Precious Little Things

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 current Anything Goes challenge.   Hope the new year is going well for you.  I included a few of the newer Carmen's Veranda sentiment in my Christmas goodies.  This one is just delightful and I think it makes a perfect card for new love, or old love renewed.....

Unusual colours for love maybe, but then we like the quirky and unusual her at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.  I've used my easy formula of background stamp, image and sentiment.

I stamped Lost Coast Designs Concentric Circles Background on black card using white ink.  The quirky little fellow is Lost Coast Designs CDRoly Jester stamped with blue ink on white card and fussy cut.  Then I added the Carmen's Veranda Butterfly Reminder sentiment. 

Grab you stamps and join the Anything Goes challenge.  Our challenges are now monthly so you have all month to join the fun.  Don't forget to check the updated rules tab at the top of the page.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

A Woman Has The Right To Change Her Mind

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 Woman challenge.  I actually stamped a lot of different women before I decided to use the lovely Lost Coast Designs Geisha and combine her with this fun Carmen's Veranda Power of Coffee sentiment.

I stamped Geisha on white card with black ink and fussy cut her.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Concentric Circles Background with Ocean ink on white card and stamped the Power of Coffee sentiment with black ink.  I added a couple of colour blocks using some scrap paper and added the geisha.

I hope you get time to join the fun.  Include any stamped woman on your project for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

CHALLENGE #166 - PAPER PIECING

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.  
 

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 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 #166

PAPER PIECING

We want you to use paper piecing on your project.  Stamp on various scraps of coloured or patterned paper, cut them out and piece them back together.  This is a great one for using scraps and for the colouring challenged amongst us.  Give it a try, it's 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 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!

Roni used Lost Coast Designs Mini Fish Collage

Riet used Carmen's Veranda Southwest Town and Dog Hair sentiment

 

Gail used Lost Coast Designs Dark Girl Geisha and Concentric Circle Background with
Carmen's Veranda Lost Marbles sentiment

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 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

Challenge #166 - Paper Piecing
May 1st - 14th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Sunday, May 14th 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
 

 

31 Days of Halloween Day 10 - Fashionable Frank

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!!!  I hope you are enjoying all the Halloween fun, frights and frolics here at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.   The big day is approaching apace and Frank is trying out his outfits for the big night.

Very suave Frank!!!  I used Carmen's Veranda Staircase and the background is Lost Coast Designs Concentric Circles stamped with Memento Desert Sand ink.  I gave the staircase a Pumice Stone and Mustard Seed distress ink wash and added Lost Coast Designs Frank, fussy cut and coloured with distress markers.  To finish I used the last line of Carmen's Veranda Witches Go Riding sentiment.

Join the fun and link up your Halloween inspired projects.  Anything related to the season, spooky, fruity, fun, scary or cute.  Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project. 

Thanks for dropping by.

Bad Ass Witch

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.  I hope your Thursday is going splendidly.   Are you enjoying all the Strong Woman inspiration here on the blog???   Have you joined the fun yet???   You gotta be in it to win it you know!   Here's a fun card for you with a little lady with big attitude......

Whoo hoo!  You tell em sista!!!   Isn't she awesome??  I used Lost Coast Designs Concentric Circle Background stamped in silver on a pale blue panel.   I stamped, coloured and fussy cut Lost Coast Designs Gnome Witch on Broom and stamped Carmen's Veranda Full Ass sentiment. 

Get stamping and join the fun for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.

Linky closes 23.59 PST 14th May.

Thanks for dropping by.

Posh 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!!!  Gail here popping in from a hot Spring day in Norway with some cool inspiration for the HATS Challenge!

 I've used Lost Coast Designs doll from Doodle Dolls 1 set, Travel Quotes and Concentric Circles Background

 

Oh my!!!!  Concentric Circles is my new favourite background!!!!  I wonder why I haven't grabbed this one before!  I used Sky Blue, Blue Bird and Cactus Flower archival inks and randomly smeared them on the stamp to get this mixed colour background.  Then I stamped the sentiment from Lost Coast Designs Travel Quotes.

I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the doll and added her to the background.  Then I decided the sentiment didn't pop enough so I made a sentiment panel and stamped it on there.   Done!

I hope you like my strange lady in her strange sky.  Grab your stamps and hats and join the fun for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.  Don't forget, real rubber/clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project.  Linky closes last minute of the month!