Tuesday, October 21, 2025

31 Days of Halloween Day 21: Trick or Treat

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,
Day 21 of our Halloween Challenge! Again I made two ATC's today, this time I used the lovely creatures from AUD Creatures 2 and AUD Creatures 4...I love them! 💓
They are stamped onto alcohol inked glossy paper and coloured with Distress Markers. I also used Spiderwebs Background.




See you next time! Love to see your Halloween makes!
LiesbethXX



Monday, October 20, 2025

31 Days of Halloween - Day 20

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! Kathi here with a creepy, crawly card for Day 20 of the 31 Days of Halloween created with the Bugs Background Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.


Smoosh Twisted Citron Distress Ink onto a acrylic block, mist the inky block with water, then pounce it onto a 7" x 5.5" piece of Bristol paper or other heavyweight water-friendly paper. Clean the block.

Repeat the above smooshing process with Squeezed Lemonade, Fossilized Amber, Carved Pumpkin, Wilted Violet, and Poisonous Potion Distress Inks until you're happy with your variegated background. Be sure to take care to clean the acrylic block between colors to avoid contaminating your ink pad. Heat set the inked panel thoroughly.

If your paper is still curved, place the inked panel into a folded piece of copy paper, put it onto the platform of your die-cut machine, place both cutting plates over the the combination, then run it th rough the die-cut machine several times until it's nice and flat.

Place the flattened and dried inked panel onto the base of a stamping platform secured with magnets and/or low-tack tape. Place the Bugs Background Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs facedown onto the inked panel. Ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink, and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if necessary to attain a good impression. If there are any gaps in the impression, use a paintbrush to apply Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink, to fix the images. 

Draw a 1/8" border around the stamped image, place a piece of acetate along the stamped border, and apply Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink around all four edges. Trim the panel to 5.75" x 4.5" and edge it with the same ink. Heat set the image panel and set it aside.

Use a Skull Die to cut off-white cardstock, then use Copic markers to add details. Trace the aperture areas of the skull and color them with Copic markers. Trim the colored aperture panel and adhere it to the back of the skull as shown.

Use the Entomology Thinlits Die and a huge spider die to cut black cardstock. Flip the die-cuts over and use a stylus to add dimension to the bugs' and spider's bodies. Use an embossing pen to color the raised front side of the bugs' and spider's bodies. Add black detail embossing powder to the wet ink, dump off the excess, and heat set the powder. Repeat the process to add another layer of embossing powder to the bugs' and spider's bodies.

Adhere the Bugs Background panel to a 7" x 5" black card. Adhere one of the bugs so that it appears to be coming out of the right eye socket. Adhere the skull to the card as shown. Adhere the spider to the top of the skull and another bug to the lower right hand corner of the card as shown.

Use Copic markers to color an idea-ology Occasions Small Talk Sticker, then adhere it as shown to finish the card.

You still have lots of time to join in the 31 Days of Halloween Challenge for the chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!


Sunday, October 19, 2025

31 Days of Halloween Day 19 - Black Cats Are Seen

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!

Wow can't believe we are getting close to the end of October already !

Darlene here with another make for the 
31 Days of Halloween !!!  So much fun making these different items. 




Today I am sharing a couple of candles I made using several different stamps.

The first one, just a quicky - using the Crows Border stamps


The larger candle I used the happy cat and Carmen Verandas words and quotes

Notice I reversed the crows on the smaller candle.
 

Barely two weeks lefts to get your Halloween make into our challenge!!!
Do it !  might win some new stamps !!!

Saturday, October 18, 2025

31 Days of Halloween Challenge - Day 18

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! Kathi here with a bewitching scenic card for Day 18 created with the Witch 2 Rubber Stamp and the Small Cityscape Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.


I started the card by stamping the Small Cityscape with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink twice — once onto the bottom of a 5.5" x 7.5" piece of white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper.

Witch 2 was then stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink above the cityscape. 

The image panel was placed onto a magnetic glass mat. Both images were colored with Copic markers.

The sticker paper version of the Small Cityscape was fussy-cut and placed over its counterpart on the image panel as a mask. An acetate circle was placed over the colored Witch 2 image and secured with magnets. Blue Danube Memento Ink was brushed over the masked Small Cityscape and the acetate circle to create a night sky.

 When the panel was covered to my liking, Paris Dusk Memento Ink was brushed around the edges of the image panel towards the center of the image panel to deepen the night sky.

White opaque watercolor paint was thinned slightly with water. A clean toothbrush was dipped into the white paint. Run your thumb over the bristles to splatter the masked panel (and everything else in sight-including my new glasses. Oops!).

The sticker mask over the Small Cityscape and the acetate circle mask over the Witch were removed. 

A moon mask was placed over the Witch and Lost Shadow Distress Ink was brushed around the Witch to add some detail to the moon. The mask was removed and more Lost Shadow Distress Ink was brushed around the Witch to create her shadow on the moon.

White pearlescent palette chalk was brushed around the moon to add a magical lunar glow to the scene.

The image panel was trimmed to 4.75" x 6.75", edged with a black pen, and adhered to a 5" x 7" grey card. 

A sentiment sticker was added to finish the card.

You still have plenty of time to join us at the Lost Coast Portal To Creativity's Challenge 202 - the 31 Days of Halloween for a chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!


Thanks for visiting today!

Friday, October 17, 2025

31 Days of Halloween Day 17: Meeting in the woods

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! 
A scary meeting in the forest today with this two creatures! :-) I made it for the 17th day of our 31 Halloween Days! 


I started with Distress Inks and stamped everything with StazOn Jet Black. I finished the card with bleach, charcoal and glitter marker.


Hope I inspire you to give it a try yourself...enjoy!
Liesbeth XX




Thursday, October 16, 2025

31 Days of Halloween, day 16

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, Riet here,
 

It's already the 16th day of Halloween Challenge month.
For my contribution, I made a choker necklace.

Stamps from Lost Coast designs,
I cut a bat from a sheet of shrink plastic.
I drew the bat using a stencil from Angies Happy Hobby.
She has the most amazing stencils with mask.

I stamped the Frida skull with Stazon Jet Black and colored it in with markers.
Then I put on a mask of the fridah skull and stamped the spider web with resist fluid.
Let everything dry completely and then sponge it with Distress Oxide Hickory Smoke.
The edges were sponged with Distress Oxide Black Soot.
Once everything is thoroughly dried, you can heat and shrink the shrink plastic.
You can make the choker using your own imagination or buy it ready-made.
I hope you enjoyed it.
Maybe you've made something for Halloween too? 
Show us and you could win new stamps.
Join us on the LCD blog.


Wednesday, October 15, 2025

31 Days of Halloween Day 15 - Hooray for Halloween!

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!

Hooray for Halloween! Aimee here with this joyful creation. I love the feeling of action this Day of the Dead Man stamp evokes. He reminds me of a little kid on Halloween night running out the front door of his house to collect a bag full of candy. 
This running skeleton is actually wielding a knife as he sprints, so if that's not the look you're going for, you can cover up the knife with an embellishment or sentiment placard. I used the Daffodils stamp for the background color-blocking, but any background pattern stamp would work. 
Celebrate the Halloween season with us by uploading your own creation to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity. You have until the spookiest night of the year...October 31! 

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Day 14 of the 31 days of Halloween

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 all, Cathy here with Day 14 for you.


Stamps Used:


I first stamped the spiderweb background on orange cardstock and edged it with drown distress oxide ink. I then layered it on a black card base.
The next step I did was to stamp out 2 of the flying skulls and cut them out.


I colored them with copic markers and then I stuck them to the front of the card.



I hope you join in the challenge.


Monday, October 13, 2025

31 Days of Halloween Day 13 - Halloween Darling

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 on lucky day 13 of our 31 Days of Halloween celebration.  The team are posting awesome Halloween related makes every day this month and we hope you feel inspired to stamp and link up your makes.   Today I have made a card using Carmen's Veranda sentiment and Staircase with Lost Coast Designs Dark Girl Dolly, Fourth Dimension and Bat Boy.
I used a slimline card and a vertical design.  I started by stamping part of Lost Coast Designs Fourth Dimension on the bottom of the card in black ink and added some pink distress colour.  I stamped Carmen's Veranda Staircase with grey ink and gave it a old paper distress ink colour and fussy cut.  Dark Girl Dolly was stamped on white card, coloured with promarkers and fussy cut.  The bats were left over from my day 11 make.  For the sentiment I used Carmen's Veranda Hot and Sexy sentiment, which is usually birthday orientated.  I stamped the top part of the sentiment, added the words 'for Halloween' and then stamped the bottom part of the sentiment.  I arranged all the elements on the card base and done!!
Link up your Halloween inspired projects.  Anything related to the season, spooky, fruity, fun, scary or cute.  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 or fed to the giant pumpkin!!!!  Bwahahhaaahaha. 
 
Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Sunday, October 12, 2025

31 Days of Halloween Day 12: Bosch creatures ATC's

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, Liesbeth here again with another creepy piece: two halloween ATC's for our 31 Days of Halloween challenge.

I used the Isle of aud creatures stamp, with some of the creatures of the medieval painter Jheronimus Bosch (1450-1516), I love the artist and the stamps! I think they are perfect for Halloween! 💀😀


I stamped them onto a alcohol inked glossy ATC card with different colours of StazOn ink, coloured with Distress Markers, made shadows with black ink and finished with white gel pen.


Have a nice day! 
LiesbethXX



Saturday, October 11, 2025

31 Days of Halloween Day 11 - Square Bats That Look Round

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 with day 11 of our 31 Days of Halloween celebration.  This month the team are posting awesome Halloween related makes every day and we want to invite you to join us. 
I made a forest scene using Lost Coast Designs Dracula, Tall Trees Background and Bat Boy
 
I made the background using the second alcohol ink background I made the other day.  I had already made one and was just stamping off the inks still on the felt pad, so this one is more subtle.  I used Midnight archival ink and stamped the Tall Trees and used Sunflower archival in a circle of felt for the moon.  
 
I stamped Dracula and Bat Boy on white card and coloured with distress markers.  I fussy cut dracula and the heads of the bat boys and added them to the card. 
Link up your Halloween inspired projects.  Anything related to the season, spooky, fruity, fun, scary or cute.  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 or fed to the giant pumpkin!!!!  Bwahahhaaahaha. 
 
Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz
 

Friday, October 10, 2025

31 Days of Halloween - Day 10

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 to share a card created for Day 10 of the 31 Days of Halloween feature. I created this card with the Pokey Pidgeon Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs. Pokey Pidgeon is wearing his Raven Halloween costume for my card and is quoting some Edgar Allen Poe. 

Here's the card!


Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp Pokey Pidgeon on the left side of a 7" x 5" piece of Bristol Paper, then stamp again onto a piece of repositionable sticker paper.

Color Pokey Pidgeon with Copic markers so that he looks more like a Raven than a pigeon. 

Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart on the image panel.

Place a piece of repositionable Scotch Tape horizontally across the image panel right above Pokey Pidgeon's feet.

Place a slimline cloud stencil towards the top of the image panel. Brush or sponge Stormy Sky Distress Ink over the top of the stencil onto the image panel. Brush or sponge Villainous Potion Distress Ink over the stencil over the stencil onto the image panel.

Flip the stencil 180° and move it downwards. Brush or sponge Stormy Sky Distress Ink over the top of the stencil and the masked Pokey Pidgeon onto the image panel. Brush or sponge Villainous Potion Distress Ink over the stencil over the stencil and the masked Pokey Pidgeon onto the image panel.

Repeat the above steps another three times until the stormy and cloudy sky background fills the image panel. 

Brush Lost Shadow Distress Ink onto the white areas of the clouds to darken them a bit.

Mist the image panel with water and use a paper towel to blot up the bigger droplets.

Move the repositionable Scotch Tape so that it's sitting on the separation between the sky and the bottom area while covering Pokey Pidgeon's feet and legs.

Sponge or brush Pumice Stone Distress Ink over the tape and the masked image onto the bottom area of the image panel.

Place the "Nevermore" stencil to the right of and the masked Pokey Pidgeon and secure with low-tack tape and/or magnets. Sponge Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink over the stencil onto the image panel.

Use low-tack tape to cover the word "Nevermore". Move the stencil slightly so that the splats and splotches are in an open area. Sponge Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink over the stencil onto the image panel. Repeat this process until you are happy with the amount of splotches and splats.

Remove the tape and the stencil from the image panel. Remove the mask and use Copic markers and/or a black fineliner pen to touch up Pokey Pidgeon if necessary.

Increase the size of and the masked Pokey Pidgeon's pupils with a N7 Copic marker. Use a white gel pen to add highlights to his pupils. Use a white colored pencil to add a highlight to Pokey Pidgeon's beak.

Use a black marker to deepen the black of the word "Nevermore". 

Trim the image panel to 6.75" x 4.75" and edge with Nocturne VersaFine Clair. Adhere the image panel to a 7" x 5" card.

I hope that you've been enjoying the 31 Days of Halloween showcase and are inspired to join our challenge and get the chance to win some Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!


Thanks for visiting today!

Thursday, October 9, 2025

31 Days of Halloween Day 9 - Near Halloween

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 there - Darlene here with another make for the 31 Days of Halloween
here at the Lost Coast Designs Portal to Creativity. 

Today I am sharing a card I made using the 'Tree Branches'
background stamp and

The tag I used the soap bubbles technique for the background
then I stamped the Raven in black onto a tag.  Sponged the edges with black soot ink.

Layered onto the background branches where I had also stamped the Raven
so I could layer the tag on top (popped it up a bit)
Also inked the edges

The saying if from Carmen Verandas Words and Phrases
'When Witches Go Riding'. where I only used a portion
of the saying.

Slid in the moon behind the tag - added a bit of ribbon.
Layered onto dark purple cardstock - stressed the edges.
 
 
Come join the monthly challenge !
you may win some new stamps !

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

31 days of Halloween Day 8

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!

Happy October and Happy Halloween all month long. Cathy here with a postcard for you.


Stamps Used:

I stared by cutting a piece of white cardstock to 4x6. I then stamped Roses in gray ink and then I stamped Small skeleton in black ink right in the middle.
I then took some distress ink and made a smooshed background. I tore the top of the postcard and edged the whole thing in a dark brown ink. Next, I added some Halloween ephemera around it. Layered it all on black cardstock.


I hope you will join the Halloween challenge.


 

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

31 Days of Halloween Day 7: Mystic Moon

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! Day seven already of our 31 Halloween Days challenge! I made todays card with Distress ink sprays, bleach and some scary stamps: Skull Flourish, Bird on Bike and ATC Birds in Trees.
Can't wait to see your Halloween creations! Happy Halloween! 👿💀😱




Have a wonderful day,
Liesbeth XX



Monday, October 6, 2025

31 Days of Halloween Day 6

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 Riet here, with a new Halloween card.
 
Today a Halloween card with the cutest little witch I have ever seen.

Stampes I used:
Stencil of pine trees
Stencil of a moon.
White gellpen
Waterproof black inkpad
Color pencils
Color markers
Distress ink Wild honey,
Spiced mamalade,
Black soot.
Distress oxide Hickory smoke, 
Dusty concord


I started sponging the moon with Wild honey and spiced marmalade.

Scattered straw around the moon on the outside spiced marmalade.

Sponge the pine trees with Hickory smoke.
And a second row of pinetrees with Black soot.

Sponge the sky with Dusty concord and black soot at the edges.
And stamp the witch and the grunge tree with black waterproof ink.


Color the witch,
and give the trees a bit of a white edge with the gelly pen.

Stamp the saying with the black waterproof ink.

We're going to decorate the mat with the border stamp.
And color it in matching colors.
Glue the card on the mat.
Now that was a lot of coloring, but I like the result.


Perhaps you're also making Halloween/Day of the Dead crafts with stamps.
Feel free to join the LCD/CV challenge.
You can even enter with other brands.