CHALLENGE # 196 - WHERE'S MY HAT

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 April and 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 #196

WHERE'S MY HAT

This month we are all about headgear.  You have all month to share your stamped anythings with hats or other headgear.  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 Horizontal Party Hats Border, Mini Crowns, and Corner Swirl 

with Carmen's Veranda Joker

Liesbeth used Lost Coast Designs Birthday Mona, Skull Flourish with and Carmen's Veranda Keyhole and Ironwork Wall

 

Darlene used Lost Coast Design Party Hat set 2

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 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

Challenge #196 - Where's My Hat??
April 1st - 30th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Wednesday, April 30th 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
 

 

Celebrate it! - Birthday 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 everyone, it's Liesbeth here again, celebrating our challenge Celebrate it! ;-) 

I decided to make a card with this wonderful Mona Lisa, I love her, sitting next to that big cake haha!

Hope you'll celebrate with us!

This is how I made it: 

Using black ink I stamped Birthday Mona onto a gelli printed background. The stamped image wasn't bright enough so I also stamped her on a piece of white paper and cut out Mona and the cake. Before I added her I first stamped the words ,Do I smell cake' from Party Words, and with blue ink the Scalloped Flourish a few times. On a seperate piece of paper I stamped the Happy Birthday text (Misc. Words). I couloured everything with colour pencils, gel pens and made a shadow with watercolour pencil and water.

If you have any questions, just ask! :-) 

See you next time! 

LiesbethXX

Where's my hat? - Birthday 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!

Hi everyone, Liesbeth here with a birthday card to show you for our Where's my hat challenge!

There are some days left for you to join the hat fun!

Onto a very glossy (Chromolux) alcohol inked background I first stamped the very big Face with tongue using StazOn Saddle Brown. I stamped  Daisy Flourish a few times with Versamark ink and heat embossed it with gold embossingpowder. After that I stamped Mona Lisa with black StazOn on the card, and also on a seperate piece of paper (2x). I cut out: 1x Mona without the balloons, 1x the cake. I coloured everything using pink ink for the skin, and colour pencils. I sticked Mona and the cake in it's place and finished with gel pend and glitter glue, and of course the sentiment (Party Words). I matted the card on red and gold cardstock.

Have fun, see you next time!

Liesbeth XX

Do I smell cake

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 a birthday card for you. Since it was my birthday yesterday I made a birthday card.

Stamps Used:
Large peekaboo kitty
Hat from party Mona
Do I smell cake

So I was watching a video the other day and they did something called rip and flip. What you do is take a  piece of pattern paper and cut them to the size you want for the front of the card. I made mine a little smaller then the card front so you can see the card base. Make sure that you have the piece of pattern paper larger then what you a re going to attach them to.  Now you are going to rip it and flip it. Flip the piece of pattern paper so you get the 2 sides on the front of the card base.

You can see it better here in the close up. Next I colored and cut out  Large peekaboo kitty. After that  I cut out the hat from the birthday Mona and added to the Large peekaboo kitty.

Stamp the  Do I smell cake on a white scrap. I added some pink bakers twine and some pink sequence. Added the saying to the top and placed it all on a shimmer card base.

Come join the new challenge here.

The sale is still going strong. Cone get some stamps for 25% off.

Farting Rainbows

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 to share my card today with you all.
I hope you are all having a great day and get a good chuckle from this card. This saying makes me smile every time I read it.

First I stared making this card by grabbing some watercolor paper and my Distress Oxide inks. I did the smooching technique on the craft mat to get my background to the way it is.

Next I took Grunge Diamond Background stamp and some black ink and randomly stamped it all over the background.

 I took the Farting Unicorn saying and stamped it with Versafine ink on pink cardstock and I used white embossing power. Then I took a die and cut it out and used Distress ink and inked the edges of the saying.

I stamped Birthday Mona on white paper and colored it with Copic markers using colors to work with the background I made. I cut it out and I added some tinsel to the top of the hat.

 

Last I glued it all to the front of the card and then layered it on black cardstock.

The saying  is great for birthday cards or a card just to send a friend to make them smile.
Go check out all the great saying at Carmen's Veranda shop. I think there is something for everyone.

Last but not least come join us for the Say What?? challenge here.

CHALLENGE #49 - SAY WHAT??

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!

Welcome.  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 #49

SAY WHAT??

We want to see your stamped creations with a wordy sentiment or quote.  
The more words the better!!  Leave those singles and pairs at home, we want to see whole sentences of wordy wonderfulness!! 

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 or clear 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 made this gorgeous grungy party piece using Carmen's Veranda Farting Unicorn sentiment, Lost Coast Designs Grunge Diamond Background and Birthday Mona

Gail made a fun postcard using Carmen's Veranda Be Crazy Be Stupid sentiment and Lost Coast Designs Drake Dog

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

An InLinkz Link-up

Look Who's Fallen Off The Wagon!

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 and happy Monday, it's Sue here with my second piece for our current Anything Goes challenge.

I started with this Large Chickenwire Background and stamped it with Distress Oxides in a few colours.

 I just LOVE Birthday Mona, she is such fun! She's been coloured with watercolour pens and pencils then cut out. I also made some extra balloons - you can never have too many balloons.

This sentiment just makes me laugh. If you could swap the word Twinkies (whatever they are) for chocolate it would be the story of my life! This is a Carmens Veranda clear stamp called Twinkies

Then I just layered it all up and stitched together. It's not often that I make a card, but we are coming into the birthday season for my family, so I'm sure she'll find a good home.

I hope that you like my card, and that you'll join in with our challenge. You have until the 14th, so you'd better get your skates on!

Have a lovely day, and thanks very much for looking xx