JANUARY WINNERS

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Welcome Portal Peeps!!!
It's time to announce the WINNERS of our January Challenges!

We would like to thank everyone who entered their lovely projects and it was so nice to see so many using Lost Coast Design and Carmen's Veranda stamps.  You of course get an extra chance in the random draw for using our stamps on your projects.  Thanks for playing with us!

Please do read the rules and also the challenge guidelines which are written under the challenge badges on the challenge post and in the sidebar.  We have to disqualify entries that do not comply with our rules or challenge themes.

We used Mr Random

WINNER of CHALLENGE #158

SLIMLINE

is

Anne Squire

 

Thanks for using Lost Coast Designs stamps Anne

Congrats Anne, you win a $5 gift certificate

WINNER of CHALLENGE #159

WINGED THINGS

is

Valerie Hayes 
 

who entered in the fb fan group with these cool rocks.

Thanks for using Lost Coast Designs stamps Valerie.

Congrats Valerie, you win a $10 gift certificate

 Congratulations Anne and Valerie!  Please email Gail (craftynomad at gmail dot com) by the 15th of the month to claim your prize.  Please provide your full name and mailing address in the email as well as the stamps you would like.  You may choose from Lost Coast Designs and/or Carmen's Veranda!

Here's your snazzy Challenge Winner's badge for your blog!
Please link your badge back to us here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.
 

Our current challenge is

LOVE AND HEARTS

Link up your stamped projects featuring the love and hearts

 for your chance to win Lost Coast Dollars.

 

Love From Salvador

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here today with a card for the Love and Hearts challenge.  I've combined Lost Coast Designs ATC Doodle Heart with Carmen's Veranda Salvador Dali and Nights Into Mornings sentiment. 

I stamped Salvador Dali and masked him.  I stamped the doodle heart with red ink and the sentiment with black ink.  Then I went a little swipe mad with my black archival ink pad and grunged it up.  To finish I used a blending brush to add some pink to the heart.

 

Join the Love and Hearts challenge with your stamped anything featuring love and/or hearts for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Love and Hearts Challenge: My Heart

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And welcome to the first day of February and the first day of our new challenge:  Love and Hearts.  Perfect for this month with Valentine's Day coming soon.   

For this card I used the Chloe Face stamp from Lost Coast Designs.  Such a lovely stamp!  I stamped Chloe with black ink onto a piece of tea dyed paper and fussy cut her out.  I edged this with Distress Ink in Vintage Photo and added a bit of color to her cheeks and lips with Copic Sketch markers.

For the background, I used a scrap collection of Tim Holtz papers that I had been saving to make a collage.  The collage was done on a sheet of 8 1/2 by 11 card stock, so this is just a portion of the collage.  I edged this

with the same Distress Ink and added a bronze "heart in hands" charm to the bottom.  Final step was to layer this with a piece of cream card stock.  

Show us your love this month and submit your stamped projects here on the Portal to have a shot at winning some free stamps!

CHALLENGE #160 - LOVE AND HEARTS

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Hello Portal Peeps.
It's February, the month of love, and 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 #160

LOVE AND HEARTS

We want to see your stamped anythings featuring Love and Hearts.
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!

Laurie used Lost Coast Designs Chloe Face stamp

Liesbeth used Lost Coast Designs Winged Girl NS, Dream Magic Love, Black Flourish and Misc. Words. 

Riet used Lost Coast Designs Brush Strokes, Misc Words, Frank, Bride of Frank and Hearts and Curls Border.

 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 #160 - Love and Hearts
February 1st - 14th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Tuesday, February 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
 

 

Christmas Angel

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Hello Portal Peeps!   Gail here today and there is still time to link up your stamped Winged Things to the challenge linky, or share on the fb fan group if you are using Lost Coast Designs and/or Carmen's Veranda stamps.  There are a nice lot of entries but still room for some more. 

I like to make a few Christmas cards every month so I don't have a big stress later in the year and today I've used the beautiful Lost Coast Designs Christmas Angel with Halo.  

 

I started by using a snowflake stencil and blue ink on a pale blue background.  Always love a bit of tone on tone.   Then I stamped Happy Christmas in blue ink using Lost Coast Designs Misc. Words.   

 

I stamped the Angel using blue ink on white card and coloured with sharpies and distress inks.

Thanks for dropping by.   You have until the last minute of the month to add your project to the Winged Things linky.   Hope to see you there.

Wings challenge

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Hello, Cathy here with a card for you.

Stamps Used:

Pieces of Architecture

Pieces of Calligraphy

Flying moon

Eye chart square

First, I took one stamp from Pieces of Architecture and stamped it with a teal distress ink. I then took a stamp from Pieces of Calligraphy and stamped it in gray ink. Then I sprayed water on it so it would spread the ink and blur the stamping. I then took some gray distress spray ink and sprayed it in the middle. Dried it with a heat gun. After it was dry, I then took a number stencil with some black ink and stenciled the two corners, and I edged the piece in black ink.

On another sheet of paper, I stamped the Flying moon and the Eye chart square. I cut out the eye and the wings from the moon. Next, I then colored them with Copic markers and glued them together.

After they were dry, I added them to the front of the panel. I then added it to a white card base.

You can join all the winged fun here.