Craft stampers, card maker of the year award 2010

Craft stampers, card maker of the year award 2010
Craft stampers, card maker of the year award 2010

dinsdag 22 december 2020

zondag 20 december 2020

Lost Coast Designs challenge #112, Winter blues.



                                                                           Hi there, 

Blue is the color for winter cold.
I love the snow and the glisning off the snow.
So I attempted to bring that glisning in to the card.
 
For this card I used:
Megans christmas bird,
http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/catsandbirdsandmonkeysandskulls.html
Snowflake border,
http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/borders.html
A stencil for the background
A stencil for the christmas bells.
A stencil for the branches.
Stazon Midnight blue
Distressink shipped saphire
Panpastel light blue
Versamark clear
Dark blue embossingpowder
Nuvo aqua shimmer glitter gloss
Dark blue pencil.
 
I started off with the panpastel background.
Lay your stencil on the card and sponge with versamark.
Go over it with Panpastel.
(you can also do this with sponging ink)

 
Stamp Megans christmas bird in the richt bottom corner with Versamark.
Sprinkle the embossingpowder on and heat set it.
Now sponge the branches with the shipped saphire.
Do the same with the christmas bells.
Sponge some berrie and outline them with the pencil.


 
Now take the nuvo aqua shimmer and paint some shimmer on the berries and on the bird.

Matt with a white cardstock and stamp with the stazon the snowflake border.
Now your finished, I hope you liked it.
We would love to see what you make with the color blue.

Come over and join our challange and maybe you are the winner of some rubber.
https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/search/label/Monthly%20Challenge
 
 
 
 

donderdag 17 december 2020

Indigiblu's prachtige zeepaardje.

Hallo allemaal, 

Ja zeker, ik heb een kaart maken met de schitterende stempel van Indigoblu.

Ik ben begonnen met een achtergrond met distress oxide, victorian velvet, chipped sapphire,
speckled egg en tattered rose.
Ik heb deze kleuren opgebracht met een smalle brayer.
Dan heb ik passende kleuren tombow markers gebruikt om in te kleuren.
Van elke kleur een lichte en een donkere.
Met Wow embossing poeder heb ik de krullen met luchtbellen gestempeld.
Ook de tekst heb ik met dezelfde embossing poeder gestempeld.
Dat geeft nou net dat beetje extra aan de kaart.
Met een tombow marker heb ik de krullen en luchtbellen gekleurd.
Het zeepaardje heb ik gestempeld op aquarel papier, ingekleurd met de tombow markers.
Het zeepaardje uitknippen/snijden en op lijmen.
Voor de afwerking nog even hier en daar aanstippen met een witte gelpen.
En dat was het voor deze keer.
Ik hoop dat jullie het leuk vonden, en veel plezier met de hobby.

 


 


 

 

 

 

 

zondag 13 december 2020

Happy birthday to my lovely daugther.



 My daugthers favorite flower is the sweetpea. 

So for her 35 birthday I made this card with the lovely sweetpea stamp. 

I colored the card with inktense pencils.

vrijdag 11 december 2020

Christmas card

Hi there, A long time ago I bought lovely stamps for christmas cards.
Docraft papermania's enchanted christmas.
Now I finally used them and made this card.
I colored the santa with my Derwent inktense pencils.








dinsdag 8 december 2020

Lost Coast Designs challenge 112, Winter blues.

                                                                     


                                                                                        Snowy cityscape

 I used:

Cityscape http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/scenery.html

Snowflakes border http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/borders.html

 Distressink tumbled glass, speckled egg.
Stazon midnight blue.
Posca pen white.
 I started with a white cardstock.
Sponged the 1/3 bottom with speckled egg.
The second 1/3 with tumbled glass.
Keep the upper half white.
Stamp with the stazon midnight blue the cityscape stamp.
Now for the snowflakes.
I cut 3 snowflakes off the border stamp.
Thats why I love the LCD border stamps, they are fairly long.
So you can cut a little piece of to use as a single stamp.
I stamped them with speckled egg, 1,2 and 3th generation stamping.
Now you have darker and lighter snowflakes.
With the posca pen (acrylic marker),
you make snow on the buildings of the cityscape stamp.
Ad some snow on to the bottom of the card.
And now tap on the marker to spletter some white paint as snow on the card.
Matt your card and your finished.
I had lots of fun creating this card.

I love this winter/blue challenge and I cant waite to see what you will make for this challenge.

So join us and have fun stamping.




woensdag 2 december 2020

A new challenge at Lost coast designs, Winter blues.

 

Mary and angels.

 Hello everyone,
Dont you all love christmas time.
I love the decorating and card and gift making.
Our new challenge is all about winter and the color blue.
Because winter makes me think of christmas,
I chose these beautifull stamps. 
So for this card and bookmark I used the gourgeus “Mary and Angels stamp”.
And the versatile “Door and Window set”.
I have used this set for so many cards, its such a great set.





 What I used,
Distress micro glaze.
Distressink Black soot, Chipped sapphire, Salty ocean,
Musterd seed and Spiced marmalade.
Indigoblu Flitterglu and gilding flakes.

 And here is how I made the card and bookmark.
First I stamped the windows with distress micro glaze.
Then I sponged the windows with distressink musterd seed and spiced marmelade.
Then around the window with salty oceaan, chipped sapphire
  and on the edges with black soot.
With indigoblu FlitterGlu I stamped the Mary and angels stamp.
Then I applied the gilding flakes on the glue.
Splattered some water drops on the dark blue and let it dry.

 Hope you have fun and join our challenge.

Its fun and a great opportunity to win some rubberstamps.

  And please read our challenge rules.

 https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/p/challenges-rules-and-winner-badge.html



zaterdag 28 november 2020

Lost Coast Designs 111 challenge, Festive fun.

 

                                                               Yes, christmas is coming.
Love this time of the year.
So I made a wallhanger.

 I used,

Plaid pants Santa


Watercolor paper, 10,5 x 14,8cm  4,1 x 5,8 inches
Stazon midnight blue and Jet black
Distressink vintage photo and antique linen
Color pencils
Silver gellpen
I started with the piece of watercolorpaper.
Stamped the santa on the paper and stamped a mask.
Mask the santa and sponge with the antique linen the card.
Use the vintage photo to ad shadow.
Remove the mask and color the santa.
Color the star and the buttons on his boots with the silver gellpen.
Now for the borderstamp
Take a long piece of paper and stamp the border 4 times with the stazon midnight blue.
Sponge it with the antique linen.
I made some shadow in the corners of the checkers with the vintage photo.
Now make a frame of the border around the card.
I glued 4 hotfix stars and added the chain for hanging.
 I loved making this hanger.
And I really think the checkerd border finished it off.
I love to work with borders, I use them a lot.
Lost coast designs has a lot of great borders.
You can find them here.
http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/borders.html

 Hope you make some thing to and join our challenge.

We cant wait to see your makes.

There is some rubber to win, yeah!!!!!

https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/search/label/Monthly%20Challenge

 https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/p/challenges-rules-and-winner-badge.html


This wallhanger is joining the challenge at Christmas kickstart.

maandag 23 november 2020

Paperartsy flower

 A birthday card for a friend. Made with distressink and a Dutch doobadoo stencil/mask.

The stamp is from Paperartsy 


woensdag 18 november 2020

#111 Festive fun challenge over at Lost Coast designs

 
Today I made a tag for this fun challenge.
I will explain how I made it.


First a list of what you need.Distressink, 
Vintage photo.Distress Oxide, Bundled sage and speckled egg.
A peace of design paper.A piece of off-white paper.
A tag cutting die.Poinsettia cutting die.
Holly and branch die.
And the lovely “party pig girl LCD stamp”

 

Now here we go.
Die cut the tag from the designpaper.


Do the same with the off-white paper but a little bit bigger.


Whipe with de oxide pads and spray some water over it.
Whipe with both the tags trough it.
Take an extra piece from the off-white paper en run it trough the oxides.


This is for the poinsttia’s and the twigs and holly leaves.
Let the paper dry well.
Stamp with vintage photo the girl stamp.


And sponge the edges of the tags with vintage photo.


Now die cut the poinsettia and the leaves and sponge the edges with vintage photo.
Gleu the tags and the poinsettia together.
Now that was an easy and quick tag.

 Hope you have fun and join our challenge. https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/search/label/Monthly%20Challenge 
Its fun and a great opportunity to win some rubberstamps. 

And please read our challenge rules.
 https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/p/challenges-rules-and-winner-badge.html

 


donderdag 12 november 2020

Filmstrip on a bobbin.

Hi there, for the birthday of a stamping friend I made this bobbin.
It was very small to stamp, but I had some older inchies from Inkadinkado. 
The filmstrip is from Joy crafts.
I have entered this bobbin at the Country vieuw challenge Änything but a card".




zondag 8 november 2020

Challenge 110 at Lost coast designs

 Spooktacular Florals.

Hello dear stampers, Riet here.
Today a card with the theme spooktacular florals. 
I chose the day of the dead.
The beautiful large skull can be found here,
http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/dod.html.
I made the background with Distress oxide,
Musterd seed, Mermaid lagoon, Abandoned coral and Lucky clover.
I used a flower stencil / mask from Pronty.  
Then I sponge with the 4 distress oxcides.              
 I outlined the flowers with a black finliner.  
I colored the skull with zig markers. 
And with a nuvo aqua shimmer added some glitter here and there. 
Cut out the skull and glue it on. 
I put a black mat behind it, because then the colors look even more vibrant. 
And finally I glued two large glitter stones on the eyes.
Our challenge will run until the 15th, so make some time and join us. 
You can win some rubberstamps. 
Isn't that fantastic, have fun stamping.
Click for the Challenge.




zondag 1 november 2020

CHALLENGE #110 - SPOOKTACULAR FLORALS

 Hi there, 
the new challenge on the Lost Coast Designs blog is spooktacular florals.
So I chose the Frida Skull stamp, and the spiderwebs background stamp.
I started with the background stamp and distress microglaze.
Then with the distress refill black soot and fired brick,
  and a bit of water I went over the spiderweb.
While this is drying I continue with the Frida stamp.
On a piece of paper I stamped Frida with embossingink,
then embossed it with fine black embossingpowder.
Nou make a mask, and mask Frida off.
With a paper stomp dipt in micro glaze I made some lines around the Frida stamp.
Then I went over it with watered black soot.
With a die cut I cut out a lovely frame in black paper.
and I colored the frida skull.
Now you can glue it al together and matt with a plack paper.

Its now up to you, hope you will join the challenge.
The Lcd/CV designteam are looking forward to see your creations.



zondag 25 oktober 2020

31 day's of Halloween, day 25 - 4 Ravens

 And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting.....

Edgar Allan Poe.
Hallo everyone, Riet here.
I thought this quote was a good fit for this card.
I love this stamp, so mysterious.
This is how I made this card.

Stamps I used.

Stazon Jet black
Markers, 
orange, 
yellow, 
dark blue,
grey,
black.
purple.
White gelpen.
Masking tape.

I stamped the 4 raven stamp In the middle of the cardstock.
mask it and stamped over it with the 4th dimention stamp.
When the stazon is dry you can start coloring with the markers.
I used watercolor based markers.
If you want to color with alcohol based markers, then dont use stazon. 
Then use Memento.
Now the checker board frame.
Stamp it 4 times with black on white paper.
Cut to fit around the card, diagonally in the corners.
If it doesn´t fit perfectly, don´t worry.
There will be a victoriana element over it. 
So you wont see any of that later.
Stamp 4 of the smallest victoriana elements,
color and cut them out.
Now glue everything together.
 
Now, this was fun, and its even more fun to join our challenge.
You don´t have to use LCD stamps, but we do prefer them.
If you join you have a chance to win some rubber stamps of your choice.
But dont forget to read the rules first.


zaterdag 24 oktober 2020

Be Beautiful.




 


Distress oxide voor de achtergrond en de klassieke distress inkt voor de Indigoblu stempel.

Omdat de oxide’s wat mat van kleur zijn popt de stempel er echt uit.



Werkwijze:
Ik ben begonnen met de Indigoblu stempel  met Versafine onix black op aquarel papier te stempelen. 
Ik gebruikte hiervoor Waterart papier, dit is een fijne aquarel papier die zich makkelijk laat uitknippen en snijden. Heb hem ingekleurd met de distressink’s. Terwijl die droogt ben ik verder gegaan met de achtergrond. Met de DDBD stencil Vintage, heb ik met oxide bundled sage als een soort kader langs de randen gesponst.
En met de oxide ground espresso en de Craft emotions ornament hart bloem willekeurig wat gesponst.
Langs de rand van de kaart heb ik met distressink oranje en bruin hier en daar wat gesponst.
Inmiddels is de stempel droog en kan je hem uitsnijden of knippen. Lijm hem in het midden op de achtergrond. Geef hem wat schaduw met de Oxide ground espresso.
 
En nu dan de tekst, ik heb die gestempeld met de Distress oxide ground espresso.
Craft emotions heeft een serie met verschillende alfabetten. Ik vind ze helemaal geweldig. Ik kan heerlijk zelf mijn teksten samenstellen, en omdat ze clear zijn kan ik ook zo makkelijk de positie bepalen, ideaal.
 
Ik hoop dat jullie het leuk vonden.
Dan wens ik jullie veel stempel plezier.

woensdag 21 oktober 2020

31 days of halloween day 21- Evil eye


 How are you all doing. 
Are you all alive?
Not even a vampire bite?
Well watch out than,
Because here comes a card with a little monster.
Dont let it bite you.
Hahahaha.

I used for this card: 
Stamps,
Evil eye,  http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/teri.html
Spiderwebs, http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/backgrounds.html
Door and window set, http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/sets_notpeople.html

Distress oxide: 
Black soot.
Wilted violet.
Spiced marmalade.
Fossilized amber.
Musterd seed.
Distress micro glaze
White gellpen.
Color pencils
Red marker
Stazon black


For the spiderweb background I dabbed the paper in distress oxide,
 musterd seed, fossilized amber and spiced marmelade.
Let it dry and then stamp with black stazon the spiderwebs.
I have turned the stamp repeatedly and stamped a lot of times over each other.

Now, for the peace with the evil eye stamp.
I positioned the evil eye so that the tree extends over the edges of the paper.
Masked him with masking tape.
On the window stamp you put some Distress micro glaze.
Stamp it behind the evil eye.
With distress oxide, Wilted violet, Spiced marmalade,
Fossilized amber and Musterd seed.
Make some puddles with the ink and water and pull the paper through.
You will see a faint print of the window, looks like a watermark.
Remove the mask and color the evil eye stamp. Mat both cards and glue them together.


Now I am very curious about what you will make for the challenge. 
So come on over and join our challenge.
Then you can win some rubber stamps.

https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/search/label/Monthly%20Challenge

https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/p/challenges-rules-and-winner-badge.html

And dont forget, to have lots of fun.

vrijdag 16 oktober 2020

31 day's of Halloween challenge day 16 - Devil in disguise

 

Don't you love it, spooky and creepy furry friends.
On this card I used the "Devil in disguise"cat.
I wanted to create a feeling of hell.
So I used the shavingfoam technique.

What do you need:
Alcohol ink,
Sunshine yellow
Red pepper
Pitch black
A tray to fit your paper
Shavingfoam
Stazon black
White gelpen
markers or pencils

Spray a layer of foam in the tray.
Drop some drops of yellow ink on the top.
Try to process the ink in the top layer so that it turns evenly yellow.
Now you make a line of drops with the red ink. 
Not everywhere but spread over the foam.very carefully you spread the ink a bit with a spatula.
You do the same with the black, but dont use to much.
Remember, we are trying to make it look like the flames of hell.
Put your paper on the foam and let it absorb the foam.
Remove the foam with a wide spatula.
If this doesn't work for you, you can find tutorials of this technique on you tube.

Now you stamp the little devil cat on a peace of paper and color it.
Cut it out and glue it on your background.
I glued the text separately on the card.
But that is of course not neceessary.


I hope you have fun making your furry friend for the challenge. 
We love to see what you make.Please read our rules first.






zaterdag 10 oktober 2020

31 Days of Halloween, day 10 - When witches fly.


Last night I couldn't sleep.
I heard a lot of noise.
When I  looked out the window,
I saw the witches fly by.
And I was so afraid.....
BBBBRRRRRR.
And here they are, put down on paper.



 



The stamps I used are:

When witches go flying,
https://www.carmensveranda.com/clearstamps5all.html
Witch 2,
http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/women.html

I started with stamping the witches and masking them.
Them masked the moon.
I made this card with watercolor paint and for the outside I sponges with deep dark blue ink.
I made the stars with a white posca pen.
The witches are colored with markers.
 I went around the witches with a white gelpen
And for some highlites on the dresses of the witches.
The moon  is made with a lot of water and som drops watercolor paint.
So thats's the halloween card with the witches,
Are you joining our challenge?
Please do, it is great fun, and ther is a lovely prize to win.

Dont forget to read the rules.
https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/p/challenges-rules-and-winner-badge.html

Click the badge to join the challenge.