Spooktacular Florals: Three Small Skulls

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Welcome from Laurie on this 1st day of November and the start of a brand new challenge:  Spooktacular Florals.  I have made a set of three tags for this one, using the 3 Small Skulls stamp set from Lost Coast Designs.

For my background, I used my Gel plate to print onto tissue paper using green and yellow acrylic paints and some stencils.  It was my first attempt at printing on tissue paper, and I love how these turned out.  I cut my tags out from plain white card stock then covered them with some vintage book pages.  I layered my printed tissue paper over this and trimmed up the edges and inked them with green marker.

I stamped the three skulls onto white paper with black ink and cut them out.  I colored all three with the same green, orange, and yellow Copic Sketch markers and added a few little touches of a white gel pen here and there.  These were then affixed to my tags as shown.  The final touch was to add some orange ribbon to the top of each tag.

So pretty simple but fun to do - especially if you like coloring!  Please join us for the new challenge - you might be the lucky winner of some free stamps from Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

CHALLENGE #155 - SPOOKTACULAR FLORALS

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 Portal Peeps.  
 

It's time for our new Challenge.
Our challenges are now fortnightly!  A new challenge starting the 1st and the 15th of every month, with chances to win Lost Coast dollars. We will be announcing winners on the 5th of the month, so do pop back and see who wowed the team and gets our snazzy blog badge and the coveted Lost Coast dollars.

Now for our new Challenge!

CHALLENGE #155

SPOOKTACULAR FLORALS

Keeping the spook alive so share your Day of the Dead makes or anything featuring flowers with a spooky or somber twist.  Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project.  A small stamped sentiment in a sea of die cuts or digi images will not qualify to win the prize and you may be deleted!!!!  Bwahahhaaahaha.

Please remember we do have some Challenge Rules to follow so look them over to ensure your entries qualify to win this month's prize!

You are welcome to play in our Challenges using rubber stamp images from any company but if you use any of our Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps...we love it when you do...then your entry counts as two which doubles your chances of winning in our random prize drawing.

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 chosen by the team is awarded our Challenge Winner's Badge
5+ Entries = one randomly picked winner will receive a $5 gift certificate to spend at
Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda
10+ Entries = one randomly picked winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to spend at
Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda
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! 

Here's some inspiration from the team to get us started.  ENJOY!

Cathy used Lost Coast Designs Brush Strokes, Bugz Set and Roses

    
Laurie used Lost Coast Designs 3 Small Skulls

  
Riet used Lost Coast Designs Frida Skull, Cobweb Background, Pieces of Calligraphy, Brush Strokes, Large Flourish and More Bugs.


Now it's your turn.  Are you up for the challenge?  We can't wait to see your projects!  
Submit your entries in the linky party below by 23.59 PST on the 14th and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month so check back and join the fun.

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #155 - Spooktacular Florals
November 1st - 14th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Monday, November 14th 23.59 PST.
All entries must be entered in our link up but your don't need a blog to win.  See our RULES page for more info
 

 

Day 31 of the 31 days of Halloween

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Happy Halloween

Cathy here with the last card for the 31 days of Halloween. 

Stamps Used:

Alferd Hitchcock standing

Spiderweb background

I started off with some black cardstock and I white heat embossed Spiderweb background, Cut out and layered it on a white cardstock base.

Next, I stamped Alferd Hitchcock standing with black ink on white cardstock and cut out. I then took a cotton ball and took some off and pulled it apart to wrap around Alferd Hitchcock standing to look like he was caught in a spider web. added foam tape to back and stuck him to the front of the card. 

Lastly added a saying to have Alferd Hitchcock stand on, and what better saying then The End for the ending of the 31 days of Halloween. 

You still have today to join the Halloween fun here

31 Days of Halloween:Cats & Dogs - Big Cat

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Helo everyone! We're almost at the end of our 31 Days of Halloween... tomorrow IT IS HALLOWEEN!!!! That's the good news! There is still time to join us! 😀 I made a simple colourful card today: onto an alcohol ink coloured piece of glossy paper I just stamped, masked (cat) and made some shadows around the cat. And of course I wrote the text and glued some pumpkins and spiders. Stamps used: Happy Cat and Spiderwebs Background.

Happy Halloween!! Have fun, see you next month!

LiesbethXX

31 Days of Halloween Day 29 - Catoglyphs

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 Portal Peeps!  Gail here today!

Only 2 more sleeps til the big night bwahaahaahahaaaa.  

I hope you have been enjoying the spooktaular projects from the team.   If you haven't had a chance to see them all then grab some candy and scroll down.  It's a Treat!!!!

I'm here today with Mummy and he's sitting in his favourite place in the crypt with a couple of feline friends.

I used a piece of grungy card for my base and stamped Lost Coast Designs Flagstone Background with grey archival ink.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs ATC Many Cats on a piece of the grungy card with Sepia archival ink and added it to the tomb decor.  Mummy and the Cats were stamped and fussy cut and I used some Dirty Sand embossing powder to give them some ground. 

 

Remember you also have two challenges here on the blog to choose from so link up your makes for a chance to win.  We are also one of the sponsors of the Cat Lovers Hop, so another chance to win lovely Lost Coast Designs stamps this month.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Day 28 of the 31 Days of Halloween: Cats and Dogs

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So sad to be coming to the end of this most favorite month here on the Portal, but we still have a few days left, and you still have time to get your Halloween themed makes posted here on the Portal!

It's Laurie again, with a fun Halloween card featuring two of the dogs from the  Circus Dogs Set and the Bubbles background stamp, all from Lost Coast Designs.

I started this by stamping my Bubble background onto a piece of orange card stock with black ink.  I next stamped it onto a piece of green card stock and for a third time onto a piece of white card stock.  I cut the orange stamping into a rectangular shape, following the lines of the stamp itself, to make my card front.  I next cut sections of both the white stamped and green stamped papers and lined them up, attaching them atop the orange base.  I colored in some of the bubbles on the white section with orange and green markers and layered this with a piece of white card stock.

The dogs were stamped with black ink onto white card stock and fussy cut out.  I colored each with Copic Sketch markers and added witch-y hats to both.  From the same stamp set, I stamped the ball and  little step and colored them with orange and green markers respectively.  I adhered all to my card front with foam tape and scattered some silver stars here and there across my background.

So get busy and finish up your Halloween themed stamped projects, and be sure to enter by the end of the month for a chance to win some rubber stamps from Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda!