Causing a Scene

Hello VLVS fans!  Mercy here and I am super excited to share my new experiment.  While I have definitely used tissue paper in my craft projects in the past, I haven’t actually stamped directly on it. Being in the experimental mood, I thought I’d use the Whimsical Tree Lady as my focus image for this altered hoop design, and see where it went from there.

My idea was to layer the tissue paper across several inked layers, like a paper mâché meets soft fabric, with the image laying on the top tissue paper layer.  The result was a quilted pillow like surface that easily fits a small embroidery hoop frame.

Supplies:

Whimsical Tree Lady Nude SKU 19681

Black Archival Ink

Dylusions  (or any brand) Yellow-Orange Watercolor Ink

Small 3” round wooden embroidery hoop

Copper Wax Paste

Several sheets of white Tissue Paper

White Butterfly Brad from Eyelet Outlet

Leaf Pins (I had these in my stash)

Die cut flowers

Yellow pearl embellishments

Clear Glue

Tim Holtz Saying

Instructions:

1.  First, I took a sheet of white tissue paper and folded it down into a rough 6X6 stack.  There were about four layers that I used for the base and I sprayed the top with Dylusions Yellow-Orange Ink in the center, allowing the ink to seep down and spread, it was set aside to dry.  Taking a small scrap of white tissue paper and permanent black ink, the Tree Goddess was stamped, allowed to dry, then fussy cut out.
2.  Using clear glue, pour a generous amount onto the center of the yellow inked stacked paper, spreading the glue out thinly.  Once spread, layer the stamped image across it, carefully flattening the stamped image and making sure there are no air bubbles, folds or excess clear glue underneath it.  Allow to dry.
3. While the tissue paper is drying, gently rub some of the copper wax paste around both sections of the embroidery loop. Wipe off all excess wax so that it doesn’t stain or come off.  Get out your trusty small flower dies (or whatever flowers you have on hand that complement the color theme) and color in varying shades of blue to pop off the yellow-orange inks.
4. Place the dried inked and glued tissue paper centered into the wooden frame. Carefully adjust for best presentation and tighten screws to hold everything taut.  Once in, take saying from Tim Holtz stickers, cut and place beside the stamped image.  Once glued down straight, arrange colored flowers and butterfly brad within the circle, then glue or punch down.  Add yellow pearls to the centers of the flowers, and pin through the tissue paper outside of the frame with the leaf pins.
5. More embellishments can be added as well as distressing the tissue paper outside of the frame.  I decided to keep this one simple, celebrating the sentiment and the lovely stamp celebrating nature and woman. 

Hope you enjoyed this and it gives you some encouragement to stamp on different types of papers.

Vintage Mixed Media Card by Preeti D.

Hi friends :)

Hope you are doing well.

Preeti Datta (Dutt Preety) here from the VLVS! Design Team. 

For today's post, I've created a Grungy Vintage Mixed Media Card. 

I've used some gorgeous VLVS! Rubber Stamps here.

I created the background by adhering design tapes to a panel of watercolour paper and then applied clear gesso on top. 

Then, to add colour used distress inks and Oil Pastels. 

Next, stamped the background using various archival inkpads and gorgeous rubber stamps by VLVS! 

For the layering, used a Vintage Paper doll, some gauze, black die cuts and old book paper. 

Layered the elements, stamped the quote using a VLVS! stamp and created white, black and brown ink splatter. 

Distressed the edges of the panel using vintage photo distress ink and then matted the panel in black and kraft.

Finally adhered the panels to a 5 by 7 inch white card base. 

VLVS! Supplies:

Freud Writing Background: SKU #17562

Don't Waste A Moment: SKU #19786

Punchinella/Sequin Waste Border: SKU #20161

Rows of Numbers: SKU #20170

Writing Circles Background: SKU #19567

Other Supplies:

Prima Marketing: Clear Gesso, Oil Pastels, Heavy White Gesso

Canson: XL Watercolour Paper

Ranger: Archival & Distress Inkpads

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Design Tapes, Paper Dolls

Scrapman Dies 

Thanks a lot for your precious time :)

Stay Blessed!

Preeti

Pair of Cards by Preeti D.

Hi friends :)

Hope you are doing well.

Preeti Datta (Dutt Preety) here from the VLVS! Design Team. 

For today's post, I've created a Pair of Simple Cards. 

I've used some gorgeous VLVS! Rubber Stamps here.

I've done watercoloring using Zig markers and created white ink splatters on these cards.

VLVS! Supplies:

You are beautiful : SKU #19832

Fancy Butterfly : SKU #17554

 Squiggle Heart: SKU #19644

Other Supplies:

Kuretake: Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers

Canson: XL Watercolour Paper

Tsukineko: Versafine Onyx Black Inkpad

Winnie & Walter Essentials Cutaways 

Thanks a lot for your precious time :)

Stay Blessed!

Preeti

Pair of Cards by Preeti D.

Hi friends :)

Hope you are doing well.

Preeti Datta (Dutt Preety) here from the VLVS! Design Team. 

For today's post, I've created a Pair of Simple Cards. 

I've used some gorgeous VLVS! Rubber Stamps here.

I was inspired by Banksy Style Graffiti Art.

VLVS! Banksy stamps are amazing. I love them!

The process is quite simple. I stamped the VLVS! stamps onto watercolour paper.

Then die cut the panels using rectangle dies and did background stamping using grey archival ink.

  Then did very light watercolouring using Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers.

Added the sentiments using Tim Holtz stickers. In the end, matted the panels in black and then white and adhered them to cream coloured A2 sized card bases. 

VLVS! Supplies:

Banksy Girl Floating With Balloons: SKU #19421

Banksy Balloon Girl : SKU #19430

Overlapping Circles by Corrie Herriman : SKU #19995

Rows of Numbers : SKU #20170

Typeset Scallop : SKU #20163

Other Supplies:

Kuretake: Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers

Canson: XL Watercolour Paper

Tsukineko: Versafine Onyx Black Inkpad

Hero Arts Rectangle Dies 

Thanks a lot for your precious time :)

Stay Blessed!

Preeti

November Challenge

November is here and the end of the year is quickly approaching... let's have another challenge shall we? This month is warm and fun!

We'd like to inspire you with words like gold, warm, yellow, tans, browns, vintage, black and white, background stamps, doodles, harlequin, diamond, distressed, polka dots, swirls, circles, hearts, stripes and more!

Don't forget the rules:

-Create a new project based on our inspiration board (it has to be posted this month, but you can certainly link up to other challenges as well!)

-Use at least one (but certainly more if you want) Viva Las VegaStamps! rubber stamps

(We are now allowing competitors stamps to be on your work, but please make VLVS! the focus of the project, thank you.)

-Post it to your blog with a link back to us

-Upload to our linky using your direct blog post link (You may also upload via facebook, flickr or other gallery)

You could win a Project Spotlight post on our blog + some new rubber of course.

And visit us back here for inspiration!

An InLinkz Link-up

Art Journal Page: "Time is an Abyss" by Jenn Engle

Hey Everyone! I have an art journal page for you today. It is a page that took me awhile and has a lot of steps, so rather than fail miserably at trying to explain it, you can just check out the process video included at the end of this post.

I ended up loving this spread. I mean, with the awesome images at VLVS, how could I not?!

 

These are the Viva Las VegaStamps! I used:

“Clockface”

"The Great Unknown"

“Into The Abyss”

"Whimsical Diver”

"Stitching Line”

 



You can check out my exact process Start to Finish here:

Thanks for looking,
Jenn

Mini Art Journal Page: "She Was" by Jenn Engle

Hey all! Sometimes, I get the itch to make something but I don't have a ton of time. Luckily, with Viva Las VegaStamps! the images pack such a punch, you really don't need a ton of 'other stuff'.

 

Today is one of those days. Here I made a very simple background and let this bold image do the talking. 

 

 

 

I used these stamps from Viva Las VegaStamps!:

 

Whimsical Bomb Girl

She Was

 

If you want to see exactly how I made this page, you can check out the process video at the bottom of this post!



Thanks for looking!
~Jenn

"Still" an Art Journal Page by Jenn Engle

     Hello! Today I have a very simple art journal page using the Whimsical Jester Stamp on acetate. I think this stamp works well with the acetate stamping technique because you are able to see thru all those tiny lines and intricate details to the background.

 

     The Whimsical Jester can also be purchased on an entire plate of rubber (plate 1457), and I think that all of the images on this plate work so well with acetate stamping.

 

To see exactly how I made this page from start to finish, be sure to check out the process video linked at the end of this post.

 

STAMPS USED:

“Whimsical Jester”

"Numbers Set"
 

 

 



Here is how I created these pages from start to finish:

 

Thanks so much for looking,

Jenn Engle

Wild Thing.

Hello, Mary here, and today I have a little something wild to share with you.

My 19th anniversary is this month and I've been trying to find some inspiration for the card I wanted to make for my husband.  A few days ago, he mentioned---out of the blue---how much he loved animal crackers.  BINGO!!

I have a stamp set for that...

I began by grabbing my Animal Crackers stamp set and stamped a few of the critters onto my card base with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  A little bit of shadowing added with some Copic markers and I was ready to add texture with stitching.

There seemed to be too much white space, so I grabbed my Heart Outline stamp and did some generation stamping to create a sort of bokeh effect.  A little splattered glue sprinkled with glitter adds some serious bling!!

I finished it off with a typed 'WILD THING, i think I LOVE YOU' sentiment and a few punched out hearts and clear sequins to really pump up the sparkle.  It's the perfect mix of us!  He likes the crackers...I like glitter...HA!!

 And because I was sooo diggin' these stamps, I decided to stamp out a few more.  I left these plain, so I could personalize them when the time comes---like 'CONGRATS on your new wild thing' for a new baby??  Yup!

And that's it for me!  Now, go grab your favorite VLVS rubber and get crafty!!

xx Mary

Time Flies.

Hello!  Mary here with a little inspiration for the March Challenge.  If you haven't seen the inspiration board yet, here's a peek...

And here's my take...

To create my stripes, I've masked off and repeatedly stamped the Toy Airplane image in StazeOn ink and then used a flat paintbrush to add my green ink.  I'm not a fan of actual birds, but I figured this airplane fits the bill!

A few ink splats came next, and then torn tissue tape and a bit of machine stitching.

I finished off my card with the stamped Time Flies sentiment that I've stitched down and a few hand cut gold triangles for a pop of sparkle. 

So, with this card, I've covered green, white, stripes, music notes, black, writing, birds, splatters, tape and triangles!

Have you played along yet?

I hope I've inspired you to grab your favorite VLVS! rubber and get your stamp on!!

xx Mary