Elephant card

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Good morning, Cathy here with a fun elephant card for you today.

Stamps Used:

Misc. anthropomorphs

Cheesecloth background

I stamped the elephant on a Kraft tag and edged it with some brown ink. 

Next, I stamped the Cheesecloth background with the same brown ink on a blue card base. I edged the card base with the brown ink. 

I then added some ephemera around the card.

 

Hello

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!

Cathy here with a fun card for you today.

Stamps Used:

doodle circle background

misc. anthropomorphs

My card is a great way to use up your scraps and clean ups from other cards you were making. 

I started with a sheet of clean up cardstock from something I was doing before. I cut it down to be a top folding card. Next, I stamped doodle circle background on it. 

I then used some left-over circles die cut from who knows what?  and stamped 2 of the misc. anthropomorphs inside the circles. Edged them with some black ink.

I then added a black strip of leftover cardstock down the front of the card and added the 2 stamped circles on top of it.

Lastly, I added a hello die cut. 

Today is the last day to join the challenge here.

Man Cave: Friends

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Hello everyone, Liesbeth here with two weird men ;-) for our Man Cave Challenge. There is still time left to participate and to win a prize.

Stamps used: Misc. Anthropomorphs, Big Anthropomorph Birds, Misc. Words.

I made a background using Infusions powder and water (Brusho or Bister also works!) onto watercolor paper. I dried it well and I stamped the two ,men' with black StazOn ink. Using bleach, I bleached the men and after drying I coloured them a bit with colour pencils. I made shadows around them with a charcoal pencil. I stamped the word ,Friends' on a separate piece of paper, cut it out and glued it onto black cardstock. I sponged the edges of the card with black ink and glued the piece onto a piece of black cardstock.

Hope to see you next time 😀

Liesbeth XX

Use Some Words and Embrace Your Weirdness

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Hi everyone,
it is Dot here with a tutorial for you using alcohol inks.
This fortnight's challenge is to use words
and the main ones used is this card are from 'Stay Weird'.

Step 1:  Using glossy cardstock put some blending solution onto your card, dripping a few drops of blue, yellow and green alcohol inks.

Step 2:  Carefully tilt the card around allowing the ink to move in different directions.  I like to keep it away from the edges if I can.  You can repeat this if you wish, it gives even more interesting effects with the alcohol inks. It's great fun just to play with this technique.

Step 3:  A harlequin stencil was used to add blue archival ink through in random areas.  This helps to extend the colour outward into the white areas.

Step 4:  Mask off the words from the 'Stay Weird' stamp.  Use 2nd generation stamping, with the same blue archival ink, stamp these words in random places.  Again, extending the blue outwards.  Repeat with a yellow archival ink.  

Step 5:  Stamp 'Stay Weird' onto black cardstock with Versamark and white emboss the words. Trim and sketch around the edge with a white gel pen.

Step 6:  Randomly stamp the gorgeous scrolled writing from ATC Text Set 1 onto the background.  Stamp a couple of your crazy characters from Isle of Aud Animals and Misc. Anthropomorphs onto some photo copy paper and cut them out. Adhere them to your background.

To Finish off ... Doodle a border with a black finer pen. Flick a little white paint to the background if you wish. Attach the finished piece to your folded and scored black cardstock.

Extra notes:  To get the fine detail of the giraffe I've stamped it first onto the background with archival ink. Then when cutting out the giraffe I've simply cut straight down the outside of it's neck. When you place your cut out of the giraffe over the top the fine detail is easy to see.  No fussing cutting of giraffe mains was necessary. 

A quick reminder that you still have a couple of days left in order to enter our challenge here,

or over on facebook.

USE SOME WORDS

Happy Stamping!
Dot x