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.

Gast designer bij "Kleuren met potloden" challenge blog.

Today I have a post for the "Kleuren met potloden" blog.

In english coloring with pencils.

This is a fun challenge blog for digi's.

I had to color a digi from,

 ALEXSYBERIADESIGNS

Just For You Digital Stamp.

Happy birthday sweet grandaugther.

Made this card with the beautiful unicorn clear stamp from "Art by Marlene". 

Used lots of glitter because little girls love that.

Round and round challenge at Lost Coast Designs and Carmens Veranda stamps.

Hi stampers, I made this wooden disk for the new challenge with the topic round.

I used the large Elk skull stamp from Lost Coast Designs.

I stamped directly onto the wooden disc and colored it with Derwent Inktense. 

It wasn't easy to color on rough wood, but I managed it anyway.

Well you understand what's round, right?

The dream catchers are round, but the wooden disk is also round.

And the annual rings in the wood are also round.

Have you also made something round and used stamps?

Then join the challenge, you can even do it with stamps from other brands.

Maybe you will be the winner of new stamps.

So hop on over and join the challenge.

Challenge at Lost Coast Designs. Stamp on patterned paper. (Design paper)

Today a card in vintage style.

I used the Labels set,

and the new floral set from Lost Coast designs.

The saying is from Carmens Veranda.

Carmen's Veranda has a whole page full of the funniest and quirky sayings.

Really worth taking a look. 

Also used: 

Distress ink Antique linen,

Archival coffee

Leaves and branch die cut.

Brown ink to spletter.

Now how the card is made.

I started with a sheet of printed paper.

I stamped the label with the lady using Archival coffee.

I colored a piece of paper with Distressink antique linen.

I stamped the label with the archival coffee.

And I made the edges a bit darker with it.

Did the same with a piece of paper for the saying.

The same goes for the flowers.

These come in 4 sizes, I used the two smallest sizes.

Colored the flowers with a waterbased marker and cut them out.

Die cut some branches.

The label and text were stuck on with some foam tape.

Colored some details with the markers.

And decorated the card with the twigs and flowers.

A few more brown ink splatters and then it's done.

I hope you liked it and that you will participate the challenge.

You can be the winner of new rubber stamps.

I admitted this card in the challenge from

Simon says, anything go's

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.