Charlie's Circus

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Hello Portal Peeps!   Gail here today with some Movie Mania inspiration! 

I've combined Carmen's Veranda Charlie Chaplin and a circus themed embossing folder to revisit his movie 'The Circus' 

I embossed a bronze card slimline panel with the circus themed embossing folder and sanded to expose the black core.  I stamped Charlie on some grey card with brown ink and fussy cut him.  I straight cut his hat to give a fez look, to match the middle monkey, and added a red tassel.  Then I added the  Not My Monkeys sentiment which totally covered up my fez conversion!!!

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Hat Trick

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here again with some more hatty ideas with my favourite Carmen's Veranda boys!!

Frank said he didn't have a hat so Charlie lent him one!  Not sure it suits him, but there we go.  I am also entirely responsible for the wiggle in the sentiment cos I decided the easiest way to convert it from square 8 lines to long 3 lines was to chop it up!  So I did!!  So it's a little wiggly in places, but perfection is overrated........

I used a slightly grungy off white Authentique card base.  I stamped the re-arranged sentiment and masked it off.  Then I stamped Charlie and Frank with brown archival ink, masked them and stamped Boris.  I edged the card with brown Promarker and also drew a line under the boys.  Then I used a caramel Promarker to fill in the background around them.  Finally I stamped Charlie's hat on a scrap of the same card using the brown archival ink, fussy cut and stuck it on Franks head.

 

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Charlie in Pieces

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here with a little altered art, mixed media inspiration today for the Man Cave challenge.  Have you seen all the amazing makes on the blog this month??  Scroll down and check them out.  You still have time to get out your masculine themed stamps and make a little something something and join the challenge.  The more players the bigger the prize!  Here's my little make.  An altered matchbox with the gorgeous Charlie Chaplin from Carmen's Veranda.

I started by stamping Charlie on a 3" square of white woodgrain patterned card.  I coloured around the image with red Promarker.  Well obviously he's not going to fit in that box like that!!  But I have a plan!!!!  I also stamped Charlie on white shrink plastic, fussy cut and shrunk him.  Love it!!!!

I covered the Charlie square with clear adhesive plastic and then cut it into inch squares.  It's an inchie puzzle!!!  I also added some thin magnet to the back of each piece cos I thought it would be fun to have a fridge magnet Charlie puzzle!!

I covered the inside of the matchbox drawer with black paper, the outside with red paper and attached a piece of red ribbon.  I cut a piece of red foam and one piece of black to fit inside the drawer.  I cut the black piece with a star die and put them in the drawer. 

I covered the matchbox cover with handmade textured paper and wrapped it with some sequinned red thread.  I cut a few stars from red mirror card and added my shrunken Charlie.  What a fun treat it will be!

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Boris, Frank and Charlie

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Hello Portal peeps.
Are you enjoying all the famous people inspiration from the team this month???
I must admit the Carmen's Veranda people stamps are some of my favourites.
Take a bloke, add a background.  What could be simpler?? 
Here's three of my favourite Carmen's Veranda blokes with three of my
favourite Lost Coast Designs Backgrounds.

 I stamped the blokes with black archival and then used different archival colours for the backgrounds

 Boris with Leaves background stamped with Prickly Pear archival ink

  Frankenstein and Fruit Pods background stamped with Bluebird archival ink

Charlie Chaplin with Bubbles Background stamped with Dandelion archival ink.

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win some new rubber!!!!

Talking of new rubber........
Linda added Yoga Cats to the Lost Coast Designs NEW! category before christmas and the other day she added GNOMES!!!!  Check em out!!  They are awesome!!

Linda also added three new people stamps to Carmen's Veranda NEW! category.  The team have already been sharing inspiration with these so scroll down to see their amazing makes.   

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Bloke in a Blue Bowler

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Hello Portal Peeps!!

Happy 4th of July

 Gail here today with some inspiration for Lost Coast Designs
I Spy...Something Beginning with B challenge.
And since it's the 4th I thought I'd go red, white and Blue.

 I have used Carmen's Veranda Charlie Chaplin, An Apple a Day sentiment and the gorgeous Lost Coast Designs Shooting Star background.

I started by stamping and embossing Charlie with black embossing powder and fussy cut him.  Then I stamped his hat and embossed it with blue glitter embossing powder.  This is a party afterall!!  With this stamp the top of his hat is chopped off but I simply extended and rounded it when I fussy cut it.  I was going to use the blue glitter powder on the top as well, but decided to go with the red instead.  Bling!!  Which is also a B word!  I added a bit of detail with a white gel pen and a couple of blue polka dot bows.

I stamped the Shooting Star background using blue die ink.  Isn't that lovely!!  Or maybe I should say Beautiful!!

I used Sizzix Deckle Edge die to cut the blue panel, stamped the sentiment and edged the panel with the blue dye ink and mounted everything on a red base card.

A Bloke in a Blue Blingy Bowler!!

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