Day of the Dead Contest Winner is....

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!

We had some amazing DOTD projects entered in our contest,  thank you so much for playing with us!

The WINNER of a $15 shopping spree at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda is

 JOI

CONGRATULATIONS JOI!
Here's your Winner's badge for your blog and please email me (or use the contact form in the left sidebar) to claim your prize!
***Prize must be claimed by Dec 5 otherwise a new winner will be announced! 

 ***UPCOMING***

 December is nearly here, are you looking forward to playing in our Christmas festivities?

Mark your calendars and return Dec 1st for

WIN a $15 shopping spree at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda

 and our 2nd Facebook Challenge which takes place on our Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda FB Pages!  Same challenge, one prize, 2 places to play!  Pop on over and LIKE us!

WIN a $15 shopping spree at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda

PLEASE NOTE OUR 2 MAIN RULES for EVENTS & CHALLENGES
1.  Entries must involve rubber stamping in some way, digi stamps alone do not count! 
2. Please leave a comment when linking up your entry!   

Then please make sure you read the rest of the rules pertinent to each event and challenge to ensure your entries qualify to win! 
See all our rules and guidelines here!

Thank you for visiting with us today and see you again when our Christmas festivities begin!
Have a fabulous Thanksgiving & Happy Holidays to you all!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 7 and finale of our Day of the Dead Contest!

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!

We are now on Day 7 and the finale of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

I hope you've enjoyed seeing all the fabulous DOTD themed projects shared by my fellow LCDesigners since Oct 31st!

We have some amazing DOTD projects entered in our contest so far, thank so much for playing with us!  Our contest closes tonight at midnight PST so hurry in your entries for the chance to win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  Add them to the linky collection below today's finale inspiration projects by LCDesigner Leigh.

I'm sharing 2 projects today, a fun mini tea light luminary and an altered domino trinket box!
For more info on my projects please visit my 2 blogs, LeighSBDesigns and DominoART, click on the two project links below!
Triangle Tea Light Luminary
Domino Trinket Box

 Domino Trinket Box
I used the following Lost Coast Designs stamps - large sugar skulls
Black Nose Sugar Skull, White Nose Sugar Skull,  Sugar Skull With Flower

Triangle Tea Light Luminary
I used the following Lost Coast Designs stamps
Black Nose Sugar Skull, White Nose Sugar Skull,  Sugar Skull With Flower
the lace border is part of the Picado Skull stamp

so pretty in the evening with the tea light glow

it really glows in complete darkness

Here's what it looks like in daylight!

3 sided luminary

CONTEST 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 contest
• 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 sites or personal Facebook accounts, and set the privacy setting to "Public", include the name of the event or Challenge in your photo description!  Please note that if the DT needs to sign up to see your project or leave a comment then your entry will automatically be disqualified so please make sure to share from a public site!

Now it's your turn to show us your Day of the Dead projects!

An InLinkz Link-up

Mark your calendars because the Christmas festivities will soon be here!
Join us for our upcoming A Carmen's Christmas Contest in December and a new Facebook based Challenge will be starting soon too so follow our blog and stay to play ;0)

 Please make sure you read the rules pertinent to each event and challenge to ensure your entries qualify to win!

Thank you for visiting with us today and see you again very soon for our Day of the Dead Contest Winner announcement!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 6 of our Day of the Dead Contest!

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!

We are now in Day 6 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

 
Dia de los Muertos is a celebration of loved ones lost, a holiday to celebrate and honour their lives!  There's really nothing macabre about it as it is a joyful event filled with love and memories!  Day of the Dead is traditionally celebrated for 3 days, from Oct 31 through to Nov 2, so we will continue with our daily offerings until Nov 2.  Then visit us again on Nov 5, 8, 12 and 15 for tons of fabulous DOTD creations by my fellow LCDesigners!

Here's a lovely 3 minute short film that perfectly captures the spirit of Dia de los Muertos!

We invite you to enter all your DOTD themed projects in the linky below for the chance to win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  The contest closes Nov 15 at midnight and the winner announced soon after!

 LCDesigners Granne and Nan are here with two fabulous DOTD projects to inspire you!
Enjoy!

Nan has used the following Lost Coast Designs for her fabulous altered wood piece
Day of the Dead Head Dress Lady
Six Mini Skulls
Mini Crowns
Crows Border

 "Wanna Play?"

Granne has used Lost Coast Designs Six Mini Skulls for her fabulous ATC

 

and here's her other one from Day 5 so you can see how fab they are together!

CONTEST 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 contest
• 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 sites or personal Facebook accounts, and set the privacy setting to "Public", include the name of the event or Challenge in your photo description! 

Now it's your turn to show us your Day of the Dead projects!

An InLinkz Link-up

Mark your calendars because the Christmas festivities will soon be here!
Join us for our upcoming A Carmen's Christmas Contest in December so follow our blog and stay to play ;0)

 Please make sure you read the rules pertinent to each event to ensure your entries qualify to win!

Thank you for hopping with us today, see you again November 15 for Day 7 and the finale of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 5 of our Day of the Dead Contest!

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!

We are now in Day 5 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

  Dia de los Muertos is a celebration of loved ones lost, a holiday to celebrate and honour their lives!  There's really nothing macabre about it as it is a joyful event filled with love and memories!  Day of the Dead is traditionally celebrated for 3 days, from Oct 31 through to Nov 2, so we will continue with our daily offerings until Nov 2.  Then visit us again on Nov 5, 8, 12 and 15 for tons of fabulous DOTD creations by my fellow LCDesigners!

Here's a lovely 3 minute short film that perfectly captures the spirit of Dia de los Muertos!

We invite you to enter all your DOTD themed projects in the linky below for the chance to win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  The contest closes Nov 15 at midnight and the winner announced soon after!

 LCDesigners Granne and Nan are here with two fabulous DOTD projects to inspire you!
Enjoy!

Granne has used Lost Coast Designs Six Mini Skulls for her fabulous ATC

Nan has used Lost Coast Designs Day of the Dead Woman for her

CONTEST 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 contest
• 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 sites or personal Facebook accounts, and set the privacy setting to "Public", include the name of the event or Challenge in your photo description! 

Now it's your turn to show us your Day of the Dead projects!

An InLinkz Link-up

Mark your calendars because the Christmas festivities will soon be here!
Join us for our upcoming A Carmen's Christmas Contest in December so follow our blog and stay to play ;0)

 Please make sure you read the rules pertinent to each event to ensure your entries qualify to win!

Thank you for hopping with us today, see you again November 12 for Day 6 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

BOO! Linky Party Winner!

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!

We had some truly spooktacular entries in our BOO! Halloween Linky Party, thank you everyone for playing with us!


The WINNER of a $15 shopping spree at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda is

ZEMPHIRA
 
CONGRATULATIONS Zemphira!
Here's your Winner's badge for your blog and please email me (or use the contact form in the left sidebar) to claim your prize!
***Prize must be claimed by Nov 18 otherwise a new winner will be announced! 

 Don't forget to join in our Day of the Dead celebrations and enter your projects in our CONTEST!
win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!

 Also mark your calendars so you don't forget about our upcoming
A Carmen's Christmas Contest and there's a new Facebook Challenge coming soon too!

Thank you for visiting us today!  Follow our blog and Stay to Play!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 4 of our Day of the Dead Contest!

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!

We are now in Day 4 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

  Dia de los Muertos is a celebration of loved ones lost, a holiday to celebrate and honour their lives!  There's really nothing macabre about it as it is a joyful event filled with love and memories!  Day of the Dead is traditionally celebrated for 3 days, from Oct 31 through to Nov 2, so we will continue with our daily offerings until Nov 2.  Then visit us again on Nov 5, 8, 12 and 15 for tons of fabulous DOTD creations by my fellow LCDesigners!

Here's a lovely 3 minute short film that perfectly captures the spirit of Dia de los Muertos!

We invite you to enter all your DOTD themed projects in the linky below for the chance to win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  The contest closes Nov 15 at midnight and the winner announced soon after!

 LCDesigners Nanette and Kim are here with two fabulous DOTD projects to inspire you!
Enjoy!

Kim has used Lost Coast Designs Day of the Dead White Nose Sugar Skull on her fabulous postcard
 
Nan has used Lost Coast Designs Day of the Dead Lefty and Day of the Dead Pancho on her fabulous double spread project

CONTEST 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 contest
• 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 sites or personal Facebook accounts, and set the privacy setting to "Public", include the name of the event or Challenge in your photo description! 

Now it's your turn to show us your Day of the Dead projects!

An InLinkz Link-up

Don't forget we've got our A Carmen's Christmas contest for you to look forward to so follow our blog and stay to play ;0)

 Please make sure you read the rules pertinent to each event to ensure your entries qualify to win!

Thank you for hopping with us today, see you again November 8 for Day 5 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Challenge #18 Mail Art

The winner of our #17 Monochromatic Challenge is 

Congratulations ..... Patti Dee

Please email Nikki (nikksup@gmail.com) by the end of November to claim
your $10 prize. Please provide your full name and mailing address in the email, as well as the stamp/s you would like. 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 #18 Mail Art

Welcome to our new challenge, Mail Art. We hope you will feel inspired to play along with us. 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!

A quick reminder about a couple of our rules : You must do some stamping and leave a comment on our blog after you link up. Please be sure to read our rules in full 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!

Please note that our December challenge will end on 20th to avoid the Christmas holidays.

Some Mail Art inspiration from our Team Dream :

Kim has used for the front of her mail art :Lost Coast Designs Cityscape, Pawn, and border stamps Filmstrip, Numbers and Vertical ABC Border.

Back of Kims mail art :

Nikki has used one of Lost Coast Designs Mini Flying Ladies, Circle Frame and Old Typewriter Alphabet SOTA. As well as Carmen's Verandas Postcard Background.  

Granne has used Lost Coast Designs Journaling letter guide and Sun Goddess :

Nan has used Lost Coast Designs Butterfly Face and Bubbles Background.

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 :)

We have a few events going on here, a Day of the Dead contest and Carmen's Veranda Christmas in December. Come back and visit us...

Reminder that our December challenge will end on 20th to avoid the Christmas holidays.

An InLinkz Link-up

Day 3 of our Day of the Dead Contest!

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!

We are now in Day 3 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

  Dia de los Muertes is a celebration of loved ones lost, a holiday to celebrate and honour their lives!  There's really nothing macabre about it as it is a joyful event filled with love and memories!  Day of the Dead is traditionally celebrated for 3 days, from Oct 31 through to Nov 2, so we will continue with our daily offerings until Nov 2.  Then visit us again on Nov 5, 8, 12 and 15 for tons of fabulous DOTD creations by my fellow LCDesigners!

We invite you to enter all your DOTD themed projects in the linky below for the chance to win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  The contest closes Nov 15 at midnight and the winner announced soon after!

 LCDesigners Karen and Bibiana are here with two fabulous DOTD projects to inspire you!
Enjoy!

Karen has used the following on her fabulous card
Carmen's Veranda - Skull with Hat 
Lost Coast Designs - Birds in Tree

Bibiana has used Lost Coast Designs Black Nose Sugar Skull on her fabulous card

CONTEST 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 contest
• 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 sites or personal Facebook accounts, and set the privacy setting to "Public", include the name of the event or Challenge in your photo description! 

Now it's your turn to show us your Day of the Dead projects!

An InLinkz Link-up

Today is the last day to enter our LCD/CV Facebook Pages Challenge at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda! 
Click on over, read the pinned posts and enter  
Challenge #1 Something Wicked this Way Comes!
win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  


Upcoming is our A Carmen's Christmas contest too so follow our blog and stay to play ;0)

 Please make sure you read the rules pertinent to each event to ensure your entries qualify to win!

Thank you for hopping with us today, see you again November 5 for Day 4 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 2 of our Day of the Dead Contest!

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!

We are now in Day 2 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!
 
Dia de los Muertes is a celebration of loved ones lost, a holiday to celebrate and honour their lives!  There's really nothing macabre about it as it is a joyful event filled with love and memories!  Day of the Dead is traditionally celebrated for 3 days, from Oct 31 through to Nov 2, so we will continue with our daily offerings until Nov 2.  Then visit us again on Nov 5, 8, 12 and 15 for tons of fabulous DOTD creations by my fellow LCDesigners!

We invite you to enter all your DOTD themed projects in the linky below for the chance to win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  The contest closes Nov 15 at midnight and the winner announced soon after!

 LCDesigners Kim and Nikki are here with two fabulous DOTD projects to inspire you!
Enjoy!

Kim has used the following stamps on her fabulous postcard
Lost Coast Designs - Sun and Moon
Carmen's Veranda - Milagros

Nikki has used Lost Coast Designs Skull and Flourish on her fabulous ATCs

CONTEST 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 contest
• 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 sites or personal Facebook accounts, and set the privacy setting to "Public", include the name of the event or Challenge in your photo description! 

Now it's your turn to show us your Day of the Dead projects!

An InLinkz Link-up

Only 2 days left to enter our LCD/CV Facebook Pages Challenge at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda! 
Click on over, read the pinned posts and enter  
Challenge #1 Something Wicked this Way Comes!
win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  


Upcoming is our A Carmen's Christmas contest too so follow our blog and stay to play ;0)

 Please make sure you read the rules pertinent to each event to ensure your entries qualify to win!

Thank you for hopping with us today, see you again tomorrow for Day 3 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader