Animals challenge at Lost caost designs/Carmens Veranda stamps.

 

Today a card with the pokey mouse stamp.

It is such a funny mouse.

The background is made with Nuvo shimmer powder.

This powder has a lovely shimmer.

I stamped with distress oxide weathered wood and the LCD ledger stamp the background. 

Stamp the mouse on a piece of paper and color it. 

Cut it out and gleu on the card.

With a black ink I stamped the long swirl on the edges of the card.

And do the same with the badass stamp.

Glue it on a purple and black cardstock. 

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The challenge at Lost coast designs is all about "ANIMALS"

 

Hello crafters,

Today I made a card with the leftovers of a background,

 that I previously used to make an ATC Coin booklet.

Click here to see how to make them,

 or maybe you have leftovers that you can use.

The LCD stamps I used:

Pokey Cat,

Party words,

Flowers.

I also used:

Markers for the cat

Posca white

White stamping pad

Black stamping pad

gellpen

paper scraps.

This is how to make the card.

Take your scraps and a piece of white paper.

Weave some strips together and glue them onto the paper.

Then cut them out.

Glue it on a black base card.

Stamp the pokey Cat and color.

I used markers on waterbase.

Because his hair and whiskers are so hard to cut out,

 you will stamp the cat's head directly onto the card.

We'll glue the cat on later.

Cut the cat out and glue on the card.

Stamp on a piece off scrap paper the sentiment and glue it on the card.

Use a white posca, make a scribbled line around the braided mat.

Stamp the little flowers with a white inkpad.

Using a white gel pen, draw some effects on the cat and a dot of white on its pupils.

And that was the tutorial for this time.

Let me know if you liked it?

And don't forget to join the challenge.

You probably have an animal stamp in your collection, 

make something fun with it and join in.

You can also join with other brands.

Maybe you will win this challenge.

Challenges to join:

Kaartjes inspiratie blog.

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. 

Annie in her blue dress.

This month's challenge at Lost coast designs is "Children". I used the Birds in trees stamp and Annie. I painted the card with van Gogh watercolor paint. 

There is still time to participate in the challenge until the end of the month. 

So if you want to win new stamps.

Come on over and join the challenge. 

The challenge at Lost Coast designs is all about children.

 

Just look at that cute Teddy.

I just love him, its one of Carri's creepy dolls.

For the background card i used just one little swirl stamp from the brush strokes set.

The "Happy Birthday" is from the party words sheet.

I also used a die behind the bear and one for the Happy Birthday. 

The little hearts were applied with a stencil.

I used these inks.

Black Stazon

Versa magic,

Sea Breeze,

Key Lime,

Aquatic Splash,

Thatched Straw,

Pretty petunia,

Pink Grapefruit,

Persimmon and

Perfect Plumeria.

White gellpen.

Color pencils, purple, brown and beige.

This is how I made the card.

I folded an A5 size in half.

Smooth white paper.

Stamp all the colours twith the small swirl stamp.

Start with the light colours.

After all, it is easier to go with dark over light,

 than with light over dark.

Keep doing this until you are happy with the result.

You can leave some white open spaces, but I liked to stamp the entire surface.

Don't forget to turn the stamp every now and then.

This way, the swirls don't all point in the same direction.

Also stamp over the edges, otherwise it looks very artificial.

Stamp the bear with the black stazon.

And color the bear with the Versa Magic ink.

With the brown and beige pencil you color his face.

Give the bear some accents with the white gellpen.

Cut the bear out.

Die cut the square and the banner.

Color the edges and stencil the hearts with Pink Grapefruit

Stamp the "Happy Birthday" with the balck stazon.

Stick everything on the card with foam tape.

And what a cheerful card this has become, don't you think?

Now it's up to you, make something with a child or for a child.

Follow the link and join the challenge, you have a chance to win rubber stamps.

To avoid disappointment, you better read the rules.

Good luck, hope to see your art with the other participants of the challenge.

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I made a bookmark for the LCD/CV challenge,theme is children.

Hi , Riet here with a little tutorial for this bookmark.

I used:

The name of the girl stamp is bubbles,

The black dots and round cirkels are from the brush strokes sheet.

The words behind the girl are from the pieces of calligraphy.

The butterflys are from the butterfly set.

The word "Dream"is from the set, Misc words.

All the coloring is done with Inktense pencils.

Derwent Inktense nr:

Cadnium yellow 0210

 Tangerine 0300

Lime green 1535

Apple green1400

Malibu 1213

Iron blue 0840

Deep violet  0760

Burnt umber 1903

Skin tones:

Faber Castel - Albrecht Durer

8200-132

189

White gelpen.

Black waterproof inkpad.

Posca white for spletters or

White ink or paint for spletters.

I have to admit that it was actually a art journal page.

In the very last phase I made a big ink stain on the butterflies and the card was ruined.

I had put so much work into it and thought it was a shame to throw it away.

So I cut off the part with the stain and made a bookmark out of it.

In retrospect that was a good decision.

How to make it:

I started by stamping the girl Bubbles.

This stamp has two bubbles above her hands.

I left them off because I wanted her to grab the butterfly.

Stamp the girl on masking tape and mask her off.

Stamp the words and the 3 rings.

Let the text run a little through the rings.

Stamp only the black and white butterfly and mask it off.

Stamp the 3 butterfly's and overlap the cirkels a bit.

Start coloring the background, the cirkels and the little girl.

Stamp with black the black dots from the  brush strokes sheet.

Stamp the 3 butterflys on a thin piece off paper and color them.

Gleu them on the butterfly's and give them what accents with the white gellpen.

Cut off any excess butterflies.

Mask the girl again and spletter with the posca pen (or paint or ink).

Stamp the word "Dream" and give it some white accents.

Remove the masking tape.

Mat with a black cardstock and you ar done.

I hope you enjoyed it.

Maybe you want to join the challenge?

And have a chance to win new rubber stamps.

Stamp something with a child on it or make something for children.

As long as it is stamped and refers to the theme children.

Do your best and see you at the challenge.

Presenting the 2024/2025 Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps design team.

 

How cool is that?

No less than 3 new team members.

Aimee, Darlene and Kathi.

If you want to get to know them better, then click here.

I've seen some beautiful work from these ladies, 

so keep an eye on the Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps blog.

You can also do it via Facebook

So enjoy and have fun stamping.

Won a challenge.

 I won a challenge and this is the winning card.

Prize was this beautiful stamp.

At the Kerstmis/Christmas facebook group. 

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.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE.

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!