31 Days of Halloween Day 7: Mystic Moon

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Hello everyone! Day seven already of our 31 Halloween Days challenge! I made todays card with Distress ink sprays, bleach and some scary stamps: Skull Flourish, Bird on Bike and ATC Birds in Trees.

Can't wait to see your Halloween creations! Happy Halloween! 👿💀😱

Have a wonderful day,

Liesbeth XX

In the deep midwinter: Winter ATC`s

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Hi everyone! Hope you have had a wonderful Christmas time together with you beloved ones!  This is my (Liesbeth) final blogpost for this year. Because we had our granddauhters here, I didn't make something new this time for our Midwinter Challenge, so an oldie! But I think it's very very wintery!

Two ATC's on a bue Distress inked background. I stamped with white and black ink and used some white embossingpowder and a white gel pen.

Stamps used: Small Cityscape, Misc. Words and Carmen`s Veranda's beautiful ATC Birds in Trees.

A very healthy, peaceful  and happy 2024 everyone!💖

LiesbethXX

31 Days of Halloween: Witch Cat

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Hello everyone, the 28th day already, of our 31 Days of Halloween Challenge! The inspiration card I made for today is  also  for the Cats Challenge!

I made a background with yellow, orange and purple Distress ink and splashed some waterdrops on it. I stamped the Witch Cat with StazOn Jet Black and masked it. Behind it I stamped the Small Cityscape, one of the Pieces of Calligraphy and ATC Birds in Trees. I finished the card with colour pencils, white gel pen  and some bleach .

Hope I inspired you to join us! See you next time! 

LiesbethXX

CHALLENGE #162 - SPRING HAS SPRUNG

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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 #162

SPRING HAS SPRUNG

We want to see your stamped anythings featuring Srping!  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!

Gail used Carmen's Veranda Sheep Doll with Lost Coast Designs Sun and Flowers Background  

Liesbeth used Carmen's Veranda Medium Keyhole and ATC Birds in Trees with Lost Coast Designs Tulip Gnome and Old Typewriter Alphabet

  
Riet used Lost Coast Designs Megans Christmas Bird and Crackle Background

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 14th 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 #162 - Spring Has Sprung
March 1st - 14th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Tuesday, March 14th 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
 

 

Gnomes: reading Gnome

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Hi everyone, welcome again to our Anything goes with Gnomes' challenge! Today it's my (Liesbeth) turn. This reading little Gnome is so lovely! 💓 Grab your Gnomes and stamp along with us!

This is how I made this card: I stamped Carmen's Veranda Compass Square four times (using a stamp positioner) with different light inks on a piece of paper and sponged here and there with the same four colours. With black ink, I stamped the tree, (a first and a second print as you can see), the crown and the script at the bottom and the text.(ATC birds in trees, Tree crown, Pieces of Calligraphy, Travel Quotes) I stamped the Book Gnome on a seperate piece of cardstock, coloured it with Zig-markers and cut it out. I glued the Gnome onto the card and finished the card with gel pens and Zig-markers. I sponged the edges with black ink.

Liesbeth XX

31 Days of Halloween Day 11: Witch Gnome

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Hi there, it's Liesbeth here with a not so scary Halloween card for our 31 Days of Halloween challenge! Read everything about it here and join us!

This is how I made this card: Onto a piece of glossy cardstock I made a background using purple, yellow and orange alcohol inks. After drying, I stamped the Small Cityscape here and there with orange StazOn ink, without using an acryllic block to let it be ,grungy'. After that I put the same stamp onto an acryllic block and stamped it with black StazOn, and also the ATC Birds in trees here and there. I sponged the edges black. I stamped the Gnome Witch on broom (Love her!!!) on a seperate (normal, not glossy) paper and cut her out. I coloured her with Distress inks, water and some glitter and adhered her on the card.

Till next time, Liesbeth XX

31 Days of Halloween: Day 6: Gargoyle

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Hello everyone! My first make for our 31 Days of Halloween! If you love Halloween as much as we do, join the fun! 👻😍

I stamped the Gargoyle using StazOn Jet Black ink into a Distress ink coloured background, and masked the Gargoyle. I stamped the texts (Pieces of Calligraphy) with purple and orange StazOn and the ATC Birds in trees with black. Using pure bleach and a synthetic brush I bleached the gargoyle, I finished with some shadow (black Distress ink),a purple fineliner and a yellow gelpen. 

Hope to see you tomorrow for some more Halloween! :-)

Liesbeth XX

Where`s my hat? - Art journal spread

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Hello everyone! For our ,Where`s my hat`-challenge I made this journal spread with three hats! And the man is still weeping and not happy! ;-)  Read everything about the challenge HERE and join the fun!

I made a background using old paper, old maps, gesso, distress inks and StazOn inks. I stamped the man and the hats on a seperate piece of paper and cut them out. I coloured then a bit with brown ink and glued them onto the background. I finished with glitter glue and some shadowing (charcoal).

Stamps used : (click=see) Weeping man, Small cityscape, Door and window set, Party hats 1, Party hats 2, ATC text set 1, ATC birds in trees.

See you next time, 

Liesbeth XX

Winter Blues: Snowy ATC's

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here, ... it's December! Time for some winter scenes for our Winter Blues challenge. You have lots of time, the entire month,to participate end join the fun: Look HERE!

I made this two Artist Trading Cards (2 ¹⁄₂ by 3 ¹⁄₂ inches (64 mm × 89 mm) on a background made with Distress Oxide inks. I stamped the tree and the houses with white color box ink and sprinkled a little bit of blue embossing powder (not everywhere, so the white shines through ) and melted it. Using black ink I stamped also bits and pieces of the tree stamp to create depth, and the words . I finished the cards with white gel pen and white color pencil.

Stamps used: Misc. Words, Small Cityscape, ATC birds in trees

 

Liesbeth XX

The Man Cave Challenge: Weeping man

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here, hoping to inspire you for our Man cave challenge! There are a few days left to join! :-)

This Weeping Man is one of my favourite LCD stamps! I also used both Cityscape stamps, big and small, ATC text Set 1  and ATC Birds in trees (Carmen's Veranda)

I used three tones of blue ink: dark, light and a bright mid-tone. I started with the man, I stamped him with dark blue and masked him. After that I stamped the other images and I sponged the three inks here and there. I removed the mask and ...ready!

Liesbeth XX

Let's go Vegetarian: two ATC's

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here with two vegetarian Artist Trading Cards full of trees, leaves, flowers and branches for our challenge! Join the fun! 

The're very simple made: I just stamped with 3 colours on each card. A light, middle and dark one. After that I sponged the edges with the middle( bright) and a dark tone. I finished by adding the texts.

Stamps used: Shrubbery, Lily flourish,  Misc words, Carte postale, ATC birds in trees.

Liesbeth XX

Let's go Vegetarian: tiny house

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here showing you a tiny house in ,Vegetarian' theme. Hope you join our ,Let's go Vegetarian' challenge! 

 I found beautiful painted papers in my stash and cut out the house using a Sizzix (Tim Holtz) die: Tiny Houses. I stamped a several trees- , leaves- and flourish stamps with black ink and couloured it with Distress markers. I sponged the edges black. 

Stamps used: Daisy Flourish, ATC Birds in tree, Pear square, Tulip ?? , Antique text border.

Liesbeth XX

Myth and Magic: flying chicken

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Hello everyone, Liesbeth here! Today I show you a magic card... I love the theme of this challenge so much! Myth & Magic. 💓
I think this wonderful AUD chicken stamp fits perfect for this magical theme. I also used Grunge tree background, ATC Misc 6, Misc. Words and ATC Birds in Trees. 
(For the background technique I was inspired by Tattered Nest Designs)

See you next time, stay healthy!

Liesbeth XX

Spring Has Sprung: Gnomes & birds

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here showing you a big ,Spring has sprung-card'! Here in Holland spring really has sprung! Even in this strange times... nature doesn't know what's going on....

I made my glossy card by using the wonderful new Gnomes, I really love them so much! 💖💙
I coloured a piece of glossy paper with alcohol inks. I stamped the gnomes with black StazOn and masked them. I stamped the trees and the house. I coloured the card with Stabilo pencils, gelpens, and paint markers and I drew some more black lines.
Stamps used: Straw house, Swinging gnome, Rabbit gnome  and  ATC Birds in trees

Stay safe and healthy.
Liesbeth XX

Day 10: BOO! to The Birds by Leigh S-B!

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We are super excited to be participating in the seventh 31 Days of Halloween blog hop hosted by Smeared Ink!  If you joined the hop from the start then you got here from DominoART and your next stop is Susan.  If you just popped in to visit us today and would like to start the hop from the beginning or if you get lost along the way then the blog roll is over there in the right sidebar!  For more info about this hop and how to win prizes see Terra's blog.

Lost Coast Designs is proudly sponsoring Smeared Ink's Scavenger Hunt prize today! You can win a $10 spending spree to Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!
Good Luck!

pssst...we are having a World of Borders sale!
Various borders up for grabs, some for as little as a $1!  

Today's spooktacular featured project is by me, LCDesigner Leigh S-B ;0)

I'm back today with another altered wooden BOO! creation but this time I'm featuring the Master of Horror, Alfred Hitchcock himself, and paying homage to his clawesome movie classic The Birds! 

 I typed up sections of attack scenes from The Bird's screenplay in Photoshop CS6 for the background of this altered project.  This movie was filmed in black and white so I only used black ink for all my stamping and distressing.

The wooden pieces were painted with black acrylic, the images stamped with black Versafine ink and Black Soot Distress Ink was used to grunge up the edges.

I used the following stamps:
Lost Coast Designs
Filmstrip Border
Tall Trees
Perspective Floor

Carmen's Veranda 
Alfred Hitchcock
Flying Birds
ATC Birds in Trees

Besides all the fabulous prizes up for grabs in the hop with Smeared Ink don't forget we are also having a Halloween party of our own!  We currently have 3 faBOOlous activites for you to enter and 3 spooktacular prizes you can win!   All our current events and challenges are listed below so I hope we've inspired you to come and join the fun!

Enter your spooktacular creations in BOO! our linky party HERE to
win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV! 

You can also enter our first LCD/CV Facebook Challenge currently taking place on both of our FB Pages, Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

Click on over, read the pinned posts and enter  
Challenge #1 Something Wicked this Way Comes!

As well as our current monthly blog challenge
#17 MONOCHROMATIC 
Our Challenge prize is based on amount of entries received & you can enter as many times as you want so tell all your friends and come and play with us ;0)
 Please make sure you read our blog event & challenge rules & our Facebook rules to ensure you qualify to win!

Thank you for hopping with us today, see you again tomorrow!

Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader