Vintage Delight

Hi there, it's Granne here. Lost Coast Designs 

released awesome set of new stamps during December. 

I simply adore the new Crackeds but this time

I wanted to go vintage and used beautiful Mucha with Pillow.

Yes, I know, went totally crazy with embellishment

- but then again, this gorgeous lady deserves to be spoiled 

with everything pretty. :=D

There is a showcase going on at the moment at

Lost Coast Portal to Creativity, by commenting you might 

win one of the new stamps - awesome.

And new challenge will be starting at LCPtC 1st of February

It will be lot of fun, so I hope you'll check it out and join.

New Goodies at Lost Coast Designs!

Hi all! Nanette here with some fun, fun new stamps! You have to go check out Lost Coast Designs new stamps!  I am in love!  Of course each stamp I get becomes my favorite but they are fabulous.  This little canvas is called "Big Deal, You Can Sit in a Tree" because little mini "Lizard Dog" is fairly put out with all the friends with wings and even the cat...the CAT! can sit in a tree!  You might remember a sneak peak at "Party Cat"?  These all come in the "Mini Cracked Critters Set One" stamp and are so much fun to color up and put them anywhere you can imagine.  I also used the "Grunge Tree" for my background doing a log of manipulation of the stamp to get what I wanted.  And that is a wonderful thing about rubber stamps, you can manipulate them to work on your projects.

I used Promarkers for coloring, I love the bright colors and Inktense blocks and Distress inks for the sky and grass.  I stamped the birds on the background then stamped on white cardstock to color and fussy cut and attached.  I did outline with a Pitt Big Brush marker to give them some pop and lots of white gel pen doodles.

Hope you do have a look at these and the other new releases..you won't be disappointed!  And always check out the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity for our monthly challenges, special events, and our Design Team inspirations.  Also keep our Facebook pages in mind as new challenges that you can enter are posted there!  All this means cash to spend at the store!

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Amazing Collage Card

Hello Coasties!
Hope you are enjoying the New Releases Event!  I used the following new releases on my project: 

Grunge Border 2", Misc Words, ATC Faces Set 
and I also used Cheesecloth Background

Check it out!  I stamped with Distress inks and added spray inks for even more visual texture.

Aren't those words great??!!  
Note:The Misc Word set is really cool!!  It is a 6" x 7" sheet of rubber filled with all kinds of words-- Over 75 different words.  You could cut them apart or keep them all together.  I left them all together for now and just stamped the whole sheet of rubber on white CS.   I cut the words out as I need them.  Worked really well so far.
For more pics and detailed instructions see the full post on my blog.
See you next time!!
Karen McAlpine

JOY ATC by kim

Hello!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! It's kim today :)

I have an ATC to share with you today, "Joy". I used the new Grunge Border 3" stamp and the Dictionary Words with Joy set.

This new border stamp is amazing, so many scenes inside it. Really lots of fun for so many things! The border is about 3 inches high and it is an amazing 11 inches long, perfect for Art Journals and any mixed media projects. I loved this particular section with the royal crow and clock, it does bring me "Joy".

I have more stamping details on my blog.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!
~kim

The ocean is my home

Hi, Nikki here. It is no secret .... I am a big fan of Artist Trading Cards (ATC's), and with all this cold weather here where I live, I thought I should create something warmer and what could be more appropriate than a mermaid swimming in the ocean on a warm sunny day.

To create this ATC I used one of my current fave background stamps, Whitecaps, coupled with Star Mermaid with face from Lost Coast Designs.. Have you seen the awesome selection of mermaids, go check it out at Lost Coast Designs.

Here is my ATC : 

The card stock was painted with various blue acrylics, then I heat embossed the whitecaps with pearl white embossing powder, adding some white gel pen to accentuate the white caps. The mermaid is stamped and colored with copics and fussy cut. Her tail and the star she is holding are glittered and the pearl she is holding is dimensional, using liquid pearls. With a craft knife I cut across the waves and slipped part of her tail in. The wording is handwritten. I think she makes a very beautiful focal point in this background.

Reminder that there are monthly challenges at Lost Coast Designs, they start the first Monday of each month at our event and challenge blog. This months challenge is 'Clean and Simple' and here is my make, featuring Cracked Party Cat :

Nikki x

Isle of Aud card trio

Hello Lost Coasters and Happy New Year to you all!

Leigh here with my first DT post for 2016!

Today I'm sharing three quirky cards featuring Lost Coast Designs bizarre African animals from Isle of Aud (sold as a set).  I also used the Tree Branches Background and the Zebra Border stamp.

All the animals are stamped with onyx black Memento ink onto Neenah solar white cardstock and coloured with Copic markers.  The folded card bases for all 3 cards were super fun to make.  I used blue cardstock and stamped the Tree Branches background stamp with Versamark ink and applied black embossing powder...then the magic happened when I randomly painted the cardstock with household bleach, the blue transformed into varying shades of purple and pink depending on how much bleach was applied....SO COOL!  The zebra border was created the same way but I used a different blue cardstock which achieved a different result once the bleach was applied, it turned from blue to white.  Here's a closer look at the animals!

The giraffe

The Elephant

  The Rhino

Thanks for stopping by to see my projects today!
Before you go I'd like to remind you about all the fun happening on our event and challenge blog, Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and our Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda Facebook Pages.  Our new blog challenge for 2016, Clean and Simple (CAS), has begun and our current Facebook challenge "Winter Holidays", hosted on both FB Pages, is ending soon on Jan 15!  Pop on over and Stay to Play!

Happy Stamping!

Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Cat with Bird on CAS Card

Hello Coasties!
Karen here to share a project with an awesomely detailed stamp from LCD!   Check out this cute Cat with his Kingly bird.

The stamp is: Cat with Bird from Lost Coast Designs

I kept the elements minimal on this project to showcase the detail in the stamp.   For more pics and instructions check out the full post on my blog, Dreaming and Creating.

See you next time!!
Karen McAlpine

Angel Kitty

Happy New Year's Eve from the United States!  It's me Shari, in the snowy mountains of Northern Idaho, and I can't very well open my post today without saying HAPPY NEW YEAR to our international friends, too!!  It's already 2016 in other parts of the world and I'm feeling very honored to be here today at the Lost Coaster's Review to close out and start a new creative year with you!! 

   Now, if you can just bear with me as I share one more Christmasy holiday card before our clock strikes midnight here...

 

 

This is such a sweet kitty image, I LOVE it!!  This is Carmen's Veranda Angel Cat stamp and the stars are the limit with this darling image. 

 

I'm using kraft stock for my card base and background.  This is the Stars stencil from Dylusions and I'm using Picket Fence Distress Paint to create a starry background.  I'm also using DP because I want it to resist the next thing I'm going to do to it. 

 

 

 I heat set the stenciled stars then ran this background panel through Broken China Distress Stain, which I didn't take a picture of (sorry, I do that sometimes!), then I roughed up the edges of this panel with my paper distresser and ran through my sewing machine and added a messy, stitched border. 

 

Angel Cat was stamped a couple of times onto coffee stained mixed-media paper with Coffee & Jet Black Archival inks.  Before stamping the image with Coffee Archival, I wiped away the ink on the stars and colored with my Broken China Distress Marker. 

 

 I gave Angel Cat's bow a little sparkle with frosted film.  I stamped Angel Cat onto blue card stock, then put a small piece of frosted film over the bow, then fussy cut the bow out.

 

 

I added a few seasonal Chit Chat stickers and outlined with Hickory Smoke Distress Marker and my water brush. 

 

 

I adhered my layered fussy cut Angel Cat and a few mirrored stars onto the background with matte Decou-Page then attached the finished panel to the kraft card base, which I had also added a stitched border to. 

 

Thank you so much for joining me here today!!  Don't forget--You can still join in on our 2nd FB Challenge--

 

 

Cheers to a Happy & Healthy 2016!! 

 

 

 



Bunny tree

Hi there, It's Granne here and I hope you had a wonderful Christmas!

My daughter wanted to have a X-mas tree in her room, 

so I bought her a little cypress (about 20cm high) and then I was wondering: how to decorate this "tree". 

I know she loves bunnies, so why not? Bunny tree:

I used Lost Coast Designs Rabbit with Flowers and brown Stazon ink 

to stamp on a white shrink plastic, cut the images out 

(in one sheet I stamped 8 images), 

heated with my heat gun and attached the bunnies to beads. 

And so there is was, fully decorated miniature X-mas tree for my girl
(also good for Easter I think...).

Not a traditional solution but she loved it, lol.

 LCD blog challenge is on a X-mas holiday, 

but you are very welcome to join our FB challenge

And a new challenge starts at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity 

8th of January, hope to see you there too.

I wish you a great upcoming year 2016!

Only Three Days Left Until Santa Arrives!

I am as excited as a kid!  It is so close I can't wait :)  Nanette here wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year! So here to wave in the big event is the old guy himself! "Waving Santa" is from Carmen's Veranda and I, too, wonder why Mrs. Clause has not altered those pants!  Could be he loves showing some other color than red and white?  Those blue shocking socks are my newest love...the Nuance Powders now available at Lost Coast Designs with some awesome videos to show their wonderful uses!  I sprinkled the tiniest bit on my mat and used as watercolor for this jolly fellow with some white watercolors to make him all clean and sparkly!  The background is actually "Grunge Tree" in gold Gelatos where I stamped the excess off after using on a project!  Never waste any of the goodies, I say.

Hope you are ready for the big day as I will probably be out last minute frantically shopping but I sure hope I am ready!  Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!

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