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

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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 !

Challenge 7: Merry Christmas

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.

We know you all are probably very busy in December but please 

make some time to show usone of your beautiful pieces of 

artwork using Lost Coast stamps J

  Now the seventh Challenge: Merry Christmas

Use your creativity to make a Christmas wish.
Coby made a Christmas card to inspire you:

Used stamps:
Feathers
Party words

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 stamp.

- Place your work in this post by Inlinkz.

- Submissions need to be in before the 25th 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 :-)

Intrigue atc

I am once again feeding my atc addiction ...

An atc I created to the theme of 'intrigue' using the crocodile from the Mis. Anthropomorphs set. 

Not often you see such a finely dressed fellow is it :

He is colored with inktense pencils. The background is zentangled, the wording added by hand. A thick layer of UTEE is added to make the atc very shiny and hard.

Thanks for stopping by

Nikki x

A birthday card

hello Lost Coasters Friends:

HERE BIBIANA....

I made this card using one of the mini flying ladies stamp  from "Lost Coast Designs".
This is the clown stamp and this particular  set comes with 6 mini ladies and they all are so pretty and whimsical
I decided to use the clown one for a birthday card...but the other "ladies" are so pretty too!

I used the "Paper Piecing" technique 
which consists in  stamping first the image on a piece of paper with black ink.
then stamp a second time on a piece of pattern paper, and a third if you want on a different colored paper, cut the pieces that you like to piece,
in my case I stamp on purple paper the hat, cut it,
stamp the base in green, cut it  and place both pieces on top of the main stamped image...

the result is a raised image with lots of interest and dimension!
I added some "Stickles", a ribbon and Voilà! and cute birthday card!

You can enter "Lost Coast Challenge"  and this month the theme is faces , so go to the post for the challenge # 6 here at  "Lost Coaster Review blog" to enter your card for this challenge #6  using one stamp from Lost Coast Designs for the chance to win a $10.00 certificate to use at their website...

And today, I will be at a stamp show in Newark, CA 

at Lost Coast Booth with Linda, 

so if you are in the area come by and visit us! 

Remember you only can get these wonderful stamps through the website and when they are in the road in Stamp conventions like the one today here in my area...
I believe this is the last road trip for them for this year...
stay tuned for next's years conventions schedule

thanks for the visit 

and hope to see you at the show today!

or visit me at my blog:

"Stamping with Bibiana"

Lost coast stamps: mini flying ladies set;