Butterfly Square

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Hi again from Laurie with a project of gold embossed butterflies using the 

Butterfly Square stamp from Carmen's Veranda.

This was very simple.  I took three coordinating pieces of some of my stash of Gelli prints and heat embossed the butterfly square with gold embossing powder onto each one.   I cut them to three inch squares and layered them with glossy gold card stock.  I made tags with two of them, punching a hole in the upper left corner and threading with gold ribbon.  For the other two, I mounted them onto white card bases and made little matching envelopes for a pair of note cards.

So many fun things that start with "B" - show us what you can make!!

Challenge #113,Things beginning with a B, Beautyful girl, Bird.

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B for Bird.

How are you all, hope you are crafting.

Because this is a fun challenge.

Something with a letter B makes you look at a different way at your stamps.

So our team leader Gail made a great choise with this challenge.

For this card I used the lovely vintage stamp Annie.

http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/nostalgia.html

Also used the Victoriana set.

http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/sets_notpeople.html

And the dictionary stamps.

http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/dictionary.html

What I used for this card.

Resist fluid.

A stencil with numbers.

A stencil with ABC.

Stazon Timber brown.

Distress oxide:

Iced spruce.

Antique linen.

Ground espresso.

Abandoned coral

Versa magic  Malted Mauve.

White gellpen.

How to make this card.

First I made a mix with the distress oxide antique linen and iced spruce on my craftsheet.

Then I incorperated the colors here and there on the paper.

Keep the colors on the paper light.

Now put the numbers stencil on your background and spray the resist flued.

Dry this very well.

Now with some abandoned coral and a little water you make the rest of the color on the card.

Make sure that you still can see the other colors shine trough.

With the dictionary stamp and stazon timber brown we make some prints. 

I chose to stamp it without the big word on top, but that is for you to decide.

The corner stamp is the stamp from the Victoriana set.

I stamped it half on the edge of the paper and made a corner stamp of it.

Stamped it with the stazon timber brown.

The medalion with the face is stamped with the Versamark Malted Mauve.

Now take a thin piece of paper and stamp Annie with Stazon timber brown.

Color the image with markers or pencils.

Glue her on the card and ad some highlights with the white gellpen.

The word “bird” is written with a stencil.

With the Maulted Mauve I made some splashes on the card.

Glue the card on 2 layers of cardstock, and your done.

 Now the team would love to see what you make with the letter B.

So join our challenge, and maybe you will win some rubber.

https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/search/label/Monthly%20Challenge

And dont forget to read the challenge rules.

https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/p/challenges-rules-and-winner-badge.html

 

 

 

Back To Black

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Hi, it's Sue here.

Good morning and a very happy Friday. Firstly can I say how happy I am to be back! So much has happened since I was last here, Brexit, Covid, and new Blogger!

My lovely Lost Coast/ Carmen's Veranda stamps have all been sitting very patiently in their box so they are delighted to be out again!  Here is my piece for our fun Beginning With B challenge.

I started by making my background. I did my first one in full colour, but then decided that I would quite like it just in black, and there's the first B.

These are the stamps that I've used. You can tell that they've been very well-loved can't you! I've always been told that Archival ink conditions the stamp, so it's a quick wipe then back in the box. None of that cleaning malarky!

There's a (B)ackground. a (B)order,  and the (B)ack of the couple.

The quote is by Oliver Hardy, and I thought it went nicely with the image. I've just typed it up on the computer.

All of the stamps used today are by Lost Coast Designs.

I've used Spray Webbing

Diamonds Border

Carte Postale and

Thick and Thin Men

Don't forget to link up to our challenge for the chance to win some Lost Coast dollars to spend in the store.

Have a great weekend and thanks so much for looking x

Just click here to join in! xx

Something beginning with B: Bishop

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here with a B for our new challenge! Read everything about it HERE, and join the fun!

I really love the Chess stamp set, so I chose B from it: Bishop! I also used ATC text set 1. On a painted scrap of paper I first stamped the bishop with black ink  and masked it.  I stamped the chess board (also from the Chess set) with blue ink and the texts with pink and white ink. I finished with charcoal (shadow around the bishop), colour pencils  and I sponged the edges black. I glued it onto a pink and a blue piece of cardstock.

If  there are any questions, just ask in the comments below :-)

Have fun!

See you next time, 

Liesbeth XX

DECEMBER WINNER

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Welcome Portal Peeps!!!
It's time to announce the WINNER of our December Challenge!

We would like to thank everyone who entered their lovely projects and it was so nice to see so many using Lost Coast Design and Carmen's Veranda stamps, including some lovely entries in the Lost Coast Designs Fan Group as well.  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

WINNER of CHALLENGE #112

WINTER BLUES 

is

Yvette 

with this pretty fairy card

Congrats Yvette, you win a $10 gift certificate

 Congratulations Yvette!  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

SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH B

Link up your stamped projects featuring things that start with the letter B

 for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.

 

Brown bookmark with a book reading bird

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Hello all Cathy here with a bookmark for you today

Stamps used:

Pieces of Calligraphy

Mother Goose birds

 

 

 

 

I started out with some cream cardstock and sprayed some brown distress ink on it. I spritzed it with water first to make it move. Then I took another sheet of cardstock and sprayed that with water and laid it on top to pick up the extra spray. Let it dry.

Stamp pieces of calligraphy in the same colour brown randomly all over the paper. 

Stamp the bird reading the book from mother goose birds. Color with Copic marker and cut out.  Add some saying stickers around and glue the bird on top the sayings. 

Cut and layer on black cardstock and you have a bookmark. 

Come join the new challenge here