Chills and Thrills for a Bright and Cheerful Challenge!

Here's my first card for Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's January's Bright and Cheerful Challenge 193. 

I got the flu as a Christmas present, so I started 2025 feeling dizzy and blah. Apparently, I got confused and missed the "cheerful" part of the challenge, but I did nail the bright and dizzy elements. 

Here's my card created with the Alfred Hitchcock Standing Rubber Stamp by Carmen's Veranda with the Perspective Floor Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.

Products Used:

Alfred Hitchcock Standing Rubber Stamp by Carmen's Veranda

Perspective Floor Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs

Bristol Paper by Strathmore

Raven Black Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Scraps of red, white, and silver metallic cardstock

Cheerful, Summertime, Aqua Mist, Purple Delight, and Nocturne VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Flesh Colour, Shadow Pink, Lilac, Vermillion, Light Grey, Warm Grey 6, Warm Grey 5, Warm Grey 4 Zig Clear Color Real Brush Pens by Kuretake

Stipple Brush

Time Tunnel Stencil by Visible Image

Planner Filmstrip Die Set by Elizabeth Craft Designs 

At the Movies Die-namics Die Set by My Favorite Things Designs

Telephone Dies by QuicKutz

Upper Case Thinlits Die Set by Tim Holtz for Sizzix

Misc. Circle Dies

Bird Dies: Source Unknown

Low-tack Tape

Stamping Platorm

Instructions:

1. Create a 5.5" square card from black (Raven) cardstock.
2. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink to stamp Alfred Hitchcock onto Bristol paper. Heat set.
3. Fussy-cut Alfred, color him with Zig Real Brush Markers, and edge him with a dark marker. Set him aside to stew.
4. Brush Cheerful VersaFine Clair ink over a sheet of Bristol cardstock.
5. Use a stipple brush to randomly pounce Summertime and Aqua Mist VersaFine Clair Inks over the background panel.
6. Heat set and trim to to 5.5" square.
7. Place the Time Tunnel Stencil over the inked background panel and secure with low-tack tape or magnets. 
8. Sponge Purple Delight VersaFine Clair over the Time Tunnel Stencil onto the speckled yellow background panel, remove the stencil, then heat set.
9. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink  to stamp the  Perspective Floor Rubber Stamp onto the leftover piece of yellow speckled cardstock, then heat set.
10. Cut black cardstock with the film strip cutting die, birds cutting dies, a film camera cutting die, and a rotary phone cutting die. 
11. Cut white cardstock with the rotary phone dial. 
12. Cut silver cardstock with circle dies and the film camera dies.
13. Cut red cardstock with an "M" cutting die.
14. Adhere the Perspective Floor element to the bottom left of the background panel. 
15. Adhere the film strip die-cut along the right edge of the background panel
16. Adhere the bird die-cuts to one of the apertures of the film strip.
17. Assemble the movie camera and adhere in the center film strip aperture.
18. Assemble and adhere the telephone die-cut. Adhere the red "M" to the phone's dial.
19. Adhere the fussy-cut, colored, and edged Alfred Hitchcock to the background as shown. 
20. Trim the image panel to 5.25" square and edge with Purple Delight VersaFine Clair Ink. 
21. Adhere the card front to the 5.5" black card.
22. Adhere the Idea-ology sentiment sticker to finish the card.

I hope that you take the opportunity to enter the Bright and Cheerful Challenge for a chance to win Lost Coast Cash!

Thanks for visiting today!

Stay Cool!

I'm ecstatic to be joining the talented team at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda and thrilled to have the opportunity to work with some absolutely fantastic stamps. If you're not familiar with the stamps, you should click over there and check 'em out! 

Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda run monthly challenges which you can find on their blog. If you participate, you can win Lost Coast Cash!!!

My first project is for the Children's Challenge Theme. I've made a slimline card using the Manga Goth with Tophat Stamp and the Perspective Floor Stamp.

Lost Coast Designs Stamps Used:

Manga Goth with Tophat Stamp

Perspective Floor Stamp

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Raven Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Tuxedo Black * and London Fog Memento Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko *

Shaded Lilac Distress Ink by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Divine Stencil by Lavinia Stamps *

91% Isopropyl Alcohol

Copic Markers: 

Skin: BV0000, BV000, E50, E21, E11, E00, R20 (Cheeks)

Lips: 304

Eyes: G20, G12

Hair: T0, T1, YR31, Y000, Y11, Y21

Outfit: BV04, BV13, BV17, N5, RV000, RV52, RV63, RV91, RV93

Boots: C8

Touch-up: N6

Sentiment Dies: Frantic Stamper

Big and Little Pierced Chain Slimline Die Set by Gina Marie Designs

Repositionable Sticker Paper: Avery

Acetate from packaging

Low-tack Tape

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Stamping. Platform

Please note: Products marked with asterisks ( * ) can be purchased at Topflight Stamps!

Instructions:

1. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Manga Goth with Tophat Stamp twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper.
2. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and set aside.
3. Use Copic markers to color the Manga Goth with Tophat Stamp on the image panel.
4. Apply the fussy-cut sticker paper version overtop to mask her.
5. Place low-tack tape was placed across the bottom part of the image panel. 
6. Brush London Fog Memento ink was brushed over the tape and the masked image onto the panel to color the background. 
7. Move the image panel to a stamping platform.
8. Position the  Perspective Floor Stamp facedown where desired.
9. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift.
10. Ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Ink and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if necessary to attain a good impression.
11. Remove the low-tack tape and heat set the image panel.
12. Use a black marker to touch up the stamping if needed.
13. Cover the floor with a piece of plastic packaging. 
14. Brush Shaded Lilac ink  over the acetate and the masked image to color the background. 
15. Mist 91% Isopropyl alcohol  over the image panel to blend the ink and add mottling. Happy accident time — blended blue, pink, and lavender emerged!
16. Place the Divine Stencil over the top part of the image panel.
17. Use magnets to secure the stencil and the image panel to the STAY-tion.
18. Randomly brush Shaded Lilac ink over the stencil to add some visual interest. 
19. Use  pierced slimline die to cut the image panel.
20. Adhere the die-cut image panel to a black slimline card.
21. Use sentiment dies to cut black cardstock.
22. Adhere the sentiment die-cuts to finish the card.

Remember that you have until the end of the month to participate in the challenge! I hope to see you there! 

Thanks for visiting today!