Steampunk/Vintage: Bird on bike

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here with a very simple made steampunk card for our CHALLENGE, the final day! 

I made the background of this card using (old fashioned) Walnut ink and water. The result is so very vintage looking! I stamped the images with black, orange and brown ink and finished with some black glitter-glue on the crow and wheels.

Stamps used: Bird on bike, Gears, Small cityscape and Carte Postale.

See you next month!

LiesbethXX

Vintage Steampunk: Clock Gears

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Hello again from Laurie with a another project for the current Vintage Steampunk challenge going on right now on the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.  For this I used the Clock Square stamp from Carmen's Veranda and the Gears Background stamp from Lost Coast Designs.

My background page is a piece of graph printed scrapbook paper that I stamped with the Gears background stamp.  I used Faded Jeans Oxide ink for this and edged the page with the same ink.  I then splattered some black ink randomly onto the page with a fan shaped paint brush.

My square was first randomly sprayed with Distress inks in blues and greens.  Once completely dried, I stamped the square with black ink and edged it with the same Faded Jeans Oxide ink as listed above.  I mounted this to my background page with foam tape for some dimension, and it was just that simple!  

We are excited to see your Vintage Steampunk projects here on the Portal.  Be sure to feature some rubber stamping on you work and you could be the lucky winner of some free stamps from Lost Coast and Carmen's Veranda!

# 138 Steampunk/Vintage challenge

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Hi there, Riet here.

Vintage and steampunk are my favorite stamps to work with .

I love the old colors and imaginative stamps and designs. 

Lost Coast designs also has very nice stamps in this theme.

These are the stamps I used on this card.

Gears 2

Pieces of architecture

Pieces of caligraphy

STP Fly with bird

Distress oxide,

Tea dye

antique linen

wild honey

Ground espresso.

Stazon timber brown

And this is how i made the card.

Bring with some water the colors on to the paper.

Keep it light in the middle.

Brush or spunge some Tea dye on the edges.

Repeat with Distress oxide ground espresso.

With the distress oxide wild honey I stamped parts of the gears stamp.

And did the same with the corner of the pieces of architecture.

With a stamp from the pieces of caligraphy set and the ground espresso I stamped here and there.

With a die cut I made the medallion and sponged it with the ground espresso.

Fix this on the background with 3D tape.

Stamp the fly with bird with the stazon and color it in with pencils or markers.

Cut her out and glue her to the medallion.

I had some paper gears left over from an other project.

So colored them grey an glued them on.

And this is the end result.

I really like it, hope you will to.

If you would like to have a chance on winning some of the beautifull Lost Coast designs stamps,

Join our challenge, and have fun creating for the LCD challenge.

 

Vintage/steampunk tag

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Cathy here with a vintage/steampunk tag for you

Stamps Used:

Daisy Flourishes

Pieces of Calligraphy 

I made the tag with distress oxide sprays in browns. Then I stamped Daisy Flourishes in black ink in the middle of the tag. I then stamped Pieces of Calligraphy   in brown distress oxide ink randomly around it.

I then added some steampunk bits. 

Don't forget to join the challenge

There Is No Beauty Without Some Strangeness

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Good morning and a very happy Sunday!  It's Sue here with my journal page for our  Vintage/Steampunk challenge, and I've taken us under the sea.

My teamie Iona is the queen of masking, and I decided that I really should do this more. So, I stamped my punky creatures on some heavy-duty mixed media paper, and made my masks.

Then I dipped and dabbed in Distress Oxides. Time for the great reveal....

Phew it worked, I now have my steampunk fish and seahorse ready to colour.

These have been coloured with paint pens and pencils. If I'm really honest, I'm much happier to stamp and fussy cut rather than mask, so I can't see myself doing this again in the near future.

I've finished off with some white embossing, and some rusty Frantage. The quote is by Edgar Allan Poe and I thought it fitted in quite well. Then I've just sewn it into my journal.

These are the stamps that I used

Large Doodle Seahorse

Spikey Fish

Anchor Fish

Fish And Heart Set

I hope you like it, and that you join in with our challenge.

Enjoy your weekend, and thanks so much for looking x

Vintage Steampunk: Three tags and a folder

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Hi, ready for some more Vintage Steampunk? Liesbeth here with a new project for our challenge, read everything HERE ! and join the fun!

I made a folder with three tags using a template for the folder as shown:

I coloured the folder and three small tags with Distress Oxide inks and water: Antique Linen, Frayed Burlap, Broken China and Walnut Stain. Using Oxide Broken China, I stamped Carmen's Veranda Compass Square onto the tags (not very visible anymore...) and Carte Postale with black StazOn  ink on the tags and folder. On the folder I also stamped Gears Background with Frayed Burlap and black.

Using double sided tape, I assembled the folder and stamped STP Guy in car onto it using StazOn black. Onto the tags I stamped Steampunk Typewriter girl, one of the ATC Hands set and Steampunk Fly girl. I bleached the images using some bleach and water and a synthetic brush. I finished with sponging the edges black and glued them onto black cardstock.

See you next time! 

LiesbethXX

#138 Vintage/Steampunk challenge. Tag with dirigible stamp.

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Hi there stampers, Riet here.

 I just love this airship stamp from LCD.

So I made this tag with it.

This is what I used for it.

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Carmens Veranda sentiment,

Art wings to fly.

Pieces of calligraphy,

Gears 2,

STP Dirigible.

Furthermore you need.....

Distress ink Aged mahogany,

victorian velvet,

speckled egg,

walnut stain,

vintage photo.

Stazon Timber brown.

Start by applying vintage photo as shown in the photo.

Spray some water to make stains.

Dry with the heat tool.

Then fill in the space with Speckled egg.

Take one of the Galligraphy stamps and stamp here and there with Vintage Photo.

With Vintage photo and Aged mahogany you stamp the gears here and there.

Now we put on the edges with Aged mahogany and Walnut Stain.

With some paint or ink we now also make the splashes on the tag.

Now we color the airship with the Distress inks.

Stamp the airship on the tag with the Stazon Timber brown.

Cut out the colored stamp and glue it on.

Cutting out the ropes and fence on the ship would be much more difficult.

That's why we stamp the ship on the tag.

Stamp the text with the brown stazon.

Now its up to you to show us your Vintage/Steampunk art and join our challenge.

There are stamps to win.

So Join us and please read the rules, and have fun creating.

Vintage Steampunk Challenge: Time Flies

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Welcome to the first day of a brand new challenge here on the Portal:  Vintage Steampunk.

It's Laurie here with a super easy steampunk card for you using the Time Flies stamp from Lost Coast Designs.

Be sure to check out the Steampunk category on the LCD website - there are some great steampunk designs there.

The background for this card was made by using ModgePodge to apply a piece of decorative rice paper to a square cut piece of a brown paper bag.  Once smoothed out and dry, I trimmed around the edges, leaving a bit of the brown paper showing at the top and bottom.  I then layered this with a piece of decorative scrapbook paper cut slightly larger and edged that with a gold ink pen.

The image was stamped with black StayzOn ink onto a piece of off white textured paper and fussy cut out.  I cut around the clock face behind the girl's

 face and edged the whole with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  Using a gold pen, I filled in sections of the design to make it look like brass.  I added a bit of color to the girl's cheeks and lips as well as the background behind the lock, then affixed the image to the center of the front with foam tape to give it some dimension.  I added a steampunk heart and vintage button as shown, and that's a wrap!

Please join us for the super fun challenge going on right now through the end of February for a chance to win some free rubber stamps!

CHALLENGE #138 - STEAMPUNK/VINTAGE

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Hello Portal Peeps.  
 

It's time for our new Challenge.
Our challenges are now fortnightly!  A new challenge starting the 1st and the 15th of 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.

Now for our new Challenge!

CHALLENGE #138

CHALLENGE TITLE

Use your stamps and make a Steampunk and/or Vintage style anything.
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 some inspiration from the team to get us started.  ENJOY!

Cathy used Carmen's Veranda Frankenstein and Lost Coast Designs Travel Stuff set and Gears 2 Background

Gail used Lost Coast Designs Flowers Background, Flagstone Background and Dark Girl Dolly and Carmen's Veranda Never Too Late

    
Laurie used Lost Coast Designs Time Flies stamp

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 23.59 PST on the 28th 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.

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #138 - Steampunk/Vintage
February 14th - 28th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Monday, February 28th 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
 

 

Judgemental Gargoyle

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Happy Valentines Day.  I hope you are feeling lots of love today.

Gail here with some final inspiration for our Think Pink Challenge.

The linky closes at 23.59 PST tonight, so you still have time to find your pinks, get stamping and join the fun.  I've made a simple card using Lost Coast Designs Gargoyle and Carmen's Veranda Pants On Fire Sentiment.  And pink, of course...

I used a pink card base and used Cactus Flower archival to stamp the Gargoyle.  Then I turned the stamp upside down and stamped it a 1/4" away from the plinth at the bottom of the panel.  I used a cut and dry foam nib to apply some more of the Cactus Flower ink in the gap to extend the height of the plinth.  I added some pink colour to the gargoyle and stamped the Pants On Fire sentiment.  Cut the panel with a stitch die, mount on a raspberry card base and done!

 Grab your stamps and your pinks and join the fun. 
 
 Looking forward to seeing your pink things.

Pink Roses plus bonus card.

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Cathy here today with 2 cards for you.

Stamps Used:

Roses

Ballerina with stars

For my first card I made a simple card. I stamped the Roses in pink ink added it a flower roses pattern paper and layered that on pink cardstock.

Added some pink flat back pearls and there you have your card number 1.

The second one I got inky. I grabbed a few pink color distress oxide sprays and made a background. 

Then I took a stencil and added some red ink to it. 

Then with the same red ink I stamped Ballerina with stars in the center.

Next, I added some washi tape and a saying and added it to a front of a card base.

Come join the pink/red challenge here on the blog.

Think Pink: Dance!

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Hello everyone, Liesbeth here :-) Pink is one of my favourite colours, so I loved making this card! Join us at our Think Pink challenge! 

I started this card onto a piece of white cardstock: I made a background wit salmon and pink watersoluble inks and water. I allowed it to dry well and stamped the Robust dancer with StazOn ink Jet Black and masked her. I stamped the wonderful (very big!) Carmen's Veranda Birds Collage Background using  Fuchsia StazOn ink. I also stamped some fragments with a script stamp from Pieces of Calligraphy. I removed the mask and bleached the dancer with some bleach and a synthetic brush. I coloured her dress, some birds and flowers with pink ink and water, and drew a shadow around the dancing girl using charcoal. I finished by sponging the edges of the card with black ink.

Liesbeth XX

#137 Think Pink, love couple frank and his bride.

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Hi stampers,

For my contribution to the "Think pink challenge"

I immediately thought of the sweetest love couple I know.

Lost Coast designs Frank and Franks bride.

Oh they are so cute and totally in love with each other.

And I used the door from the door and Window set.

We're going to start by stamping and masking Frank.

Then we stamp his bride, but notice that her hand is on Frank's masked hand.

Now we also mask Frank's bride.

Stamp the door of the Door and window set from LCD.

I coloured the card with Derwent Inktense pencils.

But you can colour it with whatever you want.

The team of lost Coast designs would love to see your take on this theme.

Red and pinks, just love it.

Show us, and maybe you will win some new stamps.

Goodluck.....