Ghostie BOO Birds & Nuance Backgrounds

Happy Half-O-Ween Lost Coaster's!

Leigh here to share some Half-O-Ween inspiration featuring Whimsical Birds by Doris Arndt and Nuance Powders by Magenta now available at Lost Coast Designs!

We are currently celebrating Halloween in May every 2nd day until May 31st over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.  Stop by to see lots of spooktacular projects and then dig out your Halloween stamps and join the linky party for the chance to win a fab $15 shopping spree at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

 For Day 1 of Half-O-Ween I made these 2 ATCs featuring both the large and mini versions of Whimsical Flora.  These are our latest addition to the Lost Coast Designs line of quality rubber stamps consisting of 8 large birdies and 2 sets of minis.  

Both ATCs started out the same way with a scrumptious background created with the fabulous Nuance Powders by Magenta.  We currently stock all 15 colours but it's just been announced that 5 new colours are heading our way...SQUEEEE!  

 

 I had so much fun just letting the powders do their magic.  I tapped micro specks of grey, violet, hot pink, orange and golden yellow onto the ATCs and then spritzed with water.  While wet I smooshed an ATC blank on top of another to transfer the colour and also played around with the colour soaked up by the paper towel to make even more backgrounds.  I then dried them all with my heat gun and ironed them flat.  

 

 

I stamped Lost Coast Design's large Spiderwebs background onto both ATCs in Tea Dye Distress Ink.

 

 

On the first ATC I created the pale moon using a circle punch as a mask and Cloud White VersaMagic ink dabbed on with a piece of paper towel and I also stamped the Cracked Grass and Sky with Brilliance Platinum Planet to add the little stars and dots to the background of both ATCs.

 

 

I continued building my scenes by stamping the large and mini Cracked Tree in Onyx Black VersaFine ink and added shimmer and shine to the branches with "Perfect Pearl" Perfect Pearls powder mixed with water and applied with a paint brush.  The light catches the shimmer only at certain angles for magical effect.

 

 Now for my Ghostie Birds...both Whimsical Floras were stamped twice on Neenah cardstock with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and coloured with Copics and Prismacolor pencils.  I fussy cut out the entire bird from the 1st set and just the heads from the 2nd.  The heads were adhered with pop dots and I also applied Judikins Diamond Glaze to their eyes for extra dimension and shine.  The "BOO" text was stamped with Old Type Writer Alphabet set in both lower and upper case, one was left plain and the other I coloured with purple Prismacolor pencil.  I drew the frames with a black Micron pen and added black Prismacolor pencil and adhered the "BOOs" to the ATCs with Scotch Quick Dry adhesive.

 

That's it from me today, I hope you enjoyed seeing how I made these two Ghostie BOO Bird ATCs and don't forget to stop by Lost Coast Portal to Creativity for more Half-O-Ween fun!

Before you go...did you know we are also celebrating our first Blogiversary at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and we're giving away BLOG CANDY?!  Click HERE to see how you can get in on the action and celebrate with us ;0)

 

Happy Stamping!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN
LCD/CV DT Leader

Lets get this party started !

There is a new Challenge at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity : Lets Party !

Nikki here, sharing a card I made for the challenge, featuring Party Girl from Lost Coast Designs : 

Party Girl was stamped in elderberry memento ink, coloured with copics and white gel pen highlights added,  and I fussy cut her.

For the green in the background I used a gelli print background, then inked up the Sunflower Background from Lost Coast Designs in green ink. Without putting the stamp onto a block I rolled sections of it here and there on the background. I also stamped the sunflower onto another piece of white card stock, then punched this into shapes : the circles and scalloped strip you can see. I sponged a little of the elderberry ink onto them and glued them down. Finally adding some lines with an old credit card and ink.

The words were stamped on my typewriter and the card front matted and glued together.

I really like the contrast here of the elderberry and green, and she is such a great image to work with.

And there's plenty more where she came from .... Check out the other inspiration at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity or the wonderful, varied and unique images at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda.

Thanks for stopping by x

2 cards 2 holidays: Halloween and Day of the Dead By Bibiana

Hello Lost Coasters:

Here Bibiana
with 2 cards for 2 different holidays made with Lost Coast Designs Stamps...
These cards were made for the special events/challenges held at the "Lost Coast Portal to Creativity" Blog for LCD

I made this first card for Halloween...event held on the month of October...
The background uses several hat stamps which can be used separate or as a background
and the main image is this silhouette fun flying witch...

The second card is for "Day of the Dead", celebrated this past November 2nd in Mexico and Central America, remembering our loved ones...

This fabulous skull traditionally is made out of sugar and placed in the altars...mine mimics a chocolate sugar skull!

and lots of flowers as all the tombs and altars are decorated for this special day in Mexico!

the challenge "day of the dead" by the way is still running all through the month of November, so do not forget to stop by the blog: "Portal of Creativity" and add your "Day of the Dead" creation using LCD stamps...

thanks for the visit 

you can find me at my blog

"Stamping with Bibiana"

SUPPLIES: Lost Coast  Designs stamps: silhouette witch; party hats set 2; black nose sugar skull;  large chicken wire background

Trick or Treat

This is my second make for the 31 Days Of Halloween, which is taking place over at the Smeared Ink blog, sponsored by Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda. You can check out the Design Teams daily inspiration at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.

Here is my make, featuring Carmen's Veranda stamps Large People Skull and Grunge white swirl background. I also used the Old Typewriter Alphabet from Lost Coast Designs :

The skull image is so great. I stamped it onto glossy card stock in black versamark and embossed it with clear embossing powder. I then added more definition to the shaded parts of the image using grey distress ink and a cut n dry pen nib.

I really love the grunge backgrounds, they are so versatile. I used the white one here stamped over a distress ink background and acrylic splatters. The words are white heat embossed.

The 'Trick or Treat' amused me, both words are pretty relevent to this image ... LOL. Love the sexual innuendo :)

Thanks for stopping by x

Everything Dances

Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda are sponsoring Smeared Ink's 31 Days of Halloween. Every day for the duration of the event, fabulous Halloween inspired art will be shared by the Design Team at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.

For today, here is my make :

For this standard sized card I have used the larger skeleton from Dancing Skeletons. I stamped the skeleton in memento black and added depth and shading with copics, cool greys. I outlined the image in black and fussy cut it.

The background was so fun .... I got the idea for the background behind the skeleton from a Youtuber Shana Conroy, a video entitled Dreams. I painted the background with black gesso, then sprayed dylusions sprays and let it dry. I then splashed watered down white gesso onto the background, put a layer of paper on top and pulled it off. Because dylusions sprays react with water, they started to color the white gesso. I let it dry. Doesn't it look awesome, a perfect backdrop for the skeleton.

I layered this card, matting the black with distressed yellow card stock, and I stamped Carmen Veranda's grunge black swirl background onto the card base which I had first colored with distress inks.

The finishing touch was the words, which I typed on my typewriter. Cut them out and edged in black. I love Maya Angelou, and this quote from her suited this project perfectly I think.

I really enjoyed making this card ... so I decided to make a few artist trading cards too :

I used the exact same techniques and stamps, except for the stamping on the blue background. I used the same grunge black swirl, but this time I used the new ATC sized one. How great to have a smaller version for ATC's. The grunge backgrounds are really great, and there are a whole host of ATC background stamps available at Lost Coast Designs.

The words were quite amusing for one of the ATC's. Who remembers the hit from 1993, "Boom! Shake the Room"? Quite funny to link the old-school hip-hop with the dancing skeleton.

Hope you found some inspiration here and please pop over to The Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and Smeared Ink to see the other gorgeous pieces :) 

BOO! a 31 Days of Halloween linky party plus our 1st Facebook Challenge!

Hello LCD and CV Friends!

Tomorrow begins the countdown to Halloween and that means only one thing...it's time to get spooky!  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity is participating in the fangtastic Smeared Ink 31 Days of Halloween blog hop and to celebrate we are throwing our own Halloween party with 2 events!
Enter your spooktacular projects for the chance to win 2 freakishly fabulous prizes!

BOO! a 31 Days of Halloween Linky Party
Oct 1st - Oct 31, submit your entries HERE!
win a $15 shopping spree to Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda! 
 

BOO! Rules

• You can use ANY stamp companies on your entries BUT if you use only LCD/CV stamps your entry will count as two and doubles your chance at winning the prize!
• Become a Follower of Lost Coast Portal to Creativity
• Submission must link directly to your project, not just your blog home page
• Include our event info and link in your blog post 
• No backlinking to old projects published prior to the start of the event
• Please leave us a comment after you link up, we do love hearing from you!
• No limit on how many times you can enter
• No limit on how many events or challenges you can combine ours with
• You may enter our events and Challenges even if you don't have a blog...Upload your project to a photo sharing site or personal Facebook accounts, and set the privacy setting to "Public", include the name of the event or challenge in your photo description!  

LCD/CV Facebook Pages Challenge

#1 Something Wicked this Way Comes!

The 2nd event is our 1st LCD/CV Facebook based Challenge, which began Sept 7 and ends Nov 2! 
win a $15 shopping spree to Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda! 
 

HOW TO ENTER and RULES 

  Enter on our Lost Coast Designs Facebook Page

Enter on our Carmen's Veranda Facebook Page

• This challenge is running on both of our Facebook Pages - LCD & CV.
• You must be a Follower of both of our FB Pages to enter!
• Projects featuring our LCD or CV images will be entered into the DT Faves draw TWICE!
• If you make a project combining stamps from both companies then you may enter the same project in both locations & quadruple your chances of winning the prize!
•  If you make a project using only LCD images then please only enter it on the LCD Page.
• If you make a project using only CV images then please only enter it on the CV Page.
• You may combine our LCD & CV images with stamps from other companies but our images MUST be the focus of your project!
• Enter by adding your project photo in the comments of the Challenge Facebook post which is pinned to the top of both FB Pages.
• Include details of what stamps you used & please leave the DT some love.
• ONE winner will receive a $15 gift certificate which can be spent at both companies!
• You are very welcome to enter the same projects in our events & challenges currently being hosted here on Lost Coast Portal to Creativity blog!
• We'd greatly appreciate it if you'd share our Challenge with your friends via the "Share" button.

The LCDesigners have been creating up a storm so stop by every day throughout October for tons of spooktacular inspiration during the massive 31 Days of Halloween blog hop with daily prizes sponsored by many fab companies including Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda which you can win just by hopping, commenting and playing in the Scavenger Hunt!  Don't forget to come back here and enter your Halloween inspired creations in the BOO! linky party HERE and our FB Pages Challenge!

We hope you'll join us and Stay to Play!

Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

A Halloween Steampunk Men Card by Bibiana

Hello Lost Coasters fans:
Here Bibiana...

Today, I am sharing with you a Halloween Steampunk card for men...

using a "Steampunk men" image with a "Chess perspective background", paired with some dies ...

Great card to give to a men for any occasion ...just change the sentiment and it can be used any time...

 

Until next time for another craft project...

I Thank you for the company ....

You can find me at my blog:
"Stamping with Bibiana"
 

SUPPLIES

Lost Coast Designs stamps: steampunk man interior;  large perspective background;

Halloween Card By Bibiana

Hello Dear Lost Coasters Fans:

HERE BIBIANA...
I am bringing to you this month a  Halloween card...getting ready for the approaching date!

The background was masked and sponged in various colors ...

 I stamped twice the crow , glued one on top of the other to give some dimension...added some silver  "Stickles" and a dot for his eye

I used the Crow,  from the "Mother Goose Birds" set which comes with 3 different birds
the flourish "Long Swirl" for the background and on the top added the book sign, which comes in a set/plate of 5 stamps called  "Altered Book Set"
 
The branch and the numbers are die cuts.
The numbers are die cut in chip board placed on one corner of the card, and the branch placed below the crow and Voilà!

Thank you for your visit 

and comments - much appreciated...

You can find me at my blog

"Stamping with Bibiana"

 Supplies:
 Lost Coast Designs Stamps: Long swirl; altered book set; mother goose birds;

2 cool techniques, 1 spooky card!

Howdy folks, Lindsay here with a couple of fun technique videos for you so you can make this spooky card:

The first technique is what I call eroded stamping because the image looks grungy and deteriorating and the key to the technique is stamping with water, I used the bubble background from Lost Coast Designs. Have a look:

Then I dug out the square stamping gear I had to have but never use and my skeleton stamp from Lost Coast Designs. 

It was a fun card to make, I enjoyed using the stamping gear and will try to use it more often now:) Thanks for stopping by and til next time happy crafting!

Chalkboard technique with the Skull Flourish

Hello My Dear Stamper Friends:

Here Bibiana, with another post...
For quite some tome I wanted to showcase this trendy technique called "Chalkboard" and what a better way to do it with a stamp for Halloween!

I used here this nice red rubber stamp from "Lost Coast Designs", called the "Skull Flourish.

"The Chalkboard Technique" is quite simple but very pretty..it is basically an "emboss resist" technique but only made with white embossing powder and white ink on black cardstock!

You follow the same steps as for an "emboss resist" (heat emboss an image in white Embossing powder) and when cool you will "rub"/sponge over the top and in certain areas white ink,
some people add extra white elements with "Prismacolor" white pencils (or markers, chalks, "Pan Pastels" etc...), like "doodling" or making small designs (stripes, dots, shading etc) around the image...giving the illusion as if you where using a black board and chalks as it used to be in the school classrooms...

The background was stamped with the "Crackle Background" stamp in black over white cardstock, I added a "flourish" from "Spellbinders" and die cut the main panel with a "Spellbinders" label...added some "doodling" with silver "Stickles" and that's it...

Ok my dear friends, I hope you give it a try this fun "chalkboard" technique using some of this nice stamps from "Lost Coast Designs"!
We would like to hear from you so leave us a small comment and of course to all the people out there visiting the blog and reading it, thank you!

"Lost Coast Designs" stamps: "Skull Flourish"; "Crackle background"

A Murder of Crows!

Howdy folks, Lindsay here with a quick tag project for you using the Murder of Crows set from Lost coast Designs:

Watch the video to see how easy it is to make these. If you don't have the Pan Pastels I used you can use ink or chalk and a sponge.

To finish the tag I stamped the text by inking up half and stamping, then cleaning my stamp and stamping the rest on the other side of the bird. Easy Peasy! Thanks for stopping by and til next time happy crafting!

Silhouette Witch using a DIY "Mini Roller Brayer" or "Roltap" tool

Hello Dear Stamper Friends:
Here Bibiana...
Well this whole post came to life thanks to Lindsay...she posted below (On Monday July 22nd) a card and a video on how to make a background card using the "Can Can Show Girls" stamp.

I discovered this "new" tool called "Roltap", thanks to the video that she posted here in this blog...

After seeing her video I had to have right away that tool, but unfortunately as she pointed out later in another video it turns out that this "new" tool, was an "oldie" and that it is a discontinued item:(

So following some of her suggestions, I ran to Michael's and made my own version.
I created my own "Mini Roller Brayer" Or "Roltap" tool...
here it is my take...
To view the complete tutorial on how to make this tool and see the new tool that I discovered that works like the "Roltap" visit my blog HERE ...

I decided to make a card, of course, using this new "mini brayer" or "Roltap" tool! and what better than a card for Halloween...

I used this fun "Silhouette Witch" stamp that "Lost Coast Designs" has in the Silhouette section of the their online catalogue  to make this fun background card in order to showcase how the "mini Roller Brayer" works...

I first did my background in 3 different color inks (black, gray: "London Fog: Memento ink"  and "Pumice: distress ink By Tim Holtz")...
If you prefer straight lines I guess you can use a ruler...but I do not mind the crooked lines... it goes fast, less that 3 min...and I think that's the charm of the background.
I die cut it with a "Spellbinders" label  3 die.

Then I stamped a 2nd panel using a large Background "Three Branches" stamp from "Lost Coast Designs" and I used a "leaf wheel" on the corners...just to use both "new" tools in my card.

 detail of the background...

I decided to make a gingham pattern and the broom has several layers to add some dimension...

Hope you will get inspired as I was, ...THANK YOU, Lindsay!

Thanks for stopping by and until next time,