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

zondag 16 augustus 2026

The challenge at Lost coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps is "For the men".

Hi stampers and other crafters.
Today a tutorial for you.

 

I love making my own backgrounds.
I really enjoy starting with a blank piece of paper and making something out of it.
By using different techniques, the result is always something different.
And that is what makes it so interesting.
For today, it is the tissue paper technique.
Its an older technique but with interesting results.
It is a tag for the men's challenge at Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda Stamps.
Make something with a man on it, or something for a man.
And this is how I made the tag.

What I used.

3 colors of Glimmermist,I used 
Lindy's moon glows,
Cajun carnelean red and Gator gumbo olive.
 and Tattered Angels Sapphire.
Inka gold, gold.
memento Rich cocoa.
Distressink old paper.
Distress oxide ground espresso.
Dutch Doobadoo modeling paste.
Dutch Doobadoo glue.

How its made:

Take a piece of tissue paper and make a ball out of it.

Roll it out again, but do not smooth the paper out.

Take a piece of sturdy, thick paper and spread glue on it.

Place the tissue paper on top and press down gently.
Make sure you do not press the creases out.
Let it dry thoroughly.
Cut away the overhanging paper.

While it dries, we continue with the Learnardo collage. 
We sponge the men with Distress Ink Old Paper.

Cut him out and do the same with the edges using Distress Oxide Ground Espresso.

Once the glue and the tissue paper are completely dry, 
we are going to spray it with the glimmermist.
The mica powder in the bottles gives a beautiful golden sheen.


Now take a piece of white paper and sponge it with Distress Ink Old Paper. 
Take the small text stamp from the Pieces of Calligraphy set 
and stamp with the Memento Rich Cocoa.
And stamp the words from the Misc words sheet over it.
Outline the edges with the Distress Oxide Ground Espresso; do the same for the tag.

After you have determined where your pieces of stamped paper will go, 
you can apply modeling paste to part of the tag using a stencil.

Once the modeling paste is completely dry, color it with the Inca gold.

Now you are going to stick on the man and the text pieces.
The man flat, but the other 3 pieces with foam tape.

Take a piece of rope and color it.
Thread it through the eye of the tag.
And that concludes the tag; hope you enjoyed it.

Perhaps you would like to participate in the challenge?
Then click on the link and join in.
You might be our next winner.

zaterdag 1 augustus 2026

New month new challenge at Lost Coast designs, #212 "For the men".


 Hi there,
Today's card is very easy and quick.
But I really like the effect.
I used glossy cardstock.
in the center of the card using Stazon Jet Black.
Stamp a mask to cover him.
Take the Fourth Dimension stamp and color it in with the markers.
This can be done with any water-based marker.
Spray a little water over the inked stamp and press it down.
Remove the mask, mat the card, and basically, you're already done.

A quick but effective stamping technique with a beautiful effect.

Thank you for visiting my blog, and please also visit the Lost Coast design blog
to enter our challenge. You might be the one to win new stamps.



zondag 26 juli 2026

Christmas in july challenge at Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps

 


Well, we're already heading towards the end of July.
But there are still a few days left to enter our challenge. 
So if you want to win new rubber stamps, join in. 
You can find the rules for the challenge here.

My last Christmas card of this month was made using 
the American Gothic stamp and the Sun and Stars border from Lost Coast Designs.

I colored the stamp in with my Van Gogh watercolors. 
I stamped the border with Hero Arts Unicorn White,
 and sprinkled it with white embossing powder.
This embossing powder contains a tiny bit of silver glitter.
That stands out beautifully against the black background.

So, basically a fairly simple card.
I hope to see you again on August 1st, 
when the new Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda challenge begins.

donderdag 16 juli 2026

Love this cute reindeer doll stamp.

 

Dear blog visitors,
I created this tag for the challenge at Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps.
The challenge runs until the end of the month. 
So if you have made something with a Christmas theme and used stamps in it, 
come and join in. 
You are allowed to participate even without LCD/CV stamps.
Please read the rules regarding this.

Now, here is how the tag was made.
What I used for the tag.
Distress Oxide:
Ground espresso
Uncharted mariner
Bundled sage
Speckled egg
Abandoned coral
Viva decor Ice effect
Ranger Stickles Cranberry
Stencil with stars

How its made.
I started with the
Made stains with water and Distress Oxide 
Uncharted mariner
Bundled sage
Speckled egg.
Build that up starting with the lightest color.

Keep going until you like the result.

Stamp the reindeer doll with Ground espresso.

Now we take the music border and cut off one piece.
Lost Coast Designs borders are generally quite long.
I really like that; you can often cut off a piece to use as a separate stamp.
Stamp the music border here and there with Ground espresso.

With the ice effect from Viva Decor and the stencil, 
you create stars in the open spaces.

Put the tag away and let it dry thoroughly.
In the meantime, we color the reindeer with the Distress Oxide.
I do this with water, as if it were watercolor paint.
I put a little bit of red Stickles on the hearts of the bows.
Cut her out; you don't need to cut the antlers as well.
They are so thin that it would never turn out nicely.
That is why we stamped the reindeer onto the tag first.
Glue the reindeer onto the tag and mat the tag with brown.
Insert a brown ribbon and you are done.



I hope you enjoyed it, and if you want to join the challenge, click here below.
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dinsdag 14 juli 2026

vrijdag 26 juni 2026

My last post for lost Coast designs challenge this month.


So I immediately thought of the manga stamp Manga goth dots.
After all, she has flowers in her hair.
But for the cute text "Daisies in my hair" from Carmens Veranda stamps, 
I changed the little roses in her hair into daisies.
You can see here that the stamp actually has little roses, but you just stick a daisy over it.

I used:

Black waterresitent inkpad, (versafine)
Distressink Musterd seed, Wild honey.
Color pencels or markers, whichever you prefer.
Masking tape.
Honeycomb stencil.
Stamp the flowers using masking tape, 
letting the flowers overlap slightly.
Do the same with the girl.

Use an ink blender to make the background yellow.
And use the wild honey and the stencil to create the background.

Remove the masks and color the centers of the flowers, and the girl.
Stamp the text in black.

Stamp the bees and the little daisies on a thin peace of paper.
Color, cut out and glue them on.
Matt the card and you ar done.

Scrole to the end for another tutorial with a manga goth girl.

It would be great if you joined the challenge too.
There is, of course, a prize to be won (read the rules).
It runs until the end of the month.


Free tutorial, click here.

dinsdag 16 juni 2026

#210 Challenge at Lost Coast designs, Fruit, Flowers and Foliage.

 
Hello to all you crafters.
For the background of this card,
 I used various shades of blue, orange, yellow, and brown. 
I sponged the background with a small sponge. 
Then I took the scrubbery stamp and stamped with three shades of brown. 
I kept shifting the stamp so that it looks like different types of stamps were used. 
I stamped the Carmens Veranda text with gold embossing powder.
Would you like to join the challenge?

maandag 1 juni 2026

New month, new challenge at Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps. Topic "Fruit, Flower and Foliage".

 
Hello everyone, today I have a new card for the new Challenge from Los Cast Design. 
I chose the Rose, one of the beautiful stamps from Los Cast.
 I am now going to explain how I made the card.

Stamps I used.

Distress oxide,
Saltwater taffy,
Seedless preserves,
Vallainous potion
Black water resistent inkpad.
Derwent Inktense pencils
White gellpen.



Start with the shadow frame stamp and the saltwater taffy.
Spray a little water and press it.
Do the same with the other 2 colors and build up from light to dark.

Stamp the rose with black ink.

Mask the rose and spletter ink in the 3 colors.

Stamp with black the sentiment with a first and second print.
Switch de lines.
Remouve the mask and color the rose.
Stamp the border and color it.
Make a shadow with the Saltwater taffy oxide ink.
make accents with the white gellpen.


Thats it for today. 
Join the challenge and have a chance to win rubberstamps.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!!!


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