Showing posts with label Carmen's Veranda Stamps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carmen's Veranda Stamps. Show all posts

Sunday, February 12, 2017

Steampunk Queen Event at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!

Wow, what a twist on Alice! But that is just what you will find in our latest event at the The Lost Coast Portal to Creativity !  I had to put on my thinking cap and then took it off because it just was no good :)  Steampunk is not my easiest style to work with and I think I ended up with a steampunk/Finnabair style Red Queen but I loved the process of getting her there!  Once again I used my sherpa, the Art Sherpa that is, to give a fabulous process to try with acrylic paints and with that and a hand drawn queen mask the fun began!  There is quiet a rainbow on my entire table right now and it makes me smile! 


I had no masking medium...Grumbacher's Frisket is on my wish list at the top after this fun techinique!  So I splashed her on cardstock and fussy cut her out...easy solution :)  The a DP run through with a cogs and gears embossing folder and she had her home.  I used two of Lost Coast Designs Red Queens from the Alice and Queen Sitting Queen Set colored with Spectrum Noir Markers trying to use some of the colors in the big splashed queen.  Fussy cut and attached to the bottom then the agony/fun began as I searched for gears and cogs that I darn well know I have but nothing was found.  Then the fabulous Doll Accessories stamp set from Lost Coast Designs and found some awesome (to me) things to give a steampunk feel.  Goggles and eyes, watches, thimble, coin, mirror for her to admire herself, key , and then some bits and bobs of old jewelry under for the stamped pieces to rest on and around.  A brown piece of cardstock run through the same embossing folder to layer her own and she was done!

 The Steampunk Queen Event starts on February 11 - 14 

Now it is just a shame for me to have all the fun and for YOU to miss out on the chance for fabulous prizes from all of our events!  And to find out all of the details go to the The Lost Coast Portal to Creativity  . Our monthly challenge "Lovers" for February, our designer's Review pages, and of course all our exciting events!

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Monday, February 6, 2017

Lovers Theme at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!

I am not a Valentine's Day person since the  loss of my husband.  Sort of the Scrooge of Valentine's Day ...bah heart bug! :)  But the The Lost Coast Portal to Creativity   monthly challenge starts TODAY and the theme is LOVERS.  Ok I told myself I can work with that go all romantic and elegant!  Then I remembered my new release stamp of the puppets Kukla and Ollie and it was over at the point! And they are new releases at Carmen's Veranda Stamps ! It became puppet love all the way!


Yes, puppets fall in love too spending all that time in a trunk together....hmmmm, think about it!  So I took a strip of DT Valentine's paper and glued to the bottom intending to leave it as a pocket so the puppet sticks could go where I wanted them but forgot and just cut a slit with my kraft  knife.  My stamp was stamped on white paper and colored with Spectrum Noir Markers and a cardboad "stick" glued to the back, then stuck in and left unglued so they can be moved like actual puppets!

A die that I cannot remember the company that made it! was cut in red and some peel and stick letters spell out "My Love" with a very red feather at the end and a pewter heart in the middle.  The little guy is holding a fake holly berry from a holiday spray but it looked just like a candy apple in his hand so he is is giving his sweet a sweet!

Don't forget to come play with us this month!  And if you are anti-Valentines then think outside of the box and find you a pair of something that looks very much in love and create away!  As always the The Lost Coast Portal to Creativity  has all the info on events, challenges, designer's Reviews; the whole kit and kaboodle!

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Thursday, December 1, 2016

December at Eclectic Ellapu

It's December and at Eclectic Ellapu, our theme is what else?  Jingle Bells!  Oh what fun it is to create with some jingle bells!  I took an old Hello Kitty tub and covered it with some kraft paper I had bought in Japan. It is thinner than the kind I have already so it worked well to cover up the kitty.  I stamped it all over with a Carmen's Veranda's Stamps called "Christmas Lights" . 




I used Prisma colored pencils to color my Christmas lights.  I had an unopened Santa pin that looked swell on the front, some red beads hot glued to the top edge, and my jingle bells hung from a green and white twill string.  For some height, I added some small Christmas ornaments to the bottom.  A little red inking to all the edges and it is ready to hold some candy canes.

Come play with us this month at Eclectic Ellapu!

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Tag it Thursday Texture

I am still trying to get all of my supplies back in one house so when I needed a stencil for some texture I took an index card and my hole punch and punched some holes in an arrangement I liked and there was my stencil!


My Quilted Angel with Wings is from Carmen's Veranda Stamps and words from Tim Holtz's ChitChat stickers with some embellies from different kits and from friends goodie mail!

I want to enter this in Tag it Thursday Texture

Sunday, November 20, 2016

Winter at Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge

Even in south Mississippi it is getting a bit nippy in the weather!  Not close to snowman weather but I do love this snowman (minus his feet ...just wouldn't fit!) from Carmen's Veranda called "Elf with Star".  Some icy blues and stamped in blue Distress Inks with some colored pencils and a little bow and bling and my ATC was done.


Thursday, August 25, 2016

We're Still Hip How About You?

Continuing on our trip down memory lane and being hip not square but using our fabulous squares to be hip...whew! that confused me!  Just check out the  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity  for all the details on our event "Hip to be Square" and Leigh will get you all unconfused and you will know how to play along with us and win some cool spending cash at the stores!  

I used the Architecture Square from Carmen's Veranda to make a wrapping topping for a man's gift or the graduate, any guy will appreciate it.  It comes with its own bunting so when they open the gift they can have a little party on their desk with the twine and circles to keep the party mood going!  


This is such a versatile stamp as it can be stamped and cut apart for architecture elements on a background as I did on my Shrine for the new release event. I am seeing these elements alot on cards and some cool projects so it was a must have for me.  The bunting was made by punching circles and hot gluing onto the twine and wrapping around the topper.

Hope to see you joining us for the fun event and all the fun things coming up so very soon!

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Saturday, August 20, 2016

It's Hip to be Square at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity this Month!

Hey all you cool guys and gals!  We are going hip on you this month with our event "It's Hip to be Square" and you will not be thinking we are posing on you not one bit :)  Carmen's Veranda's Stamps and Lost Coast Designs have some fabulous square stamps and it really gets you thinking on how to use them in different ways.  I saw this Eye Chart Square  and then the Eye Chart stamp at Carmen's Veranda and had to have a way to use them together!  I even bought a pair of jeans that I knew were a size too small for the awesome tag that went with my idea (I can wear the jeans when I loose my stress weight and they were on sale for 4 dollars so I am not that bad, really!)


Some Holtz's paper and my jean's tag and some Spectrum Noir markers for a green eye and my tag was done. I even used the black cord the tag was hanging from on here so good jeans great crafting material!

Please check the  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity for all the details and information so you can participate and win!  Lots going on this month and the months to come so don't miss a thing!  And our monthly challenge is always a good way to win some stamps!

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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Two More for the Lost Coast Designs New Stamp Release Event

I am just having too much fun with these new stamps from Lost Coast Designs !  And I finally am back at my mom's apartment out the back door of my house so I can pop in and out to grab my goodies instead of trying to make do with my carry all of craft things that does not hold nearly enough goodies!  I have two to share with you this time.  The first is the fabulous ZENTANGLE FEATHER 1 stamped 3 times on white cardstock and because of no spray bottle at the hospital, I patted the paper down with a wet paper napkin then sprinkled my Nuance Powders and patted them around.  Those powders are so fantastic that they looked fab even doing it the weird way :) I glued them to some designer paper and glued that to yellow cardstock dabbed with the leftover green Nuance Powder napkin. The senti is from a freebie kit in a magazine that I managed to grab as I had none of my wonderful Misc. Words with me. I snagged some gauze and used Distress Ink to color it before layering the sentiment stamped on a bit of paper from the feather coloring paper...always keep a paper under your project to soak up those luscious colors!


 This next one had me drooling..again! when I saw it in the store.  It is the CALLIGRAPHY SHRINE layered on some more designer paper and some portions from two of Carmen's Veranda squares stamps. I used ARCHITECTURE SQUARE and PARADISE SQUARE. We had made it home in time for me to add the word from the MISC. WORDS set which I absolutely love and use over and over again.


 Thanks for stopping by again and please check out all the details of the event at the  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where lots of cool things are going on and lots of chances to win awesome stamps!  And remember our challenge this month!  The theme is ATC'S...we all love to make those so get busy and toss that entry in the linky!

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My trademark or style runs toward simple no fuss or frill types of projects.  I use just enough to enhance the image and let the image do the rest. The rest of the time I spend getting painty, inky, and really messy with paints making my own backgrounds and canvases.

Monday, July 18, 2016

Thinking of You at the Lost Coast Designs New Stamp Release Event

Wow, what awesome showcasing of the new releases from Lost Coast Designs at the  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity !  I hope you are being as inspired as I am to create up something and join in the fun!  All the details and rules cam be found at the  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity so hop by, give them a peek, and make a little checklist to make sure you get the rules down so you can walk away with some serious shopping at Lost .


I just love these little birds!  I think the eyes get me; they are so expressive.  And I wanted some blue birds of happiness to nest on this Heidi Swapp paper  and they just feel right at home sitting on the lovely flowers!  I used Whimsical Sylvie and Whimsical Amelia and colored with Spectrum Noir markers; then they gently flew onto the paper and made themselves comfy.  The sentiment is stamped onto another paper from Heidi's pad and some gauze (yep, still in the hospital with mom at the time of writing this) so, yes, gauze under the sentiment. This sentiment is from a freebie kit in a magazine but Lost Coast Designs has some great sentiments in their "Party Words" set but alas it is at home sitting all alone.  

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My trademark or style runs toward simple no fuss or frill types of projects.  I use just enough to enhance the image and let the image do the rest. The rest of the time I spend getting painty, inky, and really messy with paints making my own backgrounds and canvases.

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

A Beachy Christmas in July

My favorite theme is of course anything to do with the beach!  And the brand new Go Tag Thursday Challenge #3 is "Going Dotty" and the theme at the Rubber Dance Blog Challenge is a palette of beach colors for Christmas in July so color me dotty and happy :)  


My waves along the shore are some designer paper with dots! and some yummy Gelato shimmer.  The lucky duck, I mean, REINDEER DOLL who is wadding almost to the edge of her dress, oh my!, is    from Carmen's Veranda Stamps.  Some snowflake die cuts embossed and a die cut doilly with some seashells collected from my beach heaven combine for that Christmas/beach feeling.  The top stamp is from Dylusions and had a lot of fab dots which I boosted a bit.  The sentiment floating in the water is from Lost Coast Designs , a set called PARTY WORDS.

I hope you will check out the Go Tag Thursday challenge blog and also have a look see at the Rubber Dance Blog challenge (and pssst! Rubber Dance Stamps is sponsoring us at Dream in Darkness this month again!) ...so much fun making this I am still grinning!

Entering Go Tag Thursday #3 Going Dotty
              Rubber Dance Blog Challenge Christmas in July

Monday, July 4, 2016

Lost Coast Designs Xmas in July Event

Well, we got all excited about Halloween with Half-of-ween and Skellie Fest, now it's time to get excited about Christmas!  And I need to start in July to be ready for December so good idea and now feeling all hot and muggy and Christmasy :)  So to get a jump on the tree thing I made a tag ornament with the friendly Waving Santa from Carmen's Veranda, check one thing off the list!  I used a wooden tag from the dollar store and covered with some Dylusions paints and brick stencil and added some "25's" then added some red paper at the bottom for the sentiment from Party Words found at Lost Coast Designs.  I stamped  Christmas Lights  on top of the bricks, the lights are also Carmen's Veranda.. Colored the lights and Santa with markers, fussy cut Santa out and glued to the tag. Some bling and lots of glitter bead paste with some snowflakes with a gel pen and the string for him to hang on the tree and greet folks.


I hope you will join us at the  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity for all the news about Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!  Plus our monthly challenge and all the events and information and rules for your chance to win at the Portal so give yourself an early Christmas present and win with us!

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Friday, July 1, 2016

Some Scraping by for July at Rhedd's Creative Spirit

Question:  What do you do when you have an almost so almost completed project for your design team make at Rhedd's Creative Spirit and your mom goes into the hospital? Why you start finding bits and bobs that the nurses take off of things they use that will make a design and that they are going to toss and you grab it!  You will get some very odd looks but just explain you are creating on the cheap at the moment :)  

I had kept a bag with some images, markers and pencils, watercolors, gelatos, stamp block and stamp pad. Oh, and just by luck my daughter found my glue and scissors to bring to me.  So I went from a notebook made from a cereal box (watch next month) to a mixed media journal/canvas page.  


Background focal point is from Dragons Lair Designs "Summer Retreat" collection torn around the edges and glued to the mixed media paper. Gelatos to the rescue to edge it and color the rest. A plastic cap for mom's feeding tube that was being thrown away (it was a protective piece on new tubing trust me no gross stuff) made some great circles with one end and some larger solid circles for the big Zentangle Checker Fish from Lost Coast Designs to show he is breathing and to place all about on the page.  The circle tool that came with the gelatos that I have never used made some purple perfect circles, too.  Next after coloring the Zentangle Checker Fish with Gelatos, fussy cutting, and attaching, I cut out 5 seahorses (also from "Summer Retreat") that I had miraculously copied out at the same time as the mixed media background piece were cut out, edged with Gelatos, and glued to lead the parade of fun!  A wonderful square stamp from Carmen's Veranda called  "Paradise Square"  with most of the word "PARADISE" was stamped right onto the paper before adding the seahorses. A swell find was these little star shaped sponge mouth swabs, again this one came straight out of the plastic packaging as it was leftover, made a great tool to dip in blue watercolor paint and stamp around on the page. Some white dots to outline that cute Zentangle Checker Fish finished off my limited supply journal page that may become a canvas.

I was challenged at first as to what to alter or create mixed media because all of my ideas lacked certain supplies but I was pleased to find out there are things around us that if we think about it make awesome tools.  I hope you will try this at home one day.  Just limit yourself to certain absolutely necessary things and then go on a hunt and be inspired by what you find!

I do look forward to visiting your blog and being inspired by your creations this month!  You all took our breath away last month with the fabulous and unique makes we saw and it was my turn to choose the winner....sigh and eek!  But congrats to all of you on jobs well done and please come stun us again for July at Rhedd's Creative Spirit.

Monday, June 27, 2016

Lost Coast Designs Christmas in July Event

Well, we got all excited about Halloween with Half-of-ween and Skellie Fest, now it's time to get excited about Christmas!  And I need to start in July to be ready for December so good idea and now feeling all hot and muggy and Christmasy :)  So to get a jump on the tree thing I made a tag ornament with the friendly Waving Santa from Carmen's Veranda, check one thing off the list!  I used a wooden tag from the dollar store and covered with some Dylusions paints and brick stencil and added some "25's" then added some red paper at the bottom for the sentiment from Party Words found at Lost Coast Designs.  I stamped  Christmas Lights  on top of the bricks, the lights are also Carmen's Veranda.. Colored the lights and Santa with markers, fussy cut Santa out and glued to the tag. Some bling and lots of glitter bead paste with some snowflakes with a gel pen and the string for him to hang on the tree and greet folks.


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Sunday, June 12, 2016

Haunted House at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda

Note; I just realized this didn't publish so the event is past but here are my details!
 
It's Half-of-Ween at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and that means halfway point to Halloween!  All of my stamps were levitating out of their folders to get a chance to play...they can't wait until Halloween either!  So here they are first from Lost Coast Designs: Skull with Wings, Murder of Crows, ATC Grunge Background, Crow Border,, and now, Carmen's Veranda: Small Witches, Three Trees, and Large Skeleton Shrine. They all gathered together to form a haunted house to play at until the happy month gets here :)



 And a what if?  What if....good old Alfred had been inspired after watching the Oz bunch instead of some birds?  Yep, then we would have had the much more terrifying "The Monkeys" coming into YOUR theater soon!  


All coming at ya from Carmen's Veranda (except for one small crossover from Oz that landed at Lost Coast Designs: Wizard of Oz set 2)  Alfred Hitchcock Standing, Three Trees, Flying Monkeys Background

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Monday, May 2, 2016

May Challenge at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity

Our theme this month is #24 Splash of Color (use a neon or bright color) at Lost Coast Designs and we hope everyone who played in April will join us again this month!  And thanks to all who did play and let us visit their blogs and be inspired by them (that's YOU) :)  So get your neon/brights on and get inky and messy! One little reminder....please make sure your makes have rubber stamping on them. A sentiment stamped works great if you have a digital image you really want to use!  





I just love this stamp so vintage and I had the luck of catching the library book sale and got a "Modern Business Speller" copyright 1901 with handwritten study notes so of course I had to stamp "Spread Your Wings and Fly"  on a page from the book.  She looks like she wouldn't have been at home at a typewriter but who knows?  

You know the next bit..it is your turn to show us what you can splash some color on and we can't wait to see so jump HERE and enter!  Please check out the Portal linky below as we have some wonderful events coming up..shhh! I didn't say a word!

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Friday, April 15, 2016

Midway Point at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Challenge for April "Anything Goes"

Anything Goes?  Yes, not much easier than that, right?  And you still have until the 25th to get those makes in for a chance at some shopping fun at Lost Coast Designs, so get up ...right after you take a peek at this...and head for the linky HERE :)

I am in love with something else.  These little mini grunge fold up books.  They measure 2 x 2 and seem impossible to do what they do but they work with very little effort.  I used Distress Inks and crumpled and wet and inked, then repeated.  The covers are cardboard :) squares covered with the paper then stamped to make sure the image is in the right place but I waited until I had put it all together to stamp my front so it fits the grunge title very well!



Stamped with Winged Skeleton from Carmen's Veranda 




Cracked Tree and Crows Border from Lost Coast Designs 

Hope you give one of these a try!  They are super fun and you can look on Youtube under "mini grunge book" and it will tell you how to do it :)

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Saturday, March 26, 2016

Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers L is for Legend

The mere sight of the man brings that song to you head playing over and over again.  See a bunch of birds and you might just duck for cover!  A hotel on a hill?  Not me!  Yes, the man, the legend, Mr. Alfred Hitchcock of television and movie fame and the stuff nightmares are born of!  I have thrown almost all of my stamps at this one, each time thinking that is enough then seeing another and popping it down, too.


Alfred is a Carmen's Veranda stamp aptly named "Alfred Hitchcock Standing" and his shrine is also from Carmen's Veranda and is the "Large Skeleton Shrine".  The various skulls, bones, birds, and splotches (could they be blood?) are from various stamp sets from Michael's all recently put on sale to my great fortune :)  Hope you enjoyed this trip down memory lane if you are old enough if not get Netflixs and catch up!

Monday, March 7, 2016

Boris Wants to Party!

Carmen's Veranda is stock full of the most unique and amazing rubber stamps!  This is Boris Karloff and next to Alfred he is my fav!  Our challenge theme is "Let's Party" at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity this month and Boris wants to play and party!  He even got dolled up in his hats and some glitter to shine for the night.


  Menacing eyes for sure!  But what fun to play with!  The Nuance powders had to come out and play of course cause it's a party!  Misc. Words wanted a peek at the party along with the Horizontal Party Hats.  I think there is fun to be had by all!

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Saturday, February 13, 2016

Frida and Her Thoughts on Love

I am so interested in Frida Kayol, her art, her life, it is really quiet unique.  For our Valentine's Event at Lost Coast Designs, I made an ATC with the stamp "Frida Sitting" from Carmen's Veranda Stamps. I added paper, some text from a really old French book (I didn't have any Spanish old books) and some ribbon that seemed to be "her" colors.


Frida may seem odd for Valentine's Day but she had a long standing romance in her life that was both her joy and downfall according to her.  The quote is from Frida probably to this man in her life and how deep must that love have run for her to say this?  

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Sunday, January 24, 2016

Meet My "Lizard Dog"

Yep, I have a lizard dog now!  I have actually four dogs, a cat, and a lizard in my house but now we have added the amazing "Lizard Dog" to the bunch.  I think this is the neatest stamp ever!  Talk about a super hero....Lizard Dog...can swim, fetch, roll over, climb walls..the list goes on and on!  And you can own one to if you hop over to Lost Coast Designs and have a look at the new releases there!  These Cracked Critters will make you smile :)  I have a double whammy in January with a daughter's birthday right after Christmas so a "Happy Everything" from the "Party Words" set seemed to fit nicely.  With it being so bleak I thought we could use some beachy colors to brighten us up a bit!


Remember our monthly challenge is "Clean and Simple" the emphasis being on simple so no excuses for not entering and starting the new year out with stamp cash to go buy yourself a lizard dog or the whole cracked critter set!  Also, Lost Coast Designs has the new Nuance powders for sale and they are soooo yummy!  We are all playing with them now and loving them!  

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