Black White and Pop of Color #2

Hello Everyone!

Today I decided to play along with week 2 of the Stampotique designers challenge. The theme is black and white with a pop of color. 

As I stated last week, I love the black and white theme!

Stampotique Stamps Used:

Kitty

Buru

3 Greetings

Banner

cupcake

Piling Things

Other Stamps:
Creepy Cone Hat

I have so many friends with birthdays coming up, so whats better than making a birthday card?
(Something I'm always in need of!)

This card pretty much fell together with ease. I love Buru, so this piece was created around him. :) Below you can see the steps I took to create this piece.

(The hat was fussy cut and glued on. Also I used black ink to distress the edges)

I also used the Tim Holtz stamp press to stamp the Happy Birthday with distress oxide ink. 

I hope you all enjoy this card as much as Me!

It's Party Time!!!

Hello Everyone!!

Today I am so excited to share my 1st 

Stampotique designers challenge inspiration!

The first challenge for July is Party time!!!

I created this fun A2 card using various water based inks and a stencil to create the background.

Stamps Used: Jammin', Dog Cube, and the Banner.  

To color my images I used a variety of alcohol markers, gel pens, and zig clean color brush pens. 

I hope this inspires you to join us for the challenge for a chance to win a chance at free stamps! 

Visit the challenge blog HERE for more info and inspiration, or join us on facebook! 

Puppy Love

Hello Again!!! 

It's me again with some more fun and easy inspiration for Lost Coast Designs!!

This time I want to share with you how I made this fun and easy tag for the Circle challenge!!! 

(Have you been over to the challenge blog yet to check it out? Don't forget to enter yours for a chance at a prize!!! Plus there's a lot of fun inspiration over there!!  Check it out HERE ) 

To start I used a #8 tag (the XL one) and added pink and yellow distress stain around the edges. 

(I heat dried it since i have very little patients lol but you can set aside to dry if you'd like) 

Next I stamped my ADORABLE party hat dog (found HERE) in black ink... Isn't he the cutest????

Next I used two of my TCW grunge stencils (pictures of the stencils in my post on June 27th HERE if you'd like a visual ) I sponged black ink through the stencil to add the circles. 

To finish I shadowed around the party dog with my black sparkle pan pastels 

(you can also do this with ink, but i had mine handy). 

See, I told you it was easy!! 

Wouldn't this make the cutest party invitations???  

Or maybe a Doggy Birthday card!!!

Thank you for Hopping in to see me today!!!

Happy creating!!

Cats + Numbers = Party!

Hello Again! 

I'm here with another fun tag project for Lost Coast Designs 

This time I want to share my tag that I made for the June numbers challenge over on our "Portal to creativity" challenge blog! The link is in the side bar  (If you haven't been there yet you really need to Hop on Over and check it out!!! There are some awesome prizes, challenges, and inspiration!!)

Start with a #8 tag (or what ever the XL-large tag size is lol) Paint or ink it yellow and pink (I used distress stains). Allow to dry. 

On a separate piece of paper stamp your kitty HERE in black ink and your party hat HERE in Black ink and i did the 2nd one in Kaleidacolor "Caribbean Sea" but and blue/ green would be good :D  I then used the same blue greens to sponge color the party hat and kitty (i used a make-up sponge). For the second har i used my pink stain. I cut them all out then set them aside. 

Back to the background... I used 3 stencils from TCW, 2 were grungy looking ones and one was clocks... I added numbers and circles using the black and pink dylusions paints and I added a few more circles with some blue paint to pull things together. 

Last I glued my little kitty and hats on and there you have it one fun ready to party tag!! 

Thank you Again for joining me in sharing this fun inspiration and don't forget to check out the new challenge on July 1st!!!