Ready To Party

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Hello Portal Peeps!  Gail here today with my final 2022 post here at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.  The current challenge is Something Seasonal and since the season is progressing to a new year I went with this party queen...

I stamped Party On on white card with black archival ink, masked her and stamped Lost Coast Designs Door with magenta archival ink.

 I used distress ink and applied a watercolor wash of blue and yellow.  Since the card panel was wet I decided to rip the edges for a softer look.  I colored Party On with some neon bright colours, mounted the panel on a white card base and stamped Happy New Year in pink.

You have until the last minute of the year to link up your stamped seasonal anythings for a chance to win Lost Coast Dollars

Thanks for dropping by.  I hope you have a safe New Years Eve and a very happy and healthy 2023.

HUGZ

# 157 Something seasonal challenge

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Hello blog visitor, Riet here with the last dt post of this year.

There is still time for you to join our challenge.

Did you guys have a good Christmas, I did.

So now we go to the new year.

So I made an invitation card for a new years party.

I used these stamps for it.

pieces of calligraphy,

Pieces of architecture,

shadow frames,

brush strokes,

party pig girl,

Party words.

I used Distress oxide peacock feathers and Seedless preserves.

And a waterproof black ink.

A stencil.

Masking tape.

I started by inking the stencil with seedless preserves.

Spray with a little water and print on the paper.

Then stamp and mask the girl with waterproof black ink.

If you find masking too difficult, you can also stamp and stick her on thin paper.

Use the other stamps as on the example.

But of course you can also make your own mix.

Remove the mask and color the girl with the distress oxide.

Stamp the words from the Party words sheet and glue them on the card.

Make an outline with black and the distress colors.

Finally, splash some black ink here and there on the card.

I hope you liked it.

And there is still time to join the challenge. 

You have a chance to win beautiful rubber stamps.

For me this is my last contribution of this year, 

So I wish you a nice end of the year party.

And see you next year.

Something Seasonal: Hark the Herald Angels!

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It's Laurie here with my last post for the year 2022.  I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday, and I send you all the best wishes for the coming New Year.  And in keeping with the holiday theme. I have a little card full of angels for you!

This was created using the Herald Angels stamp from Lost Coast Designs.  My background is a pink and orange gel print I had in my stash with a bit of stenciling added.  I stamped directly onto the print with black ink, and when dry, cut a neat border around the edges.  I layered this with a gold panel, white panel, and finally a pinkish-orange panel and added three sparkly gold stars for some glitter.  Simple but this is such a wonderful stamp that you don't need a lot of extras when using this one.

You still have until the end of the month to enter your seasonal projects for a last chance in 2022 to win some free stamps from Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

Something seasonal: Christmas tags

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Hi everyone, as it's still ,Something Seasonal here at the Blog one day before Christmas!!  I'dd like to show you (an oldy...): two snowy Christmas tags in a very easy and quick technique. I stamped Cracked grass and sky and Cityscape with black ink onto a kraft tag and coloured them using a white color pencil and a yellow glitter gel pen. I stamped the sentiment (Party words) with white ink. I sponged the edges with black ink and added a ribbon. There's still time to participate, hope to see your makes! 

🎄Merry Christmas!!🎄

Liesbeth XX

Just Like Santa

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Hello Portal Peeps!!   Only a few sleeps left til santa calls!!   It's too late for cards now so I am finishing some last minute tags.  Doesn't Mona look splendid in her Santa hat!!!!!

 

I cut my tags using a Stamploration die which has a nice stitch edge and stamped Santa Mona with black archival ink.  I masked Mona and stamped the Small Snowflakes using blue archival ink.  It's great that you get 8 snowflakes in the set cos then you can stamp them all at the same time!  And as they say, everyone is different LOL.

And what's better than one Mona?????

Three Monas!!!!! 

Join the Something Seasonal challenge with your seasonal stamped anythings
for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Star of Hope

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 Good morning and a very happy Tuesday!

It's Sue here with my 3rd project for our Something Seasonal challenge, and I'm very sad to say that it is my last design team project. I've had a wonderful time here, but with a beautiful new granddaughter to visit, my craft room is going to be rather neglected!

I started by adding some ink to glossy card and spraying with water for a snowy effect.

Then I stamped the fabulous Cityscape and bleached out the colour from the background.

The Angel On The World has to be one of my favourite ever Lost Coast stamps. She's just been coloured with some Tim Holtz distress pens.

My lovely stamps

Angel On World

Cityscape

I'd just like to take this opportunity to thank Linda and the lovely ladies of the DT for having me for the past couple of years, and to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a happy and peaceful 2023 xx

Ho-Ho-Ho

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Hello, Cathy here with a card for you.

Stamps Used:

License plat Alpha 

Small snowflake set

I started by cutting blue cardstock piece a bit smaller then 4.5 x 5.5. I then stamped the H and O from the License plat Alpha  3 times on the side of the paper in black ink.

Next, I stamped a snowflake from Small snowflake set in white ink randomly all over the background. I then added it to a gray card base and lastly, I added some sliver bling.  

You can join the challenge here. 

A Happy Gnomey Christmas!

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 Good morning and a very happy Friday! Can you believe we're halfway through December and hurtling toward Christmas at breakneck pace! If it isn't done by now.... you probably live in our house and in your mind there's still LOADS of time lol.

For my second card I've used one of my favourite combos, kraft card, white ink, and coloured pencils.

I started with Brilliance ink and a leaf stencil. Then added a little bit of blue (not so delicately) around the edges.

A little bit of snowy spatter makes everything look better!

These are my lovely stamps, I've used my trusty

Misc Words and

Sunglasses Gnome

I hope you're having fun with your own Christmas preparations, and that you join in with our challenge.

Take care and have a very happy weekend x

Something Seasonal: Wishing You A Gnome-y Christmas

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Christmas is drawing near, and it's Laurie here again with a holiday tag using the Pompom Gnome stamp from Lost Coast Designs.  This is just one of a whole array of gnome stamps you can find at the Lost Coast website.  Some holiday, some others good for any occasion!

My background for this little tag is a collage I created using holiday themed papers and ephemera.  I cut out a section for my tag and edged it with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  I then stamped my gnome with black ink onto white card stock and fussy cut him out.  I colored his suit evergreen green and added a bit of color to his nose, beard, and shoes, all using Copic Sketch markers.  I then attached him to the front of my tag with dimensional tag.

Finally, I added some white glitter to his beard and the pompom on his hat and some Glossy Accents to his shoes.  I punched a hole in the upper left corner and tied a piece of evergreen ribbon through the hole.

I hope you are enjoying this run-up to the holidays.  We hope to see your holiday creations here on the Portal as we might be gifting you with some free stamps if you are the lucky monthly winner!!

Something Seasonal: Madonna and Child

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Hi everyone! 

Welcome to our challenge Something Seasonal! We invite you all to participate and have fun! 

I made this glossy Christmas card onto an alcohol inked background with the wonderful Madonna and Child stamp and black waterproof ink. I masked it and stamped a snowflake (Large Snowflakes set) with red waterproof ink. I finished with the words Merry Christmas from Party Words.

See you next time!

LiesbethXX

#157 "Something seasonal"

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Hi there, Riet here.

This card is my DT contribution to the challenge of,

Lost Coast Designs and Carmens Veranda stamps.

Anyone can make this card, including beginners.

What do you need.

LCD stamp Mary and angels,

LCD stamp Misc words.

Black paper, white paper and gold paper 200 grams.

Gold embossing powder.

Versamark.

Black ink, no matter what brand.

Holly die and poinsettia die.

Stencil with stars.

Aleene's glitter snow.

This is how to make the card.

Stamp the Mary and angels stamp with Versamark,

 and sprinkle with the gold embossing powder.

Let the EB powder melt with the heat tool.

Cut the stamp out and matt on black paper with foamtape.

Matt again with white.

And put it aside.

The background card is made with the stencil and Aleene's snow.

Please note, only around the angels.

When its dry you can glue the angels on the background.

With a die of a poinsettia I have die cut in gold and white.

I did the same with holly branches.

I shaped them a bit and stuck them on the card with glue.

I stamped the words on white paper with black ink.

Cut them out and glued them over the twigs with foam tape.

I hope you enjoyed it and will join the challenge.

The team would really like it if you join the challenge.

And of course you have a chance to win a prize.

You can participate with any brand you want, read the rules here.

And to join Click here.

I wish you lots of creative fun and see you next time.

Have A Holly Jolly Christmas

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Good morning and a very happy Tuesday!

It's Sue here with my first project for our Something Seasonal challenge. 

I've had this stencil since last Christmas, and now it's finally come out of the packet!

  

As I have rather a lot of cards to make (and I've not really started yet) I needed something that I can batch make but that still looks nice.

I coloured my coated card with Distress oxides, then stamped and cut out Georges and Louis. This is a simple shape to cut out and I like how the brown looks against the blues.

As you can tell, this stamp has been very well-loved lol.

I've just added some glitter to the red berries, and a Tim Holtz sticker.

I hope you join in with our challenge and link up your seasonal piece.

Take care and have a very happy December xx

November Winners

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Welcome Portal Peeps!!!
It's time to announce the WINNERS of our November 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 entries that do not comply with our rules or challenge themes.

We used Mr Random

WINNER of CHALLENGE #155

SPOOKTACULAR FLORALS

is

Susan

 

with this spooktacular card

Congrats Susan, you win a $5 gift certificate

WINNER of CHALLENGE #156

TAG YOU'RE IT!!

is

Cari

Cari entered on fb in the fan group with this lovely tag featuring
Lost Coast Designs Georges and Louis

Congrats Cari, you win a $10 gift certificate

 Congratulations Susan and Cari!  Please email Gail (craftynomad at gmail dot com) by the 15th 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

Something Seasonal

  Link up your stamped projects featuring the season for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.

 

Peace

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Hello, Cathy here with a card for you today.

Stamp used:

Megan Christmas bird

I stamped Megan Christmas bird and embossed it with black embossing power. Next, I colored it in with Copic markers. I then tore around the image and backed it with some sliver glitter paper. 

Lastly, I added a saying and but it on a dark gray card base.

You can join the challenge here.