Mona Don't Giveashit

Hello Nomad friends.  I have a fun inspiration piece today for the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Strong Women challenge.Grab your lovely lady stamps and join the fun.  I've combined Lost Coast Designs Victorian Mona with one of my most favourite Carmen's Veranda sentiments.

 
You tell em Mona!  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Flowers Background on white card with Wilted Violet and a touch of Worn Lipstick distress inks.  I stamped Victorian Mona, coloured with distress inks and fussy cut her.  I stamped the Carmen's Veranda Giveashitometer sentiment on a scrap of white card and squiffy cut the panels, edged em with black ink and added them to the card.

Grab your stamps and join the fun for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Under a Crocodile Sun

Hello Nomad friends.  It's the 2nd of the month so time for the Card Chain Challenge Reveal.  34 awesome card makers this month.  We send love around the world one card at a time.   You make a card, you send a card, you get a card.  Everyone gets a card, everyone's a winner.  This month my card went to Suze in New Zealand.

There are always lots of options to choose from each month and this time I used the colours, Charcoal, Lime and Bumblebee (exact matching not required), Wild and Slimline.  The giraffe is a sizzix colorize die and once I got the two largest pieces cut I delved into the scraps.  The sun is a really old fat red sizzix die cut from a scrap of crocodile paper and a bit of yellow.  The grass was a ex-packaging box I sprayed with gold paint and then cut with Mama Elephant Grass die.  The little Hi speech bubble is a stamp and die from Time 4 Tea, all mounted on a textured white slimline base.  

Hop over to the blog for the whole REVEAL.
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Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Supercalliwhatyoumacallums and Other Long Words

Hello Nomad friends.  Yeah, it's May!!!   Hot and sunny here, how about you???   1st of the month so time for lots of new challenges, including the one at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity, where we want to see Strong Women on your stamped anythings.  If you are wondering which women are strong, WE ALL ARE!!!  Thanks to Cathy for clarifying that so perfectly.  

I've used an iconic image.  A childhood memory for many of you I am sure, and I remember she didn't take shit from anyone.  

I used Lost Coast Designs Silhouette Lady with Umbrella, Cracked Grass and Travel Quotes and added some simple distress ink splatts.

Hop over to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity blog and check out all the awesome Strong Women projects from the team.  Grab your stamps and join the fun.  Let's big up the ladies this fortnight!!  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Things Boys Do

Hello Nomad friends.  Well, April is going out with a bang as the little chick I got last summer decided she wanted to sit on eggs and today two adorable cuties hatched out.  Mummy hen is still sitting so I am hoping there may be some more chicks hatched overnight, but we must just wait and see.  I haven't had much crafting time the last few weeks, but I have had a request for a confirmation card for a young man who likes cycling, fishing and gaming, so I made this.  Hopefully it will be a hit!

I used Football Pattern, Fish and word die from Papirdesins and the patterned papers are also from Papirdesigns, Sykkel and Hytta på Fjellet.   I also used some metal charms from Korthobby to cover the love of gaming.  

Thanks for dropping by.  See you in May!!!!!  Hugz

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Keep Your Hat On

Hello Nomad friends.  I have been absent a few days mostly due to us having a lot of hot sunny days which have been spent in the garden.  It's been lovely.  So here I am with some inspiration for the Lost Coast Designs challenge, which is HATS.  I've gone for a Christmas theme, cos I am also elfing out over at the Christmas Kickstart Challenge this month where the theme is From My Gnome to Yours.  Gotta love a twofer!!!!

This Lost Coast Designs gnome is called Profile Gnome, but I always think of him as Looking Up, and he's fun to use with things hanging or falling from the sky.  In this case it's large glittery balls!  Well, we all need a bit of bling at Christmas.  I stamped the gnome, masked him and stamped ATC Doodle Circles with blue archival ink.  Then I filled the circles with red/blue glitter glue.  I inked the edge of the stamp and used the same blue ink to stamp the line for the ground and filled it in with iridescent glitter glue.  I did consider glittering my gnome as well, but in the end just went with Promarkers.  I finished off by stamping the Merry Christmas.

 

 

Grab your stamps and hats and join the fun for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.  Don't forget, real rubber/clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project.  Linky closes last minute of the month!

And/or grab your gnomes and join the fun for a chance to win Rudolf's Raffle.  Don't forget to keep it Christmas!!! 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Posh Hat

Hello Nomad friends!!!  It's been a toasty hot, hot, hot Spring day in Norway so I am drifting in with a little cool inspiration for the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity HATS Challenge!

 

 

Anything with a hat, or even hats by themselves, but don't forget we need to see real rubber/clear stamping as well.  I've used Lost Coast Designs doll from Doodle Dolls 1 set, Travel Quotes and Concentric Circles Background.  Concentric Circles is my new favourite background!!!!  I wonder why I haven't grabbed this one before!  I used Sky Blue, Blue Bird and Cactus Flower archival inks and randomly smeared them on the stamp to get this mixed colour background.  I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the doll and added her and the sentiment from Lost Coast Designs Travel Quotes to the background.  

 

Grab your stamps and hats and join the fun for a chance to win Lost Cost dollars.  Don't forget, real rubber/clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project.  Linky closes last minute of the month!

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

Strangely Weird

Hello Nomad friends.  Happy Easter!!!   I hope the bunny brought you plenty chocolate eggs and candy.  All that sugar has obviously gone straight to my head and Mr Mojo had a bit of a weird moment throwing some unrelated items together for an unlikely, but strangely pleasing result.  It's time for a little inspiration for the Let's Squash It!! Geometric challenge and I decided to stretch my sizzix Spiderweb folder in this colourful creation.

I embossed some purple glittery glossy card with the spiderweb folder and added some purple and orange Promarker and Spiced Marmalade distress marker colour.  I die cut the panel with a stitch die, added a preprinted birthday greeting and The Greeting Farm polar bear. 

 

I hope you find time to grab your geometric folders and join the fun at Let's Squash It!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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