LOVE-ly Lady

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Hi all! Aimee here. It doesn't need to be Valentine's Day to put love and hearts onto your card! 

This simple, two stamp card was made with the Art Nouveau Faces and Journaling Letter Guide stamps from Lost Coast Designs.

Join in the fun and submit your "Love and Hearts" creation to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity for their February Challenge. Submissions due by February 28.

You Matter

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Hi everyone, Aimee here! Here's a card I created inspired by a gift tag I saw on Pinterest. The tag featured a woman wearing a hat, and I thought it would be perfect for this month's Challenge: Where's My Hat?

The creation of this card kind of morphed as I went along. I used pigment inks, dye inks, embossing folders, embossing powder, alcohol markers and embellishments to bring it to life. The final touch was a hat sticker I purchased at a Dollar Tree store that I then colored to fit in better with the card's color scheme.  I used the Art Nouveau Faces, You Matter and Brush Strokes stamps. Follow along with this photo tutorial to see how it all came together:

This card is the result of playing around with inks and colors as I went, not knowing how it would all turn out in the end. That's the beauty of creating--just see where your path takes you. Go for it! And then submit your creation to the Lost Coast Portal To Creativity for your chance to win a prize.  

CHALLENGE #193 REMINDER - BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL

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 mid month reminder for the Bright and Cheerful 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.

CHALLENGE #193

BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL

Let's get rid of the winter blues and those cold and frosty feelings.  We want to see your stamped anythings with a bright and cheerful look.  Grab your bold and bright colours and those happy stamps and join the fun.  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 more inspiration from the team.  ENJOY!

 Aimee used Lost Coast Designs Art Nouveau Faces with Carmen's Veranda Cusswords and Courage sentiment

 

 Kathi used Lost Coast Designs Party Cat

 

Darlene used Lost Coast Designs Carrie's Yoga Cat 10

Now it's your turn.  Are you up for the challenge?  We can't wait to see your projects!   

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. 
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! 

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host