Black and Gray Christmas

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

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Stamps Used:

Poky Cat

small snowflake set

I started out by cut a tag down. I then stamped the Poky Cat and colored it with copic markers. 

I then stamped a snowflake around the tag. 

Next, I added the tag to the gray snowflake paper I had for the base of the card.

#211 Christmas in july. Reindeer doll tag.

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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.

CV Reindeer doll.

LCD Music border.

LCD Party words.

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.

Here you can read another tutorial with this stamp.

I hope you enjoyed it, and if you want to join the challenge, click here below.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!!!

#209 No body here challenge. Vintage tag.

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Hi, Riet here with a vintage tag for the "No body" challenge.

These are the stamps I used.

LCD Pieces of architecture

LCD Pieces of calligraphy

LCD Perfume bottles set

 LCD Long swirl

LCD Misc words

And I used:

Distress oxide

 Victorian velvet

Bundled sage

Distressink

Antique linen

Walnut stain

Victorian velvet

Glimmermist pink.

distress glaze

foamtape

Die crealies xxl tag nr.6

First, we make prints using a Pieces of Architecture stamp 

by applying the Distress Glaze to the stamp with a sponge.

Then we apply the Victorian velvet ink and spray glimmer mist over it.

Apply antique linen to the edges with a finger sponge.

And repeat with walnut stain.

With Distress oxide bundled sage you stamp the script.

With the Distress Oxide Bundled Sage and Victorian Velvet, 

you stamp a number of perfume bottles.

Wait until the ink is completely dry.

Color the bottles with antique linen.

Use a finger sponge to color the edges with walnut stain.

For the background tag that we use as a mat, sponge with the Bundled Sage.

Stamp the long swirl with Victorian Velvet and sponge the edges with Walnut Stain.

Assemble the tag, giving the perfume bottles different heights.

Stamp the word "Beauty" from the misc words sheet 

and stick it on raised with foam tape. 

Thread a nice ribbon through the hole and you're done.

I hope you enjoyed it.

You still have until the end of the month to enter the challen

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!!!

So maybe I'll see you at the challenge.

Tree crown tag by Cathy

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Cathy here with a tag for you today.

Stamps Used:

small tree crown

background square

grunge diamonds background

I started out by making the background of the tag. I used distress stain and distress spray.

I then stamped the background with a 3 of the stamps. I just used the top of the tree crown around the edge. 

I then stamped the tree crown onto a separate tag and tore the bottom of the tag and edged it with some distress oxide. 

You still have time to join in the challenge.
 

Quick and To The Point

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Hello Portal Peeps!!   December is a busy month so it's  Anything Goes with stamping.  I've gone really simple and another bottle tag, cos it's a well received gift and looks properly dressed with a fun label.

I cut the bottle tag using an Avery Elle die and smeared the edges with tumbled glass distress ink.  I stamped the lady face from Lost Coast Designs Up Close and Personal and cut it out with a circle die.  The Carmen's Veranda sentiment was stamped directly on the tag and I added the face in the middle.

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hope you get some time to stamp and link up.  Share your stamped anythings with any theme for a chance to win.  We need at least 20 entries to award the prize, so get stamping and join the fun.

Hugz

Handle With Care

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!

 

Hello Portal Peeps!!   Gail here today with some inspiration for the Anything Goes challenge.   Share your stamped anythings with any theme for a chance to win.  We need at least 20 entries to award the prize, so get stamping and join the fun.

I've made a bottle tag using Lost Coast Designs Sleeping Gnome with Sign and Pondscum Background for added texture.  I cut the bottle tag using an Avery Elle die and blended various green distress inks.  Then I stamped the Pondscum Background using one of the darker greens.  I stamped the gnome on white card, coloured with markers and fussy cut.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hope you get some time to stamp and link up.  Hugz

Eyechart tag

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Cathy here with a tag for you today.

Stamp Used:

Gears2

ATC Italian postmark

Eye Chart

I started with some rust paper and stamped Eye Chart and cut it out. and then I made a tag using with distress inks to make the background. I then used Gears2 and stamped it a teal distress ink. I then stamped ATC Italian postmark in black ink around the tag.

I then Layered it on black cardstock and then added some die cuts around the tag. I did add some white splatter on the tag, but they are very small. 

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Color combo Challange. 

Fox tag

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Cathy here with a tag for you today.

Stamps Used:

Mona ATC window

Foxy Roxy

I started out with a white tag and some light pink distress ink to have a base color. I then took a Tim Holtz stencil and a darker pink distress ink to make rays. I took Mona ATC window and the same dark pink ink and stamped in the opening of the stencil. 

Next, I stamped Foxy Roxy and then colored him with copic and cut him out. I added him to the bottom of the tag and then I added some glitter hearts to the whole tags. 

You still have time to join the challenge.

Wintery tag

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Goodmorning, Cathy here with a wintery tag for you all.

Stamps Used:

CDRoly jester

Doodles circles

ATC Mona window

small snowflake set

I started out with a digital tag that I printed out. I then stamped the middle of the Mona window randomly on the background I did the same thing for the small snowflake set and the Doodles circles;

 

I stamped the CDRoly jester on white cardstock and colored it in with copic markers.

Lastly, I added a sliver pipe cleaner and some snowflake glitter to the tag.

Come join the fun.

Full of sunshine tag

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Goodmorning, Cathy here with a gnome tag for you.

Stamps Used:

Looking up gnome

grunge diamond background

I started out with coloring and cutting out "Ernest" that is what we named him here in our house. 

Then I took a tag and some distress inks and made a background. I used a light tan and a light gray color.

Next, I stamped the grunge diamond background on the tag in different spots. I then added some scraps of pattern paper to it. I edged it all with a dark brown distress ink. 

I then glued Ernest to the tag and added a number sticker to the top

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                                                 Come join the gnomey fun over at the blog.

31 Days of Halloween Day 19

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Cathy here with day 19

Stamps Used:

Spiderweb background

Frank

Bride of Frank

License plate alpha

Piece of calligraphy 

I started with 2 white tags and some orange distress oxide ink. I smooched the ink on the craft mat and dipped the tags in it.

Next, I stamped Piece of calligraphy   in brown oxide ink, and I edged the tags with the same color. After that I stamped Spiderweb background in the same orange ink.

I stamped Bride of Frank and Frank on white cardstock and colored it with copic markers and cut them both out.

I then stamped the 3 and 1 from License plate alpha

 on some dark cardstock with white ink.

After all of that I added some Halloween ephemera

Come join the Halloween month long challenge.