Butterfly's give me a smile.

A butterfly card is always great to send to somebody.

A butterfly will always lift your spirit.

Sentiment is from Carmens Veranda stamps.

Butterfly, PaperMania.

 

New monthly challenge "Christmas in July" at Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda stamps.

Hi there, today its a slimline slider card with a christmas theme.

The stamps I used:

American gothic christmas.

Party words.

Reindeer doll

What else I used.

Creative craftlab slider cutting die

Coloring pencils, Derwent chromaflow.

Glitter glue.

Fade resistent black inkpad.

Distressink Peeled paint.

Stencil with stars.

Follow the instructions of the cutting die.

And color the stamps.

Add some glitter here and there and that is actually all.

I hope you find time to join our challenge.

You have a chance to win stamps of your choice.

Read the rules first to avoid disappointment.

Hope to see you on the blog, or oure facebook.

 Greetings and until next time.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!

For the are you kidding me challenge at Lost Coast Designs.

 

Hello dear blog visitors.

Today a card for the "are you kidding me" challenge.

I chose the beautiful praying angel stamp from LCD.

What do you need to make this card?

A acrylic block, mine is heart shaped.

LCD Praying Angel.

Pieces of calligraphy.

Brush strokes.

Flowers (in 3 sizes)

Iron work border.

CV Daisies in my hair.

Black watergroof inkpad.

Distress ink and distress oxide:

Peacock feathers,

Worn lipstick,

Seedles preserves.

Color pencils, I used Derwent Intense.

I started by putting the 3 colors of distress ink on the acrylic block,

 and spraying it with some water.

Print the block on the paper.

I did the same but with a clear plastic sheet.

Bend the sheet then you can make a nice stripe pattern with the 3 colors of ink.

I drew a line around the heart with a pencil.

Using the 3 colors of distress oxide, 

stamp the background with the text stamp, the swirl and the circles.

On the bottem stamp de Ironworks border.

Stamp the flowers and color them and cut them out.

Do the same with the praying angel.

Make sure theat you have 3 sizes flowers.

Color the border and see where you want to stamp the text in the heart.

Make some spletters with the seedles preserves ink.

Place the flowers loose on the heart,

 so that you can estimate where the text should go.

Stamp the daisy text and glue the angel on and than the flowers.

Matt the card and your finishend.

The challenge runs until the end of May.

So there are still a few days left to participate.

Maybe you will be our new winner.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!

Halloween challenge at Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps Day 20. Iris shutter card.

 

Hi there, today I have an iris shutter card for you.

Made with the super cute gnome witches from lost Coast designs.

This is what I used to make this card.

Mini Gnome set 5.

Gnome witch on broom.

Spiderwebs background.

Checkerboard rustic border.

CV When witches go riding.

Iris shutter die (Elizabeth crafts Designs.)

Flying bats die.

Pumpkins die.

Slimline frame (Marianne design)

Halloween stencil (BOO and pumkin face).

Distressink,

Musterd seed,

Twisted citron,

Spiced Marmelade,

Picked rasberry,

Seedless preserves,

Dusty Concord

Black water resistend ink.

White gelpen,

Red posca marker

Black marker.

Color pencils.

How to make the card.

Start by die cutting all the iris shutter parts.

Ink them up as shown on the photo's.

Put all the parts aside and let them air dry. Do not use a heat tool. The shutter parts will warp and they need to stay flat.

Punch a 1.5 inch cirkel and stamp the little star with.

Color the background and the witch.

Color the edge with Dusty concord.

Assemble the iris shutter as explained on the packaging.

Draw a pumpkin face on the iris shutter with the black marker.

We splash some Seedless preserves on the top ring of the shutter and sponge the word BOO on it.

Glue it to the iris shutter.

Stamp the witch, spiderweb, text on the pink background.

And the checkerboard above and below the purple background card.

Give the stamps accents with the white gel pen.

Assemble the iris shutter further as stated on the packaging of the die.

Can't figure it out? Then look up a video on YouTube.

That will help you through it.

I decorated with bats and pumpkins, but you can of course do that to your own taste.

I had a lot of fun making this card.

I'm curious to see what you make for Halloween.

Feel free to show us on the LCD/CV Blog or Facebook.

You'll then join the challenge and have a chance to win new stamps. 

How cool is that? 

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The new challenge at lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda is...........ANIMALS! Love it.

 

Now that's fun, a challenge with animals as the main theme.

Everyone can participate in this challenge, because we all have stamps with animals.

And since you can participate with other brands, it will be a piece of cake.

 

 Now my contribution, simple card with a background of bister with water.

With one of the new animal stamps from Lost Coast designs.

It is called, Pokey dog.

The funny text is from Carmens Veranda.

They have so many funny texts and sentiments, 

Take a look, and you will have a good laugh.

Have fun with your animal stamps and show what you have made. 

Go to the challenge. 

Challenge #188 Children, at loast coast designs/Carmens veranda stamps.

 

Hi, today starts the new monthly challenge at the Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda blog.

This time I made a artjournal page.

The left side is a stencil with modeling paste and watercolor paint in purple and grey.

Stamped the right side with pieces of calligraphy and a grey ink.

And roses in a purple ink.

Stamped the text and Spike and Lucy with black ink.

Some drops of white paint on it and its readdy.

Hope you join the challenge, and maybe you ar the new winner.

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The challenge at lost coast designs/Carmens Veranda is "Round and Round"

What a nice challenge again.

Round and round, well everyone should be able to do that, right?

Did you know that at Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda stamps,

 you can also participate in the challenge with other brands of stamps?

So it's easy, participate and maybe you will be the winner of new stamps.

Now to the explanation of this card/AJ page. 

What I used:

LCD

Shadow frames set.

Butterfly set.

Pieces of Calligraphy.

Brush strokes

CV

Just when the caterpillar.

Stencil with small holes.

Distress ink:

Evergreen bough.

Peacock feathers.

Saltwater taffy.

Distress oxide:

Peacock feathers.

Saltwater taffy.

Versafine onyx black.

Black paint for splassing drops.

Black fineliner.

Watercolor paper.

I started with Peacock feathers and the largest circle from the shadow frames set.

I repeated that with Evergreen bough and overlapped the stamp a bit.

Take a little water and a brush to spread the ink a bit.

Wait till its dry.

With the bubble plastic stamp from the Brush strokes, 

I stamped with Distress ink Evergreen bough and

Peacock feathers.

I did this in contrast next to the circles.

Stamped the 3 cirkels flom the Brush strokes set with Distress Oxide Saltwater taffy.

And did the stencil with the Distress Oxide Saltwater taffy.

I stamped the CV text and letters of the Pieces of calligraphy sheet 

with versafine onyx black.

Stamp the butterfly in the center.

Take some black paint for the splashes.

Stamp the butterfly on a piece of paper and color with de distress ink.

Cut the butterfly out and glue on the card.

Color some Peacock feathers in the cirkels.

And with a black fineliner scribble some lines round the cirkels.

Are you in the mood for new stamps?

Then join the challenge and click on the link.

And maybe you will be the lucky winner of this challenge.

And if not, keep participating and don't give up.

Good luck and above all have fun stamping.