American Express Called...

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for dropping by. I am so excited to show you a new card for Viva Las Vegastamps! I love this woman image, she looks so haughty, and the sentiment with her makes me giggle.

The lady is called Pretty Lady in Fancy Hat and she can be found here. The sentiment used is called American Express Called and can be found here. The image and sentiment were stamped on high gloss paper, then painted in with tombows using watercolour paintbrush and water. The card was assembled using Miracle Tape. There are so many widths of tapes to choose from and even sheets, and if you haven't tried it yet, you will NOT be disappointed!

Thank you again for stopping by, and I look forward to sharing again on June 15th,

Have a wonderful day,

Kim Prince

Making 3-D Flowers

Terri Sproul shows you how to make the 3-D flowers used in the cards, wreath and bouquets by Cheryl Lindsay using rubber stamps and materials available from Viva LasVegastamps!

Roses, Roses everywhere

                                   Check out these great new 5 petal Flower Stamps
                                                      3  Dimensional Roses

                                      Stamps: item no. 17433 plate 1332

                flowers by Cheryl Lindsay    http://www.cherlin-ink.blogspot.com

                come see more samples of Vivalasvegastamps! new 5 petal stamps on my blog.
 you will be amazed at all the things you can do with this wonderful set.

This is what happens when you go crazy with Roses!!!

This entire set is on Special, check it out now!

Be sure to see the tutorial by Terri Sproul

http://www.youtube.com/terrisproul

HowTo Videos

Three videos on embossing techniques and how to make fancy embellishments with the new Viva Las Vegastamps! five-petal flower.

http://www.youtube.com/terrisproul

Dancing With Elves

Jolly Elves will dance their way into into your heart.

The stamps are all from vivalasvegastamps.com

The elf below was made dimensional using a layering technique

called PaperTole.

As you'll see I love to stamp on printed paper, I love the feeling it gives the piece.

I love this little "dancing elf" There are so many ways to use this versatile little guy with his little out stretched hands to hold things and his little tip toe feet to stand on anything.

All stamps in this post are done with water color pencils.

Below I have incorporated my 3 favorite Christmas stamps from Viva Las Vegastamps:

"Holly Santa" item number 14721 (plate 1205) , "Dancing Elf" item number 10106 (Plate 975) and "Christmas ball " item number 9234 (plate 290) in many of these. All 3 of these stamps are very versatile.

I was thinking that elves have a great deal of down time between Christmas'. So I decided they needed a summer job, so why not 4th of July elves? That still gives them an awful lot of free time. We may have to find them other holidays to work?

Cheryl Lindsay

Friendship, Flowers, and Fun - OH MY!

I'm so happy the weather is FINALLY getting warmer! I thought yellow and orange were perfect timing and so was this Sunflower with Ladybug Rubber Stamp from Viva Las Vegastamps!

I really wanted to keep it simple this week with a quick and easy card. I really like this stamp because it has it's own built-in boarder! I used Prismacolor Colored Pencils and cut around the edges and stuck it to some card stock. I also found some vellum phrases and 'there ya go' - a quick and easy card!

I found this to be one of those PERFECT Rubber Stamps to work with...you, see, for years I was intimidated by many rubber stamps because I didn't always get a nice, even ink on it but this worked really well and it's a smaller stamp but big enough to shade and blend a little too!

I hope you will swing by my blog! And don't forget the shop, too!

Make your own embellishments!

Hiya Viva followers!! I am a huge fan of making my own embellishments; whether it's alphas, shapes, epoxy brads, rosettes... etc. etc! and today I'd like to share with you a huge rosette I made featuring a Viva Las Vegastamps! original!

I chose this gorgeous dandelion head silhouette:


Product # 14103
1.5" x 1.5"
$6.75 Mounted


I stamped the Dandelion onto a piece of cream cardstock in StazOn Saddle Brown and did a little bit of clipping as I cut it out, not being too fussy on purpose because I want it to stand out! I nabbed some vintage lace, a gorgeous pink and cream patterned paper and I started layering.



For the card base I used the same color cardstock and patterned paper, distressed both with TH Vintage photo distress ink and wrapped with a simple cream colored crochet thread to imitate bakers twine!



I topped off the rosette with an American Crafts pearl brad and strung some pink beads on a dark brown upholstery thread... secured everything with Miracle Tape and VIOLA!

A hint on making the pink rosette... use a scalloped scissor to cut your strip of paper.. scallop OUT on both sides (so that there are BUMPS on the outsides.. not cut IN) and then accordion fold where the scallops meet... make sure it's long enough to fold around and secure onto a piece of cardstock with miracle tape!

You can use all sorts of things to layer, I encourage you to experiment have fun making your own rosette style embellishments.. easier to match colors and you can do all sorts of amazing things with textures, patters and shapes. use feathers, old fabric swatches, recycled cardboard, magazines... they'll all provide amazing different styles to your work! And the stamps are so easy to customize that they are the perfect addition to making your own embelly!!

Thanks for stopping to see what I had to show this week! -DeeDee

Viva Las Vegastamps! Blog Hop

Hello all,
My name is Terri Sproul and I am the honored to be the Design Team leader for Viva Las Vegastamps! and would love to let you guys know about the Blog Hop the Viva Las Vegastamps! Design Team will be doing on June 29th. This hop will include Blog Candy! We all love blog candy, so make sure you stop back by this this hop and tell all your friends, about it. This should be great fun! Hint, Hint if you click on the word Blog Candy it's a hint! smiles...

Here is a Christmas Card I just made for my Festive Friday blog Hop I have on my blog on the 2nd and 4th Friday of each month. Check us out.

Supplies:
Stamps: "Scrolled circle Tree #12702" and "Streampunk Background #16468" and "Happiness and Tranquility This Holiday Season" #2834
Ink: Cherry Red Dye Ink and Green Dye Ink
Cardbase
Green Glossy Paper
White Cardstock
Gears - Viva Las Vegastamps!
Post it note
Miracle Tape

Directions:
1) Stamp tree image onto Post-it Note or any thin white paper (like typing paper) and White Cardstock. Cut out tree image on Post-it note. I stamped tree image using Green Dye ink onto my white cardstock.
2) Place Post-it note image over Image on White cardstock - Post it note will act as a mask to protect the Image on White Cardstock.
3) Ink up "Steampunk Background" stamp with "Cherry Red" dye ink and stamp over the Tree Image. Stamp until your background is covered. Then remove your Post-it note tree image and see how it protected the image on the white cardstock - cool!
4) Adhere Glossy Green Cardstock to cardbase using Miracle tape and then add Stamp image to the center of Cardbase - again using my Miracle Tape.
5) Start adding Viva Las Vegastamps! Gears to Tree Image... see sample.

Thanks for stopping by today and remember to stop by again as we have a new project on this Blog from our Design Team on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday!

TTFN
Terri Sproul

3-D Mixed Media Art Card

I had so much fun creating this mixed media art card. I used a dog stamp from Viva Las VegaStamps to create the 3-D angel dog.

click to enlarge

a close-up of the wings

To create this mixed media artwork card, I stamped the dog image on white watercolor paper and shaded it with Copic markers. I punched a 2" circle of white paper, cut it in half, folded it and used a corner stamp to punch the design. I combined the dog and wings on three layers of handmade paper.

I painted dots around the circle with gold metallic acrylic. Then I added beads and metallic threads along one side.

stamp - Bichon With Bow 2 x 2 1/4 Item 11156 Plate 1165

Sure I shot the Sheriff...

Hi there,

Thank you for stopping by today. It's Kim here, with another project using the fabulous Viva Las Vegastamps! I decided to use the Sure I shot the Sheriff stamp, because I have a warped sense of humour! When I saw this stamp it just made me chuckle, and I knew I had to have it.

The image (Sure I shot the Sheriff - Image 15080)   is stamped on vanilla cardstock with chocolate Ancient Page ink, and then cut out with deckle edged scissors. I then lightly distressed the edges of the stamped image as well as the patterned paper behind it. All layers are put together with Miracle Tape, and lastly the stamped image is pop dotted up.

Please click on any of the links above to be taken directly to the product used, and while you are there, stay and browse awhile at all the FANTASTIC images at Viva Las Vegastamps!

Have a great day,

Kim