Day of the Dead Contest Winner is....

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!

We had some amazing DOTD projects entered in our contest,  thank you so much for playing with us!

The WINNER of a $15 shopping spree at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda is

 JOI

CONGRATULATIONS JOI!
Here's your Winner's badge for your blog and please email me (or use the contact form in the left sidebar) to claim your prize!
***Prize must be claimed by Dec 5 otherwise a new winner will be announced! 

 ***UPCOMING***

 December is nearly here, are you looking forward to playing in our Christmas festivities?

Mark your calendars and return Dec 1st for

WIN a $15 shopping spree at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda

 and our 2nd Facebook Challenge which takes place on our Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda FB Pages!  Same challenge, one prize, 2 places to play!  Pop on over and LIKE us!

WIN a $15 shopping spree at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda

PLEASE NOTE OUR 2 MAIN RULES for EVENTS & CHALLENGES
1.  Entries must involve rubber stamping in some way, digi stamps alone do not count! 
2. Please leave a comment when linking up your entry!   

Then please make sure you read the rest of the rules pertinent to each event and challenge to ensure your entries qualify to win! 
See all our rules and guidelines here!

Thank you for visiting with us today and see you again when our Christmas festivities begin!
Have a fabulous Thanksgiving & Happy Holidays to you all!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 7 and finale of our Day of the Dead 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!

We are now on Day 7 and the finale of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

I hope you've enjoyed seeing all the fabulous DOTD themed projects shared by my fellow LCDesigners since Oct 31st!

We have some amazing DOTD projects entered in our contest so far, thank so much for playing with us!  Our contest closes tonight at midnight PST so hurry in your entries for the chance to win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  Add them to the linky collection below today's finale inspiration projects by LCDesigner Leigh.

I'm sharing 2 projects today, a fun mini tea light luminary and an altered domino trinket box!
For more info on my projects please visit my 2 blogs, LeighSBDesigns and DominoART, click on the two project links below!
Triangle Tea Light Luminary
Domino Trinket Box

 Domino Trinket Box
I used the following Lost Coast Designs stamps - large sugar skulls
Black Nose Sugar Skull, White Nose Sugar Skull,  Sugar Skull With Flower

Triangle Tea Light Luminary
I used the following Lost Coast Designs stamps
Black Nose Sugar Skull, White Nose Sugar Skull,  Sugar Skull With Flower
the lace border is part of the Picado Skull stamp

so pretty in the evening with the tea light glow

it really glows in complete darkness

Here's what it looks like in daylight!

3 sided luminary

CONTEST RULES

• You can use ANY stamp companies on your entries BUT if you use only 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 event 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 ours with
• 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 the DT needs to sign up to see your project or leave a comment then your entry will automatically be disqualified so please make sure to share from a public site!

Now it's your turn to show us your Day of the Dead projects!

An InLinkz Link-up

Mark your calendars because the Christmas festivities will soon be here!
Join us for our upcoming A Carmen's Christmas Contest in December and a new Facebook based Challenge will be starting soon too so follow our blog and stay to play ;0)

 Please make sure you read the rules pertinent to each event and challenge to ensure your entries qualify to win!

Thank you for visiting with us today and see you again very soon for our Day of the Dead Contest Winner announcement!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 6 of our Day of the Dead 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!

We are now in Day 6 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

 
Dia de los Muertos is a celebration of loved ones lost, a holiday to celebrate and honour their lives!  There's really nothing macabre about it as it is a joyful event filled with love and memories!  Day of the Dead is traditionally celebrated for 3 days, from Oct 31 through to Nov 2, so we will continue with our daily offerings until Nov 2.  Then visit us again on Nov 5, 8, 12 and 15 for tons of fabulous DOTD creations by my fellow LCDesigners!

Here's a lovely 3 minute short film that perfectly captures the spirit of Dia de los Muertos!

We invite you to enter all your DOTD themed projects in the linky below for the chance to win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  The contest closes Nov 15 at midnight and the winner announced soon after!

 LCDesigners Granne and Nan are here with two fabulous DOTD projects to inspire you!
Enjoy!

Nan has used the following Lost Coast Designs for her fabulous altered wood piece
Day of the Dead Head Dress Lady
Six Mini Skulls
Mini Crowns
Crows Border

 "Wanna Play?"

Granne has used Lost Coast Designs Six Mini Skulls for her fabulous ATC

 

and here's her other one from Day 5 so you can see how fab they are together!

CONTEST RULES

• You can use ANY stamp companies on your entries BUT if you use only 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 event 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 ours with
• 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! 

Now it's your turn to show us your Day of the Dead projects!

An InLinkz Link-up

Mark your calendars because the Christmas festivities will soon be here!
Join us for our upcoming A Carmen's Christmas Contest in December so follow our blog and stay to play ;0)

 Please make sure you read the rules pertinent to each event to ensure your entries qualify to win!

Thank you for hopping with us today, see you again November 15 for Day 7 and the finale of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 5 of our Day of the Dead 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!

We are now in Day 5 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

  Dia de los Muertos is a celebration of loved ones lost, a holiday to celebrate and honour their lives!  There's really nothing macabre about it as it is a joyful event filled with love and memories!  Day of the Dead is traditionally celebrated for 3 days, from Oct 31 through to Nov 2, so we will continue with our daily offerings until Nov 2.  Then visit us again on Nov 5, 8, 12 and 15 for tons of fabulous DOTD creations by my fellow LCDesigners!

Here's a lovely 3 minute short film that perfectly captures the spirit of Dia de los Muertos!

We invite you to enter all your DOTD themed projects in the linky below for the chance to win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  The contest closes Nov 15 at midnight and the winner announced soon after!

 LCDesigners Granne and Nan are here with two fabulous DOTD projects to inspire you!
Enjoy!

Granne has used Lost Coast Designs Six Mini Skulls for her fabulous ATC

Nan has used Lost Coast Designs Day of the Dead Woman for her

CONTEST RULES

• You can use ANY stamp companies on your entries BUT if you use only 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 event 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 ours with
• 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! 

Now it's your turn to show us your Day of the Dead projects!

An InLinkz Link-up

Mark your calendars because the Christmas festivities will soon be here!
Join us for our upcoming A Carmen's Christmas Contest in December so follow our blog and stay to play ;0)

 Please make sure you read the rules pertinent to each event to ensure your entries qualify to win!

Thank you for hopping with us today, see you again November 12 for Day 6 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 4 of our Day of the Dead 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!

We are now in Day 4 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

  Dia de los Muertos is a celebration of loved ones lost, a holiday to celebrate and honour their lives!  There's really nothing macabre about it as it is a joyful event filled with love and memories!  Day of the Dead is traditionally celebrated for 3 days, from Oct 31 through to Nov 2, so we will continue with our daily offerings until Nov 2.  Then visit us again on Nov 5, 8, 12 and 15 for tons of fabulous DOTD creations by my fellow LCDesigners!

Here's a lovely 3 minute short film that perfectly captures the spirit of Dia de los Muertos!

We invite you to enter all your DOTD themed projects in the linky below for the chance to win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  The contest closes Nov 15 at midnight and the winner announced soon after!

 LCDesigners Nanette and Kim are here with two fabulous DOTD projects to inspire you!
Enjoy!

Kim has used Lost Coast Designs Day of the Dead White Nose Sugar Skull on her fabulous postcard
 
Nan has used Lost Coast Designs Day of the Dead Lefty and Day of the Dead Pancho on her fabulous double spread project

CONTEST RULES

• You can use ANY stamp companies on your entries BUT if you use only 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 event 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 ours with
• 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! 

Now it's your turn to show us your Day of the Dead projects!

An InLinkz Link-up

Don't forget we've got our A Carmen's Christmas contest for you to look forward to so follow our blog and stay to play ;0)

 Please make sure you read the rules pertinent to each event to ensure your entries qualify to win!

Thank you for hopping with us today, see you again November 8 for Day 5 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 3 of our Day of the Dead 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!

We are now in Day 3 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

  Dia de los Muertes is a celebration of loved ones lost, a holiday to celebrate and honour their lives!  There's really nothing macabre about it as it is a joyful event filled with love and memories!  Day of the Dead is traditionally celebrated for 3 days, from Oct 31 through to Nov 2, so we will continue with our daily offerings until Nov 2.  Then visit us again on Nov 5, 8, 12 and 15 for tons of fabulous DOTD creations by my fellow LCDesigners!

We invite you to enter all your DOTD themed projects in the linky below for the chance to win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  The contest closes Nov 15 at midnight and the winner announced soon after!

 LCDesigners Karen and Bibiana are here with two fabulous DOTD projects to inspire you!
Enjoy!

Karen has used the following on her fabulous card
Carmen's Veranda - Skull with Hat 
Lost Coast Designs - Birds in Tree

Bibiana has used Lost Coast Designs Black Nose Sugar Skull on her fabulous card

CONTEST RULES

• You can use ANY stamp companies on your entries BUT if you use only 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 event 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 ours with
• 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! 

Now it's your turn to show us your Day of the Dead projects!

An InLinkz Link-up

Today is the last day to enter our LCD/CV Facebook Pages Challenge at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda! 
Click on over, read the pinned posts and enter  
Challenge #1 Something Wicked this Way Comes!
win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  


Upcoming is our A Carmen's Christmas contest too so follow our blog and stay to play ;0)

 Please make sure you read the rules pertinent to each event to ensure your entries qualify to win!

Thank you for hopping with us today, see you again November 5 for Day 4 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 2 of our Day of the Dead 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!

We are now in Day 2 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!
 
Dia de los Muertes is a celebration of loved ones lost, a holiday to celebrate and honour their lives!  There's really nothing macabre about it as it is a joyful event filled with love and memories!  Day of the Dead is traditionally celebrated for 3 days, from Oct 31 through to Nov 2, so we will continue with our daily offerings until Nov 2.  Then visit us again on Nov 5, 8, 12 and 15 for tons of fabulous DOTD creations by my fellow LCDesigners!

We invite you to enter all your DOTD themed projects in the linky below for the chance to win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  The contest closes Nov 15 at midnight and the winner announced soon after!

 LCDesigners Kim and Nikki are here with two fabulous DOTD projects to inspire you!
Enjoy!

Kim has used the following stamps on her fabulous postcard
Lost Coast Designs - Sun and Moon
Carmen's Veranda - Milagros

Nikki has used Lost Coast Designs Skull and Flourish on her fabulous ATCs

CONTEST RULES

• You can use ANY stamp companies on your entries BUT if you use only 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 event 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 ours with
• 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! 

Now it's your turn to show us your Day of the Dead projects!

An InLinkz Link-up

Only 2 days left to enter our LCD/CV Facebook Pages Challenge at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda! 
Click on over, read the pinned posts and enter  
Challenge #1 Something Wicked this Way Comes!
win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  


Upcoming is our A Carmen's Christmas contest too so follow our blog and stay to play ;0)

 Please make sure you read the rules pertinent to each event to ensure your entries qualify to win!

Thank you for hopping with us today, see you again tomorrow for Day 3 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 1 of our Day of the Dead 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!

If you're looking for the Day 31 post for the 31 Days of Halloween blog hop then click HERE!

Even though today is sadly the end of our 31 Days of Halloween blog hop our celebrations continue through to Nov 15 with our Dia de los Muertes - Day of the Dead Contest!
 
Dia de los Muertes is a celebration of loved ones lost, a holiday to celebrate and honour their lives!  There's really nothing macabre about it as it is a joyful event filled with love and memories!  Day of the Dead is traditionally celebrated for 3 days, from Oct 31 through to Nov 2, so we will continue with our daily offerings until Nov 2.  Then visit us again on Nov 5, 8, 12 and 15 for tons of fabulous DOTD creations by my fellow LCDesigners!

Our DOTD Contest is now officially open and we invite you to enter all your DOTD themed projects in the linky below for the chance to win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  The contest closes Nov 15 at midnight and the winner announced soon after!

To kick off our celebrations here's two fabulous projects by LCDesigners Granne and Nanette!
Enjoy!

Granne has used Lost Coast Designs Six Mini Skulls on her altered candlestick!

Nan has used Lost Coast Designs Day of the Dead Man and Women for her ATC and matching sleeve!

CONTEST RULES

• You can use ANY stamp companies on your entries BUT if you use only 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 event 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 ours with
• 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! 

Now it's your turn to show us your Day of the Dead projects!

An InLinkz Link-up

Today is the last day to get in your Halloween entries for our BOO! link party HERE to 

win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV! 

Only 3 days left to enter our LCD/CV Facebook Pages Challenge at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda! 
Click on over, read the pinned posts and enter  
Challenge #1 Something Wicked this Way Comes!
win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  


Upcoming is our A Carmen's Christmas contest too so follow our blog and stay to play ;0)

 Please make sure you read the rules pertinent to each event to ensure your entries qualify to win!

Thank you for hopping with us today, see you again tomorrow for Day 2 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Day 31: Blog Hop Finale by Leigh S-B!

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!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

YAY, we did it, we survived our 1st Smeared Ink 31 Days of Halloween blog hop!
WOW, I can't believe Halloween is here already!  What a spooktacular October it has been!  I want to thank my fellow amazing LCDesigners for creating all the faBOOlous creations you've been enjoying every day!  They really did an amazing job and I'm so proud to have such a talented, fun loving and dedicated bunch of ladies to create with!

Thank you to all of YOU who visited us each day and to those who popped in when they could, we appreciate all your wonderful comments!   We hope you have enjoyed visiting us, have seen lots of Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda stamps you need to add to your collections and are now followers of our blog because the fun never ends here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity ;0)

Even though today is sadly the end of our 31 Days of Halloween blog hop our celebrations continue through to Nov 15 with our Dia de los Muertes - Day of the Dead Contest!  We will continue with our daily offerings until Nov 2 and then we'll be back with more on Nov 5,  8, 12 and 15!  We invite you to enter all your fabulous Day of the Dead projects by Nov 15 for the chance to win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  Hop on over to the DOTD Day 1 post HERE for some fabulous LCDesigners inspiration and then enter your Day of the Dead creations in the linky!

And now for our 31 Days of Halloween finale project!
If you joined the hop from the beginning then you got here from DominoART and your next stop is Susan.  If you just popped in to visit us today and want to join the fun then the blog roll is over there in the right sidebar!  For more info about this hop and how to win the daily Scavenger Hunt prizes then see Terra's blog.

Carmen's Veranda is proudly sponsoring Smeared Ink's Scavenger Hunt prize today! You can win a $10 spending spree to Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!
Good Luck!

pssst...we are having a World of Borders sale!
Various borders up for grabs, some for as little as a $1!  

Today's finale project is by me, LCDesigner Leigh...I'm back with an Apothecary altered bottle encrusted with stamped clay and altered dominoes featuring stamps from 
Carmen's Veranda - Skulls and Bones background
Lost Coast Designs - Skull Flourish

Belladonna Dropps anyone?  Take only one though coz more causes a mild case of death!

Here's a close look at each clay stamped panel made from Das Air Dry Clay and painted with black acrylic paint and then dry brushed with cream and white.  The slots for the dominoes were cut out while the clay was wet.  Each domino is simply stamped with black StazOn ink.  I added the Wiccan symbols for Earth, Water, Fire and Air to the forehead of each skull with an ultra fine black Sharpie marker.  I hand wrote the Apothecary bottle label as well.  Embellishments are minimal with a simple dangle made with silver cord, two black beads and two ivory skull beads.

 Today is the last day to get your entries into our BOO! link party HERE to 

win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV! 

Enter our LCD/CV Facebook Pages Challenge at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda! 
Click on over, read the pinned posts and enter  
Challenge #1 Something Wicked this Way Comes!
win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  


Upcoming is our A Carmen's Christmas contest too so follow our blog and stay to play ;0)

 Please make sure you read the rules pertinent to each event to ensure your entries qualify to win!

Thank you for hopping with us today, see you again tomorrow for Day 2 of our Day of the Dead celebrations!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader