Quote Artist Trading Cards with Jenn Engle

Hey Everyone! I have a trio of Artist Trading Cards to share today. I was looking thru my stamps and realized there are so many great quote stamps by VLVS that they shine all on their own. So, I decided to showcase a few of my faves on ATCs.

To see exactly how I made them, check out the video at the end of this post.

STAMPS USED:

"Your Time as a Caterpillar"

"I Believe In by Cat Kerr"

"Art is Anything"

"Numbers Set"

"Mesh Texture"

I started out with 3 cards cut to 2.5" x 3.5" that already had some modeling paste thru a text stencil on the cards. I adhered some Sewing Pattern tissue paper to my cards with Collage Pauge Matte.

 Next, I took 3 colors of Fluid Acrylic paint and applied them to my cards. Once that was dry, I did some stamping with Mesh Texture and Numbers Set. Then, I scraped some gesso (white paint works, too) around my cards using a palate knife.

The last step was to add my quote stamps. I stamped them out, cut them apart, then inked all the edges with a black ink pad to help them stand out. I splattered some yellow paint all over and that's it!

STAMPS USED:

"Your Time as a Caterpillar"

"I Believe In by Cat Kerr"

"Art is Anything"

"Numbers Set"

"Mesh Texture"

Other Products Used:

Watercolor Paper

Modeling Paste

Text Stencil

Sewing Pattern

Collage Pauge in Matte

Golden Fluid Acrylic in: Quinacridone Magenta, Cobalt Turquoise, Indian Yellow Hue, Hansa Yellow Medium

Liquitex Gesso

Staz-On Ink in Black

Thanks for looking,
Jenn

Always remember you are beautiful - by Cheetarah

Hi everyone! It's Cheetarah here and I've got a little mixed media piece I wanted to share with you today.

The really fun Whimsical Jester stamp and You are Beautiful phrase are my focal points. I have used some pigment powders, modeling paste, gelli printed deli papers and home made stencil for this piece. A full list of the stamps and materials used are listed below. I also have recorded the process video for this which you can see here on our Time2Stamp channel: 

 

So what I didn't film was the piece it started on. It was a huge cardboard piece which was mixed with collage elements and left over stamped images which I then toned down with gesso and cut up into smaller pieces to work on. On this piece I also used the papers the VLVS! unmounted rubber comes with, like the Birds on the wire. In the end I didn't use that stamp, but the paper element of it was there. I quite like how this piece turned out :) 

Here are some more close up's:

Stamps used: 

Whimsical Jester 

You are Beautiful 

Numbers set

Butterfly Specimen 

Doodle Dots 

Others:

Staz-On jet black, midnight blue, vibrant violet, black cherry, royal purple 

Color Bursts mustard, merlot, indigo 

Lindy'magical shaker oompah loompah pink 

Liquitex modeling paste and INKS! in white and gold

Art medium glue 

Tissue papers 

Random collage papers and gelli printed deli papers 

Tim Holtz Sizzix mixed media die cut for my stencil 

Black pearl rub on

Black soot distress crayon. 

Hope you enjoyed this :) Thanks for stopping by and have an awesome weekend!

July Challenge Inspiration (+ Time2Stamp video) with Cheetarah

Hi everyone!

It's Cheetarah here and I've got something fun to share with you today. It's mid month so time for some July challenge inspiration and this is our current challenge inspiration board.

It's all about summer this board and from this glorious image I have chosen the beautiful background color, dots and script text. Also with summer holidays coming around, I always send post cards to people whom I wish were with me. That is what prompted to make me this Index card.

I have used some yummy new distress oxides for this background and lush VLVS! that have some script elements in them. A list of supplies can be found at the bottom of this post. I have filmed the process and hope you enjoy watching it :)

Hope this has inspired you to join our challenge this month :) 

VLVS! used; 

Fed up Vintage Lady 

Postcard ATC size 

Squiggle Heart 

Nature Collage by Cat Kerr 

Others:

Tim Holtz Distress Oxides ; Broken China, Cracked Pistachio, Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers and Lucky Clover

Memento Inks; Tuxedo Black and Paris Dusk

Script Stencil from Panduro 

Tim Holtz Washi Tape 

Sticker paper

Alcohol markers 

wink of stella markers

Sizzix die cuts, wild flowers and handwritten celebrations by Tim Holtz 

Faber Castell Pitt Artist pen 

White pentel gel pen

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Mail Art Monday - After Rain Comes Sunshine

Hey everyone it's Cheetarah here and I've got a little something special for this weeks Mail Art Monday! I've made the above envelopes for our project swap over at the VLVS! groupies on facebook. I've also filmed the process which you can see below in my first Time 2 Stamp video :)

Hope you enjoyed this MAM tutorial :) 

And here they are flying off to my partners for the swap!

(the address is on there no worries, just blocked it off for privacy reasons ;) 

VLVS! rubber stamps used

Two Whimsical Ladies under Umbrella

Doodle circle

Bubble wrap texture

Measuring tape section

Writing circles

Mail Art

Others:

Distress Oxides and regular inks

Faber Castell Artist Pitt markers

Wow clear matte embossing powders

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Pan Pastel Feature

Hello stampers!! DeeDee here today to introduce something a little extra fun this week. For the next five days (through Friday) the Viva Las VegaStamps! Design Team will be featuring Pan Pastels in all their stamped goods.

The following was taken from the Pan Pastels website : "PanPastel Colors are professional artists’ quality soft pastel colors packed in a unique pan format (cake-like). The special qualities of PanPastel Colors mean that artists can blend and apply dry color like fluid paint for the first time.

All PanPastel Colors are made using a unique manufacturing process requiring minimal binder and fillers, resulting in rich, ultra soft and super-blendable colors.

Each color is loaded with the finest quality artists’ pigments for the most concentrated colors possible. The colors have excellent lightfastness and are fully erasable. Uniquely, for pastel color, they can be mixed together for a complete painting palette."

So let's get to it shall we? I thought we'd start the week off with a Time2Stamp video showing you how to make this :

So watch this video all about creating this tag, including a fun technique in the beginning to create this pan pastels background:

Supplies: 

Viva Las VegaStamps! : Waybill/Invoice Background, Directional Circle, Map Of The World, Miracle tape

Pan Pastels, Black cardstock, Canson watercolor paper, May Arts Canvas Ribbon, Versamark by IMAGINE Crafts, Archival by Ranger, Distress ink by Ranger, E Brad, Tim Holtz Spinners, thread, fixative.

Keep coming back through the week to see all the great bits we have using Pan Pastels with our Viva Las VegaStamps! Rubber!

Time 2 Stamp - DIY Washi Tape

Morning everyone :)

Let's jump right in this week with a Time 2 Stamp with VLVS! Episode.

I redid the demo on making your own washi tape with some of our new stamps!

Supplies used:

Miracle Tape (1/2 inch)

Line of Chevrons

Washi Chevron

Washi Grid

Washi Lines

Washi Reverse Grid

Archival ink, heat gun, tissue paper (vintage pattern)

Time 2 Stamp - Episode 2

Hi Everyone!! Here is the 2nd episode of Time 2 Stamp with VLVS!

After I turned off the camera I finished the page with some doodling and of course a bit of journaling:

Stamps used:

Fly

Mason Jar

Radioactive

Ink used: Glimmer mist in Inchworm and Charcoal by Tattered Angels, Archival Black by Ranger, a uniball pen

Other: Gaffer tape by 7gypsies

Time 2 Stamp - Episode #1

Welcome back this morning :)

I shared with you earlier some info about our new show Time 2 Stamp with VLVS! and I'm super excited to bring you the first episode. Every other Monday starting today we'll be sharing videos with you based on VLVS!. We'll be airing tips and tricks, bits n bobs, info, examples, tutorials, DIYs, and anything else you can think of! If you have suggestions, questions or comments be sure to post them here or on our facebook wall so that we can address them each show! We're totally open for suggestion :)

For the debut I've decided to show you how to make your own foil tape. The focal point of the video is on foil tape and creating the faux metal background that is oh so popular since the debut of the September 12 tags of 2012.

so grab the following supplies and get to watching the first episode!

-Kai Scissors

-Miracle Sheets

-Typewriter Stamp 10001

-Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder by VLVS!

-Tin Foil from the cupboard

-Archival Ink

-Acrylic Paint in black and brown

-Steel Wool

-Cream colored cardstock

To finish the tag I actually DID use the distress ink to distress my fussy cut stamp. I also grabbed "Art is the Last" 18925 and stamped it as the message from my typewriter. I needed Miracle Tape to adhere my goodies down. For additional supplies I used some beautiful May Arts ribbon, TH's film reel , Gears, a vintage pen nib, a butterfly die, some basic grey paper, random eyelets and brads. 

Linking up to Anything But A Card and TH's 12 tags.