Altered Playing Cards

I am taking part in a weekly Altered Playing Card (APC) challenge. Here are a couple of APC's using the gorgeously diverse stamps by Lost Coast Designs :

For this APC the topic was bees. The perfect bee was to be found amongst the gorgeous winged animals, More Bugz, look how realistic it is : 

Here is my completed APC, I have used a honey comb stencil, die, embossing powers and inks.

The wording is significant on this APC "Long live the Queen", this is not necessarily because I am a Royalist, but because the bee is such an important part of life and existence, lets have thriving colonies.

The second APC uses one of the awesome girls from The Doodle Dolls 1 Set :

I lightly gesso'd this playing card so that some of it would show through in the background, love that effect. The background is done with crackle paste and a stencil and dylusions sprays. The image is colored with copics and white and black gel pen.

Here is a close up of her, I think she is pretty special. You can also see the background more clearly :

Just over half way through the APC challenge, its fun to alter a pack of 52 playing cards and I am most impressed with myself for keeping up ! LOL
Thanks for stopping by x

Challenge 8: Make a tag

Hello dear Lost Coast fans! It's the first Monday of the month again so it's time for our new challenge. It's to bad but there were not enough participants to choose a winner from for last month's challenge but we hope that we will have 10 or more participants this month so we can give away a $10.00 gift certificate again.

Please make some time to show us one of your beautiful pieces of 

artwork using Lost Coast stamps. 

                               Now the eight Challenge: Make a Tag.

                          Use your creativity to make a a tag with the great stamps of
                                      Lost Coast Design OR Carmen's Veranda.

        Since Linda is selling these stamps too there where questions if they also can use                Carmen's Veranda stamps at the Challenges, of course: on big stamping Family.  

                                                Coby made this tag to inspire you:

Used stamps:

Manga Goth Harlequin

Feathers

Alphabet Border

Party Words

 Karen made this tag for you:

Used stamp:

Hardware set

Yvonne made this inspiration tag:

Used stamps:

- Up close and Personal Sheet

- Large Doodle Alphabet Sheet

The last inspiration tag is made by Niki:

Used stamp:

Isle of aud

 Creatures

If you want to join this Challenge, please read this first:

- Make something according to our theme. For example you can make a card, an ATC, Art Journal page etc

- Use at least one Lost Coast Design or Carmen's Veranda stamp.

- Place your work in this post by Inlinkz.

- Submissions need to be in before the 26th of this month.

- Only when we have 10 or more people joining the challenge you have a chance to win a $10.00 certificate. So please tell your friends and join us :-)

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 :)

A little Magic ..

With New Year approaching, this elf wanted to spread a little magic and joy.

This is an image from Carmen's Veranda called Elf with Star. :

 I made this page in my art journal and also used a background image from Lost Coast Designs, called Tall Trees. The background is painted with acrylics.

 The magic emanating from his wand is made with liquid pearls.

Hope you receive a little of his magic and have a wonderous and healthy 2014.

Little 'LOVE' canvas

Hi, Corrie here !
I did something totally different for today's post. I made a little canvas. I used the 'Magic Dictionary' stamp and the "License plate Alphabet' set.
Apart from that I used tissue paper as the base, acrylic paints and gesso, stencils and model paste, inks and some glass bead gel for the small hearts. Some cardboard for the big heart, twine and some sand texture paste around the edges of the canvas.

Hope this gave you some inspiration ! 

Thanks for stopping by ! 

"Color Me Fun" Manga Tags

These are the six Make-And-Take Tags that I taught at the Loveland, CO & Carson, CA for Linda's Lost Coast Design booth.  Hope you "Color them Fun"!  Cherri

Rosie & Frenchie Mangas

5 minutes: Stamp Manga girl on off-white smooth card stock with Momento Tuxedo Black ink. Stamp background on tag. All stamps are Lost Coast Designs – Mangas: Rosie, Harley, Frenchy and Socks; backgrounds: scarves, polka-dot-border, ruler cheesecloth.

10 minutes: Cut out Manga girl image.

5 minutes: Color image with Prismacolor Watercolor pencils.

Socks & Boots Mangas

4 minutes: Using 2 inch square of Cut & Dry felt pick up Antique Linen Distress Ink . Smudge inside the lines to blend the pencil color of her hair. Rub the felt square on newsprint paper to remove any pencil color. Repeat for face, dress, and so on.

2 minutes: Lightly distress outside edge of girl with Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink; highlight the Manga outfit and accessories with Gelly-Roll and Wink-of-Stella pens.

2 minutes: Distress edges of tag and torn decorative paper with coordinating ink colors.

1 minute: Assemble using glue stick, 3D and mini glue dots.

1 minute: Punch hole and add brad or other embellishment.

Harlie & Princess Mangas

LCD designer ... Cherri Robb, Loveland, CO

ww.angelsandpears.wordpress.com

Christmas Card Ideas

Hello Everyone!
I have been working with the stamp, Mary and Angels, and have made some shimmery Christmas cards.  I added glitter and stamped on velum for some interesting results.  I also used the Merry Christmas Sentiment from the Party Words set.

On the first card, I stamped on velum with black ink.  I made sure the ink was dry before working with the piece.  The velum was turned over and colored on the backside with a red Vellum Writer (Zig).  The piece was layered over white CS.  I stamped the image again on white CS; cut out Mary and added her to the piece with dimensional adhesive.

On the second card, I stamped the image with Sahara Sand Versa Magic  ink.  When the ink was dry, I painted the image with Lumiere Paint.  While the paint was still wet, I sprinkled on Diamond Glitter.  And, I stamped another Mary and made her dimensional.

Cards three and four were made in the same way, except that black ink was used for the stamping.  If the paint drys too quickly, a glue pad can be used to adhere the glitter.  That is what I did with this card as the paint dried too quickly.

A lovely sent of Christmas cards with lots of sparkle!  Hope you enjoyed!! Happy Holidays!!

Karen McAlpine
Dreaming and Creating

Celebrating Our Lady of Guadalupe

Hello Dear Lost Coasters Fans:

Here Bibiana

We are having a nasty weather all around the USA!!!
Here in California, we are having quite a big storm with wind and rain,  We are on and off with shortages of electricity ...so I am hurrying up to write this post while I have electricity!!!...

Today The lady of Guadalupe, 

the virgin patron of Mexicans and of all the Americas

 is being celebrated !!! 

on December 12th...

and I made this triptyque using my silhouette machine for the shape of the card...
the stamp is from Lost Coast Designs, "Mary and angels" embossed in gold,  the background was embossed and  I used a stencil for the stars...

Last night at midnight everybody gathered at the biggest basilica in the world (after the Vatican) at the Basilica in Mexico city, to celebrate HER day and sing to her the happy birthday...
You may visit a post using another stamp from Lost Coast designs, from Last year "The feast of our lady of Guadalupe" and read a little bit more about her and this festivity...

Big hugs, keep on celebrating 

on this wonderful season! 
and you can always find me at my blog:
Stamping with Bibiana

SUPPLIES : Lost Coast Designs: Mary and angels

Feliz Navidad

Hi everybody, Yvonne here with a christmas card. 

For this card I used the "flying Egyptian" stamp. I colored her with Derwent colorsoft pencils and a little bit with a red Distress marker. For the edges I used two colors blue and a white Sharpie for the snow flakes.

Thanks for stopping by  !
XXX Yvonne

Life's a circus

Hi, Corrie here,

Today I have an art journal to share with you.. I used 'Large Clown doll',  'License Plate Alphabet", Loopy Calligraphy" and a bit of the text from "Dream" 'dictionary.  The background was painted with acrylic paint. The circles were finger painted on deli paper and cut out and adhered with gel medium. Some stencilling with white and orange ink and some washi tape finished the page.

Thank you for stopping by !