Christmas bird

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Cathy here with a Christmas card. Of course I had to use Megan's Christmas bird.

Stamps Used:

Megan's Christmas bird  

Small snowflakes set

I started by stamping Megan's Christmas bird on white cardstock and then I stamped one of the snowflakes from the Small snowflakes set around the edge. I colored the bird with copic markers and I then colored in the lights with glitter pens. 

I layered it on some Christmas paper and that is my card.

You still have time to join the challenge

Driving Home For Christmas

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!!  Hope you are having an awesome July.  I've been having fun today with a Christmas In July idea I had for Carmen's Veranda Old Truck and Lost Coast Designs Gnomes.  Unfortunately the original gnomes were too big, but now Linda is releasing mini versions and they fit perfectly.  Let's get merry......

I stamped Old Truck, the Mini Gnomes and part of Megan's Christmas Bird, coloured with watercolour pencils and fussy cut.

 For the background I stamped Lost Coast Designs Trees in black, a yellow circle and gave the rest a blue watercolour wash.  I put the baubles around the back of the truck and added mini Silly Gnome to the truck bed.  I did a bit of snipping and managed to get mini Pompom Gnome in the driving seat LOL.  I cut around the trees leaving a wide border at the bottom, added the truck and stamped the Party Words Merry Christmas.

Thanks for dropping by.  Don't forget to join the Christmas in July fun and link up your stamped Christmas makes for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.

#187 Christmas in July. Christmas baby angel.

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Hello dear blog visitor, Riet here. 

Christmas, before you know it, it's already here.

So you better start making your Christmas cards early.

And then you can participate in the challenge and perhaps become the winner.

You can even participate with stamps from other brands.

So that should work, right?

And now the tutorial for this card.

What I used: 

Lost Coast Designs Party Baby

Lost Coast Designs Brush Strokes

Lost Coast Designs Party Words

Versafine onyx black

Distress oxyde Barn door and Lucky clover

Americana acrylic paint,

Yellow green

Bahama blue

Dessert turquoise

White acrylic paint or marker

Black fineliner

Color pencils

Black marker

I started by making a few backgrounds with the 3 colours of acrylic paint.

I did that with the brayer.

Roll out the colours until you are satisfied with the result.

If you don't have a brayer you can use a brush or sponge.

The brush strokes sheet shows the two edges I used.

I stamped the first one with the oxide barn door.

And the second one over it with the Versafine onyx black.

I make splashes with the white acrylic marker.

Set it aside to dry.

Stamp the baby and the angel wings with the versafine.

Colour with pencils or markers, whatever you like best.

Take a piece of background and stamp the text on it.

Use a thin fine liner to scribble an edge under the words.

Stamp on the right side the same as the border of the card.

Make a black border around it with a black marker.

Glue the baby angel and the text onto the card.

Use distress oxide lucky clover and a brush,

 to create shadows around the baby angel.

Have you made Christmas cards yet?

Take part in the challenge and you could be this month's winner.

You don't even need to have Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda stamps to participate but we love it when you do!

Hope to see you in the challenge.

CLICK HERE FOR THE CHALLENGE!!!!!!

Just Add A Hat

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Hello Portal Peeps!

I've made a simple card today by adding a santa hat to the *NEW* Lost Coast Designs Mouse, who I have nicknamed Ta Dah!!!!!

Isn't he adorbs!!   The new stamps will be on the website soon.  The hat comes from Lost Coast Designs Santa Mona.

You have all month to join the Christmas in July fun.  

Check the rules to make sure your makes are eligible for the prize draw.

Thanks for dropping by.

Christmas mini slimline

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!

Cathy here with a mini slimline card for you today.

Stamps used:

White cat

Gnome santa with toys

I first stamped White cat and colored and cut out. Next, I stamped just the hat from Gnome santa with toys color and cut out. I took the hat and glued it on top of the cat's head. 

I grabbed some of my 6x6 Christmas paper and cut it in have to make my mini slimline card and I added a Merry Christmas ephemera to the top. 

 I hope you will join us for our Christmas in July challenge.

#187 Christmas in July, Mistletoo greetings.

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.

I love Christmas so much.

Decorating the house, making cards and presents.

Being together with the people you love. 

And of course all the delicacies that come with it.

I like it all.

But now over to the tutorial. 

Stamps I used:

Party words

 Large snowflake set

Each snowklake is 2inch

Goth Mistletoe 

(Apologies, the goth mistletoe is no longer available.)

What I used:

Glimmermist or any spray with mica in it.

In light green dark green and rusty orange color.

Orange/rust color embossing powder.

Distressink:

Rusty hinge

Tea dye

Vintage photo

Peeled paint

Shabby shutters

Derwent inktense pencils

Versafine onyx black

Versamark

Small tag

Banner die

How to make the card.

I started by spraying the glimmer mist.

Let this dry thoroughly with the heat tool.

Stamp the large snowflakes along the sides of the card with versamark.

Sprinkle the embossing powder on top and heatset it.

Stamp the Goth mistletoo with versafine black and color with the 3rust/brown pencils.

I made the berries and leaves green with a little distress ink Peeled paint.

With Rusty hinge, Tea dye and Vintage photo

I spunged the adges off the tag.

Cut a second tag 2mm larger on all sides

 and make the edges green with the Distress ink Peeled paint.

Die cut the banner and stamp the "Merry Christmas on it.

Color the banner green with the ink blender and Peeled paint.

Assemble the card and mat it with a matching color cardstock.

Hope you guys liked it.

And feel free to show us what you make.

Take part in the "Christmas in July" challenge.

Maybe you are the winner of this challenge.

Until next time.

JUNE WINNER

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Welcome Portal Peeps!!!
It's time to announce the WINNER of our June Challenge!

Not many entries but we would like to thank everyone who entered their lovely projects, especially those using Lost Coast Design and Carmen's Veranda stamps.  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.

WINNER of CHALLENGE #186

RED, WHITE AND BLUE

is


Cari Woodmansee Jacobson

 

with this gorgeous grungy card using Lost Coast Designs Mini Text Diva

entered in the fan group on fb

 

 

Congrats Cari.   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

CHRISTMAS IN JULY

Link up your stamped projects featuring the Christmas

 for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.

 

Say It Big

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Hello Portal Peeps!!   Happy 4th July!!!   We are kicking off the festive season this month with Christmas in July.   It's nice to make a few cards at a time and the heat of summer is the perfect time to think snowflakes and ice.  Especially if it's in a long drink LOL.  

No snowflakes or ice on this one, just an elf and a little red, white and blue.

I stamped Lost Coast Designs Flagstone Background with Ice Blue ink and realised I really need to clean my stamps sometimes.  But it's quite a nice shade of uh, rose?? so I stamped the large Rectangle Shadow Frame with Carnation Red archival.  I'd stamped, coloured and fussy cut this little Carmen's Veranda Elf and decided all it needed was a big sentiment.  License Plate Alphabet to the rescue.....

You have all month to join the Christmas in July fun.  

Check the rules to make sure your makes are eligible for the prize draw.

Thanks for dropping by.

 

 

Lost Coast Designs DT Call

DESIGN TEAM CALL

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!

 

We are looking for some new Lost Coast Designers to join our fabulous Lost Coast Designs/Carmen’s Veranda team!  We are a small, enthusiastic and friendly team and would love to welcome some fun-loving stampers with positive, professional, no-drama attitudes, who love working with eclectic and quirky rubber stamps, to join us.

We are really keen for applications from the USA.

International applications are also welcome.

 

CALL CLOSES 14th JULY

 
DT term is one year.

Please read over our DT Requirements carefully and consider your current obligations before applying.  Joining a DT is fun and a way for you to share your love of creating but it is also a commitment.  You are expected to do your best for our team regardless of how many other teams you serve on, so make sure you fully understand what being a Lost Coast Designer entails and feel free to ask questions if you need anything clarified. 

If you think our team is right for you then we’d love for you to apply by emailing Gail (craftynomad@gmail.com)   Please put “Lost Coast Design Team Application” in the subject of your email and provide the following information.  Thank you for your consideration and we look forward to meeting you all! 

• Name, address and email address.
• Short biography - tell us a little about yourself, why you would like to join our Design Team and what you think you can add to the team
• Links to your online galleries, blogs, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, You Tube channel etc.
• List any Design Teams you are currently on and have previously been on.  Please note that past DT experience is not necessary, all are welcome to apply.  
• Include 3-5 project photos that best shows your style and quality of work (please keep file sizes under 300kB). 

DESIGN TEAM PERKS

• You will be compensated for your work with a generous selection of quality rubber and clear stamps from Lost Coast Designs and Carmen’s Veranda. 
• Your paper art projects proudly displayed at stamp conventions in the USA and Europe.
• Exposure on our Lost Coast Portal to Creativity event and challenge blog, Lost Coast Designs & Carmen’s Veranda company Facebook Pages and our Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda Facebook Fan Group.
• You get to create with and be inspired by a group of very talented stampers and participate in lots of fun events.

DT REQUIREMENTS

• Be able to work with all our stamp images, regardless of personal tastes and preferences.
• Have an active, up to date blog.  We use blogger, so familiarity would be an advantage.
• Be a good communicator, reliable, dedicated & on time with deadlines and be able to work with themes in a team environment. 
• You must be able to take good photographs to showcase your art well.
• Display 3-4 badges (3 permanent, 1 temporary) on your personal blogs to promote Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda and our various activities.  
• Actively promote our stamps and activities on your personal blog, Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest, etc, as much as possible.
• Be an active member of our official Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda Facebook Fan group as well as belong to our private DT group. 
• Be willing to participate in various events like blog hops, etc.
• Share at least three project per month on our Lost Coast Portal to Creativity blog on assigned dates.  Posts are to be engaging, written in good English, easy to follow, with info on what was made and how it was done, either as a brief summary or in tutorial form, photographic or video.
• In October we do an annual Halloween blog hop/event where we post every day of the month.  Additional projects will be expected at this time, split between the whole team.
• You are required to comment on challenge entries.  
• You are required to mail in some none bulky paper art projects to Lost Coast Designs for display at our convention booths across the USA and Europe. 

Looking forward to hearing from you.
Happy Stamping!
Gail
Design Team Leader

 

CHALLENGE #187 - CHRISTMAS IN JULY

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 monthly!  A new challenge starting the 1st 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. 

 

We have some *NEW* stamps coming to the Lost Coast Designs webshop.  The team is already using some of them but due to technical difficulties they aren't showing online yet.  If you are placing an order and would like to buy any of the new stamps then drop Linda an email at linda@lost-coast-designs.com and ask her to add them to your order.   Hopefully they will all be available to view online soon.

 
Now for our new Challenge!

CHALLENGE #187

CHRISTMAS IN JULY

Let's kick off the festive makes with Christmas In July.  You have all month to share your stamped anythings with a Christmas 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 read the updated Challenge Rules 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 you could win a bigger prize in our random prize drawing.  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 *NEW* Cat, Small Snowflakes Set, License Plate Alphabet Set and Grunge Diamond Background

Gail used Lost Coast Designs CD Roly Jester, ATC Doodle Circles and Misc Words

  
Riet used Lost Coast Designs *NEW* Mini-Santas, Snowflakes Border, Party Words, Misc Words and Large Snowflakes with Carmen's Veranda Christmas Tree


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 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 #187 - Christmas In July
July 1st - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Wednesday, July 31st 23.59 PST.

 

Red, White and Blue: Waiting for Mr. Right

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! The final day of June, and the final blogpost for our Red, White and Blue challenge! 

An easy one this time, with blue and red Distress ink and some water, StazOn ink, bleach, colour pencils and white gel pen and just one (beautiful!) stamp: Waiting for Mr. Right.

This colour topic was so much fun, we hope to see you next month!

Have a wonderful day!

LiesbethXX

Home on the Range

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 Red, White and Blue challenge.  I'm seeing a lot of dark backgrounds around so I decided to go midnight blue and make a winter scene.

I stamped the navy panel with Lost Coast Designs Small Snowflakes using white ink.  I stamped Carmen's Veranda Snow Cowboy with sky blue ink, did some fussy cutting and used a couple of snowy hills dies to cut the snowdrifts.  I used markers to add a little red and blue to the snowman.

Link up your stamped projects predominantly featuring the colours Red, White and Blue

 for your chance to win Lost Coast Dollars.  Linky closes 23.59 on the 30th.

#186 Red, White and Blue 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 with a stamp from the new animals serie.

 

Today a small tag, for the red, white and blue challenge of Lost coast designs.

This challenge runs until the end of the month, so there's still plenty of time to participate.

I stamped with the bird from the new animal series from LCD.

These will soon be for sale in the online store.

The funny text is one from Carmens Veranda stamps.

And the little swirls are a part of the silhouette dancer.

I also used Stazon Black cherry and Ultramarine.

Distressink barn door and chipped sapphire.

White acrylic paint and a white gelpen.

I started with the red and blue distress ink, 

which I spread on my craft sheet and diluted with water.

I painted the top left corner with red.

I did the same with blue around the bird.

A little red on the underside of the bird.

Stamped the text with the blue stazon.

And the swirls are also stamped with the two stazon colors.

Colored the bird with blue and red distress ink.

And gave the bird some accents with the white gelpen.

Splashed some white paint, but first covered the bird with a piece of paper.

Matte the tag with half blue and half red cardstock.

I love the new bird stamp, he has such a funny look.

That's it for this time.

I sincerely hope that you will join the challenge.

Maybe you will be the winner for this challenge, 

and you will win new rubber stamps of your choice.

Playing along with:

 Simon Says wednesday challenge.