BOO! a 31 Days of Halloween linky party plus our 1st Facebook Challenge!

Hello LCD and CV Friends!

Tomorrow begins the countdown to Halloween and that means only one thing...it's time to get spooky!  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity is participating in the fangtastic Smeared Ink 31 Days of Halloween blog hop which kicks off Oct 1st and to celebrate we are throwing our own Halloween party with 2 events!  Enter your spooktacular projects for the chance to win 2 freakishly fabulous prizes!

BOO! a 31 Days of Halloween Linky Party
Oct 1st - Oct 31, submit your entries in the Inlinkz collection below!
win a $15 shopping spree to Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda! 

BOO! Rules

• You can use ANY stamp companies on your entries BUT if you use only LCD/CV stamps your entry will count as two and doubles your chance at winning the prize!
  
• Become a Follower of Lost Coast Portal to Creativity
• Submission must link directly to your project, not just your blog home page
• Include our event info and link in your blog post 
• No backlinking to old projects published prior to the start of the event
• Please leave us a comment after you link up, we do love hearing from you!
• No limit on how many times you can enter
• No limit on how many events or challenges you can combine ours with
• You may enter our events and Challenges even if you don't have a blog...Upload your project to a photo sharing site or personal Facebook accounts, and set the privacy setting to "Public", include the name of the event or Challenge in your photo description! 

LCD/CV Facebook Pages Challenge

#1 Something Wicked this Way Comes!

The 2nd event is our 1st LCD/CV Facebook based Challenge, which began Sept 7 and ends Nov 2!
win a $15 shopping spree to Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

HOW TO ENTER & RULES 

  Enter on our Lost Coast Designs Facebook Page

Enter on our Carmen's Veranda Facebook Page

• This challenge is running on both of our Facebook Pages - LCD & CV.
• You must be a Follower of both of our FB Pages to enter!
• Projects featuring our LCD or CV images will be entered into the DT Faves draw TWICE!
• If you make a project combining stamps from both companies then you may enter the same project in both locations & quadruple your chances of winning the prize!
•  If you make a project using only LCD images then please only enter it on the LCD Page.
• If you make a project using only CV images then please only enter it on the CV Page.
• You may combine our LCD & CV images with stamps from other companies but our images MUST be the focus of your project!
• Enter by adding your project photo in the comments of the Challenge Facebook post which is pinned to the top of both FB Pages.
• Include details of what stamps you used & please leave the DT some love.
• ONE winner will receive a $15 gift certificate which can be spent at both companies!
• You are very welcome to enter the same projects in our events & challenges currently being hosted here on Lost Coast Portal to Creativity blog!
• We'd greatly appreciate it if you'd share our Challenge with your friends via the "Share" button.

The LCDesigners have been creating up a storm so stop by every day throughout October for tons of spooktacular inspiration!  The 31 Days of Halloween blog hop will have daily prizes sponsored by many fab companies including Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda which you can win just by hopping, commenting and playing in the Scavenger Hunt!  Don't forget to come back here and enter your Halloween inspired creations in the BOO! linky party below and also enter our FB Challenge!

We hope you'll join us and Stay to Play!

An InLinkz Link-up

Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Challenge #16 Single Layer Project

The winner of our #15 Circles Challenge is Rosie

Congratulations ..... and here is her gorgeous make :

Please email Nikki (nikksup@gmail.com) by the end of September to claim
your $10 prize. Please provide your full name and mailing address in the email.
You can shop at either Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda.
Also, please pick up the challenge winners badge to proudly display on your blog.

Challenge #16 Single Layer Project

Welcome to our new challenge, One Layer or Single Layer project. By that we mean no additional layers of any kind, card stock, embellishments etc. We hope you will feel inspired to play along with us. Note that you can use any company's images you like to join our challenge, but if you use any images from Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda you will get two entries into the draw to win the prize, yes that's double the chance to win.

Reminder of our new prize system
PRIZES
To ensure you all have a fabulous time playing in our challenges we have a new format for our new blog!

1 - 4 entries = a winner will be awarded our Challenge Badge 

5+ entries = one winner will receive a $5 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV

10+ entries = one winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV

you get the Challenge Badge to proudly display on your blog too!

Please be sure to read our rules so that your entry is eligible to win the prize :)

Did you know that you can play in our Challenges even if you don't have a blog!

Simply upload your project to a photo sharing site, including your own personal Facebook accounts, and set the privacy setting to "Public" and include the name of our Challenge in your photo description! You can not link to projects shared in a closed Facebook Group because the linky tool can't access it there! It's that easy so do join the fun!

Some inspiration from our Team Dream:

Leigh has used Lost Coast Designs' Manga Goth Dots and Carmen Veranda's Grunge White Swirl

Nan has used Chloe Collage and Dictionary Words from Lost Coast Designs:

Granne has used Backside Woman and Antique Text Border and Spray Webbing from Lost Coast Designs: 

Kim has used Grunge Tree and Sugar Skull with Flower from Lost Coast Designs

Nikki has used Carmen's Veranda Birds Background Stamp

Reminder to read our rules so that your entry is eligible to win prizes :)

AND don't forget that we have lifted our restriction that only LCD/CV stamps be used to enter our challenges.  But if you do use LCD/CV images then your entry will count as two which means you double your chances of winning.

Tell all your friends, come join us, and stay to play :)

Before you go we've also got some Facebook news to share!

Our 1st Facebook Challenge started today on both our Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda Facebook Pages!  One lucky fan will win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  Click the linked names above and check out the Challenge post which is pinned at the top of both walls.  

An InLinkz Link-up