Let It Shine

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!

Good morning and a very happy Sunday. It's Sue here, just back from my holidays in time to join in with our Man Cave challenge. 

I started by making my background on some  speciality card. I've had this in my stash for years and it takes the ink beautifully. I was aiming for grass and mountains, but I'm hopeless at the 'ripped paper and ink' thing. Definitely more practice needed!

I've made the grass with a fan brush, and added the flowers with the end of the brush.

I stamped the sentiment directly, but the card is so glossy that the stamp slipped, so I needed to cover it up (boo) which is why I stamped again and cut it out.

Then I added my waltzing cowboys!

These are my stamps, just two!

 Waltzing Cowboys and

Weird Light

I hope you like it, and that you joined in with our Man Cave challenge. If not, you've just got a couple of days left to get stamping!

Take care, have a great week, and thanks so much for looking x

#136 Man cave.

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!

Hallo stampers and crafters.

Here a post by me, Riet.

Today we have a challenge that I really enjoy but also find a bit difficult.

But that makes it all the more challenging.

To make this card you will need:

Stamps Lost Coast Designs

ZZ-Top gnome 1

and

Fourth Dimension

and from Carmen's Veranda, 

Jukebox

and 
Badass text.

Furthermore, you will need a stone wall stencil.

I used Dutch Doobadoo wall stencil.

distress oxide,

antique linen

weathered wood

iced spruce

Ground espresso

Versafine onyx black

Acrylic paint cream color

Color pencils or markers

white gel pen

First we start by applying the antique linen, weathered wood and iced spruce to the craft sheet.

Spray some water over this and dab your paper in it.

Dry well.

Now stamp half of the fourth dimension stamp with the versafine black.

This will be the floor.

With the stencil we are now going to make the stone wall with distress oxide ground espresso.

When that's done, we shift the stencil a little bit and sponge the acrylic paint over it. We call this the bump technique.

When the paint is dry, we carefully sand the paint here and there with a sandingblock.

Stamp the jukebox and the zztop gnome on thin paper and color with pencils or markers.

Stick them on the card and give some white accents with the white gelpen.

Stamp the badass text and you're done.

Well that was fun to do.

Show us what you can make with this theme and you have a chance to win stamps.

You can even participate with stamps from another brand, as long as your card or project is stamped.

The team would like to see it.

So come and join our challenge!

 

Man Cave: Friends

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 everyone, Liesbeth here with two weird men ;-) for our Man Cave Challenge. There is still time left to participate and to win a prize.

Stamps used: Misc. Anthropomorphs, Big Anthropomorph Birds, Misc. Words.

I made a background using Infusions powder and water (Brusho or Bister also works!) onto watercolor paper. I dried it well and I stamped the two ,men' with black StazOn ink. Using bleach, I bleached the men and after drying I coloured them a bit with colour pencils. I made shadows around them with a charcoal pencil. I stamped the word ,Friends' on a separate piece of paper, cut it out and glued it onto black cardstock. I sponged the edges of the card with black ink and glued the piece onto a piece of black cardstock.

Hope to see you next time 😀

Liesbeth XX

Man Cave: Waltzing Cowboys

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!

Welcome from Laurie to this fun challenge going on right now through the end of the month:  Man Cave.  What fun images does this bring to mind for  you?  We hope you will share you creations with us before month end.

This card was made using the Waltzing Cowboys stamp from Lost Coast Designs and the Hokey Pokey Clinic clear stamp from Carmen's Veranda.

My background for this came from my box of Gelli prints, and this one was made on a piece of vintage paper with brown and cream paints and some stencils.  I cut this into a square shape and layered it with a piece of dark brown card stock.  My cowboys were stamped with black ink onto white card stock and colored with Copic Sketch Markers.  After fussy cutting them out, I glued them to my card front as shown.

Next my sentiment was stamped with black ink onto a scrap of coffee dyed paper that was then edged with black ink and attached to the lower right corner as shown.  Final step was to punch two holes in the left side and tie some twine and a piece of decorative metal into a bow.

Come join us for this one.  Just be sure to feature rubber stamping on your projects and you just might be the lucky winner of some free stamps from Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

Perspective

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 all, Cathy here with a card for you today.

Stamps Used:

Pieces of Calligraphy 

Travel stuff set

Fortune men set

Grunge diamond background

I started out by making a collage background. I randomly stamped Pieces of Calligraphy, Travel stuff set, Grunge diamond background in different colors of ink on a tan background. 

                                             

Next, I stamped Fortune men set on white cardstock and colored it with Copic markers. Trimmed down and layered on black cardstock. I added a few saying stickers, and we are done

                                              

    

Come join the Man Cave Challenge here.

#136 Man cave challenge, the boxer.

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 stamp friends.

Today an artjournal page.

I chose the boxer stamp, because it fits so well into the "man cave" theme.

I worked on Terschelling 300 gram watercolor paper 24x30cm.

This paper has a rough structure and absorbs a lot of water.

And that is necessary because we are going to work with Brusho.

What materials I used:

stamps:

Boxer 

 Checker board rustic border 

Pieces of architecture 

 pieces of calligraphy 

Ledger.

Carmen's Veranda Stamp: Once a Badass.

Further materials

Stencil: numbers - arrow - chevron.

Brusho - Orange - Leaf green - Yellow Ocre - Turquoise.

Stazon Timber brown.

Posca pen white.

Black pencil.

Skin colored marker.

White acrylic paint.

Thin paper to stamp the boxer on.

We are going to start with the design of the stamps for the background.

Let the stazon ink dry well.

Spray plenty of water on the paper.

Sprinkle small amounts of brusho on the water as you see fit.

Do this very carefully, because brusho is a true color explosion.

Think of it like this, better to sprinkle two or three times than too much at once.

See for yourself whether water needs to be added or whether it should be dabbed off.

With a stencil and white acrylic paint you sponge the numbers, arrow and chevron.

With a spatula you make 2 x wipes with white acrylic paint.

When its dry you can stamp the badass stamp on the paint.

Now only finishing, with the posca pen some lines around the stamps,

 and give the checkerd border  white blocks. 

Use the black pencil to outline the arrow, chevron and numbers.

And give the boxer some shade with the black pencil.

And then you're done, I hope you enjoyed this step by step. 

You might like to join the challenge.

        You don't necessarily have to use LCD stamps, but you do have to stamp with real stamps.

Read through the rules and then join in the fun.

You have a chance to win new stamps.

Ride Em Cowboy

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!  Gail here today with some inspiration for our new Man Cave Challenge.  Masculine makes!  Love em??  Hate em??  Stay tuned for loads of awesome inspiration from the team.  Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda have some gorgeous masculine stamps.  Today I rounded up Carmen's Veranda Rocking Horse and made a card suitable for the little or large cowboys in our lives.

I used Carmen's Veranda Rocking Horse and Lost Coast Designs PMC Circle Frame and Party Words. 

I shared a card yesterday for the challenge start where I used stamp kissing with the PMC Circle Frame.  I had stamped the lifted ink off on a scrap of white card and I decided to use it today as a background panel for the Rocking Horse.

I trimmed the stamped circles panel and matted it on some thin brown card.  I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the Rocking Horse.  I mounted the circle panel and Rocking Horse on a white card base and stamped the Happy Birthday from the Party Words set.

We can't wait to see your Man Cave projects!  Join the fun for a chance to win.  You have until the end of the month to link up your stamped masculine makes.   Don't forget to drop in often for more wonderful inspiration from the team.

CHALLENGE #136 - MAN CAVE CHALLENGE

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 #136

MAN CAVE

 Let's focus on the men.  Show us your stamped masculine projects.  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 inspiration from the team to get us started.  ENJOY!

Cathy used Lost Coast Designs Pieces of Calligraphy and Travel Stuff Set

and Katzelkraft Bowtie Bulldog

 

 

Gail used Lost Coast Designs Evil Eye, Large Rectangle Shadow Frame, PMC Circle Frame and Carmen's Veranda 27 Cookies.

Liesbeth used Lost Coast Designs 3 Waiters, Up Close and Personal and 

Carmen's Veranda Compass Square and King Square

  

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 #136 - Mancave Challenge
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 Monday, 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
 

 

 

 

Let's Fly: Winged dream girl

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!

Hi everyone, it's me (Liesbeth) here with the final blogpost for our Let`s Fly challenge! Tomorrow a new one starts!

A very easy and quick card with a great effect: make an alcohol ink background, not to dark, on glossy paper, let dry well. Stamp the girl and the text with waterproof black ink and outline parts of the tect with a white gel pen. Ready!

Stamps used (click=see): Winged girl  and Dream, Magic, Love (Dictionary words)

Hope to see you next time!

LiesbethXX

Let's Fly: Steampunk Flying Girl

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!

Hi again from Laurie with another project for our "Let's Fly" Challenge, going on for a couple more days here on the Portal.  For this card, I used the Steampunk Fly Girl stamp from Lost Coast Designs.  I love all things steampunk, and this is one of my favorite steampunk stamps from Lost Coast Designs.

This started with a piece of vintage book page that I layered over a piece of white paper with Modge Podge.  I added a second layer of Modge Podge atop my vintage text and  smoothed a piece of decorative decoupage or rice paper onto it.  I smoothed it all down and let it dry.  I cut it into a squarish shape with some deckle edged scissors, allowing the vintage book page to show on 3 sides.  I edged those sides with some Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

My Steampunk Fly Girl was stamped onto a piece of coffee stained paper with black ink and fussy cut out.  I then affixed her atop my card front with some foam dimensional tape.  I typed the word "Fly into my computer, enlarged it, and punched it out in a circle shape.  I edged that with the same Distress ink and glued it to the lower right corner.  I then glued a vintage optometrist's lens atop the circle.

We are so excited to see your "Flying" projects before this challenge ends on the 14th.  Be sure to include some rubber stamping in your projects for a chance to win some free stamps from Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

#135 Let's fly. Step by step, how to marble a background.

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!

 

Hi there, I love this theme, you can use what ever you like that can fly.

Birds, butterfly's, dragonfly's or steampunk images with wings, angels and .........

 Stamps that I used and how I made the card.

Steampunk bicycle lady.

Butterfly set.

Pieces of Calligraphy

Art wings to fly.

Coatted paper

Distress oxide:

Iced spruce

Speckled egg

Bundled sage

Stazon black

and some markers for coloring.

Smear some of the 3 oxide colors on your craftsheet and spray with water.

Dab the paper in here, repeat until you are satisfied.

I left it very light because I wanted a marble effect.

Now I made the marble veins with the black Distress oxide.

With the side of the ink pad you draw stripes on the craft sheet.

You spray this with water and put the paper on it.

Don't wipe, just dab the black.

Let it air dry.

And look what a beautiful result.

You can of course do it in all kinds of other color combinations.

Or just keep it black and white.

What ever you like most.

Stamp the Steampunk bicycle lady with Distress oxide iced spruce.

And with Stazon black you can now stamp the round pieces of calligraphy, the alphabet strip and the butterfly.

Because the paper is coated, it takes a little longer for the ink to dry.

Now mask all the stamps and stamp the background with Distress oxide Iced spruce and a piece of calligraphy stamp.

Color the stamps to your liking and then you're done.

The team would love it if you join the challenge.

And you can also win new rubber stamps.

You are not even required to use LCD stamps.

As long as you follow the theme.

So, click on the link and join us and most of all have fun.

Go to the challenge.

Let`s Fly: 3 Flying Flower Girls

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 everyone, Liesbeth here, welcome to our Let`s Fly Challenge! I used two stamps this time, I love them both so much! And the three women (3 Flying Flower Girls) are so perfect for this theme! 

I stamped the background (Flowers) with a Big and Juicy (rainbow) ink pad, and coloured it here and there with the same ink and a waterbrush. With black StazOn ink I stamped the 3 women and bleached them using bleach and a synthetic brush. I finished the card with a red colour pencil.

Hope you'll fly with us! 

Liesbeth XX