Sunday, May 27, 2012
Viva Las Vegas blog hop
Friday, December 9, 2011
12 Tags of Christmas #10
I have to admit I do like this tags alot - When I was in Vegas in April, I sent time at Viva Las Vegastamps store - really cool if you have never been there. anyways, I told Wayne we need some 5 petal flowers - so we made 4 sizes. If you visit Viva Las Vegastamps website there is a video section and I teach you another way to use this same flower stamps. Go check that out too.
Here is your video on how I made this tags. enjoy...
Now remember you have to leave a comment to be enter for the blog candy. So don't forget.
Here is the rest of the team, with all the link - just in case you get lost..
Merry Christmas
Terri Sproul
Thursday, December 8, 2011
12 Tags of Christmas #9
Welcome back to another day here on the "12 Tags of Christmas Blog Hop" with the Viva Las Vegastamps Design team. Don't they do a wonderful job, I am so luck to work with each of them..
Well here we go again with that "Sleeping elf" - he is just too cute... When I seen that "Santa with the shopping cart, I knew that the "sleeping elf" was a match.
Supplies
Shopping Cart Santa
Here comes Santa Claus
Sleeping Elf
Here is your video on how I made this one, OK, it's just too simple for even a video. I just stamps the "shopping Cart Santa" and "Sleeping Elf"on the tag with my India Ink black ink pad. color in both images. Then I stamped ""here comes Santa Claus" onto white card stock and cut out into to sections (see tag for example). Ink all my edges add a ribbon and I was done. I did adhere my "Here come Santa Claus" down with my Miracle tape.
Now head on over to Lea Blog and see her tag. Remember to leave me and the rest of the team a comment so you can win this set of stamps we are using.
Merry Christmas
Terri Sproul
Monday, December 5, 2011
12 Tags of Christmas #6
Now here is the video on how I made it.. If you can't see this video (my Hive friends) it's posted on my youtube channel - CLICK HERE
Stamps I used:
There's NO place
Jingle Bells
Swirl
Here is the Video for you
Now it's time to hop on over to Lea Blog and see the tag she made for us. Make sure you leave me a comment so you can win this set of stamps from Viva Las Vegastamps!
Hope you all have a great Christmas...
Terri Sproul
Thursday, December 1, 2011
12 tags of Christmas #2
As soon as I seen this stamp with Santa checking his list twice - I knew I had to use that "coal again" stamp!
Here is a list of stamps you will need.
Coal Again
Santa Reading list
Now here is the video on how I made this tag. Super easy... enjoy and for my Hive friends Click Here
Now it's time for you to leave me a comment and then head on over to Lea Blog and leave her a comment - I hope you win this set of stamps.
Merry Christmas
Terri Sproul
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
12 tags of Christmas #1
to enter to win this set of stamps is super easy...
1) become a follower of each of the blog on this hop
2) leave us a comment on all 12 days of this hop.
3) you are enter to win!!! see how each that was
Here is a video on what you can win.
Stamps I used:
Santa's Face
There's No place
I will be make you a video for each of tag I made. I hope you enjoy it. Here is my Youtube channel link in case you have problem or would like to subscribe to my video CLICK HERE
Now here is the video
Now it's time to hop on over to Lea Blog and leave her a comment on her amazing tag..
Here is a list of all the blog on our hop - just in case you get lost...
Merry Christmas
Terri Sproul
Friday, May 20, 2011
Geared for you ATC
To start I would love to show you a video on how to make your own molds. The video will NOT show how to make a heart or a gear mold. But all molds are make the same way. Hope you enjoy. Purchase your Amazing Molding Putty on the paperclay website. If you are check out this post from the HIVE - sorry my video do NOT come over with my blog??? don't know why - so please feel free to check out my Youtube channel for all my "how to" videos.
Supplies:Creative PaperClay
ATC: EcoArt Board from Viva Las Vegastamps! or make one 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" out of Cardstock (white or cream)
Orange Memories Mists
Mask from Tim Holtz - swirl
STamp: "Writing Background" #1287 from Viva Las Vegastamps!
Heart Mold - or make your own mold
Gear Mold - purchase a mold or MAKE your own...
Clock stamps - unknown... But I bet you could find on at Viva Las Vegastamps! website... they have everything...
Staz-On Black ink pad
Acrylic Paint: Silver, Gold
Mini Letter from Cosmo Cricket
Gears from Viva Las Vegastamps!
Chalk Ink: Gingerbread
Transparency Sheet - Office supply store
Miracle Tape - Viva Las Vegastamps!
Direction:
1) See video on how to make your own molds.. Place Paperclay into both your Heart Mold and your gear mold. Remove Gear from Mold and set aside to dry. But While you PaperClay Heart is still wet - softly push Metal gear into the clay (NOT THE PAPER CLAY GEAR YOU JUST MADE). Set aside to dry...
2) On your EcoART ATC - lay the swirl mask down and spray Memories Mist "orange" on the whole ATC... remove Mask.
3) Stamp "Writing Background" in back ink over the whole ATC. Darken all the edges of your ATC with "Gingerbread" Chalk Ink.
4) STamp "clock" image on Transparency sheet using Staz-on Black ink. Cut out image...
6) When your Paperclay heart and gear is dry. Paint them with acrylic paints. I used Silver on my heart and added a SMALL amount of black ink to heart when silver paint was dry. BUT - as fast as you add the black ink - remove it. this will help to age the heart.
7) Paint the gear with Gold paint and add black ink as you did for the heart... LOVE the way this ages the paperclay...
8) Now it's time to put together. Using My Miracle tape (love this stuff) will stick anything to anything... really.... I started with the words - The small sticker letter where perfect size for an ATC. then I used my Miracle tape to add the Clock transparency. then I started to add the heart and gear to my ATC. Added a few more gears to my heart and we are done....
Thanks for stop by our blog and please leave me some love...
TTFN
Terri Sproul
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Video on Making your own background paper
Hope you enjoy that easy idea - stop back by to see the finished book when I get it done. LOL
and more idea and video from me you can check out my Youtube channel. I really like making video "how to" for you...
TTFN
Terri Sproul - there is a link to my website...
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Viva Las Vegastamps! DT
Terri Sproul - Our Team LeaderTerri Sproul is the producer of a new DVD called "MasquePen Magic" and the owner of Ultimate Scrapbook Retreat. She is a diverse and experienced designer and instructor for multiple companies in the paper craft world including “Glue Dots®”, “Stewart Superior”, “Sakura Hobby Craft” and “Viva Las Vegastamps!” to name a few. Terri and her husband Marc have the pleasure of living in San Diego County On top Of Palomar Mountain. She has received a Bachelor of Scrapbooking Arts from Creating Keepsakes and Bachelor of Scrapbooking Education from EK Success. Terri’s passion is teaching fellow Scrapbooker’s and Stamper’s new techniques and to think ‘out of the box’ and ‘off the Page.’

Jennifer Bliss:
"I'm a 30-something year old with several interests including music, movies, vegetarianism, sports, traveling, collecting Baseball Cards and Unicorns, Radio, Computers, Crafting, and Tea. I live with my husband, 2 dogs, and 2 cats in the eastern snowbelt area of the US."
Kim Prince: My name is Kim Prince. I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I am married tomy best friend and have 2 wonderful sons! I also became a Grandmother last
year, Twice! Life is good I have been stamping for approximately 23 years now,
and absolutely love the creativity and freedom of this art.
I have been on a few designs teams, Quietfire Design ,
The Stampsmith , and Stampotique Originals
I am still with The Stampsmith, as the design team leader.My name is DeeDee Catron, I am mother to a gorgeous 8 week old boy and wife to a wonderful loving man.I'm 23 years old, have a Bachelor of Arts degree in Industrial Design and have a fiery passion for all things crafty. I love making my own everything; embellishments, backgrounds, graphics, papers, and anything else I can make from scratch. I live to recreate things that inspire me, and I love incorporating all types of materials and processes into every day crafting. My style is very vintage/grunge/distressed. I love to work in kraft/neutral as well as bright vivid colors. I'm a card maker, scrapbooker, tag maker, altered artist and on and on. I like to try it all! I currently am working mostly on my Etsy shop; trying to make my hobby a money maker! umwowstudio.etsy.com
Rebbecca Parsons:R-tiste Rebecca E. Parsons is a Deliberate Creator you may know as Cre8Tiva, her alter ego. Rebecca/Cre8Tiva have been on a blissful journey to Cre8Topia for decades leaving imaginative artwork and creatively inspired students strewn throughout the world.
To meet her is to get swept away by the whirlwind of creative passion and enthusiasm she exudes. She radiates caring warmth with a true desire to see you succeed. Her motto is…it is no harder to do what you love than to do what you don’t…. You can’t help but be inflamed to succeed as an artist.
Rebecca’s award-winning art is mixed media personified. From doodles to digital paintings, from murals to custom designed purses and accessories her creations are magical fights of fancy that make you want to join in her quest for Cre8Topia.
She shares this passion for creativity through workshops and retreats, A Live TV Show, two radio Talk Shows for artists, Cre8Tiva’s Blog, Cre8tive Compass Magazine/Blog, and as a Creativity Retreat Leader and Holistic Coach/Mentor to Artists. Rebecca has written and self-published five books for creative people and is writing her 6th, “Curate YOU…showing people who color outside the lines how to make a living doing what they love!”
Her artists’ statement reads: “Early in life I knew I was creative as I would draw, dance, write and sing the day away. My box of broken crayons was my greatest treasure. I love to explore and push the limits of tools and products creating and experimenting with wild abandon. My work has evolved, as has my life, to embrace my love of the human form, nature (especially the ocean), vintage images and my spirituality. You will find my work is figurative and whimsical and I always hide a trademark bubble in my artwork! My propensity to use texture, especially little treasures I find, stems from the roots of my love for decorative painting (commonly called faux finishing).”
Cheryl Lindsay:Cheryl is a Multimedia Artist with a college
level Teaching credetial in Crafts and Taught
for over 20 years. At present is on several
Design Teams including Sakura Crafts,
Creative Imaginations, Marah Johnson,
Twiddely Bitz Canada/Australia, Kreink Threads
Ever After Scrapbooks, Gee Gee's Stamps n Stuff as the
design team co ordinator and product researcher.
Cheryl is also involved with a monthly Blog hop called
"Festive Friday Blog Hop" where we made Christmas Cards
all year long and has been Published: in both
Belle Armoire Nov./Dec. issue and Memories:Patch work scrapbooking issue
Chris Hurley:I'm a rubber stamping, scrapbooking, paper hoarder. I have been crafting in some way for as long as I can remember. I started stamping about 20 years ago, I was hooked instantly!
Well that an amazing team... I am so proud to be working with each of them. Check out their blogs and Don't forget to follow the Viva Las Vegastamps! blog to see all their amazing work. Each artist will be posting two project per month... That's at least 12 projects!!!!
TTFN
Terri Sproul
Monday, March 14, 2011
Steampunk Mask


Supply List
Iridescent Bronze from Golden Acrylic
Micaceous Iron Oxide from Golden Acrylic
Wood mask - but I think a paper mache mask would work great
Glaze from Golden
Zipper
Miracle Tape from Viva Las Vegastamps!
Stamps - STeampunk from viva Las Vegastamps!
Ink:
Creative Paper clay
Amazing Molding Putty
Gears - got my from Viva Las Vegastamps!
Directions:
1) First thing I did was made some molds using my real clock gears. I used my Amazing Mold Putty to make my gears. I have a video on how to use this on the PaperClay blog.
2) After I finish making my molds, I started to make some Paperclay gears.
3) After my paperclay gear where dry I started to paint them. I used Golden's Iridescent bronze and Micaceous Iron Oxide to paint them. Made them look like real gears and NOT paperclay...4) I found this mask at a yard sale over the weekend and it's was made of wood and painted white... I do believe a paper mache mask would work great for this project too.

5) I cover my mask with Golden Glaze to age the mask some. it was just too white.
6) I stared to stamp the Gear stamp I got from Viva Las Vegastamps! all over the top of his head and a little down the one side of his face... just a little..


7) Add another Gear stamp image on his left cheek using Memories "Chestnut" Dye ink
8) Add a Zipper to his mouth using my Miracle Tape from Viva Las Vegastamps! this tape is great to adhere almost everything down... YOU NEED some of this stuff.

9) Added my Paperclay Gears to the side of his head and then added more Real gear around the Paperclay ones... My mask is done... OMG... I really love it..
Well I hope you enjoy your time here on my blog and hope you will become a follower of mine. I have lots of exciting stuff happening here. Including a bi-weekly Festive Friday Blog Hop and a Design team call soon..
Now hop back to Favecraft blog and see the other amazing project posted. Also I will be on the Favecraft BlogTalk Radio show on April 6th.. hope you join me..
TTFN
Terri Sproul
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Paperclay Steampunk book - part 2
Here is the video on how I made the embellishment in this book.
Here are more of the inside pages.
this page I used a sticker Tags I owned from EK Success. The stamp on the right hand page is one from the Sheet of Steampunk Stamp I got from Viva Las Vegastamps! I wrapped the side of the page with string and hung a Jewelry Finding with Steampunk clip Art. See video on how to make. Also used another Tag to make a tab for the page.
On this page I stamped the Food Grinder from viva Las Vegastamps! using India Ink and you can see the over side of the last page with the string...I add a tag by adhere it to my page with Miracle Tape also from Viva Las Vegastamps! and added some clip art images. Behind the tag is more stamp image and a clip art image.
Well we have made it to the last page. Here you can still see how I used the gear mask and Memories Mist "Pale Ale" to make my background. I stamps the Man riding large wheele with India Ink. There is a large old fashion safety Pin I hung a embellishment from (see video on how to make). The Person image is from my steampunk CD of clipArt - BUT I used a Stamp Die Cut - Die Cutted the image with Silver paper and then I used some Alcohol Inks to age the silver. Also see in video how I did that same technique to a jewelry finding.Now it time to learn how to bind this book - get your safety Pins out.
Well I hope you enjoy this post, please leave me a comment. I really do live for them, and if you are not a follower yet, I would love it more if you become one..
Smiles
TTFN
Terri Sproul
Monday, February 28, 2011
Paperclay Steampunk book

I am just in love with steampunk right now.. So I made this amazing book out of paperclay and binded the book with Safety Pins, just like the tiny little steampunk book I made a few weeks ago... I do have a video showing how to bind this book will be up in a future post. I need to go to the city to upload the video. Sorry :(
Supply List
Alchohol ink: pesto, ginger, butterscotch
Memories Ink Pads: Ruby, Plum,
Palette InkPads: Cognac, Raw Sienna
Acyclic Paints: Shade of Browns
Jewelry Findings from Sakura Hobby Craft
Stamps: Plate #1267 (steampunk), Fireman with Hose, Hand,
Red Line Tape
Ribbon
Safety Pins (my book I used 8 safety pins
Door Knob – by 7 gypsies
Clock parts – I purchase a used clock at a garage sale and took it apart.
Large old fashion keys. – I got one from K& company, the other is a real old key
Grunge – dies from Tim Holtz – I used the hingers,
Mini, larger tags
Old Fashion Safety pin – I did not use this one on the binding.
Glue Dots
Directions:
1) First make you paper clay book as seen in the video. Set aside to dry over night or in the LOW oven…
2) Measure you finished and dry paperclay book to figure out what size to make your pages. My book is about 4 ¼” x 4 ¼” – so I made my pages 3 ¾” x 3 ¾”. So I cut out 4 pages out of Cardstock to measure 3 ¾” x 7 ½” and folded the pages in half. IMPORTANT to read #3 first.
3) Before I cut my pages out. I started with 2 – 8 ½” x 11” cream cardstock and added Tim Holtz gear and clock masked to my cardstock spray each of the cardstock with Memories Mist “Pale Ale” over the maskes.. Do this on both sheets of cardstock. Then cut out your pages…
4) Now just have fun. I stamps different Steampunk images on my background and added lots of fun embellishments.
5) Once all my pages are done. I binded my book – see Video for this.
Cover: I painted with different color of brown Acrylic paint to make it look like leather.. Then I added the embellishments.
Here are all the pages....
Here is the first page. I used Tim Holtz mini grunge letter, ink with with a "plum" and "Ruby" ink. I used my new Micro Glue Dots for the letters. They work great for those mini letter...
This is the next two pages. Here I used the Hinges from Tim Holtz. The stamps are all from Viva Las Vegas stamps. See the fireman - I stamp him in both "Ruby" and "India Ink" and cut him out and used Pop-Up Glue Dots to adhere. The suitcase is a Brad - yes a very large brad. The Finger is a stamp from Stampotique I stamped and cut out image. Ink all edge to give a aged look.
Used that fireman stamp again from Viva Las Vegas stamps - great place to purchase your steampunk stamps they have lots of them..I used come copper wire to hang a small key next to the Sakura Jewelry Finding, I made into an embellishment. Love the Big Farris Wheel stamp, Also from Viva Las Vegas Stamps.
Used a tag - folded it in half and add to side of page for a tab.
Lots going on here. The clock face is a real clock face and I used Tim Holtz Spinner for the center of the clock face. The Glass Tile embellishment is from Sakura. I made using their Glass Tile and steampunk clip art. The stamps are all from Viva Las Vegas Stamps I used a tag and more clip art. See how I made the embellishment on the right side page with the gears in it.. That another Jewelry finding from Sakura, real clock gear and 3-D Crystal Lacquer.
This is all I am going to show you in this post. come back in a couple days and I will continue to show you the next 4 pages and a video on how to bind this book. also another video on how to make those embellishments I made from Sakura.
TTFN
Terri Sproul










