Spring Event - Flora and Fluffy Tails!

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!

YAY...Spring is finally here...for some of us anyway, I hope everyone still getting bombarded with snow is hanging in there!  We're celebrating Spring and the upcoming appearance of the Easter Bunny with a Flora and Fluffy Tails event.

 The LCDesigners have been creating up a Spring storm and we have lots of flowers and bunny rabbit inspired projects to share with you today!  So grab your flower and/or rabbit stamps and join the fun!  Share your Flora and Fluffy Tails projects with us by adding them to the linky at the bottom of this post by midnight PST on April 3!
 

We have lots of flower themed stamps available including our newest ones over on our New Images page at Lost Coast Designs!  You are welcome to use stamps from ANY company on your projects but if you use any of our Lost Coast Designs and/or Carmen's Veranda stamps then your entry will be counted as 2 in the prize drawing for a

$15 spending spree at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda! 

Now sit back and enjoy all the fabulous LCDesigner creations!

LCDesigner Karen created this lovely card using Lost Coast Designs stamps
Rabbit with Flowers, Daisy Flourish and Misc Words Set

LCDesigner Leigh created a Wonderlandian themed card using Lost Coast Designs stamps
 Doodle Flowers, Rabbit, Cat Face, Hatter, Rabbit with Watch set, Franco Face and Rustic Alphabet set

LCDesigner Kim created this fabulous mixed media canvas titled "Spring Chicken" using Lost Coast Designs stamps Mini Cracked Critters mini chicken and Cracked Chicken

 LCDesigner Granne created this wonderful flower pot using Lost Coast Designs stamps
Doodle Flowers and Bubbles Border

 LCDesigner Nikki created this lovely mail art using Lost Coast Designs stamps
Rabbit with Flowers, Doodle Flowers
she also used the Magenta Nuance Powders we now carry!

 and finishing off today's sharing we have two wonderful projects by LCDesigner Nanette!
Sweet Spring is a whimsical Wonderlandian framed art piece using Lost Coast Designs White Rabbit stamp from the Rabbit, Cat Face, Hatter, Rabbit with Watch set and Misc Words Set

and It's Time to Bloom is a wonderful 'cut away' card using Lost Coast Designs stamps
Rabbit, Cat Face, Hatter, Rabbit with Watch set and Tulip

HOW TO PLAY!
 Read over our few simple rules and then add your projects in the linky below! 

• Entries must involve real rubber stamping in some way!  Please mention the stamping in your post, if it's not obvious we won't know and your entry will not be included in the prize draw!   
• Digital stamps alone do not count but may be used in conjunction with real rubber!
  
• All stamp company stamps are welcome but if you only use LCD or CV stamps your entry will count as two and doubles your chance of winning the prize!   
• All kinds of projects are welcome, if you can stamp it you can enter it!
• Link directly to your project post, not your blog home page
• Mention our Event and link to us in your posts
• No backlinking to old projects published prior to the start of the event
• No limit on how many times you can enter
• No limits on combining our event with other challenges, etc
• You can enter our activities if you don't have a blog - link to your publicly shared project photos on photo sharing sites and include the name of our Event in your photo description!  ***Please note that you can not link to projects shared in a closed Facebook Group and don't share from sites that require membership, if the DT have to sign up to view your entry it will be disqualified!
• Follow our blog so you don't miss out on our fun activities ;-)
• We'd really appreciate it if you'd leave us a comment after linking up, the LCDesigners work hard on their projects and deserve some love ;-) 

Now it's your turn, we look forward to seeing all your wonderful Spring and Bunny themed creations!

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Have a fabulous Easter!
Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN
LCD/CV DT Leader

The "We're Not in Kansas Anymore" 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!

What fabulous entries we received in our Wizard of Oz themed event, thank you everyone for joining in the fun and now it's time to announce the winner of

Congratulations to
ANNE
for her waaaaaay out of the box and freaky fabulous take on the Wizard of Oz theme with her fabric stamped and stitched tornado complete with a Tinman and Toto using the following Carmen's Veranda stamps:
Birds Nest, Face Shrine, Sally, Witches background, Daisy and Robot

 Please use the Contact Form in the left sidebar to claim your price by March 31st.  Go shopping and include in the message your full name, mailing address and the stamps you'd like to spend your $15 prize on and grab your winner's badge!

 Stop by again tomorrow for the start of our new event

Happy Stamping!

Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Challenge #22: "Lets Party", more inspiration ...

Our 'Let's Party' challenge is well underway and as mentioned previously we will be sharing projects and inspiration when the challenge starts and also mid way through the month. Welcome to our mid month post :)

Please go the previous #22 challenge post to add your projects. But before you go .... check out some inspiration from our Design Team : 

As her focal image Nan has used Carmen's Veranda image Boris Karloff.  She has also used Lost Coast Designs Party Words and Horizontal Party Hats :

For Kim's Party On canvas, she has used stamps from Lost Coast Designs, Los Tres Cabelleros and License Plate Alpha Set. She has also used nuance powders, for sale at Lost Coast Designs.  

Please join us, and share your make with us, via the linkz tool at the Challenge Post HERE. 

DT Blog Hop - We're not in Kansas anymore!

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!

Happy Saturday!
Today we are having a DT Blog Hop and the theme is Wizard of Oz!

  Catch the Tornado to the Emerald City and visit the LCDesigners' blogs along the way for loads of wicked cool traditional and non-conventional Oz inspiration!  Then return here by hitching a ride with a flying monkey...if you have the courage...and link up your own Wizard of Oz projects in the linky at the bottom of this post by midnight PST on March 19!
 

Your entries can feature traditional Oz imagery from any stamp company or you can think waaaaay outside the box and make non-Oz images work too!  The LCDesigners have both kinds to give your brains lots of ideas!  Put your heart into it and have lots of fun ;0)  But keep a look out for Wicked Witches, they're known to lurk around so take a friend, or 3, along for a wild adventure!

Lost Coast Designs has a wonderful set of cartoon Oz characters and Carmen's Veranda has a vintage set right out of the original movie plus 2 fun background stamps as well as a bunch of monkey images too.  If you use any of our stamps, remember you don't have to have Oz specific stamps to play, then your entry will count as 2 in the prize drawing for a
$15 spending spree at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

LOST COAST DESIGNS

CARMEN'S VERANDA

The CV stamps are currently on the New Images page, the Flying Monkeys background is on the Backgrounds page and the single Flying Monkey can be found on the Animals page.

Here comes the Tornado, get ready, GO!

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Have a fabulous time hopping and creating, we can't wait to see where your imagination takes you!  
HOW TO PLAY!
 Read over our few simple rules and then add your projects in the linky below! 

• Entries must involve real rubber stamping in some way!  Please mention the stamping in your post, if it's not obvious we won't know and your entry will not be included in the prize draw!   
• Digital stamps alone do not count but may be used in conjunction with real rubber!
  
• All stamp company stamps are welcome but if you only use LCD or CV stamps your entry will count as two which doubles your chance of winning the prize!   
• All kinds of projects are welcome, if you can stamp it you can enter it!
• Link directly to your project post, not just your blog
• Mention our Event and link to us in your posts
• No backlinking to old projects published prior to the start of the event
• No limit on entry quantities
• No limit on challenges you may combine with our event
• You can enter our activities if you don't have a blog - link to your publicly shared project photos on photo sharing sites and include the name of our Event in your photo description!  ***Please note that you can not link to projects shared in a closed Facebook Group and don't share from sites that require membership, if the DT needs to sign up to view your entry it will be disqualified!
• Become a follower so you don't miss out on our fun activities ;-)
• We'd really appreciate it if you'd leave us a comment after linking up, the LCDesigners work hard on our activities and deserve some love ;-)

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Have a great weekend!

Leigh

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN 

LCD/CV DT Leader 

Challenge #22 Lets Party

The winner of our #21 Pocket Letters Challenge :

Congratulations ..... Susan Renshaw

Please email Nikki (nikksup@gmail.com) by the end of March to claim
your $5 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 #22 Lets Party

Welcome to our new challenge, Lets Party. 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 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!

Some inspiration from our Team Dream :

For this card Nikki has used stamps from Lost Coast Designs, Party Girl and Sunflower background :

Granne has used Lost Coast Designs Clown Puppet and Horizontal Party Hats :

There will me more 'Let's Party' inspiration mid month from the Design Team ... come back and check it out, but remember you must link up here.

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

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