Retro Style Card – Will Trade Coffee For Gossip

June Cleaver is going to pop out of one of my kitchen cabinets some day, I'm sure of it. I live in a 1950's ranch with the original pink kitchen made by GE. Yup, the one you see at the start of the Tomorrow Land ride at Disney. That's fine with me though, because I love 1950's design.

I've collected Heywood Wakefield furniture and Russel Wright designs for 20 years. So when I saw the two woman drinking coffee (or tea) on Viva Las Vegastamps! plate 1364 I immediately thought of June Clever, pink, turquoise and retro wallpaper.

With those thoughts in mind, this was a quick card to create.

1. Round the corners and then use sepia ink to edge the turquoise, tan and background layers of the card.

2. Stamp the two woman drinking from plate 1364 on white paper and color with Copic markers. Fussy cut.


3. Stamp the sentiment "Will trade coffee for gossip." on turquoise and punch with a scalloped oval punch. Add three small pearls.

4. Layer the mats and backgrounds on an A2 card using Miracle Tape. Adhere the sentiment. Adhere the two woman with pop-dots for dimension.

There are so many sentiments that would go perfectly with the image of the two woman drinking. How about "Hi! We were just talking about you..." or "We start our day with coffee, but we end it with booze."

What sentiment comes to mind when you see this image? I encourage you to share your ideas in a comment. Who knows, maybe one day it will become a stamp!


For more of my projects check out my blog on Create & Craft.
Happy Crafting!
Joe

Celebrating Your Day with a Card and Matching Gift Box using Viva Las Vegastamps!

Happy Saturday Everybody! It's March and it's Susan here with my top of the month project to share. We have a BIRTHDAY GIRL this month...You all know and love her...Terri Sproul of Terri Sproul Mixers by Sakura Hobby Crafts that are NOW AVAILABLE at Viva Las Vegastamps! I got to meet our Fairy Craftmother at CHA in California and I was so inspired by her creativity and enthusiasm.

For the March theme challenge "Birthday"...we are to play along by making our "QUEEN BEE" a birthday greeting and follow the game rules here for your chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the Viva Las Vegastamps! online store.

This is Terri and I at CHA!

For today's project I used two stamps from Viva Las Vegastamps! Birthday #6835 and Celebrate #12390. I started off with a sheet of white gloss cardstock and I stamped both images with a Stuart Superior chalk inks in bright pink and blue. I am trying out a technique called Chalk Ink resist. This is achieved by stamping image with chalk ink on gloss paper, blotting excess ink and then let dry. Then go over original stamped image with another chalk ink color and the previous image resists the color - but - it keeps the original color. This was fun to play around with and I made two samples. One with pink down first and blue over and the other vice-versa. Then I spritzed each with a shimmer mist to give some pizazz. I finished the pink version into a birthday card and the blue version was scored and folded into a quick and easy gift box. A perfect matching set - that looks like it came from the store - AND - I made it myself!

Both backgrounds I created before making final projects.
The shimmer is hard to see in photo, but the colors are bright
and the gloss paper makes the shimmer spray pop.

Completed gift box - the shimmer spray really makes
it look like its a printed box.

A reminder...it's a new month which means a new VLVS Theme Challenge for March! We are doing this just a little different this month. Trying something new. CLICK HERE for info on submissions. inLinkz your "BIRTHDAY" wishes for Terri Sproul creations using Viva Las Vegastamps! for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate at the VLVS online store. Don't forget to check out the Viva Las Vegastamps! store.

Have you seen what our talented Design Team has been up to...stick around a while, browse around and I promise you'll have a chuckle...or two!

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. Happy Saturday : )

Is The Cat In The Bag???

This is a very special post, a card I made for a friend who is going through treatment for breast cancer.  She had many cats and loves them!  So I decided to make her this card to cheer her up.  The cat in the bag is inside the card.  VLVS has a great love for animals, especially dogs and cats.

VLVS Images:
Thank You Quote - 1113
Cat in Cat Door - 7988
Cat/Furniture Quote - 7926
Cat in the bag - 7923
Cat in bag Quote - 8012
Spotted Frame (on sale)
Cat's World  - 8077

This card is sort of a file folder, or if turned sideways, a recipe greeting card.  I found some polkadot patterned paper and cut a large label shape.  I adhered that to the card front.  Stamped, colored, and cut the cat in the door and quote about "warm-blooded furniture," and adhered them to the front of the card. 

The inside was done by stamping, coloring and cutting all pieces and layering/adhering them collage style.  Frame, cat, and lastly quotes.  Added a little glittery bird epoxy sticker as a little contrast touch.  "Cat's World quote," is part of a longer quote, I just wanted the 2 words so cut them from the quote after I stamped it.  The quote is mounted on lime green cardstock before mounting on the tab.

As I know first hand, cancer is a tough battle to overcome.  My heart goes out to my friend, she caught it early.  For all those battling challenges in their lives, I send healing thoughts.

Use your VLVS for sentimental, weird, friendship, steampunk, Whatever!  VLVS has it all!!!!

I will see you next month if my DT spot is renewed...keep your fingers crossed :-D

HAPPY LEAP DAY!!! Spending it playing with Viva Las Vegastamps!

Hi everybody! It's Susan bringing you my end of the month post. I am so excited for getting today as  my project day because it's LEAP DAY!!! So of course, I had to create something extra special for the occasion...complete with lots of leaping frogs! This project has been in my head for months, too. I have been collecting stamps through a couple orders of pounds of rubber grab bags from Viva Las Vegastamps! These are so fun and you never know what you are going to get for your creating pleasure...PLUS it's a whole pound of RUBBER STAMPS {it's a whole lot}!!!

In these I got these two awesome stamps...

I used three Viva Las Vegastamps!: Frog Bottom #1546; Frog Background #6025bbi; and Celebrate #12390. I started off with a gloss piece of cardstock that I stamped in Stewart Superior Palette Hybrid "Giverny Green" a very bright and springy green. This ink is all-purpose and can be used with embossing powders.  So I created a large background paper by stamping frog background four times and embossed using VLVS Ultra High Gloss embossing powder. Then I applied three different green Distress Inks with a blending tool to make a soft modeled background. I have this stash of letter stickers - where I rummaged through and came across this package of "Sticky Face™" double sided letter stickers. PERFECT!! I have this jar of glittery green felted stuff I picked up on my trip to the stamp store to get my "Rubber Stamp Madeness" magazine. So I applied the letters, burnished them down and exposed the adhesive. I dumped on the felted powder and gently patted in and tapped off excess. This is a messy yet fun way to add texture. On another piece of gloss cardstock, I used the blending tool to apply three colors of green Distress Inks and spritzed with water to add texture. I heat set this then stamped "Celebrate" and the Frog in "Madonna Blue" Stewart Superior Memories Pigment ink and embossed with VLVS Ultra High Gloss embossing powder. I fussy cut these out and applied 3-D pop dots. Finished assembled piece is mounted on a navy blue card stock.

Detail showing embossing and texture of glittered felting on letters.

Today is the last day to submit your creations for the VLVS Theme Challenge for February! Submit your "LOVE" theme creations using Viva Las Vegastamps! for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate at the VLVS online store. CLICK HERE for info on submissions. 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. I hope you enjoy your EXTRA Day STAMPING!!!

Happily Divorced!

Hello everyone! While travelling last year, I saw this funny sentiment on something at a souvenir shop. Since Viva Las Vegastamps! has hundreds of stamps featuring women’s faces and funny expressions, I really wanted to use it for one of my blog posts. I asked Wayne, the owner of Viva Las Vegastamps! to put these words on a stamp, and he did! So here it is, with one of my favorite face stamps. You can find the sentiment by clicking here, and you can find the Lady with Pearls by clicking here.

To make this card, I stamped the Lady With Pearls stamp on smooth white cardstock and colored with Copic markers. The stamp does show her with a pearl necklace, but I added some small sticky pearls from Want To Scrap to bling it up a little. I cut her out and adhered her to a piece of background paper, and stamped the sentiment directly on the background paper below her.

Thanks for stopping by! Be sure to return often to see what’s new, and feel free to leave a comment because we love to hear from you and find your words encouraging. If you want to see more of my Viva Las Vegastamps! projects, visit my blog by clicking here.

TH Inspired Tag using VLVS! Swirls

Hey Everybody!! DeeDee here!! Have you seen the 12 tags of 2012 TH is now doing?? 

well I wanted to participate.. but As a design team member for VLVS! it is our duty to promote as much VLVS! as possible, and it's QUITE easy when you love a company as much as I do VLVS! The images that Wayne and CO produce are just ... the best. so I took on TH's tag challenge.. but with a VLVS! twist.. 

First.. Pick a background! 

I chose a combination of three stamps:

  Swirl 2 1/2 x 3 1/4 - $10.25

Swirl 3/4 x 1 1/4 - $5.00

  Swirl 3/4 x 1 - $4.50

Then.. grab your tag and stamp them in WHITE ACRYLIC PAINT. I stamped them sort of haphazard all over.. and I wasn't careful about covering the entire stamp in paint either.. it sort of made this.. fun swirly collage with an almost foliage resemblance! 

Give the paint ample time to dry and then ink your tag. I used Spun Sugar Distress Stain.. and sponged some Festive Berries and Brushed Corduroy ink over it. spritz with water.. and wipe the ink off of the painted parts!! Background CHECK!

(here's a closeup of the background)

I then embellished with a 3D heart made from punched hearts that I folded in half and glued sides together. There's a bit of old pattern wrinkled up underneath the heart.. and I used some vintage lace and snug hug for my trim embellishes! 

The Cupid was hand cut, inked and crackled! What do you think?? Aren't the VLVS! Stamps just SUPERB! they do the same thing as tim's giant stamp, but only BETTER!! 

Let me know what you thiiiiiiiiink!! -DeeDee

Absolut-ly Fabulous Card - Shaped Like A Bottle of Absolut!

From the first time I saw the TV show Absolutely Fabulous, I fell in love with it! If you aren't familiar with it, Absolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is a British sitcom created by Jennifer Saunders, based on an original idea by her and Dawn French, and written by Saunders, who plays the leading character.

According to Wikipedia, the series features Saunders as Edina Monsoon, a heavy-drinking, drug-abusing PR agent who spends her time chasing bizarre fads in a desperate attempt to stay young and "hip." Edina is joined in her quest by magazine editor Patsy Stone, her best friend and enabler, whose drug abuse, alcohol consumption, and promiscuity far eclipse Edina's comparatively mild self-destructive behaviour.


The stamp, Party Girls 2 1/2 x 3 #183, from Viva Las Vegastamps!, immediately reminded me of Patsy and Edina. I decided to use this stamp, along with a bit of a play on words and a card shaped like a bottle of Absolut Vokda, to create a card that's perfect to tell someone you think their fab-u-lous!


I started by creating the card base using the Zing electronic cutting machine. Using Make The Cut!, I traced the silhouette of a bottle of Absolut, copied it, and then welded the two shapes together along the side, to create a bottle shaped card, sized to fit in a #10 envelope.  I cut out a single bottle shape in vellum to use as an overlay on the front of the card (to resemble the frosted glass of the bottle). I cut the cap out of paper covered in aluminum tape.  The lettering is the font Futura Extra Black Condensed BT, which is pretty close to Absolut's lettering style.

I stamped Party Girls 2 1/2 x 3 #183 on white paper, colored them with Copic markers and fussy cut them out.

To make it look like the bottle contained liquid, I masked off the top of the bottle and used distress ink to shade from the neck down.

To assemble the card, attach the aluminum cap and letters to the vellum. I ran the pieces through my Xyron to turn them in to stickers. The attach the vellum to the front of the card using Miracle Tape. Only use the tape behind the letters and cap so it doesn't show through the vellum.

Lastly, apply the party girls to the front of the card with Miracle Tape. Your done! The card is shown here resting on a red background so you can really see the shape.

You can see more of my projects on my blog on Create & Craft.
Happy Crafting!
Joe

GOT MILK? MOOOOO... COW SWAP

Lyneen here with a surprise post! A few months back I participated in a swap... it was a special one.  We had to make 8 sets of ATCs, Moos and Inchies.

ATC = 3 1/2" x 2 1/2"

Moo = 3 1/2" x 1"

Inchie = 1" x 1" 

I had fun with these, all stamps are from Viva Las Vegastamps! I stayed with red, black and white! For a bit of whimsy added copies of a couple of vintage things from my collection of ephemera.  The tag is from an old local creamery. HOW OLD? The phone number listed is Main 360!!!  Then the milk cap has a 5 digit phone number!!!  How long ago did they use 5 digit phone numbers.

I used Crystal Lacquer to give the bottle the look of glass and VLVS! High Gloss Embossing Powder on all the images... if you haven't noticed I LOVE!!! VLVS! Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder!

COW in Bottle

Mooo

Mona Cow

If Milk is only 2%

COW (front)

Cupid's Game

Valentine's Day may be over, but Cupid's work is not done.  He's is such a stinker!  He's not an angel or a devil, maybe a bit of both!!  He likes to play games, sometimes his arrows miss and hits the wrong person. 

Alter a tag, color areas to accentuate the game theme, add VLVS images and viola' you create some fun art!  Search and collect sayings and images - mix and match them in weird ways!

VLVS Images:

Cupid Dreaming Hearts

Saying - Pleasure is a Sin

Enjoy all the wonderful ideas by the design team and stay warm!

-Lea

Viva Las Vegastamps! and Mary Vogel Lozinak

Viva Las Vegastamps! 

Comes out with AWESOME NEW stamps every month...

 this month I would like to 

present the NEWEST arrivals!

AND I AM IN LOVE WITH THESE STAMPS!!!

 Mary Vogel Lozinak's  Plate 1451

  Mary Vogel Lozinak's  Plate 1450

 Stamping images on tissue and 

heat embossing with 

VLVS! Ultra Thick Embossing Powder!

 Playing with colors!

 Playing with colors!

I love the whimsy!

So much detail!

Fun sentiments!

So Much FUN!

These arrived in the mail LATE YESTERDAY.... 

I was having so much fun with my new stamps 

I almost forgot to stop and post my cards!!!!

Have a great week... 

Lyneen

See more of my work HERE!