One By One - My first blog post!

Hello everyone! I’m Joe Morgan and this is my first blog post as a Viva Las Vegastamps! Design Team member. I have a strange sense of humor, as you will see in some of my postings. For this project I decided to make a card using three stamps from Viva Las Vegastamps!

To start out, I stamped the crazy lady and the gnome on white cardstock with black Memento ink and colored them with Copic markers and then cut them out. I cut the window frame by hand with a razor and then inked it with a cat’s eye pad. I cut the thought bubbles with my electronic cutting machine. I used blue Distress Ink to color the piece that goes outside the window. After that, I just assembled the pieces as you see here in the finished card. The crazy lady and the large thought bubble are adhered with pop-dots for extra dimension.

Here are the item numbers for the stamps I used, and they can all be found at the Viva Las Vegastamps! Online Store.

Gnome in Mushrooms 17244
Hear No Evil Lady 4271
One by One, The Gnomes 17230

I hope you like what I have shared today, please remember to keep checking back for more ideas. Feel free to visit my blog on the Create & Craft site and say hello by clicking here!

Thanks for stopping by!
Joe

Live Laugh Love

Hello everyone! It's Jennifer - happy to once again be posting a project here on the VLVS DT Blog! Hope you are all having a great day!

The week I did another card - but I will say this - I have been seeing a common denominator here lately with my card layouts unless I'm following a sketch. So today I really went way out in left field with this crazy card chaos!

I've said it before and I'll say it again...I LOVE ASIAN THEMED CRAFTY PRODUCTS!!! So when I saw the Live Laugh Love 1 1/4 X 2 rubber stamp that VLVS had I HAD to get it!

For the layout here I took patterned paper with Asian Symbols for my bottom layer. I then took an Asian Floral Printed Paper for my next layer and did a quick and easy mosaic with the cuts I made. After that I used my large punch with some adhesive paper and slapped it on for the next layer. I stamped (more on this in the next paragraph) the rubber stamp on some card stock and laid it down next. After that I added stickles around the edge and 3 large 3-D stickers on top along with some gems. I know it's a little busy but "mission accomplished" for me thinking outside of my comfort zone on the layout of the card!

Now...a side note about the stamped image...

I actually used a clear ink pigment pad to stamp the image and sprinkled some "pearls" powder over top and took a soft print brush to it to gently brush away the loose powder. It worked like a charm! The powder stuck quite nicely to the pigment!

So there you have it...a crazy card from me this week! Swing by and visit my blog HERE and remember to shop at Stampo.com! Until next time!

I Washed My Bee This Morning...

Sharon Gumz created this fun card using Viva Las Vegastamps!  The spike hair lady is Stamp#8896 and the bee is #2285... I"ll have to rubberize that saying! LOL

The Frugal Stamper's fun card!



Lindsay has done a fun posting on her blog with stamps from her Viva Las Vegastamps! Pound O' Rubber... she has a unique and inexpensive way to mount the unmounted stamps and also creates wonderful cards with them!
http://thefrugalcrafter.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/a-cheap-way-to-mount-stamps/



Halloween Double Dose!!

Hiya Folks!! DeeDee here again!

This will be your 2nd helping of Halloweenie goodness from VLVS this week! Wayne (our powerful great head of VLVS) has asked us DT members to help out with an ad in the upcoming Halloween issue of Rubber Stamp Madness, hence all the Halloween treasures!

Here's what I put together for the ad!


Featuring: Cat & Jack O' Lantern - 2.5 x 2.25" - $9.25



Featuring: Haunted House - 2 x 2.75" - $9.00


Both use really similar techniques with slight variations in color and supplies!

I started with manilla tags for both cards... using my craft mat I smeared the desired color of distress ink and spritzed with water. Then I ran the tag over the diluted water applying pressure so that the tag grabbed the color. When the tag was still damp but not soaking I ran the ink pad over it to add a bit more color definition in places. Spritz with water again and allow to dry! Then I stamped both images in a permanent ink pad - Memento in tuxedo black - available at VLVS. I trimmed and cut and adorned cards with new colored images!

Don't forget about the wonderful blog hop coming up on the 29th where you'll get an extra project by each member, and a chance @ a pound o' rubber... a HUGE package of unmounted red rubber stamps! each of the DT members has received this.. and we've all LOVED it!!

Plus say Hi to JOE!! the newest member joining our team!! HIIII JOE! and don't forget to check back all the time to see what everyone has to show you, such great work comin' from this team!

Over n Out ---DeeDee

hitchin' a ride...

Hello and thanks for stopping by today!!

I know it's a little early for Halloween but it is my favorite holiday!!

So why not start my Halloween cards early!!!

I was so excited to see this stamp with a dog on the broom!!

I'm totally a dog person so this is perfect!!

You need to make sure you head over to Viva Las Vegastamps web site.

They have more stamps than you could ever use!!

Let me tell you the pound of rubber is the best thing ever.

I have bought 4 of them and have only gotten 1 stamp twice! AMAZING!!!

Oh and hey, if you head over there and buy something tell them Chris sent you.

You won't get anything special, I just want to see if anyone will say "Chris sent me!"

OR maybe...

If they tell me you said "Chris sent me!" on your order I will send you a little something!

Thinking Out of the Box with Embossing Powder

I love to think out of the box with a product and come up with an idea that just a little different.. Viva Las Vegastamps! has a wonderful Ultra High Gloss Clear Embossing Powder that is just too much fun to play with.




This embossing powder can be used on detail stamps too. That's really great, because as you know - some don't work well on detail stamps. Here is the link to find it on the Website

well I hope you enjoy that idea, if so, check out my other video on my Youtube channel including lots more using Viva Las Vegastamps!

Thanks for stopping by...
Terri Sproul

Meet our New Design Team member...

I have the pleasure of introducing a new member to our Design Team here at Viva Las Vegastamps! Cheryl Lindsay has left our team and we will miss her amazing projects and wish her all the best.
Please welcome Joe Morgan to our team - he will fit right in with the team we have - his work is very creative. Please welcome him - you will see his first project on June 13th. Please stop back by then and welcome him. But remember our team posts a new project on this blog on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays! Also Our Design team is having a Blog Hop with Blog Candy on June 29th... DON'T MISS THIS!


Here is Joe Morgan's Bio and Link to his Blog.



Joe Morgan has always been fond of crafting. His favorite holiday is
Halloween and, perhaps instinctively, his black cat is named Elphaba (after the
wicked witch in Wicked). Joe enjoys stamping, embossing, card making,
learning new techniques and some scrapbooking, along with paper crafting home décor
items – like garden lanterns with paper silhouettes and an antique finish.
After living all across the US, Joe has settled in Columbus, OH with his partner.
Joe is on the design team for Create & Craft, where he enjoys developing
new class ideas and teaching occasional classes at stores or exhibitions.

Thanks for stopping by - remember to visit our on-line store for all your stamping needs.

Terri Sproul
Team Leader

Kickin' Up Both Heels Flamingo Cards

A really cute art card to use as a congratulations greeting. I live in Florida, so flamingos are a beautiful thing to see. I created this one digitally...

I used a combination of paint brushes and erasers to color the bird after I stamped it on a white piece of paper and scanned it into PhotoShop.

This is VLV stamp 5167...

Stamped Gourd

Vyx stamped this gourd using some of the Egyptian stamps from Viva Las Vegastamps!  She even gave me some gourd seeds to grow my own but I'm not much of a farmer in the desert... love the gourd though!  Think outside the box... or the cardstock.  LOL