Elk Skull Dreaming

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Welcome Friends...Roni here.  

You still have a bit of time to play in the East Meets West Challenge.

I wanted to share the very western Elk Skull Dreamcatcher image with you. The spray of roses and little meadow flowers along with the lovely dream catchers make this a beautiful and versatile image for both guys and gals.

Such a fun image to color which I have done here with a variety of colored pencils including Prismacolor, Soho Urban Artist, and Staedtler.  It was mounted on a suede pattern paper and dark brown card which I finished off with a few sequins.

Hope you join in on the fun!!

Check out all of the details at the link below.

Mexican town at night

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Hello, are you having a nice day? I did, stamped with great pleasure. So created this scenery. I'll tell you how you can make it too. The stamp I used is "South west town" from Carmens Veranda

Smooth stamp paper.
masking tape.
Distressink: chipped sapphire, faded jeans, broken china, bundled sage, antique linen and weathered wood. White acrylic paint. Colorpencils, I used derwent colorsoft.White gelpen. White inkpad (versa magic) Stazon jet black.

First you stamp the South-west-town with black stazon.
Make a mask and mask it.
Cut a circle from masking tape and stick it on the paper, this will become the moon.
Now start with sponges behind and just above the houses with antique linen. Continue with Bundled sage and then the blue colors from light to dark. Apply some white around the moon. Make some splashes on the blue sky with water. When that is dry, splash some stars with white acrylic paint. Now remove the masks. With a small fine sponge you apply some spots on the moon with Weathered wood. Color the houses and put some white lines at the top, so the moon seems to be reflecting its light on the rooftops. Have fun, and dont forget to join in on our challenges.
They start every 1th and 15th of the month.

Slimline card

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Cathy here with a slimline card for you.
Stamps used:
Cherry blossom
Asian set

For you today I have a slimline card. It's the new 'it' thing. Everyone is making them. It's a card that can fit in a business size envelope.
I started out with some watercolor paper and some distress spray and distress oxide spray. I made a few backgrounds with this. I used one of them for the first card I shared with you.

I then took the writing from the  Asian set and some water and stamped it on the background.  It took some of the background away and gave a ghost print.
Next I took the Cherry blossom stamp and some black ink and stamped it on top.

 I heat set that and mad sure everything was dry before I went on to the next step. I stamped the Buddha from the Asian set with some Versa mark ink and embossed it with gold embossing power.

When that was done I made a card base and added the watercolor piece to it .

 Come join the fun here for this challenge.

Also the sale is still going on. 25 % off.

East Meets West: Oriental Doll

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Thanks for visiting us here at the Portal to check out this current challenge:  East Meets West.
It's Laurie again, and I've created a card for this challenge using the Oriental Doll stamp and the ATC Text Set #1 stamps, both from Lost Coast Designs.

I started by stamping my image with black ink onto a piece of scrapbook paper, then trimmed around the edges to create a border.  I colored the figure with Copic markers.  I restamped the wings onto a piece of paper, cut them out, and traced them onto some gold paper.  They were then cut out and glued over the original stamped wings.  I layered this with a piece of black card stock.  I then stamped the Asian text stamp from the ATC set onto the same paper and trimmed it down to one row of characters.  I edged that in black then punched a hole in the top of the tag and the top left of my card, tying it in place with some cream thread.

We would love for you to share your East Meets West creations with us, in whatever way you choose to interpret this theme.  You might win some free stamps, and don't forget to use some rubber stamping somewhere on your creations!

2020 Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

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Hello Portal Peeps!!
Big News!!
Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda are both sponsoring the 
2020 Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

There's a $10 voucher from each company up for grabs so link up your caffeinated
makes for a chance to win.
Don't forget to leave comments on the hop posts for a chance for some spot prizes.

I've made a card using Lost Coast Designs Coffee Gnome and a new
sentiment from Carmen's Veranda called Power of Coffee

 

I started by stamping Lost Coast Designs Fourth Dimension Background using Dandelion archival.  I masked off a part of the stamp to make it smaller so I had plenty white space at the bottom to stamp the Carmen's Veranda sentiment.   I stamped, coloured and fussy cut Coffee Gnome and added him to the card. 

You can get 25% off unmounted and cling mounted stamps at both
Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda
using the code QUARANTINEUS

Don't forget to join the fun East Meets West challenge.
Link up your Oriental, Western or travel themed stamped projects
for another chance to win!!

Smudging card

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Cathy here with a card I made trying a new technique.
Stamps used:
Asian set
Mail Art set

I was watching one of Tim's demo video from Facebook and he did a technique called smudging. So I wanted to try it.
I stamped with Distress Oxide the Asian set and tried to smudge it and it didn't work out the way I wanted to. I wanted more smudge. So I took some of the ink off the stamp and blended it over the card. Then I took one of the postage stamps from the Mail Art set and did the same thing. 
From the Asian set  I took the lady and stamped her in archival ink to stand out. I made water marks on it and then I layered it on some handmade watercolor background paper. Then set it on some black cardstock.
 

Don't forget to join the challenge here

The sale is still going on. 25 % off. Come check it out

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Patriotic Puppy

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Hello Portal Peeps!!  Gail here today with a card featuring Lost Coast Designs Drake Dog and a travel theme for the current East Meets West challenge.
Oriental, Western or Travel themed projects and don't forget the stamps!!
So here's my take, in red white and blue cos tomorrow is Norway's National day and I'm feeling the vibe......

I started by lightly stamping Lost Coast Designs Pondscum Background on a white card with Bluebird Archival ink.  I didn't want it to overwhelm so I stamped gently, not perfectly LOL.   I stamped the sentiment and travel word, both from Lost Coast Designs Travel Quotes Set, with Manganese archival

I stamped Drake Dog on white card with both brown and blue archival ink.  Then I did a little paper piecing, cos his trousers are solid and I wanted them blue.  I used Promarkers to add some more red and brown colour, fussy cut and added him to my card.

Link up your Oriental, Western and/or Travel themed makes for a chance to win!
Please remember real hand stamping and the theme should be the focus of your project.

EAST MEETS WEST CHALLENGE

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

CHALLENGE #99 - EAST MEETS WEST

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!

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 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 #99

EAST MEETS WEST

We want to see your hand stamped projects with an oriental, western or travel theme.

Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project.  A small stamped sentiment in a sea of die cuts or digi images will not qualify to win the prize and you may be deleted!!!!  Bwahahhaaahaha.

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! 

Check out the awesome inspiration from the team!

Laurie made this gorgeous ATC using Lost Coast Designs
Butterflies Set and ATC Set 1

Riet made this gorgeous scene using Carmen's Veranda Southwest Town stamp.

Roni made this awesome pocket card using Carmen's Veranda Hareback Rider and Stay Weird Sentiment

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 #99 -EAST MEETS WEST
May 15th - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Sunday, May 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
 

Mother of dragons.

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Hello there, Riet here, with my contribution to the challenge with the colors, Terracotta, turquoise, black and white. Love these colors. Stamps I used are: Mother of dragons and large florish. And wow what a gorgeus stamps they are. I used watercolor paper and watercolor paint. Stazon jet black and versamark clear and black embossing powder.

Because the mother of dragons is a very detailed stamp, I stamped it with embossing powder. Then masked it and stamped the swirls. I colored with watercolor paint. Black mat pasted behind it and you're done.

You can still enter the challenge, so join the fun and you can win some rubber.

The Bees

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Hello Cathy here with a fun card for you.
Stamps used:
Large Chicken wire background
Bee from the bugz set

I started off with some white cardstock and some Distress paints. I still have to old kind with the dopers on the them. That just worked out for me. So I just smooched some of the 'terracotta' color in circles over the front then I took the 'turquoise' color and put it all around the other color. Next I took a baby wipe and smeared it all around.  There is my background.

 Next I stamped the  Large Chicken wire background randomly on the background. So it would give a honeycomb feel. Then I took the  Bee  and some white paint and stamped it 3 times on the background.
Make sure when you are stamping with paint you wash your stamps of right a way because it could ruin the stamps.

Lastly I stamped the  Bee  on white cardstock and die cut it out. Then I die cut out a larger shape from black cardstock to make a mat for the first die cut.

Stuck it all together and  mounted it all on black cardstock.

 I hope you will play along with the color challenge.

Also the sale is still going on so go check them out.

Turquoise and terracotta: Weeping man

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Hello everyone, Liesbeth here with a card in my favourite color combination turquoise/terracotta! Read everything about our challenge HERE and participate.😀

I stamped the man onto a inked background with StazOn, I masked him and stamped the flagstone background and flowers. I used a bit of bleach to highlight the man. The texts are stamped onto a piece of  old music sheet and torn out. I finished the card woth a terracotta colour pencil here and there.
Stamps used: Weeping man, Flagstone background, Daisy flourish, Paradise square (texts)

See you next time,Stay healthy!
Liesbeth XX

On The Button

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Hello Portal Peeps!  I hope you are having a good week.  Gail here today with a little more inspiration for the Turquoise and Terracotta challenge.  These two colours are just made for each other and I decided to get a little bit arty with the already arty Carmen's Veranda Bullseye Face stamp.

I started by stamping Bullseye Face onto a white card base with Bluebird archival.  I stamped tight against the hinge of the card and then trimmed my card base down a little.  Then I coloured various sections of the image with Rusty Hinge distress ink and edged with brown Promarker pen.

I stamped again on white shrink plastic with the same Bluebird ink, cut with a circle die and again added some Rusty Hinge colour.  I also edged with brown Promarker pen before shrinking.

 I added the shrinky dink to the bullseye and also three small pale blue brown dotty buttons on the right hand side.

  Join the Turquoise and Terracotta challenge for your chance to win!

Happy Mother's Day

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Hello my friends...I hope you're enjoying your week so far.

Roni here today with a card for Mom...

I created this card by spritzing watercolor paper with a bit of water then sprinkling on Brusho's Terracotta and Turquoise pigment powders. I added more water and powders until I liked the looks of things.  I then stamped the Roses image onto the colored card panel using Imagine's VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink.  I also stamped a Mother's Day sentiment in the corner.  To spice it up a bit I added silver foiling flakes in the corners to give it a bit of shine.  This panel was then mounted on a black card base.

I hope you will join us in the current challenge Turquoise and Terracotta.

APRIL WINNERS

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Greetings
It's time to announce the WINNERS of our April Challenges!

We would like to thank everyone who entered their lovely projects and it was so nice to see so many using Lost Coast Design and Carmen's Veranda stamps.  You of course get an extra chance in the random draw for using our stamps on your projects.  Thanks for playing with us!

Please do read the rules and also the challenge guidelines which are written under the challenge badges on the challenge post and in the sidebar.  We have to disqualify entriesthat do not comply with our rules or challenge themes.

We used Mr Random

WINNER of CHALLENGE #96

SPRING HAS SPRUNG 

is

Lyneen 

with this gorgeous card using Lost Coast Designs Doodle 1 Doll and the Medium Shrubbery

Congrats Lyneen, you win a $10 gift certificate

WINNER of CHALLENGE #97

MYTH AND MAGIC

is

Maria

with this fun Halloween card

Congrats Maria, you win a $10 gift certificate

 Congratulations Lyneen and Maria!  Please email Gail (craftynomad at gmail dot com) by the end of the month to claim your prize.  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 Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.
 

Our current challenge is

TURQUOISE AND TERRACOTTA

Link up your stamped projects featuring

 for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.

Turquoise and Terra Cotta Day 4: Mayan Man

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Hello and happy May from Laurie.  I hope the spring weather has arrived to wherever this finds you, and that you are all safe and healthy.

I have a fun card today for the new Turquoise and Terracotta challenge using the Mayan Hieroglyphs stamp set from Lost Coast Designs.

My background was created by using some heavy paper, a stencil, some Liquitex Mat Medium and my Gelli plate.  I applied a thin layer of Mat Medium to my Gelli plate and using a brayer rolled it on evenly.  I then placed a stencil atop this and pulled a print.  Next I removed the stencil and pulled another print.  Once these were dry I went over them with different colored inks - this one uses blue and green Distress Inks.

I stamped my Mayan gentleman with black ink onto white paper and proceeded to color him with Copic Sketch Markers in shades of terracotta and turquoise.  I used a silver Gel pen to add some silver touches.  I attached him to my background piece, stamped my sentiment on a white square that I outlined with black, and attached the sentiment above.  I attached a couple of turquoise enamel dots to his necklace to look like pieces of turquoise.  Final step was to edge the outside with some turquoise ink.

These two colors for this challenge work so well together so play around and see what wonderful projects you can create for a chance to win some free stamps!

CHALLENGE #98 - TURQUOISE AND TERRACOTTA

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!

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 #98

TURQUOISE AND TERRACOTTA

We have chosen a colour theme inspired by a card Lori made.  We want to see Turquoise and Terracotta as the main colours on your card.  Black and white are also allowed and we will turn a blind eye to tiny amounts of other colours if you really need to use them, but the ones on the badge must be the main ones you use.  And don't forget we are a stamping challenge so real rubber or clear stamping must feature prominently.  Please state in your post the stamps you have used.  If it isn't obvious we will not go looking.  It is up to you to make sure your entry qualifies.  If we can't see stamping or it's just a little sentiment or image your entry will not be eligible for the prize and may be deleted.

Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project.  A small stamped sentiment in a sea of die cuts or digi images will not qualify to win the prize and you may be deleted!!!!  Bwahahhaaahaha.

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 awesome inspiration from the team to get us started.  ENJOY!

Cathy made this beautifully elegant card using Lost Coast Designs Ballerina with Stars, Corner Swirl, Daisy Flourish, ATC Mona's Window and Numbers Border

Liesbeth made this fabulous card using Lost Coast Designs Frida with Roses
and sentiment from Frida 1, Daisy Flourish, and Carmen's Veranda Ironwork Wall

 

Riet made this gorgeous card using Lost Coast Designs Small Cityscape, Perspective Floor
and Crows Border

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 14th 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.

For another chance to win Lost Coast Design dollars check out the
Mod Squad Challenge
Lost Coast Designs is proudly sponsoring the Happy challenge this week.
Include the word HAPPY on your project.
Challenge closes Tuesday 5th May 12.00 EST 
If you use a Lost Coast Designs stamp you get an extra entry!!


Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #98 -TURQUOISE AND TERRACOTTA
May 1st - 14th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Thursday, May 14th 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