Cats and Hats

Have you visited our new Shopify shop Veralanestudiodigitals.com?  We have a growing inventory of unique and quirky designs that will bring smiles to your crafting. 

Today’s feature is Cats and Hats. 

Unleash your inner crafter with Cats and Hats! This stamp set features three plump and whimsical cats, four crazy hats, and a sentiment, perfect for adding a playful touch to your projects. With both JPG and PNG files included, the possibilities are endless! (Pawsome, right?!)

https://veralanestudiodigitals.com/search?q=cats+and+hats

 

Meet Jess Chris Doni

 In February of this year we added our newest design team member Doni (who goes by Jess Chris Doni).  Doni was noticed for her bright use of color and added pattern.  She enjoys using my clear stamps for AALL&Create as well as our digital designs. Fans have been very responsive to the beautiful craftsmanship and interpretation of the Vera Lane Studio images.

 Doni certainly makes a nice addition to our very talented team. You can view her work as well as the rest of our fabulous team on our Vera Lane Studio FaceBook fan page (joining required). 

Doni brings lots of life to the Vera Lane characters.  I hope you enjoy looking at her work.  Thanks for stopping by.

Frida:  Clear stamp for AALL&Create

Chocolates: digital stamp set

Sunflower: digital stamp set

Bright Day: Digital Stamp set

Lets. Go. Camping.

 I have been absent from blogging as so much has happened in the last few years.  Vera Lane Studio has joined forces with AALL&Create as we enter our third year of collaboration.  Between keeping up with digital designs for Vera Lane Studio, adding new design team members and widening our audience  our designs in high quality photopolymer are now enjoyed by stampers everywhere. 

My latest release with AALL&Create just hit the shelves today.  If you are into camping, the great outdoors, kayaking or just a walk in the woods this line is for you.  The collection  features A7 and A6 sets.  

AALL&Create has an outstanding design team and you will find lots of inspiration on their Instagram as well as their Facebook group AALL&Create Fanatics.

My clear stamps for AALL&Create can be found in their e-shop or from one of our worldwide stockists.  To find a shop near you please follow this link.  https://www.aallandcreate.com/stockists

If you are looking fro digital designs our Vera Lane Studio shop can be found on Etsy.

 

 

 

Our Design Team is expanding!

Please help me welcome our newest Design Team Memeber Bonnie Irvine!  You know her well on Vera Lane.  As a frequent poster, fabulous fan and guest designer we have all fallen in love with her vivid and happy colors.  Bonnie has brought such inspiration to our group and we felt she would be that extra dose of eye candy and add to our super fabulous team.

Bonnie will be sharing her creations on Saturdays and the rest of the team will keep their scheduled days.  Please support our hard-working design team members with your comments.  We are all here to help and inspire!

Watercolor creams with sequin waste

I love sequin waste.  It comes in a Mylar roll in various “sequin” sizes.  The holes are from where the sequins are punched.  They make amazing stencils and are great for backgrounds.

For this fast and easy background I layer a piece of sequin waste on my cardstock.  You can hold in place or tape down with washi tape to avoid any shifting.  I used a red watercolor cream, from Brea Reese and rubbed over the sequin waste, using it as a stencil.  I took a baby wipe and rubbed out some areas.  I repositioned the “stencil” and rubbed over the holes to leave some of the circular patterns showing.

The monochromatic background is just enough tp layer your card elements.  The little whimsical girl is from the Vera Lane Studio set “Give me some sugar”   Keeping this card in the red tones makes for a visually pleasing composition with very little effort!

Simple tag with stencil embellishment

I’m using three Art-C products in this fast and easy pair of tags.    I began with three tags from the Tea-stained tags collection.  Both sides of the tags are decorated.  The backs have a nice tea-stain treatment which is a great surface within itself.   I used one of the image stencils from the Art-C adhesive stencil/arrow/feather  to decorate the tag. The stencils had just the right amount of stickiness to adhere to the tag without tearing the paper — the adhesive allows the stencil to make a nice clean print.  I dabbed the stencil with acrylic paint and a paint dabbler from Brea Reese.    I dotted the dried image with a Paint Writer in chalk white  .  I love these little tubes — they deliver just the right consistency of smooth paint for linear lines or dots.  The tag is ready to add your images, washi tape or collage bits.  I think the neutral background is just perfect to pop your hand-colored images!

Tag concertina

This tiny tag concertina is a fast little make that can be tucked in an envelope along with a greeting for that extra surprise and smile.    

To create:

1. Wet watercolor paper with a brush or spritz with water. 

2.  Brush on Brea-Reese glitter ink. The micro glitter sparkles leaves a nice shimmer (which is hard to detect in the photographs). 

3. Experiment with wet on wet, dripping more ink on wet areas.  

4. Add highlights by dipping  a clean brush and plain water.  The plain water will “erase” or lighten the color.

5. Allow drying time. Use a die cut or a tag punch to make tags.  Position your punch to capture the most interesting part of your painting.   

6.  Add your stamped or digistamp images and some text.  Attach the tags with strips of washi tape or scrapbook paper strips with a glue stick. 

Create a stack of tags for later use.  Can also be cute as gift tags, hang tags on wine bottles or attached to a cellophane bag of goodies.