#141 Something beginning with S, Sleeping Lucy

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, Riet here.

And another fun challenge, something with an S.

I chose the stamp "Sleeping Lucy".

This is definitely a favorite stamp of mine.

And then that text by Carmens Veranda, it fits so beautifully.

I've made the background of the card before and you can find a post with the technique here.

It is made with a Hydrangea leaf and some glimmer mist.

I made Sleeping Lucy from watercolor paper and watercolor paint and glued it on the card.

I applied gold glitter on the hair and wings.

The card is matted on dark brown and green cardstock.

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#133 Its a wrap challenge, wrapping paper, gifts and boxes etc

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 I have 4 delicious chocolate bars to show you.

Yes unfortunately only to look and not to eat, lol.

They are presents from my granddaughter for her kindergarten teachers.

She is celebrating her birthday,

 and in the Netherlands we give some treets to the teachers and children.

I decided to work with something with wings.

I've only worked with Distress Oxides.

I also used the beautiful stamps from Lost Coast Designs.

The sentiments are from Carmen's Veranda.

The mandalas are masks.

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These are the stamps I used.

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#130 Sentiments in focus.

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Hi there Riet here,

Today a card that is about the sentiment.

So I kept the environment of the text calm.

I used the Florish (large) with gold embossing powder.

A nice stamp that you can use in so many ways.

And of course my favorite sentiment from Carmen's Veranda, Child of the moon.

I started by applying 2 colors of ink to the background by running the card through ink with water.

Stamp the florish with versamark and sprinkle the print with the gold embossing powder.

Heat the embossing powder with the heat tool.

Colored the florish with pink and green watercolor paint and stamped the sentiment with a dark pink.

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Until next time and have fun stamping.

#120 Sentimentaly yours

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Hello dear visitors, today my (Riet) take on the challenge.

I used the LCD bubbles background stamp, 

and the CV, I am a child of the moon saying.

This is one of my favorite CV sayings.

But if you have some time, go visit the CV webstore.

Its stuffed with funny and lovely sentiments and sayings.

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This card is easy and fast to make.

You start with stamping with versamark the bubbles background.

Sprinkle white embossingpowder on the versamark print.

Then you start spunging with 3 colors distressink.

Now on a black piece of paper you stamp with versamark the CV sentiment.

Heat set the white embossingpowder.

Take a die cut you like and cut it out.

Glue the card on a white and a black cardstock. This gives it a bit of drama.

With some foamtape you glue the sentiment on.

Easy peasy, dont you think, and what a lovely effect it has.

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# 116 Winged things.

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Hallo everybody, Riet here.

How are you all doing. 

Hope you are crafting so you can join our challenge.

For this challenge "Things with wings", I made this dragonfly.

And this is how I made it.

This is what I used:

Large florish  

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

Dragonfly from the More bugs set.

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

I am a child of the moon

http://www.carmensveranda.com/clearstamps5all.html

Glimmermist

Key lime pie

Haunted shadows

Caribbian blue

Distress Micro glaze

Stazon black

white gellpen

Distress seedless preserves

Markers or pencils (what your preference is)

How its made.

I really love the glaze resist and use it a lot.

Just love the effect with ink on water base.

And its so easy to use and with great results.

So start with the glaze on your florish stamp.

I stamped it random on the paper.

Then I sprayed the glimmer mist.

It looks so jummie, and the colors blend so well together.

And I love the shimmer of the glimmermist.

Let it dry, I did not use the heattool this time.

The paper was very wet, and I did not want to lose the drops effect.

And how pretty is this and so easy.

Now we stamp the dragonfly on a thin peace of paper.

And color it as you like.

You can take the same colors as the background, 

but it is also pretty when you use different colors.

That way the dragonfly pops more.

I often use a gelpen on my art.

Just love the effect, as specially on the wings of dragonfly's or butterfly's.

It gives it just that little bit special look.

I went along with stamping the Carmen Veranda's child of the moon frase.

Cut it in 4 pieces and hit the edges with the seedles precerves ink.

So you see that you can use a stamp in many different ways.

Now glue everything on and your done.

The team and I would love to see what you can make with wings.

Show us please, join the challenge, and than you can win some rubberstamps.

The challenge runs till the end of the month.

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