Day 1 of 31 days of Halloween.

 

Hi there, Riet here, with the opening of our Halloween/Day of the dead challenge.

Do you enjoy Halloween/Day of the dead as much as I do?

I'm sure so, who doesn't love these holidays?

Join our challenge.

There ar free rubberstamps to win.

How to make this card.

What I used.

LCD stamps,

Flowers

Long swirl

Butterflies set

White nose sugar skull

White gellpen

White posca

Versfine onyx black

Derwent Intense pencils

Stamp the skull in the middle of the card.

Stamp the flowers.

Masc the skull and flowers and stamp the swirl.

The entire card was created using only Inktense pencils.

So if you love coloring, this is a really fun card for you to make.

I started with the background, 

and in the photo you can clearly see the difference

 when the pencil comes into contact with water.

I made shadows with purple on the swirl.

After coloring, I added dots to the swirl with the white Posca pen.

I also added the butterflies.

 With a white gellpen you can make some accents on the flowers and butterflys.

I darkened the top a bit with purple.

I have to admit, I got carried away with the coloring and forgot to take more photos.

Hope you liked the tutorial.

Perhaps you're also making Halloween/Day of the Dead crafts with stamps.

Feel free to join the LCD/CV challenge.

You can even enter with other brands.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!

31 Days of Halloween Day 1 and Linky Party

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,

Welcome to the most spooktacular month of the year and our annual
31 Days of Halloween celebration!

The team will be posting their bootastic makes every day this month.

This linky will be open all month and we hope you will get your spook on and join the fun.  You can link up your Halloween inspired makes all month for 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.

CHALLENGE #202

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN

Link up your Halloween inspired projects.  Anything related to the season, spooky, fruity, fun, scary or cute.  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 or fed to the giant pumpkin!!!!  Bwahahhaaahaha.

For this month you can link as many projects as you want as long as they comply with the rules.  

We need at least 20 participants to award the 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 problem, 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!  

 

Now here is a little beauty from teamster Riet to get us started.

Riet used Lost Coast Designs Long Swirl, Butterfly Set, Flowers and Sugar Nose Skull. 
You can find all the details of the wonderful card over at Riet's Blog.

 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 #202 - 31 Days of Halloween
October 1st - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Friday, 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