31 Days of Halloween, Day 1

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Hi there, its Riet here.

Today marks the start of the Lost Coast Designs Halloween challenge.

The team will be showcasing plenty of Halloween and Day of the Dead themes this month.

I get to kick things off, starting with my witches' circle dance.

I used the Mini Gnome sets 1 and 4 from Lost Coast Designs, 

and the text stamp "When witches go riding" is from Carmen's Veranda.

For this card, I used the Sizzix Stamp & Spin tool.

The card measures 20x20 cm.

The small pumpkin and spiderwebs were created using a die.

I stamped with Versafine Onyx Black and coloured with Derwent Chromaflow.

The team would love for you to join the challenge. 

You can win new stamps.

So, invite all your stamping friends, too.

You have the whole month to participate, 

and your projects don't necessarily have to feature our stamps.

However, they must include stamping.

(Read the rules first.)

Can't wait to see what you create!

Have fun!

CHALLENGE #214 - 31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN LINKY PARTY

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Hello Portal Peeps,

Welcome to the most spooktacular month of the year and our annual
31 Days of Halloween celebration!

The team will be posting their bootastic makes every day this month.

This linky will be open all month and we hope you will get your spook on and join the fun.  You can link up your Halloween inspired makes all month for 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.

 

CHALLENGE #214

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN

Link up your Halloween inspired projects.  Anything related to the season, spooky, fruity, fun, scary or cute.  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 or fed to the giant pumpkin!!!!  Bwahahhaaahaha.

We need at least 20 participants to award the 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 problem, 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!  

The team is posting everyday this month and Riet will be starting the party with her Day 1 post.

 

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 31st and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  You can also enter by linking up your makes which use Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda stamps to the facebook fan page.

Happy Stamping!

Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #202 - 31 Days of Halloween
October 1st - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Saturday October 31st 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

 

 

 

Wanderlust - A Steampunk Card

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Greetings! You've got Kathi here with a card created for September's "Black and White and One Color" Challenge with the Steampunk Grasshopper Train Rubber Stamp and the Travel Quotes Rubber Sheet by Lost Coast Designs.

Ink the Steampunk Grasshopper Train Rubber Stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and stamp it twice — once onto Bristol Paper and once onto repositionable sticker paper.

Heat set the Bristol Paper version to set the ink so you can use alcohol markers to color the image.

Use Copic markers to color the Steampunk Grasshopper Train in shades of green. Retrospectively, I should have colored the mechanical capsule engine shape and the steam funnel in shades of olive green to match the train passenger car. Oh well.

Fussy-cut the sticker-paper version of the Steampunk Grasshopper Train and place it over it over its counterpart to mask the image.

Use a black fine tip pen to extend the train tracks line horizontlaly. Place a piece of acetate on the line and the train so that it covers the top part of the image panel. Heavily brush medium grey dye ink over the acetate onto the image panel.

Place a hills stencil over the top of the image panel. Brush the same grey ink lightly over the hills stencil and the masked image to create some background hills behind the train.

Place a clouds stencil over the image panel. Starting at the top of the image panel, brush or sponge light grey dye ink over the top of the stencil and the masked image onto the image panel.

Rotate and/or flip the stencil, move it downwards on the image panel, and brush or sponge the same grey ink over the stencil and the masked image onto the image panel ending just above the inked hills.

Remove both stencils and brush light grey ink over a cogs stencil and the masked images onto the image panel. Randomly brush the two shades of grey ink over a discontinued stencil that contained mathematical formulae, lines, and arrows.

Trim the image panel to 5" x 3.75" and edge with the dark grey ink. 

Mat the image panel with with green textured cardstock that measures 5.25" x 4".

Secure the image panel onto the base of a stamping platform. Position the "Wanderlust" sentiment stamp from the Travel Quotes Rubber Sheet facedown on the top left as shown. Place a piece of acetate over the image panel. Ink the sentiment stamp with Rain Forest VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp to check that the sentiment is straight and where you want it. Remove the acetate, ink the stamp again with Rain Forest VFC Ink and stamp. You can re-ink and stamp again if needed to attain a good impression.

Remove the image panel from the stamping platform and heat set the image.

Adhere the image panel onto a grey textured A2 card.

Thanks for visiting today!

You still have a few hours to join our September challenge for the chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!

Punky Anniversary

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Hi all, Aimee here. After 34 years of marriage, my husband and I appreciate a good sense of humor when it comes to celebrating significant milestones. Why not give an unusual card!?!

This one-of-a-kind creation was made with the American Gothic Steampunk and Party Words stamps from Lost Coast Designs. Using just black, white and one other color keeps the card making simple and provides striking visual impact.

We'd love to see YOUR creation on the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity. There's two days remaining until this month's Challenge ends. Don't worry! It'll be quick to make. Try to win that prize!

Fairy Nice

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, its Riet here.

I am absolutely crazy about Carri's Hard Luck Pixies.

I love, love, love them.

So, I didn't hesitate for a moment to use this angry pixie for this challenge.

And that sentiment from Carmens Veranda it's amazing.

It fits so perfectly.

I stamped using Hero Arts Unicorn White ink.

I colored the image with a Derwent Chromaflow 1510 pencil.

I also enhanced the text a bit with a white pencil.

I think that turned out really well, as it makes the text look handwritten.

I added some extra depth here and there using a white gel pen.

After that, I created some white splatters with acrylic paint.

And added a few dots of glitter here and there.

I matted it onto white cardstock.

Simple, yet with a great effect.

Are you joining the challenge too? 

You still have until the last day of the month.

You might just be the winner of some new Lost Coast Designs stamps.

GO TO THE CHALLENG!!!

Here is a card with another  stamp of Carri's Hard Luck Pixies.

Grunge Lady

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!

Hey - Darlene here with my final make for the month with the theme

Black and White with a bit of Colour

My stamp choice for this one is the

Grunge Flower Profile

So I stamped her with versafine and embossed in white

onto the black cardstock.  Masked the image and did some

white splatters lightly.

Added the lace and saying that was in my stash

to finish it 

Layered onto some turquoise coloured paper for my

bit of colour.

Then layered onto a white card.

What will you make using this theme???

whatever it is be sure to enter into our challenge and

maybe win some new stamps

check out my blog too 

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