Mona's Birthday Wishes

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Hello Friends!
Happy Sunday...Ink Stained Roni here today...

I hope you've had a wonderful week.  There are only a few days left in our "Use Some Words" challenge and today I have a birthday card featuring Mona. Obviously, she's a bit hungry for some cake!

I started off by stamping the background... Do I smell Cake? over and over and over using 3 different colors of ink - Teal Zeal, Verdant and Blue Belle. I then stamped Mona directly onto the background so the words would show through.  I stamped Happy Birthday on a scrap of the yellow and added some pen work stitches.

A bit of ribbon and gemstones and it's done!

This has been such a fun challenge, I hope you join in.

Lost Coast Designs Rubber Stamps: No Hat Mona, Party Words

Use Some Words: 50's Housewife

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Hi all from Laurie again with another project for the "Use Some Words" challenge going on now until the end of May.  This is pretty simple:  Make a project with some rubber stamping and add some words - any theme you chose.

I made a card for this project using the Housewife stamp from Lost Coast Designs and the Out of Order Sticker clear stamp from Carmen's Veranda.   There are four pages of these fun and funny clear stamps on the Carmen's website to chose from - be sure to check them out!!

I stamped my housewife onto white paper with black ink and cut her out.  I wanted to keep that 1950's vibe so she is all in black and white except for the yellow pompoms I added to her slippers.

I used some green and orange acrylic paints and a circle and square stencil on my Gelli plate to make the background.  I attached my housewife as shown and edged the background page in black.  I stamped my sentiment onto white paper with black ink and used a square punch to cut it out.  I edged this with black ink as well and attached it to the upper left corner.  Done!

So get your crafty groove on and show us what you can create using some words!

Inner self

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Hello all Portal fans Cathy here with a fun card for you today.
Stamps I used today:
Manga Goth with top hat
Embrace your inner self

I started out by stamping Manga Goth with top hat on white cardstock and coloring her in with Copic markers. When I stamped her out she was giving me a Alice in wonderland vibe so I colored her in reds and blacks.

Next I took a small circle stencil and stenciled some red and black  circles around the image.  To match her tights and hat.
Then on a scrap of black cardstock I white heat embossed the saying. Cut out and arranged it around the Manga Goth with top hat.

Lastly I layered it on some red glitter paper. 

Come join the fun here.

Hot and Sexy Christmas

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Hello.  Gail here again.   I wanted to share a card I made inspired by our challenge Use Some Words, and also the one at the Christmas Kickstart Challenge where the theme is Sarky Christmas.  Well, how could I not use my current favourite sentiment and make it a bit more seasonal using a couple of Miscellaneous Words.

I kept it kinda CAS using minimal colouring with gel pens on Lost Coast Designs Mistletoe Goth and just using glitter glue for the fur and a touch of gold on the berries.   The 'For Christmas' is from Lost Coast Designs Misc. Words rubber stamp set.   Then I took a pair of sharp scissors and chopped up my Carmen's Veranda Hot and Sexy Birthday clear stamp!!!  It went well, just had to go a bit careful around the y of birthday where it is very close to the l and d of told!!!  Then I closed it up to hide the missing 'for your birthday' making it more seasonal.  I cut the panel using a stitch die close to the goth image so she looks a bit 'off the edge' and mounted on a card base made from some christmas patterned card.

Thanks for dropping by.  Join the Use Some Words challenge for your chance to win Lost Coast dollars.  Stamp a quote, a wordy background or maybe use a BIG sentiment.  Wow us with words.

Crazy Dancer

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here today with a card featuring the quirky and peculiar Thin Dancer.

I know a very thin lady who loves to dance.  This stamp reminds me of her.  I used a white card base, stamped Thin Dancer and masked her.   I decided to make a large polka dot happy background using Lost Coast Designs Small Circle Shadow Frame and Picked Raspberry distress oxide.  Then I stamped the Queen of Everything sentiment with black archival and edged with Picked Raspberry distress ink.

Join our Use Some Words challenge.   Stamp a quote, big sentiment or a wordy background etc for your chance to win Lost Coast Dollars.

Lost Coast Designs are also proud to be a sponsor of the Allsorts 10th Birthday Challenge.  Link up your Happy Birthday makes there for another chance to win Lost Coast dollars and other prizes.

Use Some Words - Mixed Media Art Panel

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Hello all,

Lori here, sharing a new project with you for the Use Some Words challenge.   This is a mixed media piece that applies the Art is You background stamp in multiple ways on this project.  The details are included in the step by step Mixed Media Tips Video below.

Lost Coast Designs:

You Are Art Background Stamp

Other Materials:

Art Panel

Stencil

Modeling Paste

Gesso

Acrylic paint

Acrylic Metallic Paint

Indian Ink Pens

Die

Permanent Inkpad

Check out the Quick Mixed Media Video Below:

Click Here!

I hope that you will participate with on for this challenge and share your creations with us (just click on this link above).

Happy day!

Lori

Company(s) that I am affiliated with or Design for may have provided me with product to create this project.  The opinions I share are solely my own.