Wednesday, April 24, 2024

#184 Cute and/or Fluffy.

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

Hello stampers and crafters.
I love this challenge, so cute!
 Today I have a card that is also very suitable for beginners.
But first I will tell you what I used to make the card.

The stamps:

Distressink:
Mustard seed
Wild honey
Kitch flamingo
Black waterproof ink pad
Derwent colorsoft pencils
Black fineliner
White gellpen
Stamperia stencil
Masking tape

To start, we make a puddle on our work sheet with a little water and the distress ink.
We run the paper through that.
Make sure you get interesting spots and don't make it too dark.
Allow to dry, possibly with a heat tool.
We start by stamping the mice with waterproof ink.
Make sure there is some distance between the mice so that the cat can sit between them.
Mask the mice with masking tape.
Now stamp the cat.
Remove the masks.
Now you would think that the colors of the background run through the animals.
But that's no problem, you will see that if you color with the same colors they disappear.
We use a white gel pen to whiten the cat's eyes and put a white dot in the pupils and on the nose.
We also make the scarf and the buttons on the mice's coat white with the gel pen.
Stamp the text at the top of the card in black.
Because my hands are quite shaky, I have difficulty drawing lines. 
So I drew the border with the handy stamperia mask and a black fineliner.
I rounded the corners of the card,
and glued the card onto black cardstock.
And this was it, a fairly easy card but super fun to make.
Of course with the beautiful stamps from Lost Coast Designs and Carmens Veranda Stamps.
Do you have a nice cute or fluffy stamp?
It may even be from a different brand, then join our challenge and have a chance to win stamps.
PLEASE read the RULES first, this way you avoid disappointments.
See you on the challenge, 




Monday, April 22, 2024

Hoppy Birthday

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!
 
Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here today with another cute card for our Cute and/or Fluffy challenge.  What's more cute and fluffy than a bunny!!!!
I used Carmen's Veranda Bunny and Lost Coast Designs Flowers Background.  Isn't that bunny adorbs!!!   The Happy Birthday is a partial stamp from Carmen's Veranda Queen of Everything.
You have until 23.59 PST on the 30th to join the Cute and/or Fluffy challenge and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month so do pop back and see their awesome makes.
 
 Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz
 
 

Saturday, April 20, 2024

2 Cute Gnomes

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

Goodmorning, Cathy here with a postcard for you today.
Stamps Used:


I started out by cutting a piece of white cardstock to 4x6. Then I stamped Two gnomes on the bottom.

Next, I randomly stamped Brush stokes and Pieces of calligraphy on the background. After that I grabbed a Tim Holtz stencil and some blue ink that was left on the blending brush and blended the background. 
I then colored the gnomes with copic markers and then layered it on black cardstock.
 

You can join over at The Lost Coast blog.

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Cute and/or Fluffy: Cute Elephant

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

Hello everyone! Liesbeth here with a lovely little elephant :-) for our Cute&Fluffy Challenge! I stamped it ( Small Baby Elephant) with black StazOn ink on a Distress inked background and masked it. Than I stamped the trees (ATC birds in trees) and texts (Pieces of Calligraphy and Party Words), also with yellow and green ink. I removed the mask and finished the piece with charcoal, white gel pen and colour pencils. Join us and have fun!




Liesbeth XX

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Quack Quack...

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

We're playing cute and fluffy this month and today I have just one duck and lots of squirrels - LOL!!


Sunday, April 14, 2024

Sheepy Spring

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!
 
Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here today with a spring card for our Cute and/or Fluffy challenge.  I've gone a bit more wooly than fluffy, but you gotta admit, she's a cutie.
I used Carmen's Veranda Sheep Doll and coloured her in spring greens.  The background stamp is Lost Coast Designs Daffodils Background.  I used a scallop die to cut my shaker aperture and also die cut some lovely green grass for her to stand on.
You have until 23.59 PST on the 30th to join the Cute and/or Fluffy challenge and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month so do pop back and see their awesome makes.
 
 Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz