THE BIRD WATCHER

By Rebecca Stiles

Third Coast Stamps used:  DT-402-H     I Spy

                                         DT-401-J   Break Time

                                         CK-112-C    Gnome Walking Left

Summer is almost here and this is a perfect time for bird watching!  Join our little gnome friends and take a quiet walk in the woods, watching and listening for the birds around you.

I love leaving birdseed in my bird feeders well into summer as we get many different species of birds coming through as they migrate north.  They love to take baths in my goldfish pond as well!

Colored with Copic markers, Prismacolor pencils, acrylic white wash paint, gel pen.

Other stamps used:  tree trunk:  Coronado Island

                Large mushroom grouping:  Good Stamps*Stamp Good

                Fern:  Rubber Stampede

                Unknown:  bird on branch, leafy plant

Mechanical cat

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Third Coast Stamp used : Mechanical cat (CO-286-K)

Made this card for my hubby's birthday. Used an embossing folder for the background. Heat embossed the cat image and coloured with alcohol markers. The shapes were cut and embossed and metallic wax added. 

Have a great day.

Anesha   

Les Fleurs

Hi everyone!
It's Victoria Day weekend here in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada so my DH and I are extending our 3 day weekend into 4 days and heading to New York city to play 'tourist' for a few days!  Of course, one can't travel without a simply fabulous luggage tag, so I put my trusty Third Coast stamps to work to create a luggage tag with style!  This tag folds like a card with my contact info inside and tucks into a clear plastic sleeve attached to my bag.  NOW, I'm all set to travel! LOL!  For more details on how this was created, please drop by my blog.
Happy weekend,
Val  W. :)

Stamps by Third Coast Rubber Stamps:
JB-012-L Romantic Hyacinth Collage
WS-008-C Les Fleurs

Goddess

Hi everyone!

It will soon be time to dance outside without any shoes on!
Bring on summer!!
Today I'd like to share a little Artist Trading Card summoning the warm summer months!
For more details on how it was created, please drop by my blog.
Thank you for visiting!
Val W :)

Stamps by Third Coast Rubber Stamps:
ES-187-L  Dolunay Dances

Sweet seahorse

Stamps:

 VB-013-G Seahorse

VB-125-G Vapor Wisps

Materials used:

Distress ink - peacock feathers

StazOn jet black ink

Brilliance white ink

glaze pen

opaque pen

crayon

glue and cradstock

Distress stain-picket fence

Wishing you a crafty day!

Kind regards, Stempelientje.

Draggin'

by Rebecca Stiles
Third Coast stamp used:  Draggin' VB-203-0
A while back I posted a piece using this great cowboy stamp on a scrap of fun foam.  This time around I stamped on a piece of birch bark (using StazOn ink). The piece of birch bark I used was from a roll that had a cotton mesh backing, which I let show at the edges. The fragile bark was mounted on heavy weight poster board for support before it was fastened to the cardstock.  This was placed on the layers of brown and copper cardstock.  .  I used real horse hair (amazing what you can find at a resale shop) and threaded it through a metal spiral embellishment.

Vintage Carriage

FA-546-L Vintage Carriage

Hugs Milo Lilja

Swirly Dove

Third Coast Stamp: Swirly Dove (ES-230-K)

Very simple card. Embossed the swirly dove image with gold sparkle embossing powder and cut out. Die cut the oval frame and add to the glitter base card. Punch the edges with a border punch. 

Have a great day.

ANESHA

 

Celtic circle

A clean and simple card today. 

I used for this card stamp:  CH-819-C

StazOn jet black ink

\cardstock,glue,celtic circle die

Wishing you a crafty day!

Kind regards, Stempelientje

CELTIC PEGASUS AND UNICORN

By Rebecca Stiles

Third Coast stamp used:  CO-290-P

This is the fourth stamp in the wonderful set of circular Celtic images, and I wanted to pull out all the stops with the coloring!  I used colored pencils and then covered the image with liquid glass so it would glow.  This was layered over a page from a floral art book, which I tweaked with colors using Copic markers.  This in turn was mounted on glittery scrapbook cardstock.

Christmas Rose and Holly

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Third Coast Stamp: Christmas Rose and Holly (DP-003-R)

The rose image was stamped on white card twice. The image was coloured with solvent markers and the central flower was cut out from the second image and layered on top of the first. Stamped the flourish around the edges with green ink. Still making Christmas cards for charity.

Have a great day.

Anesha

Flying away....

Materials used:

StazOn jet black ink

Pan Pastels

Derwent pencils

fixative,glue,cardstock

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Have a crafty day!
Kind regards, Stempelientje

The End of the Journey

by Rebecca Stiles

Third Coast stamps used:  Bellah’s Flight FT-212-L and  Knight Riding AP-009-C (image stamped 3 times)

The end of the journey is in sight for the brave knights returning to their homeland.  Bellah flies above on her bird, also heading for home.  Perhaps she accompanied the knights, unseen by them, as a protector.

I used a stamp positioner and masking techniques to stamp this scene.  The scroll frame was made with a piece of 12x12 patterned scrap book paper, cut to the necessary dimensions, and slit to allow the artwork to be slid into the frame.

Other stamps used:  bottom left foreground:  Love You to Bits

Cliff on bottom right is a portion of a Beeswax stamp

The city scene includes the trees and shoreline….the stamp company is unknown.

scene colored with Copic markers

Cats are angels ATC

Third Coast Stamp: Purrfect  Angels (CK-114-I)

The background was done with Panpastels and sprayed with pearl shimmer spray. Stamp the cat image three times and decoupage after colouring with alcohol markers. Really like this sweet image. Have a great day.

Anesha

Thank You!

I've been on a 'clean and simple' kick lately!
The gorgeous Third Coast seahorses are delightful in this super clean layout.

Thanks for dropping by!
Val :)

Stamps by Third Coast Rubber Stamps:
DT-311-J Seahorse Pair, WS-099 Thank You

STEAMPUNK POLLY

STEAMPUNK POLLY

By Rebecca Stiles

Third Coast stamps used: Polly WT-004-M and  Regional Clocks  FA-555-S (altered)

Here's our Steampunk beauty, Miss Polly, all dressed up and ready to travel!  I found some patterned scrapbook papers to layer under the stamping, and colored the images to match the paper.

April Showers Bring May Flowers

Hi everyone!

I think I'm trying to rush Spring along with this little project! LOL!  It's made from a tag recycled from a new pair of dress pants - a bit of a challenge as it's quite a small tag!  This darling image has been stamped on X-press It paper.  To paint it, I scribbled Tombow Markers onto a plastic plate, picked up the color with a nice wet watercolor brush and applied it to the image.  I wish you cold see the Glimmer Mist background sparkles... it's realy pretty in person! :)

Stamps by Third Coast Rubber Stamps:
VB-024-J Fairy Flower Picker, WS-122-A April Showers

Shipwrecked Stowaway

 by Rebecca Stiles

Third Coast Stamps used:  Shore Scene CM-104-V

Canntella’s Cask  FT-214-I

Rocky Shore  FA-239-K

Troll with Sword  FT-219-H

I love putting stamps together to create a scene, and the Fairy Tale stamps provide lots of fun choices.  

So what is the story here?  Canntella has been shipwrecked, after having hidden aboard in an empty barrel.  But what happens as soon as she crawls out of the barrel?!  Is the troll attacking or is he just afraid of the human who has washed up on his shore?  You decide!

Scene stamping is done using lots of masks and a stamp positioner.  A fine tipped micro pen is used to extend lines and fill in the "halo" a mask sometimes leaves.  Some stamps, such as part of the beach scene are stamped repeatedly to cover a larger area than the original stamp.

Coloring was done with Copic markers, pencils, chalks, gel pens, acrylic white wash paint.

Steampunk Sewing machine

STAMPS:

KG-042-T Zelma

VB-404-K Steampunk Watch

WS-185-D Steampunk Grunge

Hugs Milo Lilja

Henrietta looking so stylish in her Easter Bonnet and Challenge News!

Hello Third Coasters!

I've made a small change to our Third Coast Creative Challenges schedule! Starting with the next one our challenges will now begin on the first Friday of every month and close on the Wednesday before the next challenge starts! So now you've got lots more time to play and enter! With that in mind I've extended the end date on our current challenge, TCCC#14 Easter Bonnets, which will now close on Wednesday April 3 at 7am PST and TCCC#15 Spring Steampunk will start on April 6!

Here's my inspiration for the 2nd week of the Easter Bonnet challenge. I created a vintage chic card that features another one of Third Coast's bonnet wearing felines with the perfect matching sentiment! I LOVE this kitty, she's so adorable in her fancy bonnet and matching outfit!

Here's pics of the other bonnet kitties that are available!

Stop by my blog, Leigh S-B Designs, for more info on this project and don't forget to also visit my DominoART blog for week 3 of my new altered game art challenges!  D'ART#1 is Easter/Valentine Domino Books.

Happy Stamping!

Leigh S-B
Leigh S-B Designs
DominoART Blog
Velvet Paw Creations 

Rose and Bee collage card

Third Coast Stamps used: Rose and Bee collage (JB-044-M), Pine Trio (ES-044-B)

The collage image was stamped and coloured with watercolours. The tree stamped was stamped in blue ink and faux stitching added around the card. 

Have a lovely day.

Anesha

Traditional Christmas Tree

Third Coast Stamp used: Traditional Christmas Tree (FA-466-M) and Warm Holiday Wishes (WS-054-F)

Hope you are having a great day.

Anesha

Classic Santa Collage

Third Coast Stamp: Classic Santa Collage (JB-238-M)

The image was stamped and embossed and coloured with watercolours. The background has been stamped using two border stamps. In the process of making Christmas cards for charity, that's way you are seeing them in March. Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Anesha

Between The Pages

Hi everyone!

Today I'd like to share a little Third Coast project inspired by a trip to the bookstore to pick up my favorite crafty magazines.

They had these awesome little bookmark "Sprouts" on a shelf by the cash (perfect product placement or what!? :)  This gave me the idea to build a bookmark that could fit between the pages and fold in the same way.  The lovely Edie's Butterfly (ES138) seemed like the perfect choice for the job.

For more details on how this project was created, please visit my blog.  Thanks for stopping by!
Val W :)

Folds when the book is closed

Has a post so it stands above the pages

Opens to a beautiful butterfly marking your page

MAGIC POTIONS

By Rebecca Stiles

Third Coast Stamp used:  Annabla’s Magic  FT-215-J

I selected a piece of cardstock that had printed images of magical items.  This piece also had glitter already applied.  The image of Annabla was colored to match the background of the cardstock, and brushed with Diamond Glaze for a dimensional look. .  I added a dimensional starburst to end of wand.  

Gate card

STAMPS

Inside the card:

KG-043-T Steampunk Stella - LG

FA-521-G Stop Watch

FA-481-D Open Book - SM

CH-622-H Magical Texts

AP-126-B Scone

VB-404-K Steampunk Watch

Outside the card:

ES-057-H Rural Mail

FA-223-H Lamp Post

Hugs Milo Lilja