31 Days of Halloween Day 6

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Hello everybody, its Riet here with a fun Halloween card. 

What I used for this card.

LCD Carri's Dracula.

LCD Spiderwebs background.

Versafine Onyx black.

Derwent chromaflow

Happy Halloween die.

Bats die.

Ranger stickles, Diamond and Cranberry.

An easy card today. The background was stamped using the spiderweb background stamp

and VersaFine Black ink. I stamped the Dracula image and then colored it with Derwent Chromaflow pencils. I added eyes to the bats using red Stickles. And I applied Diamond Stickles to the "Happy Halloween" die-cut. Everything was attached using foam tape.

Take a look at Carri's Monsters stamps, they are so much fun.

The team would love for you to join the challenge. 

You can win new stamps.

So, invite all your stamping friends, too.

You have the whole month to participate, 

and your projects don't necessarily have to feature our stamps.

However, they must include stamping.

(Read the rules first.)

Can't wait to see what you create!

Have fun!

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31Days of Halloween, day 26 whirly wheel dancing skeletons.

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 there, Riet here.

Today is my last Halloween entry for the

 Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda stamps  Halloween challenge.

I made a whirly wheel card with dancing skeletons.

I just love this skull and bones background stamp from Carmens Veranda stamps.

And this is how to make the card.

I used.

Carmens veranda, skull and bones background

Carmens veranda , When witches go riding

Lost Coast Designs, Rustic checkerboard border

Lost Coast Designs, Dancing skeletons

Versafine onyx black

Distress Oxide crackling campfire andVillainous potion.

Black fineliner.

For the whirly wheel I used a die set, to assemble the card, you can look up a video on YT.

How to make the card.

I started by stamping the skull and bones background onto white paper with oxide villainous potion.

Now isn't this an awesome background stamp.

While the background is drying, we continue with the dancing skeletons.

We stamp these with Versafine onyx black.

Let them dry and then cut them out.

We make the mat 1/2 cm larger than the card on all sides.

Continue with the Distress Oxide crackling campfire and the rustic checkerboard border stamp.

Stamp the border 4 times.

Cut them to size and glue them onto the mat.

Mat this with a green mat and a black mat.

Stamp the last line of the text on a piece of paper left over from the border.

Assemble the card so that the dancing skeleton emerges from the top of the card.

Now it looks if the skeleton is dancing.

Stick the text and the larger skeleton onto the skull and bones background with foam tape.

And that's it, I hope you enjoyed it.

The challenge runs until October 31st.

So there's still time to participate and have a chance to win a prize.

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31 Days of Halloween Day 1

 

Hi there, Riet here, with the opening of our Halloween/Day of the dead challenge.

Do you enjoy Halloween/Day of the dead as much as I do?

I'm sure so, who doesn't love these holidays?

Join our challenge.

There ar free rubberstamps to win.

How to make this card.

What I used.

LCD stamps,

Flowers

Long swirl

Butterflies set

White nose sugar skull

White gellpen

White posca

Versfine onyx black

Derwent Intense pencils

Stamp the skull in the middle of the card.

Stamp the flowers.

Masc the skull and flowers and stamp the swirl.

The entire card was created using only Inktense pencils.

So if you love coloring, this is a really fun card for you to make.

I started with the background, 

and in the photo you can clearly see the difference

 when the pencil comes into contact with water.

I made shadows with purple on the swirl.

After coloring, I added dots to the swirl with the white Posca pen.

I also added the butterflies.

 With a white gellpen you can make some accents on the flowers and butterflys.

I darkened the top a bit with purple.

I have to admit, I got carried away with the coloring and forgot to take more photos.

Hope you liked the tutorial.

Perhaps you're also making Halloween/Day of the Dead crafts with stamps.

Feel free to join the LCD/CV challenge.

You can even enter with other brands.

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31 Days of Halloween Day 30

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Greetings and salutations! Kathi here to share a card created for Day 30 of the 31 Days of Halloween Challenge!

Here's my card created with the Day of the Dead Angel Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.

The Day of the Dead Angel Rubber Stamp comes in two sizes. I've used the larger of the two for my card. The Angel was stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, fussy-cut, colored with Copic markers, then edged with a black multi-liner.  I should note that I Intentionally cut off her halo and the fringe at the bottom of her skirt when fussy-cutting the Angel. 

A white gel pen was used to add highlights to the pupils of her eyes. A black glitter marker was used to add sparkly details to the fine black lines on her wings, skirt, and the buttons of her bodice. The completed Day of the Dead Angel was set aside while I created a suitable background for her.

A panel of Mixed Media cardstock was sprayed with water. Black and Grey Brusho Powders were sprinkled over the wet paper and allowed the powders to activate The background panel was misted with more water to further spread the Brusho powders. A paper towel roll was rolled over the the panel to sop up the excess water. The panel was heat set.

The Remember This Story 6x6 Stencil was placed over the ink-stained background, Nocturne VersaFine Ink was brushed over the stencil onto the background panel, then heat set. 

Low-tack tape was placed over most of the rays of the Super Hero Rays 6x6 Stencil, the stencil was positioned near the top of the background panel, and Golden Glitz Delicata Ink was sponged over the stencils onto the background panel. 

The image panel was trimmed to 5" x 5".  Black and white floral washi tape was adhered to the bottom of the panel then the Delicata and VersaFine Clair Inks were used to edge it.

A piece of white cardstock was trimmed to 5.25" square, Golden Glitz Delicata Ink was sponged around the panel's outer .25" perimeter, then heat set. This panel was used to mat the background panel. 

 The Day of the Dead Angel was adhered to the background panel so that her head would be within the gold stenciled rays and the bottom of her skirt would be on the washi tape.

The card front was adhered to a black 5.5" square card.

I sure hope that you've played along with our 31 Days of Halloween Challenge! 

Thanks for visiting today. Have a safe and fun Halloween. Enjoy your Day of the Dead Celebrations!

31 Days of Halloween, day 20.

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, Riet here with a Iris shutter slimline card.

Hi there, today I have an iris shutter card for you.

Made with the super cute gnome witches from lost Coast designs.

This is what I used to make this card.

Mini Gnome set 5.

Gnome witch on broom.

Spiderwebs background.

Checkerboard rustic border.

CV When witches go riding.

Iris shutter die (Elizabeth crafts Designs.)

Flying bats die.

Pumpkins die.

Slimline frame (Marianne design)

Halloween stencil (BOO and pumkin face).

Distressink,

Musterd seed,

Twisted citron,

Spiced Marmelade,

Picked rasberry,

Seedless preserves,

Dusty Concord

Black water resistend ink.

White gelpen,

Red posca marker

Black marker.

Color pencils.

How to make the card.

Start by die cutting all the iris shutter parts.

Ink them up as shown on the photo's.

Put all the parts aside and let them air dry. 

Do not use a heat tool. 

The shutter parts will warp and they need to stay flat.

Punch a 1.5 inch cirkel and stamp the little star with.

Color the background and the witch.

Color the edge with Dusty concord.

Assemble the iris shutter as explained on the packaging.

Draw a pumpkin face on the iris shutter with the black marker.

We splash some Seedless preserves on the top ring of the shutter and sponge the word BOO on it.

Glue it to the iris shutter.

Stamp the witch, spiderweb, text on the pink background.

And the checkerboard above and below the purple background card.

Give the stamps accents with the white gel pen.

Assemble the iris shutter further as stated on the packaging of the die.

Can't figure it out? Then look up a video on YouTube.

That will help you through it.

I decorated with bats and pumpkins, but you can of course do that to your own taste.

I had a lot of fun making this card.

I'm curious to see what you make for Halloween.

Feel free to show us on the LCD/CV Blog or Facebook.

You'll then join the challenge and have a chance to win new stamps. 

How cool is that? 

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31 Days of Halloween Day 14. Halloween explosion box.

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 there, Riet here.

I made a Halloween explosion box. 

I love the halloween stamps from lost coast Designs.

Stamps I used:

Lost coast Design

Pieces of calligraphy

Pieces of archtecture

Long swirl

Grunge tree

Spiders web

Four ravens

Goth raven

Evil eye

Witch 2

Crows border

Carmens Veranda

CV Winged skeleton

Other stuf for this explosion box.

We R Makers explosion board

12x12 200 grams paper

61/2 x 61/2 200 grams paper

halloween stencil

Bleach

posca markers

white gellpen

Dylusions paint

Lemon zest

Tangerine dream

Dylusions sprays

crushed grape

polished jade

cut grass

tangerine dream

versafine onyx black

distressink black soot

I made the box using the We R Memory makers explosionbox board.

I took the XXL size for that.

Take sturdy paper, I used 200 grams.

 With the Dylusion paint Lemon zest and a 

ink blending tool or a sponge you can now make the paper completely yellow.

Using a baby wipe and the dylusion paint tangerine dream, 

lightly wipe over the yellow.

Now we will stamp the box with Versafine onyx blacke.

You can do this with any black waterproof ink.

Now pay close attention! A mistake was easily made.

Place the box unfolded in front of you,

be careful not to stamp the image upside down.

Start with the top center square and stamp your image.

Now turn your box a quarter turn to the right and stamp the next center square.

You do this a total of 4 times.

The lid is also stamped this way.

Because I found the color of the box a bit boring, 

I decided to spray some of the dylusions ink sprays on it.

I sprayed a little too much for my liking, so take it easy with the sprays.

I stamped the inside of the box with the spider web background stamp.

Always make sure your ink is completely dry before turning the paper over.

Otherwise you will get smudges.

Now we are going to bleach certain parts in the stamps.

I prefer to work with a cheap synthetic brush.

Your brushes are suffering quite a bit from the bleach.

Once everything is dry, we continue with applying some colors with the posca markers.

A few accents here and there is enough.

You can also add some accents with the white gel pen.

Now we are going to fill in next to and around the 4 sides with stamps.

This we keep in black ink.

With a Halloween stencil and Black Soot distress ink, 

I added some decorations to the inside of the box.

With an ink blending tool and Black Soot distress ink, 

I added some shadow to the edges of the box.

A witches hat and some other little Halloween stuf in the middle.

With flying bats on a strip of mica.

And that's it, you can decide for yourself the decoration in the box. 

You probably have something in your stash that you can use.

I hope you enjoyed it, and if you have any questions please let me know.

Well for the challenge, the team would love it if you would participate.

And that is even allowed with stamps from other brands.

It's so much fun and you can win a prize too.

So click on the link and join in.