31 Days of Halloween Day 24 - Owl Gift Tag

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Hi everyone, Aimee here. Around this time in October we have the chance to pass out treat bags to the kiddos in our life. Here's a kid-friendly gift tag to make those little gifts extra cute!

The gift tag features one of Lost Coast Design's newest stamps from the Cartoon Kids set--a friendly little owl perched upon some hand-drawn branches. The edges of the tag were inked with a Brush Strokes stamp and then heat embossed in black. The sticker embellishments were purchased at a Dollar Tree store in their Halloween aisle. Follow along to see how the tag was made:

What's your favorite candy to put into treat bags? I love sour gummy anything--yum! Why not bring a little joy into the lives of the kiddos you know and make them a sweet treat gift. Get creative with your own tag design and upload it to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity for this month's Halloween Challenge. Entries due by October 31. 

31 Days of Halloween Day 23 - Crow Fly By

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Hello Portal Peeps!!   Gail here with day 23 of our 31 Days of Halloween celebration.  Today I have made a slimline card with a few of my favourite Lost Coast Designs stamps.

I started with a slimline card made from some slightly dotty patterned card.  I stamped MRaven1 with black archival ink and masked it.  I stamped Drips Background using scarlet archival ink and goth shrine with London Fog ink.  I added some smudgy distress ink colour and part of Carmen's Veranda When Witches Go Riding sentiment.  

Link up your Halloween inspired projects.  Anything related to the season, spooky, fruity, fun, scary or cute.  Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project.  A small stamped sentiment in a sea of die cuts or digi images will not qualify to win the prize and you may be deleted or fed to the giant pumpkin!!!!  Bwahahhaaahaha. 

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

31 Days of Halloween, day 22. Lets make some homedecor.

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Hallo there, Riet here with 2 Halloween pumpkins.

Do you all love Halloween?

You can get so creative with it.

It's so much fun to make your own decorations.

I was walking into a store and saw these MDF pumpkins.

I'll tell you how to decorate them.

Instead of MDF, you can also use sturdy cardboard or wood.

What you'll need:

LCD stamps,

  Frank and Franks bride.

and 

Gnome witch on broom.

Acrylic paint,

White, Black, Orange, Green.

Distress oxide, Musterd seed.

Color pencils or markers (whatever you prefer)

Brown marker/pencil.

Stencil to make the words.

A die to make the vines and leaves.

A quick tip: 

If you prime MDF first, it will become rough.

Let the first coat dry thoroughly and then sand it smooth.

This is only possible after the first coat. 

If you don't, sand the MDF after the first coat, it wont get smooth.

Start with a layer of white paint and sand it once it's dry.

I applied 2 layers of orange paint.

Paint the stem with dark green paint.

And draw the lines of the pumpkin with pencil.

Now use a brown marker to draw the lines on the pumpkin.

Don't make a sharp line, but make it a bit smudgy.

Using a soft brush and the Distress Oxide Mustard Seed, 

apply a yellow glow between the lines.

While the pumpkins are drying, we'll continue with the stamps.

Stamp them onto thin paper with waterproof black ink.

Color them however you like and cut them out.

Once the pumpkins are dry we continue with black paint and the stencil.

I used a smal sponge to aply the paint.

Let the black paint dry.

In the meantime, we cut the leaves and vines.

I used two shades of green.

Now we'll glue everything onto the pumpkins.

And then it's done.

I really enjoyed making them.

If you've made something for Halloween and stamped on it,

 (No need to use LCD stamps, all brands are allowed) join our challenge. 

You'll have a chance to win new stamps.

Here is the link to the challenge:

31 Days of Halloween Day 21: Trick or Treat

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Hello everyone,

Day 21 of our Halloween Challenge! Again I made two ATC's today, this time I used the lovely creatures from AUD Creatures 2 and AUD Creatures 4...I love them! 💓

They are stamped onto alcohol inked glossy paper and coloured with Distress Markers. I also used Spiderwebs Background.

See you next time! Love to see your Halloween makes!

LiesbethXX

31 Days of Halloween - Day 20

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Greetings! Kathi here with a creepy, crawly card for Day 20 of the 31 Days of Halloween created with the Bugs Background Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.

Smoosh Twisted Citron Distress Ink onto a acrylic block, mist the inky block with water, then pounce it onto a 7" x 5.5" piece of Bristol paper or other heavyweight water-friendly paper. Clean the block.

Repeat the above smooshing process with Squeezed Lemonade, Fossilized Amber, Carved Pumpkin, Wilted Violet, and Poisonous Potion Distress Inks until you're happy with your variegated background. Be sure to take care to clean the acrylic block between colors to avoid contaminating your ink pad. Heat set the inked panel thoroughly.

If your paper is still curved, place the inked panel into a folded piece of copy paper, put it onto the platform of your die-cut machine, place both cutting plates over the the combination, then run it th rough the die-cut machine several times until it's nice and flat.

Place the flattened and dried inked panel onto the base of a stamping platform secured with magnets and/or low-tack tape. Place the Bugs Background Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs facedown onto the inked panel. Ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink, and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if necessary to attain a good impression. If there are any gaps in the impression, use a paintbrush to apply Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink, to fix the images. 

Draw a 1/8" border around the stamped image, place a piece of acetate along the stamped border, and apply Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink around all four edges. Trim the panel to 5.75" x 4.5" and edge it with the same ink. Heat set the image panel and set it aside.

Use a Skull Die to cut off-white cardstock, then use Copic markers to add details. Trace the aperture areas of the skull and color them with Copic markers. Trim the colored aperture panel and adhere it to the back of the skull as shown.

Use the Entomology Thinlits Die and a huge spider die to cut black cardstock. Flip the die-cuts over and use a stylus to add dimension to the bugs' and spider's bodies. Use an embossing pen to color the raised front side of the bugs' and spider's bodies. Add black detail embossing powder to the wet ink, dump off the excess, and heat set the powder. Repeat the process to add another layer of embossing powder to the bugs' and spider's bodies.

Adhere the Bugs Background panel to a 7" x 5" black card. Adhere one of the bugs so that it appears to be coming out of the right eye socket. Adhere the skull to the card as shown. Adhere the spider to the top of the skull and another bug to the lower right hand corner of the card as shown.

Use Copic markers to color an idea-ology Occasions Small Talk Sticker, then adhere it as shown to finish the card.

You still have lots of time to join in the 31 Days of Halloween Challenge for the chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!

31 Days of Halloween Day 19 - Black Cats Are Seen

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Wow can't believe we are getting close to the end of October already !

Darlene here with another make for the 

31 Days of Halloween !!!  So much fun making these different items. 

Today I am sharing a couple of candles I made using several different stamps.

The first one, just a quicky - using the Crows Border stamps

The larger candle I used the happy cat and Carmen Verandas words and quotes

witches go riding

Notice I reversed the crows on the smaller candle.

 

Barely two weeks lefts to get your Halloween make into our challenge!!!

Do it !  might win some new stamps !!!