to be a Halloween stamp but it must be used in a Halloweenie way. Then create a blog post on your blog and link up below! You have until Friday at midnight Pacific Standard Time to link up. And be ready to rally the votes because on SATURDAY for 24 hours voting will be open!! bum bum buuuummmmmm.

One prize available to a random participant!

Don't forget to hop along with the DT for some extra inspiration:

and now that you're done.. GET TO CREATING!!

Halloween Party Day #1

Welcome to the first official day of our Halloween Party!

 Each day for one full week the VLVS! Design Team will be bringing you some super cool Halloween inspiration, and each day there will be a giveaway!

They've been prompted to create Halloween inspired projects all week long using at least one image from either 

Plate1429

or
Plate 1433

So be sure to come each day, read the rules, hop the blogs and enjoy some fabulous eye candy. Get on with today's hop:

Now that you've had a chance to see all the great projects, can you guys today's prize prompt?? Share with us on our Facebook wall an image of your FAVORITE Viva Las VegaStamps! Halloween image! Easy right? Anyone who posts on our facebook wall with a Halloween stamp from the VLVS! website will be entered to win that mounted stamp! Heck. Yes.

Halloween Party EARLY KICK OFF!!!!

 Are you excited for our Halloween Party starting TOMORROW?!??  

 We'd love your help in spreading the word, and because of that we're offing another prize on top of the already HUGE pile of goodies we have to giveaway!

Share our party flyer and invite all your friends!
Pin it, tweet it, facebook it, blog about it!

Be sure to include a link back to our posts so they can get all the details themselves!


Comment with a link to each place you've shared about the party and be entered for 2 grab bags of stamps!
(for each place you share, leave a separate comment to be entered more than once!)

You're Invited!

The Viva Las VegaStamps! Design Team is putting on a party the last week of September! 

It's a serious party, too!!! We've got a full week of inspiration, blogs, prizes, contests and just general good times planned. 

For one week, each day, you'll hop through the blogs and feast yours eyes on some stamped candy. You're also invited to share your own VLVS! Halloween projects. Grab your favorite stamps and get inky. Don't have Halloween stamps from Viva Las VegaStamps! yet? Better get 'em quick! Because we're having PRIZES, too! Seven days = Seven prizes. Each day will feature a different way to be entered to win a prize, and easy enough a couple of them will be comments, but rest assured some will be project based!