Foolish Mortals tag

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Cathy here with a tag for you.

Stamps Used:

Numbers border

Travelers set

Butterflies set 

ATC set 6

I started off with a #8 white tag and I used distress oxide spray on the background. I then stamped Numbers border on the side. 

I then stamped a ticket stamp from the Travelers set on the bottom. Next, I stamped a butterfly from the Butterflies set on white cardstock and cut out. I found a paperdoll and added the wings to the back and glued him to the bottom of the tag. 

Lastly, I stamped randomly text from ATC set 6 in the same distress ink all over the background. Added a saying and ribbon and we are done. 

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Vintage/steampunk tag

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Cathy here with a vintage/steampunk tag for you

Stamps Used:

Daisy Flourishes

Pieces of Calligraphy 

I made the tag with distress oxide sprays in browns. Then I stamped Daisy Flourishes in black ink in the middle of the tag. I then stamped Pieces of Calligraphy   in brown distress oxide ink randomly around it.

I then added some steampunk bits. 

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Pink Roses plus bonus card.

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!

Cathy here today with 2 cards for you.

Stamps Used:

Roses

Ballerina with stars

For my first card I made a simple card. I stamped the Roses in pink ink added it a flower roses pattern paper and layered that on pink cardstock.

Added some pink flat back pearls and there you have your card number 1.

The second one I got inky. I grabbed a few pink color distress oxide sprays and made a background. 

Then I took a stencil and added some red ink to it. 

Then with the same red ink I stamped Ballerina with stars in the center.

Next, I added some washi tape and a saying and added it to a front of a card base.

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31 Days of Halloween: Day 31 Happy Halloween

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Cathy here with a slim line card for you today.

Happy Halloween👻👻

Stamps Used:

Gnome Witch On Broom

Witches Go Riding

I started off by making the background with some distress spray in ink, oxide and mica. Die cut panel to fit on front of a slim line card base.

Next I stamped Gnome Witch On Broom and colored her with copic markers. Cut out. Added to the front. Stamp Witches Go Riding saying on white cardstock and layer on black, add to front. 

Lastly I added a die cut spider to the saying. 

Today is the last day to enter the challenge here.

31 Days of Halloween: Day 15 Flat slim line shaker card

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Cathy here with day 15

Stamps used: 

Gnome witch with no stars

Pieces of calligraphy 

Fly from the bugz set

Flying birds

I started out with some watercolor paper and distress oxide spays and some distress spays in Halloween colors. I then cut it with a die cut to make it into a slim lime card front. Next I stampedPieces of calligraphy  randomly on the background I also did that with the   Fly from the bugz set and the Flying birds but with this one I cut one of the birds from the background stamp so I could use only one. 

Then I stamped and cut out Gnome witch with no stars and colored her with copic markers. 

To make the flat slim line shaker I took a shaker pocket and covered the front and taped up 3 of the sides of it. Then I added my shaker Halloween mix and some rat confetti that I had. 

Use some red liner tape to tape  Gnome witch with no stars to the front of the shaker pocket after you sealed the last of the pocket and then you then add it to the front of the slim line card base. 

I used red liner tape for that also.

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Movie Nite

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Good Morning Cathy here with snacks for the movie nite.

Stamps Used:

Sherlock

Oz witch

Alfred Hitchcock 

I started out with a Kraft fry box. I used distress oxide sprays on it to color the whole thing. I dried it with a heat tool so I could move on to the next part. 

I took some texture paste and mixed some black gesso into it. Grab your favorite stencil and put the paste through. I did it on the front and back. Set aside to dry. 

 

I then worked on coloring the images I was going to use to decorate the box. I stamped out all the ones I wanted and then I used my scan-n-cut to cut them all out.

Next I colored them all with copic markers and decided where I wanted them.

I put Sherlock on the front. I then used a computer printed saying for movie nite.

I used glue and tape to hold them down over the texture paste.  

For the back I stuck Alfred Hitchcock and Oz witch I also have some texture paste on the back. 

I stuck some candy and a package of microwave popcorn in the fry box. 

I hope you like my take on Movie Mania. 

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Let coffee choose

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 Cathy here with a card for you today.

Stamps used:

Praying angel

Pieces of Calligraphy 

Power of coffee

I just started playing with some distress oxide sprays and a distress spray stain. I just knew I wanted to use the new distress mica stain. You can't see it in the photo but it is the gray in the background. I sprayed them directly onto the paper and then took another piece of paper and placed it on top so I get 2 for 1 with that. 

 Next I stamped Praying angel in black ink on it. After that I stamped Pieces of Calligraphy in gray ink around it.

Lastly I stamped Power of coffee saying on black ink and white heat embossed it. I cut it apart and added to the card. I felt the saying went perfectly with the image.

                                                            

I hope you will join the fun challenge. 

Neon Pink Tag

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Cathy here with Neon tag for you.

Stamps used:

mini crowns

postage set

manga tophat goth

I started off with a tag. I used distress oxide and distress sprays in pink. I did ink smooching with it.

Next I took Gina k electro pop neon ink and stamped  mini crowns on the background. next I took postage set and did the same thing. 

Last I stamped manga tophat goth with the same neon ink on white cardstock. I then cut out and glued to tag. I then added a saying to the top. 

I hope you join the challenge here.

Mail Art

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!

Cathy here with some Mail Art 

          Stamps Used:

                                                     Pieces of calligraphy 

                                                     Postage 

                                                     Butterfly set

                                                    Grunge diamond background

                                                   Mail art

                                                   Door and window set

I made this first one with the left over gouache. I painted the envie and let it dry. I then went and picked out my stamps I wanted to use, When I the gouache was dry I painted the white address boxes and dried that. I then stamped Pieces of calligraphy  , Grunge diamond background , Butterfly set and Postage  randomly all over the envie in black ink. I took a fine tip black marker and drew lines around the address boxes. 

 

For my second one I made I used distress spray inks and oxide for them. I have 2 pinks one of them is the oxide a orange and a yellow. Then I splattered some teal ink on it.

This one I stamped the   Door and window set over the address label. I had a mask on it. I used a pink oxide ink. Then I stamped   Grunge diamond background, Mail art randomly in it. 

 

I hope you will join the fun with this new challenge of mail art on the blog. 

Christmas in July

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Cathy here with some Christmas tags for you
Stamps Used:
Reindeer gnome
Pompom gnome
Sunglasses gnome
CDRolly jester 
Pieces of Architecture
Small snowflake set

I started off with some Kraft tags and some distress oxide sprays. 

 One I drippled the the sprays from the the bottle. Set aside to dry. I stamped Pieces of Architecture only on the blues ones. I really didn't like how it came out. You really couldn't see them.

On the second tag I took all the splatter and smooched it on to the tag. On both of them I stamped  Small snowflake set  with blue ink.

 I repeated the same steps for the green and red tags.

Then all the tags were dry I stamped out my main images and cut them out. Then I decided where there were going on the tag and then colored them with Copic to match the tags.
Layered them with washi tape and glitter. 

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Also the sale is still going on at Lost Coast and Carmen's Veranda. 25% off.

Slimline card

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Cathy here with a slimline card for you.
Stamps used:
Cherry blossom
Asian set

For you today I have a slimline card. It's the new 'it' thing. Everyone is making them. It's a card that can fit in a business size envelope.
I started out with some watercolor paper and some distress spray and distress oxide spray. I made a few backgrounds with this. I used one of them for the first card I shared with you.

I then took the writing from the  Asian set and some water and stamped it on the background.  It took some of the background away and gave a ghost print.
Next I took the Cherry blossom stamp and some black ink and stamped it on top.

 I heat set that and mad sure everything was dry before I went on to the next step. I stamped the Buddha from the Asian set with some Versa mark ink and embossed it with gold embossing power.

When that was done I made a card base and added the watercolor piece to it .

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Also the sale is still going on. 25 % off.

Bouncing Blue Ballerina on Bubbles tag

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Hello all Cathy here with a Bouncing Blue Ballerina tag.
Stamps Used: robust dancer
 Small butterfly from set
Bubble border 

I started out by using a mix media tag. I sprayed some blue Distress Oxide on the tag with some gold shimmer power. (you really can't see it). Adding water and more spray to get to a background I like. Set aside to dry.

Next  stamp robust dancer on white cardstock and color with Copic markers. Cut out. set this aside.

 Then on blue pattern paper stamp Bubble border . Cut out.
Next glue the border on the bottom of the tag. Next layer the ballerina on top of the bubbles.
Stamp Small butterfly  with blue in randomly over the tag.  Color ribbon with blue and gray inks. Add blue glitter as a final touch. Edge with black ink to tie it all together.

There you have your Bouncing Blue Ballerina on Bubbles.

Come join the challenge here. You have a chance to win some rubber bucks...

Pearl ATCs

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Hello all Cathy here with some ATCs for you.

Stamps Used:
Window and Door set
Fortune Men set

This first one I used glossy cardstock and Distress Oxide sprays. I wanted to see if the sprays would stay on the glossy paper.  It did.  I did wipe off the Oxide (cloudy) film with a baby wipe.  I stamped the door from Window and Door set with archival ink so it would stay on the glossy paper. Trim it a little to fit on a black ATC base.

Stamp a image from Fortune Men set on white paper and cut out. Add to front then and a saying.

 For my next one I wanted to try the Alcohol Pearl ink. Here are some of the ATCs I made with the AI Pearl and regular Alcohol ink.  Can you see the shimmer.

For this one I used the window from the  Window and Door set.  Stamp it with archival ink. Trim it down to fit on a Black ATC base

Stamp the wizard from  Fortune Men set on white cardstock. Color in and cut out. Add to front and also add a saying.

Come join the ATC challenge here