Challenge #172 - Summertime - Beauty Fades

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Hello my inky friends! Roni here with my first card for the brand new challenge - #172 Summertime!

To get into the Summertime spirit of things I went bright...really bright for the background. This is out of my wheelhouse but I really like how it turned out. To begin I stamped Sun Tiles (Carmen's Veranda) onto a piece of white cardstock using VersaMark ink and  then embossed it with white EP.  I then had a bit of fun with pigment powders in Lime Green, Yellow and Orange.   I maybe over did it with the orange but with the powders you never can tell until you hit it with water - LOL!!  This piece was trimmed to fit an A2 size teal card.

Next I stamped the Swimsuit Girl onto a piece of cardstock and fussy cut her.  I stamped the Beauty Fades sentiment on a piece of the scrap (from the background), mounted it on teal cardstock and mounted both onto the card.

Where Sand Meets Sea

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Hello Portal Peeps!   Gail here.  Are you enjoying all the Tropical inspiration??  Some amazing projects from the team so far this month and some lovely entries in the linky gallery, but we would love to see more.  Anything tropical, and don't forget to stamp!   

Tropical always makes me think sun,sea and sand so another blue and yellow creation from me.

I blended a blue and yellow distress ink background.  I stamped the blue tone on tone with Lost Coast Designs Pondscum Background and the yellow tone on tone with Carmen's Veranda Sun Tiles Background.  I stamped, coloured and fussy cut Lost Coast Designs Swimsuit Girl, added her to the card and finished with Carmen's Veranda Live in the Sunshine sentiment.

You have until 23.59PST on the 14th to add your creation to the linky
for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars. 

S is for Sunshine

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Hello Portal Peeps!  It's the final day of our Things Beginning with S Challenge.  You have until 23.59 PST to add your stamped makes featuring S things.   I decided I needed some sunshine in my life and to make it more fun I made it rock!!

This is a very simple card using Carmen's Veranda Sun Tiles Background.

I stamped the Sun Tiles Background on yellow card using Dandelion archival ink.

I cut around the swirly sun top right so I could insert my sentiment strip which I stamped using a stamp from Lost Coast Designs Party Words.  I mounted the panel on a top fold card. trimmed the edges and rounded off the base so it rocks.   I have a large old saucepan lid I use for this purpose LOL.   Love this simple fun card.

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You Are My Sunshine!

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!

Today I wanted to share with you a fun background card that uses the beautiful stamp - Sun Tiles Background from Carmen's Veranda.

I created the card by first stamping the Sun Tiles onto a piece of white cardstock using VersaMark ink then embossing with white embossing powder.  I added color by scribbling Marabu Art Crayons over the entire panel using yellow, orange and a touch of red and blending with my finger.

That panel was trimmed then affixed to a red card base. The sentiment was printed from the computer, trimmed, matted and mounted on the card. 

Quick and easy but oh so pretty!

There's still time to play in challenge #101 - Background Forward!