Karaoke Cat and His Hat

 It's the last day for a fun challenge on the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity:  Hats.  I've got a fun slimline type card using the Karaoke Cat stamp from Lost Coast Designs, the Doodle Circles background stamp, also from Lost Coast, and the Currently Unsupervised clear stamp from Carmen's Veranda.

This background was a scrap of a gel print with green and blue acrylic paints and some gold stamping.  I added some doodle circles using red Oxide Distress inks.  The cat was stamped with black ink onto white paper, colored with Copic Sketch Markers, and fussy cut out.  I cut a pointed had for him from red card stock and added some polka dots.

The sentiment was stamped onto white card stock with black ink, the corners rounded, and edged with red.  The sentiment was affixed to the top of the card and the Karaoke Cat below.  The whole thing was layered with a piece of white card stock.

So hurry and get out your stamps and your crafty supplies and enter your "Hat" projects over on the Portal for a chance to win some free stamps!

Three Monkeys in Hats

 Hi again with another post to tell you about the newest design challenge going on at The Lost Coast Portal to Creativity:  "Hats".  I expect that we will be seeing some fun projects for this one!

I made a series of three tags for this challenge using the Three Monkeys stamp and the Vertical Hats border stamp, both from Lost Coast Designs.

After cutting out my three tags, I covered each with some papers from my stash:  one is a Gelli print and the other two were done with Oxide Distress spray inks.  I edged all three with a dark blue marker.

The Three Monkeys were stamped onto white paper with black ink and colored in with Copic Sketch markers.  I then fussy cut them out.  The various hats were done the same way and colored and cut out and then attached, one to each monkey.  Next I die cut ovals out of coordinating papers, attached those to the center of each tag, and placed the monkey images in the center of each oval.  I added some white Nuvo Crystal Drops to each of the monkeys' hats.  Final step was to punch a hole in the top of each and add some blue seam binding ribbon.

So get out  your crafty supplies and make something fun with a "Hats" theme to it, and you just might win some free stamps from Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!!

Something That Starts With S: Sherlock

 Happy April with some news about the latest challenge going on at The Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!  There is a brand new challenge that Starts today - "Something That Begins With S".  So the Sky is the limit as long as your challenge features rubber Stamping and Something that begins with the letter S.

The card I have created here features the Sherlock Stamp from Carmen's Veranda.  Such a great Stamp featuring Such an iconic character!  

My background is a little patchwork of Some pieces of Several master board collages I have made.  I have used most of them for various projects but always hang onto the extra bits and usually find a good use for them.

I taped them all together then zig zag Stitched down the middle and Straight Stitched around the edges.  I then Splattered the Surface with Pumice Stone Distress Ink Spray.  

Sherlock was Stamped with black ink onto a piece of coffee Stained paper.  The edges were brushed with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and then the whole was  Stitched to the center of my card front.

Done and dusted!

We can't wait to See what fabulous S creations you can make for the challenge!  So come join the fun!