Pure Imagination

I had 3 or 4 pages left in my small Staphmore Visual journal, so I took them out and did some backgrounds with the Melted Crayon technique. Just to have some backgrounds. This is one of the pages I did the background.

The crayons I used were magenta, a yellow and a green yellow. I took used some white craft paint over a tree mask. When it dried you can see some of the magenta crayon coming through the paint. Really cool! When it dried I took a black Bic pen and outlined the tree. I stamped the Unicorn on white cardstock with the black Menento ink pad. Colored him in with the metallic color pencils by Faber-Castell.  I attached him on the page with Miracle tape. The unicorn needed a friend so I took one of the wood embellishments pieces by Prima, colored both sides with yellow craft paint(I didn't know which way the birdie wanted to face). Glued him using Aileen's tacky. I used the "Pure imagination"stamp for the page. When I got this stamp I cut the words apart, it is easier for me to use it this way. Yes I know the 'P' in Pure is cut off. I was kinda ticked when I pulled the stamp up. But I'm going to let it go and say its part of the process of art journaling.

Stamps used

Unicorn

Pure imagination 

Items used

Miracle tape

Staphmore visual journal Mixed media paper

Crayola crayons

Craft iron

White craft paint

Tree mask

Bic pen

Black Menento ink pad

Metallic color pencils

Prima wood embellishment

This is my last Viva Las VegaStamps Design Team project for this term. I am trying out for the next term. It's a blast working for this company, and working with some amazing talented artists on this team. If I do not make it for the next term I want to thank DeeDee for all her hard work she does for us, and letting be on this awesome team.

Viva Las Vegastamps! Halloween Blog hop day 4

Welcome back to day 4! Hope you are enjoying the hop! I know I am. :)

Today I'm going to show you a little faux TP mini I made. It is really easy and made from 1 sheet of 12 x 12. I saw a youtube video on how to do it. You can watch the video on how to make the mini. Like I said it is really easy! The only thing that gave me trouble when I first did it after i saw the video was the measurements for the inside pockets. lol I will never claim to be a math wiz or a great measure person. LOL I have the hardest time with 8th on a ruler or cutter.LOL When it was time to cut the paper for the tags, I had to zoom the screen out and look where she was placing the paper to cut. :P I used a lot of the new VLVS! Halloween stamps for this project, for the tags and the pages.

This is the cover. The paper i used is the Kraft resist Halloween stash by Tim Holtz. I choose to use binder rings as the binding. These are from Teresa Collins that were in a kit that I never made. LOL. i used my Crop -a-dile to punch holed and eyelts on each side of the paper to give some strength. There are 4 pages in this album. I used The Fall distress ink pads for all of the pages.and tags. 

The cover I used the Happy Haunting stamp on Kraft cardstock. Used the Ripe persimmon on it. the cat is from a sticker a day calender form my stash. The flower is made from fabric i have in my stash and colored with Dark Chocolate truffle and Voodoo Violet Blue Starburst Spry and a little bit of bucket o Blood Moonshadow Mist by Lindy Stamp gang.I added one of the Halloween coins by Tim Holtz.(good think I did pick those up at Tuesday Morning! :P)

 Here is the next page and the non pattern side of the tag. The page I colored 3 pearls with purple bic marker(its became a habit when doing these projects for the hop. lol) and put them on the corner. The tag i stamped the witch costume on black archival ink pad and the witching hour using gathered twig distress ink pad.

The next page I just stamped the giant head skeleton on a piece of Kraft cardstock with black archival ink pad. glued it on to the end of the page.

 For this page I stamped the R.I.P. Jack O Lantern on white cardstock and colored it with ripe persimmon distress ink pad with a water brush. Only glued the bottom of it so you can easily tuck a picture in there.

 This is the tag for the page above. I used the tree background stamp in the gathered twig. I then stamped the R.I.P. jack o latern and the cemetery stamp with the black archival. I stamped the flock of birds int ehe same  ink pad as the tree background. I then stuck a sticker on white cardstock cut it out. and used a little bit of Mircale tape to put it on the tag. (I also used Miracle tape to make the pages of the mini.)

This page is just with a Flower I made using the same fabric and sprays as the first one. the little circle is covering the brad i put in the middle.

  Other side is just a die cut from a day by day calender of die cuts that was in my stash. i glued a corner of it so you can stick something in there like the ticket.  I have the Tim Holtz ticket die so i cut some and stamped the tree background and the Oct. 31 on it.

The back of this tag is the Giant skeleton head stamp and another ticket die cut with the tree background and the Friday the 13 stamp.

 The last page. Another sticker that I stuck on white cardstock and glued the top and bottom of the ghost for another place to stick another ticket.

And finally the back of the mini. I didn't do anything here because I like how it is when i put the page together. I mean he's got a hole in the middle of his head. LOL

 Stamps used

Cemetery

Giant head Skeleton

Friday the 13

Witching hour

Happy haunting

R.I.P jack o latern

tree background

Witch costume 

 flock of birds

Oct. 31

Items used

1 sheet of 12 x 12

paper cutter

all 3 Fall distress ink pads

sponges(for distress inks)

black archival ink pad

Miracle tape

pearls

bic mark-it marker

ticket die 

eyelets

crop-a-dile

binder rings

fabric

sprays

brads

stuff from my stash

Hope you like mini. I know its kinda plain and simple. but you gotta have room to put the pictures in! :)

Don't forget to take a picture of your VLS! stash and post it on the wall on the VLVS! Facebook page. here is a picture of mine. :) the word mounted sentiments that you cant see are in the bottom. :)

More ATC fun!

As i said before I am having a blast playing with the Mary Vogel Lozinak I got from Viva Las Vegastamps! I made these ATC's with them.

I got this idea from when I was watching someone open their Secret Sister box swap and one of the ATC's that the person made for her "sister" had all kind of ribbon running across it. I thought it was cool and wanted to try it myself.

I first took a half of black cardstock and half a sheet of Miracle sheet tape. Its the same Miracle tape that is on a roll but in a 8 1/2 by 11 sheet. perfect for this sort of thing. I took one protective layer of the Miracle sheet off. I put the black cardstock on it. The flipped it over and took the other later off. I have a bunch of ribbons and trims that I got in at a thrift store and given to me in a RAK. I just put them on dianglelly on the half sheet. then trimmed them. The cut them down to atc size. That kinda wrecked some of the cotton trim and probably my blade.lol  I kinda saved some of them, but not all. I then took out another piece of black cardstock and trimmed that piece to atc sizes. Then put those on another piece of the Miracle sheet tape and cut those out by and and peeled the other backing and pit more trim on those. I then cut off the access trims.

I then picked out a few images from plates 1383 and 1398. Stamped the words right onto the atc base. I stamped the other images on white cardstock on Memento black ink pad. Pained them with Pearlesent watercolors. cut them out and they were a little too white and didn't want to trim them up so I took Black soot Distress ink pad and stamped on the craft sheet and wet it and used it as a water color on where the white was. I did a couple layers on that. Attached them to the ATC with glossy accents. It needed something else so Added 3 dew drops on each atc.

Products used:

• black cardstock
• trims
• Black Memento ink pad
• Miracle sheets
• dew drops
• white cardstock
• Pearlesent watercolors
• Glossy accents
• Black Soot Distress ink

Stamps used:

• Unicycle lady
• Unicycle Lady Skipping Rope
• Flamingo
• Sitting Bird
• Wheeled Man
• Plate 1398
• Plate 1383
• Quirky
• Add a little Whimsy
• I can do a wheelie
• Got Unicycle?
• Wheeling for you
• Birds of a feather
• Imagine

2 cards using 1 main image

This week I made two cards using one main image. I got the stamped image of the Senior Ladies in my pound of rubber. Love them. So many sentiments you can use with them! I made 2 cards with them! I already had the card bases done a long time ago. 

I stamped these lovely ladies on white cardstock with Black versafine ink pad. My versafine ink pad is so juicy that I was able to pour the Ultra high gloss clear embossing powder on them and have it stick. Took the heat gun to it. I used Prismacolor pencils to colored them in I know you can't really see it in the pictures, because of the lighting, but my youtube video I did it shows a little better.

 After I colored them I took a Qtip and Goo Gone and blended all the coloring. Its a cheap way to blend if you can't afford or get mineral spirits. I got two bottles that are 3 ounces at Dollar Tree a long time ago. It last a really long time. I don't think I'm a quarter into the bottle. You just take your Qtip and dip into the bottle and just brush it on where you colored. 

This card I use the Sentiment "All my life I've wanted to be somebody. Now I realize I should have been more specific". Like I said I did the card bases months and months ago.  Its a white cardstock base. On a piece of scrap black cardstock I then took some scraps of basic Gray out of print collection and put that over the black.  Attached to the white card base. Stamped the sentiment on white and attached everything with Miracle tape

This card is a Kraft cardstock base and a scrap of Retro Mod stack from DCWV. The sentiment I used for this one is  "A new body for $1.87. Who wants a new body for an old one."

Products used:

craft cardstock

white cardstock

black cardstock

decorative scrapbook papers

black versafine ink pad

Ultra High gloss embossing powder

Miracle Tape

Stamps:

Senior Ladies

"all my Life..."

"a new body for $1.87" 

mother's day

Mother's day is around the corner...like this Sunday. I made my mom a Mother's day card. I made my own background paper for the card.I used scraps, tissue paper, paint, stencils and of course stamps! After I made 2 sheets of background paper I cut them up into atc size (2 1/2 x 3 3 1/2) and postcard size (4x6) to use as starters. Then I realized I forgot to take pictures of what they look like BEFORE I cut them up. Opps! :P I made another collage sheet to give you an idea of what it looks like before you cut it up.

Here I used a peice of 8 1/2 by 11 white card stock, glued all the papers and tissue paper with matte medium. Then I used craft paint and if some of the paint got onto the paper too much, I just took a baby wipe ( or a moist paper towel if you don't have or ran out of baby wipes) and wiped up some of the paint. After it dried I used some stencils in craft paint. Last step Is I stamped some images lover the papers. The purple one I used the grape leaves, eye and brow, and poodle with glasses stamps.  The green ones I used Frog in flowers and Greetings Frog stamps. After I cut everything up I went around the edges with black craft paint.

Now for the card! Bet you think I was never going to show it! ;)

I When I cut down the purple sheet I cut a couple in 4 x6 size. I used this one for the card. I used a Kraft card stock for the card base. I used miracle tape To attach the light purple scrapbook paper to the card base. I then attached my background paper to that using the miracle tape. My mom LOVES Las Vegas! Well my dad does too. They have gone there at least once a year for like forever. When I was looking at the stamps I saw this Slot machine winner, I thought of my mom and had to get it and use it on something for her, either for mothers day or birthday (or both!) Colored the image with Prisma color pencils. Edged the sides with Black soot distress ink. Mounted it with the Miracle tape. It needed something, so added 3 little pearl drops on 2 of the corners.  

Also May 26 is the Link up Blog hop Featearing the stamp images by Mary Vogel Lozinak! Check the blog for details and come play with us!  some fun stuff happening! 

And  Happy Mother's day! :)

products used for the card

kraft cardstock
white cardstock
prisma color pencils
black menento ink pad
miracle tape
craft paints
stencils
pearl bling
collage material

stamps used
Slot machine winner
grape leaves

Hippy Easter

Hi everyone! This is my first blog post for Viva Las Vegastamps! I am very excited to be part of this team. Viva Las Vegastamps! was one of the first companies I fell in love with when I first started getting into rubber stamping many many years ago.


My first project is a little Easter greeting. I know Easter is over, but I had to make something when I saw the Easter stamp I got in my pound of rubber.

I used a coaster that was from the $1 area at Micheal's that I had in my stash. I have been trying to use up my stash(stamps excluded :P). I made my own background paper with craft paints and a Dollie shaped as an egg shape that I sprayed with some of my sprays. I used Miracle tape to adhere the paper to the coaster. White glue will not work, it came off after the coaster once the glue dried. I stamped the Easter Hippo Coloring Eggs on white cardstock, and colored it with prisma's colored pencils. attached it with Miracle tape to the coaster. 


It still needed something, and I needed to cover a tiny bit of the corner that didn't get cover with the paper. I had recently learned how to make cabbage roses And I thought they would be kinda cool on the piece. I was raked die cut  of the Tattered floral dies and had some extras to make some more. I made 3 sizes for this one. and I hot glued them to a Crystal spray. 

Don't forget to check out the Viva Las Vegastamps! blog. where there are new blog post every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 


And there is a monthly card challenge where you can win $25 to shop at their store! That can buy you a pound of rubber! :) The theme for April is "Earth day" Just make a card using Viva Las Vegastamps! and post it to your blog then go to our blog to the tap where it says monthly challenge and link your blog post of the card to our blog. :)