31 Days of Halloween - Day 4: A Misunderstood Gentleman

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Greetings!  You've got Kathi here today with a spooky scenic card for the fourth day of Halloween! The card was created with the Clown with Balloon Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.

Here it is!

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink was used to stamp the Clown with Balloon twice — once onto the bottom of a 6" square image panel and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 

The sticker paper version was fussy-cut and placed atop its counterpart as a mask.

A spider web stencil was placed over the image panel, then the outside part of the Drippy Arch Stencil was placed over it. Yellow, red, grey, and black Distress Inks were sponged over the combined stencils and the mask to create a spider web in a cave scenic background. 

The stencils were removed, then the interior part of the Drippy Arch stencil was placed over the the center part of the image panel to cover the cave interior. Grey Distress Inks were sponged over the stencil. A stipple brush was used to pounce red, orange, and yellow Distress Ink over the newly inked background. Light Grey Distress Oxide Ink was also pounced over the the background to create a mottled look.

The stencil and mask were removed. The Clown with Balloon image was colored with Copic markers. A white pencil was used to add highlights to the balloon. The white spiderweb was too stark and the Clown with Balloon did not stand out sufficiently, so I used yellow Copic markers to color them. Much better.

I also wasn't thrilled with athe way the drippy arch looked so I used a black marker to outline the drippy bits. That also improved the image.

The image panel was trimmed to 5 5/8" square, the top corners were rounded with a corner-rounder punch, and black VersaFine Clair Ink was used to edge the image panel. Off white cardstock, that matched the Clown with Balloon's face, was cut to 5 3/4" square and used to mat the image panel.

A spiders die was used to cut the off-white cardstock, the spiders were detailed with Copic markers, then adhered to the spider web with dimensional foam adhesive under their bellies and glue on the end of their legs.

The image panel was adhered to a 6" square black card, a sticker was added under the Clown with Balloon's feet, and "Happy Halloween" was debossed on the top of the card as shown.

I sure hope you participate in this month's challenge for the chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!

31 Days of Halloween Day 3 - Sugar Skulls

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Hi, Darlene here with my first make for October and the

31 Days of Halloween 

I started with this bunting made using the three small skulls

Did you know these Skulls come in 3 different sizes !!  whoo hoo

What I put together was this bunting

I embossed the skulls in silver onto black cardstock, then fussy cut out

(they were not very fussy - easy peasy - LOL)

Added some silver threads in behind 

and added bling for the eyes

 

Glued the images onto the flags -

the material was rough cut out and stapled onto a string

Overall think it turned out kinda fun 

Be sure to enter your Halloween make 

and perhaps win some new stamps !!!

31 Days of Halloween Day 2 - Halloween Moon

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!

BOO! Aimee here with my first card for our 31 Days of Halloween celebration. There's something about the month of October and all the various Halloween festivities that make me feel like a kid again--cooler air, spooky night skies and houses decorated for the holiday. Creating Halloween scenes for a greeting card are among my favorite to make!

This card was made with the Yoga Cat 9, Shrubbery, Brush Strokes and Witches Go Riding stamps. The silver planter is a sticker from a set I purchased at a Dollar Tree store. Follow along to see how I made this card:

Get creative and use any color combination for the night sky--reds and oranges would be especially spooky. I hope you'll join in on the fun and participate in Lost Coast Designs 31 Days of Halloween Challenge. Submit your creation to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity for your chance to win a prize!

31 Days of Halloween Day 1

 

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
 
 

 

Oh My Gourd

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!

Happy Fall, y'all! Aimee here. My favorite season is FINALLY here! Hands down, Autumn is the best time of year. Cooler temperatures, colorful leaves, pumpkin-spiced foods--I can't get enough of it!

I based the card around this sentiment sticker that reads "Oh My Gourd, Happy Fall." I created a background using the Large Flourish stamp which I then cut into 1x2-inch and 2-inch squares as part of the September Challenge hosted by  Lost Coast Designs. Follow along to see how I made this card:

You're going to need to work quickly if you want to make today's September 30 deadline for this month's Challenge on the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity. Get crackin' and maybe you'll win the prize. You got this!