I am the Princess

This is my last blog post for this term for the Viva Las Vegastamps! design team.Thank you DeeDee, Jeff, and Wayne for giving me this opportunity for being part of this awesome team and an awesome stamp company!

I picked up baggie full of round coaster at Savers back in May. I got them to alter them and or to make little round journals with them. Here is one that I did. It was a quick and easy project

I took some pink tissue paper and tore it into pieces and glued it down with matte medium. I then took a number stencil put it over the coaster and sponged some magenta acrylic paint on it.  I took some punchinella and sponged some white craft paint on it.  On White cardstock I stamped the Angel baby with black Menento ink pad. The Angel baby is probational a boy, but I made the angle into a girl. LOL I colored the wings and diaper pink. I cut out a crown from a My Minds Eye paper that I was given a scrap of.  I mounted the baby on the coaster with foam tape.I stamped the But, but, but, I'm the PRINCESS! on white card stock with the same ink pad. I cut the sentiment out and used glossy accents to it.

Items used:

Coaster

Tissue paper

matte medium

white cardstock

black memento ink pad

color pencils

white craft paint

magenta acrylic paint

sponge

scissors

foam tape

glossy accents

Stamps used:

Angel baby

But,but,but I'm the Princess!

Viva Las Vegastamps! Halloween Blog Hop Day 7

Hello again! Today is the Last day of the Hop. Hope everyone Had a blast this week. I know I have. Don't forget to vote for your favorite that has been linked up on the Viva Las Vegastamps! blog.

Today project has got to be one of my favorites that I've done for the blog hop. altered mouse traps.

Altering mouse traps have been the in thing to alter. and can be cheap. I got the mouse traps at Dollar tree. You do have to take off a couple of things on the trap though. I did the mouse trap on the right first.

 I took some tissue paper and tore some pieces off and with matte medium glued them on the trap. It was kinda tricky to get the tissue paper glued down toward where the springs are in the middle and moving the 2 side things to glue the paper down but I did it. 

While the front and back were drying, I stamped the full moon, the hang-on witch, and the Life is a witch sentiment (and yes I used the same stamps for the atc on day one. LOL) stamped on white cardstock with black Memento ink pad. I used watercolors by Artist Loft to color the moon and the witch and the sentiment. Then i fussy cut the pieces out, and the words. I glued the moon with glossy accents.T the witch I used foam tape. the sentiment I cut the words apart, and glued down with glossy accents. I then added a Tim Holtz swivel clasp with a Halloween token and attached to the bottom of the trap. I loved how this turned out that I made another one for a friend of mine for he birthday and she loved it! :)

The second trap I did is with paint, as I didn't want to mess with tissue paper again after the first one(but like I said i did do one just like the 1st trap, so go figure. lol)  

I painted the trap green. after it dried I used a crackle medium on it. after that dried I painted the trap black. I got a nice crackle as the result. 

I stamped the Frankenstein and the Friday the 13th one white cardstock with black Memento ink pad. I colored Frankenstein and /friday the 13th with Artist Loft Watercolors. Glued Frankie on top of the mouse trap with glossy accents and Friday the 13th on the bottom. I hot glued a flower that was made by our awesome DT leader DeeDee. Love how this turned out as well!

Stamps used

Frankenstein

Hang-on witch

Friday the 13th

Full moon

Life is a witch

items used

mouse traps

tissue paper

matte medium

white cardstock

watercolor pallet

black memento ink pad

Tim Holtz swivel clasp

Tim Holtz Halloween token

green craft paint

crackle paint

black graft paint

glassy accents

flower

Well that is it for me! Hope you loved all the projects I did, along with the other Design Team members. Thanks for stopping by all week and leaving some love on my posts!   Have fun at Susan's one last time. And Have a Happy Halloween! 

Viva L:as Vegastamps! Halloween Blog Hop day 6

Happy Friday and Welcome to Day 6 of the Halloween blog hop.Now if you remember from the VLVS! blog you know you should be on the hunt on the secret letters throughout the Design teams blogs. hope you been finding them and writing them down. wonder where you will find mine? :P

Today is another card. I'm doing another fun technique, the clear embossing powder resist technique. Now if you remember this is what I was trying to do back in June in the Mary Vogel Lozinak blog hop when I was using the photo paper and came across my happy accident.

I took a piece of Kromecote and stamped the tree background with clear embossing pad and embossed with the ultra high gloss embossing powder. I then took Hottie Pottie Hot pink and Screamin' Banchee Black Starburst Sprays by Lindy's stamp gang. I know these are not traditional Halloween colors, but sometimes you don't have to be traditional. I spayed them on the Kromeote and then wiping what got onto the emboss image. Yes some got of the spray did stay on some parts of the embossing. but that is okay.

On a piece of white cardstock I stamped the Witch Costume, Cemetery, and The witching hour stamps with Black Memento ink pad. The Witch I colored with the Picked raspberries and Crushed Olive distress ink pads. I then fussy cut the cemetery and the witch costume. attached the the sentiment and the witch costume and one of the cemetery i stamped with Miracle tape. The other I put foam tape on it and put it on the kromecote piece.

To put the card together. The base is black Recollections card. the pattern paper is a Halloween paper by GCD Studios. Mounted the Kromecote to the pattern paper and those 2 peices on to the card base using Miracle tape.

And just for kicks I stamped with clear embossing pad and embossed with the ultra high gloss embossing powder the tree background stamp on the envelope.

Stamps used:
Tree background
Witch costume
The witching hour
cemetery

Items used
Kromecote
Ultra High Gloss Embossing powder
Miracle tape
Black card and Envelope
Lindy Stamp gang sprays
heat gun
Black memento ink pad
Picked Raspberry and Crushed olive distress ink pads
water brush

Have fun At Susan's and enjoy the hunt for the letters. Sadly tomorrow is the last day of the hop.

bugaboo sketch challenge

Made this card for the Stella Sketch challenge over at Catch the Bug challenge blog. I used a digi stamp from Bugaboo. The paper is Happy Haunting from Graphic 45. The witching Hour is by Viva Las Vegastamps!

Viva Las Vegastamps! halloween blog hop day 5

Welcome back! How as the hopping been so far? Have you gone to the VLVS! forums and say hi to us on the Halloween post over there? if not don't forget to do that! :D

Today I made a fun tag using one of my favorite techniques. The glue crackle technique. I know this technique has been around awhile, bit I learned about this when I first started art journaling.

The white tag is about 6 1/4 inch tall. I first painted a black base coat on the tag. After it dried I put a generous amount of Elmer's white glue on the tag. With a paint brush I brushed the glue along the whole tag. Then while the glue is still wet I put some orange craft paint on the tag. Again I took the same paint brush and brushed the paint with the glue. To give the tag a head start in drying time. I turned on the heat gun to the tag, just til you see some cracks forming. then set to dry.

As you can see you can get some great cool looking cracks. I didn't want to cover all that up. you can see there is an Hand an E in the cracks. lol

On white cardstock I stamped with Black Versafine ink pad stamped the Wicked Witch with broom, The spiked fence and "the witching hour" stamps. Embossed it the the Ultra High Gloss Embossing powder. I colored the face of the witch with green water color. I took the black soot distress ink pad and a water brush and painted the fence black to take out the white cardstock. did the same for the witching hour. 

I took the bird claw die cut that I had and used the Clear embossing pad and black UTEE and did a few layers of the UTEE then stamped with the clear embossing pad the tree writing collage background stamp. I used the claw as a tree.Attached the tree with Miracle tape. Then I used glossy accents on both ends of the fence. The with I used foam tape to put it on the fence. In the upper right corner I had a bat punch that was in my stash. Put Miracle tape in the body and folded the wings in to make it look like it was flying. The witching hour underneath the bat.both attached with miracle tape

Stamps used 

spiked fence

Wicked witch with broom

The witching hour

tree writing collage background

Items used

Miracle tape

Ultra High Gloss embossing powder

tag

Black and orange craft paint

Elmer's glue

bat punch

bird claw die cut

white cardstock

heat gun

black UTEE

clear embossing pad

Foam tape

ribbon

Hope you enjoyed the tag. don't for get to visit the Halloween post in the VLVS! forum and say hi!  Have fun at Susan's!

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. :)

Viva Las Vegastamps! Halloween blog hop day 3

Hi and welcome back to day 3. Hope you all did today's game and  visited the VLVS website  to see what is there. Don't forget to go the the VLVS blog and commenting on what you learned on the website. :)

Today I'm going to show you a card I made. And I did a little soot stamping.

Soot stamping is a cool technique, but it takes a while to get enough soot on the glossy cardstock. Or in this case I used Kromecote. 

You need a candle and a piece of Kromecote(or a glossy cardstock) and maybe a spray bottle of water just in case. Safty First!. Light the candle and place the kromecote over the flame. Not to close to the flame or else you risk of not catching the soot and burn the paper, or have it catch on fire (ask me how I know this. LOL). Just enough so you can catch the black soot on the cardstock. It does take a while for the soot to cover the whole piece you using. You want the kromecote completely black. But I got tired of waiting, and thought what I had was good enough. I took the tree writing collage stamp and stamped on the soot kromecote. it came out really cool. Now you really need to seal it with something. Me being lazy, didn't do that. I did wiped the piece a bit and it still looked good. A little faded, but still cool. I trimmed the piece down a bit.

For the card itself I cut down a Recollection card base to 4x 5 1/2. layered it with some old Recollection Halloween paper from a couple years ago. The purple band is Tissue paper. I used Miracle tape

to attach all the paper layers to the card base.

I then attached the written collage imaged I stamped and trimmed onto the card with Miracle tape. I then Stamped the Faded crow/raven on a piece of clean white Kromecote in black Memento ink pad. I used Black Soot distress ink pad and a water brush to paint the white parts black. The nevermore I stamped  on left over scraps of the soot Kromecote with the Memebto ink pad. I attached those with foam tape.It needed something, so i took a die cut I have of a bird claw and used a few layers ofblack UTEE before stamping the tree writing collage stamp into it. i used a clear embossing ink pad for the stamp. I then used foam tape to attach it to the card. Finally I colored 3 pearls with a black Bick mark it marker and put them on the card.

Items used

Kromecote

Miracle Tape

Recollections pears

Recollection halloween papers

Tissue paper

Black UTEE

Clear embossing pad

Black Memento ink pad

Candle, foam tape

Black Soot distress ink pad

water brush

Black mark it marker

Stamps used

tree writing collage

Faded crow or Raven

Nevermore

Have Fun at Susan's and see ya tomorrow!