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

 

Hi there cardmakers and stampers.

Today is my last card for the Christmas in July challenge.

I'll tell you how I made it.

Materials:

LCD mouse stamp,

LCD Misc words.

Gnome santa in chimny (small)

Stencil Craftemotions xmas florals.

Blue bister.

Distressink,

Broken china

Speckled egg,

Evergreen bough,

Twisted citron,

Barn door, for santa's hat.

White gellpen

Black fineliner

Stazon dove grey and Jet Black

Red glitter

Black inkpad.

Light grey marker.

Color pencils for the mouse.

Glue pen.

Lets start making the background.

I started with the 3 Distressinks

Broken china, Speckled egg and Evergreen bough,

I distributed the colors over the paper with sponges.

I sprayed it with plenty of water and blotted it with paper towel.

It lightened it up a bit.

Made it wet again and sprinkled some bister here and there.

Blot it again with the paper towel.

Now it looks like the photo, 

but when I turned the paper over I saw that the ink and bister had leaked through.

And it was beautiful too.

So I decided to make the back the front of the card.

But that is of course up to you to decide which side you like better.

Stamp the mouse with Stazon dove gray in the background and on a thin paper.

Also do this with the Santa hat.

Color the mouse and Santa hat on the loose paper.

Stamp the words around the mouse with black Stazon.

The Misk Words sheet contains a lot of words related to Christmas. 

So I stamped some of them on the card.

We now apply the holly leaves to the card with the stencil

 and the distress ink Evergreen bough and twisted citron and an ink blender.

Use the fineliner to scribble some lines around the words.

Color the mouse and Santa hat and glue them to the card.

Use the gray marker to create some shadows under the words and around the mouse.

I punch some holes of different sizes in a piece of mica sheet, 

I use this for the red berries.

I spunge it to the paper with distressink barn door.

Then I went over it with the glue pen and sprinkle it with the red glitter.

And that's it for this month's challenge.

There is still time to participate until the last day of July.

The winner will be announced on August 5.

Hope you'll join us and I wish you the goodluck.

CLICK HERE FOR THE CHALLENGE!

Vacation on the farm.

My 6-year-old granddaughter is on holiday with her parents at a farm campsite. I made her a card with farm animals. And of course the farm girl has red hair just like my granddaughter.

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

Hello dear blog visitor.

Christmas, before you know it, it's already here.

So you better start making your Christmas cards early.

And then you can immediately participate in the challenge and perhaps become the winner.

You can even participate with stamps from other brands.

So that should work, right?

And now the tutorial for this card.

What I used: 

LCD Party baby

LCD Brush strokes

LCD party words

Versafine onyx black

Distress oxyde Barn door and Lucky clover

Americana acrylic paint,

Yellow green

Bahama blue

Dessert turquoise

White acrylic paint or marker

Black fineliner

Color pencils

Black marker

I started by making a few backgrounds with the 3 colors of acrylic paint.

I did that with the brayer.

Roll out the colors until you are satisfied with the result.

If you dont have a brayer you kan use a brush or spunge.

The brush strokes sheet shows the two edges I used.

I stamped the first one with the oxide barn door.

And the second one over it with the Versafine onyx black.

I make splashes with the white acrylic marker.

Set it aside to dry.

Stamp the baby and the angelwings with the versafine.

Color with pencils or markers, whatever you like best.

Take a piece of background and stamp the text on it.

Use a thin fineliner to scribble an edge under the words.

Stamp on the right side the same as the border of the card.

Make a black border around it with a black marker.

Glue the baby angel and the text onto the card.

Use distress oxide lucky clover and a brush,

 to create shadows around the baby angel.

Have you made Christmas cards yet?

Take part in the challenge and you could be this month's winner.

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

It is our preference, but it is also possible without it.

Hope to see you on the challenge.

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Christmas in July challenge at Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda

I love Christmas so much.

Decorating the house, making cards and presents.

Being together with the people you love. 

And of course all the delicacies that come with it.

I like it all.

But now over to the tutorial. 

Stamps I used:

Party words

 Large snowflake set

Each snowklake is 2inch

Goth Mistletoe 

(Apologies, the goth mistletoe is no longer available.)

What I used:

Glimmermist or any spray with mica in it.

In light green dark green and rusty orange color.

Orange/rust color embossing powder.

Distressink:

Rusty hinge

Tea dye

Vintage photo

Peeled paint

Shabby shutters

Derwent inktense pencils

Versafine onyx black

Versamark

Small tag

Banner die

How to make the card.

I started by spraying the glimmer mist.

Let this dry thoroughly with the heat tool.

Stamp the large snowflakes along the sides of the card with versamark.

Sprinkle the embossing powder on top and heatset it.

Stamp the Goth mistletoo with versafine black and color with the 3rust/brown pencils.

I made the berries and leaves green with a little distress ink Peeled paint.

With Rusty hinge, Tea dye and Vintage photo

I spunged the adges off the tag.

Cut a second tag 2mm larger on all sides

 and make the edges green with the Distress ink Peeled paint.

Die cut the banner and stamp the "Merry Christmas on it.

Color the banner green with the ink blender and Peeled paint.

Assemble the card and mat it with a matching color cardstock.

Hope you guys liked it.

And feel free to show us what you make.

Take part in the "Christmas in July" challenge.

Maybe you are the winner of this challenge.

Until next time.

This card is playing with:

Jingle belles rock.

Design team call at lost Coast designs/Carmens veranda stamps.

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Does it seem like something you would like to do???

Then respond quickly and click on the link. 

Closing date 14th July.

Design team call.

Today starts the new monthly challenge at Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps. Chistmas in july.

 

For the christmas in July challenge I decided to use these 3 cute christmas gnomes.

Here are the links to the stamps I used:

Gnome santa with toys small.

Gnome santa in chimney small.

Reindeer gnome small.

Snowflakes border.

Large snowflake set.

Party words.

Misc words.

Christmas tree.

Distressink.

Tag 1,

Saltwater taffy + Shabby shutters.

Tag 2,

barn door + Brushed corduroy.

Tag 3,

Twisted citron + Evergreen bough.

Color pencils

White acrylic paint for spletters to make it look like snow.

I started with ink blots in the background.

While that dried I colored and cut out the gnomes.

Did the stamping on the backround.

I attached the gnomess with foam tape.

Splattered some white acrylic paint to make it snow.

Matte the tags with cardstock.

And that's really all.

Quick and easy to hang a mini tag on gifts.

Hope you had fun?

Now its your turn, join our challenge,

 and maybe you will be the winner of some new rubber stamps.

Go to the challenge

Please reed the rules

Joining these challenges:

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