Hi everyone! Maggi here with more projects from our design team using Viva Las Vegas Stamps!

All this week our design team will be showing off some projects using VLVS stamps and the VLVS team will be going Gauche on their blog! Not only that but both teams are having a giveaway! VLVS is offering a pound of rubber to one lucky winner, see their blog for details! We’ll be giving away a mini ACME kit to one lucky person here at GA. To be entered for the mini ACME kit, leave a comment on this week’s posts. You’ll be entered once for every comment you leave throughout the week. Deadline to enter both giveaways is Friday the 13th. Our winner will be announced here on the blog on Saturday, July 14th.

But wait, there’s more! VLVS is offering 10% off your order this week, just use the code: GA10 AND we’re offering 10% off your order in our store with code VLVS10. So get to shopping people cause these coupons are only good through the 13th!

Misty created this fantastic scene using the backside of a canvas, the Art Doll stamp plate and brick wall background stamp from VLVS, along with our own rectangle punchinella (Misty is the master at using this!), various color kits and additional punchinella.

Misty: One of my favorite parts of this project was the wall inside the canvas. I had ordered the brick wall background stamp without paying any attention to the size and ordered one much smaller than I realized. It worked out to my advantage though because it was perfect for this small canvas. First, I cut out a piece of cardstock to fit into the canvas than I used archival ink and stamped the brick wall all over the cardstock. From there I smeared modeling paste (mixed with salt because I wanted a grainy cement look) and then used the rectangle punchinella and stenciled some more modeling paste allowing only a few sections of the brick to show, to make it look like damaged plaster revealing a brick wall beneath it.

And Chrissy created this sweet card using the barbed wire and bellows camera stamps from VLVS.

Chrissy:For the background, I stamped using VeraMark Watermark Ink then rubbed Ranger Distress Ink in Iced Spruce over it. Once that was done, I wiped it off with napkin to show the resist underneath.

Don’t forget to leave a comment on this post for your chance to win a mini ACME kit and be sure to visit the VLVS blog for more drool worthy projects and a chance at a pound of rubber!

Now go glue something awesome onto some awesome something!

Maggi

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