Inspiration Makes

Hi everyone,

Sharing today my Inspirations for craft group that I host at Hobby Craft using my winning stamps by  Lost Coast Designs and Carmen Veranda

http://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.co.uk/

Shrubbery - LCD

 

Flagstones - LCD and Silhouette Crow - LCD

Cracked Chicken - LCD

Christmas Lights - Carmen Veranda -  Twas the nigh before Christmas - LCD

Whimsical Clara - LCD -  Tree with Birds - Carmen Veranda

Cityscape - LCD

Materials use:
Tim Holtz Distress Inks
Momento, Tuxedo Black
Spectrum Noir Markers
Versamark
Clear Embossing Powder

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Val S.

Inspiration Cards using Post-it Notes

My inspiration for Hobby Craft Friday morning craft group to which I host.

Materials used:

Post-it Notes
White cars stock
Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Mustard Seed, Bundled Sage and Fired Brick
Versafine Black Ink
Stamps and Die cut by Simply Cards and Papercraft

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Half-O-Ween Card

Lost Coast Designs is celebrating Half-O-Ween in May

http://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/day-1-of-half-o-ween-ghostie-boo-bird.html

You might think that Half-O-Ween is a fairly new thing but it's actually an old tradition recognized by many European countries.  In Germanic folklore, Walpurgisnacht, also called Hexennacht or Heksennacht (Dutch), literally means "Witches' Night".  Traditionally the start of Half-O-Ween is "Witches Night" on April 30th and then observed all May long.  The first known written occurrence of the English translation, "Walpurgis Night" is from the 19th century.   Many of the things we still do today but have forgotten the reasons why originated from this time, like the ringing of Church bells and tying tin cans behind the car of newlyweds...all done to ward off evil during Half-O-Ween!
Here is my make:

Materials used:

Cityscape Stamp by LCD
 Tree with Birds stamp by Carmen Veranda
Tim Holts Distressed Markers, various
Versafine Onyx Black
White and black cardstock
(To create the background I applied the Distress Markers to an acrylic block, then I spritzed the ink with water, I laid the white card over the ink pressed down a little then removed the card. This is a great way to create backgrounds)

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Cracked Chicken Card

Hi crafters, today I have entered my card into
Lost Coast Designs
Challenge #24 A Splash of Neon or Bright Colour

http://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/challenge-24-splash-of-neon-or-bright.html

Materials used:
Cracked Chicken stamp by LCD
Hearts stamp by LCD
White, black and lilac card stock
Tim Holtz Distress Pens, various colours
Versafine, Onyx Black
Acrylic block...to which I added colours from the distress pens,
then added water from spritzer bottle, then covered white card over the ink and block, lastly lift card and let the ink run.

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Happy Anniversary Birthday Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!

 

I have enjoyed following LCD, Leigh always brings great events, challenges and DT inspiration along with other DT team members!  Linda the owner of LCD is a lovely lady and has created some great stamps!

Wishing everyone at LCD another wonderful year and I look forward to all the great inspiration!

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Spring Card for LCPtoC Flora and Fluffy Tails event!

Hello!
Today I'm sharing a card I have made for Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's Spring Event called Flora and Fluffy Tails!

Here's my card using the following materials
Lost Coast Designs Doodle Flowers rubber stamps
White and black cardstock
Tuxedo Black, Lady Bug and Rhubarb Stalk Memento ink
Crimson Red, Rouge and Spanish Orange Prismacolor pencils
Pop dots

 I stamped the flowers twice onto white cardstock, first in Tuxedo Black Memento ink and the second in Lady Bug and Rhubarb Stalk.  I used the mixed coloured one for my background and selected some flowers from the black inked one to colour and fussy cut out which were then layered onto the background with pop dots.  The flowers were then adhered to a black folded card made from cardstock.

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Were not in Kansas anymore!

 

 

 

Catch the Tornado to the Emerald City and visit the LCDesigners' blogs along the way for loads of wicked cool traditional and non-conventional Oz inspiration!

 

http://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.co.uk/

 

 

Lost Coast Designs has a wonderful set of cartoon Oz characters and Carmen's Veranda has a vintage set right out of the original movie plus 2 fun background stamps as well as a bunch of monkey images too.  

 

And now to show my OZ makes!

 

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