Tiny Steampunk Bird House for Mother's Day! - Lost Coast Designs

Howzit Everyone!
Do you need some inspiration for Mom's Day projects?  I created the cutest tiny bird house in the Steampunk style!  Check it out - even the little birdie has a monocle ;0)

 

I used the small bird from the Vintage Bird Illustrations set and the Happy Mother's Day sentiment which can be found on the Daisies set.  Both are Blockheads exclusives and the Measuring Tape border stamp by Lost Coast Designs is also available at Blockheads Paper Arts!

Vintage Bird Illustrations

Daisies

Measuring Tape Border Stamp - Lost Coast Designs

"Measure" Steampunk card featuring Lost Coast Designs - A Blockheads DT project!

Steampunk is definitely one of my favourite stamping themes and I had a blast getting my Steampunk action on with this card ;0)  Here's another project for Blockheads' upcoming newsletter feature on creating with Border Stamps featuring Borders by Lost Coast Designs!

Last Friday I shared a project that featured a loose stamped weave pattern created with just the border stamps themselves instead of weaving paper strips and now I'm going to show you how to do a tight basket weave pattern too.  I've  been playing around and created a few basket weave backgrounds.  Here's a sneak peak at a weave (left) that I'll be using in my next project created with just the Measuring Tape border and also a peek at the sewing themed background I created from a weave that went wrong...so don't throw away your 'mistakes' coz you can still make fun backgrounds with them ;0)

On this project I used the following Lost Coast Designs rubber stamps
Steampunk Typewriter Girl, Measuring Tape border, Bingo border and Numbers border.

"A View From A Window" Fantasy Art Card featuring Lost Coast Designs Border Stamps!

Happy Friday 13th!

 Not quite the view from a window you were expecting to see is it ;0)  It's raining buckets outside today so I changed my plans and decided to stay indoors to continue with my Atlantian fantasy story....

LSBD Log:  Day 42 - We are still finding so many wonderful treasures down here but today I discovered the best treasure of all!  I found a chamber with a phenomenal view overlooking the sunken city of Atlantis...

The Blockheads Design Team is playing with ideas for using border stamps and I've been having a ball with the borders by Lost Coast Designs!   My first project 'Portal To Atlantis' features the Iris Fold technique, my second project 'Codex Atlanticus' demonstrates using the border strips to make a basket weave and a border background collage and my third...wait for it...using the border stamps themselves to create a basket weave.  Alas, due to some time constraints I didn't get my 'tight basket weave' project completed in time for today but I was able to get this one with a loose weave design ready instead!

I used the following Lost Coast Designs border stamps on my fantasy art card:
Tear Drops (top right), Spiral (bottom left) and Wave (bottom right) to create the loose weave... looks like the ruins of the city of Atlantis don't you think!  Blockheads' Fish image from the Seascape - Fishes set and Inky sentiment from my favourite full sheet of Verses completed my card!

"Codex Atlanticus - Artifact #42" Art Card featuring Paper Weaved Border stamps by Lost Coast Designs

Howzit Everyone!

My fantasy scifi story continues from yesterday's project 'Portal To Atlantis' and I've got more fun uses for border stamps to share with you!

LSBD Log:  Day 31 - We have been exploring the strange ruins but its slow going with a lot of the chambers submerged under water but we are making some surprising discoveries.  Today's exciting find has made it all worth it - ref. catalogued artifact #42 the 'Codex Atlanticus'.  We have managed to translate a few sentences on the tablet depicting the Codex and believe it to be some kind of a cipher device but the meaning of the numbers and text on the right panel are still unknown .  The wealth of technology we are finding down here is astronomical...


I used the following Lost Coast Designs stamps on my fantasy art card:
Borders:  Tear Drops, Spiral, Wave, Antique Text, Tape Measure, Numbers and Bingo and the wonderful Steampunk Typewriter Girl image as the focal point of my card.

"Portal to Atlantis" Iris Fold Art Card featuring Lost Coast Designs Border Stamps at Blockheads Paper Arts

Howzit Bloggers!

I'm a huge fan of fantasy and Scifi and the stories about Atlantis and the Bermuda Triangle have been firm favourites of mine since I was about 13years old!  So when it came to designing some projects to give you ideas for what you can do with border stamps by Lost Coast Designs I was immediately inspired by the borders that seemed to have the feeling of water and my art card story developed from there.   So come with me on my Creative Adventure and delve into the mystery...

LSBD Log:  Day 11 - A strange portal has finally been unearthed revealing a spiral staircase, with intricately detailed mosaic steps, leading down into mysterious watery depths.  Could this be it?  Have we finally found the lost civilization of Atlantis, here in this remote location of the Bermuda Triangle?  What will we find down there?  The expedition will head down the staircase at 5am...

"The Isle of Aud Parade" Over-sized Card - Spotlight on Lost Coast Designs Rubber Stamps!

Hello Everyone!

I'm featuring Lost Coast Designs Rubber Stamps this week and I've been having a ball!  Here's my second project called "The Isle of Aud Parade".  Also check out my first project, "The Architect Fairy" if you missed it!

These bizarre Isle of Aud Animals are the star of my over-sized card which measures 12" x 5.5"!  I also used the Tree Branch Background stamp again to create the stunning backdrop for this rather quirky card with the Zebra Border centered across the full length of the card.

Lost Coast Designs stamps: The Tree Branch Background, Zebra Border and Isle of Aud Animals - the animals come as a set!

"The Architect Fairy" Fancy Fold Card - Spotlight on Lost Coast Designs Rubber Stamps!

Hello Everyone!

I'm featuring Lost Coast Designs Rubber Stamps this week!  I had so much fun creating this first project, "The Architect Fairy".  It's a fancy fold card with the beautiful Winged Girl image as the main focal point!  I also used the Tree Branch Background stamp to create the stunning nature background for the back and inside of my card.

I stamped the images with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured the entire card with Marvy Le Plume Permanent markers.  I used Strathmore Bristol cardstock for the fairy panels to give the card more strength and weight and made the card base from Neenah Solar White cardstock.

Cut the Neenah cardstock to the height of the Winged Girl image and make a gate-fold card base with the overlapping front flaps the same width as the image.   Stamp the Winged Girl image twice and trim the panels down into rectangles, run them through a Xyron to add permanent adhesive and adhere them to the front flaps of the card base.

Stamp the Tree Branch background on the inside middle panel and also on all the back panels.

Colour the Winged Girl image with Marvy Le Plume Permanents which are very similar to Copic markers.  I used the following colours on the Winged Girl:
Body:  OR821, 823 and R815, Hair:  E858 and 859, Dress:  R812 and 815, Wings:  R812, 815, BV733, 736 and B707, Architecture:  AG 871, 873 and G673, Arch Background:  B707, 708 and BV736.
 On the Tree Branch background:
G673, BV733 with AG871 over the entire background to tone down the colours.

Tip:  I also used the thicker cardstock for the fairy panels to ensure the colouring didn't bleed through and ruin the colouring on the other side and vice versa!  But I wasn't concerned about that happening on the middle panel because I just used the colours in the same places and it didn't mess up the effect.  I also didn't want to double up the cardstock on the middle panel because it would have made it harder to do all the cut outs which I did next.

Once everything was cut out I embellished the wings with glitter glue.  I finished off the card wtih some flower embellishments adhered to the front panel with glue dots.  I really couldn't decide if I wanted the flowers or not so I took some photos with and without them so you can decide what look you prefer ;0)

In these next photos I also wanted to show you how versatile this fancy fold card really is!