31 Days of Halloween Day 19

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Cathy here with day 19

Stamps Used:

Spiderweb background

Frank

Bride of Frank

License plate alpha

Piece of calligraphy 

I started with 2 white tags and some orange distress oxide ink. I smooched the ink on the craft mat and dipped the tags in it.

Next, I stamped Piece of calligraphy   in brown oxide ink, and I edged the tags with the same color. After that I stamped Spiderweb background in the same orange ink.

I stamped Bride of Frank and Frank on white cardstock and colored it with copic markers and cut them both out.

I then stamped the 3 and 1 from License plate alpha

 on some dark cardstock with white ink.

After all of that I added some Halloween ephemera

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31 Days of Halloween Day 15

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Hello Portal Peeps!   Gail here today with some bootastic inspiration for the 31 Days of Halloween celebration.  If you are a regular visitor here you are possibly aware of my love for Frank and his famous friends by Carmen's Veranda. 

I've used a card shape called a Floating Centre Panel Gatefold, which I found the instruction for over at Papercrafting with Paul.  I adjusted the dimensions to accommodate the stamped images I used, so this is a slimline version.  I used Lost Coast Designs Fourth Dimension for the background and floating band, Carmen's Veranda Hourglass on the two gatefold end panels and the lovely Carmen's Veranda Frank as the centre piece.  This is how it looks, flat for sending.

And here he is, popping out to woo you with his handsomness.

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31 Days of Halloween, day 10

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Today I made a trick or treat basket. 

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Lost Coast Designs and Carmens Veranda stamps.

You can find patterns for such baskets on the internet.

I used a box that had blueberries in it.

What you need to make the basket.

LCD stamps, Spiderweb background, Frank and Franks bride.

Black water-resistant ink

White ink pad

Halloween design paper.

Black sturdy paper, I used 200 grams.

Colorpencils

White gel pen

Red posca marker

Letters to make the trick and treat words

Halloween embellishments

I started by tracing the container on black paper and cutting it out.

I covered it with Halloween paper but left the front and back free.

I then thought it was a bit bare and decided to stamp the spiderweb background.

In hindsight I would have preferred to do that with white embossing powder.

That's for another time.

Stamp and color Frank and his bride and color them.

Cut them out and glue them onto the basket.

Embellish the basket however you like.

Don't forget to put the Trick or Treat on it.

That's so much fun.

Now isn't this a fun Trick or treat basket?

And so easy to make.

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Santa Frank

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Hello Cathy here with a fun holiday card for you today.

Stamps Used:

Frankenstein

Two gnomes

Small snowflake set

I started out with stamping Frankenstein and Two gnomes. I colored Frank in with copic markers and then cut out. Next, I cut off one of the gnomes hats and colored it. 

I added some glitter fun foam to the bottom of the hat with a holly sticker and a little white pom-pom to the top. I then glued them onto a music scrap that I tore around and inked the edges with brown distress ink. I stamped 1 snowflake form the Small snowflake set in the same brown ink around the whole background. 

I layered that on some Christmas cardstock and added some Christmas ephemera to the front of the card.

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31 Days of Halloween Day 17 - Mummy and Frank Play Tic Tac Toe

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Hello Portal Peeps!   Gail here today for day 17 of our spookfest here at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.  I've made a game!!!!!  And learnt that canary yellow is maybe not good staging for photographs.  Ah well....... here's my Mummy and Frank themed tic tac toe

 

 

I started with an MDF tic tac toe kit.

You need 5 of each piece so I stamped Lost Coast Designs Frank and Mummy on white shrink plastic.

While waiting for ink to dry I stamped masses of different stamps from Lost Coast Designs directly onto the base board using midnight blue archival ink and masks.  Any gaps I filled in afterwards with sky blue archival ink and all the stamps from Pieces of Calligraphy.  Added a few Flying Monkeys from Carmen's Veranda at the top and I used Lost Coast Designs Gargoyle, Witch Cat, Goth Shrine, MRaven1, MRaven2, Dancing Skeletons, Sugar Skull with Flower and White Nose Sugar Skull.

Then I glued the edge and divider pieces in place.

I coloured the images stamped on the shrink plastic with distress markers and sharpies, fussy cut them and shrunk them with my heat gun. 

I thought the X's and O's looked a bit plain so I stamped them with two of the text stamps from Pieces of Calligraphy and glued the shrunken Mummy's and Franks in place.

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Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

31 Days of Halloween Day 13 - Frank Says Trick Or Treat

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Hello Portal Peeps!!   Gail here today with some sweet Halloween inspiration.

Oooh, Friday the 13th!!!   Hope your day has been full of good luck and happy things.  

I'm sharing a treat holder I made using the awesome Frank by Carmen's Veranda

Just enough room for a fleet of raspberry Ferraris!!!

 

I started by cutting some arches and long pieces out of black card using dies.  I have a box die that cuts the frilled edge for making circular boxes, but a straight scored piece of card folded to make a right angle works for straight edge boxes.

I stamped Frank twice, gave him a sparkly green watercolour wash and fussy cut him both.

I glued the Franks on the arch pieces and used the long frilled bits to join them together.  I added some orange and brown wool handles and stamped Yourba Adire background on a couple of orange pieces to pretty up the sides.  Add your chosen candy and ready to go!

Link up your Halloween inspired projects.  Anything related to the season, spooky, fruity, fun, scary or cute.  Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars$$$$.    

 

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9th day of 31 Days of Halloween

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Hello everyone, Riet here.

 Are you already in the Halloween mood?

Here is my card for the Halloween challenge at Lost Coast designs.

If you feel like it, 

you can also participate in the Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda challenge.

You can also participate with stamps from other brands.

But be sure to read the rules about that.

Now to the card and how it was made.

What I used:

Spiderwebs background,

Frank,

Bride of Frank,

Witch 2,

CV When witches go riding.

Dylusions ink sprays.

Crushed grape,

Cut grass,

Squeesed orange.

Versafine black

Versamark

White embossingpowder

skintone marker

white gellpen

Distressink black soot

Distressink Seedles preserves.

I started with 2 pieces of paper.

Just plain paper and a coated one.

You can really see the difference, and I chose to use the left one

 and use the other for another project in the future.

It was sprayed with Dylusions ink sprays.

Crushed grape,

Cut grass,

Squeesed orange.

With Versafine black I stamped Frank and his bride on a piece of paper. 

And colored them with the dylusions.

The skintone is a marker.

While Frank and his bride are drying, I continue with the background.

I'm going to stamp it with the cobweb background stamp.

But because I don't want to do the whole background, 

I tear a piece of tissue paper and put it where I don't want a cobweb.

Now I stamp the cobweg with the Versamark.

and sprinkel some white embossingpowder on it.

Melt it with the heattool.

With Distressink black soot  we make the edges dark.

We now stamp the text of Carmens Veranda Stamps with versafine black.

With a little black ink we make some splashes.

Cut and glue Frank and his bride on the card.

For the witch I used a piece of paper that I first lightly sponged 

with Distressink Seedles preserves.

Then stamped the witch with versafine black

and added accents with a white gel pen.

Frank and his bride also received some accents with the white gel pen.

Maat the card with black and it is finished.

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 would love it if you would join us at the challenge.

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#166 Paper piecing, Halloween style.

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Good morning dear blog readers, Riet here.

Today my second contribution to the "Paper piecing" challenge.

I chose a Halloween theme.

The LCD stamp Frank is so much fun and definitely suitable for paper piecing.

Here is the explanation for this Halloween banner.

What I used:

Lost Coast Design, Frank.

Lost Coast Design, Spiderwebs background.

Lost Coast Designs, Rustic checkerboard border.

Carmens veranda, Witches go riding.

Stazon black,

Distressink Black soot,

Versafine onyx black.

Die with bats.

Markers or pencils.

Designpapers with a small print.

Black paper for the bats.

Orange paper for the bottom half.

Purple paper.

Foamtape.

Now we strart.

I started with a basic cardboard in point shape.

For the top half I took an orange paper with a fine print.

And for the bottom an orange paper stamped with the spiderwebs background in stazon black.

I tore the top of the spiderwebs paper,

 and applied some Distressink black soot with an ink blending tool.

 

Now we glue the two halves on the white cardboard in point form.

Ad some Distressink black soot with an ink blending tool on the edges.

Now we stamp the Rustic checkerboard with the versfine.

With the versafine I stamped the text from Carmens Veranda On a purple die cut.

Ad some Distressink black soot with an ink blending tool on the edges.

First we stamp Frank on white paper with stazon black.

Color only his head.

Then we stamp Frank on three different design papers and cut out all parts.

We cut out the white frank in its entirety.

That is the base where all clothing pieces are glued on.

With a purple pencil I colored the details.

The pockets are done eith a small piec of paper.

I gave Frank gloves in the same paper as the shoes.

I stick the text and frank with some foam tape.

Glue the bats and glitter stars on the text label.

Make two holes and thread a piece of string through them.

So you can hang it.

I hope you liked it.

Our team cordially invites you to join the challenge. 

It's so much fun and you also have a chance to win stamps, so join us!

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I wish you good luck in the challenge.