Muse

I love all things that can fly - birds, butterflies, fairies, etc - so this Lost Coast Event was right up my creative alley.  Being a cat lover as well makes it a perfect match.

I created this square 4 X 4 card for this event using the Party Cat stamp (www.lost-coast-designs.com/party.html) and one of the new clear phrase stamps at Carmen's Veranda (carmensveranda.com/clear.html).

I stamped my kitty with black ink onto white paper and cut her out.  I gave her blue eyes and added a bit of pink marker to the tip of her nose and the inside of her ears.  I cut out the party hat she comes with and traced that shape onto some dark blue scripted paper, cut it out, and gave her a new party hat. The butterfly wings are from a collage sheet I had on hand, so I fastened those on, and she's ready to fly!

My background is four different torn strips of paper - two are from some decorative paper I had on hand and two are from background papers I had created.  I attached them all in a horizontal fashion, torn edges up, and edged the border with blue Distress Ink.  Kitty goes on atop those.  I stamped "Muse" with black ink on white paper, cut it out closely around the letters, edged with black ink, and attached with a piece of foam tape to give it some dimension.

And my kitty is ready to Fly!!

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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