Skull Watch

Hello Nomad friends.  Happy Month of Love.  It's February and I am kicking off the month over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity with some inspiration  for the Love and Hearts Challenge.  Looking through the Lost Coast Design stamps I came up with a lovely combo for a CAS style card.

I used Lost Coast Designs White Nose Sugar Skull, Hearts and Curl Border and Love Dictionary Words for this card.  I stamped the Love words directly on the white card panel using red archival ink.  I stamped the border stamp on white card with the same red ink, trimmed it and mounted it on a red card layer before adding it to the card base.  The sugar skull was stamped on white card, coloured with distress markers and gel pens, fussy cut and added to the card.  Those little layers add some lovely dimension. 

You have all month to join the fun with your stamped anythings featuring love and hearts.  I love to give away Linda's stamps, but we do need 20 entries to award a prize so please join us and don't forget to tell your friends.  The team will be sharing amazing inspiration throughout the month so do hop over often and see what we are doing.  A follow and a comment are always appreciated.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
We Love Stamping Challenge - Hearts opt AG
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Have a Heart
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes 
Time Out Challenge 305 - Favourite Technique stamping and CAS

             

Frank and Mummy Play Tic Tac Toe

Hello Nomad friends.  I love games, and Halloween, and Lost Coast Design stamps!  So I put em all together today for day 17 of the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity 31 Days of Halloween celebration.  I've made a game!!!!!  And learnt that canary yellow is maybe not good staging for photographs.  Ah well....... here's my Mummy and Frank themed tic tac toe

Now I could repeat it all here but there's a step by step over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity so if you want to know it all hop over and check it out. 

 

I started with an MDF tic tac toe kit and used Lost Coast Designs Frank and Mummy on white shrink plastic for the little shrunken dudes.  I also stamped masses of different stamps from Lost Coast Designs directly onto the base board using midnight blue archival ink and masks.  Any gaps I filled in afterwards with sky blue archival ink and all the stamps from Pieces of Calligraphy and also stamped the X's and O's.  I added a few Flying Monkeys from Carmen's Veranda at the top and I used Lost Coast Designs Gargoyle, Witch Cat, Goth Shrine, MRaven1, MRaven2, Dancing Skeletons, Sugar Skull with Flower and White Nose Sugar Skull.  Then I glued the edge and divider pieces in place and glued the shrunken Mummy's and Franks in place.

This is my stamped base plate

This is what it looks like when all the edges and divider pieces are glued in place.

 

Link up your Halloween inspired projects.  Anything related to the season, spooky, fruity, fun, scary or cute.  Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars$$$$.    

 

Check back every day this month for awesome inspiration from the team.

 

There is also a Cat Challenge running at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity. 
Anything cat with real stamping.

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

Frank and Mummy joining the fun at
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Text It
Creative Crafting Uncles 46 - Halloween
Stamping Sensations Challenge - Autumn
Allsorts Challenge Week 750
The Outlawz Challenges - Saturday Anything Goes in Card Free
Outlawz Challenges October Linky

 

 

31 Days of Halloween Day 9 - Head Gardener

Merry Met Midnight Prowlers.  Welcome to the Sugar Skull garden where the head gardener tends the night blooms.

I used Sheena Douglas Web Flowers embossing folder on dark blue card and smeared with black archival.  The skeleton die cut is Cheery Lynn and I added a Lost Coast Designs Sugar Skull stamp, black embossed, fussy cut and coloured with Promarkers and gel pens.  Bwahhahahaaaa.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Stempelgarten Challenge 97 - Halloween
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Dry Embossing
Country View Challenges October - Halloween Make a Scene
Simon Says Stamp World Cardmaking Day

Wot No Beer

Hello Nomad friends.  Welcome.
It's November and time for skulls and flowers.   If you can't bear to pack away your spooktacular stamps then hop over to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where we are kicking of the month with our Day of the Dead celebration.  It's not a holiday we celebrate here in Norway, so I usually just think sugar skulls and flowers with the odd beer thrown in to help the party along.   

This card actually started with the black piece in the middle.  It was a negative cut from inside a heart wreath die and had a wiggly edge.  I decided to die cut some Sizzix bats into it and then smeared with SugarCube white ink.  I stamped, coloured and fussy cut Lost Coast Designs white nose skull from the Three Skulls set and added it to the middle of the card.  I decided it needed flowers so I grabbed some scraps, smeared various distress oxide colours on them and stamped with Lost Coast Designs Sketchy Rose stamp.  I fussy cut the roses and arranged them in an artistically pleasing manner around the edge of the card.  Done!!

And not a beer in sight......   Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Country View Challenges November 2019 - Hand Stamped
Pixie's Snippets Playground Challenge 364
Dream In Darkness
The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge 2019 Day 1  #thedailymarker30day