Jacqui's Crafts - Designed For You: Viva Las Vegas Stamps

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Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Dragon's Dream TIO DT Piece - V and a Feather

For this time's theme, I have gone with Valentine, I know it's months away, but that's what I keep saying about Christmas and look how quickly that comes round!!!!

I started by basing the tag with pink pigment ink, I used a Rennie MacIntosh inspired Heart stamp in gold Pigment ink to create a background. The ATC topper I did some time ago from a stamp from Viva Las Vegas Stamps. I cut the hearts in Coredinations with a sizzix die and embossing folder in one, sanded back the detail. I added the feathers between the hearts and the under the ATC.

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Wednesday, 9 April 2014

New Challenge on Dragon's Dream TIO - S and blue

I started this with no idea where it was going, I had based my tag with Guacamole Fresco Finish acrylic paint, and was also halfway through altering another piece at the same time and had some Antartic Fresco Finish left over from the top coat of crackling it so I splodged it on top of the green and that is where my sea started.

It's May's turn for the theme this time on Dragon's Dream and she has chosen S and blue, and that's where the inspiration hit with the sea, one of my favourite (but lesser known or played) Beatles songs is "An Octopus's Garden".

I continued the sea theme by creating seaweed courtesy of the Ltd Edition Fresco Finish paints from Lin Brown and by using a semi opaque colour (Seaweed oddly enough) through a splodge away stencil followed by a translucent colour (chartreuse) through an Imagination Crafts Stencil over and then washed with another translucent shade (Beach Hut) I got the layered underwater look I was after.

I then used my Viva Las Vegas Stamp of Otto and bathing beauty (minus the bathing beauty) and coloured him in with Distress Markers and cam up with this.

Fished it off with a rose brad to look a little more garden like

I am entering this into the following challenges:
Scrap it Girl - Tags and Bags
Stampotique - Paint or Pen
Our daily Bread Designs - Rain or Water
Sunday Stampers - Nature
Squirrel and the Fox - All Creatures Great and Small

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Friday, 11 January 2013

Sci Fi and Steampunk

I have always been in to Sci Fi, from being a little girl, Star Trek and Dr Who were regular viewing and the at the age of seven Star Wars was released and that was it, I was hooked for life.

There have been many developments in Sci Fi over the years, but the most recent "addition" to the genre is Steampunk. The baic premis is - following the Martian invasion in War of the Worlds, the Victorians appropriate the technology and combine it with the technology of the day, so if you imagine steam powered computers with manual typewriter keyboards you'd be about there.

To tie in with this theme I recently discovered Viva-Las-Vegas Stamps, well, what can I say, I need to win the Euro-Millions when it's at stoopid money. I need just about all the stamps they do, and then some! Suffice to say I placed an order for stamp plate 909, as I could see this contained a tardis. Well the results are below.

Birthday Card Using VivaLasVegas Stamps, IndigoBlu stamp and flitter glue, Do Crafts Papermania stamp, Clarity Stamp Guilding Flakes and distress inks and promarkers

Close up of topper

Tags based with shimmer mist, alcohol ink and distress ink on bubble wrap

Tag complete with image from VivalasVegas stamps

Second Tag Image, again from VivaLas Vegas Stamps

I also have hubby's birthday on Sunday so I had to do a hurried birthday card, so grabbed my KanBan stash and cobbled a Steampunk card together, and used the Do Crafts exclusive stamp (only available on the Creativity magazine) from their Chronology Collection. This card although I'm very pleased with it has been re-purposed for Valentine's Day. Luckily I hadn't used a Birthday Sentiment on it.