Bright and Cheerful: Bird Diva

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here again. Today I would love to show you a Bright and Cheerful card for our current challenge. 

I made it onto a background coloured with blue acrylic ink and water. I stamped the divas, text and birds with black ink and coloured them with colour pencils and gelpen. 

Stamps used : Bird Diva with Face, Flying Moon, Travel Quotes and Carmens Verandas Flying Birds. 

Join our challege, so much fun!

See you next time, have a nice day!

Liesbeth XX

Fox tag

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Cathy here with a tag for you today.

Stamps Used:

Mona ATC window

Foxy Roxy

I started out with a white tag and some light pink distress ink to have a base color. I then took a Tim Holtz stencil and a darker pink distress ink to make rays. I took Mona ATC window and the same dark pink ink and stamped in the opening of the stencil. 

Next, I stamped Foxy Roxy and then colored him with copic and cut him out. I added him to the bottom of the tag and then I added some glitter hearts to the whole tags. 

You still have time to join the challenge.

Pretty Parrot

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Hello Portal Peeps!  We are feeling all Bright and Cheerful for January so join us and kick those winter blues.  Gail here today and I've used Lost Coast Designs Polly Parrot on a pretty alcohol ink background.

I made the alcohol ink background and then stamped Polly Parrot directly on the background using archival black ink.  I added some colour to Polly using sharpies and a bit of white gel pen.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs ATC Doodle Heart on red card with sepia archival and fussy cut.  Then I stamped the Carmen's Veranda Weird People sentiment using black archival and cut around the parrots head so I could slip the heart in place.

Thanks for dropping by.   Grab your Bright and Cheerful colours and stamps and join the fun.  The team will be sharing all month, so do pop back often to check out their awesome makes and inspiration.

Its a bright and cheerful bookmark.

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Hi there, Riet here. 

This bookmark is so bright and cheerfull, 

and that is also the challenge at Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps.

This is what I used for this bookmark.

Pope clown.

Just faces set.

Me to you, embossingfolder.

Balloon die.

Distress Oxide,

Kitch Flamingo,

Musterd seed,

Twisted citron,

Lucky clover,

Peacock feathers,

Wilted violet.

Distressink,

Musterd seed,

Spiced marmelade.

4 colors acrylic spray paint.

Blue, turqoise, green and purple.

Versafine onyx black

Stazon saddle brown.

White smooth paper 6x20cm / 2,3x7,8inch.

Paper for the balloon and  Pope clown.

Black cardstock.

Color pencils or markers.

White gell pen.

How to make the bookmark.

Make spots that blend into each other with the 6 Distress oxide colours.

Let dry well.

Spray the acrylic paint on to the distress oxide.

Embos the left side of the bookmark.

Lightly sand the embossing areas with a sanding block.

Stamp the clown with the Versafine onyx black.

Color and cut him out.

Use the white gell pen for some accents.

Die cut the balloon and color it with de distressink.

Stamp the moon face with the Stazon saddle brown.

Color the eyes with the white gell pen.

Mat the card with the black cardstock and glue the clown and balloon in place.

Maybe you can make something with the Bright and Cheerful theme.

Then join the challenge and maybe you'll be the next winner.

Hope to see your work at the challenge.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!

CHALLENGE #193 REMINDER - BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL

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Hello Portal Peeps.

Gail here today with a mid month reminder for the Bright and Cheerful Challenge.
Our challenges are now monthly!  A new challenge starting the 1st every month, with chances to win Lost Coast dollars. We will be announcing winners on the 5th of the month, so do pop back and see who wowed the team and gets our snazzy blog badge and the coveted Lost Coast dollars.

CHALLENGE #193

BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL

Let's get rid of the winter blues and those cold and frosty feelings.  We want to see your stamped anythings with a bright and cheerful look.  Grab your bold and bright colours and those happy stamps and join the fun.  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!!!!  Bwahahhaaahaha. 

 
Please read the updated Challenge Rules to ensure your entries qualify to win this month's prize!

You are welcome to play in our Challenges using rubber stamp images from any company but if you use any of our Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps...we love it when you do...then you could win a bigger prize in our random prize drawing.  All winners get our snazzy Challenge Winner's Badge to proudly display on their blogs!

If you don't have a blog then no prob, you can still play in our challenges by sharing your projects from public photo sharing sites which includes our Facebook Company Pages for Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda.  Please include our Challenge info and the link back to our challenge in your photo's description!  As long as the privacy setting for your photo is public you're good to go.  See, it's so easy to join the fun!  FYI, you can't link up projects shared in closed Facebook groups! 

Here's some more inspiration from the team.  ENJOY!

 Aimee used Lost Coast Designs Art Nouveau Faces with Carmen's Veranda Cusswords and Courage sentiment

 

 Kathi used Lost Coast Designs Party Cat

 

Darlene used Lost Coast Designs Carrie's Yoga Cat 10

Now it's your turn.  Are you up for the challenge?  We can't wait to see your projects!   

Grab your Bright and Cheerful stamps and colours and join the fun.  The team will be sharing all month, so do pop back often to check out their awesome makes. 
Submit your entries in the linky party below by 23.59 PST on the 31st and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything! 

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Chocolate and Money

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!

 

Hello Portal Peeps!!   Gail here today with some Bright and Cheerful inspiration.   Yellow and Orange always make me happy so I did some ink blending and grabbed Lost Coast Designs Fat Cat.

I blended yellow and orange distress inks then stamped with Lost Coast Designs ATC Doodle Flowers stamp using red ink.  The cat was stamped on a piece of card that I had coloured with distress inks and stamped with Lost Coast Designs Pieces of Calligraphy stamps.  To finish I stamped parts of Carmen's Veranda Chocolate and 8 Millions Dollars sentiment.   I left out the hard life bits and stayed with chocolate and money, cos what's happier than chocolate, and if you have money you can buy more chocolate!!

Thanks for dropping by.   Grab your Bright and Cheerful stamps and colours and join the fun.  The team will be sharing all month, so do pop back often to check out their awesome makes.