Day 8 and Finale of It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas: "Crystal Angel" Snowflake Ornament by Leigh!

Welcome 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 Peep🎄

Welcome back for the Finale of our

"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" 

Celebrations!

I'm back today for the finale of our Xmas event and the last project share of 2016! 

We hope you have enjoyed seeing all the fabulous holiday projects created by our amazing LCDesigners this month!

THANK YOU EVERYONE

for spending this year with us and sharing all your wonderful projects in our events and challenge!  We have had an absolute blast and can't wait to start creating with you in 2017! 

We'll see you back here again on January 2 for our first Challenge of 2017 plus a brand new Event to follow soon after!  Fun times ahead so we hope you'll Stay to Play😜

 Today might be our last project share but the fun never ends here at LCPtoC and you still have lots of time to play in our Xmas Linky Party so get out all your holiday stamps, by any company, and enter your rubber stamped Christmas or Winter themed projects in our Xmas Linky Party at the bottom of the Day 1 post by January 6, 2017 at 5 to midnight for the chance to win LCD/CV Bucks to spend in our Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda stores!  

The more entries the better the prizes so round up all your friends and join the most festive party of the year🎉   We do have some RULES so please check them out to ensure your entries are eligible to win!  You also don't have to have a blog to play in our activities!  

You can submit projects into our link up via photo sharing sites like Google Photos and even via our Facebook Pages.  Please check our RULES page for more info on how to do that....all entries must be in the Inlinkz link up to be included in the prize drawing!

"Crystal Angel" Snowflake Ornament 

by LCDesigner Leigh

Today I'm featuring Lost Coast Designs Art Deco Angel.

showing her true colours

so magical hanging on my window

she changes colour depending on the lighting and I just love this stained glass effect created by the snowflake behind the image

 from all of us at Lost Coast Designs and

Carmen's Veranda!!!

Safe Travels and we'll see you next year😃

Leigh S-B

The Sharpie Domino Queen

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 7 of It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas: "Star Cat" card by Granne!

Welcome 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 Holidays Portal Peep🎄
Was Santa really good to you this year?

Welcome to Day 7 of our

"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"  

Celebrations!

Things are very festive here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity as we celebrate the season throughout December and into the new year in style🎉  We're now nearing the end of our festive LCDesigner projects shares with just one more project on Dec 30th.  But you all still have lots of time to spread the holiday cheer!  Enter your rubber stamped Christmas or Winter themed projects in our Xmas Linky Party at the bottom of the Day 1 post by January 6, 2017 at 5 to midnight for the chance to win LCD/CV Bucks to spend in our Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda stores!  The more entries the better the prizes so round up all your friends and join the most festive party of the year🎉   We do have some RULES so please check them out to ensure your entries are eligible to win!  You also don't have to have a blog to play in our activities!  You can submit projects into our link up via photo sharing sites like Google Photos and even via our Facebook Pages.  Please check our RULES page for more info on how to do that....all entries must be in the Inlinkz link up to be included in the prize drawing!

"Star Cat" by LCDesigner Granne

Granne features Carmen's Veranda Angel Cat on her wonderful folkart style kitty card.

 Thanks for joining us today!
We hope you'll Stay and Play in our Xmas Linky Party so get out all your holiday stamps, by any company, and join the fun!

See you again on Dec 30th for our final Xmas feature!

Happy Holidays!

Leigh S-B

The Sharpie Domino Queen

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 6 of It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas: "Hark" ATC and "Noel" Wall Art by Paula!

Welcome 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!

Merry Christmas Eve Portal Peep🎄
All of us at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda wish you all a very Merry and safe Christmas!

Welcome to Day 6 of our

"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"  

Celebrations!

Things are very festive here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity as we celebrate the season throughout December and into the new year in style🎉  We're sharing LCDesigner projects all month long so join us, spread the holiday cheer and enter your rubber stamped Christmas or Winter themed projects in our Xmas Linky Party at the bottom of the Day 1 post by January 6, 2017 at 5 to midnight for the chance to win LCD/CV Bucks to spend in our Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda stores!  The more entries the better the prizes so round up all your friends and join the most festive party of the year🎉   We do have some RULES so please check them out to ensure your entries are eligible to win!  You also don't have to have a blog to play in our activities!  You can submit projects into our link up via photo sharing sites like Google Photos and even via our Facebook Pages.  Please check our RULES page for more info on how to do that....all entries must be in the Inlinkz link up to be included in the prize drawing!

Paula has two Angel themed vintage style projects to share with you today, a wonderful ATC and an elegant Wall Art piece!

"Hark" by LCDesigner Paula

Featuring Lost Coast Designs stamps:
Angel from the Fortune Women set, Old Typewriter Alphabet, Black Flourish, Black letter paragraph from ATC Text Set 1 and Clover Scroll Border.

ATC

"Noel" by LCDesigner Paula

Featuring the following Lost Coast Designs stamps:
Angel from the Fortune Women set, Gothic Arch Window from ATC Misc Set 6, Rustic Alphabet and Clover Scroll Border.

Framed Wall Art

showing depth plus gold & silver shimmer

Thanks for joining us today!
We hope you'll Stay and Play in our Xmas Linky Party so get out all your holiday stamps, by any company, and join the fun!

Woohoo....Santa comes tonight....I hope you've been very good 🎅

See you again on Dec 27th for our next Xmas feature!
Happy Holidays!

Leigh S-B

The Sharpie Domino Queen

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 5 of It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas: "Christmas Gift Tag" and "Feeling Blue ATC" by Nikki!

Welcome 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 Holidays Portal Peep🎄

Welcome to Day 5 of our

"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"  

Celebrations!

Things are very festive here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity as we celebrate the season throughout December and into the new year in style🎉  We're sharing LCDesigner projects all month long so join us, spread the holiday cheer and enter your rubber stamped Christmas or Winter themed projects in our Xmas Linky Party at the bottom of the Day 1 post by January 6, 2017 at 5 to midnight for the chance to win LCD/CV Bucks to spend in our Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda stores!  The more entries the better the prizes so round up all your friends and join the most festive party of the year🎉   We do have some RULES so please check them out to ensure your entries are eligible to win!  You also don't have to have a blog to play in our activities!  You can submit projects into our link up via photo sharing sites like Google Photos and even via our Facebook Pages.  Please check our RULES page for more info on how to do that....all entries must be in the Inlinkz link up to be included in the prize drawing!

Nikki has 2 wintery projects to share with you today, a festive and fun Christmas Gift Tag and a lovely ATC as a sad reminder that not everyone enjoys this time of year!
Sending big HUGS and much love to everyone that needs a hug right now😘

Both projects feature our wonderful folkart style Carmen's Veranda  Snowman.

"Christmas Gift Tag" by LCDesigner Nikki

Carmen's Veranda  Snowman

"Feeling Blue" by LCDesigner Nikki

 

Carmen's Veranda  Snowman

 Thanks for joining us today!
We hope you'll Stay and Play in our Xmas Linky Party so get out all your holiday stamps, by any company, and join the fun!

See you again on Dec 24th for our next Xmas feature!
Happy Holidays!

Leigh S-B

The Sharpie Domino Queen

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 4 of It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas: "Angels We Have Heard on High" set of 3 ATCs by Nanette!

Welcome 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 Holidays Portal Peep🎄

Welcome to Day 4 of our

"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"  

Celebrations!

Things are very festive here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity as we celebrate the season throughout December and into the new year in style🎉  We're sharing LCDesigner projects all month long so join us, spread the holiday cheer and enter your rubber stamped Christmas or Winter themed projects in our Xmas Linky Party at the bottom of the Day 1 post by January 6, 2017 at 5 to midnight for the chance to win LCD/CV Bucks to spend in our Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda stores!  The more entries the better the prizes so round up all your friends and join the most festive party of the year🎉   We do have some RULES so please check them out to ensure your entries are eligible to win!  You also don't have to have a blog to play in our activities!  You can submit projects into our link up via photo sharing sites like Google Photos and even via our Facebook Pages.  Please check our RULES page for more info on how to do that....all entries must be in the Inlinkz link up to be included in the prize drawing!

"Angels We Have Heard on High"

by LCDesigner Nanette

Nan has a set of 3 beautiful shabby chic style ATCs to share with you today featuring the following stamps:
 Carmen's Veranda:  Small Angel Head
Lost Coast Designs:  Old typewriter Alphabet

Thanks for joining us today!
We hope you'll Stay and Play in our Xmas Linky Party and also our December Challenge, #31 Party Critters so get out all your holiday stamps, by any company, and join the fun!  Don't forget our Dec Challenge closes earlier this month on the 20th and our Xmas Linky Party closes on Jan 6th!

See you again on Dec 21st for our next Xmas feature!
Happy Holidays!

Leigh S-B

The Sharpie Domino Queen

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 3 of It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas: "Angels Sing" and "A Very Merry Christmas" Cards by Darlene!

Welcome 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 Holidays Portal Peep🎄

Welcome to Day 3 of our

"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"  

Celebrations!

Things are very festive here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity as we celebrate the season throughout December and into the new year in style🎉  We're sharing LCDesigner projects all month long so join us, spread the holiday cheer and enter your rubber stamped Christmas or Winter themed projects in our Xmas Linky Party at the bottom of the Day 1 post by January 6, 2017 at 5 to midnight for the chance to win LCD/CV Bucks to spend in our Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda stores!  The more entries the better the prizes so round up all your friends and join the most festive party of the year🎉   We do have some RULES so please check them out to ensure your entries are eligible to win!  You also don't have to have a blog to play in our activities!  You can submit projects into our link up via photo sharing sites like Google Photos and even via our Facebook Pages.  Please check our RULES page for more info on how to do that....all entries must be in the Inlinkz link up to be included in the prize drawing!

 Darlene has 2 beautiful Christmas cards to share with you today featuring stamps from our Nostalgia collection!

"Angels Sing" by LCDesigner Darlene

Featuring Lost Coast Designs Herald Angels.

"A Very Merry Christmas" by LCDesigner Darlene

 Featuring Lost Coast Designs Kitty Girl.

 Thanks for joining us today!
We hope you'll Stay and Play in our Xmas Linky Party and also our December Challenge, #31 Party Critters so get out all your holiday stamps, by any company, and join the fun!  Don't forget our Dec Challenge closes earlier this month on the 20th and our Xmas Linky Party closes on Jan 6th!

See you again on Dec 18th for our next Xmas feature!
Happy Holidays!

Leigh S-B

The Sharpie Domino Queen

LCD/CV DT Leader

Challenge #31 Party Critters - Midway Inspiration

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 again everyone!
I hope December has been great to you so far!
We are now halfway through our December Challenge.

CHALLENGE #31

PARTY CRITTERS

Our LCDesigners of Challenge Team Inspire are back with more fabulous inspiration to share & help give your creativity a kick-start.  If you are just joining us, click HERE for all the info on this month's challenge and to submit your entries by 5 to midnight PST December 20th.  Remember, we are ending the challenge a little earlier this month in order to give our team time to spend with their families over the holidays.

KAREN created a great "Party" Birthday Card using Party Dogs and Party Words.

Now it's your turn, are you up for the challenge?  Submit your entries HERE by 5 to midnight PST on the 20th!
Don't forget, our next challenge will start January 2nd.

Happy Stamping!
Marilyn
Challenge Host

Day 2 of It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas: "Snappy Santa" card by Karen!

Welcome 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 Holidays Portal Peep🎄

Welcome to Day 2 of our

"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"  

Celebrations!

Things are very festive here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity as we celebrate the season throughout December and into the new year in style🎉  We're sharing LCDesigner projects all month long so join us, spread the holiday cheer and enter your rubber stamped Christmas or Winter themed projects in our Xmas Linky Party at the bottom of the Day 1 post by January 6, 2017 at 5 to midnight for the chance to win LCD/CV Bucks to spend in our Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda stores!  The more entries the better the prizes so round up all your friends and join the most festive party of the year🎉   We do have some RULES so please check them out to ensure your entries are eligible to win!  You also don't have to have a blog to play in our activities!  You can submit projects into our link up via photo sharing sites like Google Photos and even via our Facebook Pages.  Please check our RULES page for more info on how to do that....all entries must be in the Inlinkz link up to be included in the prize drawing!

"Snappy Santa" by LCDesigner Karen

Karen's lovely vintage style Christmas card features the following stamps:

 Carmen's Veranda: Plaid Santa and Christmas Tree
Lost Coast Designs: "Merry Christmas" from our Party Words set

Thanks for joining us today!
We hope you'll Stay and Play in our Xmas Linky Party and also our December Challenge began on December 5th, #31's theme is Party Critters!  So get out all your holiday stamps, by any company, and join the fun!

See you again on Dec 15th for our next Xmas feature!
Happy Holidays!

Leigh S-B

The Sharpie Domino Queen

LCD/CV DT Leader

Challenge #31 Party Critters

Welcome 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 time for our new Challenge for December but first we have the WINNER of Challenge #30 to announce!  We had some great Thankful/Give Thanks entries for November and WE are thankful you decided to play along with our challenge.

The LCDesigners voted on their faves and based on their votes the randomly drawn
WINNER of CHALLENGE #30 is

BURNING RUBBER'S RELIQUARY

 Congratulations BurningRubber's Reliquary!  Please email Marilyn (mcgoo4@gmail.com) by the end of the month to claim your prize of a $5 gift certificate.  Please provide your full name and mailing address in the email as well as the stamps you would like, you may choose from Lost Coast Designs and/or Carmen's Veranda!

Here's your snazzy Challenge Winner's badge for your blog!
Please link your badge back to us here at LCPtoC, THX :0)

Now for our December Challenge!

CHALLENGE #31

PARTY CRITTERS

This month is all about parties with critters!  In the spirit of this party season, we want to see you liven things up.  Think hats on cats, dancing birds, discoing doggies, just put your thinking caps on and have a blast with this one.

Please remember we do have some Challenge Rules to follow so look them over 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 your entry counts as two which doubles your chances of winning in our Design Team Faves prize drawing.

PRIZES

To ensure you all have a fabulous time playing in our Challenges this is how our Prize system works!
The more entries the better the Prize so tell all your friends to join the fun too!

1 - 4 Entries = one Winner is awarded our Challenge Winner's 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
and 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!  Submit your projects into our link up via photo sharing sites like Google Photos or even via our Facebook Company Pages, Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda.  FYI, you can't link up projects shared in closed Facebook groups!   Please check our RULES page for more info on how to dot that...all entries must be in the Inlinkz link up to be included in the prize drawing!  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!

Our LCDesigners of Challenge Team Inspire have some fabulous inspiration to share, ENJOY!

LEIGH has created some Re-usable Dinner Party Place Holders.  She used Crow Party, Loopy Calligraphy, and Nuance Powders.

DARLENE created some Party Toppers.  She used Whimsical Spike, Whimsical Ruthie, Happy Cat, Owl Anthropomorph, Party Hats, and Barnyard Dog

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 5 to midnight PST on the 20th!  Yes, the 20th.  We are ending things a little early this month in order to give our hardworking team time to spend with their families.  Thank you for understanding and next month we will be back to our normal schedule.

See you again on the 12th for more LCDesigner inspiration!
Happy Stamping!
Marilyn
Challenge Host

An InLinkz Link-up

Day 1 of It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas: "Layered PoinsettiaOrnament" and "Snowcat" card by Leigh!

Welcome 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 December Portal Peep🎄

Welcome to Day 1 of our

"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"  

Celebrations!

Things are about to get very festive here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity as we celebrate the season throughout December and into the new year in style🎉  We'll be sharing LCDesigner projects all month long so join us, spread the holiday cheer and enter your rubber stamped Christmas or Winter themed projects in our Linky Party at the bottom of this post by January 6, 2017 at 5 to midnight for the chance to win LCD/CV Bucks to spend in our Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda stores!  The more entries the better the prizes so round up all your friends and join the most festive party of the year🎉   

We do have some RULES so please make sure you check them out to ensure your entries are eligible to win!  You also don't have to have a blog to play in our activities!  You can submit projects into our link up via photo sharing sites like Google Photos and even via our Facebook Pages.  Please check our RULES page for more info on how to do that....all entries must be in the Inlinkz link up to be included in the prize drawing!

Sadly we didn't have enough entries in our Dia de los Muertos November event to award a prize but we loved seeing your wonderful entries and hope you'll join in the fun this month😉

 I'm kicking off the celebrations today with two projects and my first one features a brand new rather cool kitty to our Lost Coast Designs line, say hello to our new Snowcat...isn't he a cutie😉

"Meowy Christmas" by LCDesigner Leigh

This winter themed Christmas card features the following stamps:

 Lost Coast Designs: new Snowcat, Large and Small Snowflakes and the sentiment is a partial of "Merry Christmas" from our Party Words set..."Meowy" was hand written.

Carmen's Veranda: Christmas Tree.

showing the dimension and yummy sparkle

"Layered Poinsettia" by LCDesigner Leigh

 This multi-layered and fussy cut hanging wall ornament features the following stamps:

 Carmen's Veranda: Poinsettia Background 

Lost Coast Designs: new Loopy Calligraphy

close up

showing all the layers and the Wink of Stella sparkle on the poinsettia

Thanks for joining us today and we hope you'll Stay and Play!

Our December Challenge starts on December 5th and our next Xmas feature will be up on Dec 9th!
Happy Stamping!

Leigh S-B

The Sharpie Domino Queen

LCD/CV DT Leader

An InLinkz Link-up