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

Bird on a Bike

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I thought it would be fun to share a bird on a bike....

I don't know why but this bird tickles me every time I see it. It is just so fun and whimsical.

I started off by stamping the Flying Birds background on a chocolate (color not candy) piece of cardstock and affixed it to a dark brown card.

Next I die-cut an arched window  and stamped it with one of the stamps from Pieces of Calligraphy set and Pieces of Architecture.

Finally I stamped the Bird on a Bike onto cream cardstock and fussy cut it.

All of these elements were then affixed to the card....a bit of pattern paper, twine and brads to finish it off.

CHALLENGE #163 - BLACK AND WHITE

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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 #163

BLACK AND WHITE

 

We want to see only black and white, or white and black on your stamped projects!  We will accept some shades of grey if you want, but absolutely no colours.  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!

Cathy used Lost Coast Designs Bird on Bike

 
 Roni used Lost Coast Designs Up Close & Personal with Carmen's Veranda Eye Chart Square.
 

  
Laurie used Lost Coast Designs Mini Fish Collage stamp

 
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 #163 - Black and White
March 15th - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Friday,March 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
 

 

Ticket To Ride

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Good morning and a very happy Monday! It's Sue here and it's the last few days of our fun Tag challenge, so here's my second piece.

This time I started by making an inky background and stamping the License Plate Alpha Set.

I LOVE this sentiment, they are words to live by!

These are my fab stamps

License Plate Alpha Set

Steampunk Bicycle Lady

Bird On Bike

Coffee Lies 

There's still time to join in with us, so start stamping your tags!

Have a great week whatever you are doing, and thanks so much for looking x

#140 Tweet this, challenge.

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Hello bloggers, Riet here.

Today I worked on a large scale, an A4 21cmx30cm.

I think the crows are fantastic, they are so mysterious.

I have used various stamps.

Crow border

Bird on bike.

Raven with tree branches.

Birds in trees.

Pieces of calligraphy.

Stazon black

Distress oxide wilted violet, mermaid lagoon and black soot.

6inch gelli plate round and a round mini gelli plate.

Water resistent fineliner.

Dutch doobadoo stencil bubbles.

Memento tuxido black

And this how I made it.

I started by smearing the large gelli plate with the distress oxides.

First go through these steps with 1 color and then repeat with the other colors.

I sprayed some water over it.

Turned the gelli plate over and used it as a stamp.

Stamp in the middle of the paper.

Look how beautiful that is, be careful when you do the step with the black.

It soon becomes too much black.

With the small gelli plate, repeat the same steps, only with 1 color.

Stamp the small circle right above and left below.

Take the Birds in trees stamp and the black Memento.

Print the stamp on the gelli plate (kiss technique),

 and then print the gelli plate on the small circles of distress oxide.

Now stamp with black the Bird on bike,

 and the long strip of letters from the pieces of calligraphy stamp sheet.

In the top left corner and bottom right corner,

I splattered some more ink.

I thought it was a bit too empty there.

I drew lines around the circles with the fineliner and did some scribbling.

Top left and bottom right I have stamped the pieces of calligraphy set.

And with the stencil I put circles divided in the two colors.

Finaly I stamped the Raven with tree branches in black ink.

And I cut 1 crow off the border stamp.

I stamped these here and there in the colored circles.

Because it is a large page, I glued it in my Art journal, to which I will write some texts later.

I hope you liked it and join our challenge.

You are welcome and you can even participate with other brands.

You probably have a stamp with a bird, so join the fun.

You can even win new stamps.

Click here to go to the challenge.

 

Steampunk/Vintage: Bird on bike

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here with a very simple made steampunk card for our CHALLENGE, the final day! 

I made the background of this card using (old fashioned) Walnut ink and water. The result is so very vintage looking! I stamped the images with black, orange and brown ink and finished with some black glitter-glue on the crow and wheels.

Stamps used: Bird on bike, Gears, Small cityscape and Carte Postale.

See you next month!

LiesbethXX

31 Days of Halloween Day 6, Pirate grave tutorial.

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Hallo dear reader. 

Riet here.
Do you already have the creeps for Halloween?
Well with this tutorial you will shiver and tremble with fear, AAAARRRRRGGGGHHH!!!

hahaha!

Lost Coast Designs Stamps I used.

Articulated Skeleton,
Goth Shrine,
Bird on Bike, 

Distress ink walnut stain - frayed burlap - antique linen.
Stazon timber brown, jet black.
Alcohol ink caramel and mushroom.
Viva decor inka gold, gold brown and gold.
Dark brown acrylic paint.
Small sponge, paint brush.
Aluminium foil.
Glue and hot glue gun.
Cardboard.
Stamping tool.
Water based markers (zig/tombo), dark brown, shades of beige, dark and light grey.
Watercolor paper.
Sizzix sizzlits docorative strip die, Ironwork gate.
Fake cobweb and some embellishments.
I used the little rum bottle, a pirate sword, pumpkin, metal charm skull.
Moss, make sure it is dry.

Step 1.
Cut and score your cardboard like this photo.

Step 2.
Take the aluminium foil and wrinkle it.
Don't flatten it but keep it a little bumpy.
Glue it on the cardboard with a glue gun.

Step 3.
Paint it dark brown with acrylic paint.
And make sure it is dry.

Step 4.

With a sponge you take some of the Viva Decor gold brown,

and wipe lightly over the brown acrylic paint.

do the same with gold, but only on some spots.

It should look like the ground is turned over.

Now let it rest so everything can dry very well.

Step 5.

The metal charm needs a little sanding and gesso or any primer will do.
Let it dry thoroughly.

Step 6.
Colour the charm with the alcohol ink, until it looks rusty.

 

Step 7.

Stamping the goth shrine.
Now take the stamping tool, and the watercolor paper.
We proceed as follows,

1. stamp with distress antique linen the entire stamp.
2. repeat this with the frayed burlap, but now only some pieces of the stamp.
3. And for the last step you take the dark brown marker and use it direct on the stamp.

But its only for the shadows, so I did it on the edges and corners of the stamp.

 

 Step 8.

It is time to color in the accents and details with the markers and the waterpencil.
I was going for a weathered wood look.
If you want a stone look then you can do it with grey tones.

Step 9.
Now its time to stamp the big skeleton parts.
The upper and lower arm pieces, each 1 time.
Both hands 2 time, so there are 4 hands.
And 2 skulls.
When you cut out the parts, leave a piece of extra paper.
This is necessary to glue them together.

Step 10.
Now comes the tricky part.
Assemble the skeleton so that it looks like he wants to steel the charm.
Glue all parts on.
Cut of the remaining pieces of paper.

Step 11.

Die cut the fence and color it with the distress ink as shown on the picture.

 Step 12.

 I coloured the skull and hands that rise up from the grave a bit darker.
After all, they have been buried in the ground for a long time.
Now we are going to put it all together.
Fold the narrow side back and glue together.
Glue the headstone to the front.
I made a little cardboard support on the backside.
Glue the skull and hands on the grave.
Take pieces of the fence and glue them on the sides.
Glue on the moss and your embellishments.
Stamp the bird on bike with black stazon and cut of the crow.
Glue it on the tombstone.
With a black piece of paper you can make an eye patch for the skull.

Well I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, have fun with stamping.
And don't forget to join our challenge, we love to see your cards and projects.
And you can win a very nice prize.

Life is too short circle card

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Hello all Cathy here. I have a circle card for you.
Stamps I used:
 Doodles Circle Background
Bird on Bike 
Life is too short

I started out by taking a circle paper and did the smooching technique with my Distress Oxide ink.  I stamped Doodles Circle Background on the background and added it to a black circle card.

Next I stamped Bird on Bike  on a scrap piece of paper, cut it out and glued it on the bottom of card.  Okay I have to admit something..... I added the Bird on Bike crooked on the bottom!  I was about to toss it in the trash and I spotted the Life is too short saying and a idea came to me of how to save it.

Come join the fun for our circle challenge here.