Faustus by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello all!!

Well we are officially in my favorite season!! So here is a Card to start off my Halloween season of making! I do hope you enjoy.....

For this card I started out using Yuppo paper... Its a thin sheet of plastic. I used it with my alcohol inks. Just start by putting some ink down and adding 91% or above, bottled alcohol to thin it out and help spread it , I used my heat tool from farther away for this. yuppo is thin and will warp with heat so you have to be very carful.

I also used a highlighter pen for the yellow. I stuck with greys for the ink as well as some red. You just have to play until you are happy with the result.

I then took my stamp and some Twinkling H2O's water color's and painted them on the stamp. Not too much water, you want it a little thick. then stamp on cardstock. you can repeat until you get an impression your happy with. You can also use markers, After you've colored the stamp spritz with water then stamp.

Then cut out the image. I used the highlighter pen for the yellow bits as I wanted it bright.

I also added some bat wings that I die cut, as well as the bat wing skeleton wings stamp.

I stamped the hanging bats and fence in versaclair ink. Keep a black sharpie handy for any solid black parts that miss so you can fill in. I used foam tape on the back of  the devil to give him some dimension after fussy cutting him out. That tail was tricky!

All that's left is to select your card stock layers, put it all together and you have a nice spooky card. 

I hope you enjoyed... and welcome to fall and for many of us, the spooky season!

See you next time!

Stamps used:

Hanging bat silhouette     20124

Devil        19905

Fence      18919

Bat Skeleton    19742

Other products:

Twinkling H2O's paints 

Alcohol ink: grays. red

highlighter marker

sharpie

Versaclaire Nocturne ink pad

Tim Holtz Bat crazy dies

Yuppo paper

Halloween Garland by Arwen

 Hi Lovelies ❤

Today, I'm back here with a new project.

I created a Halloween garland with 3 pieces.

Some close-ups:

And that's the way, I created this one:

1.) Choosing my materials for the garland. I used black cardstock and Watercolor paper from Canson. I used two different sizes of a banderol die.

2.) Stick together, so you get 3 pieces of banderols with a tiny black edge.

3.) As first stamps, I choose the Scrabble Alphabet.

4.) Stamping a letter in each left edge of every banderol.

5.) Time to choose the rest of stamps. Now, let's colorize!

6.) Now, every piece is colored - the single banderols need to be connected.

To make it possible, I used eyelets in different colors and connected them with a gauze ribbon. Finished! Time to celebrate Halloween 💀👻

Stamps I used:

- Scrabble Alphabet

- Devil's Trap

- Small wasp

- Vampire

- Cemetery

- Wolfman

- Bat

- Spider web in tree branches

- Spider

- Raven in witch hat

- Jack O' Lantern

other stuff:

- Cardstock

- Watercolor paper

- Staz on

- Distress reinker

- Eyelets

- Gauze ribbon

- Dies

See ya soon *mwah*

It's not art by Corrie

 Hello everyone, 

Welcome to the VivaLasVegaStamps! blog today where I have a postcard to share. 

And here's how:

Fist of all I stamped the images I was going to use and coloured them with Copic Markers. I then cut them out. I also took out some words of the sentiment.

The background was simply made with dunking the card into Distress Oxide ink and water on my craft sheet; I used Broken China. I then stamped over top with the same ink and Vintage Photo. I also used Versafine Clair black. You'll find a list of all the stamps I used at the bottom of this post. 

Next I added some washi tape by Tim Holtz and some more stamping, this time with Distress Ink Faded Jeans. 

I then put it all together. I doodled around the edges here and there with a graphite pencil. 

I used the following stamps:

19568 - Double Coffee Rings

19572 - Tape X

19567 - Writing Circles Background

20695 - Writing and scribbling collage

20293 - Banksy Just because it is not in a museum....

20683 - Vintage man examining jars

19606 - Banksy Rat gentleman

19604 - Banksy Mirror admiror

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

Hi everyone! 

Today I have a card to celebrate women! I hope you like it :)

To make the background I used distress inks in Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed and Picked Raspberry.  I smooshed them with water then blended some on as well to fill the gaps and deepen the colour.

I added the sentiment so I could gauge where my lady would be standing on the card

I then made a mask of my main image so I could stamp the stars and know roughly where she would be.

Then I added to the background some stenciling (sequin waste) and some different stamps.  , I coloured some of the arrows in with a black pen.

I coloured my main image with copic pens and cut her out.

Lastly, I stuck her onto the black card so that she is standing on the sentiment. I went round the stars with a white pen and a black pen to add a bit of depth, and put a few lines of gold glitter pen (which you can't see properly in the photograph). 

And that's it!  I hope you like her!

Stamps Used

Lady Tipping Hat 2638 Plate 225

Tired of trying to cram 19833 Plate 1471

Squiggly star collage 19822 Plate 1471

Row of Chevrons 19829 Plate 1471

Rows of numbers 20170 Plate 1495

Other Items Used:

Distress inks in Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade and Picked Raspberry

Versafine Clair ink in Nocturn

Black 7 x 5" card

Copic pens

See you next time!

Happy Birthday ► Majo

Hi Peeps,

 it’s me again 😀

 Today I show you a birthday card for my friend who favors orange and red flowers. Red is not my color, so I stuck to the Orange.

 

I used a lot of stamps:

20343

19416

10480

Circles 19998,19999, 20000,

from the Plate 1480, designed by Tara Calihan

14093

14092

 I stamped the floral background in different colors and the circles right on top. After cutting them, I added a bit more ink and distressed the edges.

I stamped the waybill on my card and adhered the circles (flowers) with pop dots. I stamped the leafs and just fuzzy cut the stems.

The sentiment finished my birthday card.

 

While creating it popped to my mind that I had made a similar card ages ago, and see what a difference color makes:

 https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/13652863/6803322452026327458

 Posted on November,14,2019 

Looking forward to Halloween? Stay tuned.

Luv ya ♥ 

 

 

Tag trio - Banksy girls

Hi everyone,

today I want to share with you a small series of colorful tags that I created. I always like to have a little something at hand to give away when swapping ATCs. 

I started with three tags cut from watercolor paper with a size of 5.25 x 3 inch. I used Lindy's Magicals and water to create a few layers of color. Make sure to dry them beween the colors to avoid a muddy color mix.

Next, I added some of the good old mark making and texture stamps to the background. These stamps from plate 1495 are very versatile and perfect for a lot of backgrounds.
Also, I stamped three different Banksy girls on the tags. I used Versafine Claire ink for the girls as it is a very intense black and Archival ink in the background for a more distressed stamp impression. Then I inked the edges of the tags directly with the Archival ink pad.

I like adding ribbon to my tags for a finished look. Here I chose to tear some strips of cheesecloth and added some of the same stamps to these grungy strips as I have already used on the tags themselves. This really connects all the elements. Another idea might have been to 'dye' the ribbon with some colors from the background, but I think that might have been a little too much here.

From some black cardstock, I cut a base for each of my tags, a little larger than the tag to get this black edge around it. I glued them together and sandwiched the ribbon in between, secured with a little bit of liquid glue. To finish the tags, I added some quote stickers.

Hope you liked this project. Here are a few more detail photos:

Stamps used:
Carved Xs (20162)
Row Of Numbers (20170)
Cross Marks Background (20165)
Punchinella/Sequin Waste Border (20161) 
Plate 1495
Banksy Girl Floating With Balloons (19421)
Banksy Balloon Girl (19430)
Banksy Child Sitting (19940)


Other material:
- Canson watercolor paper
- black cardstock
- cheesecloth
- Lindy's magicals (teenie weenie bikini, umbrella drink pink, nuneka's purple popsicle)
- Archival Ink (jet black)
- Versafine Claire Ink (nocturne)
- Tim Holtz quote stickers

See you soon!

 

September dreams by Tracy Blackwolf

Hello all!! Happy September! 

Hope you enjoy the card I made for this post.....

I started this card by using spray stains. I sprayed those and water until I got the desired effect. I dried it and then sprayed it again until I was happy with the results. I love those things!

I took the stamp lady hair blowing, stamped her and cut out just her face.

I then Took several ink pads and collage

stamps and just randomly stamped over the card. I stamped the black nature collage stamp last. then I took the face and used foam tape on the back to give her some lift. I stamped some bugs looking at her, put some glitter glue on their wings and then took my butterfly corner punch to the corners.

layered it up and that was it! Until next Time!!

Stamps used:

Nature collage by cat kerr    20036

lady hair blowing     7006

writing triangles   19571

Stitching     19575

Mesh Texture   19569

French Writing    20646

Mosquito    1885

Other products used:

Colorbox chalk inks: Lavender ,Wisteria, yellow cadmium

Kaleidacolor ink pad: Baby powder

Versa Claire ink pad: Nocturne

Butterfly corner punch... all night media

Disstress Spray Stains: Mustard seed, Squeezed Lemonade, Wilted Violet, Shaded Lilac