31 Days of Halloween #31 & Furry Friends - When Witches Go Riding

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

Woo hooo....we did it - 31 Days of Halloween and 15 days of Furry Friends!

I hope you've all had a wonderful time following and hopefully playing along with us.

To create this card I started off by stamping the Spiderwebs Background image on a piece of black cardstock using VersaMark ink and embossed with white Mboss embossing powder. This was mounted on a card base that had been covered with a piece of Rinea Violet/Violet Starstruck foiled paper. I also cut a wonky frame using the same foiled paper.  The sentiment and black cat were stamped on a piece of grey pattern paper and was then cut using the same frame die.  The frame and sentiment were mounted on the card and it was finished off with various sequins from Sparkle Blends.

Hope you all have a hauntingly spooktacular Halloween!

Roni

Supplies:

Lost Coast Designs - Spiderwebs Background, Cat1

Carmen's Veranda - Witches Go Riding

31 Days of Halloween #30: Poe's Raven

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Hi from Laurie on the next to last day of October and the end of our month long Halloween celebration here on the Portal.  What a great time of year and what a fun month this has been, celebrating Halloween with all of you every day!

I've got one more card for this challenge using the Big Crow stamp and the Nevermore clear stamp, both from Carmen's Veranda.  This crow stamp is large measuring almost 6 inches from bill to tail, so it really makes an impression!!

I stamped my crow with black ink onto white card stock and cut him out.  I honestly wasn't sure about the coloring of a raven or crow other than the feathers are black.  When I looked up photos, most of them showed back feet and bill and dark eyes.  So I changed one aspect and colored his eye bright yellow, placing a clear plastic Dew Drop atop it to give it some depth.

The background I made is a piece of Tim Holtz Halloween tissue paper.  I used matt medium and glued it to a gray and white dotted piece of scrapbook paper, edged it with black ink, then layered it with white and yellow panels.  I die cut a decorative border of shiny black card stock and attached that at the bottom.  My crow is attached with foam tape as is his little witch's hat.  I stamped the sentiment with black ink onto a white scrap and cut it out.  I used some gray and yellow markers to color the small crow in the saying and attached it with foam tape a well.  

This is your last chance to join us in celebrating Halloween by showing us what creations you can make and entering them here on the Portal for a chance to win some free stamps!

Happy Haunting!

Day 29 of the 31 days of Halloween

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 Hello Cathy here and I have a neon kitty for you. 

Stamp used: Cheshire cat

What I did for this cat is take some Neon inks in Halloween colors and put them on the paper in strips.

Next I stamped Cheshire cat onto the card. Cut out and add it to a card base. Then stamp Cheshire cat again on white card and fussy cut out the nails, teeth and eyes. Glue them to the front to make it pop. 

You can enter the Furry friends challenge here

The sale is still going on so go check it out.

 

Last but not lest you can also enter the Halloween challenge here.

31 Days of Halloween Day 28 - Poison

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here with a bottle of poison for our 31 Days of Halloween challenge! There's still much time to participate, join the fun!

I made an altered bottle, it was a small liqueur bottle. First I stamped the skull (Skull Flourish) onto a piece of tissue paper, tore it out and glued it onto the bottle with gel medium. I painted the entire bottle with gel medium, and after that with black paint (except of the image of course) I added a layer of Black Lava (Liquitex) and let dry well. With my finger, I added a little bit of  bronze wax here and there. I highlighted the skull image using a white color pencil and added text stickers. For the ,blood'  I mixed some red paint and water and let it drip off the bottle.   I finished with a skeleton embellishment. 

Liesbeth XX

31 Days of Halloween #27 & #109 Furry Friends - Happy Howl-oween!

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We're continuing to celebrate Halloween and our Furry Friends today.

I thought it would be fun to bring a dog friend to the party....

This little cutie is from the Circus Dogs set of stamps. He was stamped on white cardstock then fussy cut. I created his hat by stamping the Oz Witch hat, colored it with glitter gel pens and fussy cut. 

I stamped one of the spider webs from the Spiderweb Background on the upper left corner of the pumpkin pattern paper and the large and small Bat from Carrie's Menagerie in the other corner.  The stamped panel was affixed to a card base and a bit of washi tape was added to the bottom. I used foam tape to add the dog to the card and hand wrote the sentiment.

Supplies:

Lost Coast Designs - Circus Dogs Set, Spiderwebs Background, Bat

Carmens Veranda - Oz Witch

Pattern Paper, Washi Tape, Gel Pens

31 Days of Halloween Day 26 - Which Hat Witch Cat

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 more bootastic fun and news!!

 

Here's Yoga Cat 5 limbering up for another night hunting the Flying Monkeys.  He's borrowed his hat from Carmen's Veranda Oz Witch.  I've done a simple ink blended background with distress inks and my shrubbery is courtesy of Zombie Chicken's tail feathers.  Probably another victim of the Cat.........

 

 

Lost Coast Designs is proudly sponsoring the 

2020 Cat Lovers Hop 

This is the 6th year for this wonderful event and there are masses of sponsors

including Lost Coast Designs, so that's another way to win this month!!

You can also join the fun with our 31 Days of Halloween and/or Furry Friends challenges

Thanks for visiting.  Don't forget to grab your stamps and join our fun challenges.
There be prizes!!!

31 day's of Halloween, day 25 - 4 Ravens

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And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting.....

Edgar Allan Poe.

Hallo everyone, Riet here.

I thought this quote was a good fit for this card.

I love this stamp, so mysterious.

This is how I made this card.

Stamps I used.

Four ravens,

Fourth dimention,

Rustic checker board,

Victoriana.

Stazon Jet black

Markers, 

orange, 

yellow, 

dark blue,

grey,

black.

purple.

White gelpen.

Masking tape.

I stamped the 4 raven stamp In the middle of the cardstock.

mask it and stamped over it with the 4th dimention stamp.

When the stazon is dry you can start coloring with the markers.

I used watercolor based markers.

If you want to color with alcohol based markers, then dont use stazon. 

Then use Memento.

Now the checker board frame.

Stamp it 4 times with black on white paper.

Cut to fit around the card, diagonally in the corners.

If it doesn´t fit perfectly, don´t worry.

There will be a victoriana element over it. 

So you wont see any of that later.

Stamp 4 of the smallest victoriana elements,

color and cut them out.

Now glue everything together.

 

Now, this was fun, and its even more fun to join our challenge.

You don´t have to use LCD stamps, but we do prefer them.

If you join you have a chance to win some rubber stamps of your choice.

But dont forget to read the rules first.

https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/p/challenges-rules-and-winner-badge.html

31 Days of Halloween Day 24 - Ghost Dog

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 a bootatstic offering.

Have you been checking out all the spooktacular makes from the team this month?

Don't forget we have our 31 Days of Halloween linky running all month for you to link up your stamped Halloweeny makes and we also have our Furry Friends Challenge (15th to 31st October) where you can link up your stamped anythings featuring something furry.  It doesn't have to be a spooky or scary furry.  Any furry friend is good.  

Here's Milo and Raphael, friends forever and beyond......

This is actually version two.  The first card I cut round Milo and Raphael's feet and the dog looked like he had no rear end, just hanging in mid air.  So I decided to leave them with the ground Linda gave them.  

I started by stamping Lost Coast Designs Tall Trees Background with grey ink on the edge of the card.  I used third generation stamping for this.  This means I inked my stamp then stamped it twice on scrap paper before stamping it on the card, to give the trees that ghostly feel. Then I stamped Carmen's Veranda Ghost Friends sentiment with black ink.

I stamped Milo and Raphael with black archival on white card and fussy cut them.  I coloured with distress markers for that faded look and then went all Halloween hog on the dogs eyes, colouring them red gel pen with a dot of white.  Reminds me of those films you watch and 3/4's of the way through you realise some or all of the main characters are ghosts!!  Always messes up my ability to work out whodunit!!!

Thanks for visiting.  Don't forget to grab your stamps and join our fun challenges.
There be prizes!!!

31 Days of Halloween # 23: Furry Friends

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Hi - Laurie here again with another project for our month long Halloween celebration.  And right now, as part of that celebration, we are featuring our favorite Halloween furry friends.

I made a tag for this project featuring one of the stamps from the Party Cat stamp set from Lost Coast Designs.  I stamped my cat onto a piece of coffee dyed paper using black ink.  Before I cut him out, I used a black marker to completely color in his party hat and added a brim on either side to make it look like a witch's hat.  Then I fussy cut him out.  

I restamped the part of his face where his eyes are onto a white paper scrap and cut that out, superimposing it over his originally stamped eyes.  I colored those eyes with a bright green marker then glued a little kitty Halloween mask over his eyes.  I hope you can see that color in his eyes on the attached photo.  

For my background, I used a Gelli print I had on hand using some orange acrylic paint and a stencil that looks a bit like a starburst.  I cut that into a tag shape and edged it with Distress Ink.  I glued my kitty witch as shown and added a gold star to his pointy hat.  

Next I used a banner die and black paper to cut a little party banner.  Using letter stickers, I spelled the word MAGIC on the banner and attached it to the upper part of my tag.  Some orange ribbon and a bunch of stars and sequins in gold and orange complete the tag.

So get out your rubber stamps and show us what Furry Friend Halloween projects you can create.  You might win some free stamps!

31 Days of Halloween Day 22 - Tiny spooky book

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Hi everyone, hope you enjoy our 31 Days of Halloween Challenge! 

Day 22 already! I found some small Halloween left-overs and paper scraps  on my working desk and made a tiny book out of it! It measures only 3 x 3 cm! The pages are sponged with a blending tool and orange, yellow and purple Distress ink, and stamped with lots of different stamps and black StazOn ink. I finished the images with bleach, white gel pen en some glitter glue. I sponged the edges with black ink and I used black thread andsome beads for the binding.

Here I show you some of the pages, there are still more. 

Stamps used: Goth Raven, Skeleton and roses, Spiderwebs background, Broken letters set, Mini Ancients, Isle of aud creatures, AUD creatures 2, Ironwork wall.

Liesbeth XX

31 Day's of Halloween, day 21. Evil eye.

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 there, Riet here,

How are you all doing. 

Are you all alive?

Not even a vampire bite?

Well watch out than,

Because here comes a card with a little monster.

Dont let it bite you.

Hahahaha.

I used for this card: 

Stamps,

Evil eye,  http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/teri.html

Spiderwebs, http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/backgrounds.html

Door and window set, http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/sets_notpeople.html

Distress oxide: 

Black soot.

Wilted violet.

Spiced marmalade.

Fossilized amber.

Musterd seed.

Distress micro glaze

White gellpen.

Color pencils

Red marker

Stazon black

For the spiderweb background I dabbed the paper in distress oxide,

 musterd seed, fossilized amber and spiced marmelade.

Let it dry and then stamp with black stazon the spiderwebs.

I have turned the stamp repeatedly and stamped a lot of times over each other.

Now, for the peace with the evil eye stamp.

I positioned the evil eye so that the tree extends over the edges of the paper.

Masked him with masking tape.

On the window stamp you put some Distress micro glaze.

Stamp it behind the evil eye.

With distress oxide, Wilted violet, Spiced marmalade,

Fossilized amber and Musterd seed.

Make some puddles with the ink and water and pull the paper through.

You will see a faint print of the window, looks like a watermark.

Remove the mask and color the evil eye stamp. Mat both cards and glue them together.

Now I am very curious about what you will make for the challenge. 

So come on over and join our challenge.

Then you can win some rubber stamps.

https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/search/label/Monthly%20Challenge

https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/p/challenges-rules-and-winner-badge.html

And dont forget, to have lots of fun.

31 Days of Halloween #20 / Challenge #109 Furry Friends - Halloween Kitty

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!

We are now into our double challenge in October festivities.

We're combining the 31 Days of Halloween AND Challenge #109 - Furry Friends!  

Of course you don't have to do both but it's always fun to see what we can come up with.

Today I wanted to share my sweet Halloween Kitty....

To create this card I stamped the Large Peekaboo Kitty on dark grey cardstock using VersaMark ink which was then embossed with Black Mboss embossing powder. The kitty was then shaded with white pigment ink and glitter gel pens to color the ears, nose and eyes. The kitty was then fussy cut and popped onto a card that I had added some bits of halloween pattern paper in my stash.  I stamped bits and pieces of the Spiderwebs Background image onto a piece of taupe colored cardstock to which the sentiment was added.

Happy Meow-loween!

Roni

Supplies:

Carmen's Veranda - Large Peekaboo Kitty

Lost Coast Design - Spiderwebs Background

Imagine - VersaMark, Mboss embossing powder, StazOn Pigment Ink - Cotton

Glitter Gel Pen

Pattern Paper, Cardstock

31 Days of Halloween # 19: October Furry Friends 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!

Welcome from Laurie for another Halloween project with a bit of a twist:  we are featuring "Furry Friends' Halloween" during this part of the month long challenge.  So think Halloween with the added fun element of any animal you fancy!

This project features the Circus Dog Stamp Set from Lost Coast Designs and was pretty quick and easy to make.

I stamped four of the circus dogs with black ink onto white card stock and fussy cut them out.  I have a fun collage sheet with lots of different size and shapes of witches hats so cut out four of them.

My background is a piece of Halloween scrapbook paper edged with black ink and layered with a white panel.  I glued a witch hat to each of my circus dogs and then affixed them with foam tape to my card front.  I added a bit of black trim to the top border, the word "boo" and some bats scattered about.  That's it!  Easy peasy but lots of fun.

Show us your furry friends in their Halloween costumes or settings for a chance to win some free stamps.  Don't forget to include some rubber stamping in your projects!

Day 18 of the 31 days of Halloween challenge

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Cathy here with day 18 of the 31 days of Halloween challenge.

Stamp used:

More cats

This card was really simple to make a but together. I think the longest or "hardest" part was picking out the Halloween bits to go on the card and where they go.

I started out with a black card base and layered a orange plaid pattern paper on it. Next I made a tag from Kraft cardstock and stamped More cats the sitting pretty cat onto it. 

Lastly I dumped out my Halloween bits and started finding the right pieces to make my card. Once I had it the way I wanted I started gluing it all down. 

 

Right now we have 2 challenges going on. Furry friends here.

The 31 days of Halloween here.

The sale is still going on.

31 Days of Halloween Day 17 & Furry Friends: Evil Eye tag

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 everyone, Liesbeth here again. A ,furry Halloween monster' on a tag, that's what I'd like to show you today! I made it the same way as I did before HERE. I coloured the furry creature  lighter using a white colour pencil... it makes the picture spooky!

Hope you feel inspired and join the fun of our Furry Friends Challenge!  :-D 

Stamps used: Evil Eye and Ironwork Wall.

Liesbeth XX

31 Days of Halloween, Day 16 - Devil in Disguise.

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Hi folks, Riet here.

Today its my turn to post on the blog.

Don't you love it, spooky and creepy furry creatures.

On this card I used the Devil in Disguise cat.

I wanted to create a feeling of hell.

So I used the shaving foam technique.

What do you need:

Alcohol ink,

Sunshine yellow

Red pepper

Pitch black

A tray to fit your paper

Shaving foam

Stazon black ink

White gel pen

markers or pencils

Spray a layer of foam in the tray.

Drop some drops of yellow ink on the top.

Try to mix the ink in the top layer so that it turns evenly yellow.

Now you make a line of drops with the red ink. Not everywhere but spread over the foam.  Very carefully you spread the ink a bit with a spatula.

You do the same with the black, but don't use to much.

Remember, we are trying to make it look like the flames of hell.

Put your paper on the foam and leave it a moment.

Pick up the paper and remove the foam with a wide spatula.

If this doesn't work for you, you can find tutorials of this technique on you tube.

Now you stamp the little devil cat on a peace of paper and color it.

Cut it out and glue it on your background.

I glued the text separately on the card.

But that is of course not necessary.

I hope you have fun making your furry friend for the challenge. 

We love to see what you make. Please read our rules first.

Don't forget the 31 Days of Halloween Challenge is also running until the end of the month.

CHALLENGE #109 - FURRY FRIENDS and 31 Days of Halloween Day 15 - A Bat-tallion of Bats

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.  The 31 Days of Halloween continue but, as is our tradition, we like to also offer a midmonth challenge with an alternative theme for our not so spooky friends.  We will also be sponsoring the Cat Lovers Hop later this month, so with that in mind our new challenge is......

CHALLENGE #109

FURRY FRIENDS

Shared your stamped makes featuring something furry.  It doesn't need to be Halloween or spooky if you don't want, as long as there is a furry something and stamping.  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 remember we do have some Challenge Rules to follow so look them over 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 your entry counts as two which doubles your chances of winning in our random prize drawing.

PRIZES

To ensure you all have a fabulous time playing in our Challenges this is how our Prize system works!
The more entries the better the Prize so tell all your friends to join the fun too!

1 - 4 Entries = one winner chosen by the team is awarded our Challenge Winner's Badge
5+ Entries = one randomly picked winner will receive a $5 gift certificate to spend at
Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda
10+ Entries = one randomly picked winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to spend at
Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda
and 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 my inspiration for the start of the new challenge.   I'm keeping it spooky with a midnight trip to the forest.  The moon is full, the bats are flying and Werewoves are aboard.  Well, one Werewolf.....

 

I stamped Lost Coast Designs Tall Trees Background on Bazzill Avalanche card and heat embossed with black powder.  I blended various distress inks to create the full moon look.  The Bazzill has a bit of texture and I thought it gave quite a cool effect to the embossed trees and also the ink blending.

I stamped, coloured and fussy cut Lost Coast Designs Werewolf

I added Werewolf to the card and also some tiny bat shaped sequins that have just flown in from England from my crafty friend Jo.  Thanks Jo.  Did I mention they are tiny??  A few escaped while I was trying to glue em down.....  Bat hunting later.....

Now it's your turn.  Are you up for the challenge?  We can't wait to see your projects!  
Submit your entries in the linky party below by 5 to midnight PST on the 31st and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month so check back and join the fun and remember the 31 Days of Halloween challenge is also running until the end of the month!

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #109 - FURRY FRIENDS
October 15th - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Saturday, October 31st 23.59 PST.
All entries must be entered in our link up but your don't need a blog to win.  See our RULES page for more info