#196, Where's my hat, milkbox.

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Hi crafters, Riet here.

The new challenge at Lost Coast designs/Carmens veranda stamps is all about hats.

So much fun.

 I made a milkbox with 

the many moods of Mona stamp set. 

5 gorgeous stamps with the face of Mona Lisa.

What I used for this milk box:

Mona stamp set,

Single Mona's,

Crackle background,

Long swirl.

Distress oxide:

Mermaid lagoon,

Wilted violet,

Cracked pistachio,

Musterd seed.

Versafine onyx black.

Acrylic paint spray bottles In the same colors as the oxides.

Color pencils or markers, what you like most.

Dutch DoBaDo  box art, milkbox.

Started with spraying the acrylic paints.

Once this is completely dry, 

we draw the template of the milk carton and cut it out and score the score lines.

With the crackle background 

you stamp pieces of the stamp here and there with the Distress oxides.

Using the long swirl and black ink we stamp all the top flaps of the milk carton.

Take thin paper and stamp with versafine the 4 mona's.

Colour them with markers or pencils.

Glue them on the box.

Now you can fold and glue the milk carton.

Punch a hole at the top and pull a ribbon through it.

And that's it for this time.

You probably have a stamp with a hat, 

but it can also be from other brands to participate in the challenge.

You then have a chance to win stamps of your choice.

Please read the rules to avoid disappointment.

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Where Did You Get That Hat???

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Hello Portal Peeps!  Gail here today and the challenge for April is Where's My Hat?  We want to see your stamped anythings featuring headgear.  I had a look through my Lost Coast Designs stamps and found lots with hats!  Check out yesterday's challenge post and the fun makes from Cathy, Liesbeth and Darlene where they kicked off the challenge in amazing style.  Today I have used one of the images from Doodle Dolls 1 set, and I found she also featured on the Postage set, so I've made a slimline collage style birthday card.

I used archival ink in shades on blue and red and did some ink mixing on the stamps to give some variegated colours.  The background stamp is Lost Coast Designs PMC Circle Frame.  I used a die cut to make the oval frame and arranged the Postage stamps and Doodle Doll on it after I had stamped and fussy cut them.  I stamped the Happy Birthdays using Lost Coast Designs Party Words and die cut with a Waffle Flower die. 

Hope you get time to join the Where's My Hat? fun.  We need at least 20 entries to award the prize so tell your friends and add your stamped hatty makes to the linky.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

CHALLENGE # 196 - WHERE'S MY HAT

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Hello Portal Peeps.  
 

Welcome to April and 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 #196

WHERE'S MY HAT

This month we are all about headgear.  You have all month to share your stamped anythings with hats or other headgear.  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 some inspiration from the team to get us started.  ENJOY!

Cathy used Lost Coast Designs Horizontal Party Hats Border, Mini Crowns, and Corner Swirl 

with Carmen's Veranda Joker

Liesbeth used Lost Coast Designs Birthday Mona, Skull Flourish with and Carmen's Veranda Keyhole and Ironwork Wall

 

Darlene used Lost Coast Design Party Hat set 2

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 #196 - Where's My Hat??
April 1st - 30th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Wednesday, April 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
 

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Alice's Adventures

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Hi all, Aimee here! All women were once young girls, so I think this card still qualifies for this month's Woman Challenge.

I used the Four Alices and Brush Strokes stamps from Lost Coast Designs and the Courage and Cusswords stamp from Carmen's Veranda. For the sentiment shown here, I cut off the last lines of the phrase to focus on the adventure aspect, something Alice in Wonderland is known for. Follow along with this pictorial to learn how I put it all together. 

There's one more day left for you to submit your stamped creation to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity as part of the Woman Challenge. Who knows?! Maybe yours will be selected to win a prize!

Challenge 195 - I Am Woman Challenge

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Hi there! You've got Kathi here today to share a card created for Challenge 195 - I Am Woman with the Crown Mona Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs. 

 Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp Crown Mona twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 

Use Copic markers to color Crown Mona on the image panel. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart on the image panel.

Move the image panel to a magnetic surface and secure it with magnets. Place a hill landscape stencil over the masked image and the panel. Brush light blue ink horizontally across the stencil.  Remove the stencil and use a small brush to apply green ink below the sky to form hills. Brush darker blue ink below the hills area to create a body of water. Use green and tan dye inks to to fill in the rest of the area behind Crown Mona. Remove Crown Mona's mask.

Cut metallic gold cardstock with an ornate frame die. Drip some black Posca Acrylic paint onto a baby wipe. Use the baby wipe to apply the black paint, let it set for a second or two, then wipe it away. 

Place the frame over Crown Mona to frame her. Adhere framed Crown Mona to a 4" x 5.25" piece of brick patterned paper. Use a Gold Posca Paint Pen to edge and add a gold border to the patterned paper. Let the paint dry, then adhere the patterned paper to a grey A2 card.

Use alphabet dies and a word die to cut gold metallic cardstock. Adhere the sentiment to the card front as shown. Add the "Smile" metalllic sentiment sticker to finish the card.

You still have time to play along with our I Am Woman Challenge 195 and get the chance to win Lost Coast Ca$h. 

 

#195 I am woman, challenge.

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Hello everyone, Riet here,

what a fun challenge.

I decided to make an Art Journal page of it.

With the subject "women" I immediately thought of Frida Kahlo. 

What beautiful art she made, and despite her physical suffering such a strong woman.

Here is the description of how I made it.

What do you need for this AJ page.

CV open rose,

CV Girl with mind,

LCD Frida with roses,

LCD Piece of architacture,

LCD Pieces of calligraphy,

LCD Brush strokes.

Shape die, Nellie Snellen, Vintasia oval with grid.

Black waterproof inkpad.

Distress Oxide,

Lucky clover,

Crackling Campfire,

Mermaid Lagoon,

Musterd Seed,

Wild Honey.

Coloring pencils

We start with three colors of ink and a little water.

We use that to make spots and stripes on the paper.

Repeat this with the lucky clover and mermaid lagoon.

Stamp the corner ornament with mermaid lagoon.

The calligraphy stamp with crackling campfire.

And the bubble stamp with lucky clover.

Make some splatters with black ink or paint.

Set it aside to dry.

Die cut the 3 parts of the die, the largest with black paper.

The 2 inner parts with white paper.

The middle part stays white.

The inner part is made green with lucky clover and a littlebit of water.

When its dry, splatter with the other distress oxide colors.

When all is dry, glue it together.

Stamp Frida in black waterproof ink.

Color with pencils or markers.

What ever you like to do most.

Do the same with the roses. 

I stamped 4 roses and colored with pencils.

Glue everything to the background.

Stamp with black ink the phrase from Carmens Veranda,

Be a girl with a mind.

I hope you enjoyed it.

Feel free to leave a comment and if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Now it's your turn for the challenge.

You probably have a stamp with a woman on it.

It can even be from a different brand, as long as you use stamps you can participate.

And maybe you'll win a prize, that would be nice, right?

Until next time, and have fun crafting.

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