Sunshine and Happiness

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Hi everyone, Aimee here! I want to wish my sweet husband a very Happy Birthday today. He brings me much happiness, just like these gnomes.

This card is a chance to use some of your favorite patterned papers. Any paper will do, and any gnome will do as well. There's a huge selection of gnome stamps available on the Lost Coast Designs website. Here I've used the Redneck Gnome, Silly Gnome and Flower Gnome stamps. Follow along to see how I made this card:

I hope you'll join in April's Gnome Challenge on the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity. Submit your creation by the end of the month for your chance to win a prize!

Musical Musings

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Hello Portal Peeps!!  Gail here today and this month we are all about GNOMES!!!!   Lost Coast Designs have so many adorable Gnomes I am sure there are one or two that will appeal to you.  Every gnome needs a good home.  Here's a card I made and sent for the Card Chain Challenge international card exchange, where Gnomes were one of the options. 

Love these ZZ gnomes.  I used Lost Coast Designs Grunge Border 2" on my background panel which I also cut with a mixed media die from sizzix.  Then I stamped the gnome on white card, coloured with distress markers and fussy cut.  The Friends Forever words were stamped on a scrap of card, matted and added to the card.

You have all month to share your stamped anythings featuring GNOMES!!  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

CHALLENGE #208 - GNOMES

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Hello Portal Peeps.  
 

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 #208

GNOMES

You have all month to share your stamped anythings featuring GNOMES!!  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!

Riet used Lost Coast Designs Mini Gnome Set 3, Daisy Flourish, Crackle Background and Misc Words

Cathy used Lost Coast Designs Rabbit Gnome

Gail used Lost Coast Designs Book Gnome and Mayan Stele

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 #208 - Anything Goes With Gnomes
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 Thursday, 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
 

 

Smile Tag

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Hi stamping friends, Aimee here! Here's a tag I made for this month's "Make It Funny" Challenge on the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity:

I used the Smile and Fart stamp from Carmen's Veranda, and the Four Flowers, Grunge Border and Brush Strokes stamps from Lost Coast Designs. Here's how I made it:

You'll want to pull out your stamps today to submit your own funny creation (due TOMORROW) to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity. Fingers crossed you win this month's prize!

Today I Completed a Chore

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Greetings! It's Kathi here to share a card created for the March Make It Funny Challenge 207 with the Steampunk Profile Head Rubber Stamp and the "I Completed a Chore" Clear Stamp — both by Carmen's Veranda.

Use Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Ink to stamp the Steampunk Profile Head onto a piece of patterned paper. Heat set the panel.

Use VersaMark Ink to stamp the "I Completed a Chore" sentiment onto the head. Ink the stamp a second time with Strawberry VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp again. 

Add scarlet embossing enamel to the wet ink, dump the excess back into the ep container, and heat set the powder.

Fussy-cut the Steampunk Profile Head and edge with Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Ink. Heat set the head. 

Trim a piece of clock-patterned paper to 5.75" square and edge with Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Ink.

Adhere the Steampunk Profile Head as shown. 

Adhere the panel to a red 6x6 card.

You still have a few days to share a project created for  March Make It Funny Challenge 207 for a chance to win a fabulous prize.

#206 Make it funny challenge.

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Hello stampers and other crafters.

Riet here with a new tutorial. 

 Today a card for the LCD/CV  challenge. 

What I used:

One of the many moods of Mona set.

The black edge is one of 

the Brush strokes set.

And Carmen's Veranda,

 Happily ever after.

Black waterproof inkpad.

Posca marker, green, pink and yellow.

Color pencils. 

White gellpen. 

Neocolor II.

I started by applying the Neo Color II colors to the paper.

I washed that out with water and a brush.

Do this carefully, otherwise you will get a muddy color.

Stamp with black ink Mona and the saying.

Stamp the edge with a part of frayed circle from the brush strokes sheet.

Draw small flowers on the black border with the Posca.

And color Mona with pencils.

Make some accents with a white gelpen.

Mat the card on white and go along the edge with a black marker.

This was my final contribution to this month's challenge.

It runs until the 31st, so there is still time to join in.

You can also participate with other brands, as long as you use stamps.

And remember, make it funny.

And of course, there is a prize to be won.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!

Here is a free tutorial with the face of mona set.