Be Your Own Hero

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!

Still a few days left to play in
Challenge #88 - For the Men

Today's card is made with an image from one of my favorite sections - Steampunk!

I used the Steampunk Flier as the focal point for this image. It was stamped on a bit of kraft paper with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink. I then tore and distressed the edges around the image and inked it with Pinecone and Nocturne inks.

It is mounted on a piece of Sapphire/Gold Glossy Rinea Foiled Paper that I ran through a dimension embossing folder from WeRMemory Keepers. I wanted it to be reminiscent of the sky but with the geometric lines to pull in the technical diagram look of the image. I added a sentiment from Finnabair Sentiment Stickers by Prima.

I hope you take some time out of your busy holiday weekend and give it a go.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!
- Ink Stained Roni

BLACK FRIDAY SALE!!!

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!

Gear things up - For the Man Challenge #88

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,

Making card for a man can sometimes be challenging. It doesn't need to be though, just look at the card below.  It's a simple black and white design that features only one background stamp. 

Lost Coast Designs:

Background Gears

Carmen's Veranda - Discover

Other Supplies:

Pigment Ink 

Small wood gears

Wire

Pattern Paper

White Cardstock

Instructions:

1) Stamp Gear Background stamp onto white cardstock and trim to approximately 1 1/2" by 4 1/4". 

2) Cut a single gear our of the extra gear stamp.

3) Ink up wood gears with Black Pigment Ink.

4) Wrap wire around the smaller wood gear.

5) Tear pattern paper across the top and bottom of a piece of pattern paper, slightly larger that the gear element.

6) Assemble and adhere gears.

7) Stamp Discover.

Done!

Click below to join in on the "For the Man" Challenge.

Happy day!

Lori

For the Men Challenge: Magical Merlin

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!

Hi again from Laurie for another project for the end of November Challenge:  For The Men.

I made a card for this one using the #7: Oracle of the Seven Enigmas at Lost Coast Designs.  There are 18 of these awesome Fortune Cards that are sold individually or you can buy a set which includes 9 of the designs.  They are all really interesting designs as well.  But this one makes me think of Merlin the Magician, thus my title for this post.

I began by taking a piece of card stock and using some Distress Oxide Inks I gave it a light cover of green and blue inks to create this kind of soft aqua background.  I stamped Merlin with black StayzOn ink, cut him out, and edged him in black ink.  I then very carefully attached this piece to a sheet of golf leaf.  I have this interesting piece of tissue paper in my stash with the aqua background and a gold design.  I made a copy of it onto card stock, cut it into the right size, edged it in gold pen, and affixed Merlin to the center.   I stamped some little gold stars randomly here and there and added some Glossy Accents to the 7 eyes.  And that's a wrap!

Let's see what fun and manly goodies you can create for the November Challenge!

Wrap it up with Style - For the Men Challenge #88

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,

Lori here, with another project to inspire you for this week's For The Men challenge.  Next time you wrap up a package for that special guy, don't turn to store bought wrapping paper, make your own!  It is easy to do with a few stamps and ink.

Lost Coast Designs stamps:

• Large Dominoes Set
• Rulers Background

Others:

• Packing Paper
• Pigment Ink - Warm Breeze
• Ribbon

Instructions:

1)  Stamp the Large Dominoes and Rulers Background stamps onto packing paper with pigment ink.

2) Wrap your package.

3) Tie with ribbon.

4) Stamp coordinating mini-card to accompany card.

5) Attach card to package.

Click here to join in on this challenge.

Happy day,

Lori

For The Men: A Vintage Art Journal Page

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!

Hi everyone,
It's Dot here today with a tutorial for you using one of my favourite
Lost Coast Designs's stamps - Thick and Thin Men.

This is an Art Journal page. I thought it might be fun to do a little image transferring.

Someone had told me that 'Vogue' magazine is the best mag to use
so I was keen to give it a go.

It would be fair to say that image transfers have been a bit hit-and-miss

for me over the years. But I really liked how this page has turned out.

The image transfer went straight onto a page from my Art Journal.

The picture was painted with gel medium, as well as the
art journal page and then the image was attached face-down and allowed to dry.

 I started gently rubbing my finger in circles (dipping it in water every now and then)

until the image started to appear.
You can see where I might have taken off too much of the image, but that's okay
because I had already decided to create a vintage piece
so it kind of adds to the effect.

To finish this part I painted some gel medium over the whole piece to seal it.

To create more of a shabby chic look I swiped a little white paint in from the edges and

stenciled a pattern in a matching paint tone.

Stamping was all that was needed to finish the page off.

I stamped Thick and Thin Men onto photo copy paper

and cut the image out.

The ATC Grunge Set has some wonderful stamps that are ideal for background stamping.
I used one of these to add a little more interest to the background.

As an after thought, I also added a little shadow effect with water colour pencils around the men's feet, for grounding.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Lost Coast Designs has a challenge this fortnight called

For The Men.

You only have to use real stamps with a men's theme and you could be in with a chance to win a prize.

Happy Stamping!

Dot x