A Flying Monkey Kinda Day

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Hello Portal Peeps!!  Gail here today with some Animal inspiration.  I decided to make a collage of a few different stamps that probably never usually occupy the same space.  Sometimes you just have to stamp!

On a white piece of card I stamped Carmen's Veranda Flying Monkey Background with grey ink, Lost Coast Designs Domino Border with black ink, masked and stamped Lost Coast Designs ATC Doodle Flowers with grey ink.  I cut the panel with Daisy Mae stitched distressed arch die and stamped Carmen's Veranda Baby Elephant with grey ink, just to get his hair.  I stamped the elephant again on white card, fussy cut and added him to the card.  I stamped the Thinking of You from the Party Words set and layered it on black card.

Thanks for dropping by.  You have until the end of the month to link up your stamped anythings featuring animals for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.

 

The Flying Club

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Hello Portal Peeps!    Happy Easter!!  Hope you have chocolate!!!

Gail here today with a art journal page.  It's been a long time since I have worked in my art journal but when I started looking at flying themed stamps I tried a few different ideas.  And then I decided to put them all together in a glorious collage.

My starting point was Lost Coast Designs Flying Pig.  I decided to make an ATC with a brusho sprinkle background and the Carmen's Veranda Art Wings To Fly stamp.  The pig was stamped, coloured and fussy cut and I glittered the wings. 

One ATC seemed lonely so I stamped Lost Coast Designs Gnome Witch On A Broom on a piece of white card, watercoloured with distress inks and cut with an ATC die.  I fussy cut around the end of the broom so it would protrude outside the ATC when I die cut. 

Then the ideas were flowing.  I stamped Carmen's Veranda Bullseye on a piece of offwhite card and ripped the edges.  Then I fingerpainted with Worn Lipstick distress ink to add some patches of colour.

I stamped Lost Coast Designs Flagstone Background on a scrap of patterned card and stamped Whimsical Flora directly on top.  Then I selectively coloured for a stained glass look.  Tron is another stamp which is excellent for this technique. 

Then I turned to my journal page.  These are a pale yellow pages.  I started by putting some distress inks on an acrylic block, spritzing with water then using bubble wrap to stamp the colour on my page.  I used a few different distress ink.  Then I stamped a border with Lost Coast Designs Dominos Border

Then I put it all together.  

I stamped some Dictionary Words on cork and embossed with black embossing powder and found some more cork embellishments to finish the page.

 

I hope you like my art journal page. 

 You have until 23.59 PST on the 31st to join the Let's Fly fun and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month so do pop over and see what they are doing.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Art Doll

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Hell all Cathy here with a Art Doll for you.

Stamps Used:

ATC faces set

Dominos border 

Cherry Blossom 

I started out making the background with the last two new distress oxide inks. Cut out a body shape. I then stamped Cherry Blossom  on the body in one of the same ink. 

Stamp ATC faces set and then I added some of the 2 new ink colors for that. Cut out. Add to the body. Stamp Dominos border on Kraft and cut out and add to make "wings" from them. Lastly add some washi tape and you are done. 

Come join the fun challenge here. 

Bottle Cap Art Doll

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Hello all, Roni here with my first inspiration post with Lost Coast Designs & Carmen's Veranda for the Stamped Background challenge.  I love Lost Coast Designs ART Doll and I wanted to coordinate the stamped background to her by using the Domino Border.

I started off by stamping the Domino Border over and over on a white card panel using VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink. It dries very quickly and is permanent once dry so it's perfect for using with Nuance pigment powders.  After the ink had dried, I sprinkled on the powders and wet to activate. The panel was set aside to dry.

I stamped the ART Doll  onto a piece of white cardstock again using VF Clair Nocturne. I also stamped a second doll face and domino on a scrap of white cardstock at the same time. The images were colored using a waterbrush and Memento Dye inks. I then die-cut the image from the cardstock.  I smashed a bottle cap and colored it with a pink Sharpie, after the ink had dried I glued the face onto the bottle cap and covered with a layer of Sparkle irRESISTible Pico Embellisher. The domino was affixed to the doll with double stick foam.

The domino background panel was affixed to a black card blank, the ART doll die cut image was added to the card and I finished if off with a few matching gemstones.  I hope this card has inspired you to create your own stamped background project for the challenge!

There's still time to play!!!  Be sure to link up your image to the Stamped Background Challenge for your chance to win Lost Coast dollars! 

Doggy Dreams More

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Hello.  Gail here today with some more inspiration for the CAS challenge running here at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.  The linky closes at midnight 30th November so get out your stamps and inks, but remember to keep it clean and simple.

I stamped and embossed Lost Coast Designs Drake Dog and coloured him with neon gel pens and distress inks.  I masked him and stamped the Domino's Border and the Carmen's Veranda sentiment in dark blue dye ink, and the Face with Feathers with blue chalk ink.  That dog is just so cool and he knows it!!

In case you haven't seen, there is a Black Friday Sale over at Lost Coast Designs and you can save 20% on your whole order (before shipping) until midnight PST Sunday November 26th, so hop over and shop yourself a bargain.  Put Black Friday in the comment area of your order to receive the discount.  And don't forget to add your CAS creations to the challenge.  If the linky is not playing then just leave your link in the comments and we will add it to the draw to win Lost Coast dollars.

Thanks for visiting.  Hugz

One of Your Five A Day

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here with some ATC's and an idea for your border stamps.

I've used Lost Coast Designs Dominos Border, the central image from Lost Coast Designs Large Tigger Shrine and the fantabulous sentiment from Carmen's Veranda.  Have you checked out the Carmen Veranda clear sentiments??  They rock!!

I started by cutting my ATC's from black card using a Sizzix die.  Then I stamped the Dominos Border 6 times on each ATC and embossed with white powder.  I edged with versamark ink and embossed with white powder again.
Psssst!  This border stamp is on sale at $1!!!  What can you get for $1???   Some beautiful 8" long Borders at Lost Coast Designs!!   Go check em out!  

I stamped the Large Tigger Shrine and fussy cut the central image.  There are so many details on this stamp.  Isn't that a fun little art doll?!  I stamped the Apple A Day sentiment, cut it up a bit and edged the pieces with black archival ink.

Solitude can be good.

 Fruit and exercise.  Sounds healthy.

Thanks for visiting.  Why not join our On the Border Event for a chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.  Use your border stamps in an unusual way.  Or maybe even a usual way!!   See you there.  Hugz

Born To Stand Out

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Helloooo and happy Wednesday, it's my turn to share my 'borders' project for our latest event.

I've used glossy card and alcohol inks for the background.

Then I stamped Spray Webbing and embossed in white.

For my borders I've used Diamonds and Dominos.

I've paper pieced the middle guy from 3 Waiters and given him a hat from the Party Hats 2 set.

The sentiment is one of Carmen's Veranda clear stamps.

I've really enjoyed my play with border stamps this month, and of course they're not just for borders, I made a fab (if I do say so myself) background with the numbers here.

So now it's your turn, please join in with our fun challenge for the chance to win $'s to spend in the online store.

Have a wonderful day, and thanks very much for looking xx