New Design Team Member

Good morning all!  I have an announcement to make!  We have a added a new Design Team Member.  Please help me welcome Gail Tasker.

Hi, my name is Gail aka ionabunny.  I am British but moved to Norway 11 years ago where I keep rabbits and chickens and grow my own vegetables.  I also craft with paper and glass.  I trained as a scientist but have always been crafty and call my style simple, but seldom clean.  I enjoy mixed media and mixed techniques and trying anything new. making mostly cards, tags, ATCs, and altered objects.  I love quirky and alternative with a good dose of cute and fell in love with Lost Coast Design and Carmen's Veranda stamps as soon as I found them.  I am still baffled by videos. I am delighted and excited to be part of the design team and hope I can inspire you to try something crafty today.  Hugz

Everyone, please make Gail welcome.  You'll be seeing a lot of really great projects from her in the very near future.

Happy Stamping!
Marilyn
LCD/CV DT Leader

Design Team Update

Good morning all!  I have an announcement to make!  We have a added two new Design Team Members.  Please help me welcome Sue Davies and Cathy Norton to LCD/CV.

Hi, I'm Sue Davies, also known as Sue the Iron.  I live in the North of England with my husband and two grown children.  I retired from work last year, so in theory I should have lots of spare time - I don't know what went wrong there!

I've been crafting for about 10 years and love to play with inks and paints and most of all - stamps.  There is nothing quite like inking up new rubber or trying a new technique.  I've long been a fan of Lost Coast Designs and their fun, quirky stamps are right up my street so I'm really excited to become part of the team.

Hi, my name is Cathy Norton.  I have three kids, am married, and work part-time at Target.  I really enjoy stamping and got into art journaling about a year ago after watching YouTube videos by Dylan Reavely.  She make it OK to be messy to me.  I also like to make ATCs, mixed media, collage, and altered art.  Digital art is also a fun medium for me to work with also though my first love is rubber stamping.  I'm happy to say I'm a new design team member for Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda stamps.  I'm excited to be on the team and work with the great stamps and other design team members.

Everyone, please make Sue and Cathy welcome.  You'll be seeing a lot of really great projects from them in the very near future.

Happy Stamping!
Marilyn
DT Leader for LCD/CV

Exploding Cracked Critters Party Box

Hi all! Nan coming at ya with an pop up card just popping with Cracked Critters since you can find our awesome Cracked Critters Event at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity going on right now!  I used Lizard Dog (LOVE him!), and the Cracked Mini Critters Set One Party Cat, Cracked Owl, and Cracked Chicken.  I added some Party Hats and Misc. Words all from Lost Coast Designs new releases. 

A little embossing and distress inks and the fiesta is ready to start!

Please check out the  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity for our event celebrating Earth Day and get all the deets on upcoming events and challenges!

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BOO! said Poe to the Raven!

Hello Lost Coasters!

It's my turn to share some DT inspiration today.  We, the LCDesigners, are participating in the 7th annual 31 Days of Halloween blog hop hosted by Smeared Ink.  We are sharing projects every day for 31 days straight over on our Lost Coast Portal to Creativity event and challenge blog.

Stop by for tons of wicked cool Halloween inspiration and also see how you can win prizes every day!

On Oct 7, 156 years ago we bid farewell to the Master of Macabre, Edgar Allan Poe!
His memory lives on eternally in our art and in our hearts!

BOO! said Poe to the Raven

 was my featured project for Day 1 of the hop on Oct 1st!

 I used the following stamps:

Carmen's Veranda
Edgar Allan Poe
Nevermore (not currently on the site so ask about it)
ATC Birds in Trees

Lost Coast Designs
Raven with Tree Branches
Feathered Bird
3 Birds (one of them)
Vertical ABC border
Tall Trees
Pencil Tops Border

I found the BOO MDF shapes in Target's $ section and could not resist altering them!  First I typed out Poe's poem "The Raven" in Photoshop CS6, printed them out, traced the shapes, cut them out and ran each piece through my Xyron to add permanent adhesive.  I then stamped each piece with stamps from both Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda with onyx black Verafine ink.  I painted the MDF shapes with black acrylic paint and adhered each stamped panel to the shapes then finished each piece with Tea Dye and Black Soot Distress Inks applied with a Tim Holtz ink applicator.

Thanks for stopping by to see my project and I hope you'll join us over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and Stay to Play coz we're celebrating the count down to Halloween with our own little party too!  There's loads to see and do....

Enter your spooktacular creations in our BOO! linky party HERE to
win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV! 

You can also enter our first LCD/CV Facebook Challenge currently taking place on both of our FB Pages, Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

Click on over, read the pinned posts and enter  
Challenge #1 Something Wicked this Way Comes!
Please make sure you read our blog & FB rules to qualify to win!
 

Have a FaBOOlous weekend!

Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

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 ! :) 

"Universal Language" Game ART Trinket Box!

Howzit Friends!

Boy oh boy has Blogger being playing games today, but it looks like I managed to kick the gremlin out so here's my DT share for today!

I made this altered game art trinket box for our current Challenge - #13 Numbers over on our new Event Challenge Blog called Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!  Do stop by if you haven't yet because you're missing out on all our Grand Opening Celebrations with loads of prizes up for grabs!

I had a ball creating this piece and used the following Lost Coast Designs stamps:
 Time Flies, ATC Misc 7 Set and Numbers Border

 I used 4 standard size dominoes, a playing card, a real die and 4 dice beads, stop by my DominoART blog for more details!

 Thank you for stopping by today and have a wonderful weekend!
Happy Stamping!
Leigh S-B
The Sharpie Domino Queen
LCD/CV Team USA Leader

May all your dreams come true.

Hello everyone,

Today I have  card to share with you.  I did use a sentiment from a different company but I have no idea whose it is as it was given to me as a present.
Anyway here's my card:

I started with a piece of white card stock and put some model paste on it through a stencil. Next I gave it a coat of gesso and when everything was dry I used some Lindys Magicals to get some colour on it. I used 'Pretty in Pink Pink', 'Gag me with a spoon gray' and 'Midnight Rendezvous'. These names crack me up.... 

Anyway, when everything was as I wanted it and dry I stamped the background with one of the 'ATC Backgrounds' (part of) and then stamped 'Cosmos Face' with Versafine ink and clear embossed the image. Lastly I stamped the sentiment on a bit of vellum, clear embossed it and stapled it to the card front. The card front was then adhered to a white card base. 

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

A postcard

Hello everybody,

Corrie here, today I have a postcard to share with you. It was great fun to make:

I used model paste and a stencil on a white postcard. When it was dry I sprayed it with Lindys Stamp Gang Flat Fabios in pink and orange. I also went around the edge with black ink, then thought it was to dark en rubbed it with white chalk ink. I then sprinkled silver embossing powder on that and heat embossed it. I randomly stamped the background and then stamped the lady and the butterflies and coloured them with Copic Markers, cut them out and went around the cut edge with a black marker. This was it looks like your cutting was perfect. I adhered everything to the card and that was that.

I used the following stamps:

Lingerie

Butterfly set

Love Dictionary

Thank you for stopping by today !

Hope I have given you some inspiration ! 

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

Friends

Hello everyone,

Corrie here,  I have an art journal to share with you today.

I used a gelli print as a base for this. I also used pattern paper, a few scraps of fabric, a doily, some twine and a label made with my Dymo Labeler.

I used the following stamps :

Three sisters

Loopy Calligraphy

Love Dictionary

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

Hope you like it...

Corrie x

Blue and white art journal

Hello every one, 

Corrie here, and I have an art journal to share with you :

I used gel medium mixed with glitter and a stencil to make the flowers...

Here are some detail photos

I have used the "Butterfly set" and the "Head in Hands" stamps for this spread. 

I hope you like it and get inspired to get your Lost Coast Designs stamps out ! 

Until next time ! 

Serenity

Hello Everybody,

For my DT post I decided to make a card :.

As a base I used a gelli print. I used white ink, a stencil and a blending tool to add the white dots. The stamp is called "Serenity Diva" and she was stamped on the gelliprint and on a separate piece of card stock. I coloured the image on the white card and cut out everything apart from the wiggly lines next to the head. I then adhered the cut out image on top of the one on the cardpanel. I added some sequens and some seed beads and then matted the panel on some black card stock after which I glued the whole thing on a white card base. 

Thanks for stopping by ! 

Hope you like it....

Seize the day

Hello everyone,

Today I have a postcard to share with you:

I used spray inks, model paste and a stencil and the following Lost Coast Designs stamps:

Dream Dictionary

Butterfly set 

Flying Ballerina

Thank you for stopping by ! 

Until next time ! 

Corrie x

Clean & Simple Challenge

Hi all,

Esther here, For the 4th Lost Coast Designs Challenge I created this CAS card. Using the Head in Hands stamp which I only stamped in black on Hazel & Ruby's tissuepaper. That's easy peasy isn't it ?  ;)

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.

Vintage Ladies Note Cards

Hi! Hope you're having a wonderful weekend! I'm back today to share three note cards I created using some new stamps in the Lost Coast Designs catalogue - Lingerie, Two Women and French Maid! All three of these beauties can be found in the New Images section - right HERE! You're gonna just love these images! The detail is just amazing! Check out my blog post on Love To Scrap! for all the details! ;)

Lingerie

Two Women

French Maid

Thanks so much for stopping by today - we hope to see you back soon! ;)

Hugs,

Leslie

Don't Worry Be Happy!

Here's my latest mixed media kind of card created using the largest butterfly in the Butterflies set and sentiment from the Party Words stamp set! Had a great time with this one! I created the background with VersaMagic ink on the Gelli Plate, dropped several colors of Adirondack alcohol inks onto it, then sprayed it with a handmade Perfect Pearls mist! The gorgeous butterfly is embossed with Black Fantasy embossing powder on heavy-weight vellum, colored (on the back side) with Smooch inks, then cut out with a Pergamano 4-prong perforating tool. Love the butterfly trail! Check out my blog post on Love To Scrap! for all the details!

Here's a close-up of that gorgeous shimmery butterfly!

Thanks so much for stopping by today - we hope to see you back soon! ;)
Hugs,
Leslie

Skellie Jigsaw Card by Leigh S-B for DominoART's 15 Days of Half-O-Ween!

Hello Lost Coasters!

My name is Leigh Snaith-Brunton aka The Sharpie Domino Queen and today is Day 1 of the spooktacular 15 Days of Half-O-Ween event over on my DominoART blog which I'm thrilled to say is being sponsored by Lost Coast Designs!

Why wait until October to get your freak on when you can indulge in the horror half way through the year too!  I will be featuring a new scary project by DominoART's Petrifying Players every 2nd day for 15 days throughout May so sit back and enjoy the freak show!  There's still some days available if you'd like your scary altered game art featured during this event too!  So hurry out your email to me NOW and sign up!

Three Winners will receive Gift Certificates to spend at Lost Coast Designs!  

1st Place Winner will receive a $15 gift certificate 

2nd Place Winner will receive a $10 gift certificate

3rd Place Winner will receive a $5 gift certificate

I'm kicking off Half-O-Ween with my Skellie Jigsaw card!

I used two Lost Coast Designs stamps:  Skeleton and Roses and Long Swirl Flourish and an altered jigsaw puzzle piece! 

Stamp the Skeleton and Roses image with Onyx Black Memento Ink onto Neenah Solar White cardstock or similar cardstock suitable for use with Copic markers.  Stamp the Long Swirl Flourish multiple times with Walnut Stain Distress Ink to create a decorative background.  Colour the roses with Copics R39 and R46, the greenery with G28, the Skeleton with E41 and the frame with Fired Brick Distress Marker.  Die cut out the panel with Cuttlebug's Jigsaw Puzzle die then edge each piece with Tea Dye Distress Ink.  Adhere the jigsaw pieces to a black cardstock mat and distress the edges of the mat with Tim's Paper Distresser tool.  Then adhere that to a deep red cardstock mat.  Distress the edges and apply Black Soot Distress Ink to the edges.

Now for the puzzle piece!  I stamped the Skellie head portion onto the back of a real cardboard puzzle piece that was already white with Onyx Black Memento ink.  But if you want to use the front of a piece or if the back is cardboard grey then prep the surface with a coat of Claudine Hellmuth Studio Gesso.  Colour the background of the image with Tea Dye Distress Marker and the roses with the same Copics as the other roses.  Then add some Pumice Stone Distress Marker to the shadows on the skeleton too.  Adhere the puzzle piece to the card with Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive and finish off with Opal Stickles glitter glue applied to all the roses on the puzzle piece and just the centers of the others.

Don't forget to stop by DominoART again on May 3rd for the next featured project!

There's 2 other events currently happening too so come and join the fun! 

DominoART's Next Top Mascot Doll Contest - The Search for the Next Dominique Doll DominoART Challenge #3 Scary Half-O-Ween Playing Cards

 

Domino Hugs! 

Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Leigh S-B Designs Blog
DominoART Blog

Velvet Paw Creations

Happy Birthday

The last of this series of posts is a birthday card that I made using the Shrubbery and Mini Birds stamps. The Shrubbery stamp is huge - I actually made two cards from one stamp impression! Unfortunately, though, I only took a picture of one half! :(  But I just love how these turned out - another super simple project that exudes simple elegance!

I cut two 4.25" x 5.5" white card bases and two pieces of Marco's navy blue cardstock. I spritzed a homemade mixture of water and white Perfect Pearls powder in a Mini Mister all over another half-sheet of white cardstock. Once dry, I stamped the shrubbery  in Memento Bamboo Leaves on the Perfect Pearls cardstock and then cut the image in half. I trimmed both pieces and mounted them on the blue cardstock and then onto the card bases. I stamped two birds on white cardstock in Memento Paris Dusk ink, cut them out and mounted them onto the card fronts. I stamped Happy Birthday (from the Party Words stamp set) on the front and left the inside blank. Love, love, love! The shimmer is just yummy! ;)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs,
Leslie
Love To Scrap!

Thinking of You (Set of 3)

I thoroughly enjoyed creating this set of cards using the Mannequins stamp set. They are so girly - what girlfriend wouldn't just love getting these?! I only used three of the six stamps in this set, so stay tuned for three more at some point! ;) The inside sentiment is from the Party Words stamp set - a very cool set of sentiment stamps that I don't know how I've lived without! I can't tell you how impressed I am with the quality of all the Lost Coast Designs stamps I've used. They are deeply etched and it's almost impossible to mess up! ;)

I used a monochromatic black/white theme with each card having just a splash of color. I cut three 4.25" x 5.5" white card bases and stamped the Thinking of You sentiment on the inside of each in Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I cut various pieces of The Paper Cut black and white patterned papers, as well as some Marco's black and red cardstock (for matting), and some pink cardstock (also for matting) from my stash. I stamped the mannequins in Memento Tuxedo Black ink on white cardstock and cut each with a Spellbinders Long Rectangle die. I mounted the patterned papers onto either black or pink cardstock, adhered them to the card bases, and then embellished each with some additional die cuts, flat-back pearls, ribbon, a fabric rose and a feather. Love 'em!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs,

Leslie
Love To Scrap!