Christmas ID card

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

                            

Stamps Used:

Travel Stuff Set
Small Snowflake Set 

 

I made the background by starting off with some cream color cardstock and using 2 different distress inks on it. I then edged it in a dark brown distress ink.

I found a fun Xmas image I wanted to use for the photo for the ID card. I then stamped the ID part from the Travel stuff set with black ink and then I stamped some of the tickets from that set in brown ink and cut out. 

I then stamped a snowflake form small snowflake set on the ID card and on the ticket. Lastly, I added some tape and some ephemera.

 

Christmas bird

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 Christmas card. Of course I had to use Megan's Christmas bird.

Stamps Used:

Megan's Christmas bird  

Small snowflakes set

I started by stamping Megan's Christmas bird on white cardstock and then I stamped one of the snowflakes from the Small snowflakes set around the edge. I colored the bird with copic markers and I then colored in the lights with glitter pens. 

I layered it on some Christmas paper and that is my card.

You still have time to join the challenge

Santa Frank

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Hello Cathy here with a fun holiday card for you today.

Stamps Used:

Frankenstein

Two gnomes

Small snowflake set

I started out with stamping Frankenstein and Two gnomes. I colored Frank in with copic markers and then cut out. Next, I cut off one of the gnomes hats and colored it. 

I added some glitter fun foam to the bottom of the hat with a holly sticker and a little white pom-pom to the top. I then glued them onto a music scrap that I tore around and inked the edges with brown distress ink. I stamped 1 snowflake form the Small snowflake set in the same brown ink around the whole background. 

I layered that on some Christmas cardstock and added some Christmas ephemera to the front of the card.

You can join the challenge here.

 

Ho-Ho-Ho

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Hello, Cathy here with a card for you.

Stamps Used:

License plat Alpha 

Small snowflake set

I started by cutting blue cardstock piece a bit smaller then 4.5 x 5.5. I then stamped the H and O from the License plat Alpha  3 times on the side of the paper in black ink.

Next, I stamped a snowflake from Small snowflake set in white ink randomly all over the background. I then added it to a gray card base and lastly, I added some sliver bling.  

You can join the challenge here. 

Sugar Plum Fairies

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Hello Cathy here with a card for you. 

Stamps Used:

small snowflake set 

thin dancer

So, I was going for sugar plum fairies dancing in your head. I guess I should have gone with a purple color to stamp the thin dancer but I picked blue. I then cut them out and set aside. 

Next, I stamped a snowflake from small snowflake set  with versa mark ink and used white embossing power. I then took a white gel pen and added white dots around the background. On some of the white dots I added some lines coming out of it.

I glued the sugar plum fairies on the card and added the saying to the bottom. 

You can join the Christmas in July challenge here.

Gnomey Christmas

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 and Happy 1/2 way to Christmas.

Stamps Used:

reindeer gnome

pieces of calligraphy 

small snowflake set

 

I started out by stamping the reindeer gnome and coloring him with copics. I then cut him down to the size I wanted and set him aside so I can work on my background.

I took a cream color cardstock and some red distress spray and did the smooching technique with it. Next a grabbed some distress oxide ink in red and did the same thing. I was hopping to get some different levels of red but not really.

I then took the  pieces of calligraphy set and stamped it on the background I did the same with the small snowflake set all with black ink. 

Add some washi tape and some sequence and your gnome to the front and you are done. 

 

I hope you will join us with the Christmas in July challenge. If anything you can get a head start on your Christmas cards. 

Three Hats Are Better Than One

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!

 

Greetings Portal Peeps!!  A few hours left of November and also your chance to enter the Festive Fun challenge.  Get stamping and add your makes.  We are giving away some of Lost Coast Designs awesome stamps to one lucky winner, but like Reindeer Gnome says, you gotta be in it to win it!

I made an Artist Trading card using charcoal Bazzill cardstock.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Small Snowflakes and embossed with brass embossing powder.  I went round the edges of the card with Fossilised Amber Distress Oxide and used Antique Linen distress oxide add the bottom to make some ground.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Reindeer Gnome on white card, coloured with Promarkers and glitter glue and fussy cut.  For added festive fun I made two more!!!! 

 All good things come in threes!!

Join the fun and link up your stamped Festive Fun makes.  Linky closes 23.59 PST....

Happy Holidays

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 a slimline card for you.

Stamps used.

Pointy hat gnome

small snowflake set

So I was inspired by my Christmas pattern paper I have. (pinks,teals,whites, ) 

I stamped Pointy hat gnome on white cardstock and then I stamped small snowflake set in pinks all around him. 

I then colored him in teal to match the teal snowflake pattern paper. 
Next I layered the papers and then I decided to make it into a slimline card. So I then took one of the snowflake from the  small snowflake set that I didn't use and stamped that in teal ink all over the card base. 

Come join the fun challenge here

The sale is still going on .

Christmas in July

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 Christmas tags for you
Stamps Used:
Reindeer gnome
Pompom gnome
Sunglasses gnome
CDRolly jester 
Pieces of Architecture
Small snowflake set

I started off with some Kraft tags and some distress oxide sprays. 

 One I drippled the the sprays from the the bottle. Set aside to dry. I stamped Pieces of Architecture only on the blues ones. I really didn't like how it came out. You really couldn't see them.

On the second tag I took all the splatter and smooched it on to the tag. On both of them I stamped  Small snowflake set  with blue ink.

 I repeated the same steps for the green and red tags.

Then all the tags were dry I stamped out my main images and cut them out. Then I decided where there were going on the tag and then colored them with Copic to match the tags.
Layered them with washi tape and glitter. 

 You can join the Christmas in July Challenge here

Also the sale is still going on at Lost Coast and Carmen's Veranda. 25% off.