Walk of Fame: Salvador Dali

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Hello everyone, Liesbeth here showing a card using the nice Carmen's Verandas Dali stamp in the Walk of Fame challenge! For inspiration and how to participate look HERE:-)

On an inked background I first stamped the big circle from the Shadow Frame set with blue Distress ink, and masked it. After that I stamped the pillars (ATC Misc 7 set) and the flourish (Skull Flourish)with black StazOn ink and the spiderweb (Spiderwebs Background) with blue StazOn ink. I took some bleach and a synthetic brush and I bleached the face, the flourishes and big pillars. I finished the card with color pencils, white gel pen and a black fineliner.

Liesbeth XX

Walk of Fame - Raven

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Hello all,

Lori here, with a new card for the "Walk of Fame" challenge.  This card features a mixed media background with Edgar and a Raven as the focal point.  Check out the step by steps below.

Lost Coast Designs:

• Edgar Allen Poe - Carmen's Veranda
• 3 Birds
• ATC Misc. Set 6

Other materials:

• Acrylic paint
• Crackle medium
• Water color paper
• Black card stock
• Ephemera
• Washi tape
• Permanent Pigment Ink
• Colored pencils

Instructions:

1) Apply acrylic paint to a panel of watercolor paper.  Allow to dry.

2) Apply a 2 step crackle medium and allow to dry (follow product instructions).

3) Apply white acrylic paint over crackle medium.  Allow to dry.

4) Stamp script over the crackle finish with a permanent pigment ink using a stamp from the ATC Misc. 6 set.

5)  Stamp one of the 3 Birds images as well as the Edgar Allen Poe head shot on to white cardstock.

6)  Fussy cut images and add color with colored pencils.

7)  Adhere crackle panel to back cardstock base.

8)  Using different widths of washi tape, cover mid-portion of card with layers of tape.

9)  Adhere pieces of ephemera to card.

10)  Adhere the Raven and Edgar images to card.

Join in of the Walk of Fame Blog Challenge by Clicking Here and linking your creation up to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Blog page.

Happy Day!

Lori

Life is Too Short

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Hello Friends!

I hope you're all having a lovely weekend. Only a few short days left in our Walk of Fame challenge...be sure to post your creations for your chance to win!

Today Mona and I are sending you a bit of advice...

To create this card I used purple tape to mask off a piece of watercolor paper and sprinkled various colors of pigment powders. I then used a wet paint brush to swish the colors around until I was satisfied with the results. You can either let the colors dry naturally or speed drying with a heat tool.  Once dry I stamped the No Hat Mona and Stay Weird sentiment with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink.  

You have until the 31st to enter to win!!

Good Luck Friends!

Boris, Frank and Charlie

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Hello Portal peeps.
Are you enjoying all the famous people inspiration from the team this month???
I must admit the Carmen's Veranda people stamps are some of my favourites.
Take a bloke, add a background.  What could be simpler?? 
Here's three of my favourite Carmen's Veranda blokes with three of my
favourite Lost Coast Designs Backgrounds.

 I stamped the blokes with black archival and then used different archival colours for the backgrounds

 Boris with Leaves background stamped with Prickly Pear archival ink

  Frankenstein and Fruit Pods background stamped with Bluebird archival ink

Charlie Chaplin with Bubbles Background stamped with Dandelion archival ink.

Grab you famous people stamps and join the fun for your chance to
win some new rubber!!!!

Talking of new rubber........
Linda added Yoga Cats to the Lost Coast Designs NEW! category before christmas and the other day she added GNOMES!!!!  Check em out!!  They are awesome!!

Linda also added three new people stamps to Carmen's Veranda NEW! category.  The team have already been sharing inspiration with these so scroll down to see their amazing makes.   

Thanks for visiting.  Leave the guys some love.  You know you want to.  Hugz

Walk of Fame: Frida

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here showing a Frida Kahlo card in the Walk of Fame challenge! For inspiration and how to participate look HERE:-)
Like I said...Frida... I love her art and I'm very interested in her work and her life (1907-1954)
And of course I love the many LCD Frida stamps!  The one I used is called Frida 1, I stamped it on a painted and inked background and bleached the face. I also used Daisy flourish and Flagstone background 

Liesbeth XX

Walk of Fame: Sherlock On the Case

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Hi again from Laurie with a project for the "Walk of Fame" challenge going on until the end of January here on the Portal.

For this card, I used the Sherlock Holmes stamp from Carmen's Veranda and the Ledger background stamp from Lost Coast Designs.

I have a box full of Gelli prints that I have made over the past months so I dug around until I found this background page.  It's made with yellow, blue, rust, and gold acrylic paints and a couple of different stencils.  I love how the little touches of blue appear here and there - that's what often happens if you don't clean the paint off your plate before you add some new colors.  You get some of the older paint showing through, which I really like.

I stamped the Ledger background with black StayzOn ink - since it's a painted background regular ink won't dry well.  I stamped Sherlock with black ink onto some cream paper and trimmed around the edges, then inked the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  I affixed him to the center of my background paper with some black photo corners.

The final step was to layer this with blue paper and stitch around the edges with black thread.

We can't wait to see what you can create for the fun famous people challenge!  So come join us!

Everything is possible

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Cathy here with a card for you.

This card I started out using watercolors for the background. It was a purple/blue color. Then I did a wash of Payne's gray. When that was still wet I placed a stencil over top and took a baby wipe to wipe away the color.
I then took the ledger ATC stamp from ATC set 6 and stamped randomly in black ink all over the front. Take a cap from any bottle and ink it up with some black ink to make some circles on the front. Glue to front of a black card base.

Stamp Sherlock on scrap white cardstock and color with Copic and then cut out. Add to corner of card.
Pick out a saying and add to top.

Come join the walk of fame challenge here 

Walk of Fame: Butterfly Mona

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Hi again from Laurie with another project for the "Walk of Fame" challenge going on right now at the Lost Coast Portal.    And I used one of my favorite Lost Coast stamps for this card:  Flying Mona.

I started by preparing my background; using a square of white card stock, I stenciled across it using complementary shades of green Distress Inks.  I then randomly stamped The Large Chickenwire background stamp using black ink.  Next, I stamped Flying Mona onto white card stock with black ink and cut her out.  The stamp comes with butterfly wings, but I decided to cut those off and add my own pair.  I colored her with Copic markers in yellows and greens to complement her wings.  Before I mounted her to my background, I stamped her headpiece directly onto the background then positioned the cutout image directly over that.   

I then stamped my sentiment - Lose Your Shoe from Carmen's Veranda - onto a white square and positioned it as shown in the lower left corner.  Final step was to layer my card front with a piece of olive card stock.

We would love to see your projects featuring famous people, so be sure to post them on the Portal for a chance to win some fabulous free stamps!

CHALLENGE #91 - WALK OF FAME

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Hello Portal Peeps.  It's time for our new Challenge.
Our challenges are now fortnightly!  A new challenge starting the 1st and the 15th of every month, with chances to win your self some Lost Coast dollars. We will be announcing winners on the 5th of the month, so do pop back and see who wowed the team and gets our snazzy blog badge and the coveted Lost Coast dollars.

Now for our new Challenge!

CHALLENGE #91

WALK OF FAME

We want to see famous people, real or fictional, on your stamped project.

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 chosen by the team is awarded our Challenge Winner's Badge
5+ Entries = one randomly picked winner will receive a $5 gift certificate to spend at
Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda
10+ Entries = one randomly picked winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to spend at
Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda
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 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! 

Here's some inspiration from the Lori to get us started.  ENJOY!

Lori made this fun card featuring Carmen's Veranda new Einstein stamp, Iron Work stamp and Flower Flourish.

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 31st and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month so check back and join the fun.

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #91 - WALK OF FAME ON stamp a famous person
January 15th - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Friday, January 31st 23.59 PST.
All entries must be entered in our link up but your don't need a blog to win.  See our RULES page for more info
 

Happy New Year My Inky Friends

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Ink Stained Roni here and since it's "Anything Goes" I thought I'd make another New Years card but something a little more unexpected....

Now let me explain a bit... I wanted to look into the future a bit to wish you the very best of luck in the coming year...in comes one of the palm reading hands from the set ATC Hands Set. Next, life is messy...hence the cool background made using the stamp Grunge Black Swirl from CV. I used a piece of map pattern paper to extend these good wishes in all of your travels and of course the sentiment - Happy New Year from the Party Words set.

I hope you all are enjoying the new year so far...may luck follow you where ever you go!

Still time to enter your creation for a chance to win!

Anything goes day 12: Victoriana

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Hi there, Liesbeth here with an Anything Goes example! Read everything about it HERE. Hope you will join us!

Again an ATC, I love that size! Its just stamped onto an inked background and coloured wit pencils and markers. First I stamped the Victoriana lady and masked her. I stamped the Flagstone background and on her head a piece of Face with tongue. ;-) (bird and wheel)

Stamps used: Flagstone background,  Victoriana,  Face with tongue, Misc. words

Liesbeth XX

Anything Goes - Little Monster Birthday

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Hello all,

Lori here, with a new inspiration for the Anything Goes Challenge.  I created a striped layered background by masking off different sections at at time.  See instructions below for the step by steps.

Lost Coast Designs:

• Crackle Background
• Katzelkraft Monsters
• Miscellaneous Words Unmounted

Other:

• Pigment Ink
• India Ink Pen
• Dye based ink pads
• Painters tape

1)  Tape of section of a card panel and stamp with Crackle Background with pigment ink.

2) Use tape to cover previously stamped portions of card.

3) Sponge with pigment ink.

4) Use Black India Ink pen to trace edges of sponged sections.

5) Stamp monster image onto 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" card stock panel.

6) Stamp Happy Birthday along top strip of card.

7) Adhere monster image onto black card-stock.  Tie twine across bottom of mounted image and then adhere to card striped panel with double sided mounting tape.

8) Embellish with gem stickers.

Stop on by the Blog and link up your own Anything Goes creations, we would love to see your work!  

Happy Day!

Lori

Anything Goes: Day 10 - Laurie's Junk Journal

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Hi from Laurie and hope this finds you warm and getting 2020 off to a good start.  And what better way to start your creative journey than by taking part in the Lost Coast Challenge for the beginning of January:  Anything Goes.  That means create whatever you want in whatever theme you like, just make sure your project includes some rubber or clear stamping - no digi's!

I have gotten into Junk Journals the past couple of months and one of my projects that I want to tackle this winter is to create my own junk journal.  So I thought I would make something that I could include in my journal - I have been trying to make and collect things so when my journal is done I will have some fun stuff to put in it.

So I made a journal card with a tuck spot for tucking miscellaneous goodies.  For the front of my card, I used a piece of cream card stock measuring 4 1/2 by 3 inches, edged with Distress Ink in Vintage Photo.  I stamped the Postcards Background stamp from Carmen's Veranda onto my card using black ink.

Next I stamped The King Chess Piece with black ink onto cream card stock and fussy cut him out.  I punched some small gold circles to decorate his crown and attached him to my journal card.  I then took a piece of heavier vintage book paper and created another card slightly wider than my first one.  I edged it with the same Distress ink then attached the two cards by sewing around all four sides.  Since the top card is smaller, the left edge of it has remained open to create a little tuck spot that you can slide things into.

I stamped a couple of ATC background cards using ATC Misc 6 Set from Lost Coast Designs.  I edged those with distress ink and tucked them, along with a vintage ticket, into my tuck spot, and this is ready to be put into my journal!

I hope you will join us for this first 2020 Challenge!!

Cat and Mouse Games

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Hello Portal Peeps!!
Gail here today and I am pairing some of the fun NEW Lost Coast Designs Yoga Cats with one of Carmen's Veranda funny, but oh so true sentiments. 
These cats are just cracking me up!!!!!

This is Yoga Cat 5, doing his thing, and Carmen's Veranda Frozen Internet clear stamp.  I just stamped the cat and the sentiment on my grey woodgrain card base and added a little Spun Sugar distress to his ears and nose.

It was so quick and easy I decide to use the other two base cards I had cut from the 12x12 sheet!!  This is Yoga Cat 4, doing his thing, and Carmen's Veranda Frozen Internet clear stamp.  Well, I know a lot of people this sentiment is perfect for......  Me!  All my girlfriends of a certain age!  Busy executives!  Kids trying to tweet, insta, face it and all those other acronyms!!!!

Actually I think these cats with any of the Carmen's Veranda sentiments are going to be a hit.  This is Yoga Cat 10, doing her thing, and Carmen's Veranda Frozen Internet clear stamp.  I wonder where #8 is??  Probably nipped off for a bit of a nap.....  Laurie also used this cat the other day, but made a much more beautiful background, and used a different sentiment you might be glad to know!

So, it's Anything Goes with real stamps here at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity for the first two weeks of the year.  Link up your stamped anythings for a chance to win some Lost Coast Designs and/or Carmen's Veranda stamps. 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz