Things with wings challenge, Winged skeleton.

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 Hi there, Riet here.

What a fun challenge this month!

I immediately thought of this beautiful stamp from Carmens Veranda Stamps, 

Winged Skeleton.

This card is very simple to make.

I colored the stamp with pencils, which is something I really enjoy doing.

I also used layers of designer paper.

For that, I used June Bug by Basic Grey.

I Distressed the edges of the paper and inked it with Distressink Walnut Stain.

I Also added a voile bow and a copper flower with a green stone.

I glued a glitter stone heart onto the sternum.

I hope you'll join the challenge.

There are beautiful, high-quality rubber stamps to be won.

You can participate with any brand, as long as stamps have been used.

So come and join in!

JOIN THE CHALLENGE HERE!

Glitter in your Heart

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Hello, Cathy here with a card for you today.

Stamps Used:

Pieces of Calligraphy

Winged skeleton

I started off with a heart stencil and I used the new pink color of distress ink and blended it onto a pink card base. Then I took a stamp from the Pieces of Calligraphy and stamped it with a different color pink ink inside of the heart stencil. 

Next, I took the Winged skeleton and stamped it with black ink and cut out the inner circle of it. I added foam squares to the back and placed it in the middle of the card. I colored the heart with a red marker and I added some glitter to the top. 

You can join the challenge here

#131- 31 days of Halloween, Hanging of the raven. Day 27

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Hi there, kreepy monsters.

Are you scared yet????

Today this card for the Halloween challenge.

You can still participate, it runs until 31.

I started with the door and window stamp set.

I stamped these stamps with versamark and clear embossing powder.

I colored the windows with Brusho soft yellow.

The rest is done with Brusho blue, green and black.

When everything was dry, I removed the ebossing powder with an iron and paper towels.

With stazon timber brown I stamped the winged skeleton on paper and cut it out.

I stamped the goth raven 3 times with stazon midnight blue.

I once cut out the head and once the top half of the raven, and once a whole raven.

Then I colored them with water based markers.

I made a hanging loop from a piece of string,

 and put some brown stazon on it to make it look a bit older and dirtier.

Now you can put everything together like on the card,

or at your own taste.

On the heart I glued a big red stone in the shape of a heart.

You can still participate in the Halloween challenge.

And you can participate with all stamp brands.

You have a chance to win rubber stamps.

So, read the rules and join the fun.

The team would really like that.

31 Days of Halloween. Day 23, Halloween necklace.

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Hello everybody, here a new post from Riet.

I made a Halloween necklace for Halloween.

Here is what I used and how I made it.

I used:

LCD articulated skeleton and Carmens Veranda winged skeleton.

I would like to point out that,

 these stamps are very large which makes them very suitable for shrink foil.

If the stamp is too small, a small image will remain after shrinking.

Which you can barely see.

                                       Shrink plastic, in the Netherlands its cald "krimpie Dinkie".

Black Stazon

Color pencils or markers.

We r memory keepers- Multi hole punch

Metal chain

metal rings

2 small pliers

Sissors

pencil for drawing.

Heattool

I started by printing the stamp with stazon and letting it dry well.

With a pencil I drew a shape around the print and cut it out.

Be very careful to punch the holes first.

You have to cut this as shown in the photo.

This is where the rings will hang later.

Erase all pencil lines after cutting.

Now you can color the image.

Do this with light colors and fairly thin.

The melting will make the color much darker.

After heating it with the heattool it looks like this.

Now we repeat all this again with 4 x a bone of the large skeleton.

And dont forget to punch the wholes.

I colored the bones with a sand color.

Now we attach the rings and the chain to it.

And you are done.

Hope you had fun with this tutorial.

It would be great if you also join our Halloween challenge. 

Make a card, tag, mixed media project or whatever you can think of. 

If only it has some stamping on it. 

 You don't even have to use the Lost Coast stamps,

Other brands are also allowed.

So come and take a look at our challenge blog and join us.

You maybe the winner of new rubber stamps.

To go to the challenge click here!!!!!!

31 Days of Halloween Lucky #13 - A Touch of Elegance

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We're up to Lucky #13 in our 31 Days of Halloween and today I have a touch of elegance for you....

Would you believe that this is one stamp? 

It is, it's called Winged Skeleton from Carmen's Veranda. 

I stamped this image twice onto black cardstock and embossed one image with gold and the other with white embossing powders. The white skeleton was fussy cut out of the frame and the gold image was fussy cut as a whole. I added black and red gemstones to the image which was then mounted on the skeleton pattern paper (which was mounted on a card base). I then added the white winged skeleton to the card using foam tape.

It's such a striking image all gussied up don't you think?

Happy Day friends!

Roni

Supplies:

Carmen's Veranda - Winged Skeleton

Imagine - VersaMark, Mboss Embossing Powders

Faux Gemstones, Foam Tape, Cardstock, Pattern Paper

Flying Gnome

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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.

Welcome to a new Event - Dia De Los Muertos!

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Good morning everyone!  It's time for brand new Event!  Welcome to the Day of the Dead!  For the next 6 days, the design team will be sharing their creations created specifically with the Day of the Dead in mind.  You can get in on the fun too.  Just link your project having to do with the Day of the Dead below for a chance to win some LCD/CV rubber.  All RULES apply and you have until Midnight, November 12th.

PRIZES

To ensure you all have a fabulous time playing in our Challenges this is how our Prize system works!

The more entries the better the Prize so tell all your friends to join the fun too!

1 - 4 Entries = one Winner is awarded our Challenge Winner's Badge

5+ Entries = one Winner will receive a $5 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV

10+ Entries = one Winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV

and all winners get our snazzy Challenge Winner's Badge to proudly display on their blogs!

If you don't have a blog then no prob, you can still play in our challenges by sharing your projects from public photo sharing sites which includes our Facebook Company Pages for Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda.  Please include our Challenge info and the link back to our challenge in your photo's description!  As long as the privacy setting for your photo is public you're good to go, see, it's so easy to join the fun!  FYI, you can't link up projects shared in closed Facebook groups!

Hello all Cathy here with my Day of the Dead project.

I started of with a wooden stand and I painted it black. As it was drying I stamped winged skeleton onto white cardstock. Colored the heart with a red copic marker. Next I cut out the image.

Then I glued it to my painted wood piece. Then I glued the flowers to the bottom.

Enjoy.

Don't forget to link up your Day of the Dead project below!

An InLinkz Link-up

Day 3 and finale of our A Carmen's Christmas Contest!

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Today is Day 3 and the finale of our A Carmen's Veranda Christmas Contest!  We hope you've enjoyed getting all festive with us!

Enter your holiday projects into the Inlinkz collection below today's featured projects by 8pm TONIGHT to be in the running for the $15 spending spree to Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

Now sit back and relax with a cup of eggnog and enjoy today's featured projects by LCDesigners Leigh, Shari, Karen and Kim!

Leigh is sharing two ATCs, a center step card and a Creepmas altered domino!
"Poinsettia center step card" features Carmen's Veranda Poinsettia large background stamp

multi-layered poinsettia

 "Skellie Snowman" Creepmas altered domino features Carmen's Veranda Snowman and Winged Skeleton

snowman head with a skellie body

"PEACE ATC" features Carmen's Veranda Snowman, Christmas Lights and Lost Coast Designs "Peace" from the Harmony Peace Joy Freedom Dictionary set

  "Twinkle Kitty in Purple" ATC features Carmen's Veranda Christmas Lights and Angel Cat

  Shari is sharing a fabulous box for keeping wish lists in! 
"Snowman Greetings" features Carmen's Veranda Elf with Star

 and a fab folkart "Angel Kitty" card featuring Carmen's Veranda Angel Cat

Karen is sharing a fabulous card featuring Carmen's Veranda Overalls Santa and Lost Coast Designs Party Words

Kim is sharing a fabulous Steampunk Angel mixed media project featuring Lost Coast Designs Steampunk Fly Girl

WOW, what a fantastic show of festive DT inspiration!  I'd like to thank my fellow LCDesigners for all their fabulous projects for our A Carmen's Veranda Christmas Contest and for all their amazing projects shared this year too!  We hope we have inspired you to follow us here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and are eagerly looking forward to the fun we will have in 2016 ;0)

 Now it's your turn to show us your holiday projects but first we have a few contest rules to go over and the submit your entries in the Inlinks below!
CONTEST RULES

• You can use ANY stamp companies on your entries BUT if you use LCD/CV stamps your entry will count as two and doubles your chance at winning the prize!
  
• Become a Follower of Lost Coast Portal to Creativity
• Submission must link directly to your project, not just your blog home page
• Include our contest info and link in your blog post 
• No backlinking to old projects published prior to the start of the contest
• Please leave us a comment after you link up, we do love hearing from you!
• No limit on how many times you can enter
• No limit on how many events or challenges you can combine with ours
• You may enter our events and Challenges even if you don't have a blog.  Upload your project to a photo sharing sites or personal Facebook accounts, and set the privacy setting to "Public", include the name of the event or Challenge in your photo description!  Please note that if you use a site that requires the DT to sign up to view your project then it will automatically be disqualified! 

An InLinkz Link-up

Don't forget you can also enter your projects in our Winter Holidays Facebook Challenge which is running right through until January 15, 2016, so you've got plenty of time to play on our FB Pages!  Enter your projects for the chance to win even more prizes!  Same FB Challenge on both Pages...see the pinned post at the top of the walls:
  Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda  

Also, in case you missed it, our monthly blog challenge started on Dec 7th!  The challenge will be closing a bit earlier than normal this month on Dec 20th!
The theme is Board Games Pieces!

We have a ton of fabulous game related stamps at both Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda so check them all out via the links below and join the fun!

Lost Coast Designs
Chess and Domino Flying Ladies
Chess Set
Game Shrines
Domino Sets 
Playing Cards and more Chess/Domino flying ladies
World of Borders 

Carmen's Veranda
Games
 Dice Background

Happy Holidays!

Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader