31 Days of Halloween Day 5

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Hello Portal Peeps!!   Gail here today with some inspiration for the most bootastic time of the year and our 31 Days of Halloween celebration.  October is also breast cancer month so I've gone pink with my make.   I have upgraded TaDa Mouse to rat status and he's running through the pink ethereal forest brandishing clown hand puppets!!  Coulrophobes beware......... 

 

I started by stamping Carmen's Veranda Kukla and Ollie on white shrink plastic.  I added some red promarker colours, fussy cut them and shrank them.  Here you can see the size difference between the unshrunk and the shrunken versions.

I stamped a panel of white card with Lost Coast Designs Trees Background using Cactus pink ink and gave it a pink watercolour wash.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs TaDa Mouse on white card, added some promarker colour and fussy cut.  I cut straight through his hands to extend his arms a bit and added the two shrink plastic puppets and a few die cut bats.

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In The Deep Midwinter - Let It Snow!

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What's the Deep Midwinter without snow???

Today our little gnome friend is lobbying for a bit of the white stuff!

I started off by inking up a piece of white cardstock with various Distress Oxide inks. I then stamped the Trees background over top I added a bit of glitter to the trees here and there to mimic a bit of snow on the branches.   I then hand cut a couple snowdrifts and added a bit of ink and glitter.

I stamped the Front Sign Gnome on a scrap of white cardstock and colored him with Clean Brush Markers and wrote the little message on his sign. I finished him off with yes - more glitter (you can never have too much glitter - lol!!).  He was then fussy cut and affixed to the card using foam tape to make him pop off the background.

Do you have snow where you are for Christmas? 

We alas are having a warm and rainy Christmas...no snow in sight but we'll not let that dampen our spirits!

Good Morning

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Hello Portal Peeps!!   Gail here today with some quick and easy inspiration for the Silhouette Challenge.   

I made a simple background using distress ink.  I die cut a circle in a scrap of card to mask for the red/orange sun and then blended a little orange and blues to make the sky.   I stamped Lost Coast Designs Trees Background with black archival and cut the panel with a stitch die.  I edged with black and mounted on a base.  Quick and easy!   Sentiment choice is undecided.  I thought birthday? thanks? hello? sympathy??   A useful card to have....

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Merry Christmas Gnomie

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Greetings Portal peeps!!
Gail here today and I am super excited to share my first card with the awesome
new GNOME stamps!!!   Oh My Goodness!!  Have you ever seen such cuteness!!
I have made a fun christmas card with Profile Gnome,
who I really think needs to be called What's Up??

OMG!  OMG!!  OMG!!  Who knew I was a secret Gnome addict!!

I started by stamping Lost Coast Designs Trees Background on dark grey card using white pigment ink.  This was a very juicy ink pad which gave an interesting effect with this silhouette stamp.  I'll be investigating that at a later date......  I added silver embossing powder and took some of the left over ink off the stamp with a paper towel and smeared it between the trees for a snowy effect.

I stamped the Gnome with grey archival ink on white card, coloured with Promarkers and fussy cut.  I did a bit of die/fussy cutting with piece of light grey card and a fancy tag die to get my curious shaped tag.  I stamped Merry Christmas from Lost Coast Designs Party Words and added some glitter glue and a green star brad.

Thanks for visiting.  Don't forget to check out the new stamps and also link up your stamped tags or stamped projects that include tags for a chance to win Lost Coast $$$$$'s. Linky open 1st - 14th February.

31 Days of Halloween: Day 11 - Happy Frank - O - Ween!

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We're movin' right along on our 31 Days of Halloween.

Today I have a frightful bit of sweetness for you...
Frank wandering around in the spooky woods wanting to wish you a
Happy Frank - O - Ween!!!!

The background for this card was made using Lederhosen Laurel Magical Shaker from Lindy's Stamp Gang. I love this color...it's bright and beautiful AND it's full of shine and shimmer. It was stamped with the Trees background stamp using VersaFine Clair Nocturne.  I mounted the panel on a bit of Marigold Foiled Paper from Rinea to really make it pop on the black card base.

I then stamped Frank on a scrap of cardstock and colored him with Arteza Colored Pencils. He was fussy cut and attached to the card using a bit of foam tape.  The sentiment is computer generated and matted with more of the foiled paper from Rinea.

Rustic Wood

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Ink Stained Roni here with a fun rustic card for our newest challenge... Wood!

I made a fancy fold card using Lost Coast Designs Trees Background and Carmen's Veranda All Who Wander sentiment and wood grained paper.

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