31 Days of Halloween - HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

Welcome to the final day of our 31 Days of Halloween Celebration!

Today we're going to celebrate and dance like nobody is watching!!

Party on Friends!!

Supplies:

Lost Coast Designs - Dancing Skeletons, Spiderwebs Background

Imagine  - VersaFine Clair Ink

Rinea - Marigold/Marigold Starstruck Foiled Paper

Cardstock 

31 Days of Halloween - Day 30

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Hello.  Gail flying in today with my final project fo our 31 Days of Halloween celebration.  Roni will be here tomorrow for the grande finale but for now, here's a witch.  I'm calling this one Destination Spooky House!!!

I stamped Lost Coast Designs Yourba Adire background with London Fog ink and used Amber distress oxide to make the moon.  I stamped Witch 2, embossed, coloured with Promarkers and fussy cut her.  The house is a Sizix die. 

There is still time to link to our 31 Days of Halloween and Cats and/or Dogs challenges.

 Both linkys close at 5 to midnight 31st October.
See you there.............

31 Days of Halloween - Day 29

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We are coming to the end of this year's Halloween Blog Hop.  Laurie here with one more project with a Halloween theme, featuring a cat or dog.  In this instance, it's a cat.

This features one of Linda's Doodle Cats inspired by Laurel Birch.  I also used the White Skulls Border stamp from Lost Coast Designs.

I started by stamping my kitty cat three times:  once on orange paper, once on green paper, and once on white paper.  All were stamped with black ink.

I used the orange kitty as my base so cut it out.  I then cut out various sections of the other two cats and pasted those as shown onto my orange kitty base.  So a bit a cutting and piecing work here.  It was fun - I didn't really have a plan in mind so just let it happen!  I accentuated with some orange sequins and green rhinestones.  I used a white Gel pen to highlight as well.   I cut out a witch's hat from a collage sheet and pasted that onto my kitty.  

I cut a tag shape from some Halloween card stock and edged it with orange ink.  I stamped my border onto the same paper with black ink, cut it out, and glued it to the bottom of my tag.  Kitty gets attached next and the finishing touches are the die cut word "wicked" and the black ribbon at the top.

You still have a few days left to enter your Dog and Cat and/or Halloween projects at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and a chance to win some stamps!

31 Days of Halloween - Day 28

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Hello.  Gail here with a little wisdom and beauty.  We are celebrating the 31 Days of Halloween and I wanted to bring a little mystery to the party.

I made a card using Lost Coast Designs very beautiful Owlynn and words from Miscellaneous Words, a collection of lots of useful words to mix and match to your hearts content.  

I started with this shaving foam/reinker background that I thought looked a little other dimensional in a fuzzy pink sort of way. 

I stamped and embossed Owlynn on white card, coloured with Promarkers and gel pens and fussy cut. 

I added the image to my background and stamped and embossed some of the words.  I cut them out and used black archival ink to grunge them up a bit.  I also grunged up the edges of the panel to give it a more shadowy look.  

There is still time to link to our 31 Days of Halloween and Cats and/or Dogs challenges.

 Both linkys close at 5 to midnight 31st October.
See you there.............

31 Days of Halloween Day 28, Dogs and Cats Challenge

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Hello all, Lori here today

Since I am more of a dog person than a cat person (although I do love cats too!), I thought I would use the Carrie's Menagerie Puppy3 image to create this soft toned card below; reminding us to "Be the person your pet thinks you are"!  Good advise if you ask me!

 Lost Coast Design Products:

• Carrie's Menagerie, Puppy 3 
• Carmen's Veranda, Be the Person
• Corner Swirl

Instructions:

1. Create a background with a stencil and acrylic paint sprays.  
2. Trim this panel down to just smaller than your card base.
3. Using Distress Oxide Inks, stamp swirl image and then add splatters with the same ink colors.
4. On a second smaller stenciled panel (see card) and splatter with Distress Oxides.
5. With Versafine Onyx Black, stamp Puppy 3 image as well as the saying onto the smaller panel.
6. Edge both panels with ink.
7. Adhere smaller panel into center of larger panel.
8. Edge card base with Distress ink.
9. Adhere panel to card base.
10. Embellish with enamel dots and paper butterfly.

Please, join us for this challenge by adding your stamped Cats and Dogs creations. Seriously, we love seeing all of your wonderful projects!

Happy Day!

Lori

31 Days of Halloween - Day 27

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31 Days of Halloween!!

Happy Saturday to you all and welcome back to another fun post for our 31 Days of Halloween celebration!!

Today I wanted to share this little guy with you... Evil Eye.

I don't know if you can tell or not but I gave him some glittery evil eyes...

The background was made with Marabu's EZ Marble.

Supplies:

Lost Coast Designs - Evil Eye

Imagine - VersaFine Clair Nocturne, Embossing Powder

Chameleon Alcohol Markers

Marabu EZ Marble

Bazzill Shimmer Cardstock

31 Days of Halloween - Day 26

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Gail here today with Lost Coast Designs gorgeous Cheshire Cat.
 He's been waiting in the wings and now is his moment to Smile

He's just a big softy really!  I simply stamped Lost Coast Designs Cheshire Cat on a piece of white card using black archival and cut the panel with a stitched rectangle die.  I coloured his eyes, fangs and claws with gel pens and stamped and black embossed Carmen's Veranda Smile word.  The background is a Sizzix Mixed Media die cut twice from a piece of black card and added to a red base.

If you are dropping by from the 2018 Cat Lovers Hop then puurrrr, puuurrrr, meow!  I thought I would add a few links for feline themed stamps in the Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda shops.  I realise that the stamp catalogue is pretty large and you might not have had a chance to become familiar with it.

Carmen's Veranda has some fabulous feline themed sentiments, plus many others on 1, 2, 3 pages.  I advise people not to be drinking coffee or margarita's whilst looking at these!!
There are also some really cute cat stamps in Carmen's Veranda animal section and also a new Peekaboo kitty that Janis used on her Day 1 post.

Lost Coast Designs also has a lot of cat stamps.  There are some really cuties in the brand new Carri's Menagerie.  Lots of beautifully detailed ones HERE, and a few scary ones, including the wonderful Cheshire Cat HERE, and don't forget to check out the Party Cats, and Kitty Girl!

 

You can join up your stamped Halloween or Cat/Dog makes and we are also sponsoring the 2018 Cat Lovers Hop that closes tomorrow so spring over and add your kitties there too for more chances to win Lost Coast dollars.  

You might also like to check out some of the other posts below this one for more feline fun and inspiration.  Phew!!  Time for a cat nap I think.

Day 25 of the 31 days of Halloween

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Cathy here with a broom hanging cat for you.

So I started out by making a galaxy background. I used Distress Oxide for this one. I like how well it blends. I used pink, blue, yellow and black ink colors.
I then I took some white paint and added splatters to it for stars.

 

I took Hanging branch cat by Katzelkraft that Lost Coast Design sell, stamped it and colored with Copic markers. I then cut it out.

 Then I dyed the broom. It started out a light wood color and the end was off white color. I took to some distress spray and colored it. Set aside to dry.  Then I added some glow-in-the-dark eyes to the cat.  When dry I used hot glue to add it to the galaxy background. Then I added foam tape to the cat so he is hanging off the broom.

 As I was looking at it I felt is still needed something. Magick coming out of the broom. So I die cut some gold stars and added them to the end of the broom. Then I added some glitter because glitter adds just a little bit more magick!!

You can join up your stamped Halloween or Cat/Dog makes and we are also sponsoring the 2018 Cat Lovers Hop that closes tomorrow so spring over and add your kitties there too for more chances to win Lost Coast dollars.  

Can not wait to see what you come up with . You could win some rubber stamp money!!

31 Days of Halloween - Day 24

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Hi from Laurie as we are closing in on Halloween and the last week of the Lost Coast Designs 31 Days Of Halloween Challenge.  Hope you are having as much fun with this as we are.

I've made another card for this day featuring a Halloween theme with a cat stamp as my focal point.  I used the Striped Cat stamp from Katzelkraft which are available in the Lost Coast Designs shop.  I stamped this guy onto a paper that I had used yellow and orange Distress inks on.  I stamped with black Staz On ink then cut out my cat.  I restamped his eyes onto white paper and cut them out and glued them over the original image and added some shine to them with Glossy Accents.

For my background I took a piece of orange striped scrapbook paper and, using shades of red and orange Distress Inks, stenciled a checkerboard pattern onto my paper.  I then took another stencil with randomly sized and spaced dots and used black ink  to stencil those dots randomly over the surface.

I used a spider stencil to add a couple of creepy crawlies to the corners.  I glued my cat into the center and gave him a little witch's hat.   I die cut the word "eek" and glued that to the upper left corner.
Final steps were edging the card front with black ink and mounting it to a white layer.


Love the Katzelkraft stamps and their cat and dog stamps are perfect for this 31 Days of Halloween challenge.  We also have our Cat and Dog challenge running til the end of the month so please join us on the Portal and submit your stamped Halloween/Cat/Dog projects.  

Lost Coast Designs is also sponsoring the 2018 Cat Lovers Hop!  So that's three chances to win Lost Coast dollars!!!  Hop over there for masses of feline fun and amazing prizes.
Have fun!

31 Days of Halloween - Day 23

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Hello all,

For the 23rd day of the "31 Days of Halloween Challenge", I have created with a few pieces of shrink plastic jewelry for you all.  I even stamped a small canvas bag to hold these little beauties.  

 Lost Coast Design Products:

• Dancing Skeletons
• Skull Crown

 

Other Materials:

• PolyShrink Shrink Plastic
• Tsukineko StazOn, Jet Black ink

Shrink Plastic Instructions:

1. Stamp image onto Shrink Plastic with StazOn ink and allow to dry.
2. Trim around the image and punch a whole into the top of the piece (if using for jewelry).
3. Use markers or colored pencils to add color.
4. Use heat tool to shrink the image down.
5. Use the finished piece as an embellishment or create a jewelry piece like the once shown here.

Happy Halloween!

Lori

31 Days of Halloween Day 22 and The 2018 Cat Lovers Hop

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Welcome to day 22 of our 31 Days of Halloween celebration.  I hope you are enjoying all the spookalicious and bootastic inspiration from the team.  Gail here today with double trouble!!  Meet Trick and Treat!

I've made a sign to add to my bootastic decorations featuring Carmen's Veranda adorable Tabby Cat and White Cat.  I've also used Lost Coast Designs License Plate Alphabet and the beautiful Circle Frame stamp.

I embossed the Circle Frame background on orange card with black embossing powder and randomly smeared on various orange distress inks.   I backed this panel with a piece of heavy card.  I stamped, embossed and fussy cut the two cats, coloured them with distress inks and added hats, courtesy of Carmen's Veranda Oz Witch.  One hat fits all!!!!

 Then I stamped the letters on various scraps of purple card and arranged them on my sign.

OK, so we have the 31 Days of Halloween running.  And then there's our Cat and Dog challenge.   So that's two chances to win.  And now we are pleased to announce that Lost Coast Designs is proudly sponsoring the 2018 Cat Lovers Hop!!

More chances to win Lost Coast Design dollars and also lots of other amazing prizes. 

So link up your cats here and there and good luck.

And don't forget the 31 Days of Halloween challenge!!

Day 21 of the 31 days of Halloween.

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 all. Cathy here with a card for you. Can you believe it is only 10 till Halloween. Yea!
Stamp Used: Cheshire Cat

 So I had this stamped out for awhile. This is the stamped image after I had done the alcohol lift from Yupo paper. I was going through my paper hoard and I found this Graphic 45 paper called Midnight Masquerade. Well the colors in it worked perfectly with the colors of  Cheshire Cat I had stamped.

 So with that I layered it on some cream cardstock and then added the  Cheshire Cat.  Sense it was masquerade paper the kitty had to go to a Masquerade Ball. What do you need for a masquerade? A disguise of course.

He got a top hat and a mustache for his disguise.

I hope you enjoyed the card. I can't wait to see what you come up with.

 You can join the 31 days of Halloween challenge  here

You can join the cats and Dogs challenge here
You can enter both challenges if you want. I hope you do.