Three Blooms

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Hi all, Aimee here. Here's a card I made for the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's June "Fruit, Foilage and Flower" Challenge:

I used the Pieces of Calligraphy and Four Flowers A stamps from Lost Coast Designs. Follow along to see how I made this card:

We'd love to have you join in the fun! Submit your flower-y creation to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity by the end of the month for your chance to win a prize. 

#210 Fruit, flowers and foliage.

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Hi there, Riet here.

With a lovely manga stamped card.

This month's challenge is Fruit, flowers and foliage.

So I immediately thought of the manga stamp Manga goth dots.

After all, she has flowers in her hair.

But for the cute text "Daisies in my hair" from Carmens Veranda stamps, 

I changed the little roses in her hair into daisies.

You can see here that the stamp actually has little roses, but you just stick a daisy over it.

I used:

LCD Manga goth dots.

LCD More bugs

LCD Flowers

CV Daisies in my hair.

Black waterresitent inkpad, (versafine)

Distressink Musterd seed, Wild honey.

Color pencels or markers, whichever you prefer.

Masking tape.

Honeycomb stencil.

Stamp the flowers using masking tape, 

letting the flowers overlap slightly.

Do the same with the girl.

Use an ink blender to make the background yellow.

And use the wild honey and the stencil to create the background.

Remove the masks and color the centers of the flowers, and the girl.

Stamp the text in black.

Stamp the bees and the little daisies on a thin peace of paper.

Color, cut out and glue them on.

Matt the card and you ar done.

Scrole to the end for another tutorial with a manga goth girl.

It would be great if you joined the challenge too.

There is, of course, a prize to be won (read the rules).

It runs until the end of the month.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!!!!

Free tutorial, click here.

Skulls and Roses Frida Style!

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Greetings! You've got Kathi here to share another card created for the  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's Fruit, Flowers, and Foliage Challenge 210 with the Frida Skull Rubber Stamp and a sentiment from the Travel Quotes Unmounted Rubber Sheet.

Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Frida Skull stamp in the center of a piece of white cardstock. 

Position a deckled oval die blade-side down and secure the die to the cardstock with low-tack tape. Run the image panel and cutting die through a machine. Remove the two cutting plates from the machine with the stamped panel and cutting die still inside, flip the sandwich over, and remove the top cutting plate to show the back of the panel. Using low-tack tape, secure the die-cut to the panel.

Flip the image panel and die-cut so that the image is facing up and is still inside the cutting die. Use a small blending brush to apply Antique Linen Distress Ink over the cutting die onto the die-cut to add a background. Don't worry about getting some Distress Ink onto the image, you can remove it with a wet paintbrush. Plus, Distress Ink plays well alcohol markers.

Carefully remove the low-tack tape from the front and back of the image panel. Remove the cutting die, revealing a white edge around the stamped image. Clean and dry the cutting die.

Use Copic markers to color the image panel. You'll note that the colors I chose match well with the patterned paper that I selected. When done coloring, set the image panel die-cut aside.

Select patterned paper that works well with your stamped image. Select cardstock to match the patterned paper and create an A2 card with the cardstock.

Position a sentiment ribbon-slide cutting die blade-side down on a strip of cardstock left from created the card. Secure the cutting die to the cardstock with low-tack tape, and run it through your machine. Tape the back of the die-cut to the cardstock strip, but remove the die this time. Secure the die-cut/strip combo onto a stamping platform with magnets and/or low-tack tape. Place a clear sheet of acetate over the die-cut. Position the chosen sentiment stamp facedown on the acetate, ink the stamp, and stamp onto the acetate to see whether the sentiment is straight. Adjust if necessary and test again.

Remove the acetate, ink the sentiment stamp with VersaFine Clair Ink, and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if needed to attain a good impression.

Cut a thin strip of coordinating patterned paper. Edge the strip with VersaFine Clair ink. Trim the strip to 4.5" and thread the strip through the sentiment die-cut.

Trim the patterned paper to 4.5" x 5.25" to create the background panel. Apply adhesive to the two sides of the ribbon strip and adhere the strip/ribbon-slide die-cut towards the bottom of the background panel.

Trim the patterned paper to 4" wide then edge the background panel with VersaFine Clair Ink. Adhere the image panel as shown. The last step is to adhere the card front to the reserved A2 card.

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You still have a week to participate in our Fruit, Flowers, and Foliage Challenge for the chance to win Lo$t Coa$t ca$h!

Thanks for visiting today!

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Darlene here with my final make for the month with the challenge theme

of Fruit, Flower, Foliage

Using the ATC Doodles flower stamp (which comes in a larger size too)

I first cut the size of card I wanted - then do not fold !

splatter paints etc across

Then stamped the image all the way across

If you fold first then you will get a line down the middle which you

do not want !

Then I coloured in all the flowers, added the party words - Happy Birthday.

Such a fun card to make - end to end flowers.

Be sure to check out the blog for the whole teams makes as the month goes on

Then of course don't forget to enter your creation for a change to win some new stamps.

maybe stop by and visit my blog too

https://blog-dar-blog.blogspot.com

A Floral Card for the Fruit, Flowers, and Foliage Challenge 210

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

Greetings! You've got Kathi here to share a floral card created for the Fruit, Flowers, and Foliage Challenge 210 with the Lily Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.

Here it is!

Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp Lily  by Lost Coast Designs onto white Copic-friendly cardstock.

Color the image panel with Copic Markers, trim it, then it edge with a black marker.

 Adhere the image panel to a patterned paper panel that measures 4" x 5.25". Edge the patterned paper panel with a black marker then adhere it to a black A2 card.

Use a sentiment die to cut black cardstock, then adhere the sentiment under the image panel as shown.

Add matching glittery epoxy stickers to finish the card.

There's still time for you to play along with our Fruit, Flowers, and Foliage Challenge 210 for the chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!

Thanks for visiting today!

#210 Fruit, Flowers and Foliage.

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

Hi, Riet here, with a simple scenery.

 

For the background of this card,

 I used various shades of blue, orange, yellow and brown. 

I sponged the background with a small sponge. 

Then I took the scrubbery stamp and stamped with three shades of brown. 

I kept shifting the stamp so that it looks like different types of stamps were used. 

I stamped the Carmens Veranda text with gold embossing powder.

Would you to join the challenge?

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!!!!

Here is another card with foto tutorial with the same stamp.