Halloween Mail Art

Stamps used 

http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/women.html Early Stitch 'n Bitch

http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/catsandbirdsandmonkeysandskulls.html Murder of Crows

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! 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

Three Skulls for 31 Days of Halloween Event

Hello Everyone!
Lots of Halloween fun going on!!!  Today is my first post for the 31 Days of Halloween event!!   Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda Stamps are sponsoring the event with stamp prizes.  This event is presented by Smeared Ink Stamps. There are lots of prizes, blogs, and inspiration projects in this huge event.  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity will have a different Halloween/Scary project each day for the month of October.

I stamped some scary Carmen's Veranda Flying Skulls for my Halloween decoration.  The stamping is done with Chalk ink on white CS and Chalkboard Black CS.

For more pics and instructions, see the full post on my blog, Dreaming and Creating.  Hope you are enjoying our 31 Days of Halloween event!!  The projects are really awesome, aren't they!!  See you next time for more scariness.

Karen McAlpine

Halloween ATC by Bibiana

Hello My dear "Lost Coast" Friends:

Here Bibiana....

Halloween ATC are very Fun to make and give away...
Lost Coast Designs, has several ATC stamps so do not forget to visit their main website.
Today I used the Rabbit paired with some other fun stamps...
This card is being  featured at the  "31 days of Halloween " event,  at "Lost Coast Portal to Creativity" blog.

For the background I used a "trellis" stamp that belongs to a set of stamps called "ATC misc. 5 set"....
This set comes with a "honeycomb background" and a "frame"...all designed to be used for ATC.

I tucked underneath some party hats and 2 mini skulls!
a last view

Enjoy the rest of this month's event: 

"31 days of Halloween", 

at the Blog "Lost Coast Portal to Creativity" 

with so many projects posted there 

every day for this "hop" sponsored by LCD!

Thanks for the visit

you can find me at my blog:

"stamping with Bibiana"

Supplies; Lost Coast Designs Stamps: 
Rabbits, Cat Face, Hatter;
ATC misc. 5 set;
Party hats 2 set; 
6 mini skulls;

 

World Card Making Day

Brilliant excuse (as I would need one) to get crafty - today is the 10th World Card Making Day holiday. Time to get creative and let your friends and love ones all over the World know you are thinking about them. Old-fashioned snail mail, it's always so lovely to get some.

World Card Making Day was originaly National Card Making Day and founded by Paper Crafts magazine to bring card makers together at the beginning of the busiest card-making season of the year.  First held on October 7, 2006, it is now celebrated annually on the first Saturday in October.

I made a card using awesome Spray Webbing stamp together with Feather Bird, both from Lost Coast Design.

First I painted the card base, then I glued some very very thin paper on it (Is it called rice paper or decoupe paper?).  I stamped  Feather Bird  using VersaFine black ink and then I stamped Spray Webbing with VersaMark and embossed it with clear embossing powder. Some brown DI and a sentiment ... that's how my Bold raven in a forest was made ... and will be flying to the other side of the world.

So make a card - Be bold!

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

The Master of Horror

 So here is a simple tag with two of my favorites as to date from Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!  Good old Alfred (Alfred Hitchcock Standing found at Carmen's Veranda)  just keeps calling my name.  I have made a locket with him but the soldering has gotten the best of me on it but it will make an appearance here eventually!  This awesome "Grunge Tree" seems to fit him so well, too, and since it is a favorite, why not?

I love these two stamps together...like so many at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda, they just seem made for each other.  And that skull bead?  Oh, I think old Alfred would have had a chuckle!

Get ready for our new Challenge at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity the first Monday of December and enter our November Challenge "Mail Art".
 Follow all the news and how to's on the Portal!  Don't miss out on the fun and fun it is!

Lost Coast Portal to Creativity

Carmen's Veranda

Lost Coast Designs 

"Soon"~ One Layer Page

Hi!
kim here today! I have a small one layer page to share.

This is called, "Soon..." since Halloween is right around the corner and the Lost Coaster's team has some amazing projects to share with you everyday starting really soon on October 1!

 I used the magnificent RAVEN silhouette at Lost Coast Designs and the Large TREE with Birds at Carmen's Veranda.

Hope to see you soon!
~kim

Send Some Love

Hello Again!

Tera  AKA The Crafty Sugar Addict

Here with another fun Stamped piece of Mail Art!

I have to say I just love this Buddha stamp!! He's the perfect size for everything from pocket letters,  to cards, to even envelope art!! 

Stamps Used: 

Asian Set (Buddah)

Party Hats set 1

Butterflies Set

Pencils Background

Measuring Tape Boarder 

I also used metallic sprays and some watercolor to finish everything off :D