31 Days of Halloween Day 15

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!

 

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.

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.

 

A Collage of Blokes and Black Friday Deals

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!

Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here today.  Have you been shopping all the Black Friday weekend deals???   Don't forget to check out both the Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda websites and use the codes below for 20% off and free US shipping.   Linda hasn't forgotton our international fans so you can order and get 20% off and get domestic shipping prices.  How awesome is that???!!!! Grab your codes and shop.  But first, a little inspiration from me..........

I am back from my annual trip to the old country and I think Mr Mojo is still in the holiday mood cos it was a bit of a slow start with this project.  I knew I wanted to use Carmen's Veranda Salvador Dali stamp, and that gave me the idea to go bit crazy.  So I just grabbed a whole slew of stamps and made a masculine themed collage.

I started by stamping Carmen's Veranda Salvador Dali, masking and then stamping Carmen's Veranda Hourglass with black archival ink.

I masked the Hourglass and stamped Lost Coast Designs Weeping Man, Magic Dictionary Words and the chief from the Mayan Hieroglyphs with brown archival ink, masking each image as I went along.  Then I decided to fill in the background using the Mayan Stele stamp.

I stamped the Mayan Stele three times with grey archival ink and unmasked everything!!!
Scary moment LOL.

Hmmm, not bad! I coloured the images with Promarkers and gave the background a Brusho watercolour wash.  Then I used a square stitched die to cut my panel to size.

I inked the edges with brown archival and mounted on a brown base card.  I decided also to add some more blue to the Magic panel, to make it blend in a bit more.

OK, that's it from me.  I'll be back tomorrow with a new challenge so get stamping and link up your For The Men inspired makes by midnight tonight for a chance to win Lost Coast Design dollars!!  And don't forget to use the Black Friday codes and grab yourself a bargain.  Hugz