149th challenge, Background in focus.

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Hello blog visitor, Riet here.

Today I have a colorful card for the challenge at Lost Coast designs.

The challenge is "background in focus".

So I thought I'd go ahead and make it very colorful.

I used the versatile LCD background stamp Bubbles.

Together with the Anchor Fish and a text from the sheet Party words.

I also used Lalinea shadowpaint and white embossing powder and Versamark.

And now the explanation of how the card is made.

I used lalinea shadowpaint, which is an ink/watercolor with very bright colours.

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The colors of this ink also flow very nicely together.

I started with the bubbles stamp and stamped it on the paper with Versamark.

Sprinkle with the white embossing powder and heatset it.

Take a paintbrush and different colors of the ink.

Color in the stamp with the ink, and this does not have to be neat,

the colors should be mixed.

Be careful that it doesn't turn into brown mud.

Let dry well, repeat the whole process with the anchor fish and the text.

I stuck a black paper behind the text and fish.

Then the fish and text stand out better.

Just matt with black and you're done.

Actually an easy card with a lot of impact.

Now I'm curious what you make with your background.

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You can even participate with other brands, as long as there are stamps on your work

I hope to see you at the challenge and wish you goodluck.

Background in focus

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Hello, Cathy here with a card for you today.

Stamps Used:

Roses

Grunge diamond background

I took a white card base and stamped Grunge diamond background in distress purple ink. Then I punched out a circle and stamped Roses with the same purple ink then I punched out a black circle and layered it. Lastly, I added some bling to the Roses circle.

You can join the challenge here. 

It's All About The Background

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 Good morning and a very happy Saturday, welcome to the weekend!

It's Sue here, and today I'm sharing a card that I made for our Backgrounds In Focus challenge.  I think this one holds the record for the most stamps used by me on a card lol.

I've been seeing lots of retiform lately, with some beautiful examples from my blogging friend Angela (Felix The Crafty Cat). I must admit, I'd no idea how it was done, but I knew that I liked it. So, much YouTube watching later I decided to give it a go!

I made my grid with a blue distress ink and a blender.

Then I added some stamping - LOTS of stamping. I really like how these two colours look together.

I told you I used a lot of stamps!

These are the ones that I've used;

Pieces of Caligraphy

Leonardo Accessories

Steampunk Fly Girl

Steampunk Icarus

Steampunk Pony

Misc Words

CV Leonardo Man

There's still lots of time to join in with our challenge, so please get stamping and remember to keep the Background In Focus.

Take care, and thanks so much for looking x

JULY WINNERS

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Welcome Portal Peeps!!!
It's time to announce the WINNERS of our July Challenges!

We would like to thank everyone who entered their lovely projects and it was so nice to see so many using Lost Coast Design and Carmen's Veranda stamps.  You of course get an extra chance in the random draw for using our stamps on your projects.  Thanks for playing with us!

Please do read the rules and also the challenge guidelines which are written under the challenge badges on the challenge post and in the sidebar.  We have to disqualify entries that do not comply with our rules or challenge themes.

We used Mr Random

WINNER of CHALLENGE #147

CELEBRATE IT!

is

Cari Woodmansee Jacobson 

with this fabulous card featuring Lost Coast Designs Gibson Girl
entered on fb

Congrats Cari, you win a $10 gift certificate

WINNER of CHALLENGE #148

CHRISTMAS IN JULY

is

Janis

 

with this cute snowman card

Congrats Janis, you win a $10 gift certificate

 Congratulations Cari and Janis!  Please email Gail (craftynomad at gmail dot com) by the 15th of the month to claim your prize.  Please provide your full name and mailing address in the email as well as the stamps you would like.  You may choose from Lost Coast Designs and/or Carmen's Veranda!

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Our current challenge is

Background in Focus

Link up your stamped Background In Focus projects

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Backgrounds in focus: Tree & moon

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Hi everyone! As Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda come with lots of beautiful backgrounds stamps I LOVE this topic! for our new challenge ,Backgrounds in Focus we use them as the most important image. 

Here I used the big Grunge tree background stamp, I just stamped it with black waterproof ink onto a white card. I punched a two inch circle from masking paper and added the mask on top of the card. I sponged the card with Stormy sky, Broken china and Chipped Sapphire Distress inks. Also a tiny bit of black ink around the circle, before I removed the mask. Using the blues and Wild Honey Distress ink I sponged some whiffs of colour, also on the moon. As the finishing touch I stamped the Carte Postale stamp at the bottom of the card.

Hope you give it a try and participate our challenge! See you next time!

LiesbethXX

#149 Background in focus, the new challenge at lost Coast designs.

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Hello everyone, Riet here with a new step by step tutorial.

What a nice challenge to expose the background stamps.

LCD has very nice background stamps, which can ease take a leading role in your project.

Now the description of this card.

What did I use:

LCD Background stamp Gears 2 and,

 The dragonfly with Dragonfly text from the Bugs sheet.

Distress Oxide: Saltwater taffy, Peacock feathers, Bundled sage,

Crackling campfire, Ground espresso

Distressink: Vintage photo, , Antique linen, Walnut stane.

Stazon Timber brown.

Markers or color pencils.

Gold glitter for the wings.

White gel pen. 

And this is how I made the card.

Spread the 3 colors over your craft sheet and spray a little bit of water.

Pass your paper through this.

Let it dry well between colors.

     With Distress oxide Ground espresso we now stamp the background.

We repeat this with Distress oxide Crackled campfire.

Let it dry very well.

And this is what it looks like, as if the gears have rusted.

With these 3 colors you sponge the edges, starting with the lightest.

With some brown paint or ink we make some stains on the background.

Stamp the dragonfly on a clean pice of paper and on to the background.

Color the dragonfly and give the wings a little bit of gold shimmer.

Cut the dragonfly out. 

Gleu only the body on the card and make it look if it fly's away.

Make a banner with the dragonfly text the same way as the card.

Stick on with raised tape, mat the card with brown cardboard.

Now your done, hope you have fun with the card.

Now it's up to you, show your idea with a background stamp.

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