On Wings of Imagination

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!

Greetings! You've got Kathi here to share an encouragement card created for  January "Winged Things" Challenge #205 with the Edgar Allan Poe Rubber Stamp by Carmen's Veranda and the Murder of Crows Rubber Stamp Set by Lost Coast Stamps.

Here it is!

When I saw that January's challenge was Winged Things, I naturally had to create a card with some of my favorite birds. I love crows and ravens and magpies, which are all part of the Corvidae Family. Their plumage is usually majestic and they are really very intelligent birds. And when I think of crows and ravens, I think of Edgar Allen Poe.

I wanted to go greyscale with this card and am relatively pleased with the results.

I first stamped the Edgar Allan Poe Rubber Stamp by Carmen's Veranda with London Fog Memento Ink onto a panel of Bristol Paper then used Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp three of the crows from the Murder of Crows Rubber Stamp Set by Lost Coast Stamps. 

The images were all colored with Copic markers. A white Gel Pen was used to add the catchlights to Poe's eyes. A Black Glaze Gel Pen was used to add shiny eyes to the crows. 

I wanted to add a background to the image panel, so I stamped all the images again onto repositionable sticker paper, fussy-cut them, and placed the fussy-cut stickers  over their counterparts as masks.

A square die was placed facedown on the image panel and secured with low-tack tape. The die and image panel were run through the machine. The sandwich was flipped onto my work surface so the reverse was facing upwards. Low-tack tape was used to secure the die-cut image panel to the rest of the panel.

The panel was flipped again so that it was right-side up with the image panel still inside the die. Lost Shadow Distress Ink was brushed over the die onto the masked image panel die-cut. A stencil was placed over top and the Lost Shadow Distress Ink was sponged over the die and the stencil to add a subtle background.

The tape was removed from the front and the back of the die-cut image panel revealing a white-ish edge. The masks were removed to reveal the colored scene.

Black textured cardstock was cut with the next largest square die and used to mat the image panel.

The matted image panel was adhered to a white 6" square card. Sentiment stickers were added to finish the card.

You still have two days to join our January "Winged Things" Challenge #205 for a chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!

31 Days of Halloween Day 26!

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!

Greetings! You've got Kathi here today to share a card created for our 31 Days of Halloween Challenge! Can you believe that it's day 26 already and that we have less than a week before the big day?

My card features the Edgar Allen Poe Rubber Stamp by Carmen's Veranda. 

Here's the card!

Tuxedo Black Memento was used to stamp Edgar Allen Poe twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable label paper.

Copic markers were used to color Poe on the image panel. The sticker paper version of Poe was fussy-cut and placed over his colorful counterpart on the image panel as a mask. 

Lost Shadow, Milled Lavender, and Seedless Preserves Distress ink were sponged over the masked image onto the panel to create a background.

Nocturne VersaMark Clair Ink was sponged over the "Nevermore" Stencil onto the bottom of the image panel. 

I found a stencil with splats in my stencil stash and randomly sponged more black ink over it to add splotches and splats to the background.

The masks was lifted, the image panel was trimmed, edged with black ink, and adhered to a black 5" x 7" card. 

Since time is ticking away, just like a pendulum, you should gather your stamps, get inky, and play along with our 31 Days of Halloween Challenge!

Thanks for visiting today!

31 Days Of Halloween Day 24 - Do You Know What It Is Yet?

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! 

Good morning and a very happy Sunday. It's Sue here, and it's day 24 of our 31 Days of Halloween challenge. I can finally show you what I've been making. But first, here are my last 2 panels.

It's just not Halloween without Edgar is it?

And here's his favourite bird, the raven. 

This is what I've used today

Lost Coast

Agregate 

Goth Raven    and

Carmen's Veranda

Edgar Allan Poe

Skulls and Bones Background

Nevermore

And this is what I've been making.

It's a Flip Flap book! This is the inside.

And this is the reverse. Of course some pieces have to be upside down because of the flips.

With the top and bottom folded in.

With the sides folded in.

And with my Shakey shaker on the front when it's all folded in.

This has been such fun to make, and I hope you like it. Please keep popping across here for more inspiration every day this month.

Enjoy what's left of your weekend, and thanks so much for looking x

Edgar Allan Poe Strikes Again!

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, it's Dot here today with a tutorial for you
which is Poe inspired.  It is for our current Silhouette Challenge.

The Grunge Tree makes a sombre backdrop for Edgar Allan Poe.

And just for fun, the Zombie Chicken looks suitably scared.
The words are from Dogs Like Me.

Step 1:  Stamp Poe onto your card. And again onto some photo copy paper (cut out to use as a mask).

Step 2:  Mask Poe and then stamp the Grunge Tree. I've used brown and black Archival ink for this.

Step 3:  Make a circle mask using a circle die and place the mask above Poe's head.

Step 4:  On an acrylic block swipe some Tea Dye Distress Ink and some water and stamp this around the circle mask.  I've also blended a little Tea Dye ink around the edge of the moon so that it is more pronounced. Remove the mask.

Step 5:  Stamp the Zombie Chicken so that he is sitting on Poe's head and is placed in the moon spotlight.

Step 6:  To finish, stamp the words from Dogs Like Me in random places in the background.  I've used Aged Mahogany in Distress Oxides because it tones in with the browns and stamps crisply.  I've also stamped some extra words from ATC Text Set 1.  Trim the card down and mount onto black and white cardstock.  I've also painted some Tea Dye ink onto Poe's face for a little more effect, and some Black Soot onto the Zombie Chicken.

I hope you enjoy this card and have a go at making it.
Remember, we have a Silhouette Challenge  on until the end of the month.
You can enter by clicking here..
or pop on over to our facebook group and enter there.

Happy Stamping!

Dot x

Meet Edgar 31 Days of Halloween - Day 25

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!

Welcome to day 25! It's Sue here (again I hear you say) Halloween wouldn't be Halloween if there was no Edgar, so without further ado, here's the man himself.

Of all my Halloween project, this one was by far the faffiest, (haha Grammarly has thrown a strop over faffiest ) but I do like how it's turned out.

I've stamped Skulls and Bones Background onto black card and embossed in white. This is now a page in my cloth album.

Edgar Allan Poe has been stamped onto shrink plastic, and Goth Shrine has been stamped into various colours of UTEE. Nevermore Raven is a Carmen's Veranda clear stamp.

There's still lots of time for you to join in, so please link up! 

31 Days Of Halloween - share your Halloween projects - til 31st October

Animals Challenge -  use an animal - til 25th October

Have a fun day and thank for looking xx
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