CHALLENGE #210 - FRUIT, FLOWER AND FOLIAGE

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

 

Hello Portal Peeps.  
 

It's time for our new Challenge.
Our challenges are now monthly!  A new challenge starting the 1st every month, with chances to win Lost Coast dollars. We will be announcing winners on the 5th of the month, so do pop back and see who wowed the team and gets our snazzy blog badge and the coveted Lost Coast dollars.

Now for our new Challenge!

CHALLENGE #210

FRUIT, FLOWER AND FOLIAGE

You have all month to share your stamped anythings featuring fruit, flowers or any sort of foliage.  Easy!!  Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project.  A small stamped sentiment in a sea of die cuts or digi images will not qualify to win the prize and you may be deleted!!!!  Bwahahhaaahaha.

Please read the updated Challenge Rules to ensure your entries qualify to win this month's prize!

You are welcome to play in our Challenges using rubber stamp images from any company but if you use any of our Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps...we love it when you do...then you could win a bigger prize in our random prize drawing.  All winners get our snazzy Challenge Winner's Badge to proudly display on their blogs!

If you don't have a blog then no prob, you can still play in our challenges by sharing your projects from public photo sharing sites which includes our Facebook Company Pages for Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda.  Please include our Challenge info and the link back to our challenge in your photo's description!  As long as the privacy setting for your photo is public you're good to go.  See, it's so easy to join the fun!  FYI, you can't link up projects shared in closed Facebook groups! 

Here's gorgeous inspiration from the team to get us started.  ENJOY!

Cathy used Lost Coast Designs Roses and Pieces of Calligraphy.

Gail used Lost Coast Designs Large Shrubbery with Carmen's Veranda 
Questionable Life Choice sentiment.

  
Riet used Lost Coast Designs Ironwork Border and Shadow Frame with Carmen's Veranda Open Rose and Leave a Trail sentiment.

Now it's your turn.  Are you up for the challenge?  We can't wait to see your projects!  
Submit your entries in the linky party below by 23.59 PST on the 30th and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month so check back and join the fun.

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #210 - Fruit, Flower and Foliage
June 1st - 30th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Tuesday, June 30th 23.59 PST.
All entries must be entered in our link up but your don't need a blog to win.  See our RULES page for more info
 

 

Traveling Companion

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

Hi friends, Aimee here! This Cat and Bird stamp from Lost Coast Designs and Travel with You sentiment from Carmen's Veranda are two new stamps for me to play with. They pair nicely for this month's No Bodies Here challenge on the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity. 

Follow along with this pictorial to make this relatively simple card:

If you work quickly, there's still time to submit your No Bodies Here creation here by May 31. Maybe you'll win this month's prize?!?

No Body Here Challenge -- A CAS Cat Card

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

Greetings! You've got Kathi here today to share a CAS cat-themed card created for the Lost Coast Designs Portal to Creativity May "No Body Here Challenge 209" with the "House of Cat Hair" Clear Sentiment Stamp by Carmen's Veranda. 

If the "House of Cat Hair" sentiment is true, my house must be overflowing with ectasy!

This card was quick and easy, which sometimes is great fun!

I started the card by using Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink to stencil cats onto a piece of patterned paper. 

I then used the same ink to stamp the "House of Cat Hair" sentiment onto a second piece of the same patterned paper. A decorative rectangle cutting die was used to cut the sentiment-stamped patterned paper. Black cardstock was cut with the next largest rectangle. The sentiment die-cut was edged with black ink and matted with the slightly larger rectangle die-cut.

The patterned paper was trimmed, edged with black ink and adhered to a black card.

You still have a tiny bit of time to play along with this month's "No Body Here Challenge 209" for the chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Cash.

Thank you for visiting today!

#209 No body here challenge. Vintage tag.

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

Hi, Riet here with a vintage tag for the "No body" challenge.

These are the stamps I used.

LCD Pieces of architecture

LCD Pieces of calligraphy

LCD Perfume bottles set

 LCD Long swirl

LCD Misc words

And I used:

Distress oxide

 Victorian velvet

Bundled sage

Distressink

Antique linen

Walnut stain

Victorian velvet

Glimmermist pink.

distress glaze

foamtape

Die crealies xxl tag nr.6

First, we make prints using a Pieces of Architecture stamp 

by applying the Distress Glaze to the stamp with a sponge.

Then we apply the Victorian velvet ink and spray glimmer mist over it.

Apply antique linen to the edges with a finger sponge.

And repeat with walnut stain.

With Distress oxide bundled sage you stamp the script.

With the Distress Oxide Bundled Sage and Victorian Velvet, 

you stamp a number of perfume bottles.

Wait until the ink is completely dry.

Color the bottles with antique linen.

Use a finger sponge to color the edges with walnut stain.

For the background tag that we use as a mat, sponge with the Bundled Sage.

Stamp the long swirl with Victorian Velvet and sponge the edges with Walnut Stain.

Assemble the tag, giving the perfume bottles different heights.

Stamp the word "Beauty" from the misc words sheet 

and stick it on raised with foam tape. 

Thread a nice ribbon through the hole and you're done.

I hope you enjoyed it.

You still have until the end of the month to enter the challen

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!!!

So maybe I'll see you at the challenge.

It's time!

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

Darlene here to share my last make of the month with the theme

'No Body challenge'

With this card I used Carmen Veranda stamp Clock Square

I stamped it onto white card stack and coloured in the clocks faces lightly

with my tombow pens.  then I added glossy accents onto the clocks.

I have some old watch pieces so one wrist watch face onto the card and some other gears

lightly inked the edges, layered onto black cardstock.

then using one of my embossing folders for the background and highlighted the 

design with black soot ink.

This was a fun stamp to play with !!

Come and enter the challenge with your make this month!

but be sure there are no bodies included hehehehe

 

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Coffee Makes It All Possible!

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

Greetings! It's Kathi here to share a card created for May's No Body Here Challenge 209 with the "Coffee Makes It Possible" Clear Stamp by Carmen's Veranda.

Use the coffee sleeve die from a to go coffee die-cut set to cut Bristol Paper, then secure the die-cut onto the base of a stamping platform with magnets and/or low-tack tape. Position the "Coffee Makes It Possible" Clear Stamp by Carmen's Veranda, facedown on the die-cut. Ink the stamp with Warm Breeze VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if needed to attain a good impression. Edge the coffee sleeve/sentiment die-cut with Warm Breeze VSFC Ink, then heat set the entire die-cut. Set it aside.

Use the to-go cup die from the coffee die set to cut patterned paper. Edge the to-go cup die-cut with Warm Breeze VSFC Ink then heat set the ink. Use the cup's lid die to cut Bristol Paper. Adhere the lid and the sleeve die-cuts to the patterned paper to-go cup. Use a grey chalk pencil to add a slight shadow under the lid. Set the assembled to go coffee cup aside.

Cut a 6" square of Kraft cardstock to create a background panel. Place it onto a magnetic craft mat. Pounce an anti-static pouch onto the Kraft background panel. Place a coffee bean stencil over the Kraft background panel and secure with low-tack tape and/or magnets. 

Sponge or brush Coffee Bean Brilliance Ink over the stencil onto the background panel. Keeping the stencil in place, wipe the ink off of the stencil with a tissue, then sponge or brush VersaMark Ink over the stencil onto the background panel. Remove the stencil and pour clear detail embossing powder onto the wet ink. Pour the excess embossing powder back into its container, then heat set the stenciled and heat embossed background panel.

Trim the panel to 5.75" square and heavily edge it with Coffee Bean Brilliance Ink. Add clock-patterned Washi tape to the bottom edge. Add 1/8" gold Washi tape to the bottom and top edges of the clock-patterned Washi tape. 

Adhere the assembled to-go cup to the background panel as shown.

Use an alarm clock die to cut metallic gold cardstock and Bristol Paper. Assemble the clock and detail it with a black marker. 

Adhere the assembled alarm clock onto the background panel as shown.

Use a gold metallic pen to add dots to the background to echo the gold of the Washi tape and the alarm clock.

Adhere the background panel to a 6" square Kraft card. Add aqua and turquoise rhimestones to finish the card.

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You still have time to join our May's No Body Here Challenge 209 for the chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!

Thanks for visiting today!