#208 Gnomes challenge, ATC's with the mini gnomes.

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, its Riet here.

        

The Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda Stamps challenge is so much fun. 

LCD has such cute mini gnome sets. 

These are very suitable for ATC cards.

For these ATC cards, I used:

LCD Mini gnomes 2,

 Mini gnomes 3, 

Mini gnomes 5.

LCD grunge tree, 

LCD Misc words.

CV jukebox, 

CV tulip.

Derwent inktense pencils.

Black water resistent ink, I used Versafine onyx black.

White gellpen.

Posca pen pink, lilac and white for the blossem.

Silver marker for the metal accents on the jukebox.

Masking tape.

How to make the ATC cards.

1. Stamp the flower gnome and mask it.

2. Stamp the middle tulip and mask it.

3. Stamp the other tulips.

Color with Derwent Inktense.

The background is also colored with the inktense pencils.

Stamp "For you" with black ink.

Give it some accents with the white gellpen.

The jukebox ATC is done in the same way.

Only the metall accent ar done with the silver marker.

For the sleeping gnome its the same.

Make blossem with the Posca markers.

If you want to participate in the challenge, here is the link.

There is, of course, a prize to be won.

If you want to know everything about it, you can read the rules here.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE:

Peace, Love and Harmony

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 with Lost Coast Designs Pokey Dog and Dictionary Words Artist Trading Cards.  ATC's, little canvasses of joy, and with Pokey Dog involved you just have to smile don't you!!

 So, we have Lost Coast Designs Peace, Love and Harmony.  I used three different colour inks on my three white ATC's.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Dictionary Words and then did a little off block stamping with a stamp from Lost Coast Designs Pieces of Calligraphy set.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Pokey Dog on three different patterned paper scraps, fussy cut them and then added them to the ATC's.

Link up your stamped anythings featuring Cats and/or Dogs and
don't forget to check back often for awesome inspiration from the team.

Hope to see you in the linky.  Hugz

 

 

Happy Jingle and Magic

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!  Hope your July 4th is wonderful.  Gail here today and I have some red, white and blue Christmas in July inspiration for your today.

I've made some artist trading coins with Carmen's Veranda Elf and Lost Coast Designs PMC Circle Frame background.  Words selected from the Misc. Words set.

Aren't they adorbs!!

Join the Christmas In July fun.  Link up your stamped anythings featuring Christmas!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

Cold and Frosty: Winter Castle ATC

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 showing you my Winter Castle miniature. Our new Challenge is called Cold and Frosty! Hope you will join in!

This is how I made this ATC: First I stamped and gold embossed the border (ATC borders set) and cut it out. I masked the border and stamped the castle from Mini Butterfly Collage and one of the Large Snowflakes set with black waterproof ink. I removed the mask and coloured the card with Zig markers and water, like watercolor painting. I finished, as always 😁, with glitter glue. I glued the card onto a black ATC-card.

A detail of the ATC.

Have fun!  See you next time,

                                                             LiesbethXX

Gnome-vember: Lovely witches!

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 with two ATC's with those gorgeous gnome witches for our current challenge Gnome-vember. Aren't they lovely?

I stamped Gnome Witch with stars and Gnome Witch no stars onto a glossy alcoholink-coloured ATC and coloured the witches with Ecoline markers and finishes the atc's with glitter glue and white gel pen.

Have a ,Gnomefull' time, see you next time!

                                                                          LiesbethXX

Round & Round - By the Sea Artist Trading Coins

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 Friends - today I wanted to share my Artist Trading Coins for the current challenge - Round & Round.

I wanted to do something a bit summery as it has been so cold here and I thought these might fit the bill.  I used Mini Fish, Mini Maritime and the Steampunk Mermaid.  All of these images were stamped on a shimmery white cardstock (which I sadly couldn't capture in the photos).  They were each colored with a variety of colored pencils and edged with VersaFine ink.

There is still time to join in on the fun...

share your creation with us and you might just be a lucky winner!

Mini Me Challenge - Butterfly Swirls ATC Set

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 friends - Ink Stained Roni here with another fun bit of stamping for the current challenge #168 - Mini Me!

I have to tell you I just love this challenge - so many fun little bits to try! Today I made some ATC cards using images from the Butterfly Set, Long Swirl and words from the Misc Words set.  

To create these cards I started off by dipping 3 different pieces of vintage ephemera into Distress Oxide inks and let them dry. Once dry I mounted them on ATC cards and trimmed away the excess paper.  Next I applied embossing paste through a stencil and let that dry. These dots were then colored using a variety of Marabu Art Crayons.  

I stamped the open areas with the long swirl and green ink.  The butterflies and words were stamped on scraps of paper from my stash. The butterflies were colored using Clean Brush Markers with a bit of Stickles added here and there.  The words were trimmed and the edges were inked then they were affixed to each of the ATC's.

I hope you are inspired to create your own little piece of art.  If you do, be sure to add it to the challenge page for your chance to win!!

Freedom, Peace and Harmony

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 with some Artist Trading cards featuring a selection of Lost Coast Designs awesome merpeople. 

  

Mermazing!!!!

  

I've used Lost Coast Designs Pondscum Background and Dictionary Words for the background, stamped with two shades of blue archival ink.

Then I stamped Lost Coast Designs Wing Mermaid with Face and two of the Doodle Dolls 1 stamps with Night Sky archival, fussy cut them and added them to my ATCs.

Do you feel inspired to take the Under The Sea challenge?

We can't wait to see your projects!

You can submit your entries in the linky party until 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.

 

 

Poe Neon

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 a bright and beautiful Artist Trading Card. 

I started by cutting a red ATC base (3.5" x 2.5").  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Goth Shrine ATC on white card with Cactus Flower archival ink and coloured with Salty Ocean, Twisted Citron, Wild Mustard and Spiced Marmalade distress markers.  I fussy cut the shrine and added it and a tiny strip of white card edged with Cactus Flower ink to the ATC.  Then I did a bit of tricky masking and stamped Carmen's Veranda Nevermore Crow, minus his nevermore, on the shrine.  I used a white gel pen to make his coloured bits white.  

Thanks for dropping by.  You still have a couple of days to link up your neon stamped makes for a chance to win.

Alice 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!

Good Morning Cathy here with some ATCs for you today.

Stamp Set : Alice and the Tweedles

I started off with some 110lb Kraft cardstock and I cut it up to ATC size. 

I then stamped Alice from Alice and the Tweedles from the set with black ink. I dusted off my color pencils and colored her in. Added white highlights with a white pen. Next I dusted off my saying from one of the early Tim Holtz sticker books and make a quote to go with Alice. Traced the saying with a black marker and edged the ATC with black ink and we are done with Alice.

 

I started by stamping the Tweedle brothers in black ink and coloring them with my color pencils. Then I just repeated the same thing that I did on the Alice ATC with the words and outline. 

 

I hope you come join the new challenge here

Blue ATCs

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!

Cathy here with some blue ATCs

corner swril 

I made these 4 ATCs after watching a video. She was making tags and she was wiping the the paint off on the tags and then stamping over them. Well I didn't have my paints out so grabbed what I had next to me and they were distress sprays. I unscrewed the cap and put a few drops on my mat and brushed them over the 4 ATCs. I used 4 different blues, added white dots and then I stamped corner swril  off the side. 

Come join the fun challenge here

Three Hats Are Better Than One

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 Portal Peeps!!  A few hours left of November and also your chance to enter the Festive Fun challenge.  Get stamping and add your makes.  We are giving away some of Lost Coast Designs awesome stamps to one lucky winner, but like Reindeer Gnome says, you gotta be in it to win it!

I made an Artist Trading card using charcoal Bazzill cardstock.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Small Snowflakes and embossed with brass embossing powder.  I went round the edges of the card with Fossilised Amber Distress Oxide and used Antique Linen distress oxide add the bottom to make some ground.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Reindeer Gnome on white card, coloured with Promarkers and glitter glue and fussy cut.  For added festive fun I made two more!!!! 

 All good things come in threes!!

Join the fun and link up your stamped Festive Fun makes.  Linky closes 23.59 PST....

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN DAY 1 - Basically Boris and 31 DOH Linky

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.  Welcome to our annual 31 Days of Halloween celebration!

The team will be posting their spooktacular makes every day this month.

The linky will be open all month and we hope you will get your spook on and join the fun.
We will also have another challenge starting on the 15th with a different theme, but you can link up your Halloween inspired makes all month for 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.

Let's get this party started!

CHALLENGE #108

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN

It's the most spoocktacular time of the year.  Link up your halloween inspired projects.  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 remember we do have some Challenge Rules to follow so look them over 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 your entry counts as two which doubles your chances of winning in our random prize drawing.

PRIZES

To ensure you all have a fabulous time playing in our Challenges this is how our Prize system works!
The more entries the better the Prize so tell all your friends to join the fun too!

1 - 4 Entries = one winner chosen by the team is awarded our Challenge Winner's Badge
5+ Entries = one randomly picked winner will receive a $5 gift certificate to spend at
Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda
10+ Entries = one randomly picked winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to spend at
Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda
and 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! 

Gail here to start the fun.  

I made a simple card featuring Carmen Veranda's Boris Karloff.

I stamped Boris on white card, added some green with a Promarker and then cut with an ATC die (2.5" x 3.5"),  I added it to a black card base and white heat embossed the word Nevermore. 

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 5 to midnight 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 #108 - 31 Days of Halloween
October 1st - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Saturday, October 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
 

 

Let's go Vegetarian: two 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!

Hi everyone, Liesbeth here with two vegetarian Artist Trading Cards full of trees, leaves, flowers and branches for our challenge! Join the fun! 

The're very simple made: I just stamped with 3 colours on each card. A light, middle and dark one. After that I sponged the edges with the middle( bright) and a dark tone. I finished by adding the texts.

Stamps used: Shrubbery, Lily flourish,  Misc words, Carte postale, ATC birds in trees.

Liesbeth XX

Egg Harvest

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.
 I hope you are all feeling well and keeping yourself occuied during these strange times.
  I know that many crafters have been grateful for the stash they have
and the challenges, events and sales that the internet has enabled.

Our current challenge is Winged Things.  I decided to use the lovely Harvest Angel from Lost Coast Designs and make an artist trading card. 

I stamped Harvest Angel on white card with brown archival ink.  I left enough border so I could cut with an ATC die.  I coloured the angel with distress markers and Promarkers.  I left a bit of white around the image and coloured the rest with black Promarker as a frame.  I gave her silver glitter glue wings.  Her basket is filled with eggs.  I am out harvesting eggs every day and I am very grateful for the hens I have in my garden.  

 Join the Winged Things Challenge for your chance to win Lost Coast Designs and/or Carmen's Veranda stamps.  Linda also has a sale ongoing til the end of the month.
Use the code QUARANTINEUS to save 25% off Carmen's Veranda and Lost Coast Designs unmounted and cling mounted stamps.  Katzelkraft and sundries not included.

Wherever you are, and whatever you are doing stay safe and keep well.  Hugz

Wandering Gnome

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!

Roni back with another creation for
  Challenge #94 - Artist Trading Cards/Coins/Chunkies!

One thing I love about ATC's is that you can use up those smaller bits left over from other projects. The background is from a gift I made for my son and DIL that I just couldn't part with because it was just such cool looking paper. Well, it fit perfectly with the sentiment and I colored the gnome to match! 

I started off by mounting the pattern paper to an ATC blank (really just an old playing card) to which I stamped the sentiment with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink.

I stamped the little Pointy Hat Gnome onto scrap paper using the same ink. He was then colored with Prima Watercolor Confections.  After he was all dry I fussy cut him and added him to the card using foam tape to pop him off the background a bit.

You've still got time to join in on the fun....

ATCs on Yupo

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!

Cathy here with some ATCs for you

I used some Yupo paper and some Alcohol inks, blending solution, 91% isopropyl alcohol and embossing power.
Stamps I used:
Daisy Flourishes
Lily Flourishes

I started out with a strip of Yupo paper 2.5 inches wide. and 11 inches long. Then I grabbed some purple and blue alcohol inks. I had in my stash Tim Holtz marker spritzer and I thought to my self let's see if this works well with blowing the inks around like his new blower shows.(it does)
So I added some blending solution and then some inks and blew the inks around with the spritzer.

Added some 91% alcohol and moved the ink some more. When I was happy of how the inks were on the strip I cut them at 3.5 inches.

Then I took the Lily Flourishes and stamped it with Versa mark ink and heat embossed it with sliver and the other one I stamped Daisy Flourishes with gold embossing. 

Yupo paper is plastic so it will bend and warp when you heat it so keep that heat gun moving.

Come join the fun here.

Fish Eye Eye Eye

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 with a bright fishy Artist Trading Card. 
I love ATC's.  It's amazing how much art you can get on these small canvases.  

I went arty and had fun with layers and lots of repeat stamping.
That was the last challenge! but why forget a good technique??

I started with a piece of neon yellow card cut to ATC size (2.5" x 3.5").  I stamped and embossed Lost Coast Designs Fruit Pod background with gold tinsel embossing powder.

I took the fish head stamp from Lost Coast Designs Up Close and Personal set and stamped it three times on two scraps of white card.  Then I used a very small die from YNS to perforate the edge and coloured with a black marker so they looked a bit like postage stamps.

I cut a piece of vellum with my ATC die and stamped Lost Coast Designs Freedom Dictionary word twice down each side.  I added it to the atc base and added the fish at an angle.  Whilst doing this I managed to get a inky finger on one of the fish panels so in the spirit of art I added a few more.  I used neon red, orange and yellow gel pens to colour the fish eyes.

Thanks for dropping by.  Don't forget to join the ATC fun and check out the awesome inspiration from the team.  It's awesome!!!!   Hugz