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

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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dinsdag 26 mei 2026

#209 at Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps, No body here challenge. Vintage tag.


For this month's challenge, 
I made this vintage tag. 
I used the stamps below for it.


And I used:
Distress oxide
 Victorian velvet
Bundled sage
Distressink
Antique linen
Walnut stain
Victorian velvet
Glimmermist pink.
distress glaze
foamtape
Die crealies xxl tag nr.6

First, we make prints using a Pieces of Architecture stamp 
by applying the Distress Glaze to the stamp with a sponge.

Then we apply the Victorian velvet ink and spray glimmer mist over it.

Apply antique linen to the edges with a finger sponge.

And repeat with walnut stain.

With Distress oxide bundled sage you stamp the script.

With the Distress Oxide Bundled Sage and Victorian Velvet, 
you stamp a number of perfume bottles.
Wait until the ink is completely dry.
Color the bottles with antique linen.
Use a finger sponge to color the edges with walnut stain.

For the background tag that we use as a mat, sponge with the Bundled Sage.
Stamp the long swirl with Victorian Velvet and sponge the edges with Walnut Stain.

Assemble the tag, giving the perfume bottles different heights.
Stamp the word "Beauty" from the misc words sheet 
and stick it on raised with foam tape. 
Thread a nice ribbon through the hole and you're done.
I hope you enjoyed it.
You still have until the end of the month to enter the challen

So maybe I'll see you at the challenge.

zaterdag 16 mei 2026

#209 No body here, challenge at Lost Coast Designs

 
For this challenge I made a collage card.

LCD rubber stamps I used.

Versafine onyx black
Distressink
Broken china
Scattered straw
Spiced Marmelade
waterbased markers in the same colors.
thick black marker
15cm x 21 cm watercolor paper.

Start by stamping the three collage stamps in black.

Mask them off and continue filling the empty spaces with the other stamps.


We color the background with water and the distress ink.

We fill in the empty spaces further with the smallest script stamp from the Pieces of Calligraphy.
We do this with Distress Ink Broken China.

For the dictionary stamps, take a piece of paper and color it with the distress ink.
Stamp the dictionary stamps with versafine black onto the paper

 
Color the stamps with the markers.

Cut the words to size and trace the edges with a black marker.
Matt the card with black.

And then the card is finished; it also makes a nice Art Journal page.

I invite you to join the challenge.
There is a prize to be won.