Hi to all from Laurie with a fun card for the "Monkey See, Monkey Do" challenge going on until the end of February, at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.

For this card, I used the Pants On Fire clear stamp from Carmen's Veranda,

the Cheesecloth background stamp from Lost Coast Designs, and the Monkey Face stamp from Carmen's Veranda.

I started with my background, taking a piece of scrapbook paper with just a little bit of brown and green color to it.  I heat embossed the Cheesecloth background stamp with clear embossing powder onto my background paper.  I then used some Distress Spray stains in shades of rust, brown, and green and sprayed these randomly over my paper.  I blotted up the excess and dried my page.

Next I stamped my Monkey Face onto white card stock and colored it with Copic Sketch markers. I stamped my sentiment onto white card stock with black ink and edged it with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  I positioned this at the bottom of my card then attached Mr.Monkey Face directly above this.  I layered my card front with a white panel, edged that with the same Distress Ink, and finished it off by added some Glossy Accents to the monkey's eyes.  

Let us see your "Monkey" creations before the end of February for a chance to win some of the awesome stamps from Lost Coast and Carmen's Veranda!

Hi again with a tag for the current Lost Coast Designs Portal to Creativity challenge:  Tag You're It!  Simple challenge for the first half of February - just make a tag in any theme you like and be sure to include some rubber stamping on your work.

For this tag, I used the Butterfly Set stamps - the set includes 5 stamps but I chose to use the three smallest for this tag.

I stamped my butterflies onto a piece of clear acrylic using Stayz On black ink so the stamped images would not smear, then cut this into a tag shape.  For my background, I took a page from a vintage book and using Modge Podge, I adhered to it a decorative paper napkin with leaves and branches.  After that dried well, I glued my acrylic tag atop it and trimmed around the edges.  I thought it needed some kind of defining border, so I layered it with a tag shaped piece of black card stock. 

Final touch was to punch a hole in the top and thread a variety of ribbon and twine in colors of gray, cream and silver.  I love the way the butterflies on the acrylic let the background of the paper napkin show through.

So get your tags and stamps and art supplies out and see what kind of amazing tags you can whip up!

Age of Aquarius Mini Album

Happy February to one and all.  I'd like to share a mini album I made for the Gecko Galz February Design Challenge:  Age of Aquarius.  This was really fun to make and add lots of bright colors and images to.  In addition to the Strawberry Fields Paper Pack I used the following Gecko Galz collage sheets:

Aquarius

Country Girls

Journal Words

Sentimental Journey

Summer Colors

What's Your Sign

Hippy

These can all be found at the Gecko Galz Etsy Store along with so many other amazing collage sheets, paper packs and digital stamps.

Party Cat

I made this fun tag for the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity challenge beginning February 1st:  Tag You're It!

This tag uses the Party Cat Set from Lost Coast Designs and the  Wear A Cone clear stamp from Carmen's Veranda.

My tag is approximately 3 1/2' by 7 1/4" in size.  I covered my tag with some decorative paper in shades of black and cream.  I added a coordinating pattern to the top portion of the tag.  I then layered two paper doilies:  the bottom one is a white doily that I had coffee stained, and the next doily is black.  

I then stamped my Party Cat with black ink onto a piece of coffee stained paper, cut him out, and attached him over on the right side of my tag.

Next I stamped my sentiment with black ink onto the same coffee stained paper, cut it out, edged each piece with Vintage Photo Distress Ink, and glued it as shown along the left side.  Final steps were to add some black Dresden trim and black and cream ribbons at the top.

So "Tag, You're It" for this fun new challenge!