Let's go by Cathy N

 Good afternoon, all Cathy here with a fun postcard for you today. 

                                                             Stamp Used:

                                                   19803 boys playing with shopping cart

I started out by stamping boys playing with shopping cart on some watercolor paper. I colored it in with copic markers and then colored the background with some distress inks and a water brush. I layered it on black cardstock.

Next, I made the flag/banner pole. I used some washi tape and some pattern paper. I glued a pomp-pomp to the top and added to a 4x6 pattern paper for the postcard.

       

I do what I want... by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello everyone!

Today I made a card for the blog- 

For todays card, I wanted to do a watercolor. I stamped the image on mixed media heavy stock. it can really take a lot of medium weather its paints or water or whatever.

I stamped with black versafine clair and dried it with my heat tool. didn't want any smearing. Then I sprayed my TH stains into the plastic pallet. Then just start painting.

I chose the colors for the impression of innocence to go with the snarky sentence .For the blue background, I first went around with my wet paint brush and then took color just out of the cap of the bottle of salvage patina. I wanted it real light.

I dried the card, and then cut my cardstock for the layers and put it all together. Last, I put the sticker sentence on and carefully painted it yellow to match the card. And that is it! I hope you enjoyed!

Stamp used: 

Surprised girl         5554

Other Supplies:

Distress spray stains: Salvaged patina, Saltwater taffy, picked raspberry, antique linen, Victorian velvet, tattered rose, squeezed lemonade.

Verse-TH93704 small talk - snarky   stickers

cardstock

white gel pen- for the eye whites

Lady grey by Cathy N

 Good morning, all happy February. Cathy here with a watercolor postcard.

I started out with a watercolor postcard and stamped Lady Grey and triangle banner . 

Next, I used watercolor paints to paint and color the postcard.

All of them had shimmer except the background paint. After that was dry, I stamped grunge 1787 writing background with some blue distress ink randomly over the background. 

                                                                       Stamps Used:

                                                                     19909 Lady Grey

                                                                      19917 triangle banner 

                                                                      17545 grunge 1787 writing background

Happy Place Sunrise by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello everyone!

Today I have a card that is a happy place ....A house in the woods by the lake.

I hope you enjoy it.

So First I took Some masking paper and stamped the house in black ink and then dried it. Then I took my card and stamped the house on that and dried it. I needed a mask so I could have the trees behind the house.

Then I took the trees stamp and inked with several inks and stamped several times, filling the background with trees. some without re inking. once happy with that I removed the mask of the house to check it before putting it back on.

Then I took my brown dye inks and smashed them on something plastic- can be ink pad lid, plastic bag, etc. I spritzed with water to use as watercolor and painted the tree trunks. I did the same with my sky colors and  proceeded to color the sky.

I kept the mask on as I was painting to keep the house clean for a different color. I kept layering the colors until I was happy with the look of it all. Adding darker colors where needed like the tree trunks. Once I was happy with the trees and sky, I removed mask and worked on the house.

after happy with that I cut some black and some cream colored cardstock and layered it all for a finished card.

I love using what ever I can for water coloring. I love the way the colors blend.

I hope you enjoyed this card... keep arting!!

Stamps Used:

Old House       19741

Redwood Trees       19718

Line of rocks      19720

Other Supplies:

Colorbox chalk ink pads: Dark Moss, Lime Pastel

Versaclair: Pne cone, Morning Mist, Nocturne

Distress spray inks: Forest moss, Speckled Egg, Shaded Lilac, Stormy Sky, Crackling Campfire, Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo

Masking paper: judikins

Trust your own wings

Hello everybody,

there is still some time left to join the STRENGTH themed challenge over in the VLVS Facebook group. You need a little creative kickstart? Here we go! I went for an art journal page about self-confidence.

I started my page by applying water with a big watercolor brush in the shape of a big circle. Then I added some Starburst sprays from Lindy's. I used the sprays more as a watercolor.
To create more depth I worked with various layers - adding water (by spraying or flicking or with a brush), adding the spray paint, drying, continuing with another layer. It was so much fun!
As a final touch I drew a few scribbely lines around the circle.

For some background texture I chose two stamps, a nature collage and the waybill/invoice, which I stamped with black Versafine ink.

As a focal image I used the flying bird. I stamped it and got out my watercolors. Somehow I was able to blend the red from the bird's body into the turquoise of its wings without getting a muddy shade. After it had dried, I did some fussy cutting and inked the cutting edges with a black marker. This way the image blends better into the background.
I also cut the sentiment from a sheet of scrapbooking paper, glued it down and added some thin black lines around it.

Here are some more photos:

Stamps used:
Nature Collage by Cat Kerr (20036)
Waybill/Invoice Background (19416)
Large Bird Flying Left (19001) 


Other materials:
- art journal (mine is a handbound one, 7.5 x 7.5 inch)
- Lindy's Gang Starburst Sprays (Tibetan Poppy Teal, Sea Mint Green, Sea Grass Green and Whale Watch Blue)
- watercolor
- Versafine Ink (Onyx Black)
- marker (fine tip and brush nib)
- scrapbooking paper ("Letters to you" from ABstudio)


Hope to see your entry to the challenge! 

See you soon,

Youe are here ► Majo

Good morning, my dear friends.

Today I’d like to show you a tag I made with lots of water. 

I used Distress inks in four different colors: Victorian Velvet, Bundled Sage, Shaded Lilac and Hickory Smoke.

I started by cutting a tag from watercolor paper and applied distress ink to my craft sheet. I drew stripes with a rather large brush. I stamped the dots in the same color, spritzing the stamp with water after inking.  I used a brush to spritz some ink on may tag. 

I told you, lots of water needed for my creation this time.

I stamped the circles with Hickory Smoke.

After stamping the sentiment on a separate piece of watercolor paper, I added glue dots to adhere it to my tag.

I have used the following stamps:

19563

10599

19178

Distress Inks:

Victorian Velvet

 Bundled Sage

 Shaded Lilac

 Hickory Smoke

Have a happy week, stay healthy and take good care of yourself and the loved ones ♥ 

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

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 did watercolouring using Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and created white ink splatters. 

In the end, die cut the panels, matted them in black and adhered them to kraft coloured A2 sized card bases.   

VLVS! Supplies:

Banksy Achieve Greatness : SKU #19395
Banksy Spraypainter Boy : SKU #20452
Banksy Einstein Protester : SKU #19936
Banksy Love Is The Answer : SKU #19945

Other Supplies:

Kuretake: Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers

Canson: XL Watercolour Paper

Tsukineko: Versafine Onyx Black Inkpad

Finnabair's Heavy White Gesso

Cutplorations Rectangle Dies 

Hero Arts Rectangle Dies 

Thanks a lot for your precious time :)

Stay Blessed!

Preeti

Valley of the Blind - Art Journal spread by Cheetarah

Hi VLVS! fans, hope you all are doing great! It's Cheetarah here and I have a art journal spread to share with you made in my pocket watercolor journal. The stamps I used are listed at the end of the post. 

In my Hanemuhle pocket watercolor journal I stamped the whimsical Cyclops and Banksy line of punks with memento Tuxedo black on the pages. It didn't matter that the imprint wasn't as solid black because I am going to use watercolors over it. 

I really love the design of this cyclops, the eye is so wonderfully pronounced. Started with the face and just slowly built up layers as you do with watercolors. 

When I was satisfied with the look of the face I made a mask by stamping the image on post it paper and stuck it to the colored image before I went to do the background. 

Made sun rays by using a stencil and yellow, orange and gold watercolors. I extended the rays to the other page and darkened the 'punks' by using an indigo color mixed with a little bit of magenta to make it a little purple. 

To finish the page I stamped big and small numbers plus some dandelion seeds in orange to pull the pages together. The wrote the quote "In the valley of the blind, the One-Eyed person is King" with a Tombow fudenosuke lettering pen. 

Stamps used: 

Whimsical Cyclops 

Banksey Line of Punks 

Numbers set 

Row of Numbers 

Blowing dandelion and extra seed 

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!