Red, White and Blue: Waiting for Mr. Right

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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

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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.

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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.

Red, blue and white banner

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Cathy here with a banner for you.

Stamps Used:

ATC Italian postmark

Corner swirl

New Fox stamp not on site yet.

I started out with a new die set I got. I had to try it out. I started out with the largest one and die cut it out of red paper. I then did the second one out of blue paper and the third one out of white paper. 

On the red one I stamped ATC Italian postmark in red ink. On the blue one I stamped Corner swirl in blue ink. On the white one I stamped the Fox in black ink and colored his bowtie in with blue. I then took the  ATC Italian postmark and Corner swirl and stamped them around the fox. 

I layered them all on top of each other and there is my banner. 

You still have time to join the challenge over at the Lost Coast blog.

#186 Red, white and blue. Lets Party!

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Hello dear card makers and stampers.

Riet here, with today a very easy card.

So it is also easy for beginners.

What I used:

LCD bubbles background.

LCD Cari's old woman, party on!

LCD Party words.

Blue, red and skintone marker, and some light blue for her glasses.

Stazon jet black, (or any black will do).

Stazon Black cherry.

I started by stamping the background Bubbles with the Black Cherry Stazon.

Colored the circles in the white areas with the blue marker.

With white paper and a die, I made a shape for behind the old woman.

Stamped the text with stazon Jet black.

Stick this in the middle of the card with 3D foam tape.

Stamp the old woman with Stazon jet black and color her with the markers.

Cut out the old woman and stick her to the die cut with 3D foam tape.

Glue the whole thing on a double white card and you're done. 

Now I hope to see your art in the challenge.

Hope you win the price,which consists of stamps of your own choice.

Isn't that fantastic?

Red, White, and Blue, A Sketch and A Pineapple

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Hello Portal Peeps!   Gail here today with some Red, White and Blue inspiration.  It's not surprizing that so many flags use this combination of colours.  What a striking effect they make.  So grab your reds, whites and blues and your stamps and join the fun!!

I've used a sketch for the basis of my card layout and indulged in some tone on tone stamping.  Lost Coast Designs have so many lovely background stamps that can turn a flat piece of coloured card into a masterpiece.  I used Lost Coast Designs Fruitpods Background, stamped with dark blue ink on mid blue card base for the background.  I stamped Flagstone Background using red ink on red card and cut it with a pennant die.  The stamped Carmen's Veranda White Cat on white card, masked and randomly stamped Carmen's Veranda Pineapple using light blue ink all around the cat.  I didn't use a block, just inked the stamp and rolled it lightly around the cat, reinking between stamping.  I cut some scraps with a thin pennant die, stamped the sentiment and added some heart brads to finish.

I hope you like my card.  Thanks for dropping by.

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

 for your chance to win Lost Coast Dollars.

 

Red, white & blue: Flower Girl Gate

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Hello everyone, Liesbeth here with a new card for our challenge of this month: Red, White & Blue.

I used just 2 colours of Versafine Clair ink and I just stamped, cut, glued and sponged, using the wonderful gate stamp from ATC Miscellaneous 4  and one of the faces from 3 Flying flower girl faces

Hope I inspired you to paticipate and join the fun! See you next time!

                                                                         LiesbethXX

#186 Red, white and blue challenge. Stars, stripes and clowns.

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Today a card with the fun big nose and pope clown.

These are really fun for the red, white and blue theme of this challenge. 

What I used for this card:

Big nose clown,

Pope clown,

Rustic checkerboard border.

Stencil

Hotfix silver stars and squares.

Distressink:

Pumice stone

Antique linen

Chipped Sapphire

Fired brick.

Versafine Onyx black

I started by giving the white paper a vintage color.

I know it's supposed to be white, but I wanted to give the card a vintage look.

I did that with Antique linen and Pumice stone.

I applied the red and blue distress ink with the stencil and an ink blender.

First one half, then turned the stencil over and inked up the other half of the paper with red.

While the stenciled background is drying, I stamped the clowns with versafine black.

I colored the clowns with the red and blue distredd ink.

Let them dry.

Now continue with 2 strips of paper and repeat the

vintage coloring in the same way as the card.

Stamp the rustic checkerboard border 3 times in red and blue.

Now it's a bit of a puzzle to get the patterns to match as well as possible.

Cut out the clowns and glue them onto the card.

Finish it all off with the silver stars.

Glue on to red and blue cardstock.

This was my contribution to the challenge.

Now I'm curious what you make in red, white and blue.

Maybe something for the 4th of July?

Show us and participate in the challenge.

Wouldn't it be nice if you were the new winner?

You can even participate with stamps from other brands.

That's all allowed, as long as you use stamps on your project or card.

Red, White and Blue Challenge

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Cathy here with a card for you today.

Stamps Used:

Pieces of Calligraphy

Butterfly set

I started out with stamping one of the stamps from Pieces of Calligraphy in blue distress ink. I then edges the sides with the same ink. As I was doing that, I got smudges in the middle of the card because I didn't let is dry long enough. So, what to do add more stamps. I took another stamp from Pieces of Calligraphy and stamped that around to cover up my smudges. 
Next, I blended the blue all over the front of the card. 
I then took a small butterfly from the Butterfly set and stamped it with red distress in all over the card. Lastly to add my white I added a white frame with a white flourish.

You can join the challenge at The Red White and Blue Challenge
 

Dragon Fire

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here today with some inspiration for the Red, White and Blue Challenge.  The design team makes are looking so striking and we can't wait for you to help us fill up the linky for a glorious display of red, white and blue.  

Today I have used Lost Coast Designs Shooting Star Background.

I stamped Shooting Star Background with Midnight blue archival ink and then used red and blue Promarkers to add colour.  Then I simply matted it onto the dark blue base card and added the Happy Birthday sentiment as a fishtail banner.

I hope you like my card.  Thanks for dropping by.

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

 for your chance to win Lost Coast Dollars.

MAY WINNER

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

We would like to thank everyone who entered their lovely projects.  We didn't have many entries but the ones we had were awesome.  We appreciate you joining the fun and it is so nice to see 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.

We used Mr Random

WINNER of CHALLENGE #165

LET US ENTERTAIN YOU

is

Sylvia Koning

 

with this lovely card featuring Lost Coast Designs Rabbit with watch stamp

 

 

Congrats Sylvia.
Here's your snazzy Challenge Winner's badge for your blog!
We'd love it if you link your badge back to us here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.
 

Our current challenge is

RED, WHITE AND BLUE

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

 for your chance to win Lost Coast Dollars.

 

#186 Red, white and blue challenge. Love this manga girl.

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Hi there, Riet here with a new card for the

Red, white and blue challenge.

How festive that is with the Fourth of July approaching.

This card can also easily be made by a beginner or advanced stamper.

The team would love for you to join the challenge.

So show us what you made with these colors.

Stamps I used:

Manga goth with tophat

Flowers

Color pencils (I used Derwent colorsoft)

Stazon Black cherry

Stazon Midnight blue.

How to make the card.

I started by stamping the manga girl with stazon midnight blue.

Also stamp a mask and masked her off. 

The lovely flowers come in 4 sizes and 4 diferent flowers.

Just stamped around the manga girl in red and blue stazon.

Color some of the flowers and leave some white for the contrast. 

Color the manga girl.

Take some red white and blue cardstock for the background to matt.

And then you're done.

You could of course further decorate the card with glitter or sequins.

That's up to you.

I often find the simplicity beautiful.

Hope you enjoyed it, and see you next time.

CHALLENGE #186 - RED, WHITE AND BLUE

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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.

Now for our new Challenge!

CHALLENGE #186

RED, WHITE AND BLUE

We want to see your stamped anything in a predominantly Red White and Blue colour scheme.  small amounts of other colours will be accepted but it must be predominantly RED WHITE and BLUE.
You have all month to share your stamped anythings with the 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 Brush Stokes, ATC Italian Postmark with Carmen's Veranda Open Rose

 

Gail used Lost Coast Designs Mayan Stele and Mini Manga with Carmen's Veranda Huge To Do List sentiment

Liesbeth used Carmen's Veranda Paradise, Dice Hand and Clock Face squares with Lost Coast Designs Daisy Flourish

  Riet used Lost Coast Designs Brush Stokes, Three Gnomes and Party Words


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 30th 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 #186 - Red, White and Blue
June 1st - 30th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Sunday, June 30th 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