CHALLENGE #204 - ANYTHING GOES

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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 #204

ANYTHING GOES

We are rounding off the year with Anything Goes.  You have all month to share your stamped anythings with any 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 Small Snowflake set.

Liesbeth used  Lost Coast Designs Pieces of Calligraphy, Pieces of Architecture, Up Close and Personal, Daisy Flourish, Party Words

Riet used Lost Coast Designs Long Swirl, Mini Bug Collage, Doodle Flowers and Dictionary 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 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 #204 - Anything Goes
December 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, December 31st 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
 

 

Festive Fun Challenge 203 - meowy CHRISTMAS

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Greetings! It's Kathi here with a holiday shaker card created for Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's November Festive Fun Challenge 203 with the Fat Cat Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.

Here it is!

Use Tuxedo Black Memento ink to stamp the Fat Cat Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs onto white Copic-friendly cardstock.

Fussy-cut the image, color him with Copic markers, and edge him with a black pen. Set him aside while you construct the rest of the card.

Position a square frame die as shown onto a piece of holiday-themed patterned paper, secure with low-tack tape, and die-cut. Trim the patterned paper to 5.75" square and edge with a BG marker. 

Use the same frame die to cut a piece of green cardstock and set aside.

Flip the square cardstock over. Adhere a piece of clear acetate over the aperture cut by the square frame die. Place double-sided foam tape around the aperture to create a well. Fill the well with sequins, clay pieces, etc. As you can see, I chose to use peppermint candy clay pieces, two colors of clay snowflakes, and clear snowflake discs. Carefully remove the backing from the foam tape and place patterned paper over the well to seal the shaker contents inside. 

Flip the patterned paper/shaker over and adhere the green cardstock frame.

Place a piece of 2" wide two-sided tape onto the back of a piece of vellum. Use a Speech Bubble Die to cut the vellum.

Place another piece of 2" wide two-sided tape onto the back of a piece of green textured cardstock. Use Christmas Sentiment die and Alphabet dies to cut the cardstock. Adhere "meowy" using the Alphabet die-cuts and the "Christmas" sentiment" to the Speech Bubble die-cut. Set the speech bubble sentiment die-cut aside.

Use a Santa Hat die to cut white cardstock and color with Copic markers. Adhere the Santa Hat to the Fat Cat's head.

Add a piece of torn blue glitter washi tape to the patterned paper panel. Adhere the Santa Fat Cat so that he's standing on the glittery washi tape and the right side of his body is overlapping the frame and the shaker element.

Remove the backing from the vellum sentiment Speech Bubble die-cut and adhere it over his head as shown.

Adhere the card front to a 6" green card.

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You've still got today to play along with us for November's Festive Fun Challenge 203 for the chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Cash.

Feliz Navidad

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It is getting so close to Christmas.  Darlene here with another make for 

Lost Coast Festive Fun

For this card I chose one of the (several) images of Frida Kahlo.

I masked off the sayings that were on the stamp so that I just had the image of Frida

She was stamped onto an off white cardstock.

Used one of my stencils for the background and some distress ink for the edges.

As this looks like an old photograph I tried to vintage it up a bit.

I had some lovely blue lace that I used as the banner on top

Layered the saying and placed on top of the lace.

I think this is one of my fav Christmas cards this year.  

You still have a few days left to join the challenge.  Upload your Festive Fun make

and maybe win some new stamps !

#203 Festive fun 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 everyone, Riet here.

I'm so crazy about those cute Pokey animals from Lost Coast Designs.

They're so funny and cute.

Take the Pokey Mouse, for example, 

just look at that silly expression on his face, hahahaha so funny.

I also love how easy it is to change the stamp.

Here, for example, as Santa.

By drawing a line and buttons with a waterproof fineliner, 

you can easily give him a jacket.

Santa's toy bag is from a gnome stamp, Gnome Santa with Toys. 

This one is from the Mini Gnomes 2 sheet. 

Gnome Santa in chimney (Mini Gnomes 4) provided the Santa hat.

The jingle bells are from the Misc Words sheet.

The holly leaves and berries are from a stencil, 

CraftEmotions Mask Stencil X-mas Florals.

The background is made with Distress Oxide Broken China, Mowed Lawn, 

and Rustic Wilderness for the holly. 

I sprinkled the text and the berries with glitter.

I colored the mouse with Derwent Inktense.

Made the fur on the santa coat with Posca pen white.

This turned it into a lovely Christmas card.

The LCD/CV team would love it if you participated in the challenge. 

You could also win new rubber stamps of your choice.

Please read the rules first to avoid disappointment.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!

Gnome for the Holidays

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 all, Aimee here! When you have friends from all over the world, and not all of them celebrate Christmas, it's nice to have an all-occasion holiday card on hand. Well, this gnome's for you!

I made this card with the Pompom Gnome and Grunge Border Stamps from Lost Coast Designs. Follow along with this pictorial to see how I made it:

We invite you to participate in November's "Festive Fun" Challenge on the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity! Create a fun holiday card and upload it to the blog for your chance to win this month's prize.

Festive Fun Challenge 203 - a Merry & Bright Gnome Card

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 November's Festive Fun Challenge 203 with three of the adorable gnomes from the Mini Gnomes 2 Rubber Stamp Sheet!

Using a stamping platform and Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, the gnomes were stamped onto a white cardstock panel and onto repositionable sticker paper. 

The sticker paper versions were fussy-cut and placed over their counterparts on the image panel as masks.

Removable Scotch Tape was placed horizontally across the image panel. Two colors of Distress Ink were sponged over the tape and the masked images to add color to the background.

Grey dye ink was sponged over a music stencil, the tape, and the masked gnomes to add visual and thematic interest to the background.

The removable tape was removed and a piece of acetate was placed over the top part of the image panel to protect it. The grey dye ink was sponged over the tape to ground the gnomes. 

The masks were removed from the gnomes which were then colored with Copic markers. I was not happy with the color of the ground, so I used Copic markers over the dye ink to change the color and to add shadows.

The image panel was trimmed and edged with a grey Copic marker. It was then matted with red cardstock cut .25" larger.

Patterned paper was trimmed to 5.25" x 4", edged with a grey marker, and adhered to a red A2 card.

Red cardstock was cut a sentiment banner cutting die and adhered as shown. White cardstock was colored with green Copic markers then cut with a tiny bow cutting die. The green bows were adhered to the card as a finishing touch.

You still have more than a week to play along with us for November's Festive Fun Challenge 203 for the chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Cash.