Cowboy Hat

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Hello Portal Peeps! 

Gail here today with some classic headgear for the Where's My Hat?? Challenge.

I've used Carmen's Veranda Rocking Horse and Southwest Town to make a cowboy scene. 

 

I started with a kraft card base and stamped Southwest Town with brown ink.  Then I blended Fossilized Amber and Salty Ocean distress oxides to make the sand and the sky.  I stamped Rocking Horse on some light grey card, coloured with distress markers and fussy cut just the horse.  Such a fun little cowboy on his horse.

 

Hope you get time to join the Where's My Hat? fun.  We need at least 20 entries to award the prize so tell your friends and add your stamped makes featuring headgear to the linky.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

CHALLENGE #196 - WHERE'S MY HAT Mid-Month Reminder

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Hello Portal Peeps. 

It's time for our Where's My Hat Challenge mid-month reminder!!
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.

CHALLENGE #196

WHERE'S MY HAT

This month we are all about headgear.  You have all month to share your stamped anythings with hats or other headgear.  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!

 
 Aimee used Lost Coast Designs Polly Parrot and Megan's Christmas Bird with Carmen's Veranda Born to Stand Out sentiment.
 

  Kathi used Lost Coast Designs Cat and Bird

  
Riet used Lost Coast Designs Manga Goth with Tophat, Butterfly set and Brush Strokes
with Carmen's Veranda Art Wings to Fly 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 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.

 

Where's My Hat Challenge

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Life of the Party

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Well, wheres your party hat????  The theme for April. 

Darlene here  with my second 

card this month I chose this 

American Gothic Party

Stamp

I decided to frame it like a photo.  Using some fun paper I had.

Layered with some Navy cardstock

The saying was printed on my computer - They just look like they could be

'the life of the party' right !

A few confetti blings and its done.

Be sure to enter our challenge this month

and maybe win some new rubber !

Remember there has to be some stamping on it to qualify.

just upload it here...

Where's my Hat: Tres Caballeros

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Hello lovely people! Liesbeth here with 3 different men with 3 beautiful hats for our Where´s my hat Challenge!

I made this card a long time ago , I don´t think if I already showed it here. But of course it fits perfectly for the theme :-)

It's made with different layers of paper and I coloured it with water colour markers. I finished it with some rhinestones.

 Stamp used: Tres Caballeros 

Hope to see you participate this nice and funny challenge! 

See you next time, hugs,

LiesbethXX

Where's My Hat Challenge #196 - Unsupervised Dunce Hat Cat

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Greetings! You've got Kathi here to share a card created for the April Where's My Hat Challenge #196 with the Fluffy Cat Rubber Stamp from the Party Cat Rubber Stamp Set. 

Here's the card!

I have a pair of mischievious white cats, Domino and the aptly named Harley Quinn. They're littermates, who don't really get along, but occasionally conspire to create enough chaos that I really would like to put dunce caps on them, but I like my hands attached to my arms.

Anyway, the Fluffy Cat was stamped twice with Obsidian Black Amalgam Ink — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper. The image panel was heat set. The Fluffy Cat on the image panel was colored with Copic markers to make him look like Domino. 

The repositionable sticker paper version of the Fluffy Cat was fussy-cut and placed over his counterpart on the image panel.

They took a ride through my Big Shot inside of a rectangle cutting die to be die-cut, then were kept inside the cutting die by securing the die to the back of the panel with low-tack tape. I brushed yellow and two grey dye inks over the die onto the image panel die-cut with the masked images to leave a nice white border around the inked image panel. 

The image panel die-cut was removed from the die-cut and set aside.

Patterned paper was cut, edged with grey ink, and layered, then adhered to a white A6 card. The image panel die-cut was adhered as shown. A sentiment sticker was added to complete the card.

I really hope that you get a chance to play along with the April Where's My Hat Challenge #196 for the chance to with Lost Coast Designs Ca$h!

Thanks for visiting today!

Man in clouds

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Goodmorning Cathy here with a slimline card for you today.

I used a leftover scrap that I cleaned my cloud stencil of from and then I used the paper to clean my pink blender brush.

I then stamped man with hat and cane and some words in pink and added it to a black card base

You Matter

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Hi everyone, Aimee here! Here's a card I created inspired by a gift tag I saw on Pinterest. The tag featured a woman wearing a hat, and I thought it would be perfect for this month's Challenge: Where's My Hat?

The creation of this card kind of morphed as I went along. I used pigment inks, dye inks, embossing folders, embossing powder, alcohol markers and embellishments to bring it to life. The final touch was a hat sticker I purchased at a Dollar Tree store that I then colored to fit in better with the card's color scheme.  I used the Art Nouveau Faces, You Matter and Brush Strokes stamps. Follow along with this photo tutorial to see how it all came together:

This card is the result of playing around with inks and colors as I went, not knowing how it would all turn out in the end. That's the beauty of creating--just see where your path takes you. Go for it! And then submit your creation to the Lost Coast Portal To Creativity for your chance to win a prize.  

MARCH WINNER

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

We would like to thank everyone who entered their lovely projects.  Thanks for playing with us!  Unfortunately, we need at least 20 entries to award the stamp prize.  Please tell your friends about out challenge.  I do so love giving away some of Linda's beautiful stamps, but we do need to have a few more people joining the fun.

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 #195

I AM WOMAN

is

Chantal

 

with this gorgeous card using Lost Coast Designs Three Sisters

Congrats Chantal.
Here's your snazzy Challenge Winner's badge for your blog!
Would love if you could link your badge back to us here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.

 

Our current challenge is

WHERE'S MY HAT??

Link up your stamped projects featuring HATS/HEADGEAR

 for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.

 

#196, Where's my hat, milkbox.

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Hi crafters, Riet here.

The new challenge at Lost Coast designs/Carmens veranda stamps is all about hats.

So much fun.

 I made a milkbox with 

the many moods of Mona stamp set. 

5 gorgeous stamps with the face of Mona Lisa.

What I used for this milk box:

Mona stamp set,

Single Mona's,

Crackle background,

Long swirl.

Distress oxide:

Mermaid lagoon,

Wilted violet,

Cracked pistachio,

Musterd seed.

Versafine onyx black.

Acrylic paint spray bottles In the same colors as the oxides.

Color pencils or markers, what you like most.

Dutch DoBaDo  box art, milkbox.

Started with spraying the acrylic paints.

Once this is completely dry, 

we draw the template of the milk carton and cut it out and score the score lines.

With the crackle background 

you stamp pieces of the stamp here and there with the Distress oxides.

Using the long swirl and black ink we stamp all the top flaps of the milk carton.

Take thin paper and stamp with versafine the 4 mona's.

Colour them with markers or pencils.

Glue them on the box.

Now you can fold and glue the milk carton.

Punch a hole at the top and pull a ribbon through it.

And that's it for this time.

You probably have a stamp with a hat, 

but it can also be from other brands to participate in the challenge.

You then have a chance to win stamps of your choice.

Please read the rules to avoid disappointment.

CLICK HERE FOR THE CHALLENGE.

READ THE RULES PLEASE.

Where Did You Get That Hat???

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Hello Portal Peeps!  Gail here today and the challenge for April is Where's My Hat?  We want to see your stamped anythings featuring headgear.  I had a look through my Lost Coast Designs stamps and found lots with hats!  Check out yesterday's challenge post and the fun makes from Cathy, Liesbeth and Darlene where they kicked off the challenge in amazing style.  Today I have used one of the images from Doodle Dolls 1 set, and I found she also featured on the Postage set, so I've made a slimline collage style birthday card.

I used archival ink in shades on blue and red and did some ink mixing on the stamps to give some variegated colours.  The background stamp is Lost Coast Designs PMC Circle Frame.  I used a die cut to make the oval frame and arranged the Postage stamps and Doodle Doll on it after I had stamped and fussy cut them.  I stamped the Happy Birthdays using Lost Coast Designs Party Words and die cut with a Waffle Flower die. 

Hope you get time to join the Where's My Hat? fun.  We need at least 20 entries to award the prize so tell your friends and add your stamped hatty makes to the linky.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

CHALLENGE # 196 - WHERE'S MY HAT

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Hello Portal Peeps.  
 

Welcome to April and 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 #196

WHERE'S MY HAT

This month we are all about headgear.  You have all month to share your stamped anythings with hats or other headgear.  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 Horizontal Party Hats Border, Mini Crowns, and Corner Swirl 

with Carmen's Veranda Joker

Liesbeth used Lost Coast Designs Birthday Mona, Skull Flourish with and Carmen's Veranda Keyhole and Ironwork Wall

 

Darlene used Lost Coast Design Party Hat set 2

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 #196 - Where's My Hat??
April 1st - 30th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Wednesday, April 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
 

 

Alice's Adventures

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Hi all, Aimee here! All women were once young girls, so I think this card still qualifies for this month's Woman Challenge.

I used the Four Alices and Brush Strokes stamps from Lost Coast Designs and the Courage and Cusswords stamp from Carmen's Veranda. For the sentiment shown here, I cut off the last lines of the phrase to focus on the adventure aspect, something Alice in Wonderland is known for. Follow along with this pictorial to learn how I put it all together. 

There's one more day left for you to submit your stamped creation to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity as part of the Woman Challenge. Who knows?! Maybe yours will be selected to win a prize!

Challenge 195 - I Am Woman Challenge

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Hi there! You've got Kathi here today to share a card created for Challenge 195 - I Am Woman with the Crown Mona Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs. 

 Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp Crown Mona twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 

Use Copic markers to color Crown Mona on the image panel. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart on the image panel.

Move the image panel to a magnetic surface and secure it with magnets. Place a hill landscape stencil over the masked image and the panel. Brush light blue ink horizontally across the stencil.  Remove the stencil and use a small brush to apply green ink below the sky to form hills. Brush darker blue ink below the hills area to create a body of water. Use green and tan dye inks to to fill in the rest of the area behind Crown Mona. Remove Crown Mona's mask.

Cut metallic gold cardstock with an ornate frame die. Drip some black Posca Acrylic paint onto a baby wipe. Use the baby wipe to apply the black paint, let it set for a second or two, then wipe it away. 

Place the frame over Crown Mona to frame her. Adhere framed Crown Mona to a 4" x 5.25" piece of brick patterned paper. Use a Gold Posca Paint Pen to edge and add a gold border to the patterned paper. Let the paint dry, then adhere the patterned paper to a grey A2 card.

Use alphabet dies and a word die to cut gold metallic cardstock. Adhere the sentiment to the card front as shown. Add the "Smile" metalllic sentiment sticker to finish the card.

You still have time to play along with our I Am Woman Challenge 195 and get the chance to win Lost Coast Ca$h.