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Friday the 13th {BLOG HOP}

It's Friday the 13th and it's time to get CREEPTASTIC. UNLUCKY. SPOOOOOKY.

We are excited to bring you a little FRIGHT during some NON Halloween time.

It IS Friday the 13th after-all.

So join the Design Team here @ Viva Las VegaStamps! on a little journey of spooky creepy and unlucky creations today.

You'll want to stop bye each blog to see what's up -- leave a little love because some of our friends may have prizes to give out -- plus we're giving away our own prize -- a LB O' Rubber to one random comment along the hop!

Now get to steppin!

• Viva Las VegaStamps! 
• DeeDee Catron 
• Corrie Herriman 
• Hermine Koster 
• Michele Kosciolek 
• Shanna Shands 
• Glenda Tkalac 
• Susan M. Brown 
• Mary Brockway 

Stop back here at the end and let me know what really sparked your interest on the hop! HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH! 

With Love.

Hello, Mary here, to share a sweetly stamped Valentine I've created for my Sweetie.

For the background, I've just inked it up with Distress Ink and water and then stamped the Medium Doily slightly off the edge to add a bit of interest.

To complete my background, I then stamped the Heart Outline nineteen times---one for each Valentine's Day we've spent together.  A quick dusting of Perfect Pearls adds a touch of sparkle without any glitter to flake off.

I then stamped Young Love and colored them up with my Copic markers.  These cuties look like the Campbell Soup kids from days gone by and SO remind me of my husband in his baby pictures!  A bit of fussy cutting and I glued the image down.

To finish off my card, I've stamped the {With Love} sentiment and stitched on a few vellum hearts to add a bit of dimension.  I love how you can still see the background and hearts through the vellum.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Now, go grab your favorite rubber and make something sweet to give this Valentine's Day!!

XO Valentines Day Tag

Happy HUGS day all!  It's Michele here today...

and I was wondering...what images come to mind when you think about Valentines Day??  Is it weird that I go right to the Eiffel Tower??  AND of course all the other basics like hearts and cupid but for me, Eiffel Tower = Love.
With Valentines Day right around the corner I created a mixed media tag that I would like to share with you.

After I sprayed and spackled my tag base I used the Waybill/Invoice Background (Item 19416 Plate 1440), Double Coffee Rings (Item 19568 Plate 1455), and of course Eiffel Tower (Item 1558 Plates 422 & 938 Page 134) to build up some layers.

Other stamps:  Cupid with Bow (Item 3813 Plate 402 Valentine Page 305), Checkerboard Heart (Item 10350 Plate 1045 Valentine Page 614) and XO (Item 19462 Plate 1444).

I also used Um Wow Studio love confetti, heart confetti and heart confetti stencil, May Arts ribbon, Heidi Swapp Color Shine, Distress Ink Walnut Stain, Archival Ink, thread.

While you're here today make sure to check out this months inspiration challenge, it's a GOOD one full of beautiful color inspiration!!

Love is in the air!

With Valentine's Day coming up I thought it only appropriate to make some ATC's showcasing love, because I'm sweet like that, and who doesn't love love??

This first ATC I used a lot of texture and layers like molding paste, acrylic embellishments, paper, stickers, mist and Goosebumps.  I also used the man and woman symbol stamp and the hearts stamp.

 and here is a close up of the yummy textures and layers:

 This next ATC I used the birds on a wire stamp and the couple kissing stamp, along with a rub on, patterned paper and some acrylic embellishments.

and last but not least, a romantic ATC featuring the young couple kissing stamp along with patterned paper, clear printed tape and some stickers:

Happy Valentine's Day everyone and I hope you enjoyed my projects.

Purple Rain

It is Shanna here today excited to share my newest art journal piece with you. 

I don't know about you but I just love when I get to play and test out new ideas or thought or colors in my journal.

I had a blast playing with these stamps. I even played with a label maker. At first I knew I wanted to cover my pages with gesso and use a stencil. So I used one of the doily stencils with some Prima Modeling paste. 

Then I went over my pages with some gelatos then sprinkled some twinkling h20's on the page too. 

Then then fussy cut out the Butterfly Specimens - 19415 and the Winged Girl Under Umberella - 19116. They were both stamped with with StazOn black ink. 

Here you can see the images and I cut out. Then I also used a label maker to add the purple rain title to the journal page. 

I just love splatter! 

I do hope you were inspired to create your own special lovely art journal page and don't forget to check out the current sale going on. 

Vintage collage cards

Hi Hermine here, this time I made a tutorial to make vintage collage cards.

step 1: take 2 A$ sized paper (not as thick as cardstock, more like printer paper), cut both up to A6, this way you have 8 pieces of paper. Colour 2 of them with Brusho, stamp some background stamps on one of them. Take 2 of them and wrinkle, flatten and use distress ink direct to paper, iron them flat and dry. Use 2 of them to stamp on it to achieve a black and white look. Use 1 to stamp with different colours distress and background stamps. Stamp 1 of them with the invoice and make stains with distress ink. I used several stamps plate 1455, Waybill/invoice backround 19416, Sheet music background 19557, Harlequin Diamond Background 18920 and  Washi Grid Background 19074. But any gorgeous background stamp will do the trick.

step 2: Tear different pieces of the papers and place on your cardstock, When you like the look you glue them and trim the excess at the edges. Put aside for a little while.

step 3: take a smaller piece of cardstock and stamp with Stazon Black the tricycle girl mailing letter 19558. Cut a piece of black cardstock a little bigger then the one with the image. And stamp on a piece of leftover the number from the December Daily plate 1430

step 4: Colour the image and background with Lyra crayons and a waterbrush. Glue it onto the piece of black paper. Punch a hole and fasten an eyelet. Tie a piece of ribbon.

step 5: Glue a piece of lace on the lefthand side of your background card and use some washi tape. Assemble the card by glueing a piece of black cardstock onto your double squared kraftpaper card, then glue on the background. Glue the focal image in an angle onto the background and finish if off by glueing the number 7.

And this is how it looks when finished.

As you can tell you can make more then one card out of you pieces of selfmade patterned paper. I ended up with 4 larger ones and one smaller one. Still had some leftover that I used on the cards.

Made the same way as above. Focal image  Pipe Man Riding Bicycle 19555 and Admit one ticket 19190

Made the same way as above. Focal image Lady in Steampunk car 18382 and Butterfly specimens 19415

Made the same way as above. Focal Image Tea Party 19114 and writing triangles 19571

Made the same way as above. Focal Image Bansky unhappy boy 19493 and the number 16 from the December Daily plate 1430

I used magical tape to glue all parts to the card.

Hope this series will give you lots of inspiration and have fun trying it out.

Warmly Hermine

Used materials:
Plate 1455
Waybill/invoice background 19416
Sheet music background 19557
Harlequin Diamond Background 18920
Washi grid Background 19074
Tricycle girl mailing letter 19558
December Daily plate 1430
Pipe Man Riding Bicycle 19555
Admit one ticket 19190
Lady in steampunk car 18382
Butterfly specimens 19415
Tea Party 19114
Writing traingles 19571
Banksy unhappy boy 19493
Stazon
Magical tape

Banksy trio of tags

Hello everyone,

Today I have three tags to share with you. I love the Banksy stamps and couldn't resist playing with them again. I have also used quite a few other rubber stamps. You will find a complete list at the bottom of this post.

This is the finished result

Paint tags with gesso. Also gesso a piece of card stock for sentiments if wanted/needed)

When the gesso has dried, stamp the images with Archival ink and heat emboss. I used black embossing powder to get a real black image. 

Randomly glue (I used gel medium)  book text around the images and put a thin coat of gesso over it. Make sure you can still see the text. 

Use a stencil, model paste and a paletknife of old credit card and add more texture to your tag. 

After this has dried (you can use a heat tool) the fun can start. Use different spray inks to colour the tags. I didn't spray; I used a brush as, although the images repel the ink, when drying the ink with a heat tool you might melt some of the liquid into the embossed images leaving light spots. If this happens you can always touch it up with a black marker. 

The last thing you do is stamp the background, use a fine tipped marker to doodle here and there, splatter some white ink (avoiding the images),  adhere your sentiments (if using) and add some ribbon. I also used some plaster bandage for added interest. 

I used the following stamps : 

19041 - Pure imagination

19047 - Dream Big

19424 - Where's my mind

19434 - Banksy Gas Mask Flower Girl

19425 - Banksy Swinging Girl

19433 - Banksy Kissing Cops

19423 - Banksy

19565 - Measuring tape section

19567 - Writing circles background

19572 - Tape X

19571 - Writing triangles

19575 - Stitching 

Thank you so much for stopping by !

Until next time 

Corrie x

www.MadeByCHook.blogspot.nl

My Mind's Eye... February Challenge Inspiration

Welcome to Viva Las Vegastamps! Susan here today to share with you my creation based on the new February Challenge inspiration. January flew by in like a minute... so since I'm trying to "SIMPLIFY" my life in 2015... I've created a creative calendar, by mounting into an acrylic craft frame that I can change for each month with some fun wet-erase markers.

Starting with a blank sheet of white letter size uncoated cardstock, I used clear embossing fluid to stamp images onto sheet, then applying embossing powder and heat embossing to create an emboss resist. This technique is worth the time invested to build a background. I have so many stamped images here to create my "mind's eye" scene... too many to count {all are listed below}. I colored over the top with gelatos and blended out with my finger. Some of the stamped images blend into the background becoming more muted adding depth and interest. To expose the resist areas, I gently rubbed the color away from the embossed areas - repeating layering color and rubbing away until coloring was to my liking. I mounted my final creation into a frame embellished with a washi tape grid for a monthly calendar; topped off with sari ribbon and hemp twine for hanging. My calendar can be changed easily each month with wet erase markers. 

"Time for February"

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From Viva Las VegaStamps:

"Eye and Brow" #4487

"Stars" #19291

"Washi Lines Background" #19073

"Creative Minds are Rarely Tidy" #1501

"Question Everything" #18824

"Paris Address" #17539

"Writing Triangles" #19571

"Double Coffee Rings" #19568

"Measuring Tape Section" #19565

"Mesh Texture" #19569

"Bubble Wrap Texture" #19566

"Texture Background" #19570

"Writing Circles Background" #19567

"Color Wheel Lines" #19338

"Solid Color Wheel" #19339

Miracle Tape

Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder

Other Supplies: White Cardstock; Deflecto hanging 8 1/2" x 11" Craft Frame #68201CR; Deflecto Wet Erase Markers; rainbow colors of Faber-Castell Gelatos; Globecraft Embossing Ink Dauber; labelmaker; washi tape; sari ribbon and hemp cord.

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Thanks so much for dropping by and I hope you will join us and play along with the February inspiration challenge {CLICK HERE for details}. Just make a creation using the inspiration above and your stash of VLVS! stamps... you could win more RUBBER! Also, you definitely want to subscribe to the blog feed and to the Viva Las VegaStamps! newsletter to be IN THE KNOW of everything going on at the Viva Las Vegastamps! store... like the annual SUPERSTAMP SALE. There's so much amazing inky inspiration to see!

If you would like to see more of my creations please visit my blog, sbartist : painting in the dark HERE. Hope you have a fabulous day!!  Sb

February Challenge!

We're going BRIGHT with our Monthly Challenge for February.

We'd like to prompt you this month with rainbows, ROYGBIV, diecuts, distressed, rip, torn, mended, stitches, staples, repairs, circles, watercolor, color guide, color wheel, fine arts, painterly, hues and more.

Don't forget the rules:

-Create a new project based on our inspiration board

-Use at least one (but certainly more if you want) Viva Las VegaStamps! rubber stamps

(We are now allowing competitors stamps to be on your work, but please make VLVS! the focus of the project, thank you.)

-Post it to your blog with a link back to us

-Upload to our linky using your direct blog post link (You may also upload via facebook, flickr or other gallery)

You could win a Project Spotlight post on our blog + some new rubber of course.

And visit us back here tomorrow for some inspiration from new DT member Susan M. Brown.

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