Sunday, December 28, 2025

OOOPSY. Meowch

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 to share a wintry card created for our December Anything Goes Challenge 204 with Carrie's Yoga Cat 10 Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.


Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp Carrie's Yoga Cat 10 twice — once onto a white cardstock panel and once onto repositionable sticker paper.

Use Copic markers to color the cat. Add a Copic marker outline around the cat with B41 and BG11. Use a white gel pen to add highlights to the cat's pupils.

Fussy-cut the sticker paper version  of the cat and place it atop its counterpart on the image panel as a mask. 

Place a piece of acetate horizontally across the image panel so that the top edge of the acetate lies just above his hind legs. Secure with low-tack tape and/or magnets.

Brush blue dye ink over the acetate and the masked cat to start a background. The sky was a bit too light and blue so I brushed Milled Lavender Distress Ink over the blue ink. 

Remove, clean, and dry the acetate panel. Position the panel again so that its bottom edge is sitting on the ink line and the acetate itself is covering the top of the image panel.

Use a sponge dauber to heavily apply Pearlescent Ice Blue Brilliance Ink over the edge of the acetate and the masked cat. Continue to apply the ink until the bottom of the image panel is covered. Use a soft cloth to wipe off the excess ink. 

Use another sponge dauber to apply Moonlight White Brilliance Ink over the the Ice Blue Ink. Remove the acetate and heat set the panel.

Place a snowflake stencil over the image panel and secure with low-tack tape and/or magnets.

Sponge White Hybrid Ink over the stencil onto the image panel. Keeping the stencil in place, sponge White Shimmer Delicata Ink to add some shimmer to the snowflakes.

Remove the stencil and heat set the image panel.

Remove the mask from the cat and use a white Posca Paint Pen to add "snow" to the cat and to add additional dotty snowflakes to the background.

Use alphabet dies to cut grey cardstock to form the the sentiments. Use a speech bubble die to cut silver glitter cardstock.

Adhere the "OOPSY" sentiment to the top left of the image panel. Adhere the word "Meowch" to the speech bubble. Adhere the speech bubble to the image panel.

Use an A6 Frame Die to cut grey cardstock. Adhere the frame over the image panel. Adhere the framed image panel to a grey A6 card. Use Silvery Shimmer Delicata Ink to edge the card. Heat set.

You have a few more days to participate in our December Anything Goes Challenge 204 for the chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!

Friday, December 26, 2025

Birthday Dog

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!!   Gail here today with some simple inspiration.  The December challenge is Anything Goes with stamping.  I made a winter birthday card featuring Lost Coast Designs Pokey Dog.
Isn't he adorbs!!!
I stamped and masked Pokey Dog on a piece of pale beige card.  Then I stamped Lost Coast Designs ATC Doodle Circles and finished with a Party Words Happy Birthday!!
Thanks for dropping by.  I hope you get some time to stamp and link up and share your stamped anythings with any theme.  We need at least 20 entries to award the prize, so get stamping and join the fun.
Hugz
 

Thursday, December 25, 2025

MERRY CHRISTMAS

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!
 
We would like to wish all our customers and blog friends a very 
 

MERRY CHRISTMAS

 

Thank you so much for your support this year for our small family business and for sharing your beautiful projects using Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda stamps. 
I'd also like to thank the design team for the amazing work they do all year.
We hope you have a day full of love and joy.
 Treasure the little things.
 
If you are crafting don't forget our 

ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE

 is running until the end of the month.  The team are sharing awesome inspiration all month here on the blog so take some time to enjoy their projects and maybe leave a little love.
The world need more love.

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Bluebird

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!

Merry Christmas Eve, everyone! Aimee here. I wanted to share a recently published card that appears in the Winter Issue 2025 of Rubber Stamp Madness magazine
The design was created as part of the magazine issue's Paper Challenge where they encouraged stampers to use as many types of paper as they could. You can see that I attached embossed paper to the card base. I then tore a diagonal strip out of an old book (fun fact: this book was written in Lithuanian), inked the edges, then stamped Lost Coast Design's Whimsical Birds 1 over the print. Prismacolor pencils colored over the print quite nicely. I then added paper flowers and leaves for embellishment. Here you can see it described in the magazine: 
This month is an "Anything Goes" Challenge on the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity. December is a busy holiday month, so maybe look through your previous creations to submit to the blog for your chance to win a prize.



Monday, December 22, 2025

Merry Christmas

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!




Well here we are, almost Christmas.
Darlene here with my final make of the year
and in the 'anthing goes' challenge

Thought I would end the year with a Christmas card I made
using the Corner Swirl and Party words stamps


embossed white onto vellum with the corner swirl stamp.

dry embossed the side panels, layered onto shiny craft paper

add the snowflakes and a bit of silver thread
The saying is embossed in silver too.

Want to wish everyone a great holiday season !

And be sure to enter your make to try and win some new stamps


Saturday, December 20, 2025

December "Anything Goes" Challenge - Another New Year's 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 to share a New Year's Card created for December Anything Goes Challenge 204 that was created with the Flying Pig 2 Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.


Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Flying Pig 2 Rubber Stamp twice —once a white cardstock panel and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 

Use Copic markers to color the Flying Pig 2. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version of the Flying Pig 2 and place it over its counterpart on the image panel as a mask.

Sponge or brush Paris Dusk, Danube Blue, and Lulu Lavender Memento Dye Inks over the image panel, blending as you go. 

Pounce an anti-static pouch over the image panel. Sponge VersaMark (or other embossing ink) over a star stencil onto the masked and inked image panel. Remove the stencil.

Pour white detail embossing powder onto the wet ink, dump the excess powder back into its container, and heat set the embossing powder. 

Use a white paint marker to add additional white dots to extend the star theme.

Trim the image panel to 5.25" x 4" and edge with Paris Dusk Memento Ink.

Adhere the image panel to a white A2 card. Add the sticker sentiments as shown to complete the card.

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There's still more than a week left to join our December challenge for the chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!