31 Days of Halloween Day 6 - Beware!

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Ghoulish greetings from Laurie on Day 6 of our 31 Days of Halloween celebration. I hope you are joining in the fun as the Design Team has a new post every day for the whole month of October.  Hopefully you are inspired to create your own terrifying works of art!

This card was made with the Gargoyle stamp from Lost Coast Designs.  I simply stamped this onto a piece of Tim Holtz Halloween card stock and cut it out.  I took a very fine black pen and outlined the eyes, fangs and claws to give them a bit more prominence.

This background was really a fun project and easy to do.  I took a piece of plain 12" by 12" card stock and, using Gel medium, pieced it all over with scraps of vintage book paper.  Some are right side up but many are upside down or backwards.  I then stenciled it with several different stencils using shades of green, orange, and tan Distress Inks.  Once that was complete, using a zig zag stitch and black thread, I sewed around each of the individual paper pieces and all around the edges as well.

So you end up with an amazing collage that you can then cut up into different sizes for different projects you might have in mind.  Once this was done I selected a square section, cut it out, edged it with Distress Ink and placed my dragon right in the center.  The final touch was a "Beware" sticker in the lower lefthand corner.

So get to work and make some fabulous and freaky Halloween creations and enter them on the Portal for a chance to win some free stamps!!

31 Days of Halloween Day 5 Snake tombstone

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Cathy here with day 5 of the 31 days of Halloween celebration.
Today I have a card for you today.
Stamp Used :
Goth shrine

So the goth shrine come in 2 sizes. The one I used is the larger one. 

It takes center stage with the size. 

I stamped it on black paper and embossed it with silver power and cut out. I colored the snake with gelly pens. Then I mounted it onto this snake paper that I had. I added a skeleton head and arm to the tombstone.  I colored the stars that are on the paper to match the snake. They were gold. 

Edge the whole thing with black ink.

Come join the 31 days of Halloween here.

SEPTEMBER WINNERS

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Happy World Cardmaking Day everyone!!
 Gail here, interrupting the massive

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN

CELEBRATION

cos it's time to announce the WINNERS of our September Challenges!

We would like to thank everyone who entered their lovely projects here and in the fb fan group.  It was so nice to see so many using Lost Coast Design and Carmen's Veranda stamps.  You of course get an extra chance in the random draw for using our stamps on your projects.  Thanks for playing with us!

Please do read the rules and also the challenge guidelines which are written under the challenge badges on the challenge post and in the sidebar.  We have to disqualify entries that do not comply with our rules or challenge themes.

We used Mr Random and he said....

WINNER of CHALLENGE #83

SONG AND DANCE 

is

Angelnorth 

with this cute dancing snowman on a Lost Coast Designs
Bubble Border hillside.  So cool.

Congrats Angelnorth, you win a $10 gift certificate

WINNER of CHALLENGE #84

MAKE IT FUNNY

is

Darnell

with this pile of funny hamsters

Congrats Darnell, you win a $10 gift certificate


 Congratulations Angelnorth and Darnell!  Please email Gail (craftynomad at gmail dot com) by the end of the month to claim your prize.  Please provide your full name and mailing address in the email as well as the stamps you would like.  You may choose from Lost Coast Designs and/or Carmen's Veranda!

Here's your snazzy Challenge Winner's badge for your blog!
Please link your badge back to us here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.
 

Our current challenge is

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION

 If you are making a Halloween inspired card today using rubber or clear stamps
then don't forget to link up projects

 for your chance to win Lost Coast Dollars.

 Stay tuned for the next spooktacular 31 Days of Halloween offering.
Remember the team is posting every day this month, and there may be a few extra treats thrown in,
so check back often and leave us a little love so we know you have visited.

31 Days of Halloween Day 4 : Evil Eye

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Hello everyone, Liesbeth here! The best time of the year has started, autumn... and 31 days of Halloween here on our Blog! I love everything Halloween, and I love stamping in Halloween/Day of the dead theme! I think LCD/CV stamps are the very best for this.
I made this card a while ago, but I think it's perfect as my first Halloween entry this month.

I made a background using Distress inks, paint and a spiderweb stencil. I stamped the Evil Eye stamp and masked it. After that I stamped the text, houses and flourish. I removed the masking paper and bleached the buildings and the creepy animal. Here and there I used some coulor pencils to finish the piece.

Stamps used: Evil Eye, Cityscape,  ATC texts set 1 and Daisy Flourish (click=see)

Happy Halloween! Enjoy our 31 days :-) 

Liesbeth XX

31 Days of Halloween: Day 3 - Are You My Mummy

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Day 3 of the 31 Days of Halloween - Roni here with a card made using the darling little Mummy.

He was colored using Koh-I-Noor's fun Tri-Tone colored pencils. Each individual pencil has 3 colors swirled together in one pencil led. You just color away and it creates some really fun and amazing looks as you can see here.

He was then fussy cut and popped onto a marbled piece of craft paper on a Rinea Foiled Paper mat for a bit of shine.

Hope you like my first card of the Halloween Season

 and stop back in all month long to check out the rest of the spooky creations

that our team has in store for you.

31 Days of Halloween Day 2 - Dancing Skeletons

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Happy Haunting from Laurie on this 2nd day of the month long 31 Days of Halloween celebration here on the Portal.  It's my favorite time of year, and I love working with my Halloween and fall stamps from Lost Coast and Carmen's Veranda.

For this card, I used the Grunge Tree background stamp and the Dancing Skeletons stamp, both from Lost Coast Designs.  I started with a piece of the new Tim Holtz Halloween paper pad and using black embossing powder, embossed my background stamp on the paper.  I trimmed around the edges, leaving a border of the paper around the outside of the embossed image.

Next I stamped my dancing skeletons onto white card stock then fussy cut them out.  Be patient - it's worth the effort!  I adhered just the heads and torsos with glue to my background, leaving the arms and legs to kind of stick out so they appear to be moving on the page.

I typed the words "Danse Macabre", (meaning "dance of death") onto a piece of white paper and printed it out, outlined it with black ink and attached to my card front as shown.
Final step was to layer the card front with a white card base.

So go grab your Halloween craft supplies and stamps and show us what hauntingly fun goodies you can create!