31 Days of Halloween Day 10 - Welcome to the Crypt

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Hello Portal Peeps!!  Gail here for Day 10 of our 31 Days of Halloween extravaganza.

Today I'm using Cartoon Racoon.  He's new, and a real cutie, but I've spooked him up in Halloween style and he's waiting to welcome you to his mausoleum bwahhhaaaaaa!

I used Lost Coast Designs Cartoon Racoon, Large Tigger Shrine and Large Shrubbery Background with Carmen's Veranda When Witches Go Riding sentiment.

 

I made the background by stamping the Tigger Shrine with grey ink, masking and stamping Shrubbery Background both sides with black ink.  I gave the background a watercolour wash with blue and mauve distress inks.  Then I stamped the top of the goth shrine, fussy cut it and added it to the Tigger Shrine.

 I stamped Cartoon Racoon, coloured with distress markers and gel pens and fussy cut him.  I added him to the stamped panel and to finish stamped the last line of the Witches Go Riding sentiment on the lintel.

Submit your stamped anythings with a Halloween theme to the linky party by 23.59 PST on the 31st 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. 

Thanks for dropping by.

 

 

31 Days of Halloween Day 23 - Crow Fly By

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Hello Portal Peeps!!   Gail here with day 23 of our 31 Days of Halloween celebration.  Today I have made a slimline card with a few of my favourite Lost Coast Designs stamps.

I started with a slimline card made from some slightly dotty patterned card.  I stamped MRaven1 with black archival ink and masked it.  I stamped Drips Background using scarlet archival ink and goth shrine with London Fog ink.  I added some smudgy distress ink colour and part of Carmen's Veranda When Witches Go Riding sentiment.  

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.  A small stamped sentiment in a sea of die cuts or digi images will not qualify to win the prize and you may be deleted or fed to the giant pumpkin!!!!  Bwahahhaaahaha. 

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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.

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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Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

31 Days of Halloween Day 8 - Shake Your Shrine

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here today with Day 8 of our Halloween extravaganza.  I hope you are getting in the mood for the big day.  I decided to make a shaker card.  I heard you....yeah or nay??   I have a bit of a love hate relationship with shakers.  This one I love.  And no leaks!!!  

I've used Lost Coast Designs Goth Shrine ATC size.  I might need to get the supersized version, but then it wouldn't fit perfectly with this Marianne Design ribbon weave die.  I stamped the Shrine with black ink, coloured with distress markers and fussy cut.  I used a circle die to cut out the middle bit.  Don't lose that!  I die cut the ribbon weave panel from black card, wove with orange polka dot organza, highlighted the pierced border with a white gel pen and added some orange enamel dots.   I cut a piece of black foam slightly smaller than the panel and die cut a hole in them both to line up with the hole in the shrine.  I glued the foam and the panel on my black base card and then glued the piece I cut out of the shrine in the middle of the hole.  I added my sparkly bits, glued on a piece of acetate and added the shrine on top.  Spooktacularly sparkly.  Say that three times fast bwahhahahaha.

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$$$$.    

 

Check back every day this month for awesome inspiration from the team

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

31 Days of Halloween Day 15 - Ghost Cat

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Hello Portal Peeps!   I've gone a bit graphic and twilight zone with this one.  The old twilight zone, without colour bwahaahhhaahaaa.  We have just opened our midmonth challenge for those of you not in the spooktacular mood and it's a Cats and Dogs challenge so I just had to include the delightful Z-Sassy.

I stamped Lost Coast Designs Goth Shrine ATC on white card and added some black paint splats.  I stamped Z-Sassy on the panel, to get the details, then stamped again on a scrap of white card and fussy cut her.  I stuck the fussy cut cat in place, stamped the sentiment and layered it on a black panel and put the whole thing on a black card base.  Done!

Remember you have two challenges to choose between now so link up your makes for a chance to win!
 

7th day Of 31 days of Halloween. A Halloween spool.

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Hi everyone, do you also like a challenge, I do.

Especially with a Halloween theme.

Join the Lost Coast Designs and carmens Veranda Halloween challenge and you might win a prize.

Now my DT contribution.

I chose to make a Halloween spool.

I used these stamps from Lost Coast designs.

Goth shrine, 

Spiderwebs background, 

Long swirl, 

Dancing skeletons

 Checkerboard rustic border.

I also used a number of dies such as the fence and the bats.

And with a circle die with a scalloped edge I made the circles with green paper.

I stamped the circels with black ink and the Long swirl stamp.

I colored the Goth shrine with Tombow markers.

Then stamped the spiderwebs background with black ink on orange paper.

On a transparent sheet I stamped the dancing skeletons with stazon jet black.

Then I colored the skeletons with a white posca marker.

I colored the fence and the bats with tombow markers.

I decorated the rest with some moss, spider web, pumpkins, spiders and a skull.

I had a lot of fun making this Halloween spool.

 Now the LCD team would love to see your work in the challenge.

So maybe until next time. 

Click here for the challenge.

Poe Neon

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Hello Portal Peeps! Gail here with a bright and beautiful Artist Trading Card. 

I started by cutting a red ATC base (3.5" x 2.5").  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Goth Shrine ATC on white card with Cactus Flower archival ink and coloured with Salty Ocean, Twisted Citron, Wild Mustard and Spiced Marmalade distress markers.  I fussy cut the shrine and added it and a tiny strip of white card edged with Cactus Flower ink to the ATC.  Then I did a bit of tricky masking and stamped Carmen's Veranda Nevermore Crow, minus his nevermore, on the shrine.  I used a white gel pen to make his coloured bits white.  

Thanks for dropping by.  You still have a couple of days to link up your neon stamped makes for a chance to win.

Starry Starry Night

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 Good morning and a very happy Monday. It's Sue here with my second piece for our Things With Wings challenge, and I've made a journal page.

I knew that I wanted to use Steampunk Icarus as my main image and in a Starry Night homage.

I started by stamping and embossing the circles from Leonardo Accessories in yellow, but they turned out to be a sort of burnt orange. The Cracked Grass and Sky was embossed in white. My journal is textured watercolour so it can take loads of water, which is my next stage.

Then dipped and dried (many many times) in the blue distress inks. They resisted the ink beautifully, but I wasn't a fan of the colour of the circles so I stamped them again, cut them out and added them to my background.

I added some yellow Portfolio pastels, and

was much happier with this, so now on to the main images! 

I collaged some book pages and gave it a coat of gesso then I stamped my row of houses onto it using the stamping platform.

And it was an epic fail! The texture was too uneven for all of the stamp to hit it. That made perfect sense after I'd spent an hour of my life that I would never get back doing it!

So, on to plan B! Stamped onto my super smooth card and coloured with Distress Inks. Then my favourite - fussy cutting - shoot me now. I've heard that some people actually enjoy this ?????? But, they do look nice when they're done, don't they!

This is my leading man - Steampunk Icarus who today has flown too close to the moon! The moon is actually the centre part of the Goth Shrine.

I typed up the sentiment on my computer and added to the page.

These are the stamps that I've used. They are all by Lost Coast, and can be found here.

Cityscape

Goth Shrine (moon)

Steampunk Icarus

Leonardo Accessories

Cracked Grass and Sky (this would come to you in one piece, I'm terrible for cutting up my stamps - sorry not sorry!

And there we are, all done! It's not quite as it was in my head, but then again I'm no Leonardo! Don't forget to join in with our challenge, just feature something with wings! Have a great day, and thanks so much for looking x

31 Days of Halloween Day 6, Pirate grave tutorial.

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Hallo dear reader. 

Riet here.
Do you already have the creeps for Halloween?
Well with this tutorial you will shiver and tremble with fear, AAAARRRRRGGGGHHH!!!

hahaha!

Lost Coast Designs Stamps I used.

Articulated Skeleton,
Goth Shrine,
Bird on Bike, 

Distress ink walnut stain - frayed burlap - antique linen.
Stazon timber brown, jet black.
Alcohol ink caramel and mushroom.
Viva decor inka gold, gold brown and gold.
Dark brown acrylic paint.
Small sponge, paint brush.
Aluminium foil.
Glue and hot glue gun.
Cardboard.
Stamping tool.
Water based markers (zig/tombo), dark brown, shades of beige, dark and light grey.
Watercolor paper.
Sizzix sizzlits docorative strip die, Ironwork gate.
Fake cobweb and some embellishments.
I used the little rum bottle, a pirate sword, pumpkin, metal charm skull.
Moss, make sure it is dry.

Step 1.
Cut and score your cardboard like this photo.

Step 2.
Take the aluminium foil and wrinkle it.
Don't flatten it but keep it a little bumpy.
Glue it on the cardboard with a glue gun.

Step 3.
Paint it dark brown with acrylic paint.
And make sure it is dry.

Step 4.

With a sponge you take some of the Viva Decor gold brown,

and wipe lightly over the brown acrylic paint.

do the same with gold, but only on some spots.

It should look like the ground is turned over.

Now let it rest so everything can dry very well.

Step 5.

The metal charm needs a little sanding and gesso or any primer will do.
Let it dry thoroughly.

Step 6.
Colour the charm with the alcohol ink, until it looks rusty.

 

Step 7.

Stamping the goth shrine.
Now take the stamping tool, and the watercolor paper.
We proceed as follows,

1. stamp with distress antique linen the entire stamp.
2. repeat this with the frayed burlap, but now only some pieces of the stamp.
3. And for the last step you take the dark brown marker and use it direct on the stamp.

But its only for the shadows, so I did it on the edges and corners of the stamp.

 

 Step 8.

It is time to color in the accents and details with the markers and the waterpencil.
I was going for a weathered wood look.
If you want a stone look then you can do it with grey tones.

Step 9.
Now its time to stamp the big skeleton parts.
The upper and lower arm pieces, each 1 time.
Both hands 2 time, so there are 4 hands.
And 2 skulls.
When you cut out the parts, leave a piece of extra paper.
This is necessary to glue them together.

Step 10.
Now comes the tricky part.
Assemble the skeleton so that it looks like he wants to steel the charm.
Glue all parts on.
Cut of the remaining pieces of paper.

Step 11.

Die cut the fence and color it with the distress ink as shown on the picture.

 Step 12.

 I coloured the skull and hands that rise up from the grave a bit darker.
After all, they have been buried in the ground for a long time.
Now we are going to put it all together.
Fold the narrow side back and glue together.
Glue the headstone to the front.
I made a little cardboard support on the backside.
Glue the skull and hands on the grave.
Take pieces of the fence and glue them on the sides.
Glue on the moss and your embellishments.
Stamp the bird on bike with black stazon and cut of the crow.
Glue it on the tombstone.
With a black piece of paper you can make an eye patch for the skull.

Well I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, have fun with stamping.
And don't forget to join our challenge, we love to see your cards and projects.
And you can win a very nice prize.