Saturday, May 31, 2025

Are You Kidding Me? Bat Boy and Friends

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!

Greetings!  You've got Kathi here today on the last day of May to share a card created for the May's Are You Kidding Me? Challenge 197. I've used "Bat Boy" (my name for him) from the new Cartoon Kids Rubber Stamp Set by Lost Coast Designs.

Here it is!


Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp Bat Boy onto white cardstock. Fussy-cut him, color him with Copic markers, then edge him with a black marker. Use a white gel pen to add highlights to his eyes. Set him aside.

Use bright blue, darker blue, and dark grey inks to stencil clouds onto a 3.25" x 4.75" panel of white cardstock to create a cloudy night sky. 

Sponge black ink over a bat stencil to add three sets of bats to the sky. They're Bat Boy's friends.

Sponge black ink over a dot patterned stencil to add flight trails to the sky. Go over the black dots with a black glitter pen to make his trail sparkly.

Adhere Bat Boy as shown.

Edge the background panel with black ink and adhere to a 3.5" x 5" black card. Adhere a sentiment sticker to finish the card.

You still have a bit of time to join our May's Are You Kidding Me? Challenge 197 for a chance to win Lost Coast Ca$h!




Friday, May 30, 2025

Rainbow Splatter Timmy

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!


Goodmorning, Cathy here with a fun card for you today.


Stamp Used:

I got this new stencil that makes an inky splatter in layers. I used distress oxide inks.

I then stamped Timmy from the Cartoon kids (that is my name I picked for him) on the Kraft paper. I then stamped him again on white cardstock and colored him with coipc markers and cut him out and added him to the front of the card. 
I put it on a black card base, and we are done.




Monday, May 26, 2025

# 197 Are you kidding me 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!

 
Hello dear blog visitors, this is Riet here with a new tutorial.

Today a card for the "Are you kidding me" challenge.
I chose the beautiful praying angel stamp from LCD.

What do you need to make this card?
A acrylic block, mine is heart shaped.


Black watergroof inkpad.
Distress ink and distress oxide:
Peacock feathers,
Worn lipstick,
Seedles preserves.
Color pencils, I used Derwent Intense.

I started by putting the 3 colors of distress ink on the acrylic block,
 and spraying it with some water.
Print the block on the paper.

I did the same but with a clear plastic sheet.
Bend the sheet then you can make a nice stripe pattern with the 3 colors of ink.


I drew a line around the heart with a pencil.

Using the 3 colors of distress oxide, 
stamp the background with the text stamp, the swirl and the circles.
On the bottem stamp de Ironworks border.

Stamp the flowers and color them and cut them out.
Do the same with the praying angel.

Make sure theat you have 3 sizes flowers.

Color the border and see where you want to stamp the text in the heart.
Make some spletters with the seedles preserves ink.

Place the flowers loose on the heart,
 so that you can estimate where the text should go.
Stamp the daisy text and glue the angel on and than the flowers.
Matt the card and your finishend.

The challenge runs until the end of May.
So there are still a few days left to participate.
Maybe you will be our new winner.


Friday, May 23, 2025

Bloom Where You're Planted

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 stamping friends, Aimee here! We're celebrating children for the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's May Challenge. Since I only have one stamp with the image of a child, I thought I'd use the Princess of Everything stamp in a different way than my previous post. Combined with one stamp from the Pieces of Calligraphy set, here's what I came up with:
Follow along with this photo tutorial to see how I created this card:
There's still a full week remaining in May for you to submit your creation featuring a child's image to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity. Go for it! Maybe you'll win this month's prize. 




Thursday, May 22, 2025

Are You Kidding Me?

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!

Greetings! You've got Kathi here sharing my second card created for May's Are You Kidding Me? Challenge 197. I've used "Angel Girl" (my name for her) from the new Cartoon Kids Rubber Stamp Set by Lost Coast Designs and the Medium Keyhole Rubber Stamp by Carmen's Veranda.

Here it is!


Use a stamping platform and Memento Ink to stamp the Medium Keyhole twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version so that you have a piece that will cover the area around the outline of the keyhole and cut it again along the outside border of around the keyhole. You should end up with three masks, one for the area around the keyhole, one for the outline of the keyhole, and one for the keyhole itself.  

Position the Angel Girl stamp from the  Cartoon Kids Rubber Stamp Set facedown in the aperture of the keyhole, then use Memento Ink to stamp it twice — once onto the image panel and once onto repositionable sticker paper. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version of Angel Girl and place it atop its counterpart on the image panel. 

Place the keyhole mask and the keyhole outline mask over their counterparts and sponge metallic gold and metallic black/gold inks over the masks to create the brass door plate/escutcheon. Thoroughly heat set the ink.

Cover the area just inked with the repositionable sticker paper mask. It will butt up against the outline mask. 

Remove the mask from the keyhole, but keep the mask over Angel Girl. Brush light purple, light pink and light blue dye inks over a cloud mask to create a cloudy sky in the aperture of the keyhole. 

Remove the mask from Angel Girl and from the outline of the keyhole. Color the keyhole and Angel Girl with Copic markers. Use a clear glitter pen to add glitter to her wings and trails under her feet. Use a gold glitter pen to add gold glitter to her halo, her wings, and the trails under her feet. Use a white gel pen to add highlights to her eyes.

Remove the mask from the outside of the keyhole. Trim the image panel/keyhole plate and edge with a grey marker. Use a black chalk pencil to add a slight shadow around the outline of the keyhole. Trim a piece of gold metallic cardstock so that it's slightly larger than the image panel and use it to mat the image panel. Add gold circles to the four corners of the doorplate/escutcheon.

Use a wood-patterned embossing folder to emboss grey/blue cardstock. Place the embossed cardstock between copy paper and run it through the die-cut machine to flatten it. Brush gold metallic ink lightly over the embossed cardstock to hit the hight spots.

Trim the panel to 5" x 7" and adhere to a 5" x 7" grey/blue card.  Edge with the gold metallic ink, then heat set the card thoroughly.

Sponge the same blue and pink dye inks used previously onto a sentiment sticker. Adhere the sentiment sticker to the card front, then adhere the image panel to finish the card.

Remember that you still have time to enter our May Are you Kidding Me? Challenge for the chance to win Lost Coast Ca$h!

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Are you kidding me? : Two baby flower faces


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 lovely people! Today I would like to show you a small card with two baby faces. Last week I was trying out marbling paint together with our oldest granddaughter Lorèn, we had so much fun! Sometimes we had to clean the water with a piece of paper and this background is one of that cleaning scraps. A happy accident!
 

I stamped the faces and the texts on the card and  I finished the it with white gel pen, colour pencils and charcoal. 
HERE you find everything about this challenge Are you kidding me. Give it a try, why not!? 😀


Hope to see you next time!

Liesbeth XX


Sunday, May 18, 2025

The Rose Boy

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!

Hey welcome to the blog today - Darlene here and sharing my make with one of my 
fav childrens stamp - the Rose Boy.
Can't tell you how often I have used him in different makes.

This month with the 'Are you Kidding me' challenge thought this would be a good choice


So I made this fun fold card just in black and white

This stamp looks like a photograph!!!!


Simple yet effective card.
I masked the Rose boy and did dark splatters
and the saying went well with it, him showing some Kindness
We need more of that in the world right now !!!


So be sure to join in on this challenge and maybe win some 
new stamps !!!   Remember there has to be stamping on it to qualify
just upload here and maybe.....


Friday, May 16, 2025

#197 Are you kidding me. Made a tag with the lovely Bubbles girl stamp.

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 new tutorial.
Make your own perfect resist.

Today a vintage tag for the challenge at
 Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps.
I chose to work with pastel shades. 
I think that suits this sweet vintage girl.

I used LCD stamps,

Distressink,
Speckled egg
Victorian velvet
Shaded lilac
Old paper
Vintage photo
Archival coffie
Or any other dark brown ink will do.

Perfect resist (home made)
2 parts white glue 1 part water.

Start by spraying the perfect resist on a clear sheet.

Use a sponge to apply it to the stamp.
Stamp on your tag and let it dry.

You apply the ink with an ink blending brush.

You will then see the stamp prints appear.
Just like magic.

Love the result.

Use a spray to make some fine water drops on the ink.

Stamp the Daisy florish Diagonally across the corners.
Do so with the wordt "Fly". 

Use a sponge to darken the edges with Distressink Vintage photo.

Stamp the butterfly and girl, color them with the distress ink.
Cut them out and stick them on with foam tape.

but can also be about funny things.
It's up to you how you interpret it.
The team would love to see your crafty things in the challenge.
Anything goes as long as it's stamped on.
You don't even have to use LCD/CV stamps.
Read all about it in the rules.
Have fun creating and I hope to see your art.


 

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Are you kidding me??: Button Girl

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! Today I would like to show you a card made with one of my favourite stamps..a lovely girl named Button Girl. I stamped her onto a gelly printed background, and staped Daisy Flourish too. I finished the card with white gel pen, colour pencils and charcoal.


HERE you find everything about this challenge Are you kidding me. Hope you'll join us! :-)


See you next time!

Liesbeth XX

CHALLENGE #197 - ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? MID MONTH REMINDER

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.  
 
We are halfway through the month and the current challenge is

CHALLENGE #197

ARE YOU KIDDING ME???

Our challenges are now monthly!  A new challenge starting the 1st every month, with chances to win Lost Coast dollars.  This month we want to see cards featuring kids.  Extra points for making it funny.  If you haven't got kids we will accept funny, but funny kids will really make our day!  You have all month to share your 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 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 awesome inspiration from the team. and if you haven't checked out the previous projects this month just scroll down.  ENJOY
 
 Aimee used Lost Coast Designs Dolls Border and Brush Strokes with Carmen's Veranda Smile and Fart sentiment
  
 Kathi used Lost Coast Designs Comic Kids

Darlene used Lost Coast Designs Puppy 1 with Carmen's Veranda 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 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