ATC coins

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 some ATC coins for you. 

Stamps Used:

Carrie's Menagerie

Mouse 3

Cat 2

Giraffe

Mini crown set

I made the background with alcohol inks, stencils and paint. I used a punch out of the backgrounds I didn't think would make great card fronts. They made perfect ATC coins. 

I then stamped Mouse 3 on the bottom of one then stamped Cat 2 upside down on the top. Edged the coin with ink and added a snarky saying.

 

For the second one I stamped Giraffe in the center and then the Mini crown set all around, Edged this coin with ink and added a snarky saying. 

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Neon Pink 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!

Cathy here with Neon tag for you.

Stamps used:

mini crowns

postage set

manga tophat goth

I started off with a tag. I used distress oxide and distress sprays in pink. I did ink smooching with it.

Next I took Gina k electro pop neon ink and stamped  mini crowns on the background. next I took postage set and did the same thing. 

Last I stamped manga tophat goth with the same neon ink on white cardstock. I then cut out and glued to tag. I then added a saying to the top. 

I hope you join the challenge here.

Bits and pieces

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 Morning all. Cathy here with some bits and pieces artwork.

Stamps used:

pieces of calligraphy

bugz set

butterflies set

mini crowns set

ATC face set

numbers border

small tree crown

ATC misc. set 6

For today I don't have a finished piece per say. I have some bits and pieces that will make a great start for a card, journal or anything you can think of.

For the first photo I have to tags that I have done. I started with some distress ink spray. I picked 2 blues and 1 green for colors. When I was happy with the color I grabbed a distress oxide ink pad and added some ink to the tag. 

Next I stamped numbers border down the side of the tag. I had the face stamped out already from the ATC face set and I added that to half of the tag. The other tag I stamped a butterfly from the butterflies set off the side of that tag. I then added some bits of field notes tid bits .

These are my next bits. They are place cards. I thought they look like extra large tickets. So I cut them in half so you get 2 for 1 out of them. I stared off by making a mask to go around the border. I then randomly stamped pieces of calligraphy, bugz set, butterflies set, mini crowns set, numbers border, small tree crown, ATC misc. set 6 all over the cards. I then took off the mask and edged them with a red copic marker. Lastly I added some field note tid bits to them.

Some close ups of the altered place cards. 

I hope you will join the numbers challenge here

Blue Bee

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 Blue bee card for you

Bugz set

Mini crowns

I stamped the bee with blue distress ink and then I stamped a crown with the blue distress also. Layered it with blue mirror card and added a black cardstock strip down the middle of the card.

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Bee and Butterfly

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 my things that start with B.

I started out with a paper Mache ornament and  painted it with some art alchemy dark velvet color paint. As that was drying I took a die and made the crest and leaves out of Kraft cardstock. Then I stamped the Bee from the Bugz Set  on the crest.  I thought it needed more so I stamped the Mini Crown from Mini Crowns set.  Edged the crest with some brown distress ink and set aside. Then I colored the leaves with some green distress ink. Set them aside. I did stamp Gothic Text  on the paper Mache in black ink but you can not see it.
Then you glue everything down. Last I edged the circle with a thin line of black paint.

 So I have a bonus card for you. I so forgot I had this one made for the things with a B challenge so you get a bonus idea from me.
It is a CAS card. Well to be truthful. It did not start out that way. I tried using Nuance Powers and painters tape. Didn't work. The tape tore the paper. Insert mad face here. Grrrr. So I just cut the Bubble Border  out. Added it to a black card front. Then I stamped the Butterfly on the torn paper and water colored in. I did add some sparkle to the wings.  

Come take up the challenge of Things that start with B.

Go Out

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 postcard for you.
 More that 2 legs is the challenge.

I started off making this postcard with a technique. It is from Wendy Vecchi. She calls them Archival ink backgrounds. Here is a link to watch her video on it. 

This is how I did it. Take Archival ink smoosh it on a craft mat. I took 3 colors. A gray, tan(brown) and a teal . Next you spray 91% isopropyl alcohol on them. Then you take you paper and put it in the ink. The great thing is the paper does not warp.

 Please if you do this PLEASE do it in a ventilated area.

The alcohol dries fast. So the next step I did was pick out a stencil and used some of the gray ink and added it to my background. Then I had a scrap of pattern paper on the table and I added that to the postcard in the corner.

Then I stamped the Happy Cat stamp on tissue paper.  I did that because at the time I didn't have a clue where I was going with this postcard.

Anyway I glued the stamped image on to the postcard with matte gel.  As that was drying I went through my word stickers and found this saying. I cut and added it to the postcard and I outlined it with black marker.

Then I was looking at it and I felt it still needed something so I grabbed my  mini crown stamp and stamped it on top of the cats head because you all know it is always better with a crown.

Then last I took the teal ink and I stamped  Corner Swirl around the postcard.

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