Showing posts with label Music Border. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music Border. Show all posts

Thursday, July 16, 2026

#211 Christmas in july. Reindeer doll tag.

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!

 

Dear blog visitors,
I created this tag for the challenge at Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps.
The challenge runs until the end of the month, 
so if you have made something with a Christmas theme and used stamps in it, come and join in. 
You are allowed to participate even without LCD/CV stamps.
Please read the rules regarding this.

Now, here is how the tag was made.
What I used for the tag.
Distress Oxide:
Ground espresso
Uncharted mariner
Bundled sage
Speckled egg
Abandoned coral
Viva decor Ice effect
Ranger Stickles Cranberry
Stencil with stars

How its made.
I started with the
Made stains with water and Distress Oxide 
Uncharted mariner
Bundled sage
Speckled egg.
Build that up starting with the lightest color.

Keep going until you like the result.

Stamp the reindeer doll with Ground espresso.

Now we take the music border and cut off one piece.
Lost Coast Designs borders are generally quite long.
I really like that; you can often cut off a piece to use as a separate stamp.
Stamp the music border here and there with Ground espresso.

With the ice effect from Viva Decor and the stencil, 
you create stars in the open spaces.

Put the tag away and let it dry thoroughly.
In the meantime, we color the reindeer with the Distress Oxide.
I do this with water, as if it were watercolor paint.
I put a little bit of red Stickles on the hearts of the bows.
Cut her out; you don't need to cut the antlers as well.
They are so thin that it would never turn out nicely.
That is why we stamped the reindeer onto the tag first.
Glue the reindeer onto the tag and mat the tag with brown.
Insert a brown ribbon and you are done.



I hope you enjoyed it, and if you want to join the challenge, click here below.
GO TO THE CHALLENGE!!!

Saturday, May 16, 2026

#209 No body here.

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, its Riet here with a new tutorial.
 
For this challenge I made a collage card.

LCD rubber stamps I used.

Versafine onyx black
Distressink
Broken china
Scattered straw
Spiced Marmelade
waterbased markers in the same colors.
thick black marker
15cm x 21 cm watercolor paper.

Start by stamping the three collage stamps in black.

Mask them off and continue filling the empty spaces with the other stamps.


We color the background with water and the distress ink.

We fill in the empty spaces further with the smallest script stamp from the Pieces of Calligraphy.
We do this with Distress Ink Broken China.

For the dictionary stamps, take a piece of paper and color it with the distress ink.
Stamp the dictionary stamps with versafine black onto the paper

 
Color the stamps with the markers.

Cut the words to size and trace the edges with a black marker.
Matt the card with black.

And then the card is finished; it also makes a nice Art Journal page.

I invite you to join the challenge.
There is a prize to be won.


Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Are you kidding me? : Two baby flower faces


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 lovely people! Today I would like to show you a small card with two baby faces. Last week I was trying out marbling paint together with our oldest granddaughter Lorèn, we had so much fun! Sometimes we had to clean the water with a piece of paper and this background is one of that cleaning scraps. A happy accident!
 

I stamped the faces and the texts on the card and  I finished the it with white gel pen, colour pencils and charcoal. 
HERE you find everything about this challenge Are you kidding me. Give it a try, why not!? 😀


Hope to see you next time!

Liesbeth XX


Thursday, December 24, 2020

Winter blues: Merry Christmas!

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!

I think blue is the perfect color for Winter/Christmas! And so is our Winter Blues challenge! I made this card onto a glossy card, I started with an alcohol ink background and using black StazOn ink,  I stamped Lycaonia, the text (party words) and I stamped the Music border 4 times at the edges. I highlighted  the image here and there using white Color Box ink and a q-tip. I finished with the white, yellow and blue gel pen for some accents.


Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy creative and healthy 2021!!
Liesbeth XX