Monday, June 29, 2015

Moonlight

Hello everyone, Yvonne here with a new blogpost. This time I want to show you a postcard. 


I stamped the shrubbery with versamark and used clear embossingpowder. After that I sponsed with black soot. With my hands I made some water splashes. With yellow and orange I made the moon and around the moon I used a white posca paint marker to create the "shining". On another piece of paper I stamped the cat and I colored him with the same colors. He looks very happy don't you think so ?




For this card I used the following stamps:
- Shrubbery
- More Cats
- Party Words

Thanks for stopping by, see you next time!

XXX Yvonne.

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Cats + Numbers = Party!

Hello Again! 

It's me Tera here with another fun tag project. 
This time I want to share my tag that I made for the June numbers challenge over on our "Portal to creativity" challenge blog! The link is HERE
(If you haven't been there yet you really need to Hop on Over and check it out!!! There are some awesome prizes, challenges, and inspiration!!)


Start with a #8 tag (or what ever the XL-large tag size is lol) Paint or ink it yellow and pink (I used distress stains). Allow to dry. 
On a separate piece of paper stamp your kitty HERE in black ink and your party hat HERE in Black ink and i did the 2nd one in Kaleidacolor "Caribbean Sea" but and blue/ green would be good :D  I then used the same blue greens to sponge color the party hat and kitty (i used a make-up sponge). For the second har i used my pink stain. I cut them all out then set them aside. 

Back to the background... I used 3 stencils from TCW, 2 were grungy looking ones and one was clocks... I added numbers and circles using the black and pink dylusions paints and I added a few more circles with some blue paint to pull things together. 


Last I glued my little kitty and hats on and there you have it one fun ready to party tag!! 

Thank you Again for joining me in sharing this fun inspiration and don't forget to check out the new challenge on July 1st!!! 

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Dream Big

So the CityScape stamp is one of my favorites and since we're celebrating our new Challenge blog in which we have a New Stamp release event until July 22nd going, it is getting a lot of love from me this month :) This piece is inspired by the movie Upside Down which I have seen recently.Such a cool idea, those two world colliding in one.

A few years ago I found a cool marble set which I had stored somewhere for ages. And I finally used it to make wonderful backgrounds for journal/mailart pages. Like the background I used for this piece. I simply stamped the city scape on the top and bottom and embossed with black embossing powder. To fill up the stark whiteness in between the marbles, I sprayed chalk mist powder in blue over the card. (it is handy to create a 'spray box' to put your projects in so you don't spray it all over your desk or clothes etc..)  DREAM BIG in the middle to finish off the piece. I used doodle letter stamp set and colored in with black fineliner. A reminder to always let myself dream, desire and aspire!

Thanks for stopping by!
namaste
Tarah

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Owl Tag

Did you know that we now have a specific Event and Challenge Blog, Lost Coast Portal to Creativity. Go check it out for some awesome inspiration and prizes :)

Our challenge this month, #13 is Numbers. Here is my make : A tag featuring the Owl Set. 
 I just love this Owl Set, there are three different sized owls and I used the largest and smallest. Its Mamma owl teaching baby owl some math :) The owls are stamped in versafine black ink and colored with distress inks, then the white detail added with a white gel pen. The background is acrylic paint, I stamped the pencils from ATC Misc 4 Set and used a wood grain embossing folder. I sanded the wood grain and then ran it back through my big shot to flatten it out - I like the distressed look it gives. I added numbers using the Old Typewriter Alphabet, and the plus sign is drawn using a versamark pen. Then I used Stampendous shabby blue embossing enamel on the numbers and around the edge of the tag. Finished by adding some fibres.

Why I wanted to do a separate post for this Challenge make is to show you how I reversed the small owl. In the stamp set all the owls face the same direction, but as you can see this baby owl is facing Mamma.
To do this I used the Shadow Frame Set. Because there is a piece of large flat rubber, I can stamp the owl onto the rubber, then stamp that onto my card stock. Its called mirror reversing. The image is never 100% as crisp as it is from the first stamping, but is pretty darn good as you can see above.
Thanks for stopping by, come and check out our new event and challenge blog, see you there :)
Nikki x

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Pretty Peacock!

Grab those markers and make a pretty card!
You can use any watercolor markers you have and you can snag the stamps from Carmen's Veranda! Happy Crafting!

Friday, June 19, 2015

"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

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Light Mandelas with mono printing Plate Background

Hello Everyone,
Today, I would like to share two projects I made with a new release Lost Coast Design Stamp set: Light Mandelas.  The images were stamped with Jet Black Archival ink onto a background made with a mono printing Plate.  I added rhinestones and ribbons to embellish.




See  more pics and instructions on my blog, Dreaming and Creating.  See you soon.
Karen McAlpine

Monday, June 15, 2015

ATC Challenge Winner

We wanted to showcase the winner of our May ATC Challenge: Congratulations Liesbeth

Please check out our events and challenge blog, the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity. 

You can use any images you like to enter our monthly challenges, but if you use Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda images then your entry will count as two, which doubles the chance to win the prize.  

Our June challenge is Numbers and you have another 10 days to enter.
Please familiarize yourself with our challenge rules.

Hope to see you there, Nikki x

Saturday, June 13, 2015

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 ! 

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Patricia Face

How I love these both stamps, at the background
With this set you can easily make great backgrounds!
The second stamp is one of my favorites:

The combination looks like Patricia on
fabrik.........