Mini Me Challenge - Butterfly Swirls ATC Set

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Hello friends - Ink Stained Roni here with another fun bit of stamping for the current challenge #168 - Mini Me!

I have to tell you I just love this challenge - so many fun little bits to try! Today I made some ATC cards using images from the Butterfly Set, Long Swirl and words from the Misc Words set.  

To create these cards I started off by dipping 3 different pieces of vintage ephemera into Distress Oxide inks and let them dry. Once dry I mounted them on ATC cards and trimmed away the excess paper.  Next I applied embossing paste through a stencil and let that dry. These dots were then colored using a variety of Marabu Art Crayons.  

I stamped the open areas with the long swirl and green ink.  The butterflies and words were stamped on scraps of paper from my stash. The butterflies were colored using Clean Brush Markers with a bit of Stickles added here and there.  The words were trimmed and the edges were inked then they were affixed to each of the ATC's.

I hope you are inspired to create your own little piece of art.  If you do, be sure to add it to the challenge page for your chance to win!!

Mini Me: Creatures ATC

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Hi everyone! 

It´s Liesbeth here again with another Mini Me. You will find HERE everything about this lovely challenge and of course how to participate! :-)

I would love to show you this oldie ÁTC, it's the style I love the most, mistical and a bit weird. The headfooter stamp is from one of the painting of Hjeronimus Bosch (1450-1516), a Dutch painter that I am a huge fan of.

First I made a coloured background onto a white ATC card  with Distress inks. I stamped the penguin with StazOn and masked him, after that I stamped the headfooter and masked that as well. I stamped the window and the text (purple). I removed the masks and bleached the creatures with...bleach ;-)

I finished the ATC with some colour pencils and white gel pen and sponged black edges. 

Stamps used: Isle of Aud Creatures, Mini Antropomorph Birds, Door and Window set, Antique text border.

Fragment of the painting:

Hope you like this, see you next time!

Liesbeth XX

Mini Me: Cake Smelling Cat

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Hi again from Laurie with another project for the Mini Me Challenge going on right now here on the Portal.  What is Mini Me??  Well, think small.  ATC, inchie, twinchie, Ink Box card, mini tags or cards.  Lots to choose from, and I have an ink box card for this one.  If you are not familiar with ink box cards, they measure 3" x 3" with rounded corners.  They are called ink box cards because they are the exact shape and dimensions of a Tim Holtz Distress Ink pad.

This card uses the Curtain Cat stamp and the Large Chickenwire background stamp, both from Lost Coast Designs, as well as the  Smell Cake clear stamp and the Calligraphy Square stamp from Carmen's Veranda.

First step was to stamp my cat onto a piece of orange card stock with black ink and fussy cut him out.  I then cut a strip of coordinating paper and stamped it with the chicken wire background stamp.  I layered that atop the cat, cutting around where his paws are so you could see them.  My ink box card is backed with a piece of a gelli print in shades of white and orange and it was stamped with the Calligraphy Square stamp in black ink.  

I attached the background to my card base then positioned the chicken wire and cat portion along the left edge.  All edges were trimmed to fit the shape of the card base and then edged with black ink.  The sentiment was stamped with black ink onto a white scrap, and I ran it through my printer to reduce the size so it would better fit the card front.  I cut it into sections, outlined them in black and affixed them as shown along the left side.  

You still have a few days left in this Challenge so be sure to get your makes posted in time for a chance to win some free stamps!

#168 - Mini Me challenge (smaller than a card) so ATC, Bookmarks, Tags, Inchies, Twinchies,

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Hi there, Riet here.

 For the mini me challenge I made a bookmark.

Something different than a card is always a nice change.

I made a bookmark with a butterfly resting on top of the book.

This is what I used:

LCD Butterflies set

 LCD Large Florisch

Distressink,

Victorian velvet,

Speckled egg,

Bundled sage.

Color pencils in these 3 colors.

Versafine black onyx.

Silver thread.

Posca marker white.

Corner scissors or punch.

White paper 200grams.

Gleu.

How its made:

Cut a piece of paper in this size.

Make spots on the paper with the 3 colors of distress ink.

Stamp the florish with the black versafine.

Color the florish with the colored pencils.

Stamp the largest butterfly of the set twice, with the versafine.

The largest because it was for a very thick book.

If you have a thinner book, take a smaller butterfly.

Color the butterflies with the pencils,

 and give them some accents with the posca marker.

Cut them out.

From the silver wire we make the feelers / antennae of the butterfly.

Take a piece of paper 1cm wide and 10cm long.

Score at 1cm, 5cm, 9cm.

Fold the centerline.

Fold out the 2 score lines as shown in the picture.

Cut a line in the middle of the butterfly that is the same size as the paper.

Put the paper through and glue the flaps to the bottom of the butterfly.

When you've done that it will look like this.

Now take the other butterfly and glue the 

feelers/antennas to the blank side of the butterfly.

Now glue the 2 butterflies together.

There may be an edge sticking out here and there with the butterflies.

Carefully trim that away a bit until they fit together perfectly.

Now take the piece of paper with the florish.

With the corner scissors or punch we cut beautiful corners.

With an ink blender and bundled sage we put the edges on a bit.

Now fold the bookmark with the flap of the butterfly in between.

Check that everything is in the right place.

If that's good, glue it closed.

I hope you find it a nice tutorial and will also make such a nice bookmark.

And don't be shy, feel free to show the result on the facebook group 

of Lost coast designs/Carmens veranda.

Also don't forget to join the challenge.

You then have a chance to win beautiful stamps of your own choice.

So click here for the challenge.

And here for the facebook group.

 

Tag

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Hello, Cathy here with a tag for you today.

Stamps Used:

Travel stuff set

Pieces of calligraphy 

I started out with a white card base, and I used some drowns and grays in the distress ink colors. I then stamped a stamp from the travel stuff set in gray ink randomly over the tag. I then glued a die cut of a man in the middle of the tag. 
Lastly, I stamped the circle from the Pieces of calligraphy in 3 spots around the tag.

Come join the fun challenge here. 

MAY WINNERS

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Welcome Portal Peeps!!!
It's time to announce the WINNERS of our May Challenges!

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.  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 #166

PAPER PIECING

is

Sylvia

 

with this lovely paper pieced piano

Congrats Sylvia, you win a $5 gift certificate

WINNER of CHALLENGE #167

WOMAN

is

  Susan Renshaw

with this lovely card using Lost Coast Designs Mini Frida Collage

Congrats Susan, you win a $10 gift certificate

 Congratulations Sylvia and Susan!  Please email Gail (craftynomad at gmail dot com) by the 15th 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!

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