Make It Funny: Wine Drinking Karaoke Cat

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 all from Laurie on this 28th day of February where we are currently running the "Make It Funny" challenge through the end of the month.  Both Carmen's Veranda and Lost Coast Designs have some great stamps and sayings that fit the bill perfectly for this challenge.  This card uses the Karyoke Cat from Lost Coast Designs and the        2 to 3 glasses of wine clear stamp from Carmen's Veranda.  

My background here is a gelli print made on a piece of tissue paper using a stencil and red, orange, and yellow acrylic paints.  I have layered it with a piece of vintage book paper and edged it with red ink, then layered the whole onto a piece of bright yellow card stock.

The cat was stamped with black ink onto white paper and fussy cut out.  I colored him with Copic Sketch markers and used a white Gel pen for his fangs and a silver pen for his microphone.  Glossy Accents were added to his eyes, and he was affixed to the lower portion of the card with foam tape for some dimension.

The sentiment was stamped with red ink onto a white square, edged with red ink, and placed above the cat.

We are excited to see what funnies you can create for this challenge.  Don't forget to feature some rubber stamping!  Some free stamps could be coming your way if you are chosen a winner!  You still have time!!

#161 Make it funny challenge, Spike and Lucy.

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, Riet here.

Do you want to win some new stamps, than join the challenge at Lost Coast Designs.

Its "make it funny" theme.

This is my card with LCD Spike and Lucy, 

and CV Doghair.

On the background i used stamps from the brushstokes sheet.

Carmens Veranda

 Doghair

Lost Caost Designs

 Spike and Lucy

Brush strokes

Pieces of calligraphy

Pieces of architecture

Butterfly set

Versafine onyx black

Or any other water resistend ink.

Distressink

Wild honey

Evergreen bough

Chipped sapphire

Saltwater taffy

Black Posca

White Posca

Neocolor II

Masking tape.

How I made the card

Use the distress ink and water to create some puddles of ink on your craft sheet.

Run your paper through there.

Dry it with the heat tool.

I imaginatively divided the card into two parts.

I started stamping Spike and Lucy on the right.

You mask them off.

Then with the Chipped saphire and the little dots stamped around it a bit.

And around them the larger circles.

Above that the larger dots stamped with Saltwater taffy.

I also stamped the butterfly in black.

On the left side I first stamped 2x an ornament of pieces of architecture with Evergreen bough.

On top of that with the letters of the Pieces of calligraphy in black.

On the extreme left edge I stamped the grunge border of the brushstrokes sheet with black.

With neocolorII colored yellow in the circles and with green around it.

Made a shadow around Spike and Lucy with a dark blue.

I stamped the text "Dogs hair" from Carmens Veranda on white paper.

I then cut the text into pieces and divided it over the left side of the card.

With the black Posca marker I made edges around it.

With the white posca I gave the butterfly some accents.

Now with a black neocolorII on the corners to give some accents.

Just matting with white and black and you're done.

Now its your turn, come and join our challenge.

And have a chance to win some new stamps.

Good luck to you.

Make It Funny - Sarcasm x2

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!

I hope you're all enjoying our current challenge... Make it Funny!

I had so much fun with this challenge I have not one but 2 cards to share with you today...

To get inspired for this challenge I went through my sentiments first then went ahead and created my card around it. For my first card today I fell in love with this sentiment Sarcasm is Forever. I knew I had to use the Party On old lady...I can see her saying this and tooting her own horn.  For the background I used the swirl stamp from the new Brush Strokes set and the Swimsuit Girl (fading out of course).  I had to add a bit of glitter just for that extra special something :)

Oh my next card is so me....sometimes I make it other times not so much - LOL!!  I started off by trimming a gel plate print for my black card. Inspired by this print I stamped the American Gothic Party image on yellow cardstock - something I almost never do (yellow is scary).  It was trimmed and mounted on the card.  I then stamped the sentiment My Greatest Accomplishment on a scrap of cardstock which I had previously stamped the grungy dots (from the Brush Strokes set) using Wild Honey Distress Oxide ink.

Be sure to join in on the fun....Make It Funny...

I Googled

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:

Manga girl with tophat

saying

I started off by stamping Manga girl with top hat on an off-white card base. I then took some green distress ink and a number stencil and stenciled around the stamp. Then I layered it on a green cardstock layer. 

Next, I stamped the saying on a separate cardstock layer. I also layered that on some green cardstock. Lastly, I put it on a black card base.

You can join the challenge here.

Make It Funny: The Monkey and the Hokey Pokey

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, and welcome to this really great challenge - "Make It Funny".  Who can resist?  So many fun ways to make some funny projects for this challenge.

This little index card starts with some Distress Mica Spray ink splatters and sprays onto a piece of white water color paper.  After drying, I stamped it with the Grunge Black Swirl background stamp from Carmen's Veranda.  I used black ink but the stamped image is very light - I think the mica sprays prevented it from being more pronounced, but I kind of the like the faint shadow effect it has.

Mr. Monkey was stamped using the Monkey Face stamp from Carmen's Veranda and black ink on kraft paper card stock.  I fussy cut him out and accented his eyes with a white marker.  He was edged with Distress Vintage Photo ink and affixed to the bottom of the card with foam tape.  

The Hokey Pokey sentiment was stamped with black ink onto white card stock and cut out.  The corners were rounded and it was also edged with Distress Ink before being attached to the upper left corner as shown.  The entirety was layered with a piece of brown card stock.

Be sure to post your funnies here for a chance to win some free stamps!!

#161 Make it funny 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!

Hi there, Riet here.

Here is my DT tag for the "Make it funny" challenge.

I love the words and phrases of Carmens Veranda.

They are so funny, they always make me laugh.

Take the time to read them and you will see how funny they are.

For this tag i chose the "cats birthday" text.

I made this tag with the sweet "White cat" stamp from Carmens Veranda stamps.

He/she is so cute,  just look at those sweet eyes.

The raven on top is one I cut off from the Lost Coast Designs crows border.

These borders are so long that you can easily cut a piece off.

This way you have a border and a separate stamp.

I sprayed the tag with sprays from Dylusions and a stencil.

I have to admit that the stencil has faded a bit, but I still liked the result.

At the bottom I stamped a stamp from the Brush strokes sheet with black ink.

I did the same with the text and the crow that is on the text.

I colored the White cat with Tombo markers.

Then i put Glossy accents on the eyes of the cat, so they stand out even more.

Glue the tag on black cardstock and give it a nice bow.

That's it for this time, and don't forget to join the challenge.

There is a nice prize to be won, and you can also participate with other stamp brands.

See you next time.

 

CHALLENGE #161 - MAKE IT FUNNY

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 #161

MAKE IT FUNNY

We want you to make us laugh with your funny stamped anythings.
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 Brush Stokes, Mini Butterfly Collage and Silly Gnome with Carmen's Veranda Fun Hot Mess sentiment

 
 Roni used Carmen's Veranda My Entire Life, Flying Monkey Background and Oz Witch

Gail used Lost Coast Designs Flying Pig 2 and Carmen's Veranda Power of Coffee 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 23.59 PST on the 28th 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 #161 - Make It Funny
  February 15th - 28th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Tuesday, February 28th 23.59 PST.
All entries must be entered in our link up or added to the fb fan page but your don't need a blog to win.  See our RULES page for more info
 

 

Love and Hearts: Heart in pink

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! Liesbeth here showing you another card for our Love and Hearts Challenge! (Click and read everything abour it... and give it a try yourself!) I used two of the wonderful Carmen's Veranda Squares for this card.

As I often do, I used a piece of alcohol inked glossy paper. With pink StazOn ink I stamped Calligraphy Heart Square 4 times. After that I stamped Loveheart Square with black ink. I also stamped the Loveheart onto a left over paper and cut it out. I added the heart using 3d foam tape. With pink and black glitter I finished the card.

Hope you liked this one, hope to see you next time! ;-)

Liesbeth XX

Glitter in your Heart

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, Cathy here with a card for you today.

Stamps Used:

Pieces of Calligraphy

Winged skeleton

I started off with a heart stencil and I used the new pink color of distress ink and blended it onto a pink card base. Then I took a stamp from the Pieces of Calligraphy and stamped it with a different color pink ink inside of the heart stencil. 

Next, I took the Winged skeleton and stamped it with black ink and cut out the inner circle of it. I added foam squares to the back and placed it in the middle of the card. I colored the heart with a red marker and I added some glitter to the top. 

You can join the challenge here

Arresting

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 more inspiration for the Love and Hearts challenge.   I saw Boris and this sentiment and they just seemed made for each other.

I stamped Carmen's Veranda Boris Karloff on grungy grey card and Carmen's Veranda You're Staggering on a panel of the same card.  Then I stamped Lost Coast Designs Hearts and Curls Border twice with pale blue archival ink on white card, added my fussy cut Boris and mounted on the sentiment panel. 

Boris, you are such a bad boy!!!!

 

Join the Love and Hearts challenge with your stamped anything featuring love and/or hearts for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Love and Hearts Challenge - Sweet Love

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!

Ink Stained Roni here...I hope you're enjoying the current challenge Love & Hearts. Today I have a little "steamy" card for you - Sweet Love.

I love everything Steampunk so I thought it would be fun to create a Valentine's Day card for my sweetie using the new Gears background by stamping it with VersaMark ink on pink cardstock then embossing with Hematite EP.  

I then stamped the Steampunk Bicycle Lady twice, once on kraft colored paper and once on a piece of grey cardstock. The clock was trimmed from the kraft paper and inked along the edge with Pine Cone VersaFine Clair ink.  The Bicycle Lady was trimmed from the grey cardstock and colored using a variety of colored pencils.  The Clock was mounted directly to the pink card and the lady was adhered using foam tape.  To finish off the card I stamped "Sweet Love" from the set Misc. Words.

Hope you join in on the fun with our Love and Hearts Challenge!

You might just be the lucky winner.

JANUARY WINNERS

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 Portal Peeps!!!
It's time to announce the WINNERS of our January 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 #158

SLIMLINE

is

Anne Squire

 

Thanks for using Lost Coast Designs stamps Anne

Congrats Anne, you win a $5 gift certificate

WINNER of CHALLENGE #159

WINGED THINGS

is

Valerie Hayes 
 

who entered in the fb fan group with these cool rocks.

Thanks for using Lost Coast Designs stamps Valerie.

Congrats Valerie, you win a $10 gift certificate

 Congratulations Anne and Valerie!  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

LOVE AND HEARTS

Link up your stamped projects featuring the love and hearts

 for your chance to win Lost Coast Dollars.

 

Love From Salvador

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 a card for the Love and Hearts challenge.  I've combined Lost Coast Designs ATC Doodle Heart with Carmen's Veranda Salvador Dali and Nights Into Mornings sentiment. 

I stamped Salvador Dali and masked him.  I stamped the doodle heart with red ink and the sentiment with black ink.  Then I went a little swipe mad with my black archival ink pad and grunged it up.  To finish I used a blending brush to add some pink to the heart.

 

Join the Love and Hearts challenge with your stamped anything featuring love and/or hearts for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Love and Hearts Challenge: My Heart

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!

And welcome to the first day of February and the first day of our new challenge:  Love and Hearts.  Perfect for this month with Valentine's Day coming soon.   

For this card I used the Chloe Face stamp from Lost Coast Designs.  Such a lovely stamp!  I stamped Chloe with black ink onto a piece of tea dyed paper and fussy cut her out.  I edged this with Distress Ink in Vintage Photo and added a bit of color to her cheeks and lips with Copic Sketch markers.

For the background, I used a scrap collection of Tim Holtz papers that I had been saving to make a collage.  The collage was done on a sheet of 8 1/2 by 11 card stock, so this is just a portion of the collage.  I edged this

with the same Distress Ink and added a bronze "heart in hands" charm to the bottom.  Final step was to layer this with a piece of cream card stock.  

Show us your love this month and submit your stamped projects here on the Portal to have a shot at winning some free stamps!

CHALLENGE #160 - LOVE AND HEARTS

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 February, the month of love, and 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 #160

LOVE AND HEARTS

We want to see your stamped anythings featuring Love and Hearts.
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!

Laurie used Lost Coast Designs Chloe Face stamp

Liesbeth used Lost Coast Designs Winged Girl NS, Dream Magic Love, Black Flourish and Misc. Words. 

Riet used Lost Coast Designs Brush Strokes, Misc Words, Frank, Bride of Frank and Hearts and Curls 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 23.59 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.

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #160 - Love and Hearts
February 1st - 14th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Tuesday, February 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