Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Skulls and Roses Frida Style!

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 another card created for the  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's Fruit, Flowers, and Foliage Challenge 210 with the Frida Skull Rubber Stamp and a sentiment from the Travel Quotes Unmounted Rubber Sheet.


Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Frida Skull stamp in the center of a piece of white cardstock. 

Position a deckled oval die blade-side down and secure the die to the cardstock with low-tack tape. Run the image panel and cutting die through a machine. Remove the two cutting plates from the machine with the stamped panel and cutting die still inside, flip the sandwich over, and remove the top cutting plate to show the back of the panel. Using low-tack tape, secure the die-cut to the panel.

Flip the image panel and die-cut so that the image is facing up and is still inside the cutting die. Use a small blending brush to apply Antique Linen Distress Ink over the cutting die onto the die-cut to add a background. Don't worry about getting some Distress Ink onto the image, you can remove it with a wet paintbrush. Plus, Distress Ink plays well alcohol markers.

Carefully remove the low-tack tape from the front and back of the image panel. Remove the cutting die, revealing a white edge around the stamped image. Clean and dry the cutting die.

Use Copic markers to color the image panel. You'll note that the colors I chose match well with the patterned paper that I selected. When done coloring, set the image panel die-cut aside.

Select patterned paper that works well with your stamped image. Select cardstock to match the patterned paper and create an A2 card with the cardstock.

Position a sentiment ribbon-slide cutting die blade-side down on a strip of cardstock left from created the card. Secure the cutting die to the cardstock with low-tack tape, and run it through your machine. Tape the back of the die-cut to the cardstock strip, but remove the die this time. Secure the die-cut/strip combo onto a stamping platform with magnets and/or low-tack tape. Place a clear sheet of acetate over the die-cut. Position the chosen sentiment stamp facedown on the acetate, ink the stamp, and stamp onto the acetate to see whether the sentiment is straight. Adjust if necessary and test again.

Remove the acetate, ink the sentiment stamp with VersaFine Clair Ink, and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if needed to attain a good impression.

Cut a thin strip of coordinating patterned paper. Edge the strip with VersaFine Clair ink. Trim the strip to 4.5" and thread the strip through the sentiment die-cut.

Trim the patterned paper to 4.5" x 5.25" to create the background panel. Apply adhesive to the two sides of the ribbon strip and adhere the strip/ribbon-slide die-cut towards the bottom of the background panel.

Trim the patterned paper to 4" wide then edge the background panel with VersaFine Clair Ink. Adhere the image panel as shown. The last step is to adhere the card front to the reserved A2 card.

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You still have a week to participate in our Fruit, Flowers, and Foliage Challenge for the chance to win Lo$t Coa$t ca$h!


Thanks for visiting today!

Monday, June 22, 2026

Wrap around Crd

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 with my final make for the month with the challenge theme
of Fruit, Flower, Foliage

Using the ATC Doodles flower stamp (which comes in a larger size too)

I first cut the size of card I wanted - then do not fold !
splatter paints etc across
Then stamped the image all the way across
If you fold first then you will get a line down the middle which you
do not want !


Then I coloured in all the flowers, added the party words - Happy Birthday.
Such a fun card to make - end to end flowers.



Be sure to check out the blog for the whole teams makes as the month goes on


maybe stop by and visit my blog too

https://blog-dar-blog.blogspot.com



Saturday, June 20, 2026

A Floral Card for the Fruit, Flowers, and Foliage Challenge 210

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 floral card created for the Fruit, Flowers, and Foliage Challenge 210 with the Lily Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.

Here it is!


Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp Lily  by Lost Coast Designs onto white Copic-friendly cardstock.

Color the image panel with Copic Markers, trim it, then it edge with a black marker.

 Adhere the image panel to a patterned paper panel that measures 4" x 5.25". Edge the patterned paper panel with a black marker then adhere it to a black A2 card.

Use a sentiment die to cut black cardstock, then adhere the sentiment under the image panel as shown.

Add matching glittery epoxy stickers to finish the card.

There's still time for you to play along with our Fruit, Flowers, and Foliage Challenge 210 for the chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!


Thanks for visiting today!

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

#210 Fruit, Flowers 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!

Hi, Riet here, with a simple scenery.
 
For the background of this card,
 I used various shades of blue, orange, yellow and brown. 
I sponged the background with a small sponge. 
Then I took the scrubbery stamp and stamped with three shades of brown. 
I kept shifting the stamp so that it looks like different types of stamps were used. 
I stamped the Carmens Veranda text with gold embossing powder.
Would you to join the challenge?

Monday, June 15, 2026

CHALLENGE #210 - FRUIT, FLOWER AND FOLIAGE MID-MONTH REMINDER

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 our mid-month reminder for the Fruit, Flower and Foliage challenge.
Our challenges are now monthly!  A new challenge starting the 1st every month, with chances to win Lost Coast dollars. We need at least 20 entries to award the prize, so tell your friends and join the fun.

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 a blast of inspiration from the team.  ENJOY!

Aimee used Lost Coast Designs 4 Flowers A and Party Words.

Darlene used Lost Coast Designs Large Shrubbery and Party Words
   
Kathi used Carmen's Veranda Carmen Elaine and Devil in the Morning 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

 
  

Friday, June 12, 2026

Tulips and Daffodils

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 a floral delight for the Fruit, Flower and Foliage Challenge.  I've used Lost Coast Designs Daffodil Background, Tulip GnomeDaisy Border and Misc. Words.
I've made it happy birthday, cos you can never have too many of those, and did some tone on tone stamping with the Daffodil Background on the base panel.  The Happy Birthday and Daisy Border were stamped on a scrap of white card that was on the desk and I stamped the gnome on another scrap, coloured with distress markers and fussy cut him.  Isn't he just the sweetest!!!
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.  Remember we need at least 20 entries to award the prize so tell you friends.
Thanks for stopping by.  Hugz