Mother Goose

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Hi everyone! Aimee here. This is a friendly reminder that there's just one more day to submit your stamped creation to the Lost Coast Portal To Creativity for this month's Children's challenge. Perhaps this Mother Goose card can be a source of inspiration. Did you know that Mother Goose was a real person? The internet debates on who was the REAL Mother Goose, but one thing for certain is she came up with so many catchy rhymes. So. Many. This card highlights just a few that may be known to you. 

I'm sure some will debate whether my handwriting is good enough to feature on the front of a card. Is it perfect? No. Would I like it to be better? Sure. All I know is I had an idea in my head that I wanted to get onto the card front, and writing it out by hand was the resource I had to make it happen. Follow along with these photos to see how the card was made.

The Lost Coast Designs catalogue has lots of beautiful Mother Goose stamps. Be sure to check them out! 

Magical!

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Greetings! You've got Kathi here ro share my third card for the August Children's Challenge! 

I used the Manga Goth Harlequin Stamp to create my card. I just love the edginess of these Manga Goth Girls! There are seven different 5" tall Manga Goth Girl stamps available PLUS there is a small set with six 3.5" tall versions! 

Here's my card!

I stamped the Manga Goth Harlequin Stamp twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper. The sticker paper version was fussy-cut and set aside.

The Manga Goth Harlequin Stamp was colored with Copic markers then masked with the fussy-cut sticker paper version.

Low-tack tape was placed horizontally across the bottom of the image panel.

Grey ink was brushed across the masked image and the tape to create a grey background. 

Low-tack tape was used to secure a Rotating Rings stencil over the inked image panel. The same grey ink was brushed over the stencil, the masked image, and the horizontal tape to create a tone on tone effect.

The Rotating Rings stencil was removed, then a cabbage rose stencil was positioned so that a rose would be in a ring, and leaves and stem would trail off the right side of the image panel. Teal ink was brushed over the stencil to color the rose, leaves, and stem.

A rough stippling brush (I call it a pouncy tool) was used to randomly pounce teal ink across the masked image onto the top part of the image panel.

The strip of low-tack tape was removed from the bottom of the image panel and moved to cover the area above the horizon line. Grey ink was sponged over the tape to create a floor to ground the image.

The mask was removed from the Manga Goth Harlequin Girl.

The same teal ink used to stencil the rose was brushed onto a strip of white cardstock. A "Magical" word die was used to cut the inked cardstock, then the die-cut was adhered as shown. 

The image panel was trimmed to 4.75" x 6.75" and edged with the same teal ink, which was smooshed around the outside .5" of a white 5" x 7" card. The image panel was adhered to the the now-teal card to finish it all up.

I sure hope you take the time to create a project for our  August Children's Challenge for a chance to win Lost Coast Cash!

Thank you for stopping by today!

Annie in her blue dress.

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This month's challenge at Lost coast designs is "Children".

I used the Birds in trees stamp and Annie.

And painted the card with van Gogh watercolor paint.

You can still participate in the challenge until the end of the month.

So if you want to win new stamps, join the challenge.

Go to the challenge.

Mother Goose

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Good morning.  Cathy here with a card for you today.

 Stamps Used:

Mother goose people

Mother goose house

I first stamped Mother goose in the middle of the card. I then stamped Mother goose house underneath it, so it would look like she was flying over the house. 

I colored both of them with copic markers. 

Lastly, I took a cloud stencil and made some for the background. I haven't used this stencil in so long I forgot how easy it was to use to make clouds. 

You still have time to join the moth long challenge on the blog.

Alice

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Darlene here today with another card for the Children Challenge

 using Alice in a Chair stamp

and the Perspective Floor

So I took a 4 x 4 piece of white cardstock and stamped the perspective floor in a nice blue colour

For Alice , she is stamped onto cardstock, coloured in, then I clear embossed on top.

Doing that brings up the colour more and gives it a nice sheen.

Then she is fussy cut out.

a small strip of pearls in the middle and popped Alice on top.

The Words were cut out from some old wordy paper I had in my stash

Layer onto black then the final card size is 5 x 5

You have all month to join in on the Children Challenge

BE sure to check it out !

Children: Angel in Training

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Hello everyone, after a long summer holiday I´m back with new inspiration! I made this card for our current challenge: Children!

I stamped the wonderful Angel in Training with StazOn ink (Jet Black)  onto an alcohol inked glossy card and used some glitter glue on the wings.

Hope you will join our challenge, see you next time! :-)

Liesbeth XX

Alice on old book page

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Hello everyone! Aimee here--I'm a new Design Team member and this is my first tutorial. Let me start by saying how great these companies' stamps are; all of the fine details stamp out PERFECTLY. I promise you'll love them. For this all-occasion greeting card, I've used one of the Four Alices and two of the Brush Stokes stamps to create this card. 

In addition to the stamps, you'll need a card base, a page from an old book, white cardstock for stamping the image, contrasting cardstocks to mount the book page, black pigment ink pad, light-colored pigment ink, ribbon, double-sided tape, embossing powder, a heat gun and either coloring pencils or alcohol markers. 

I found an old German-language Fairy Tale book to use as my background paper. Isn't the font lovely? Look closely and you'll see it's the story of Hansel & Gretel. Too bad Alice in Wonderland wasn't a story option in this book. Visit your local thrift store to find neat old books at a great price.

Want to join in all the fun? Post your stamped "Children's Challenge" creation here on the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity by August 31 for your chance to win Lost Coast dollars. 

If you have any questions or suggestions about this tutorial, please comment below. 

  

Sweet teddy bear.

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Just look at that cute Teddy.

I just love him, its one of Carri's creepy dolls.

For the background card i used just one little swirl stamp from the brush strokes set.

The "Happy Birthday" is from the party words sheet.

I also used a die behind the bear and one for the Happy Birthday. 

The little hearts were applied with a stencil.

I used these inks.

Black Stazon

Versa magic,

Sea Breeze,

Key Lime,

Aquatic Splash,

Thatched Straw,

Pretty petunia,

Pink Grapefruit,

Persimmon and

Perfect Plumeria.

White gellpen.

Color pencils, purple, brown and beige.

This is how I made the card.

I folded an A5 size in half.

Smooth white paper.

Stamp all the colours twith the small swirl stamp.

Start with the light colours.

After all, it is easier to go with dark over light,

 than with light over dark.

Keep doing this until you are happy with the result.

You can leave some white open spaces, but I liked to stamp the entire surface.

Don't forget to turn the stamp every now and then.

This way, the swirls don't all point in the same direction.

Also stamp over the edges, otherwise it looks very artificial.

Stamp the bear with the black stazon.

And color the bear with the Versa Magic ink.

With the brown and beige pencil you color his face.

Give the bear some accents with the white gellpen.

Cut the bear out.

Die cut the square and the banner.

Color the edges and stencil the hearts with Pink Grapefruit

Stamp the "Happy Birthday" with the balck stazon.

Stick everything on the card with foam tape.

And what a cheerful card this has become, don't you think?

Now it's up to you, make something with a child or for a child.

Follow the link and join the challenge, you have a chance to win rubber stamps.

To avoid disappointment, you better read the rules.

Good luck, hope to see your art with the other participants of the challenge.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!

CHALLENGE #188 REMINDER - CHILDREN

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Hello Portal Peeps.  
 

Gail here today with a blast of inspiration from our new teamies for the Children Challenge

Our challenges are now monthly so plenty of time to join the fun.   If you missed the announcement we have three new teamies joining us from this month and they are wowing us with their amazing makes. 

CHALLENGE #188

CHILDREN

We want to see your stamped anythings featuring children or for children.  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 read the updated Challenge Rules 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 you could win a bigger prize in our random prize drawing.  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 gorgeous inspiration from the team.  ENJOY!

  Aimee used Lost Coast Designs Four Alices

Darlene used Lost Coast Designs Rose Boy and Harmony/Peace/Joy/Freedom Dictionary Words

Kathi used Lost Coast Designs Silhouette Lady with Umbrella

 

Wowzer!!!  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 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.

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #188 - Children
August 1st - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Saturday, August 31st 23.59 PST.
All entries must be entered in our link up or fan fb page, but your don't need a blog to win.  See our RULES page for more info
   

Quick and simple card

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Goodmorning Cathy here with a quick and simple card for you.

Stamp used:

Praying angel

I started out by stamping the Praying angel on white cardstock. I was already cut to the size I wanted I just had to trim a little of the top and bottom. 

After I trimmed it, I layered it on some pattern paper. Then layered that on black cardstock. Lastly, I added that to a white card base and I was done. 

You can join the challenge fun over at the Lost Coast blog.

Stay Cool!

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Greetings! It's Kathi here! I'm ecstatic to be joining this talented team and have the opportunity to work with some absolutely fantastic stamps. 

My first project is for the Children's Challenge Theme. I've made a slimline card using the Manga Goth with Tophat Stamp and the Perspective Floor Stamp.

I stamped the Manga Goth with Tophat Stamp twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper, which was fussy-cut and set aside.

The image on the cardstock was colored with Copic markers then masked with the fussy-cut sticker paper version, 

Low-tack tape was placed across the bottom part of the image panel. Grey ink was brushed over the tape and the masked image onto the panel to color the background. 

Black pigment ink was used to stamp the Perspective Floor Stamp and heat set.The tape was removed and the floor was touched up using a black marker.

The floor was covered with a piece of plastic packaging. Lilac ink was brushed over the acetate and the masked image to color the background. 91% Isopropyl alcohol was misted over the image panel to blend the ink and add mottling. Happy accident time — blended blue, pink, and lavender emerged!

The same lilac ink was randomly brushed over a stencil to add some visual interest. 

A pierced slimline die was used to cut the image panel, which was adhered to a black slimline card.

Sentiment dies were used to cut black cardstock whih were adhered to the finish the card.

You have until the end of the month to participate in the Challenge and have the chance to win some Lost Coast money! I hope to see you there!

Thanks for visiting today!

#188 Children Challenge - A Bookmark.

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Hi , Riet here with a little tutorial for this bookmark.

I used:

The name of the girl stamp is Bubbles,

The black dots and round circles are from the Brush Strokes sheet.

The words behind the girl are from the Pieces of Calligraphy.

The Butterflies are from the Butterfly set.

The word "Dream"is from the set, Misc Words.

All the coloring is done with Inktense pencils.

Derwent Inktense nr:

Cadnium yellow 0210

 Tangerine 0300

Lime green 1535

Apple green1400

Malibu 1213

Iron blue 0840

Deep violet  0760

Burnt umber 1903

Skin tones:

Faber Castel - Albrecht Durer

8200-132

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White gelpen.

Black waterproof inkpad.

Posca white for spletters or

White ink or paint for spletters.

I have to admit that it was actually a art journal page.

In the very last phase I made a big ink stain on the butterflies and the card was ruined.

I had put so much work into it and thought it was a shame to throw it away.

So I cut off the part with the stain and made a bookmark out of it.

In retrospect that was a good decision.

How to make it:

I started by stamping the girl Bubbles.

This stamp has two bubbles above her hands.

I left them off because I wanted her to grab the butterfly.

Stamp the girl on masking tape and mask her off.

Stamp the words and the 3 rings.

Let the text run a little through the rings.

Stamp only the black and white butterfly and mask it off.

Stamp the 3 butterfly's and overlap the cirkels a bit.

Start coloring the background, the cirkels and the little girl.

Stamp with black the black dots from the  brush strokes sheet.

Stamp the 3 butterflys on a thin piece off paper and color them.

Gleu them on the butterfly's and give them what accents with the white gellpen.

Cut off any excess butterflies.

Mask the girl again and spletter with the posca pen (or paint or ink).

Stamp the word "Dream" and give it some white accents.

Remove the masking tape.

Mat with a black cardstock and you ar done.

I hope you enjoyed it.

Maybe you want to join the challenge?

And have a chance to win new rubber stamps.

Stamp something with a child on it or make something for children.

As long as it is stamped and refers to the theme children.

Do your best and see you at the challenge.