#185, Let us entertain you. Movie time.

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Hi there, Riet here.

What a fun challenge.

You can participate with anything related to theater, film, dance, circus, etc.

I am a huge film fan and especially love the old Hitchcock films, they are fantastic.

You can see from this card what my favorite is.

Stamps I used:

CV, Alfred Hitchcock standing.

LCD, Fourth dimention.

LCD, M.Raven 4,

LCD, Goth Raven

LCD,  Raven with tree branches

I die cut the film strip and stamped parts of crows with black ink.

Stamped Alfred and masked him.

Stamped part of the Fourth Dimension to lay a floor.

Using a sponge with a very fine structure, 

I tapped the speckles on the white parts of the card with black ink.

And I made the scratches with the side of cardboard and black ink.

It should look like an old film reel.

I colored Alfred's suit and shadow with a gray pencil.

And with a letter die I made the word bird.

The card is matted with black cardstock.

Hope you will join in this fun challenge,

There is a price to be won.

Please read the rules first to avoide disapointment.

See you at the challenge.

Homage to Alfred

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Hello Portal Peeps!!  Gail here with some inspiration for our May challenge Let Us Entertain You!

We want to see your stamped anythings with an entertainment theme, so think clowns, circus, movie stars, theatre, opera, dancers, TV etc etc.  The team are posting their awesome makes all month so make sure you check out all the posts on the blog.

 

 I've used Carmen's Veranda's Alfred Hitchcock standing and combined it with sentiments and a tonic diecut.

I decided to keep everything black and white so I cut the film die cut from white card.  Then I used Lost Coast Designs Flagstone Background stamp and black ink to add texture.  I mounted it on a black card base.

I set back in the white pieces in the film strip and stamped the sentiments.  I stamped Alfred on white card with black ink, fussy cut and added him to my card.

You have all month to share your stamped anythings with an entertainment theme. Please read the updated rules before entering. Real rubber or clear stamping and theme must be the focus of your project for a chance to win Lost Coast $$$$$'s. 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

For the men

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Cathy here with a vintage, grungy card for you today.

Stamps Used:

Travel set

Alfred  Hitchcock standing

typewriter

I started by making the background by using some distress ink colors in brown. I then stamped a stamp from the Travel set using one of the same ink colors I used to make the background. I did the same thing with the typewriter. I edged it in the newest color of distress ink and then dripped some water on it to make more interest on the background. 

I then stamped Alfred  Hitchcock standing in black ink to make him stand out from the background. I added some washi stickers to the side and layered it on a black card base.

I hope you join this month-long challenge here.

Hidden Self

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Hello Portal Peeps!  Well, here we are in February and the challenge this month is For The Men.  Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda have so many wonderful masculine stamps and the team is knocking it out of the park with so much awesome inspiration.   I've made a card using two of my favourite blokes, Weeping Man and Alfred Hitchcock.  

 

I started by stamping Weeping Man on white card with brown archival ink.  I spritzed with water and sprinkled Paper Artsy blackcurrant, rusty car and golden sands infusion powders and waited for the magic to happen.

I cut the Weeping Man panel with a stitched edge die and stamped the Carmen's Veranda Squirrel in Traffic sentiment.  Then I stamped, coloured and fussy cut Carmen's Veranda Alfred Hitchcock and added him to the card.  

Join the For The Men challenge for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars and don't forget to check back often for lots more wonderful inspiration from the team.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

CHALLENGE #181 - ANYTHING GOES

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Hello Portal Peeps

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR

 

Gosh, 2024.  I hope it's awesome for us all.  The start of a new year and we are changing things up a little bit here.   It's time for our new Challenge and these are now going to run for the whole month.  You have all month to get your entries in 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.   Please also check the rules because we have made a few changes and updates.  You can find the rules tab at the top of the blog.

Now for our new Challenge!

CHALLENGE #181

ANYTHING GOES

We are kicking off 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 ATC Mona's Window, Pieces of Calligraphy, Winged Girl NS and Roses

 

Gail used Carmen's Veranda Alfred Hitchcock Standing and Staircase with Lost Coast Designs Grunge Border 2", Dream Dictionary Word and Party 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 #181 - Anything Goes
January 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, January 31st 23.59 PST.
All entries must be entered in our link up or in our fb group.  See our RULES page for more info
 

 

You Call It A Clapperboard.......

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Hello Portal Peeps. Gail here today with some inspiration for the Mini Me challenge.  We want to see smaller stamped makes like ATC, inchies, bookmarks, tags etc.  I made a tag using Carmen's Veranda's Alfred Hitchcock Standing and the wonderful Givashitometer sentiment.

I always wondered what that was called!
I've used Lost Coast Designs Grunge Border 2" on the tag with pink archival ink.  I stamped the sentiment directly on the tag but Alfred was stamped on white card, coloured with distress markers and fussy cut.  A bit of fancy wool and done.  

Join the Mini Me fun and don't forget to check back often to enjoy all the awesome inspiration from the team. 

 Thanks for stopping by.  Hugz

Happy New Year From Everyone

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Happy New Year from Gail.  Again.  

But you can never have too much happy can you.   

I hope your 2023 is off to an awesome start.

For my project today I decided to look through my stamps and select a few favourites to use.   Turns out I have way too many favourites, but after some deliberation, and a bit of push and shove, I became happy with this.

For this card I used lots of stamps, lots of masks and blue and black archival ink.  We have Lost Coast Designs ZZ Top Gnome 2 and Carmen's Veranda Monkey with a Banjo supplying the music, direction and artistic appreciation by Carmen's Veranda Alfred Hitchcock Standing and Salvador Dali, entertainment by Carmen's Veranda Kukla and Ollie, Lost Coast Designs Doodle Doll is supplying an element of mystery and the celebratory fly-by is courtesy of Lost Coast Designs Flying Pig.  I used a couple of the stamps from Lost Coast Designs Pieces of Calligraphy to fill in the empty spaces.

Here are a few pictures of the 'unveiling'

 

Remember, if you are stamping and masking a scene you stamp the front elements first and work back.  Sometimes its helpful to roughly stamp all the images on a scrap piece of paper first so you can see how they go together.

 I hope you get time to share our Slimline Challenge for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.

Don't forget to stamp!!!

Thanks for dropping by.

 

Day 31 of the 31 days of Halloween

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Happy Halloween

Cathy here with the last card for the 31 days of Halloween. 

Stamps Used:

Alferd Hitchcock standing

Spiderweb background

I started off with some black cardstock and I white heat embossed Spiderweb background, Cut out and layered it on a white cardstock base.

Next, I stamped Alferd Hitchcock standing with black ink on white cardstock and cut out. I then took a cotton ball and took some off and pulled it apart to wrap around Alferd Hitchcock standing to look like he was caught in a spider web. added foam tape to back and stuck him to the front of the card. 

Lastly added a saying to have Alferd Hitchcock stand on, and what better saying then The End for the ending of the 31 days of Halloween. 

You still have today to join the Halloween fun here

Movie Nite

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Good Morning Cathy here with snacks for the movie nite.

Stamps Used:

Sherlock

Oz witch

Alfred Hitchcock 

I started out with a Kraft fry box. I used distress oxide sprays on it to color the whole thing. I dried it with a heat tool so I could move on to the next part. 

I took some texture paste and mixed some black gesso into it. Grab your favorite stencil and put the paste through. I did it on the front and back. Set aside to dry. 

 

I then worked on coloring the images I was going to use to decorate the box. I stamped out all the ones I wanted and then I used my scan-n-cut to cut them all out.

Next I colored them all with copic markers and decided where I wanted them.

I put Sherlock on the front. I then used a computer printed saying for movie nite.

I used glue and tape to hold them down over the texture paste.  

For the back I stuck Alfred Hitchcock and Oz witch I also have some texture paste on the back. 

I stuck some candy and a package of microwave popcorn in the fry box. 

I hope you like my take on Movie Mania. 

You can join the Mania here

Our Friendship...

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Good morning and happy Tuesday, It's Sue here with my second 'Stamped Background' project, and I would like my friend Alfred to introduce it!

I started by making my background with the Perspective Floor stamp, whoo this makes your eyes go a little squiffy!

I used the same stamp again for Alfred's background, this has such a 1960's feel to it.

I've given Alfred Hitchcock Standing (well it is Alfred Hitchcock, and he is standing lol) his own Nevermore Raven, you can't have Alfred without a bird!

And I'm sure that he would be full of witty anecdotes, sparkling conversation, and plenty of plain weirdness. This is also a Carmen's Veranda clear stamp, called Our Friendship I've dotted a couple more ravens around for good measure.
There's still a week or so to join in with our challenge, so I hope to see you over on the Portal.
Enjoy the rest of the week, and thanks very much for looking xx

CHALLENGE #51 - STAMPED BACKGROUND

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.  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 your self some 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 #51

STAMPED BACKGROUND

This fortnight we want you to get creative with your stamps and make a stamped background for your creation.  So anything goes as long as you use stamping in the background.  

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 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 is awarded our Challenge Winner's Badge
5+ Entries = one Winner will receive a $5 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV
10+ Entries = one Winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV
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.  If you are using Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps you can now also link up your challenge entry in the Lost Coast Official Fan Group on facebook.  There is a challenge album in photo's.  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!
Let's start with a couple of projects from our new teamies
Roni made this cute and fun card using Nuance powders, Pencils background and Georges and Louis

Ginny made this gorgeous card using Lost Coast Designs Shrubbery, the large dragonfly from More Bugz and the Carmen's Veranda Discover sentiment

Laurie made this beautiful card using Carmen's Veranda Calligraphy Square and Lost Coast Designs Medium Clown Doll

Sue made this elegant card using Lost Coast Designs Large Chickenwire Background and Roses

 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 30th 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

An InLinkz Link-up

Alfred Card

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Cathy here with a card for the Boys, Boys, Boys challenge.

 First of all I have to tell you how I did this background. I watched Jennifer McGuire Alcohol marbling backgrounds.

This is what I came up with. Some not so good. Some I love. For me cold water did not work well. Just a little FYI if you are going to try it. Also black didn't work well either.
I just grabbed one of these background and ran it through my Big Shot with a die and cut it to fit on a front of a card. Next I grabbed a stencil and made the swirl background with some distress ink.
Then I stamped Carmen's Veranda Alfred Hitchcock on the front

Stamped again on white and cut out the movie cut board and glued it on to make it stand out. Then I added it to a white card front and done

Link up for a chance to win Lost Coast $'s.

CHALLENGE #46 - BOYS, BOYS, BOYS

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.  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 your self some 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 #46

BOYS, BOYS, BOYS

Share your lovely stamped makes with boys and/or men images as your focus.

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 Design Team Faves 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 is awarded our Challenge Winner's Badge
5+ Entries = one Winner will receive a $5 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV
10+ Entries = one Winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV
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.  If you are using Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps you can now also link up your challenge entry in the Lost Coast Official Fan Group on facebook.  There is a challenge album in photo's.  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 the wonderful Carmen's Veranda Alfred Hitchcock against a colourful alcohol ink background

Gail created a kraft delight using the new Lost Coast Designs American Gothic Steampunk and Carmen's Veranda Pretend to be Normal sentiment.  The background is Lost Coast Designs Drips and Grunge Border 3" stamps

  Marilyn created a fun tag using Lost Coast Designs Fortune Men Set and
Carmen's Veranda Weird People

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 midnight 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.

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

An InLinkz Link-up

Day 21 of 31 days of Halloween

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Cathy here on day 21 of the 31 days of Halloween
I made a card for today and who better for a Halloween Card then Alfred Hitchcock

 So I started off stamping Alfred Hitchcock on a white cardstock panel . Next I stamped him again on a scrap of copy paper and made a mask. Cut out and covered. Next I took the flying birds background and stamped only on one side of the card panel.  Edged the panel with red distressed ink. Last I took the drips  stamp and stamped it in the same red I used to ink the edge and stamped the top of the red card with it. That is my card for today. I hoped you will join in our Halloween and Animal challenge and event we have going on.

Don't forget to leave us a little love so we know you dropped by.  We also have loads of chances to win Lost Coast dollars. Link up your projects to these fun challenges:
31 Days Of Halloween - share your Halloween projects - till 31st October
Animals Challenge -  use an animal or 3 - till 25th October

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