#200 Cats and Dogs, thats so much fun.

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Hi there, Riet here.

This is my last card for the Cats and Dogs challenge at Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda Stamps.

The challenge runs until the end of the month, so if you're interested, you can still participate.

For this card, I used Carmen's Veranda Carmendog stamp.

And the border is Checkerboard Rustic from Lost Coast Designs.

The text is from a sheet called Party Words.

I was in the garden with the spin art machine for a background.

I absolutely love the spinart machine and had so much fun with it.

I got such great results with it.

Do you also have a spinart machine?

It's so much fun.

Hope to see you at the challenge! Here's the link.

THE CHALLENGE!

31 Days of Halloween, day 20.

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 Hi, Riet here with a Iris shutter slimline card.

Hi there, today I have an iris shutter card for you.

Made with the super cute gnome witches from lost Coast designs.

This is what I used to make this card.

Mini Gnome set 5.

Gnome witch on broom.

Spiderwebs background.

Checkerboard rustic border.

CV When witches go riding.

Iris shutter die (Elizabeth crafts Designs.)

Flying bats die.

Pumpkins die.

Slimline frame (Marianne design)

Halloween stencil (BOO and pumkin face).

Distressink,

Musterd seed,

Twisted citron,

Spiced Marmelade,

Picked rasberry,

Seedless preserves,

Dusty Concord

Black water resistend ink.

White gelpen,

Red posca marker

Black marker.

Color pencils.

How to make the card.

Start by die cutting all the iris shutter parts.

Ink them up as shown on the photo's.

Put all the parts aside and let them air dry. 

Do not use a heat tool. 

The shutter parts will warp and they need to stay flat.

Punch a 1.5 inch cirkel and stamp the little star with.

Color the background and the witch.

Color the edge with Dusty concord.

Assemble the iris shutter as explained on the packaging.

Draw a pumpkin face on the iris shutter with the black marker.

We splash some Seedless preserves on the top ring of the shutter and sponge the word BOO on it.

Glue it to the iris shutter.

Stamp the witch, spiderweb, text on the pink background.

And the checkerboard above and below the purple background card.

Give the stamps accents with the white gel pen.

Assemble the iris shutter further as stated on the packaging of the die.

Can't figure it out? Then look up a video on YouTube.

That will help you through it.

I decorated with bats and pumpkins, but you can of course do that to your own taste.

I had a lot of fun making this card.

I'm curious to see what you make for Halloween.

Feel free to show us on the LCD/CV Blog or Facebook.

You'll then join the challenge and have a chance to win new stamps. 

How cool is that? 

GO TO THE CHALLENGE

31 Days of Halloween Day 1

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Hi there, Riet here.

 Its the start of the 31 Days of Halloween challenge at Lost Coast designs/Carmen's Veranda stamps.

Love, Love , Love Halloween theme crafts.

And it's a Halloween challenge the whole month.

So here is my tag for Halloween.

I used:

Lost Coast Designs Grunge tree

Spiderwebs background

Checkerboard border

MRaven 2

Carmen's Veranda Witches go riding (only the last 2 lines)

Distress ink,

Old paper

Pumice stone

Iced spruce

Dusty concord

Versafine onyx black

White gellpen

Water resistent fineliner

Blue, grey and brown colorpencils

Small circkle punch

Perfect resist

Tag die

How to make the tag.

Take a small amount of perfect resist and a sponge. Dab your sponge in the resist liquid and apply it to the spider web stamp. Make a good print in one go. Let it dry very well.

Now sponge the distress ink Old paper,

Pumice stone, and

Iced spruce onto the card.

let it dry well.

Take a piece of white paper and stamp the Checkerboard border on it.

Sponge them purple with the distress ink dusty concord.

Die cut the tag and glue the checkerboard borders on it.

Stamp the raven with the black versafine.

If you didn't hit all the spots properly, you can touch it up with the fineliner.

Color the raven and the branch he is sitting on.

And stamp the words in black.

Because I thought the tag on the right side was a bit bare, 

I also stamped the grunge tree here.

Mat the tag with black cardboard.

With a punch I make a ring of black cardboard, glue it on and make a hole in it.

You can now put a cord or string in there.

Now its your turn.

Make something with a Halloween or day of the dead theme.

Don't forget to use some stamps.

Please read the rules, to avoid disappointment.

Good luck and till next time.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE.

CHALLENGE #190 - 31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN LINKY

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

 

Hello Portal Peeps,

Welcome to our annual 31 Days of Halloween celebration!

The team will be posting their spooktacular makes every day this month.

This linky will be open all month and we hope you will get your boo on and join the fun.  You can link up your Halloween inspired makes all month for 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.

CHALLENGE #190

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN

Link up your Halloween inspired projects.  Anything related to the season, spooky, fruity, fun, scary or cute.  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 or fed to the giant pumpkin!!!!  Bwahahhaaahaha.

Please read the updated Challenge Rules 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 you could win a bigger prize in our random prize drawing.  All winners get our snazzy Challenge Winner's Badge to proudly display on their blogs!

If you don't have a blog then no problem, 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!  

 

Riet is getting us started today with this gorgeous tag using Lost Coast Designs Grunge Tree, Spiderwebs Background, Checkerboard Border and MRaven2 with Carmen's Veranda's When Witches Go Riding sentiment

 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!

 

Challenge #190 - 31 Days of Halloween
October 1st - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Thursday, October 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

 

 

#186 Red, white and blue challenge. Stars, stripes and clowns.

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

Today a card with the fun big nose and pope clown.

These are really fun for the red, white and blue theme of this challenge. 

What I used for this card:

Big nose clown,

Pope clown,

Rustic checkerboard border.

Stencil

Hotfix silver stars and squares.

Distressink:

Pumice stone

Antique linen

Chipped Sapphire

Fired brick.

Versafine Onyx black

I started by giving the white paper a vintage color.

I know it's supposed to be white, but I wanted to give the card a vintage look.

I did that with Antique linen and Pumice stone.

I applied the red and blue distress ink with the stencil and an ink blender.

First one half, then turned the stencil over and inked up the other half of the paper with red.

While the stenciled background is drying, I stamped the clowns with versafine black.

I colored the clowns with the red and blue distredd ink.

Let them dry.

Now continue with 2 strips of paper and repeat the

vintage coloring in the same way as the card.

Stamp the rustic checkerboard border 3 times in red and blue.

Now it's a bit of a puzzle to get the patterns to match as well as possible.

Cut out the clowns and glue them onto the card.

Finish it all off with the silver stars.

Glue on to red and blue cardstock.

This was my contribution to the challenge.

Now I'm curious what you make in red, white and blue.

Maybe something for the 4th of July?

Show us and participate in the challenge.

Wouldn't it be nice if you were the new winner?

You can even participate with stamps from other brands.

That's all allowed, as long as you use stamps on your project or card.

#156, Tag you're it

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

Hi there, today its a tag for the challenge at Lost coast Designs.

The stamps i used are:

Long swirl

Mini fish collage

Checkerboard rustic border

I made a background with a bubbles stencil.

I stamped the fish collage stamp with black stazon on it.

Then I drew a wobble line above the stamp with a waterproof fineliner.

Above that I stamped the swirl with black stazon.

And another wobble line drawn.

Above that I stamped the checkerboard.

And gave the stamp white squares with a white posca marker.

I stuck washi tape under the collage stamp.

And underneath that I stamped the checkerboard border again,

 and just like above I made the open blocks white with a posca marker.

With markers i colored the collage stamp.

Now about this beautiful collage stamp.

There are 8 new collage stamps on the LCD site.

There is also a nice new set of stamps called "Brush strokes".

Feel free to take a look, click here to view them.

Do you want to win new rubberstamps????

Make a tag and join us at the Lost Coast designs challenge.

 

# 152, Things with wings, art journal page.

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

Hello everyone, Riet here.

Today an art journal page for the "things with wings" challenge.

I stamped it purely with ink.

Lost Coast Designs has released a great new sheet,

called "Brush strokes".

  I have enjoyed stamping with this new sheet.

Stamps I used:

Five stamps from the Brush strokes sheet

Praying angel

Crows border

Checkerboard rustic border

Goth raven

Pieces of calligraphy

Crackle background

Carmen's Veranda, Art wings to fly.

Stazon Jet black

Distress oxide

Wild honey

Bundled sage

Peacock feathers

Saltwater taffy

Watercolor markers

I started with Stazon Jet black.

I stamped the Praying angel with it.

I also stamped the checkered border and crows border with the Stazon jet black.

With the 4 colors Distress oxide and some water I made some ink spots on the empty spots.

I stamped the background with these five stamps from the brush strokes sheet.

All with the distress oxide colors.

With the crackle stamp and black stazon,

 i made some small prints in the empty spots of the paper.

With the long small stamp I stamped the edges with stazon jet black.

With the markers I colored the goth crow and the angel.

I hope you enjoyed it and that you also get to work on the challenge theme, "Things with wings".

You can also participate with other brands. 

But of course we prefer Lost coast designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps.

You have until the 30th to participate, and you can also win new stamps.

The team is looking forward to what you will make, so feel free to join us.