You Call It A Clapperboard.......

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 inspiration for the Mini Me challenge.  We want to see smaller stamped makes like ATC, inchies, bookmarks, tags etc.  I made a tag using Carmen's Veranda's Alfred Hitchcock Standing and the wonderful Givashitometer sentiment.

I always wondered what that was called!
I've used Lost Coast Designs Grunge Border 2" on the tag with pink archival ink.  I stamped the sentiment directly on the tag but Alfred was stamped on white card, coloured with distress markers and fussy cut.  A bit of fancy wool and done.  

Join the Mini Me fun and don't forget to check back often to enjoy all the awesome inspiration from the team. 

 Thanks for stopping by.  Hugz

Mini Me: Two Butterflies

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!

Welcome from Laurie to the first day of June and the first day of our latest challenge:  Mini Me.  So think ATCs, twinchies, inchies, ATC coins - in other words, little things.  I went with an ATC for this using one of the stamps from the ATC Text Set #1 and two of the stamps from the Butterfly Set, all found at Lost Coast Designs.

The background is a piece of a larger gel print that I had made awhile ago using Distress Oxide inks in oranges and pinks and a stencil.  I stamped the Asian text with black ink onto the front, trimmed it to ATC size, and edged it with black marker.  

The butterflies were stamped onto another piece of a different gel print that was mainly yellow Distress Oxide ink with some red added in here and there.  I stamped the two different butterflies with black ink

and fussy cut them out.  I glued them to the ATC front as shown.  As a little embellishment, I made a small wax seal with a flower motif and once set, I highlighted the raised portions with some gold wax.

We are excited to see what mini masterpieces you can create for this challenge.  Post them here on the Portal before the 15th for a chance to win some free stamps!

CHALLENGE #168 - MINI ME

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 fortnightly!  A new challenge starting the 1st and the 15th of 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 #168

MINI ME

We want to see your small stamped projects, ATC's, bookmarks, twinchies, thrinchies, inchies, matchboxes, tags etc etc  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 remember we do have some Challenge Rules to follow so look them over 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 your entry counts as two which doubles your chances of winning in our random prize drawing.

PRIZES

To ensure you all have a fabulous time playing in our Challenges this is how our Prize system works!
The more entries the better the Prize so tell all your friends to join the fun too!

1 - 4 Entries = one winner chosen by the team is awarded our Challenge Winner's Badge
5+ Entries = one randomly picked winner will receive a $5 gift certificate to spend at
Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda
10+ Entries = one randomly picked winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to spend at
Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda
and 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 Brush Stokes, Mini Bird Collage and ATC Gothic Text

 
 Roni used Lost Coast Designs Victoriana, Pieces of Calligraphy and Up Close & Personal

  
Laurie used Lost Coast Designs ATC Text Set #1 and Butterfly Set

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 14th 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 #168 - Mini Me
June 1st - 14th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Wednesday, June 14th 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
 

 

Woman: Girl with a Curl

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 everyone! Liesbeth here with another woman for our Woman Challenge! There's only a few days left for you to participate. 

My card is very simple: I made a background with a few colours of Distress Oxide and water and stamped on it with StazOn Jet Black. The girl onto a seperate piece of course. I finished with colour pencils and white gel pen.

 Stamps used: Girl with a Curl (I love her!), Flagstone Background and Lily Flourish.

Hope we inspired you with our women! See you next time!

Liesbeth XX

Frida Kahlo and other Women: Calligraphy Lady

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Hello All from Laurie with a card for the Frida Kahlo and other Women Challenge.  This challenge ends in a couple of days, so be sure to get your makes posted on the Portal for a chance to win some free stamps.

For this, I used the Calligraphy Lady stamp from Lost Coast Designs.  She was stamped with black ink onto pinkish patterned rice paper and cut out with deckle edged scissors.  I then glued her to a piece of vintage French book paper and edged that with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  That was layered with a pink patterned paper from 49 and Market and a white panel.

The butterfly, flower, and label were glued on as shown and all were also edged with Distress Ink.

Hope to see your fantastic projects here on the Portal!!

Dancer

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, Cathy here with a card for you.

Stamps Used:

thin dancer

mums' border

Pieces of Calligraphy

I started off with stamping the mum border on the bottom of the card so the dancer has something to stand on when I stamp it. 

Next, I stamp the stamp from pieces of calligraphy in a grey ink randomly all over the background. Then I colored the dancer in with copic markers.

You can join the challenge here