Things with wings challenge, Winged skeleton.

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 Hi there, Riet here.

What a fun challenge this month!

I immediately thought of this beautiful stamp from Carmens Veranda Stamps, 

Winged Skeleton.

This card is very simple to make.

I colored the stamp with pencils, which is something I really enjoy doing.

I also used layers of designer paper.

For that, I used June Bug by Basic Grey.

I Distressed the edges of the paper and inked it with Distressink Walnut Stain.

I Also added a voile bow and a copper flower with a green stone.

I glued a glitter stone heart onto the sternum.

I hope you'll join the challenge.

There are beautiful, high-quality rubber stamps to be won.

You can participate with any brand, as long as stamps have been used.

So come and join in!

JOIN THE CHALLENGE HERE!

June Color Combo Challenge #198

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Greetings! You've got Kathi here to share a card created for June's Color Combo Challenge 198. There are two options for this challenge. You can use Lime, Lemon, and Black or Terracotta, Turquoise and Black.

I opted to use the Lime, Lemon, and Black combination and the Carmen Elaine Rubber Stamp by Carmen's Veranda.

Here's my card!

Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp Carmen Elaine twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and set her aside. 

Color Carmen Elaine with Copic markers. Adhere the fussy-cut sticker version atop her counterpart on the image panel as a mask.

Position a long rectangle die over the image panel and secure it low-tack tape. Run the die through your machine and carefully slide the die and the cardstock combination onto your surface, add more low-tack tape to secure the die in place, and flip the combo. Add low-tack tape to secure the die-cut to the back of the cardstock panel.

Flip the combination to the front side. Adhere repositionable Scotch Tape over the base of the die-cut combination. Sponge or brush Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink over the die onto the image panel die-cut. Place a circle/rays stencil over the top of the image panel die-cut, secure with magnets, and brush the same yellow Distress ink over the stencil onto the die-cut panel to add rays over and around Carmen Elaine's head.

Remove the repositionable Scotch Tape and brush or sponge Twisted Citron Distress ink over the bottom of Carmen Elaine's dress and the panel to ground her.

Remove the die-cut image panel from the die. Run a line of Diamond Stickles onto the white border of the die-cut. Set the die-cut aside and let the Stickles dry.

While the Stickles is drying, cut a piece of the music patterned paper to 4" x 5.5" to create the background. Brush or sponge Verdant VersaFine Clair over the panel to change the color of the musical notation. Cut a strip of ticket patterned paper the width of the ticket by 5.5". Brush or sponge Verdant VersaFine Clair over the ticket strip to change the color and to edge the strip. Heat set both pieces of patterned paper. Adhere the ticket strip to the left side of the music notation paper. Trim the panel to 5.25" and edge it with Verdant VersaFine Clair Ink.

Adhere the background panel to a black A2 card. Adhere the Carmen Elaine image panel die-cut to finish the card.

I hope that you play along with June's Color Combo Challenge 198 for a chance to win Lost Cost Ca$h!

Thanks for visiting today!

#172 Summertime challenge.

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If there's one thing that reminds me of summer, it's the tropics.

Tropical fruit, plants, flowers and colors, then I think of Hawaii.

Aloha summertime. 

This time its a slimline card. with the beautiful pineapple stamp from Carmens Veranda stamps. 

This stamp is no less than 6 inches (15cm) in size. 

Love to color this big stamp.

I used for this card:

The Pineapple stamp.

Distressink:

Twisted citron,

Rustic wilderness,

Spiced marmelade,

Peacock feathers,

festive berries,

Stazon Forest green.

A stencil with a leaf patern.

Flower die.

Branch die.

The word Aloha.

Washi tape.

White gellpen

Water based makers.

With a small finger sponge I did the leaves of the stencil on the inside with Twisted citron.

I did the outside of the leaves in the same way with Rustic wilderness.

This has a nice effect of overflowing green in the leaves.

On watercolor paper I stamped the pineapple with Stazon Forest green.

And colored it with water based markers.

Yellow, orange, green and with the green tones I also colored the leaves.

I colored pieces of paper with all colors of distress ink.

This is for the flower and the leaves.

I matched the colors to the washi tape.

With the sizzix machine I die cut the flower and twigs.

I did not used the dark green.

Wanted to keep it brigth.

Now give the pineapple some accents with the white gellpen.

Now assamble the card and enjoy the summer.

You can join the Summertime challenge till the 15th.

Its great fun to make something with a summer theme.

You even may use stamps of other brands, 

aslong there is stamping on it.

See you at the challenge  or facebook.

Thank you Cathy Norton for this beautifull poster.

Festive fun, plaid pants Santa wallhanger

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Hi there, Riet here.

Yes christmas is coming.

Love this time of the year.

So I made a wallhanger.

 I used,

Plaid pants Santa

Checkerboard border

Watercolor paper, 10,5 x 14,8cm  4,1 x 5,8 inches

Stazon midnight blue and Jet black

Distressink vintage photo and antique linen

Color pencils

Silver gellpen

I started with the piece of watercolorpaper.

I Stamped the santa on the paper and stamped a mask.

Mask the santa and sponge with the antique linen the card.

Use the vintage photo to ad shadow.

Remove the mask and color the santa.

Color the star and the buttons on his boots with the silver gellpen.

Now for the borderstamp

Take a long piece of paper and stamp the border 4 times with the stazon midnight blue.

Sponge it with the antique linen.

I made some shadow in the corners of the checkers with the vintage photo.

Now make a frame of the border around the card.

I glued 4 hotfix stars and added the chain for hanging.

 I loved making this hanger.

And I really think the checkerd border finished it off.

I love to work with borders, I use them a lot.

Lost coast designs has a lot of great borders.

You can find them here.

http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/borders.html

 Hope you make some thing to and join our challenge.

We cant wait to see your makes.

There is some rubber to win, yeah!!!!!

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 https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/p/challenges-rules-and-winner-badge.html

 

 

 

Question of the day....Ducks or Squirrels???

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Roni here and today I have a creation for our newest challenge #102 - Off the Edge. I decided to use this darling little duck from the Duck & Bunny set and the clear sentiment stamp called Ducks in a Row both from Carmen's Veranda.

I started off by stamping the purple duck on the white panel then once onto scrap paper. I fussy cut the second image to use as a mask to use when stamping the remaining ducks.  I used the mask to cover the purple duck while I stamped the blue duck...I continued stamping in this fashion by covering the previously stamped duck with the mask while stamping the next duck in the row.  

After all the ducks had been stamped I colored each with coordinating colors. I finished them off with a bit of black and white paint pen work.   The sentiment was stamped on vellum then affixed to the white card panel.  This panel was then mounted on a teal card base.

And yes, this is how I feel some days - LOL!!

I hope you join in the fun and share your card for the Off the Edge Challenge!!

Birds In Trees

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#101 Background forward.

Hi there, Riet here.

I really had to think about this card, making the background the star isnt that easy.

I am not used to that.

But I just like to work with my distress micro glaze, so of we go.

Stamps: LCD Birds in trees, CV Moon child.

Distress glaze, distressink spun sugar, victorian velvet, gathered twigs.

Take a little spung and aply the glaze on to the stamp and stamp it on a piece of paper that is 5cm or 2 inch longer than the stamp.

Start sponging the bottem with spun sugar, work your way up with victorian velvet. And at the top gathered twigs. Its so magical to see the birds and trees show up, just love it.

I tore the bottom of the card and distresst it with gathered twigs and stampt the moon child stamp. Matt the card with a off white cardstock, and from the same cardstock I die cut the birds. Easy and swift.

So hurry up and join us in this exciting challenge.

Mexican town at night

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Hello, are you having a nice day? I did, stamped with great pleasure. So created this scenery. I'll tell you how you can make it too. The stamp I used is "South west town" from Carmens Veranda

Smooth stamp paper.
masking tape.
Distressink: chipped sapphire, faded jeans, broken china, bundled sage, antique linen and weathered wood. White acrylic paint. Colorpencils, I used derwent colorsoft.White gelpen. White inkpad (versa magic) Stazon jet black.

First you stamp the South-west-town with black stazon.
Make a mask and mask it.
Cut a circle from masking tape and stick it on the paper, this will become the moon.
Now start with sponges behind and just above the houses with antique linen. Continue with Bundled sage and then the blue colors from light to dark. Apply some white around the moon. Make some splashes on the blue sky with water. When that is dry, splash some stars with white acrylic paint. Now remove the masks. With a small fine sponge you apply some spots on the moon with Weathered wood. Color the houses and put some white lines at the top, so the moon seems to be reflecting its light on the rooftops. Have fun, and dont forget to join in on our challenges.
They start every 1th and 15th of the month.

Joker Wild

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Hello all. Happy 2020.

Cathy here with the OG Joker man.

I used a new stamp from Carmen's Veranda called Joker

 I started out on black cardstock, heat embossed the Joker in white and cut him out.  I layered it on purple and glitter green cardstock. Of course, they are Joker colors.  Add some foam squares to the back and set aside so you can work on the card base.

Next I stenciled the background with some white ink. Edged the card also with white ink and lastly add the Joker square to the middle of the card.

Come join the fun here.
We also have a Facebook group you can add you challenge to.

Tree Hugging

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Hi everyone,

it's Dot here with a tutorial for our Wood Challenge #82

I have been eye-ing off the bark out the front of my place

for some time to make something with, so I was
pretty pleased when this challenge came around.

The tree out the front is called a Paperbark tree.

The bark starts peeling away from the trunk

and has the most amazing colours.

I peeled a heap of the layers from the tree and brought them inside to dry.

You can peel the bark super thin, which is what I did, and you can layer them up

any way that you like.

I chose some that had different colours and textures and glued them together

with gel medium.

The stamp 'Evil Eye' was stamped onto some tissue paper.

Then on the back of this I painted some
white acrylic paint ... carefully.

Once it was dry it was easy to attach to the bark

with gel medium.

I added some branch effects by using a small section of the

Grunge Tree stamp with brown archival ink.

The bark was easy to rip to the size that I needed for my card.

Then it was a simple task of attaching it with gel medium.

The words, from Carmen's Veranda, were stamped

with white ink onto black card and cut out.
After edging with more white ink I attached it to the bark.

The card still needed something else ...

so I painted the eyes of the Evil Eye's eyes with blue acrylic paint.

There is still a little bit of time to enter our Wood challenge

for this fortnight.
Either here or over on facebook.

Happy Stamping!

Dot x

Square Challenge

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Cathy here with 2 cards for this challenge.

Stamps Used: Forest God square
                     Calligraphy square
       MRaven2

 For this card I started out with some mixed media paper and Distress Oxide inks. I picked some greens and a brown to go with the Forest God stamp. I smooched the inks on my craft mat and dipped my paper in it. I did this till I got the look I wanted.

 I then stamped the Forest God square on it with black ink.  Mind you I didn't stamp it strait or in the center where I wanted so I had to make it work with some cutting and adding some bling.  I then layered it with some brown cardstock and added it to a green card.

For this card I stared out the same way. Mixed media cardstock and some Distress Oxide inks. This time I used purple and blue for the colors.  I smooched the colors on my craft mat and dipped my paper in it. I then stamped Calligraphy square on the paper. I did not want full coverage of the stamp so I did not ink it fully. I cut it down to size.

 Next I took one of the new raven stamps MRaven2 and stamped it over the top of the Calligraphy square. I then added a light touch of glitter to the raven. Layered it on blue cardstock and then on a pattern paper on a white card base.

You can find all the square stamps here. There are quite a few of them .

Ok I showed you mine you can show me yours. Come join the challenge here.

An Ass Family Christmas

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Hi, it's Sue here with the second of my Christmas cards, and this time it features stamps from Carmen's Veranda.

The background was made with Christmas Lights and coloured with glitter pens.

I think the Ass Family speak for themselves. Everyone knows this family!

You still have time to join in with our challenge, so get your jingle on!

Thanks for looking, and have a very Merry Christmas xx