WINNERS!!!!

We have a couple of winners to announce today :)

The first is from our plate o' rubber giveaway on Facebook.

Rox Boyce!!! wins plate1479.




The second is from our Father's Day Hop!

Helen!!!

Whos aid "Wow! Love all the white space on this journal page. The pops of colour work beautifully with the boldness of the black images." wins a lb o' rubber!

Congratulations to the winners!! Stay tuned for our monthly challenge winner from June :)

Ladies if you could email me your shipping addresses we'll get those out to you ASAP. ♥

And I am unanimous in that

Hello everyone,

I have made an art journal for you today and this is it : I wonder what they are talking about ? ...

The base is a Gelli Print. I cut it to size before adding some background stamping and inking the edges with Black Soot Distress Ink. 

I keep using this plate as it is so fabulous for art journaling. It is, of course, plate 1455. I will list all stamps I used at the bottom of this post. One of the stamps I used, I actually used VersaMark and white embossed it as I thought all black would be a bit ..... well, too black ! 

Next I stamped the Polaroid on white card stock and masked the bottom and right hand side of the frame. I then stamped the 'gossiping ladies' and the 'And I am unanimous in that' inside. I clear embossed it twice after colouring with my Copic Markers. It almost looks like a real photo now. 

It was adhered on the page with glossy accents. I added some washi tape for more interest. 

I used the following stamps :

4878 - And I am unanimous in that 

18768 - Gossiping Ladies 

17543 - Polaroid Print

19575 - Stitching (plate 1455)

19565 - Measuring tape section (plate 1455)

19571 - Writing Triangles (plate 1455)

19567 - Writing circles background (plate 1455)

19568 - Double coffee rings (plate 1455)

19569 - Mesh Texture (plate 1455) 

Thank you for stopping by today !

Corrie x

Paint, ink, two stamps, one flower... and... the card is ready!

Hi))
It's mellpellmell (Maria Potapovich) here today with you!

You know, creating cards for me for some reason is very difficult task.
I do not want to make cards with  kilos of flowers and rhinestones ... but everyone usually do so!

This time I've made it tricky - I've used the flower, just one.
And except it on my card there are only two embellishments - both are made by using stamps (wide strip with chevron and uneven quadrangle with text )!

Here is the video of my card creation:

And I'll show you the photos of the card:

I've used two stamps - Washi Chevron Background 1 1/4 x 5 1/2 and Until Further Notice 1 x 2 3/4

Hope you like simple cards...are you?

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Our newsletter also mentions a PreOrder Plate O' Rubber.

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Two mixed-media collages by mellpellmell (Maria Potapovich) or "Don't ever trash your pink rubber, use the plate's number!" (c)

Hi!
It's mellpellmell (Maria Potapovich) here today.

Glad to see you <3!

Does it ever happen to you? - You throw something, and exactly a minute later it turns out for you the most necessary and essential?

That is one side.

On the other hand - if you remember that in childhood the main wealth were not the candy (although they were very important too!), but candy wrappers?

Why am I saying this?

Because when you buy a plate of stamps, DO NOT throw candy wrappers!))))) I mean do not throw away plates's numbers  - they are gorgeous as separate stamps too!

Here's an example:

Mixed-media collage "Сold April evening"

In this mixed-media collage in my art-book I've used plates' numbers.
917, 927 and 1436.

How do you like it?
How cool is that I do not throw it away? ;)


Well, and I will show you one more collage "Map of thoughts"

Here I used common stamps)))  Map background and Hexagon background.

These two collage made ​​in similar colors - although, of course, they differ from each other. They are distinguished by mood, internal dynamics and also saturation...

But stamps in the first and second collage are from Viva Las VegaStamps!)))))

All the best and...  see you soon!

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Plate 1438

Lots of natural elements on this plate; pomegranates, pears, a bear, an owl and more.

Plate 1439

A great collection of artwork by varying artists. Tera Callihan has lent her hand to a couple of drawings.

Plate 1440

A collection of vintage style bits ready for layering.

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Paper Haus Release - Winter Frolic - GIVEAWAY

Welcome to the Viva Las VegaStamps! stop on the Winter Frolic 12 Days Of Christmas Blog Hop!

We are celebrating the release of the Winter Issue of PaperHaus Magazine but also inspiring you each day with wonderful holiday projects, giveaways and inspiration! The blog hop will run from December 1st to December 12th! Be sure to stop each day and leave a comment each day to win some fabulous prizes by all the lovely sponsors! Don't forget to check out the Winter Issue for additional inspiration, holiday cheer and some amazing projects from our contributing team!

The wonderful blogs on our hop today are...

• PaperHaus Magazine www.thepaperhaus.com
• Jodi Baune http://dancingintherainjb.blogspot.com/
• Lori Hairston www.lorihairston.blogspot.com
• Viva Las VegaStamps! : http://vivalas.blogspot.com

A little introduction about us.. We are Viva Las VegaStamps! -- America's Rubber Stamp Paradise. We manufacture deeply etched pink rubber stamps that come wood mounted, cushion clinged, and just as plain ol' rubber! We have over NINETEEN THOUSAND different rubber stamps available in all sorts of categories like Vintage, Steampunk, People, Holidays, Postal, Animals, Bugs and what seems like a million more.

Now we have some beautiful inspiration for you! These glorious Christmas cards come from DT member Hermine Koster

She's used the following of our deeply etched pink rubber stamps:

• Xmas Silhouette Collage 19317
• Bring on the twinkle 19313
• Set of three ornaments 19309
• With love 19302

All these stamps can also been found on plate 1411 -- which happens to be OUR GIVEAWAY TODAY!

Just comment on the blogs today and be sure to READ the beautiful magazine full of goodness! 

Fall Splendor Hop {Paper Haus Fall Issue}

Hello Friends! Welcome to our stop on the Fall Splendor Blog Hop for day FOURTEEN!

 

Blog Hop lineup:

• PAPERHAUS - WWW.THEPAPERHAUS.COM
• Bente Fagerberg  www.paperandglueheaven.blogspot.com
• Trudi Harrison - http://scrappinwitht.blogspot.com
• Emila Van Den Heuvel - http://few-favourite-things.blogspot.com
• Viva Las Vegas Stamps - http://vivalas.blogspot.com

We're helping our friends @ PaperHaus ring in the new Fall issue (And celebrate their 1 year anniversary!) 

 Read the Fall issue Here!

A little about us and our giveaway:
Here @ Viva Las VegaStamps! we design and manufacture our own line of deeply etched pink rubber stamps! We currently have over 19,000 -DIFFERENT- rubber stamps and are seriously close to hitting 20k. You can find stamps in categories like Mixed Media, People, Vintage, Steampunk, Sayings and MORE. We thrive in a sarcastic, funny, vintage sort of world and our stamps really embody that.

Today we'd like to offer up a full plate of unmounted stamps >>> Plate 951 is full of Halloweenie goodness and will aid in anyone's Halloween/Fall themed paper crafts. That's FIFTEEN brand new stamps from our most recent release! Interested in winning today? Just leave comments on all the blogs in today's schedule! Easy peasy! 

We're also celebrating with a LIMITED EDITION Grab Bag!! These grab bags come with 15 random (8 images and 7 sayings) Halloween themed stamps from all the years we've been in business (Since 1991!). $10 for Fifteen stamps.. that's less than $1 PER stamp!

I'd also like to give a few of these way :) -- Follow and like us on Pinterest, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram(@vivalasvegastamps) and Tiwtter. Then tag us and or leave comments on a post in each social media platform - we'll pick one random winner from EACH to win a grab bag of Halloween stamps!

And as a little Fall/Halloween inspiration we're sharing some projects from last year's Halloween Party!

From top left clockwise : leslierahye, Susan M. Brown, DeeDee Catron and Cheryl Lindsay.

Clearsnap + VLVS! Final Day!!

WOW! What a week jam packed with BEAUTIFUL inspiration!!

Here's a GIANT thank you to Clearsnap for partnering up with us :) Both design teams have presented some beautiful work using their inks and our stamps!


It's a sweet sadness that I get to share with you today.. the final day of our collaboration! At least it's one more chance to revel in beauty.

So one more time... I'm sharing THREE projects with you today!!

The first by Sandra Strait!



Supplies:
VLVS! Stamps

Art Is The Last 1 1/2 x 1 1/2

Charred Wood BackGround 4 1/2 x 5 3/4

Clearsnap Colorbox Inkpads
Archival dye-Gooseberry, Coral, Key Lime Pie
Fluid Chalk-Peach Pastel,,Aquamarine, Alabaster
Clearsnap Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink-Molasses, Green Apple
Other
5x7 Vellum Bristol paper, Golden Clear Granular gel medium, Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder,

White gel pen, 3D foam dots, Palette knife, Ink blending tools--bullet and brush tips.
 To create this beauty she says "Recently I've been painting landscapes using inkpads for color.  When I was allowed to choose some products from Clearsnap for this blog hop, I went hunting through the catalog for just the right colors to match a photo that I had.


I blocked in all the colors by pouncing the inkpads where needed.  I dotted part of the Charred Wood stamp and embossed it to create ripples in the water (whichh doesn't show well in the scans). Then I loaded up a brush tip ink blending tool with Gooseberry and Aquamarine to draw the trees. I added more colors with the ink blending tools and when satisfied, I slathered on the granular gel medium.  When it was dry, I colored it with the molasses smooch, and added some Green Apple smooch for the leaves.  When you hold it up to the light the smooch glimmers as though the sun is shining through.  The last step was to stamp the 'Art is the last form of magic that exists' on a seperate piece of paper and adhere it with 3D foam dots.  Including drying time for the gel medium to dry, this took about 45 minutes to do."
Second we have Lyneen:


  Lyneen says "Spray Smooch Spritz on Kromcote Cardstock 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 for base background.  Use star shaped puncinella and ColorBox Raspberry Ink with finger dauber. Cut in half to make two cards.  Stamped images with ColorBox Chocolate Ink and hear embossed with VLVS! Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder.  Highlight images with Smooch. Trim with May Arts fibers. "

She's used the following supplies:

Kromcote Cardstock
Miracle Tape
Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder
Chevron Banner
Walkies for Otto
Large Flying Bird
Men in Balloon Basket



Clearsnap Products:
Smooch Spritz - Pink Sprinkles
Smooch - Mocha
Smooch - Silver Fox
Smooch - Gold Lame
ColorBox Chocolate Ink
ColorBox Raspberry Ink

And we're rounding off the week with Pinky!

 Pinky says these cards are easy peasy and that's great because they're sarcastic, witty, snarky, and so perfect for SO many of our closest friends! Whip a couple up and pop 'em in the mail!
Products Used:
Clearsnap Colorbox Inks
VLVS Plate 1404
Clear Scraps acrylic
Bazzill Cardstock
Miracle Tape 1/4"

1. Trim Acrylic to 4X6.
2. Trim Bazzill to 4X7.
3. Punch Bazzill edge.
4. Use bone folder to fold card at 6" mark.
5. Adhere to acrylic using Miracle Tape.
6. Using Colorbox ink pads, VLVS images and white cardstock. Graduate color on stamp and stamp onto white card stock.
Repeat with second word image.
7. Adhere stamped phrase to front of card.

Here's a great big THANK YOU to everyone who's participated this week and everyone who's shown up to be inspired.

Don't forget both Clearnsap and VLVS! are having giveaways.. comment all week long for a chance to win your choice of a plate o' rubber.. and enter Clearsna's rafflecopter giveaway for some of their favorite inks!!

HURRY OVER TO THE CLEARSNAP BLOG!

New Plates!! GIVEAWAY!!!

Up for sale in the Pre-Order section of the site :)

They include:

A Christmas plate:

A Halloween plate:

A Southwest style plate:

A plate full of artwork by Mary Vogel Lozinak:

A sort of "Time Flies" styled plate:

A worldly plate with some architecture and great figures:

and an Explore plate:

 

Now for the fun part.... from the online store, pin your favorite board to pinterest.. 

Copy and paste the following bit into the info section for your pin: "Get this #VLVS plate o' rubber pre-sale for $17.56 @ vlvstamps.com" 
I'll give away one board of the most pinned to one lucky pinner!

--and don't forget about our design team call!--