May Your Christmas Sparkle

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Good morning and a very Merry Christmas! Are you on Santa's naughty or nice list?? I hope that he's visited, and that you've put a carrot out for Rudolph.  It's Sue here with my sparkly Christmas card for our Gnomes challenge.

I started by making my base. This is one piece of 12x12 card with the different coloured dots on either side.

And these are some of our fab new gnomes (though gnomes aren't just for Christmas!) I cut my Santa gnome twice as I wanted to layer him up.

Here he is, coming down the gnomey mushroom chimney

And all layered up and glittery.

Well would you believe it, the card fits perfectly into the envelope that I made last time lol.

For the card, I've used

Gnome Sleeping

Gnome Santa in Chimney

Mushroom House

and for the envelope

Mail Art

Christmas Lights (Carmen's Veranda)

May I take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy new year from myself and all of my teamies. Take care, and have a wonderful day! xx

Christmas Gnomey Mail Art

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 Good morning and a very happy Wednesday. It's nearly Chrisssssssssstmassssss!!! It's Sue here with my second Gnomes project, and this time I've decorated an envelope.

This time I've decided to make an envelope for one of my gnomey Christmas cards.

I started by stamping my corner images, then I did a bit of masking (unheard of for me) and stamped my Christmas lights. All of the images have been coloured with my Prisma pencils as envelopes aren't as sturdy as card.

These are my lovely stamps, I've used

Gnome Sleeping

Gnome Santa In Chimney

Mail Art

Snowflakes Border and

Christmas Lights (Carmen's Veranda)

I hope you like it, and that you join in with our fun challenge. Please remember the golden rule - real stamps only, no digis!

Take care, and have a very happy week x

It's A Wrap!

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Good morning and a very happy Thursday - it's nearly the weekend yay!

It's Sue here with my second project for our 'It's A Wrap' project I made another gift bag (in fact I made this one first ) but this time I've stamped directly onto the bag.

 I started with a regular craft bag (these are so strong so perfect for presents) 

I began by splattering with watered down acrylic, then stamped the lovely Megans's Christmas Bird and Christmas Lights. The lights have been coloured with Posca pens, and the bird with Prisma pencils. I did get a bit carried away with the red pencil, but a Christmas Robin needs to be red right?

I'd be lost without my Misc Words, these two just finish off my bag perfectly.

These are the stamps that I used (I told you that I splattered paint)

Megan's Christmas Bird

Misc Words  and Carmen's Veranda

Christmas Lights

I hope you like it, and that you join in with our challenge this month. 

Take care and have a very happy day x

An Ass Family Christmas

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, it's Sue here with the second of my Christmas cards, and this time it features stamps from Carmen's Veranda.

The background was made with Christmas Lights and coloured with glitter pens.

I think the Ass Family speak for themselves. Everyone knows this family!

You still have time to join in with our challenge, so get your jingle on!

Thanks for looking, and have a very Merry Christmas xx

Day 3 and finale of our A Carmen's Christmas Contest!

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!

Today is Day 3 and the finale of our A Carmen's Veranda Christmas Contest!  We hope you've enjoyed getting all festive with us!

Enter your holiday projects into the Inlinkz collection below today's featured projects by 8pm TONIGHT to be in the running for the $15 spending spree to Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

Now sit back and relax with a cup of eggnog and enjoy today's featured projects by LCDesigners Leigh, Shari, Karen and Kim!

Leigh is sharing two ATCs, a center step card and a Creepmas altered domino!
"Poinsettia center step card" features Carmen's Veranda Poinsettia large background stamp

multi-layered poinsettia

 "Skellie Snowman" Creepmas altered domino features Carmen's Veranda Snowman and Winged Skeleton

snowman head with a skellie body

"PEACE ATC" features Carmen's Veranda Snowman, Christmas Lights and Lost Coast Designs "Peace" from the Harmony Peace Joy Freedom Dictionary set

  "Twinkle Kitty in Purple" ATC features Carmen's Veranda Christmas Lights and Angel Cat

  Shari is sharing a fabulous box for keeping wish lists in! 
"Snowman Greetings" features Carmen's Veranda Elf with Star

 and a fab folkart "Angel Kitty" card featuring Carmen's Veranda Angel Cat

Karen is sharing a fabulous card featuring Carmen's Veranda Overalls Santa and Lost Coast Designs Party Words

Kim is sharing a fabulous Steampunk Angel mixed media project featuring Lost Coast Designs Steampunk Fly Girl

WOW, what a fantastic show of festive DT inspiration!  I'd like to thank my fellow LCDesigners for all their fabulous projects for our A Carmen's Veranda Christmas Contest and for all their amazing projects shared this year too!  We hope we have inspired you to follow us here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and are eagerly looking forward to the fun we will have in 2016 ;0)

 Now it's your turn to show us your holiday projects but first we have a few contest rules to go over and the submit your entries in the Inlinks below!
CONTEST RULES

• You can use ANY stamp companies on your entries BUT if you use LCD/CV stamps your entry will count as two and doubles your chance at winning the prize!
  
• Become a Follower of Lost Coast Portal to Creativity
• Submission must link directly to your project, not just your blog home page
• Include our contest info and link in your blog post 
• No backlinking to old projects published prior to the start of the contest
• Please leave us a comment after you link up, we do love hearing from you!
• No limit on how many times you can enter
• No limit on how many events or challenges you can combine with ours
• You may enter our events and Challenges even if you don't have a blog.  Upload your project to a photo sharing sites or personal Facebook accounts, and set the privacy setting to "Public", include the name of the event or Challenge in your photo description!  Please note that if you use a site that requires the DT to sign up to view your project then it will automatically be disqualified! 

An InLinkz Link-up

Don't forget you can also enter your projects in our Winter Holidays Facebook Challenge which is running right through until January 15, 2016, so you've got plenty of time to play on our FB Pages!  Enter your projects for the chance to win even more prizes!  Same FB Challenge on both Pages...see the pinned post at the top of the walls:
  Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda  

Also, in case you missed it, our monthly blog challenge started on Dec 7th!  The challenge will be closing a bit earlier than normal this month on Dec 20th!
The theme is Board Games Pieces!

We have a ton of fabulous game related stamps at both Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda so check them all out via the links below and join the fun!

Lost Coast Designs
Chess and Domino Flying Ladies
Chess Set
Game Shrines
Domino Sets 
Playing Cards and more Chess/Domino flying ladies
World of Borders 

Carmen's Veranda
Games
 Dice Background

Happy Holidays!

Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 2 of our A Carmen's Veranda Christmas Contest!

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!

Today is Day 2 of our A Carmen's Veranda Christmas Contest!

Enter your holiday projects into the Inlinkz collection below today's featured projects by 8pm PST on Dec 15 to be in the running for the $15 spending spree to Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

Now sit back and relax with a cup of eggnog and enjoy today's featured projects by LCDesigners Nikki, Granne, Karen and Leigh!

Nikki
Carmen's Veranda - Christmas Lights and Elf

Granne
Carmen's Veranda - Small Angel Heads

Karen 
Carmen's Veranda - Star Doll Angel

Leigh
Now for something completely different from Leigh - a 12 Days of Creepmas blog hop Day 5 (Dec 9) altered domino project featuring Carmen's Veranda Skulls and Bones and Lost Coast Designs JOY from the Harmony Peace Joy Freedom Dictionary set.

Now it's your turn to show us your holiday projects but first we have a few contest rules to go over!

CONTEST RULES

• You can use ANY stamp companies on your entries BUT if you use LCD/CV stamps your entry will count as two and doubles your chance at winning the prize!
  
• Become a Follower of Lost Coast Portal to Creativity
• Submission must link directly to your project, not just your blog home page
• Include our contest info and link in your blog post 
• No backlinking to old projects published prior to the start of the contest
• Please leave us a comment after you link up, we do love hearing from you!
• No limit on how many times you can enter
• No limit on how many events or challenges you can combine with ours
• You may enter our events and Challenges even if you don't have a blog.  Upload your project to a photo sharing sites or personal Facebook accounts, and set the privacy setting to "Public", include the name of the event or Challenge in your photo description!  Please note that if you use a site that requires the DT to sign up to view your project then it will automatically be disqualified! 

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope our projects have put you in a festive spirit ;0)  See you again for our Xmas finale on Dec 15th!

Don't forget you can also enter your projects in our Winter Holidays Facebook Challenge which is running right through until January 15, 2016, so you've got plenty of time to play on our FB Pages!  Enter your projects for the chance to win even more prizes!  Same FB Challenge on both Pages...see the pinned post at the top of the walls:
  Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda  

Also, in case you missed it, our monthly blog challenge started on Dec 7th!
The theme is Board Games Pieces!

We have a ton of fabulous game related stamps at both Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda so check them out via the links below and join the fun!

Lost Coast Designs
Chess and Domino Flying Ladies
Chess Set
Game Shrines
Domino Sets 
Playing Cards and more Chess/Domino flying ladies
World of Borders 

Carmen's Veranda
Games
 Dice Background

See you again for Day 3 and the finale of A Carmen's Veranda Christmas on Dec 15th!
Happy Holidays!

Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 1 of A Carmen's Veranda Christmas!

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!

Today is Day 1 of our A Carmen's Veranda Christmas Contest!

Enter your holiday projects into the Inlinkz collection below today's featured projects by 8pm PST on Dec 15 to be in the running for the $15 spending spree to Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

Now sit back and relax with a cup of eggnog and enjoy today's fabulous holiday themed projects by LCDesigners Kim, Leigh, Nanette and Karen!

Kim is sharing a tag featuring Carmen Veranda's Snowman

Leigh is sharing 2 ATCs
ATC #1 "Believe" features Carmen's Veranda Snowman, Three Trees and Believe from Lost Coast Designs "Wish Wisdom Grow Believe" Dictionary set

ATC #2 features Carmen's Veranda Christmas Lights and Angel Cat

Nanette is sharing an altered tin decorated with ATCs on all four sides featuring the following stamps:
Carmen's Veranda - Reindeer Doll, Waving Santa, Christmas Tree, Elf with Star, Christmas Lights and Quilted Wing Angel
Lost Coast Designs - Party Words

Karen is sharing a card featuring Carmen's Veranda Reindeer Doll.

CONTEST RULES
please read!!!!

• You can use ANY stamp companies on your entries however if you do use LCD/CV stamps your entry will count as two and doubles your chance at winning the prize! 
• Your entries must involve rubber stamping in some way and preferably be the focal point of your project, digi stamps alone do not count!
  
• Become a Follower of Lost Coast Portal to Creativity
• Submission must link directly to your project, not just your blog home page
• Include our contest info and link to this post in your blog post 
• No backlinking to old projects published prior to the start of the contest
• Please leave us a comment after you link up, we do love hearing from you!
• No limit on how many times you can enter
• No limit on how many events or challenges you can combine with ours
• You may enter our events and Challenges even if you don't have a blog.  Upload your project to a photo sharing sites or personal Facebook accounts, and set the privacy setting to "Public", include the name of the event or Challenge in your photo description!  Please note that if you use a site that requires the DT to sign up to view your project then it will automatically be disqualified!  

Plus even more ways to win some LCD/CV stamps!

 We also have our 2nd Facebook based challenge starting today too over on Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda FB Pages!  Enter your projects in our Winter Holidays Challenge for the chance to win even more prizes!  Same FB Challenge on both Pages...see the pinned post at the top of the wall on both FB Pages for details!

 Now it's your turn to show us your holiday projects, we can't wait to see all your festive entries!
Please make sure you read over the rules for the Contest as well as the rules for the FB Challenge to make sure your entries qualify!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope our projects have put you in a festive spirit and eager to win our fabulous shopping spree ;0)  See you again for Day 2 on Dec 10th!

Happy Holidays!

Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader