Who Says Poe's Raven Was A "He"? (Besides Poe?)

Gothic Greetings, Lost Coasters!

Are you in the Halloween spirit yet? Well, you will be when you take part in the Lost Coast Designs Portal to Creativity spooky stamped art contest! Enter YOUR Halloween-themed art that uses rubber stamping (any company) for a chance to win one of TWO gift certificates to spend at the Lost Coast Designs store! See here for details.

As you are no doubt aware (clever reader as you are!), Lost Coast Designs is also participating in the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop, for which I am contributing a few projects. This one right here...

...is my own take on Poe's famous poem "The Raven" (visit my blog to read the full text of this sad and spooky Gothic classic!).

Now, Poe tells us that his raven was a boy. "PAH!" I say! Balderdash, even! Who needs your sexist raven-tropes around here? Not I! My raven is a WOMAN, do you hear? And not any slinky hot sexy young chick (<--see what I did there?) either. Mine is a GRANNY RAVEN and she has zero darns to give if you are shocked by this!!

I made this card by collaging the image of Lost Coast Designs' fabulous Old Lady Raven (that's what I'm calling her) from the Big Anthropomorph Birds set onto a background that I printed on my (beloved) Gelli plate. There's a bit of washi at the bottom and a hand-drawn spiderweb (with artist's pen and glitter gel pen) on the card too...and a single word, lovingly rendered in Bodoni for that Poe-period feel.

I hope my little piece gets you in the spooky spirit, and that you enter lots of art in the contest. We want you to win some of these fabulous Lost Coast Designs images!

Love and monsters, 

 

A trio of ATC's

Hello everyone,

Corrie here, and today I have a  trio of ATC's inspired by Alice in Wonderland to share.

The backgrounds were coloured with Distress Inks and a blending tool after which I randomly stamped the cards. I doodled around the edges and added some washi tape. The images were stamped on white card stock, coloured and cut out. I adhered them to the cards. Lastly I created the sentiments with my old typewriter. They are (parts of) quotes from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll.

I used the following stamps :

Love Dictionary 

ATC Backgrounds

Rabbits, Catface, Hatter plate

Thanks you so much for stopping by today !

Corrie x

Freaky

Hello everyone,

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

I used Model Paste, gesso and Pan Pastels for the background which was then randomly stamped. The word 'freaky' was done with a stencil which was given to me as a present ! (Thanks, you know who you are  ! I love it) The clown was stamped on white paper, coloured with Copic Markers, cut out and adhered to the page on top of a few bits of washi tape. The same washi tape was also used in the top left corner.

Stamps used:

ATC background

Big Nose Clown 

Love Dictionary 

Thanks for stopping by ! 

Corrie x

Washi Tape Background for Los Caballeros

Hello Coasties!
Today I have a fun project to share!  I used washi tape to create a colorful and dynamic background. I stamped, colored, and fussy cut the Los Tres Caballeros image to complete this fun any occasion card.

For more instructions, see my blog, Dreaming and Creating.  I hope you are having a super day!  See you again soon.
Karen McAlpine

Border Stamps and Washi Tape #3

Hello Everyone!
Here is the last in my series of Border stamps with Washi Tape projects.  I used a silver and gray color scheme with the Dragonfly Border Stamp to create this fun yet elegant card.

Love how the dragonflies dance across the card.  See more pics and more info on my blog, Dreaming and Creating.  See you next time with my Words project for the current challenge.
Karen McAlpine

Border Stamps and Washi Tape-What a fun Combo

Hello Everyone!
Today, I would like to share a project I made by combining Lost Coast Designs Border stamps with Washi Tape. This is a super fun combination and I made three projects using this combo.  The first project uses the Star Border stamp with brightly colored Washi tape, ink, and cardstock.

For more pics, materials list, and instructions, pop over to my blog  Dreaming and Creating.
I will be sharing the other two projects though out the month.  Hope you are having a great day!
Karen McAlpine