Do I smell Cake

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Cathy here to interrupt your normally scheduled Christmas/Winter post to  sneak this in....

 

Over at Lost Coast Designs they have some cat and dog stamps by KatzelKraft. They are so cute. I just had to pop over here and show you what I made..

The saying is from Carmen's Veranda. I had the saying and it just felt like the two go together.

Please take a look when you are shopping for your Lost Coast and Carmen's Veranda stamps at the new additions of KatzelKraft . You will be happy you did.

 

Now back to your regular scheduled program........  

 

 

Lamb, Pizza and Napkins

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Hello.  Gail here today, just popping by to show you what I did with those sheep. 

I made some fun bottle hanging tags to help bling up the festive table.

I'd stamped, embossed, coloured and fussy cut Carmen's Veranda Sheep Doll
  and Quilted Wing Angel last week.  If you missed the angel project you can check it out HERE

 I used a pizza box, a sizzix die and a silver embossed napkin to make my tags.  Line the die up so one end is just over the folded pizza box so you get a double tag.  I cut two so I could have a nice strong tag and it also got rid of the spicy nacho picture LOL.  Then I glued my napkin on one side of the tag and fussy cut it.  Make sure you split the layers of your napkin so you are just gluing the top layer onto the tag.  Usually they are two or three layers and it rarely works to try and glue more than one layer at a time LOL. 

I inked the raised texture and edges of the tags with Paris Dusk ink, shaped the 'hanger' and cut a hole for the bottle neck.  I used glitter glue around the hole, blue here, and used my finger to smudge it out to give a starburst effect.  It also dries quicker as well.  I cut Poppystamps Flurry Frame from dark blue glitter card and added it and the sheep to the tag.

Here I added a silver glitter card layer that I cut with Poppystamps House in the Woods die.  The sheep is covering up the house, so now it's sheep in the woods!!

Thanks for looking.  Don't forget our Christmas/Winter challenge is still running.  Just leave your link in the comment section for a chance to win some Lost Coast dollars.  Hugz

MERRY CHRISTMAS

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We would like to wish all our customers and blog friends a very 

MERRY CHRISTMAS 

Hope you are having a day full of jingles and fun.

We hope Santa has brought you lots of crafty goodies.

If you are crafting don't forget our 

Winter/Christmas challenge

 is running until the end of the month.  

Ho Ho Ho.  See you there. 

Naughty or nice??? It could easily go either way...

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Merry Christmas Eve from Laurie and all the rest of the Design Team here at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!  We wish you all the happiest of holidays.

I've found this naughty girl to bring you special Christmas greetings!  I created this card using the Fifties Girl stamp.  She is good for just about any occasion but putting a little Santa hat on her makes her perfect for the holidays.  
 

I stamped her with black ink onto white card stock and colored her dress with red marker.  I gave her a little color in her cheeks and some bright red lipstick.  I cut her out and added the Santa hat.  My background is simply a couple of pieces of holiday scrapbook paper - one red and white striped and the other with some holiday words.  I cut out a cute "naughty or nice" ballot and attached that to the right side.  Then my little holiday cutie goes atop all and this is layered to a white card base.   And since it's Christmas Eve, we'll give her one more chance to be nice!!

Don't forget you can link up all your Christmas or Winter stamped makes to our  
challenge right up to the end of the month.

An Ass Family Christmas

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Hi, it's Sue here with the second of my Christmas cards, and this time it features stamps from Carmen's Veranda.

The background was made with Christmas Lights and coloured with glitter pens.

I think the Ass Family speak for themselves. Everyone knows this family!

You still have time to join in with our challenge, so get your jingle on!

Thanks for looking, and have a very Merry Christmas xx

May Angels Watch Over You

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Hi, Gail here today.  Are you ready??  Only a few days til the jolly red man gets stuck in the chimney!  And while everyone is choking on the smoke and Rudolf is trying to pull him out, you are carrying on as usual and trying to get the table set up.  And maybe you have invited some strangers to dinner, or the oldies, or maybe even the youngsters, need a little aide de memoire for who's who?  So I decided, since any new cards probably won't make it through the snow in time for the big day, that I would play about and make some table place cards.  This was more fun than a box of chocolate frogs!!!!

I used Carmen's Veranda's Quilted Wing Angel and some patterned card.

I started by stamping, embossing and fussy cutting Carmen's Veranda Quilted Wing Angel and Sheep Doll.  I coloured with distress inks, and gold, red and brown marker pens.  Then I decided to just go with the angels for this set.  The sheep will be back later...... 

To make the place card bases I cut some patterned paper into 4x4" squares, folded in half,  then used an oval die to cut off the bottom to give a more interesting shape.  I added some irridescent glitter to the wings and Windsor and Newton Iridescent Watercolour medium to the dress.  This is like Wink of Stella, but comes in a good size bottle, so you can get sparkly all over!!  I think you can see the glimmer in the main picture.

Off to make 5 more of these while the reindeer is cooking.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Don't forget you can link up all your Christmas or Winter stamped makes to our challenge right up to the end of the month.  See you there.  Hugz 

Joyful Tag

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Hello all Cathy here.  Today I made a tag for Christmas.  I started off with a #10 size office tag. I grabbed some Christmas colors of the Distress Oxide inks. (greens and reds and black for splatters) I took my craft mat and smooched the inks on it added water and put my tag in it. Dried one color and moved on to the next. When I'm happy with that I take the black ink and make splatters over the tag, set aside to dry.

Next I took Mistletoe Goth and stamped her on Copic friendly paper with black ink, colored her with Copic markers and then trimmed her down and cut her out.

 Now back to the tag. I took the small snowflake stamp set and Versa mark ink and stamped it on the tag. Then I used white embossing power on it.

Layering is the next step. I had some black paper on my table and I had my Christmas paper and washi tape on there too. I added the black and Christmas paper on the side. Added Mistletoe Goth to the middle and added washi tape to the top and bottom of Mistletoe Goth stamped image.

Last I added a Christmas token with some sparkle ribbon to the tag. Also added sparkle ribbon to the top. I call it done.

Please stop by leave you entry here for the  Winter/Christmas challenge this month.

Can't wait to see what you all come up with.

Christmas Dancers

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To continue the Christmas theme, PUFF created the following card:

 She used SHOWGIRLS and dressed them in red and green with some sparkle thrown in for good measure.

Don't forget to get your entries in by putting your link in the comments section HERE.  Our Christmas/Winter challenge runs through December 31st.

Happy Stamping!
Marilyn
LCD/CV DT Leader

We Wish You A Merry Christmas

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Hi, it's Sue here with my first Christmas card for this month challenge.



This is the beautiful Megan's Christmas Bird that's been chopped up a bit, watercolours, and Stickled (glitter glued) to within an inch of its feathery life.

So over to you now, please join in with either a Christmas or a Winter themed piece to be in with a chance to win Lost Coast/Carmen's Veranda $s.

Have a very happy week, and I'll see you later in the month xx

Stay Warm!

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Hi to all visiting the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity today.  Laurie here.  If you are like me, you are deep into preparations for the coming holidays.  And I love making Christmas and winter related projects.
For our monthly challenge here on the Portal, that's just what we are doing.

I have made this card - could be used for Christmas or any other occasion, really.  My background is made with my Gelli plate, some blue and silver paint, and some stencils.  I layered my background with a piece of white card stock.  I used the Georges and Louis stamp for this card.  I stamped my image with black ink onto white card stock and cut it out.  I added some color to the little boy's face and gave him blue leggings and a blue cap.  I mounted him to my background with foam tape and added a little decorative die cut design to the upper left corner.

Be sure to visit both Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda for some fun holiday stamps and be sure to enter the challenge for a chance to win!

Raven's Winter

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Can you believe it is Dec. 6th already.  Cathy here with a holiday card for you.  My idea when I made this it would go well for a Winter Solstice card.

 First off I stamped raven small right and left on the bottom of my white card panel.
There are two sizes of the raven so if you wanted a larger raven you can do that.

After that I picked out 3 different colors of Distress inks, a blue, a purple and a gray. Then I took my small snowflake set and stamped them in different inks all over the panel. Guess what?  Lost Coast Designs have a large snowflake set too.  So you have your choice of sizes. Large or small or a mix of both.

Then I distressed the edge of the white panel, inked the edge of it with the gray ink and set aside.

Next I took a black cardstock and made a top folding card and grabbed some more of the snowflakes. Can you believe there is 8 different snowflakes in that set? WOW!  I stamped them in Versa fine ink and embossed them with white embossing power.

(sorry about the flash)

I came back to the panel and colored in the ravens with Copic markers and added a hat to the left raven.  Wrapped white and silver bakers twine around the top and added a word token to it. Just to add some sparkle to it I added sliver tinsel to where the word token is.

Added foam tape the added it the black card and done.

I hope to see what you all are doing for your Winter/Christmas cards. You can join our challenge HERE for a chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars

Challenge #43 Christmas/Winter

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 Good Morning!

It's time for our new Challenge for December

but first we have a couple of WINNERS to announce.
For our Day of the Dead event we only received one entry, but boy was it a good one!

WINNER of the DAY OF THE DEAD EVENT is

  SUSAN

 

 Our CAS challenge also didn't get many entries but....

WINNER OF CHALLENGE #42 is

 KATHYk

Congratulations Susan and Kathyk!
Here's your snazzy Challenge Winner's badge for your blogs!
Please link your badge back to us here at LCPtoC, THX :0)

Now for our December Challenge!

CHALLENGE #43 CHRISTMAS/WINTER

Since it's December, we are going with a Christmas/Winter theme.  Anything to do with Christmas, the holidays, or winter is fair game.  Since it's a busy time of year this will be the only challenge this month and you have until midnight, December 31st to join the fun.

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 random 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!
As an extra special for this month if we get 100 entries we will add a second prize of a $10 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV, so tell your friends and come and join the fun.  

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! 

Marilyn is up today to get things kicked off.

I fell in love with this ART DECO ANGEL and had to use it.  I first stamped the image on a piece of Bristol paper and cut it out.  I then colored it with Prismacolor pencils and highlighted some areas with stickles.  The coaster is colored with inks then a little bit of glitter was sprinkled on.

Now it's your turn, are you up for the challenge?  We can't wait to see your projects!  
Mr Linky is still being a little contrary so please add your entries in the comments below.
You have until Midnight PST, December 31st!


Happy Stamping!
Marilyn
LCD/CV DT Leader