Are You Kidding 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! You've got Kathi here sharing my second card created for May's Are You Kidding Me? Challenge 197. I've used "Angel Girl" (my name for her) from the new Cartoon Kids Rubber Stamp Set by Lost Coast Designs and the Medium Keyhole Rubber Stamp by Carmen's Veranda.

Here it is!

Use a stamping platform and Memento Ink to stamp the Medium Keyhole twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version so that you have a piece that will cover the area around the outline of the keyhole and cut it again along the outside border of around the keyhole. You should end up with three masks, one for the area around the keyhole, one for the outline of the keyhole, and one for the keyhole itself.  

Position the Angel Girl stamp from the  Cartoon Kids Rubber Stamp Set facedown in the aperture of the keyhole, then use Memento Ink to stamp it twice — once onto the image panel and once onto repositionable sticker paper. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version of Angel Girl and place it atop its counterpart on the image panel. 

Place the keyhole mask and the keyhole outline mask over their counterparts and sponge metallic gold and metallic black/gold inks over the masks to create the brass door plate/escutcheon. Thoroughly heat set the ink.

Cover the area just inked with the repositionable sticker paper mask. It will butt up against the outline mask. 

Remove the mask from the keyhole, but keep the mask over Angel Girl. Brush light purple, light pink and light blue dye inks over a cloud mask to create a cloudy sky in the aperture of the keyhole. 

Remove the mask from Angel Girl and from the outline of the keyhole. Color the keyhole and Angel Girl with Copic markers. Use a clear glitter pen to add glitter to her wings and trails under her feet. Use a gold glitter pen to add gold glitter to her halo, her wings, and the trails under her feet. Use a white gel pen to add highlights to her eyes.

Remove the mask from the outside of the keyhole. Trim the image panel/keyhole plate and edge with a grey marker. Use a black chalk pencil to add a slight shadow around the outline of the keyhole. Trim a piece of gold metallic cardstock so that it's slightly larger than the image panel and use it to mat the image panel. Add gold circles to the four corners of the doorplate/escutcheon.

Use a wood-patterned embossing folder to emboss grey/blue cardstock. Place the embossed cardstock between copy paper and run it through the die-cut machine to flatten it. Brush gold metallic ink lightly over the embossed cardstock to hit the hight spots.

Trim the panel to 5" x 7" and adhere to a 5" x 7" grey/blue card.  Edge with the gold metallic ink, then heat set the card thoroughly.

Sponge the same blue and pink dye inks used previously onto a sentiment sticker. Adhere the sentiment sticker to the card front, then adhere the image panel to finish the card.

Remember that you still have time to enter our May Are you Kidding Me? Challenge for the chance to win Lost Coast Ca$h!

31 Days of Halloween: Day 4

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 Kathi here on Day Four of the 31 Days of Halloween Challenge to share slightly scary card with you. My card was created with the Clown with Balloon Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs and the Medium Keyhole Rubber Stamp from Carmen's Veranda. 

The Medium Keyhole stamp was stamped twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper. The sticker paper version was cut on the inner outline of the Keyhole and placed over its cardstock counterpart to mask the outside of the keyhole while keeping the center open.

A clouds stencil created by a friend was placed towards the top of the opening of the Keyhole. Stormy Sky and Dusty Concord Distress inks were sponged over the stencil onto the cardstock. The stencil was moved downward and shifted, then the same inks were sponged over the stencil. This process was repeated until the opening in the Keyhole was filled with a stormy cloudy sky. 

The Time Tunnel Stencil was placed over the opening of the Keyhole and London Fog Memento Ink was sponged heavily in the center of the tunnel and lighter as the tunnel went outwards.

The repositionable sticker mask was removed. Copic markers were used to color the outside of the Keyhole to look like brass. When that was done, the keyhole was fussy-cut and edged with a dark marker. Red alphabet rub-ons were used to add a sentiment to the bottom of the opening of the Keyhole.

The Clown with Balloon stamp was stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento ink, fussy-cut, colored with Copic markers, fussy-cut, and edged with a black pen. I wanted more balloons, so the corner of the the Clown with Balloon stamp was inked with Memento ink, stamped several times, fussy-cut, and colored with Copic markers. A white gel pen was used to add highlights to all the balloons. The colored Clown and balloons were set aside.

Lightning Black Brilliance ink, a brassy looking ink, was used to ink a piece of mixed media cardstock to look like an escutcheon. The panel was trimmed, edged with Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink, and heat set. Halloween Idea-ology Rub-ons were used to add sentiments to the upper left of the panel.

A 5" x 7" panel of light grey cardstock was embossed with a wood-grain embossing folder, adhered to a 5" x 7" light grey card, and edged with Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink.

The Clown with Balloon and the extra balloons were adhered to the Keyhole as shown. The Keyhole was then adhered to the brass escutcheon and the wood paneled card.

I sure hope you play along with the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's 31 Days of Halloween Challenge!