You are beautiful

Hi Hermine here, I had a good time playing around with the gelli plate. Awesome thing is that you always end up with more then one.

 

 

step 1 :  Brayer one colour Memento Luxe onto you gelli plate, then take a stencil put it on your gelli plate, take a second colour Memento Luxe and brayer over your stencil.

step 2 : Stamp with Stazon Black the Butterfly Gossamer Large 7760 and colour the image with colouring pencils.

step 3 : then stamp with Stazon Black the Writing Chevron 19824, the row of Chevrons 19829 twice and the tekst You are beautiful 19832. Colour the row of chevron in with markers.

step 4: Take a black fine liner and doodle a border around the gelli print, colour some spaces in with a marker.

 

As you can see there is still lots of ink left on the gelli plate to make a second one. Here I stamped the Brown Towhee 15392 and the Multi-leaf Branch 14088 with Stazon Black. Coloured the bird with ZIG markers.

Hope you like it.

Warmly Hermine

Used materials:

 Buttferly Gossamer large 7760

Wrting Chevron 19824

Row of Chevrons 19829

You are beautiful 19832

Brown Towhee 15392

Multi-leaf branch 14088

Stazon Black

Memento Luxe

Fine liner

ZIG markers

colouring pencils

gelli plate

May WINNERs

We have some winners to announce today -- from our May challenge that was neutral and a bit creep-tastic.

We always have such fun looking through the entries! Our voted winner for May is...

ANNE ZANDT with this exceptional stamped birdhouse!

Cross Stitch | Expanding Rays | I'm a Creep | Creepy Rat w/ Cheese

Congrats Anne! the whole team was delighted by your birdhouse! Please feel free to use the following graphic to represent your accomplishment:

And our random winner is .. Christa!

If both ladies could email me (deedee430@gmail.com) with your shipping addresses we can get you a grab bag o' rubber in the mail ♥

Don't forget to enter our current challenge if you want to win your own rubber &/or Project Spotlight!

Father's Day BLOG HOP!!

Well hello sweet stamping friends! Welcome to the Viva Las VegaStamps! blog today. The Design Team has rallied together to provide a fun blog hop with a Father's Day theme. Fun right? Just in time for you to do your last minute handmade goods for the pops.

We're also hosting a GIVEAWAY >> so be sure to hop on through and leave our talented team some well deserved love. One random comment from one random blog (yep.. random on random!) will win a lb o' rubber all to themselves.

So.. what are you waiting for??

VLVS! : http://vivalas.blogspot.com (you started here)
Corrie Herriman : http://madebychook.blogspot.nl/
Jenn Engle : http://mixedmediajenn.blogspot.com/
Hermine Koster : https://herminesplace.wordpress.com/
Tera Callihan : http://thecraftysugaraddict.blogspot.com/
Fiona Paltridge : http://pastichescrapbookstudio.blogspot.com.au/
NIkki Woodward : http://betwixtthisandthat.blogspot.ca/
Michele Kosciolek : http://www.stuffbybelle.com/
DeeDee Catron : http://deedeecatron.blogspot.com

Need something to comment about on our blog? Come on back here and let us know what you thought of our hop! :)

Mail Art Monday by Jenn Engle

Hey Everyone! I two envelopes to share today. The first one is one of my favorite ways to decorate my envelopes and so much fun to do! You could use the same background technique over and over and just changed out the stamps you use for a different look every time.

Be sure to check out the process video and a list of all the stamps I used at the bottom of this post.

Here is a complete start to finish video of my Mail Art piece!

STAMPS USED:

“Writing Circles Background”

“Tape X”

“Mesh Texture”

“Whimsical Tree Lady Nude”

The second envelope I have to share is much simpler to make and takes way less time.

STAMPS USED: (second envelope)

“Stitching”

“Numbers Set”

 “Whimsical Leaf”

“She Was a Dreamer”

“Stitching Line”

“Sawtooth Stitching Line”

“Whimsical Leaf”



It's Never Too Late

Hey all!!!  Michele here today sharing a mixed media canvas with a clay piece inspired by our very own Tina Walker.
I was working on another project using clay and had a little bit left over and just decided to stamp on it, I am so glad I did!!

I stamped Clockface on the clay and baked until it hardened, this is my focal piece.

On my canvas I used Nesting Gears and Waybill/Invoice Background in the backgound along with the UmWow Studios stencil (chunky circles) and modeling paste for the first layer of the background. The next layer is bits and bobs from Prima, Tim Holtz, Um Wow and some vintage pieces I have been collecting covered in gesso.

I added color with gelatos, that was FUN!!!

I added the sentiment with my Dymo Label Maker and viola!!!

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time, get inky!!

Well behaved women...

Hello everyone,

Today for my blogpost I am sharing an art journal that was part of a set of three art journals that I submitted to RubberStampMadness for publishing in their summer 2016 edition (women of the world)  but unfortunately they didn't make it.
One of my postcards did make it into this edition so it was not all bad ! haha....
Anyway, this art journal was my favourite of the three so for today's post I tweaked it a little here and there and here it is :

I made this page by cutting a piece of Mixed Media paper to size and painting it with gesso. Next I painted it with acrylic paints and dried it. I used a stencil (Tim Holtz - Scribbles) over top with Distress Ink and a blending tool in similar colours. 

I then stamped the background using Archival Inks in similar colours and also some black. (A complete list of all the stamps I used is at the bottom of this post.)

The image of the girl and the sentiment were both stamped on white card stock and coloured with Copic Markers. I then cut them out and adhered them to the page. A double doodle line around the edges finished it off. 

I used the following stamps:

19827 Doodle dots

19659 Numbers set

8418 Well behaved women...

1246 Bathing Beauty kneeling

19454 Grunge 3

19571 Writing triangles

19576 - Three Staples

19577 Staple X

19569 Mesh texture

19565 Measuring tape section 

Thank you so much for stopping by ! 

Seek Paradise

Hi, Nikki here, and today I am celebrating all things elephant.
Look at this gorgeous and serene animal, Sitting Elephant  :

 

The background is kraft cardstock. I added a thin layer of  Golden acrylic ground for pastels onto my craft mat and placed the card stock ontop of it and pulled it up. When its dry it gives a really rough textures, even more so because of how I added the medium. I added a little colour with prisma pencils to the background. I stamped my focal image, Sitting Elephant in black stazon, and coloured him with inktense pencils, gel pen, sharpie paint pen and Faber Castell Artist pitt pens. I drew the stem from his hat and added the punched out flower. I coloured around the elephant with prisma colour pencils. To add a little more interest to the background I stamped Fantasy Bird in the background in pink ink and clear embossed it.

There's so much texture in this, here's a close up : 

The final thing was to add the sentiment, Seek Paradise and the bakers twine and heart embellishment.

Thanks for stopping by, Nikki x

"Trust Your Cape" a Little Card By Fiona

"Spread your arms, hold your breath and always trust your cape. Life is just a leap of faith"

"The Cape"

by

Guy Clarke

Viva Las Vegastamps used:

Film Strip

Boy in Cape

Brick Background

Thank you for popping by. i hope you enjoyed my little card and the song that inspired it xx

Time to Celebrate- Mail Art Monday

Hello Again!!!

Welcome back for another fun Mail Art Monday project!!!

This one is super special to me. 

This was created in honor of my friends and I finally graduating dental hygiene school!

Yes, that's right... I'm officially a Registered Dental Hygienist!!! 

SO... Let's ... CELEBRATE!!!!

To start I began by stamping the creepy cone hat and creepy bald guy, and masking them off.  I also stamped the writing triangles and masked them off too.  At this time you should also mask of your desired address space (and trace around it).  

Now time to add the fun stuff...

Stamp the doodle frame first across the top, then the chevron banner below it... 

(because why have 1 banner when you can have 2 !?! ) 

Stamp Celebrate above the address box

Are you still hanging in there? 

Good! 

Time to pull this all together... I used Distress ink in blues, greens, and yellows to base ink the background... then to detail the background I randomly stamped the doodle dots and numbers set.

Now stamp the dictionary page around the edges to help pull focus to the center.   

Now, Lets see how things look without the masks.

(this is always one of my favorite parts!) 

Ok, now we are in the final stages!! 

Stamp the stitching on the address label and color everything in. 

(I used watercolor brush pens to color mine)

Then, to finish everything off I used black pan pastels to edge everything and make them pop!

Thanks for sticking in with me, I know this was a long one. 

I hope you enjoyed this piece as much as me!! 

Stamps Used:

Creepy Cone Hat

Creepy Bald Guy

Writing Triangles

Doodle Frame

Chevron Banner 

Doodle Dots

Numbers Set

Dictionary Page

Celebrate

Stitching

Expanding your creative options with stamps!

Hi...

Happy Friday!  Tina here today with a project that really expands how you can use your rubber stamps.   

Rubber stamps are one of the most versatile products you can have in your creative stash.  They are quite often the go-to for card making, scrapbooking, and mixed media backgrounds.  Today, I will show you how you can use stamps with clay to create a three-dimensional, assemblage piece of art.

To be honest, I got so into making my Moon Child assemblage piece, I completely forgot to take in process pictures of each step, but no worries, it is quite easy.

Step One:  Prepare and roll out clay to approx 1/4 in thick.  You can use airdry clay (that is what I used for this project), or oven bake clay.).  

Step Two:  Gently press stamp into clay, evenly pressing the image so it creates a consistent imprint.

Step Three:  Trim around image and set aside.  Special note:  if you will be attaching jump rings (as above), create holes in soft clay before it hardens.  If you wait till the clay hardens, drilling will crack your piece. 

Step Four:  Allow to dry completely.  Mine took about 48 hours, but I live in a very humid area.

Step Five:  Paint.  I used basic acrylic paints and spray mists to color my images.    

    
I added several molded resin casts and paper elements complete her look.  I really love she is unique and one-of-a-kind.  

VLVS Stamps Used:
Numbers Set 2
Her Wings Were Made
Small Filagree Heart 

So next time you are looking for the perfect element to add to your dimensional project, think STAMPS!