Tuesday, May 26, 2026

#209 No body here challenge. Vintage tag.

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 vintage tag for the "No body" challenge.
These are the stamps I used.

And I used:
Distress oxide
 Victorian velvet
Bundled sage
Distressink
Antique linen
Walnut stain
Victorian velvet
Glimmermist pink.
distress glaze
foamtape
Die crealies xxl tag nr.6

First, we make prints using a Pieces of Architecture stamp 
by applying the Distress Glaze to the stamp with a sponge.

Then we apply the Victorian velvet ink and spray glimmer mist over it.

Apply antique linen to the edges with a finger sponge.

And repeat with walnut stain.

With Distress oxide bundled sage you stamp the script.

With the Distress Oxide Bundled Sage and Victorian Velvet, 
you stamp a number of perfume bottles.
Wait until the ink is completely dry.
Color the bottles with antique linen.
Use a finger sponge to color the edges with walnut stain.

For the background tag that we use as a mat, sponge with the Bundled Sage.
Stamp the long swirl with Victorian Velvet and sponge the edges with Walnut Stain.

Assemble the tag, giving the perfume bottles different heights.
Stamp the word "Beauty" from the misc words sheet 
and stick it on raised with foam tape. 
Thread a nice ribbon through the hole and you're done.
I hope you enjoyed it.
You still have until the end of the month to enter the challen

So maybe I'll see you at the challenge.

Sunday, May 24, 2026

It's time!

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 to share my last make of the month with the theme
'No Body challenge'


With this card I used Carmen Veranda stamp Clock Square
I stamped it onto white card stack and coloured in the clocks faces lightly
with my tombow pens.  then I added glossy accents onto the clocks.

I have some old watch pieces so one wrist watch face onto the card and some other gears

lightly inked the edges, layered onto black cardstock.
then using one of my embossing folders for the background and highlighted the 
design with black soot ink.


This was a fun stamp to play with !!

Come and enter the challenge with your make this month!
but be sure there are no bodies included hehehehe
 
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Friday, May 22, 2026

Coffee Makes It All Possible!

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! It's Kathi here to share a card created for May's No Body Here Challenge 209 with the "Coffee Makes It Possible" Clear Stamp by Carmen's Veranda.


Use the coffee sleeve die from a to go coffee die-cut set to cut Bristol Paper, then secure the die-cut onto the base of a stamping platform with magnets and/or low-tack tape. Position the "Coffee Makes It Possible" Clear Stamp by Carmen's Veranda, facedown on the die-cut. Ink the stamp with Warm Breeze VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if needed to attain a good impression. Edge the coffee sleeve/sentiment die-cut with Warm Breeze VSFC Ink, then heat set the entire die-cut. Set it aside.

Use the to-go cup die from the coffee die set to cut patterned paper. Edge the to-go cup die-cut with Warm Breeze VSFC Ink then heat set the ink. Use the cup's lid die to cut Bristol Paper. Adhere the lid and the sleeve die-cuts to the patterned paper to-go cup. Use a grey chalk pencil to add a slight shadow under the lid. Set the assembled to go coffee cup aside.

Cut a 6" square of Kraft cardstock to create a background panel. Place it onto a magnetic craft mat. Pounce an anti-static pouch onto the Kraft background panel. Place a coffee bean stencil over the Kraft background panel and secure with low-tack tape and/or magnets. 

Sponge or brush Coffee Bean Brilliance Ink over the stencil onto the background panel. Keeping the stencil in place, wipe the ink off of the stencil with a tissue, then sponge or brush VersaMark Ink over the stencil onto the background panel. Remove the stencil and pour clear detail embossing powder onto the wet ink. Pour the excess embossing powder back into its container, then heat set the stenciled and heat embossed background panel.

Trim the panel to 5.75" square and heavily edge it with Coffee Bean Brilliance Ink. Add clock-patterned Washi tape to the bottom edge. Add 1/8" gold Washi tape to the bottom and top edges of the clock-patterned Washi tape. 

Adhere the assembled to-go cup to the background panel as shown.

Use an alarm clock die to cut metallic gold cardstock and Bristol Paper. Assemble the clock and detail it with a black marker. 

Adhere the assembled alarm clock onto the background panel as shown.

Use a gold metallic pen to add dots to the background to echo the gold of the Washi tape and the alarm clock.

Adhere the background panel to a 6" square Kraft card. Add aqua and turquoise rhimestones to finish the card.

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You still have time to join our May's No Body Here Challenge 209 for the chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!


Thanks for visiting today!

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Tree crown tag by Cathy

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!

Cathy here with a tag for you today.


Stamps Used:

I started out by making the background of the tag. I used distress stain and distress spray.

I then stamped the background with a 3 of the stamps. I just used the top of the tree crown around the edge. 


I then stamped the tree crown onto a separate tag and tore the bottom of the tag and edged it with some distress oxide. 


You still have time to join in the challenge.
 

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Blue Bird of Happiness

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 No Body Here Challenge!
We want to see your stamped anythings but no people allowed.  
I went with a tag and the very wonderful Whimsical Flora.
 
 
I cut a tag with daisy mae cross stitch die and stamped Lost Coast Designs Long Swirl with red, pink and black archival inks.  Then I edged and grunged up the tag using the black ink pad. 
 I stamped Whimsical Flora on white card, coloured with promarkers and fussy cut her.  I stamped the words using Lost Coast Designs Party Words and added them and some neon green wool to finish.
 
 
Grab your stamps and join the fun!!  You have all month to share your stamped anythings featuring anything EXCEPT PEOPLE!!  Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project and we need at least 20 entries to award the prize.
Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Saturday, May 16, 2026

#209 No body here.

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 there, its Riet here with a new tutorial.
 
For this challenge I made a collage card.

LCD rubber stamps I used.

Versafine onyx black
Distressink
Broken china
Scattered straw
Spiced Marmelade
waterbased markers in the same colors.
thick black marker
15cm x 21 cm watercolor paper.

Start by stamping the three collage stamps in black.

Mask them off and continue filling the empty spaces with the other stamps.


We color the background with water and the distress ink.

We fill in the empty spaces further with the smallest script stamp from the Pieces of Calligraphy.
We do this with Distress Ink Broken China.

For the dictionary stamps, take a piece of paper and color it with the distress ink.
Stamp the dictionary stamps with versafine black onto the paper

 
Color the stamps with the markers.

Cut the words to size and trace the edges with a black marker.
Matt the card with black.

And then the card is finished; it also makes a nice Art Journal page.

I invite you to join the challenge.
There is a prize to be won.