CHALLENGE #204 - ANYTHING GOES

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.  
 

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
 

 

Oh Valentine

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here today on the most loverly day of the year.  Appropriately we are hoping you will join us and share your Fruit, Flower and Foliage anythings.  Unfortunately showing us your lovely roses won't cut it, but if you stamped a card to your loved one using flowers, or sending them a special pineapple greeting then please share.  I incorporated a few hearts and flowers for this fun birthday card.

I started by stamping Lost Coast Designs Heart and Curls Border down each side of my card panel with mulberry ink, masked and stamped Lost Coast Designs ATC Doodle Flower multiple times with sunflower ink.  I stamped, coloured and fussy cut Lost Coast Designs Day of the Dead Woman and added her to the bottom of the stamped panel.  Finally I added the Carmen's Veranda Hot and Sexy sentiment which I stamped on a scrap of white card.  

 

It's Fruit, Flower and Foliage all this month here at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity so don't forget to check out all the gorgeous makes from the team and link up your own for a chance to win.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Whack A Kitty

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 fun card for the new Fruit, Flowers and Foliage challenge.   I've made a twister card using Lost Coast Designs Fat Cat, Large Shrubbery Background and ATC Doodle Flower stamps.  So much fun!!!!!

 I made this card to send as part of the Card Chain Challenge, an international card exchange.  I based the card on all the options so we have the colours and sketch, a cat with a moustache using scraps, a twister card and friendship.  Of course, I used Lost Coast Designs stamps featuring flowers and foliage and cats.

I started with a white 5" x 7" card base, stamped the Large Shrubbery Background with Hero Arts Ocean ink on both sides of the inside of the card and scored the left hand side in the middle. 

I stamped Lost Coast Designs Fat Cat using sepia ink on a piece of kraft pizza box and the other one on a piece of kraft ice cream box.  I fussy cut the cats, inked around the edges and onto the back and stuck them together with a bit of string between them.  This isn't a totally symmetrical stamp, but it's pretty close, so a little gently trimming and inking and the cat is ready to twist!

I cut an aperture using a die across the fold in the left hand side of the card and glued the string along the scored line positioning the cat centrally in the aperture.   Fold the half panel back on itself and glue well, especially the string. 

I die cut the moustaches and green circles from card scraps.  I stamped the large flower from Lost Coast Designs ATC Doodle Flower three times on some purple scraps, fussy cut the flowers and added all these elements to the card.  

Opening the card reveals the Carmen's Veranda sentiment, made up from two different stamps, on the green circle.  And if you have wound up your cat you also get him twirling.

How fun is that!!!
 

Join the Fruit, Flower and Foliage challenge with your fruity and floral stamped anythings.  I can't wait to see what you make.  Hugz

Chocolate and Money

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Hello Portal Peeps!!   Gail here today with some Bright and Cheerful inspiration.   Yellow and Orange always make me happy so I did some ink blending and grabbed Lost Coast Designs Fat Cat.

I blended yellow and orange distress inks then stamped with Lost Coast Designs ATC Doodle Flowers stamp using red ink.  The cat was stamped on a piece of card that I had coloured with distress inks and stamped with Lost Coast Designs Pieces of Calligraphy stamps.  To finish I stamped parts of Carmen's Veranda Chocolate and 8 Millions Dollars sentiment.   I left out the hard life bits and stayed with chocolate and money, cos what's happier than chocolate, and if you have money you can buy more chocolate!!

Thanks for dropping by.   Grab your Bright and Cheerful stamps and colours and join the fun.  The team will be sharing all month, so do pop back often to check out their awesome makes. 

A Flying Monkey Kinda Day

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Hello Portal Peeps!!  Gail here today with some Animal inspiration.  I decided to make a collage of a few different stamps that probably never usually occupy the same space.  Sometimes you just have to stamp!

On a white piece of card I stamped Carmen's Veranda Flying Monkey Background with grey ink, Lost Coast Designs Domino Border with black ink, masked and stamped Lost Coast Designs ATC Doodle Flowers with grey ink.  I cut the panel with Daisy Mae stitched distressed arch die and stamped Carmen's Veranda Baby Elephant with grey ink, just to get his hair.  I stamped the elephant again on white card, fussy cut and added him to the card.  I stamped the Thinking of You from the Party Words set and layered it on black card.

Thanks for dropping by.  You have until the end of the month to link up your stamped anythings featuring animals for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.

 

Let us entertain you: Harlequins

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 to ,Entertain you´ 😊for our current challenge Let us entertain you. Hope you will entertain with us and join in!

I stamped the wonderful fortune card Dueling Harlequins Card onto white cardstock and stamped the flowers (ATC Doodles set) with a rainbow colour inkpad. I finished the card with colour pencils. 

See you next time! 

LiesbethXX

Sunshine and the Great Outdoors

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here with a little vintage style make featuring the dapper Drake Dog from Lost Coast Designs.  He always makes me think of a Victorian country gent.  I made a bit of a grungy background for him using a few different stamps.

 

I stamped the focal point using Lost Coast Designs Mini Phenology Collage stamp with potting soil archival ink.  I used part of the stamp that featured the lovely buildings and concentric circles.  Then using the same ink I roughly stamped the script words and a pattern from Pieces of Calligraphy and then filled in the gaps with ATC Doodle Flowers stamp.  No masking or even using a block, the same ink makes everything blend nicely together.

I edged the panel with the same brown ink and then smeared on a bit of Tumbled Glass distress ink and spritzed with water to soften and blend.  When it had dried I stamped Carmen's Veranda Live In The Sunshine sentiment and added Lost Coast Designs Drake Dog, stamped coloured and fussy cut.

I hope you get some time to stamps something in a vintage or steampunk style and join the fun here at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.  The team are sharing inspiration the rest of the month with this theme and we hope to see lots of lovely entries in the linky.  Take care.  Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

CHALLENGE #159 - WINGED THINGS

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.  
 

It's time for our new Challenge.
Our challenges are now fortnightly!  A new challenge starting the 1st and the 15th of 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 #159

WINGED THINGS

 
We want to see your stamped projects featuring things with wings.
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 problem, 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!

 
 Roni used Lost Coast Designs Brush Strokes, Mini Bug Collage

Gail used Lost Coast Designs Mini Maritime Collage, Mini Bug Collage, Mini Bird Collage and ATC Doodle Flower stamps

  
Laurie used Carmen's Veranda Butterfly Square and Lost Coast Designs Butterfly set


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 #159 - Winged Things
January 15th - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Tuesday, January 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
 

 

Lefty in the Flowers

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Hello Portal Peeps!   Gail here today with some inspiration for the Spooktacular Florals challenge.  I  used Lost Coast Designs Day of the Dead Lefty with ATC Doodle Flowers and the wonderful Carmen's Veranda sentiment.  

A simple one layer card with a bit of masking, lots of stamping and a bit of distress ink watercolouring.  

Link up your stamped Day of the Dead makes or anything featuring flowers with a spooky or sombre twist.  Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.

Happy Birthday from Mona

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!!!  Happy 4th July!  

If you are celebrating than have a good one. 

Gail here today with some inspiration for the Celebrate It! challenge.  I've gone for a birthday celebration.

For this card I used Lost Coast Designs Mona Flying, ATC Doodle Flowers, large rectangle Shadow Frame and Party Words.   The design was inspired by the current Lift Challenge where they want you to mask an area, blend inks, over stamp and then add a black and white image.  

I had an idea to use the large rectangle Shadow Frame, ink it with distress inks, spritz a bit with water and stamp it on my page.  Nice!  But then thinking about masking off to stamp into the inked area I didn't fancy fussy cutting that frilly edge....  So I decided to try stamping onto the shadow frame stamp and then stamping onto the inked page.

Ooh, pretty!!   Having a stamp platform or stamping tool is really helpful with this technique so you can perfectly over stamp LOL.    I used Spiced Marigold, Worn Lipstick  and Mustard Seed distress inks for the background and Rusty Hinge to stamp the Flowers.

I stamped Mona Flying on white card and fussy cut her and added her to the card.  To finish I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment on my inky stamped panel.

Join the Celebrate It! challenge with your stamped anything featuring any celebration.  You can submit your entries in the linky party below until 23.59 PST on the 14th 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.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz