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Motion and Time | Steampunk Tags

I find I can't stop playing with this steampunk alphabet. I made some quick, tags that can be used as bookmarks or as accents or journal spaces in my scrapbooks. I stamped the images first with a walnut colored ink. I then stamped with Archival the main images for the tags. For the letters I stamped the squares with the letters and then over-stamped in Walnut the steampunk dials and then edged the letters with the walnut ink. I hope you enjoy my quick and easy tags!

 For these tags:

 

Thank you for looking! ~leslierahye

Fun Cards are Quick and Easy using New Mary Vogel Lozinak Stamps!!!

Hello and Welcome to THURSDAY at Viva Las Vegastamps!!! Susan here to bring you a few fabulous and funky cards made using a few of the new Mary Vogel Lozinak stamps. I have three plates of her images and they are just so much fun.

Did you see my "Circus Rat" earrings? Please CLICK HERE to see what you missed.

Here are three quick and easy cards I created using sketches from Operation Write Home - an awesome organization that provides handmade cards to our troops stationed all over the globe.

This card uses my FAVORITE Mary Vogel Lozinak Bird Head on a Stick stamp. I stamped this with black ink on white cardstock, then hand colored with my brand new Ranger Distress Markers and accented with Gellee Glaze Pens. The background is a scrap of Basic Grey Patterned Paper on a purple card base. The stripes are metallic gift ribbon adhered with Miracle Tape. I finished off this "Quirky Bird" with some colorful feathers. I popped him up with 3D pop dots, and he's ready for the party!!!

This card uses the festive Mary Vogel Lozinak Bird on Elephant stamped on a white coated paper. Using a direct to paper technique, I stained paper with a rainbow ink pad then misted with water. I accented the edges with antique pearl dewdrop ink, then hand-colored the image with my Ranger Distress Markers and matted on a bright blue cardstock. I layered this on top of two strips of two-tone green marquis patterned paper and topped this off with small green gems for this bird to juggle some "BLING"!

This card I stamped the Mary Vogel Lozinak Flower Background Stamp in black Staz-On ink on acrylic hand-painted paper. The paper was painted using a technique from Traci Bautista's "Collage Unleashed" Book. After inking edges with black ink, I layered the floral on a natural brown handmade paper and a hand-misted black cardstock using a mist made of Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and Bronze Terri Sproul Mixers! This is tied off with a simple moss colored satin bow.

Thanks so much for dropping by today! If you haven't subscribed to the VLVS Blog - you want to!!! The Viva Las Vegastamps! cast of characters will be bringing you posts every day! Don't forget to check out the Viva Las Vegastamps! store - new stamp releases have just been added. If you would like to see more of my creations please visit my blog, sbartist : painting in the dark HERE. I'll be back with another stamping adventure on June 18th. Have an inky day! Sb

Father's Day Steampunk Style

Today I wanted to share with you some of the first stamps I purchased with Viva Las Vegastamps! When I saw this Steam Engine and the Steampunk Alphabet, I immediately knew this would be a Father's Day card for my Dad who is a model train hobbyist. He and my son share a deep passion for trains--this is perfect for many applications in my crafting!

For this project:

Steampunk Alphabet/Unmounted

Steam Engine 3 x 2

Rangers Archival Ink

Steampunk Paper

Watercolors & Water Pen

Twinkling H20--Egyptian Gold

Adhesive & Foam Squares

These easy cards were created by stamping images on white card stock with Jet Black Archival Ink. The Archival Ink is perfect for water coloring as it does not run with this wet application of color. I went around the edges of the papers with sepia and colored a wash on the Steam Engine. I loaded the brush more heavily for coloring the letters. The letters perfectly fit on a 1" square. The shiny gold is the twinkling H20 and is perfect for Steampunk! 

Thank you for looking at my cards! I hope you enjoy them!
~leslierahye

More Mary Vogel Lozinak stamps

It is hard not to get addicted to these great stamps by: Mary Vogel Lozinak:

                          High School Graduation card for my Grand daughter

I stamped two of the flower background stamps with Momento tuxedo black ink.  The first I completely colored with watercolor pencils.  I  colored just the flowers on the second ones and cut them out.  I  placed them over the original flowers with pop dots.  I also stamped two of the Wheelie rabbits on kraft colored paper and colored them.  I seperated the rabbit from the unicycle and attached them seperately to the front of the card again with pop dots.  Inside the card I used letter stickers from my stash and put the entire Wheely Rabbit inside to show that he indead "Did It"

These are the two I used :

  

Flower Background 3 1/4 x 6 1/

 Item 18369 Plate 1401  

Item 18377 Plate 1401

Wheeley Rabbit 3 1/4 x 2 1/2

  

From Mary Vogel Lozinak Stamp to Super Chic Circus Rat Earrings

Happy MONDAY!!! Susan here today with my first official post since returning to the VLVS Design Team. YAY!!! My fingers are inky and I have a fun project to share today.

Did you participate in the Mary Vogel Lozinak Link Up last weekend??? It was so much fun and I haven't been able to put my three plates of MVL stamps away!

The inspiration for this project is the Mary Vogel Lozinak "Rat Face #18522" stamp. This stamp just makes me laugh out loud!!! I was rummaging through my craft stash and I came across some shrink plastic...and this stamp SCREAMED "earrings"!!!

Per the instructions of the shrink plastic, you need to gently sand the plastic to rough up the edges. I wiped away the dust with a cloth and then stamped the rat face with Black StazOn ink.

Then I colored the image with my Ranger Distress Markers.

After punching a 1/16" hole in plastic, I placed them on a piece of chipboard in the toaster oven and watched carefully not to let plastic burn. It's magical to watch it shrink right before your eyes!

Here are my shrunken rats in comparison to original stamped size. 

The size is 45% of original size...perfect for earrings.

**A NOTE** The distress markers were not heat set after baking. I lightened the color by gently dabbing with a damp cloth. I also sprayed with a polyurethane to seal afterward.

I used some poly-coated wire to string the rat heads with some beads and closed the wire with a crimp bead. I finished off by wiring these to a pair of standard earring hoops. Voila! Custom earrings : )

Presenting my stamped Circus Rat Earrings!!!

Thanks so much for dropping by and welcoming me back to the Viva Las Vegastamps! Design Team. This is a new month and you will want to subscribe to the VLVS Blog if you haven't already. The Viva Las Vegastamps! players will be bringing you posts every day! Don't forget to check out the Viva Las Vegastamps! store.

Thanks so much for visiting! If you would like to see more of my creations please visit my blog, sbartist : painting in the dark HERE. Have an inky day! Sb

Steampunk ATCs

Lyneen Jesse hosted a Steampunk ATC swap at the Viva Las Vegastamps! forum last month, and I couldn't resist.

I stamped this funky Steampunk Camel Item 18443 Plate 1390 .and decorated with Zentangle®-inspired patterns, then colored with Tim Holtz Distress markers.  A few beads and some little tubie-things I have--no idea what they are--and my card was done.

We were required to do eight of the same card.  It looked pretty cool with 8 little camels all in a row.  I hated to send them off!

Store Tour - Winners!

Happy Saturday stampers :) Today I've got a list of WINNERS from the Mary Vogel Lozinak blog hop/link up... But first I have a video to show you!!

Our stamps here at Viva Las Vegastamps! are proudly made by hand in America.. actually in Las Vegas, NV! I gather and design stamps from various places (artists, old books, copyright free images) and pile them into (what I hope are) themed boards for your stamping goodness. Then the plates are sent off in digital format to an engraver.. our plates are returned in hard copy. We catalog them in the factory.. which is also where we press them! Then the stamps are mounted and indexed.. and displayed for sale! All in the US.

So we may be starting at the "end" but I think it's really best. Below is a video of about 1/3rd of the store. I thought it best to show in portions as it literally takes hours to see the place. Here is this portion.. in 7 minutes :)

Now for the winners...

Thank you so much for your participation! Some wonderful wonderful pieces were presented and it was such a joy going through all the links and checking out all the pieces.

So here is a list of the WINNERS from the hop!! If your name is on the list keep a lookout on that designer's blog for your coupon collecting information!

For the $10 coupons from the design team members blogs:

(dt member - winner)

Crystal - Katherine Clayton

Sheri - burning rubber

Leslie-Rahye - Vicki

Lyneen - Sheila Rose R

Cheryl - Carly May

Sandra - Barbara Rankin

Susan - Judy Rozema

for the $25 coupons from the VLVS! blog:

One random entry - by belle

one random comment - Robin

Those of you who have won from the VLVS! Blog - please message me @ deedee430@gmail.com to collect your prize :)

 

Hmmmmmm.....

I would like to dedicate this post to my Mama....God rest her soul.

She was a prime example of a woman that could speak her mind and the recipient would thank her afterwards.

I think ladies in the south have a way with words....they can tell you to go to Hell and you'll be looking forward to the trip.

Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

This beauty is what I imagine my mama sorta looked like when

 she was a young girl in the 40's.  We have no pictures to prove it.  Our house burned down when I was 8 yrs. old and we lost everything.  The only pics I have are the ones that we have gotten from relatives over the years.

But I have had many people tell me that she was very beautiful when she was younger but she truly didn't know how beautiful she was. 

But that didn't stop her from being who she was and she was "special".

Her older sister, my Aunt Janetta, told me a few years ago that my Mama was different;

 but in a good way....

Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

This 'lovely lady' is from Viva Las Vegastamps!

You can get her HERE!!! 

The sentiment you can get here......

You know what bitch stand for don't ya.....

Babe In Total Control of Herself

Here's a close-up of the crystal lacquer I applied after I colored the image.

Until later, fellow B.I.T.C.H. members.....Gotta bitch split.....TFL!!!!

Facebook Fan!!

Here is a project shared on our facebook by fan Michele Kosciolek!! 

She used our Washi Tape video to make her own customized tape!!

Thanks so much for sharing Michele!!