Challenge #163 Black & White - Let's Celebrate!

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Hello Friends...Roni here with another fun card for the Black and White challenge.

To create this card I used the Circus Dogs set of stamps.  I started by stamping out 3 of the balls on the "sticky" area of a post-it note. This is an easy way to create a reusable mask.  I trimmed each of the 3 masks.  

Choose your background paper and trim it to the approximate finished size. Choose a starting point and stamp the first ball, cover it with a mask and start stamping around this initial image in a spiral design adding and moving the masks as you go.  You can see I started near the center behind the "C" in celebrate. 

After I was finished with the background I stamped the dogs and an additional ball all of which were trimmed and set aside for the moment.

Next I assembled the card by mounting the background on a black card, I then tore a vellum panel and mounted it over the background. I temporarily placed the dogs and ball in place and stamped the sentiment Let's Celebrate from the Party Words stamp set.  After it had dried I added the dogs and ball to the card using double stick foam tape to pop them off the background.

I hope you are inspired to join in on the fun...

Challenge #163 Black & White

Too Much Happy

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 a very happy Sunday. It's Sue here with my project for our fun "Round and Round " challenge.

I started with some circus themed designer paper and fussy cut some tickets.

Then I stamped and cut out my dogs and balls from the Circus Dogs Set.

Then it was just a case of getting my dogs to balance on the balls at the same time as juggling, and holding a sign! Who's a clever boy then!

These are my lovely stamps.

Circus Dogs Set 

Too Much Happy

So it's over to you now. I'm sure you're full of ideas, so please link up and join in with our challenge. Please remember to use real stamps though, no digis allowed.

Have a very happy weekend, and thanks so much for looking x

31 Days of Halloween #27 & #109 Furry Friends - Happy Howl-oween!

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We're continuing to celebrate Halloween and our Furry Friends today.

I thought it would be fun to bring a dog friend to the party....

This little cutie is from the Circus Dogs set of stamps. He was stamped on white cardstock then fussy cut. I created his hat by stamping the Oz Witch hat, colored it with glitter gel pens and fussy cut. 

I stamped one of the spider webs from the Spiderweb Background on the upper left corner of the pumpkin pattern paper and the large and small Bat from Carrie's Menagerie in the other corner.  The stamped panel was affixed to a card base and a bit of washi tape was added to the bottom. I used foam tape to add the dog to the card and hand wrote the sentiment.

Supplies:

Lost Coast Designs - Circus Dogs Set, Spiderwebs Background, Bat

Carmens Veranda - Oz Witch

Pattern Paper, Washi Tape, Gel Pens

31 Days of Halloween: Day 27 - Good Dog

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Woo Hoo...
We're nearing the end of our month long celebration of Halloween.
Today I have a fun ATC card for you that works for both of our challenges...Halloween and Pets!

I had fun with this card...you know how much dogs love a good bone, well to keep up with the Halloween theme as well as the Pet Challenge I thought I'd give Fido several bones - human ones that is!  EEK!!!

I stamped the Dancing Skeletons onto a scrap of white cardstock and fussy cut the "choice bits" to give to fido.  I also stamped one of the dogs from the Circus Dogs Set of stamps onto white cardstock, colored him with a grey colored pencil and fussy cut him. I made a little slice in his mouth so he could hold one of the bones in his mouth.

I matted a piece of alcohol inked cardstock onto a black ATC base then added the bones in a pile and mounted the dog to the card using foam tape to pop him off the surface a bit.  I finished it off by matting and mounting the computer generated sentiment.

Have a spooktacular day friends!

Circus Dog and Circles

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 again from Laurie with another project for the Round and Round challenge going on now here on the portal.

This time I decided to make an ATC.  I took a page from a vintage book and stamped it with the Doodle Circles background stamp from Lost Coast Designs.  I edged my ATC with black ink then, using orange, yellow, and green markers, I colored around the edges of all the circles.

Next I stamped a cute pup from the Circus Dogs Set and cut him out, coloring him with a tan marker.  I added a jeweled collar to give him a little bling.  I stamped the rubber ball from the same set and cut it out, coloring it with orange, green, and yellow markers.  I attached it to the lower portion of my ATC, and using foam tape, affixed the dog atop the circus ball.  

You still have until the 31st to enter your stamped Round and Round makes for this challenge.  You could be the lucky one to win some free stamps!!

CHALLENGE #67 - ANYTHING GOES!!!! AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

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.  Welcome to our blog, a new year and a new Challenge!!   Hope your Christmas and New Year festivities went well and Santa brought you lots of new crafty goodies.  Here's your chance to show us your newbies, oldies and favourites cos for the start of 2019 its

ANYTHING GOES!!!!

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.

CHALLENGE #67

ANYTHING GOES

It's Anything Goes with real stamping as the focus.  1, 2, 3, Stamp!!

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! 

Here's some inspiration from the team to get us started.  ENJOY!

Laurie made this bright and fun card using a Lost Coast Designs Circus Dog and one of the new Carmen's Veranda sentiments, Wear a Cone.

 Lori made this fabulous art board collage using Lost Coast Designs 50's Girl, Joy words and Carmen's Veranda Who Ties Her Shoes sentiment.

Roni made this fun New Years card using the new Lost Coast Designs Carri's Menagerie Cat 2 and Snowflakes set.

So that's Happy New Year from everyone here at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda.  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 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

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