Flower postcard

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!

Good evening, Cathy here with a postcard for you.

Stamps used:

Mail art

Cherry blossom

ATC Italian postmark

I started out with cutting a piece of Kraft cardstock to 4x6. Then I stamped Cherry blossom with black ink.

Next, I stamped ATC Italian postmark in brown distress oxide ink. 

I then stamped the postage stamp on white cardstock and colored it in, I then cut it out and added to the postcard for a pop of color. 

Art Doll

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!

Hell all Cathy here with a Art Doll for you.

Stamps Used:

ATC faces set

Dominos border 

Cherry Blossom 

I started out making the background with the last two new distress oxide inks. Cut out a body shape. I then stamped Cherry Blossom  on the body in one of the same ink. 

Stamp ATC faces set and then I added some of the 2 new ink colors for that. Cut out. Add to the body. Stamp Dominos border on Kraft and cut out and add to make "wings" from them. Lastly add some washi tape and you are done. 

Come join the fun challenge here. 

Slimline card

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!

Cathy here with a slimline card for you.
Stamps used:
Cherry blossom
Asian set

For you today I have a slimline card. It's the new 'it' thing. Everyone is making them. It's a card that can fit in a business size envelope.
I started out with some watercolor paper and some distress spray and distress oxide spray. I made a few backgrounds with this. I used one of them for the first card I shared with you.

I then took the writing from the  Asian set and some water and stamped it on the background.  It took some of the background away and gave a ghost print.
Next I took the Cherry blossom stamp and some black ink and stamped it on top.

 I heat set that and mad sure everything was dry before I went on to the next step. I stamped the Buddha from the Asian set with some Versa mark ink and embossed it with gold embossing power.

When that was done I made a card base and added the watercolor piece to it .

 Come join the fun here for this challenge.

Also the sale is still going on. 25 % off.

Flying Gnome

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!

Cathy here with a flying gnome.
Stamps Used:
Pointy hat gnome
Cherry blossom 
Winged skeleton

So I started with the Pointy hat gnome stamp and color with Copic markers. Cut out.
Next stamp  Winged skeleton on a scrap piece of cardstock and color with Copic markers. I chose 3 light colors to color the wings. Cut out.
Tape the wings behind the Pointy hat gnome. I then added foam tape and set aside to make the background.

To make the background I used Distress sprays in purple, pink and blue. I sprayed the paper with water and then I sprayed the Distress sprays. I then took another paper and spritzed it  with water and laid it on top of the first one so I got 2 backgrounds from 1 (well 3 from all the over spray). Dry and then drip water on the background to make the spots.

Stamp Cherry blossom  to the top of the background. Move the stamp around to cover the top of it. Next add the your flying gnome to the front at a angle and then add sparkle to the wings and beard because your gnome is magickal and needs glitter.

So you can join the fun for this challenge here.

 Also Lost Coast and Carmen's Veranda is have a sale. Come check it out here.

Just because

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 all Cathy here with you today.
I have a simple and quick card for you all today.

Stamp Used: Cherry Blossom

These are the steps I did to make this card.
1. Get white cardstock, cut it smaller then the card base.
2. Stamp Cherry Blossom  in brown ink.
3. Grab a green marker and 2 different pinks and color the leaves green and the dots with the 2 different colors of pink.
4. Glue to front of pink card base.
5. Add word sticker.
Done.
Quick, right?
I think you could make these up in batches and have on hand when you need a card.

I hope you will join us in the wood challenge. You can enter here.