Feliz Navidad

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It is getting so close to Christmas.  Darlene here with another make for 

Lost Coast Festive Fun

For this card I chose one of the (several) images of Frida Kahlo.

I masked off the sayings that were on the stamp so that I just had the image of Frida

She was stamped onto an off white cardstock.

Used one of my stencils for the background and some distress ink for the edges.

As this looks like an old photograph I tried to vintage it up a bit.

I had some lovely blue lace that I used as the banner on top

Layered the saying and placed on top of the lace.

I think this is one of my fav Christmas cards this year.  

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#203 Festive fun challenge.

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   Hello everyone, Riet here.

I'm so crazy about those cute Pokey animals from Lost Coast Designs.

They're so funny and cute.

Take the Pokey Mouse, for example, 

just look at that silly expression on his face, hahahaha so funny.

I also love how easy it is to change the stamp.

Here, for example, as Santa.

By drawing a line and buttons with a waterproof fineliner, 

you can easily give him a jacket.

Santa's toy bag is from a gnome stamp, Gnome Santa with Toys. 

This one is from the Mini Gnomes 2 sheet. 

Gnome Santa in chimney (Mini Gnomes 4) provided the Santa hat.

The jingle bells are from the Misc Words sheet.

The holly leaves and berries are from a stencil, 

CraftEmotions Mask Stencil X-mas Florals.

The background is made with Distress Oxide Broken China, Mowed Lawn, 

and Rustic Wilderness for the holly. 

I sprinkled the text and the berries with glitter.

I colored the mouse with Derwent Inktense.

Made the fur on the santa coat with Posca pen white.

This turned it into a lovely Christmas card.

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Gnome for the Holidays

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Hi all, Aimee here! When you have friends from all over the world, and not all of them celebrate Christmas, it's nice to have an all-occasion holiday card on hand. Well, this gnome's for you!

I made this card with the Pompom Gnome and Grunge Border Stamps from Lost Coast Designs. Follow along with this pictorial to see how I made it:

We invite you to participate in November's "Festive Fun" Challenge on the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity! Create a fun holiday card and upload it to the blog for your chance to win this month's prize.

Festive Fun Challenge 203 - a Merry & Bright Gnome Card

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Greetings! You've got Kathi here to share a card created for November's Festive Fun Challenge 203 with three of the adorable gnomes from the Mini Gnomes 2 Rubber Stamp Sheet!

Using a stamping platform and Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, the gnomes were stamped onto a white cardstock panel and onto repositionable sticker paper. 

The sticker paper versions were fussy-cut and placed over their counterparts on the image panel as masks.

Removable Scotch Tape was placed horizontally across the image panel. Two colors of Distress Ink were sponged over the tape and the masked images to add color to the background.

Grey dye ink was sponged over a music stencil, the tape, and the masked gnomes to add visual and thematic interest to the background.

The removable tape was removed and a piece of acetate was placed over the top part of the image panel to protect it. The grey dye ink was sponged over the tape to ground the gnomes. 

The masks were removed from the gnomes which were then colored with Copic markers. I was not happy with the color of the ground, so I used Copic markers over the dye ink to change the color and to add shadows.

The image panel was trimmed and edged with a grey Copic marker. It was then matted with red cardstock cut .25" larger.

Patterned paper was trimmed to 5.25" x 4", edged with a grey marker, and adhered to a red A2 card.

Red cardstock was cut a sentiment banner cutting die and adhered as shown. White cardstock was colored with green Copic markers then cut with a tiny bow cutting die. The green bows were adhered to the card as a finishing touch.

You still have more than a week to play along with us for November's Festive Fun Challenge 203 for the chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Cash.

'Tis the season

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Good afternoon, Cathy here a bit late for the blog post.

Stamps Used.

Art Doll

Small snowflake set.

I started out stamping the Art Doll in black ink and then I made a tag from it. I then stamped a snowflake in red in from the Small snowflake set .around the tag. I then edged it in brown and I found a pattern paper that had red snowflakes on it to layer the tag.

Then< I added some tape and Christmas ephemera around. I then added it to a red plaid card base.

Come join the fun and show us your festive fun.

 

#203 Festive fun. I made a little Christmas lantern.

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Hi there, Riet here with a christmas lantern.

Recently, I was in a store in the Netherlands that's comparable to a dollar store.

There I saw this lantern and immediately thought of the Mary and Angels triptych stamp.

I stamped the stamp on vellum with black Stazon ink.

I let it dry thoroughly.

I closed the back of the lantern with black cardstock.

I made the pionsettia from red paper and light green paper for the leaves. 

The pionsettias were sprayed with gold glitter mist.

I sponged the edges of the large leaves and pionsettias with Distress Oxide Rustic Wilderness.

The holly branches are made from darker green paper, and the berries are glitter stones.

I covered the lantern itself with gold Inca Gold from Viva Decor.

I think the lantern looks lovely, and it creates a cozy atmosphere.

Are you making something with stamps thats festive?

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Here's another possibility with this stamp.

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