Travelling Boris

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 inspiration for the For The Men Challenge.

I decided to visit Carmen's Veranda Famous People and Boris fancied a trip out today.  Isn't he wonderful!!   I do love these big people faces stamps.

I decided to go black and white for this card.   I stamped Lost Coast Designs Mini Phrenology Collage twice on a white card panel with black archival ink.  Then I stamped Boris on white card, fussy cut him and added him.  To finish I stamped a couple of stamps from Lost Coast Designs Travel Quotes set.

You have all month to join the fun with your stamped makes featuring men or masculine things.
We need at least 20 entries to award the prize.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

Santa Boris

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Hello Portal Peeps!!   Gail here today with bad boy Boris for the Christmas in July challenge

I stamped Carmen's Veranda Boris Karloff on white card and cut with a circle die.  I coloured boris with red sharpies and water coloured with distress inks.  I stamped the star from Carmen's Veranda Elf with Star using salty ocean distress oxide on the still wet salty ocean water coloured background to give that nice smudged effect.  I cut a slightly larger circle with a stitched circle die from blue card and used the star with the distress oxide to stamp all around the edge for a bit of texture.  I cut a base card with the same stitched circle die so Boris can rock!!

  

Thanks for dropping by.

Join the Christmas In July fun and link up your stamped anythings featuring Christmas!!

See you there..........

Arresting

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 more inspiration for the Love and Hearts challenge.   I saw Boris and this sentiment and they just seemed made for each other.

I stamped Carmen's Veranda Boris Karloff on grungy grey card and Carmen's Veranda You're Staggering on a panel of the same card.  Then I stamped Lost Coast Designs Hearts and Curls Border twice with pale blue archival ink on white card, added my fussy cut Boris and mounted on the sentiment panel. 

Boris, you are such a bad boy!!!!

 

Join the Love and Hearts challenge with your stamped anything featuring love and/or hearts for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Hat Trick

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 again with some more hatty ideas with my favourite Carmen's Veranda boys!!

Frank said he didn't have a hat so Charlie lent him one!  Not sure it suits him, but there we go.  I am also entirely responsible for the wiggle in the sentiment cos I decided the easiest way to convert it from square 8 lines to long 3 lines was to chop it up!  So I did!!  So it's a little wiggly in places, but perfection is overrated........

I used a slightly grungy off white Authentique card base.  I stamped the re-arranged sentiment and masked it off.  Then I stamped Charlie and Frank with brown archival ink, masked them and stamped Boris.  I edged the card with brown Promarker and also drew a line under the boys.  Then I used a caramel Promarker to fill in the background around them.  Finally I stamped Charlie's hat on a scrap of the same card using the brown archival ink, fussy cut and stuck it on Franks head.

 

Grab your stamps and your hats and join the fun for a chance to win.

Due to the mass cancellation of stamp/scrapbook shows Linda is running an online virtual convention.   Use coupon code QUARANTINE to get 25% off any purchase of Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps.  Katzelkraft stamps, stamp accessories and Stencil Girl stencils are not included in the sale.

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

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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
 

 

Boris, Frank and Charlie

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.
Are you enjoying all the famous people inspiration from the team this month???
I must admit the Carmen's Veranda people stamps are some of my favourites.
Take a bloke, add a background.  What could be simpler?? 
Here's three of my favourite Carmen's Veranda blokes with three of my
favourite Lost Coast Designs Backgrounds.

 I stamped the blokes with black archival and then used different archival colours for the backgrounds

 Boris with Leaves background stamped with Prickly Pear archival ink

  Frankenstein and Fruit Pods background stamped with Bluebird archival ink

Charlie Chaplin with Bubbles Background stamped with Dandelion archival ink.

Grab you famous people stamps and join the fun for your chance to
win some new rubber!!!!

Talking of new rubber........
Linda added Yoga Cats to the Lost Coast Designs NEW! category before christmas and the other day she added GNOMES!!!!  Check em out!!  They are awesome!!

Linda also added three new people stamps to Carmen's Veranda NEW! category.  The team have already been sharing inspiration with these so scroll down to see their amazing makes.   

Thanks for visiting.  Leave the guys some love.  You know you want to.  Hugz