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 31 maart 2022

New dutch stamps at Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda

 Ga jij naar de ARTSpecially? Loop dan ook eens langs de stand van Lost Coast Designs.
Zij hebben nieuwe nederlandstalige tekst stempels.
En natuurlijk de mooie rubber stempels.
Hier zijn wat voorbeelden van de nieuwe tekst stempels.

Are you going to the ARTSpecially?
Then take a look at the Lost Coast Designs booth.
They have new Dutch text stamps.
And of course the beautiful rubber stamps.
Here are some examples of the new text stamps.












dinsdag 22 maart 2022

#140 Tweet this, challenge at Lost Coast Designs.

Hello dear bloggers, 
Today I worked on a large scale, an A4 21cmx30cm.
I think the crows are fantastic, they are so mysterious.
I have used various stamps.
Stazon black
Distress oxide wilted violet, mermaid lagoon and black soot.
6inch gelli plate round and a round mini gelli plate.
Water resistent fineliner.
Dutch doobadoo stencil bubbles.
Memento tuxido black

And this how I made it.
I started by smearing the large gelli plate with the distress oxides.
First go through these steps with 1 color and then repeat with the other colors.
I sprayed some water over it.
Turned the gelli plate over and used it as a stamp.
Stamp in the middle of the paper.



Look how beautiful that is, be careful when you do the step with the black.
It soon becomes too much black.


With the small gelli plate, repeat the same steps, only with 1 color.
Stamp the small circle right above and left below.


Take the Birds in trees stamp and the black Memento.
Print the stamp on the gelli plate (kiss technique),
 and then print the gelli plate on the small circles of distress oxide.
Now stamp with black the Bird on bike,
 and the long strip of letters from the pieces of calligraphy stamp sheet.
In the top left corner and bottom right corner,
I splattered some more ink.
I thought it was a bit too empty there.


I drew lines around the circles with the fineliner and did some scribbling.



Top left and bottom right I have stamped the pieces of calligraphy set.
And with the stencil I put circles divided in the two colors.



Finaly I stamped the Raven with tree branches in black ink.
And I cut 1 crow off the border stamp.
I stamped these here and there in the colored circles.

Because it is a large page, I glued it in my Art journal, to which I will write some texts later.



I hope you liked it and join our challenge.
You are welcome and you can even participate with other brands.
You probably have a stamp with a bird, so join the fun.
You can even win new stamps.


 



dinsdag 15 maart 2022

#140 Tweet this challenge at Lost Coast Designs, its al about birds.

 
 Hi there stampers.
 Today another fun challenge at Lost Coast designs, with birds as the theme.

 
This time I stamped a candle with tissue paper.
I used these stamps.

The black/white edges are washi tapes.

Stamping on tissue paper is not easy.
And sometimes it takes several tries to get it right.
The paper is very fragile and you can easily tear through it.
So practice a lot and you will succeed.
There is a lot to be found on the internet about decorating candles.
So get inspired and give it a try.
It is a fantastic gift to give to someone.

Well I showed you my work, but our team would love it if you show us your work.
So come to the challenge and join us. 
Maybe you will be the next winner of new rubber stamps.





donderdag 10 maart 2022

#139 "Round and round" challenge at Lost Coast designs


Hello dear stamp friends.
Yes, you can do a lot with the challenge round and round.
I chose a card with a butterfly in a circle with the beautiful text stamp of Carmens Veranda.
The butterfly is from the LCD butterfly set.

I ran a glossy cardstock through the distressink Evergreen bough, Peacock feathers and Twisted citron.
I punched a circle from a piece of watercolor paper and stamped a butterfly with waterproof ink.
Masked the butterfly and made some spots on the background with the distress colors.
I colored the butterfly with markers.
I also gave the butterfly a layer of glitter.
I stamped the CV text with Versafine onyx black.
The card and circle are matted with black and the black circle is somewhat frayed with a distress tool.
Would you like to join our challenge?
Then quickly click on the link and participate, you have a chance to win new stamps.
Hope you liked it, see you next time.




 

woensdag 2 maart 2022

#139 Lost Coast designs challenge, Round and Round. I made a dream catcher.

Hi there, how is everybody doing?
Today I made a dreamcatcher with this beautiful stamp.
The challenge theme is round and round.
As you can see there are enough circles in this project.

available in 3 sizes

I started with pastel matte paper and Derwent pastel pencils.
I stamped the Elk skull with Stazon Timber brown.
And then colored with the pastel pencils.
You can make the dreamcatcher from a metal hoop.
Or you can make it to your liking or buy one ready-made.
I really enjoyed making it.

Wouldn't it be nice to join our challenge?
You can win beautiful LCD stamps.
You can choose with which stamp brand you participate,
but we prefer LCD/CV stamps.
As long as your card or project is stamped.
Read through the rules, then you can be sure that your work can participate according to the rules.
I wish you the best of luck and hope to see your work at the challenge.
You can participate here....






 

donderdag 24 februari 2022

#138 LCD challenge, Vintage/Steampunk.


Hi there, today a new card for the Lost Coast Designs challenge.
You can still join till the end of the month.


Vintage and steampunk are my favorite stamps to work with .
I love the old colors and imaginative stamps and designs. 
Lost Coast designs also has very nice stamps in this theme.
These are the stamps I used on this card.


Distress oxide,
Tea dye
antique linen
wild honey
Ground espresso.
Stazon timber brown
Bring with some water the colors on to the paper.
Keep it light in the middle.

Brush or spunge some Tea dye on the edges.

Repeat with Distress oxide ground espresso.

With the distress oxide wild honey I stamped parts of the gears stamp.

And did the same with the corner of the pieces of architecture.
With a stamp from the pieces of caligraphy set and the ground espresso i stamped here and there.

With a die cut I made the medallion and sponged it with the ground espresso.
Fix this on the background with 3D tape.

Stamp the fly with bird with the stazon and color it in with pencils or markers.
Cut her out and glue her to the medallion.
I had some paper gears left over from an other project.
So colored them grey an glued them on.
And this is the end result.
I really like it, hope you will to.

If you would like to have a chance on winning some of the beautifull Lost Coast designs stamps,
Join our challenge, and have fun creating for the LCD challenge.



This card is playing at the challenge of:













 

vrijdag 18 februari 2022

Challenge at Let's squash it.

 

Hello, I made this card for the Let's squash it challenge.
Assignment, embossing folder, green and an insect.
This is a super fun challenge blog where every challenge revolves around the embossing folder.
I don't know about you, but I have quite a few embossing folders lying around and rarely do anything with them.
But this blog keeps encouraging me to use them.
So if you feel like working with your embossing folder, go and have a look.
The embossing folder is from Spellbinder, and the stamps Bugz set are from Lost Coast Designs.
I also used Viva Decor Inka gold on the raised parts of the embossing and a white gel pen for the veins in the wings.
I also applied some fine gold glitter with the Nuvo aqua shimmer on the wings.

This card participates in the challenge of:

woensdag 16 februari 2022

#138 Vintage/Steampunk challenge at lost Coast Designs

 

Hi there stampers, I just love this airship stamp from LCD.
So I made this tag with it.

This is what I used for it.
Click on the link if you want to go to the webshop.
Carmens Veranda sentiment,

Furthermore you need.....
Distress ink Aged mahogany,
victorian velvet,
speckled egg,
walnut stain,
vintage photo.
Stazon Timber brown.


Start by applying vintage photo as shown in the photo.
Spray some water to make stains.
Dry with the heat tool.


Then fill in the space with Speckled egg.

Take one of the Galligraphy stamps and stamp here and there with Vintage Photo.
With Vintage photo and Aged mahogany you stamp the gears here and there.

Now we put on the edges with Aged mahogany and Walnut Stain.
With some paint or ink we now also make the splashes on the tag.
Now we color the airship with the Distress inks.
Stamp the airship on the tag with the Stazon Timber brown.
Cut out the colored stamp and glue it on.
Cutting out the ropes and fence on the ship would be much more difficult.
That's why we stamp the ship on the tag.
Stamp the text with the brown stazon.


Now its up to you to show us your Vintage/Steampunk art and join our challenge.
There are stamps to win.
So Join us and please read the rules, and have fun creating.














dinsdag 8 februari 2022

#137 Think pink, challenge at lost Coast designs.

Hi stampers,

For my contribution to the "Pink or shades of red challenge"
I immediately thought of the sweetest love couple I know.
Oh they are so cute and totally in love with each other.
And I used the door from the door and Window set.

We're going to start by stamping and masking Frank.
Then we stamp his bride, but notice that her hand is on Frank's masked hand.
Now we also mask Frank's bride.

Stamp the door of the Door and window set from LCD.

I colored the card with Derwent Inktense pencils.
But you can color it with whatever you want.

The team of lost Coast designs would love to see your take on this theme.
Red and pinks, just love it.
Show us, and maybe you wil win some new stamps.
Goodluck.....

This card participates in the challenge of:
And


 

zaterdag 5 februari 2022

Tag swap with Stamping friend



Hannie Hokke (stamp friend) sent me a bag with a tag and all kinds of embellishments.
We each made a tag with it and sent it to each other. Very nice to see how different they are. Hannie has used beautiful colors on her beautiful background. I used a stamp from Deep Red Stamps, American boy for my tag.




dinsdag 1 februari 2022

#137 Think pink or shades of red, challenge at lost Coast designs.

Hello everybody,
Another fun challenge at LCD.
The nice thing about a color challenge is that you can choose any subject.
That could be Valentine's Day, but also something completely different.
Personally, I think the colors are quite feminine, 
So for this card I decided to give it a feminine touch.
For the background I used a stencil with roses, 
this one is from Dutch Doobadoo called big roses.
I smeared the stencil with modeling paste 
and painted the modeling paste with red and pink watercolor paint.

I stamped the beautiful stamp of the LCD labels set on watercolor paper,
 and colored it with watercolor paint.
Cut out and glued on with 3D tape and a bow on her waist makes it even more feminine.

Wouldn't you like to participate in LCD's challenge?
We, the LCD team would really like you to join.
So get started and participate, but read the rules first.
You can win beautiful new LCD stamps.