Watercolor painted flowers.

 This flower card is colored with watercolor paint.

Stamps are from Studio Light

Essentials nr462. The backgound stamp is an oldie from Studio Light 

#177 Day 26, Halloween cat challenge at Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda

Hello all.

Well it's almost Halloween and my last contribution to the cats Halloween challenge.

These are the stamps I used. 

Carmens Veranda, white cat.

Carmens Veranda, Witches go riding,.

LCD, Dancing skeletons.

LCD, Gnome witch on broom.

The pumpkin is hand drawn.

I started by stamping and masking the cat.

I drew a pumpkin under the cat and also masked it.

I stamped the gnome witch at the top left.

It is available in 2 sizes, 

a larger one and a small one on a sheet of mini gnome stamps.

I masked the witch.

I stamped the dancing skeletons underneath the witch with versamark.

I colored the left side of the card and the dancing skeletons with a lilac pan pastel.

I colored the edges of the left half of the card,

 with an ink blending tool and Distress ink Dusty Concord.

Did the same on the right side, but with Seedless preserves.

Then I removed the masks and colored the witch, cat and pumpkin with Derwent colorsoft.

I stamped the text with black ink.

And finally I put a drop of Glossy accents on the cat's pupils.

Small detail but still a big difference.

Well that's it for this time.

The challenge lasts until the end of the month, so you can still participate.

Click on the link and show us what you made.

And maybe you will be the new winner of some LCD or CV stamps.

Go to the challenge click here.

#176 Halloween cat challenge at Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda

 Hello everyone, are you in the Halloween mood yet?

Well I do, and I love it!!!!

The Lost Coast Designs Halloween challenge actually consists of 2 parts.

The first part is a general Halloween challenge.

The second part is a Halloween cats challenge.

So I picked up my favorite cat and made a card with it.

The "Devil in disguise".

What I used:

Devil in disguise

Door and window set

Grunge tree

Distressink Walnut stain

White gelly pen

Masking tape

Red Posca marker

Versfine onyx black

Derwent inktense pencils,

But you can use other pencils or markers.

How to make the card.

I stamped the cat with the Versafine,

Masked the cat and stamp the window with Versafine black.

Stamped the window on a piece of paper 

and cut out the 4 windows.

With the mask still on the cat, place the paper frame on the card as a mask.

Stamp the grunge tree in the window.

Now remove the masks.

Use a 2cm/0.8inch circle punch to punch a circle of masking tape.

Stick it on the window, this will become the moon.

Now we are going to color the sky and the moon.

I used Derwent inktense for this.

The cat wings and hoorns are colored with a red Posca marker.

The points of the staff are also colored with the red posca marker.

The background is also colored with a Derwent pencil.

With an ink blending tool I applied some Distressink Walnut stain to the edges.

Stamped the words on a peace of paper and blended some walnutstone on the edges.

Glued it on with foam tape.

Now you are done.

Hope you will join the challenge, and maybe you wil be our next winner

of new rubberstamps.

Click the link for the challenge and join.

Day 14th of 31 day's of Halloween challenge at Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda stamps.

Hi there, I made a Halloween explosion box. 

I love the halloween stamps from lost coast Designs.

Stamps I used:

Lost coast Design

Pieces of calligraphy

Pieces of archtecture

Long swirl

Grunge tree

Spiders web

Four ravens

Goth raven

Evil eye

Witch 2

Crows border

Carmens Veranda

CV Winged skeleton

Other stuf for this explosion box.

We R Makers explosion board

12x12 200 grams paper

61/2 x 61/2 200 grams paper

halloween stencil

Bleach

posca markers

white gellpen

Dylusions paint

Lemon zest

Tangerine dream

Dylusions sprays

crushed grape

polished jade

cut grass

tangerine dream

versafine onyx black

distressink black soot

I made the box using the We R Memory makers explosionbox board.

I took the XXL size for that.

Take sturdy paper, I used 200 grams.

 With the Dylusion paint Lemon zest and a 

ink blending tool or a sponge you can now make the paper completely yellow.

Using a baby wipe and the dylusion paint tangerine dream, 

lightly wipe over the yellow.

Now we will stamp the box with Versafine onyx blacke.

You can do this with any black waterproof ink.

Now pay close attention! A mistake was easily made.

Place the box unfolded in front of you,

be careful not to stamp the image upside down.

Start with the top center square and stamp your image.

Now turn your box a quarter turn to the right and stamp the next center square.

You do this a total of 4 times.

The lid is also stamped this way.

Because I found the color of the box a bit boring, 

I decided to spray some of the dylusions ink sprays on it.

I sprayed a little too much for my liking, so take it easy with the sprays.

I stamped the inside of the box with the spider web background stamp.

Always make sure your ink is completely dry before turning the paper over.

Otherwise you will get smudges.

Now we are going to bleach certain parts in the stamps.

I prefer to work with a cheap synthetic brush.

Your brushes are suffering quite a bit from the bleach.

Once everything is dry, we continue with applying some colors with the posca markers.

A few accents here and there is enough.

You can also add some accents with the white gel pen.

Now we are going to fill in next to and around the 4 sides with stamps.

This we keep in black ink.

With a Halloween stencil and Black Soot distress ink, 

I added some decorations to the inside of the box.

With an ink blending tool and Black Soot distress ink, 

I added some shadow to the edges of the box.

A witches hat and some other little Halloween stuf in the middle.

With flying bats on a strip of mica.

And that's it, you can decide for yourself the decoration in the box. 

You probably have something in your stash that you can use.

I hope you enjoyed it, and if you have any questions please let me know.

Well for the challenge, the team would love it if you would participate.

And that is even allowed with stamps from other brands.

It's so much fun and you can win a prize too.

So click on the link and join in.

9th day of 31 Days of Halloween challenge at Lost Coast Designs.

Hello everyone, are you already in the Halloween mood?

Here is my card for the Halloween challenge at Lost Coast designs.

If you feel like it, 

you can also participate in the Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda challenge.

You can also participate with stamps from other brands.

But be sure to read the rules about that.

Now to the card and how it was made.

What I used:

Spiderwebs background,

Frank,

Bride of Frank,

Witch 2,

CV When witches go riding.

Dylusions ink sprays.

Crushed grape,

Cut grass,

Squeesed orange.

Versafine black

Versamark

White embossingpowder

skintone marker

white gellpen

Distressink black soot

Distressink Seedles preserves.

I started with 2 pieces of paper.

Just plain paper and a coated one.

You can really see the difference, and I chose to use the left one

 and use the other for another project in the future.

It was sprayed with Dylusions ink sprays.

Crushed grape,

Cut grass,

Squeesed orange.

With Versafine black I stamped Frank and his bride on a piece of paper. 

And colored them with the dylusions.

The skintone is a marker.

While Frank and his bride are drying, I continue with the background.

I'm going to stamp it with the cobweb background stamp.

But because I don't want to do the whole background, 

I tear a piece of tissue paper and put it where I don't want a cobweb.

Now I stamp the cobweg with the Versamark.

and sprinkel some white embossingpowder on it.

Melt it with the heattool.

With Distressink black soot  we make the edges dark.

We now stamp the text of Carmens Veranda Stamps with versafine black.

With a little black ink we make some splashes.

Cut and glue Frank and his bride on the card.

For the witch I used a piece of paper that I first lightly sponged 

with Distressink Seedles preserves.

Then stamped the witch with versafine black

and added accents with a white gel pen.

Frank and his bride also received some accents with the white gel pen.

Maat the card with black and it is finished.

We, the team at Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda stamps,

 would love it if you would join us at the challenge.

There are prices to win.

click on the link or banner and join, ist fun.

 

31 Days of Halloween challenge at Lost Coast Designs. Dia de los Muertes (Day of the Dead)

Hello everyone on this scary and creepy day.

For my contribution to the 31 day Halloween challenge

I made this card with the gorgeus "white nose sugar skull" stamp.

I used:

White nose sugar skull

Pieces of architecture

Heroarts unicorn white

Vivadecor maya paint, or any other glitter paint.

Black paper

Fake juwell stones.

Masking tape.

This is how I made it.

Stamp the skull with the heroarts unicorn stamppad.

let it dry thoroughly.

Start painting in the colors you like.

Viva decor maya is very sparkling.

Mask the skull and stamp with one of the pieces of architecture 

the white ink the background

Decorate with the juwell stones.

There is a lot of sparkle on this card, but it doesnt show well on the photo.

 Hope you join us at the Lost Coast Designs challenge for Halloween

There are prices to win, and you may join with oteher stamp brands.

Please read the rules first.