Fairly naughty or nice?

This is a piece I made for the Scary Fairy bloghop in which Loast Coast Portal to Creativity participated last month. I'm not usually into "dark" themes, however I am into different and this challenge inspired me to think out of the box.
Stamped used are from Lost Coast Designs:
Art Doll in Flying Ladies... section
Swimsuit girl in More Women... section
The background is made with brick stencils, gesso, distress stains on craft paper. Matted on black card stock and then onto distressed soft yellow card stock.
Ink pads used: Memento danube blue, paris dusk, rich cocoa and Brilliance Moonlight
Distress stains: fired brick, peeled paint, forest moss, wild honey, antique linen, spun sugar, broken china.
I used Promarkers to color in swimsuit girl. And a water brush pen with distress stain inks to color the brick background.

More details on how I made it are on my blog.

So what do you think? Is she naught or nice??

Thanks for stopping by!
Namaste,
Tarah

Summer Challenge Card

Hello !

Esther here again with some artwork I made with Lost Coast stamps. For this blogpost I made a postcard for a Summer Challenge we are doing in the Netherlands.

For the background I used some Tim Holtz distress stain and Versamark ink for the Flagstone Background stamp.  After that I applied Finnabair clear gloss gel,  mixed with some green glitter and a stencil. 

The little tags are also covered with distress stain and then stamped with my favorite alphabet stamp set, License Plate Alfabet Set.

Hope you like it and thanks for watching ! :) 

Immersed in Twilight

The cityscape stamp is one of my favorites from the new releases at Lost Coast Designs. I am sharing this mixed media piece in which I used the stamp, with you today. It is made on sturdy carson watercolor paper. First I stamped the small doll face which I used as moon with versamark and embossed it with clear WOW embossing powder. Then stamped the cityscape at the bottom at the whole length of the card with versamark and embossed with black embossing powder. I masked the moonface and started to work on the sky. I used a mix of cerulean colored goache and iridescent paint medium to make the blue part and cloud wisps. To get the 'immersion in twilight' feel of the city, I used metallic rub ons on the cityscape in copper and purple. I mostly used my fingers for this. But you have rub gently as you could risk rubbing off the embossing. I also rubbed bits of purple in between the roofs of the city to mix with the light blue. It gives it a light 'city on fire' look. I took away the mask of the moon and rubbed on a silver metallic rub on the face and contours to give it a 'halo'. To finish it off I applied bits of silver metallic rub on on the sky and embossed it with 'Starlight' embossing powder by Stampendous. 




Hope this inspires you to work with paints and rub ons and LCD stamps to make some wonderful art pieces yourself!

Thanks for stopping by!
namaste
Tarah xo

Serenity Art Journal page

Hello everyone,

Esther here,  

I have an art journal page to share with you today.

I used a gelli print as a base for this and then I added an extra layer by using 

stencils. I also used some washi tape

I used the following stamps :

Rustic Checkerboard border

Serenity Diva

I hope I am able to give you some inspiration again with this example :)

Thanks for watching and have a nice day! 

xxx

A Happy Painting

Hello Coasties!

Today I have a fun project to share I made for a lesson by Juliette Crane in the Lifebook 2015 course!

This project is on a 9x12 piece of watercolourpaper and I applied several layers of (tissue)paper and acryllic paint before I started drawing the owl ( B.t.w it was my first owl effer so very hard for me)

On the bottom part I did some journalling on the background and above that I used the Party Hat Set as some kind of pink trees.  I like using stamps for something else instead of what they actually are meant to be.

So you can see that Lost Coast Stamps can be very multifunctional too.

Here is some work in progress, at this point I really was thinking of throwing it away, I didn't like it at all :(

 

Thanks for watching and I hope this example gives you a little bit of inspiration if you want to use your stamps in a different way.

xx Esther

Treasure Seeking by Esther

Hi there all you Lost Coast fans, Esther here.

Today I am showing you a page I made for lifebook 2015 and a lesson by Mati Rose Mcdonough.

For this prompt I " had"  to use one of my favourite Lost Coast stamps, Los Tres Caballeros!

Hope you like them sitting on board of my gold-leaved boat LOL

Please dont forget to join our

"50 Shades of Green " Bloghop

The hop will close at NOON PST on March 30th and the winner announced on March 31st! 

One winner will be selected from all the entries & win a $20 gift certificate to spend at Lost Coast Designs!

Flash Cards Art

Goodmorning all of you creative ladies!

Esther here,:) Some time ago I created some artwork on little Flash Cards, here is one of them using the Flying Moon Stamp,

And another one with some of the Chess Pieces. One in the front of the card and the other one on the back of the same card.

Thanks for watching and we hope to see you soon at Lost Coast Designs! :)
Have a great day !

Art Journal Quote

Hi all, Esther here,

This time I made another art Journal page. For the background I used some stencils, spray inks, markers and of course some Lost Coast stamps.  Travel Stuff and the Snowflakes set I used for creating the background. (Take a look at the close-up picture to see).

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For the text I used my Favourite Licence plate set, stamped the text on some gelli print scraps, cut them out and glued them on the background.

Thanks for watching and I hope this page will give you some inspiration :)

Party Girl

Hi All,

Esther here with a new card and the beautiful Party Girl dancing her troubles away at the discotheque LOL.
I just mixed and matched some very different products together so I hope you like it.

Love

A new Art Journal page using the Milo and Raphael stamp ( http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/nostalgia.html ) and a dictionary stamp. http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/dictionary.html

Art Journal pages for Round Robin album

Hi Coasties, 

Esther here,

This is my first official post on this lovely Lost Coast Designs Blog. I met Linda a couple of weeks ago on a stamping event in Holland. We had a nice chat and since that day I am going to create as many as possible Lost Coast Artwork for you.

For a Round Robin journal at my Favourite Art and Mixed Media Supply shop De Craftorij in Holland I created this spread using the Lost Coast Designs Domino border with, in the front, the background stamp Large Shrubbery.

The background I made with acryllic paints and templates. The red heart I cut from a piece of scrap paper with paint on it. Hope you like it, thanks for watching and hope to see you again on this blog:)

If you would like to know more about me and my artsy crafty work please visit my blog.