Challenge Rules Updated January 2024

UPDATED RULES 1st JANUARY 2024.  PLEASE READ TO ENSURE YOUR ENTRY QUALIFIES FOR THE PRIZE.  ENTRIES NOT COMPLYING WITH THE RULES WILL BE EXCLUDED FROM THE PRIZE DRAW.


We have a few simple rules and guidelines for our CHALLENGES & EVENTS!  
Please read them over to ensure your entry qualifies to win our prizes! 
  • We are a monthly stamping challenge.  Entries must involve rubber or clear stamping, it should be the focal point of your project and you must follow the theme!  Please mention the stamping in your post.  If it's not obvious we won't know and your entry will not be included in the prize draw!
  • Challenges start on the 1st of every month and end on the last day at 11:59 PST
  • All kinds of projects are welcome, if you can stamp it you can enter it, unless specifically excluded by the challenge theme.  Please do not link up multiple entries that are similar with only slight changes to colour or layout.  We want to encourage creativity. 
  • Link directly to your project post, not just your blog's home page, and include our challenge name, challenge badge and link to it in your posts.
  • Each entry must be in a separate post -ie: if a post has more than one piece of work or collection within it, only one project can be entered into the linky and it must be clearly specified which one is the entry.  
  • No backlinking to projects published on any blog or social media platform prior to the start of the challenge.  New projects only, preferably created specifically for our challenge.
  • You can enter the challenge 2 times using any named brand of rubber or clear stamps and can combine your entry with a maximum of 5 other challenges (total 6 challenge links).
  • If you use Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps on your project you can enter the challenge as many times as you want and link up to as many other challenges as you want. Remember to mention in your post which Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps you have used.
  • Challenge winners will be announced on the 5th of the following month and will be selected using a random number generator.  If Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps have been used on the winning entry the winner will get $10 to spend in the shop.  If the winning entry contains no Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps the winner will receive a $5 to spend in the shop. 
  • We need at least 20 qualifying entries to award a prize.  If we have over 50 entries we will award a second prize. 
  • If you don't have a blog you can play in our activities by doing the following:
  1. Upload your project to public photo sharing sites or Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda Facebook fan page.  Include the name of our Challenge/Event with a link back to our blog post in your photo description!  ***Please note that you can not link up projects shared in closed Facebook Groups!
  2. Make sure your Photo privacy is set to "public" so Inlinkz can access it and our DT can view it.  Please don't share from sites that require membership.... if our DT needs to sign up to view and comment on your entry it will be disqualified!    
  3. Submit your entry in our link up using the URL address to your project.


It would be nice if you
  • Become a follower or sign up via email so you don't miss out on our fun activities😀
  • Leave us a comment after linking up.  The Lost Coast Design teamsters work hard on our activities and deserve some love 😁

Our challenges are listed on the Paper Playful Challenge and Challenges For Days registries.
If you experience any problems with our link ups please leave a comment on the post and we'll look into it.  You are also welcome to leave us a comment with a link to your project, especially if the link up is about to end, and we will add it for you!

    CHALLENGE and EVENT PRIZES
     The winner is randomly selected!
    We need at least 20 entries to award a prize. 
    If we have over 50 entries we will award a second prize.  
    If Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps have been used on the winning entry the winner will get $10 to spend in the shop.  If the winning entry contains no Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps the winner will receive a $5 to spend in the shop. 


    WINNER'S BADGE  
    Congrats on winning one of our Challenges!  
    Display your winner's badge with pride and link it up to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!


    If you have any questions please leave a comment on the current Challenge post!

    Stay to Play and Have Fun!
    The Lost Coast Design Teamsters

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have a bin full of rubber stamps that I have gotten from garage sales, closeout stores, etc.. Most of them have no identification or company names on them so I have no idea who made them or where they are from. Can I still participate in the contests if I don’t this information ? Thanks, TC

ionabunny said...

Hi, if you don't know the producer then just state that you used rubber stamp but don't know the producer. Maybe someone will be able to help you identify them. As long as you are using real rubber or clear stamps you can enter the challenge.