My stamped nativity scene.

 Yes, I know, Christmas is over. 

But I just finished this nativity scene. 

I had a wooden house,

I put an LED light in it,

 and stamped the background and

 colored it with watercolors and Inktense pencils.

Happy new year! Things with wings challenge at Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps.

 To all my followers and blog visitors, 

I wish you all a happy and prosperous new year, full of good health and creativity.

Now on to the new monthly challenge from Lost Coast Designs, 

where you can win the beautiful rubber stamps from 

Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda Stamps.

Click the link to go to the challenge blog and enter.

The theme is "Things with Wings".

You can enter with other brands as long as they have been stamped.

Now for the card explanation.

I used:

LCD Megan's Christmas bird.

Ornaments from the Victoriana set.

And party words.

Brown ink to stamp the bird.

Distressink chipped sapphire for the ornaments and text.

Watercolor paint for the coloring.

White gelpen for the accents.

Gold marker (Posca).

Gold glitter

Punch with numbers.

White acrylic paint to splatter.

Stamp the bird with brown waterresistent ink.

Make sure the bottom four lights don't get inked. 

We'll attach the numbers to them later.

I colored with watercolorpaint.

Gave the background a dark blue cloudy schadow.

Colored the lights red and the fitting gold with the posca marker.

Punch out the numbers and color them gold.

Then add gold glitter on the numbers.

Glue the numbers to the lightcord and the 5 to the bird's beak.

Stamp with Distressink chipped sapphire the ornaments and the text.

Add accents with the white gelpen

 and splatter the white acrylic paint to create a snowy effect.

Matte with dark blue cardstock.

I hope you enjoyed it, and if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

I look forward to your participation in the challenge, and who knows, you might be the next winner.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!

Here's another example of Megan's Christmas bird.

How to make this card.

Christmas card for my granddaughter.

 I made a slider card with stamps of little christmas  bunny's  for my granddaughter (8).

She has 2 bunny's,  and I colored them as they really are.

She loved it.

 

Christmas card for my daugther.

I made this Christmas card for my daughter. 

I was given the Studio Eelz Magical Winter 1 Dashing Deer stamps by her.

The card was made with watercolor paint and distressed ink.

I used white embossingpowder for the star.

And die cut a star and sprinkled it with glitter.

 

Challenge #204 at Lost Coast designs/Carmens veranda stamps. Anything goes!

I made a gift box to fill with chocolates.

I love the LCD Pokey animals, and I enjoyed decorating the box with them.

What I used,

Pokey cat

Pokey mouse

Pokey dog 

Pokey pidgeon

Pieces of calligraphy

Brush strokes

Butterflies set

Distress oxide,

Twisted citron

Lucky clover

Cracked pistachio

Derwent inktense for the coloring

Black waterresistent inkpad

Stencil Craft emotions

We r makers, giftbox punch board

How to make this box.

I stained the paper with twisted citron and cracked pistachio.

I used an ink blender and lucky clover to transfer the stencil pattern.

Stamp the animals and butterfly on thin paper

 and color them in with pencil or markers.

Now take the smallest text stamp from the Pieces of calligraphy set. 

Stamp here and there with twisted citron.

Now we take the Brush strokes set and grab the stamp with the small dots.

Stamp a narrow strip of this in black.

Rotate the stamp in different directions.

To finish it off, stamp a butterfly, color it, and cut it out.

Fill the box and close it. 

Glue the butterfly to the top tab of the closure.

That's it for today, I hope you enjoyed it.

Please join the anything goes challenge, which runs until the end of the month. 

You have a chance to win stamps, which is really cool.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!!!

Birthday card for my daugther.

Last Wednesday was my daughter's 40th birthday.

Well, where does the time go?

One minute she's in your arms, drinking from her bottle, and suddenly she's 40.

I'm so grateful for the precious time I get to spend with her.

She's truly an amazing daughter.

Here's my card for her, made with Studio Light stamps.

 

The new december challenge at Lost Coast Designs. Anything goes.

Hi crafters,

I made this tag with:

Doodle flowers background.

Dictionary words.

Long Swirl.

Mini bug collage.

The December challenge at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda stamps is started.

You can join with anything you make and any brands. 

Aslong as there is stamping on it.

And maybe you are the next winner of new stamps.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE. 

#203 Festive fun challenge at Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps

   Hello everyone,

I'm so crazy about those cute Pokey animals from Lost Coast Designs.

They're so funny and cute.

Take the Pokey Mouse, for example, 

just look at that silly expression on his face, hahahaha so funny.

I also love how easy it is to change the stamp.

Here, for example, as Santa.

By drawing a line and buttons with a waterproof fineliner, 

you can easily give him a jacket.

Santa's toy bag is from a gnome stamp, Gnome Santa with Toys. 

This one is from the Mini Gnomes 2 sheet. 

Gnome Santa in chimney (Mini Gnomes 4) provided the Santa hat.

The jingle bells are from the Misc Words sheet.

The holly leaves and berries are from a stencil, 

CraftEmotions Mask Stencil X-mas Florals.

The background is made with Distress Oxide Broken China, Mowed Lawn, 

and Rustic Wilderness for the holly. 

I sprinkled the text and the berries with glitter.

I colored the mouse with Derwent Inktense.

Made the fur on the santa coat with Posca pen white.

This turned it into a lovely Christmas card.

The LCD/CV team would love it if you participated in the challenge. 

You could also win new rubber stamps of your choice.

Please read the rules first to avoid disappointment.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!

This is another example with the Pokey mouse. 

Festive Fun challenge at Lost Coast Designs/carmens Veranda stamps.

Hi there, Riet here with a christmas lantern.

Recently, I was in a store in the Netherlands that's comparable to a dollar store.

There I saw this lantern and immediately thought of the Mary and Angels triptych stamp.

I stamped the stamp on vellum with black Stazon ink.

I let it dry thoroughly.

I closed the back of the lantern with black cardstock.

I made the pionsettia from red paper and light green paper for the leaves. 

The pionsettias were sprayed with gold glitter mist.

I sponged the edges of the large leaves and pionsettias with Distress Oxide Rustic Wilderness.

The holly branches are made from darker green paper, and the berries are glitter stones.

I covered the lantern itself with gold Inca Gold from Viva Decor.

I think the lantern looks lovely, and it creates a cozy atmosphere.

Are you making something with stamps thats festive?

It doesn't matter which brand, everything is allowed.

Then join the challenge. Don't forget to read the rules.

You could be the next winner and win stamps of your choice.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!!!

Here's another possibility with this stamp.

Go to the tutorial.

Polkadoodles Primrose, sweet flower girl.

Hi there, today a cuty,

just love this Primrose, darling buts from Polkadoodles.

The background was brayerd on with Distress oxide,

saltwater taffy, peeled paint,Uncharted mariner and fossilized amber.

The flowers were cut out of a piece of the background and glued on. 

The blue background is Distressink chipped saphire.

Coloring with Derwent chromaflow.

Thats it for today, have fun.

#203 Festive Fun". New challenge at lost Coast designs/Carmens veranda stamps.

Today marks the start of the new monthly challenge at Lost Coast Designs.

And with December being the festive month, the theme is "Festive Fun" (get ready for Christmas).

Of course, you could use a Christmas stamp.

But this time, I really enjoyed using the Pokey Pigeon.

I'll tell you how the card was made.

I created the background with watercolor paint.

I stamped the grunge tree and the Pokey Pigeon with Stazon Timber Brown.

I made the tree larger by stamping it twice lengthwise.

Santa's hat is from the Gnome Santa with Toys sheet.

I colored the smaller version on the sheet, along with the Pokey pidgeon, with pencil. 

In the top right corner, I stamped "Merry Christmas."

That one is from the Party Words sheet. 

I also added a white gelpen to the dove to make its feathers stand out.

And I splattered it with white acrylic paint to make it look like real snow. 

And that's it for this time.

I hope you enjoyed it, and maybe you'll join the Lost Coast Designs challenge.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!

Whirly wheel Halloween card, for the challenge at Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps

 Hi there, today is my last Halloween entry for the

 Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda stamps  Halloween challenge.

I made a whirly wheel card with dancing skeletons.

I just love this skull and bones background stamp from Carmens Veranda stamps.

And this is how to make the card.

I used.

Carmens veranda, skull and bones background

Carmens veranda , When witches go riding

Lost Coast Designs, Rustic checkerboard border

Lost Coast Designs, Dancing skeletons

Versafine onyx black

Distress Oxide crackling campfire and Villainous potion.

Black fineliner.

For the whirly wheel I used a die set, to assemble the card, you can look up a video on YT.

How to make the card.

I started by stamping the skull and bones background onto white paper with oxide villainous potion.

Now isn't this an awesome background stamp.

While the background is drying, we continue with the dancing skeletons.

We stamp these with Versafine onyx black.

Let them dry and then cut them out.

We make the mat 1/2 cm larger than the card on all sides.

Continue with the Distress Oxide crackling campfire and the rustic checkerboard border stamp.

Stamp the border 4 times.

Cut them to size and glue them onto the mat.

Mat this with a green mat and a black mat.

Stamp the last line of the text on a piece of paper left over from the border.

Assemble the card so that the dancing skeleton emerges from the top of the card.

Now it looks if the skeleton is dancing.

Stick the text and the larger skeleton onto the skull and bones background with foam tape.

And that's it, I hope you enjoyed it.

The challenge runs until October 31st.

So there's still time to participate and have a chance to win a prize.

Want to enter? Click here:

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!

Made these pumpkins for the 31 days of Halloween challenge at Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda stamps

Do you also love Halloween?

You can get so creative with it.

It's so much fun to make your own decorations.

I was walking into a store and saw these MDF pumpkins.

I'll tell you how to decorate them.

Instead of MDF, you can also use sturdy cardboard or wood.

What you'll need:

LCD stamps,

  Frank and Franks bride.

and 

Gnome witch on broom.

Acrylic paint,

White, Black, Orange, Green.

Distress oxide, Musterd seed.

Color pencils or markers (whatever you prefer)

Brown marker/pencil.

Stencil to make the words.

A die to make the vines and leaves.

A quick tip: 

If you prime MDF first, it will become rough.

Let the first coat dry thoroughly and then sand it smooth.

This is only possible after the first coat. 

If you don't, sand the MDF after the first coat, it wont get smooth.

Start with a layer of white paint and sand it once it's dry.

I applied 2 layers of orange paint.

Paint the stem with dark green paint.

And draw the lines of the pumpkin with pencil.

Now use a brown marker to draw the lines on the pumpkin.

Don't make a sharp line, but make it a bit smudgy.

Using a soft brush and the Distress Oxide Mustard Seed, 

apply a yellow glow between the lines.

While the pumpkins are drying, we'll continue with the stamps.

Stamp them onto thin paper with waterproof black ink.

Color them however you like and cut them out.

Once the pumpkins are dry we continue with black paint and the stencil.

I used a smal sponge to aply the paint.

Let the black paint dry.

In the meantime, we cut the leaves and vines.

I used two shades of green.

Now we'll glue everything onto the pumpkins.

And then it's done.

I really enjoyed making them.

If you've made something for Halloween and stamped on it,

 (No need to use LCD stamps, all brands are allowed) join our challenge. 

You'll have a chance to win new stamps.

Here is the link to the challenge: