Courage, Wisdom & Promise ATC's

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!

In keeping with Challenge #54 - Mini Me I wanted to make one of my favorite mini forms of art...ATC's.  Ink Stained Roni here with a fun technique using Marabu Art Crayons.

It's always fun to play with new toys and I recently purchased a set of Marabu Art Crayons just to see what they would do and oh my...are they ever fun!  

I started off by rubbing different colored crayons directly onto my rubber stamps. 

I misted them with water and let it set for about 10 seconds or so.

I then pressed the watery stamp onto a piece of watercolor paper and let it set there for another 10-15 seconds to make sure the paper soaked up the color.

When I removed the stamp I was left with a really cool watery image as you can see.

I then stamped directly over the image using VersaFine Clair - Morning Mist (gray) to give the image some definition.

Next I scribbled some of the crayons around the images, spreading it around and blending them together with a waterbrush. 

After it had dried I used a white gel pen to add a bit of pen work surrounding the image, stamped & added the words and called them good!

It was fun to see how the colors from the stamp floated over the paper creating haunting and sometimes eerie colored images.

It was fun to choose the words for each card...at first I was thinking heart, mind and soul but I wanted something a bit difference and settled upon these.

Hope my little cards inspire you to join in on the fun!!

Stamps:

Misc. Words
Flaming Heart
Phrenology Heads

ATC Hands Set

Challenge #54 - Mini Me
June 1st- 14th
Lost Coast Portal to Creativity

You have until June 14th to link up your entries

Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Thursday, June 14th at 5 to Midnight 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.

CHALLENGE #54 MINI ME

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.  It's time for our new Challenge.
Our challenges are now fortnightly!  A new challenge starting the 1st and the 15th of every month, with chances to win your self some 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.

Now for our new Challenge!

CHALLENGE #54

MINI ME

We want to see small stamped makes for example ATC's, Moo's, Inchies, Twinchies, Bookmarks, Tags, etc.  NO CARDS PLEASE!!. 
Please remember we do have some Challenge Rules to follow so look them over 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 your entry counts as two which doubles your chances of winning in our Design Team Faves prize drawing.

PRIZES

To ensure you all have a fabulous time playing in our Challenges this is how our Prize system works!
The more entries the better the Prize so tell all your friends to join the fun too!

1 - 4 Entries = one Winner voted by the DT is awarded our Challenge Winner's Badge
5+ Entries = Random Winner will receive a $5 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV
10+ Entries = Random Winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV
and all winners get our snazzy Challenge Winner's Badge to proudly display on their blogs!

If you don't have a blog then no prob, 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.  If you are using Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps you can now also link up your challenge entry in the Lost Coast Official Fan Group on facebook.  There is a challenge album in photo's.  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! 

Here's some inspiration from the team to get us started.  ENJOY!

SUE made this gorgeous tag using Carmen's Veranda Flaming Heart

RONI made this really cool Carmen's Veranda Not My Monkey matchbook

which contains Carmen's Veranda Sock Monkey shrink plastic earrings!!

GAIL made some bright and fun Artists Trading Coins using Lost Coast Designs Mini Manga set, Shooting Star Background and Carmen's Veranda's Words

Now it's your turn, are you up for the challenge?  We can't wait to see your projects!  
Submit your entries in the linky party below by 5 to midnight PST on the 14th 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. 

Ready, steady, stamp!!
Gail
Challenge Host

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