For the are you kidding me challenge at Lost Coast Designs.

 

Hello dear blog visitors.

Today a card for the "are you kidding me" challenge.

I chose the beautiful praying angel stamp from LCD.

What do you need to make this card?

A acrylic block, mine is heart shaped.

LCD Praying Angel.

Pieces of calligraphy.

Brush strokes.

Flowers (in 3 sizes)

Iron work border.

CV Daisies in my hair.

Black watergroof inkpad.

Distress ink and distress oxide:

Peacock feathers,

Worn lipstick,

Seedles preserves.

Color pencils, I used Derwent Intense.

I started by putting the 3 colors of distress ink on the acrylic block,

 and spraying it with some water.

Print the block on the paper.

I did the same but with a clear plastic sheet.

Bend the sheet then you can make a nice stripe pattern with the 3 colors of ink.

I drew a line around the heart with a pencil.

Using the 3 colors of distress oxide, 

stamp the background with the text stamp, the swirl and the circles.

On the bottem stamp de Ironworks border.

Stamp the flowers and color them and cut them out.

Do the same with the praying angel.

Make sure theat you have 3 sizes flowers.

Color the border and see where you want to stamp the text in the heart.

Make some spletters with the seedles preserves ink.

Place the flowers loose on the heart,

 so that you can estimate where the text should go.

Stamp the daisy text and glue the angel on and than the flowers.

Matt the card and your finishend.

The challenge runs until the end of May.

So there are still a few days left to participate.

Maybe you will be our new winner.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!

Are you kidding me, challenge at Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps.

Today a vintage tag for the challenge at

 Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps.

I chose to work with pastel shades. 

I think that suits this sweet vintage girl.

I used LCD stamps,

Bubbles (girl stamp)

Pieces of calligraphy

Pieces of architecture

Butterfly set

Daisy florish

Misc words

Distressink,

Speckled egg

Victorian velvet

Shaded lilac

Old paper

Vintage photo

Archival coffie

Or any other dark brown ink will do.

Perfect resist (home made)

2 parts white glue 1 part water.

Start by spraying the perfect resist on a clear sheet.

Use a sponge to apply it to the stamp.

Stamp on your tag and let it dry.

You apply the ink with an ink blending brush.

You will then see the stamp prints appear.

Just like magic.

Love the result.

Use a spray to make some fine water drops on the ink.

Stamp the Daisy florish Diagonally across the corners.

Do so with the wordt "Fly". 

Use a sponge to darken the edges with Distressink Vintage photo.

Stamp the butterfly and girl, color them with the distress ink.

Cut them out and stick them on with foam tape.

The challenge "Are you kidding me" is about kids,

but can also be about funny things.

It's up to you how you interpret it.

The team would love to see your crafty things in the challenge.

Anything goes as long as it's stamped on.

You don't even have to use LCD/CV stamps.

Read all about it in the rules.

Have fun creating and I hope to see your art.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!

 

#197 challenge at Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps, "Are you kidding me".

Today starts the new challenge of lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps.

It runs until the end of the month, so plenty of time to join.

Are you joining? Then you have a chance to win new stamps of your choice.

But now to the tutorial. 

What to use for this tag.

LCD Spike and Lucy.

LCD Ledger.

LCD Daisy florish.

LCD Misc words

Distressink,  Antique linen.

Distress Oxide, Ground espresso.

Versamark.

Bister yellow, red, blue and brown.

Embossing powder brown with a sparkle.

Flower die.

Tag die set Crea lies-16.

                                                       

Start with a piece of watercolor paper and spray it wet.

Let drops of bister fall in there and dab the excess with a paper towel.

Let it dry well.

Stamp the background with the ledger stamp and Distress oxide ground espresso.

Stamp the florish with versamark and sprinkel the embossing powder on it. 

Use your heattool to melt the embossingpowder.

Spletter big drops of bister brown.

Die cut the tag out off the background and die cut a dark brown matt.

Lay the matt a side.

I cut a flower from a piece of paper that is left over (or make a new piece).

I do the same with the forever friends words from the Misc words set.

Apply DistressOxide Ground espresso to all edges.

Distress the edges of the mat to make it look old.

Stamp with Ground espresso oxide Spike and Lucy.

Let the ink dry well and then go over it with 

Distressink Antique linen to make it look a bit older.

Glue the tag onto the mat.

Stick the loose parts on with foam tape.

Make a hole in the tag and pull a piece of lace or ribbon through it.

That's it for this time.

Hope you enjoyed it.

The team would love to see what you make with the theme children.

Click here to join the challenge.