Lost Coast Designs - 50 Shades of Green - Readers Blog Hop Giveaway

Hello, everyone!  Today I'm participating in Lost Coast Designs - 50 Shades of Green - Readers Blog Hop Giveaway over at Lost Coasters Review.  I hope you will go looking through your crafty stash, dig out your Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps, and join in the fun! You could win a $20 gift certificate to spend at Lost Coast Designs!  All the details can be found here.

For my card, I used one of the fun kitties from the Party Cat Hat Set, stamped in Versafine Onyx Black. That's the only non-green colour on my card!  I think this card would be great for one of my brothers so I kept it masculine.

I started by inking a background using Forest Moss, Peeled Paint, and Crushed Oliver Distress Inks. Then I created a stencil from Die-versions Summer Flowers Background die, soaked it with water and pressed it onto my background.  I think it was a complete failure because you can't really see the outline as the water took over but, hey, I tried LOL. Then I splattered more water and DI onto the backgound.  I added a few fun die cuts in green cardstock: Tattered Lace Everday Sentiments, Simon Says Stamp stitched stars, Poppystamps Simple Banner, and the tiny stars from Lawn Fawn's Stitched Journaling Card.

My "Party Hat Cats" stamps

Now I hope you'll check out all the inspiration at the 50 Shades of Green hop and join in yourself! The InLinkz should appear at the bottom of my blog post.

I would also like to support these fun challenges: 
Artistic Inspirations AG with Twist of Green UE; Blessings Ink Amusing Challenges Green 1/2 (TOP 3); Craft Stamper AG Take a Stamp 2/3; Craft Your Passion Always AG 2/3; Craftin Desert Diva's Use Lots of Green UE; Creative Inspirations AG Optional Sketch UE; Cute Card Thursday Die Cuts and Punches UE; Cuttlebug Mania Monochromatic Green 2/3; Di's Digi Designs Birthdays 2/3; Dies R Us Monochromatic 3/3; Great Impressions Go Green 3/3; Inspiration Destination AG UE; Loves Rubberstamps Use 3 Shades of Green UE; My Craft Creations AG UE; Not Just Cards AG UE; One Crazy Stamper AG 2/5; Pile it On Green UE; PINspirational Inspiration Photo Think Green 2/5; Pixie's Snippet Playground (all die cuts were made from snippets) 1/3; Red Rubber Inspirationals For the Boys 1/3; Simon Says Stamp Monday B is for (birthday, banner) 2/5; Sister Act (Cards Only) AG UE; Stamping Sensations One for the Guys 1/3; STAMPlorations Stamp and Stencil 2/3 (used homemade stencil from die-cut); Sweet Stampin' Green 1/2; Word Art Wednesday AG w Uplifting Sentiment 1/5

Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful day!

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