#180 In the deep mid winter challenge.

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Hi there, Riet here.

 Its a lovely challenge, love the winter theme.

I hope you will join the lost coast designs challenge.

You have a chance to win stamps.

And let's face it, who wouldn't want that.

Now the step by step of this winter landscape.

What I used for this card.

LCD Grunge tree large

(used only the tree)

LCD Cityscape large.

LCD Lycaonia

Moon face.

 Stazon 

Midnight Blue.

Jet Black

Saddle brown

Distressink,

Dusty concord

Musterd seed

Chipped sapphire

Stormy sky

Tumbled glass 

Distress oxide,

Weathered wood

White gelpen.

Markers or color pencils.

I started with 3 strips of paper that were torn off.

Sponge along the paper edges with the Distress Oxide Wethered wood.

This way you can make beautiful snow edges.

I also use these strips as masks when I stamp the cityscape.

I stamped it with stazon midnight blue.

Now choose a place where the moon should be and

use Distress ink Musterd seed to make a yellow spot slightly larger than the moon stamp.

Stamp the moon with the Stazon Saddle brown.

Now we are going to create the sky with ink blenders.

For this we take different colors and build up, from light to dark, as shown on the card.

I used these distress ink colors for this

Dusty concord, Chipped sapphire, Stormy sky, Tumbled glass.

Well, because I only thought about using the Lycaonia stamp at this point, I stamped her on a thin paper, colored her in and glued her on later.

But before I glued her on I first stamped her on the card so I knew exactly where to place her.

Stamped the trees with Stazon black.

Now finish with the white gel pen. Make stars in the sky and snow on the tree branches.

I hope you enjoyed it and join us in the challenge. The more who participate, the greater the prize.

And you can even participate with stamps from another brand.

You can read all about it in the rules.

Midnight Cowboy

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Hello Portal Peeps!  Yee haw!!  Gail here with a final bit of inspiration for the Bling It Up Challenge.  Christmas is the season of bling so I rolled out Carmen's Veranda Snow Cowboy.

I used a piece of dark glitter paper for the background.  The Moon and Snow Cowboy were stamped and embossed on silver glitter card.  I used the same glitter card to emboss the sentiment and cut it with a stitched landscape die.  This silver glitter card is one of those non-shed types.  It's a type of plastic and if you overheat it can become less glittery.  I overheated around the sentiment for a faux panel.  After embossing the moon and cowboy I coloured with Promarkers.  I think it's best to use a dabbing technique on glitter to protect the nibs.  Then I fussy cut them and added them to my midnight scene.

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31 Day's of Halloween, Day 4, Witches shoe tutorial.

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.

Halloween is a real American celebration. 

But in recent years you see Halloween more and more in other countries. 

I think it's because of the internet and movies. 

It's just so much fun dressing up and escaping the daily things of life. 

But I love how the Americans celebrate it, all those beautiful decorations, amazing. 

So I thought, I will make something that can be used as decoration. 

And after a scavenger hunt on Pinterest, I saw the cute witch shoes. 

 I had bought a template of a shoe years ago and never used it. 

So now is a great opportunity to use it.

This is a list of the thigns I used.

Lost Coast Designs stamps:

Fourth dimension

Moon face, Just faces set

spiderweb background

witch 2

Carmen's veranda,

Witches go riding

Distress Oxide:

spiced marmalade

Seedless Preservers

distress ink:

spiced marmalade

Seedless preservers

twisted lemon

antique linen

Mustard seed

Distress micro glaze

Versafine onyx black

some ribbons

Plastic mini pumpkins

decorations

dry moss

Toothpics

black paint or paint marker

This is how I made it.

I started with drawing and cutting the template.

On the toe part of the shoe I stamped the fourth dimension background with Versafine onyx black.

When it is dry, sponge it with Distress antique linen.

Sponge the sides of the nose with Distress Ink Spiced marmalade

The sides and back of the shoe are stamped with Spiderweb stamp,

 and Distress micro glaze.

Then sponged with Distressink Twisted citron.

And the edges with Distressink Seedles preserves.

Sponge the insides of the shoe with Distress Oxide spiced marmalade .

With a sponge with a with open structure I made little spots with Distress oxide Seedles preserves.

Now it is time to glue the shoe together.

Whyle the shoe is drying,

we are going to stamp the witch and the moon with versafine black.

We color the stamps with distressink.

Take 2 toothpicks and paint them black.

Gleu them on the witch and moon.

We stamp the sentiment on paper and run it through a die cut machine.

If you don't have one, you can probably cut something out yourself.

Sponge the die cut with Distressink twisted citron and spiced marmalade.

Now we are going to finish the shoe with ribbons and embellishments.

You can decorate according to your own idea.

I hope you found it a nice tutorial.

Our team would love it if you would participate in our Halloween challenge.

This runs until the end of the month, and al brands are allowed to join.

You have a chance to win free rubberstamps.

The challenge.

Please read the rules first.