Raven Queen Magic

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 everyone,
I am honored and thrilled to be asked to join Lost Coast Designs
as a Guest Designer this month.

This month the theme is
"Myth and Magic"

My card uses Raven Queen to add the magical
inspiration for this challenge.

This is how this card was made ...

To begin with the Raven Queen has been stamped twice.
The head dress was cut out from one of these.
The other image was covered with masking fluid
so that an inked background could be added.
What a stunning image Raven Queen is!

Once the masking fluid was completely dry Distress Inks were blended over the background. .

A stencil was then spritzed with water and some placed onto the ink.
After you blot this you are left with a lovely ghosting impression
from the stencil.
Another layer of stenciling was added by blending
a darker blue ink through the stencil.

A little background stamping was added using

ATC Grunge Set and Long Swirl.

This was used to create a border around the card.

Raven Queen, and the head dress, were coloured with water colours
and pencils. To add a little extra femininity there have been beads of
liquid pearls placed on the head dress and around the outside of the image.

To finish the card, part of the words from Carmen's Veranda
"Never Too Late" were added.
These were stamped and embossed in white on black card.
Some shading around the edges was added to bring it all together.
Then it was matted and layered onto cardstock.


The Myth and Magic Challenge is underway
through this blog or through the
Lost Coast Designs Official Group on facebook.

A huge thank you to LCD for having me along this month.

I hope that you join in the challenge.
I enjoyed playing with this stamp, she is gorgeous!

Dot x

Wings of an Angel

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 everyone,
it's Dot here popping by today as a Guest Designer for
Lost Coast Designs
for the Winged Things Challenge this fortnight.

This Winged Girl NS stamp was the first thing that came
to my mind for this challenge.
She has been stamped onto watercolour card and
coloured with pencils. This is such a relaxing thing for me to do.
 She was then cut out and put aside.

The daisies were also stamped onto watercolour card and cut out.
They are from the ATC Doodle Set.
I've left these uncoloured for a little contrast.

The background was made by simply swiping watercolour card
through Distress Oxides on my craft sheet.
 To layer the colours up you need to dry between layers. 
I added some Mustard Seed Oxides
by stamping it with my acrylic block onto the background.
When you use Oxides on watercolour paper the colour is quite muted.
The yellow gives a lovely pop of colour and lifts the other colours.
There is a little stenciling in the background.
And stamping with Long Swirl.

To finish off the edges have been blended with a little ink.
The girl and daisies were attached.

And then it was mat and layered onto black card.

Thanks so much LCD for having back as a Guest Designer this fortnight.

A reminder that the challenge this fortnight is 

Things With Wings.

You can enter on the blog here, or on our facebook page.
There are awesome prizes up for grabs.

I hope you check out what the team has made to inspire you
and that you are able to join in the fun.

Happy Stamping!
Dot x

For The Men: A Vintage Art Journal Page

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 everyone,
It's Dot here today with a tutorial for you using one of my favourite
Lost Coast Designs's stamps - Thick and Thin Men.

This is an Art Journal page. I thought it might be fun to do a little image transferring.

Someone had told me that 'Vogue' magazine is the best mag to use
so I was keen to give it a go.

It would be fair to say that image transfers have been a bit hit-and-miss

for me over the years. But I really liked how this page has turned out.

The image transfer went straight onto a page from my Art Journal.

The picture was painted with gel medium, as well as the
art journal page and then the image was attached face-down and allowed to dry.

 I started gently rubbing my finger in circles (dipping it in water every now and then)

until the image started to appear.
You can see where I might have taken off too much of the image, but that's okay
because I had already decided to create a vintage piece
so it kind of adds to the effect.

To finish this part I painted some gel medium over the whole piece to seal it.

To create more of a shabby chic look I swiped a little white paint in from the edges and

stenciled a pattern in a matching paint tone.

Stamping was all that was needed to finish the page off.

I stamped Thick and Thin Men onto photo copy paper

and cut the image out.

The ATC Grunge Set has some wonderful stamps that are ideal for background stamping.
I used one of these to add a little more interest to the background.

As an after thought, I also added a little shadow effect with water colour pencils around the men's feet, for grounding.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Lost Coast Designs has a challenge this fortnight called

For The Men.

You only have to use real stamps with a men's theme and you could be in with a chance to win a prize.

Happy Stamping!

Dot x

Tree Hugging

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 everyone,

it's Dot here with a tutorial for our Wood Challenge #82

I have been eye-ing off the bark out the front of my place

for some time to make something with, so I was
pretty pleased when this challenge came around.

The tree out the front is called a Paperbark tree.

The bark starts peeling away from the trunk

and has the most amazing colours.

I peeled a heap of the layers from the tree and brought them inside to dry.

You can peel the bark super thin, which is what I did, and you can layer them up

any way that you like.

I chose some that had different colours and textures and glued them together

with gel medium.

The stamp 'Evil Eye' was stamped onto some tissue paper.

Then on the back of this I painted some
white acrylic paint ... carefully.

Once it was dry it was easy to attach to the bark

with gel medium.

I added some branch effects by using a small section of the

Grunge Tree stamp with brown archival ink.

The bark was easy to rip to the size that I needed for my card.

Then it was a simple task of attaching it with gel medium.

The words, from Carmen's Veranda, were stamped

with white ink onto black card and cut out.
After edging with more white ink I attached it to the bark.

The card still needed something else ...

so I painted the eyes of the Evil Eye's eyes with blue acrylic paint.

There is still a little bit of time to enter our Wood challenge

for this fortnight.
Either here or over on facebook.

Happy Stamping!

Dot x

Christmas in July with the Angels

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 everyone,
thank you so much for stopping by.

Today I'm sharing a Christmas card with you,
because, seriously, we all need ideas as Chrissy gets closer.

This card uses the Herald Angels stamp.

Have you got your cuppa ready while I step you through how this was made?

Here we go ...

Step 1: Using your trusty old credit card, swipe some paint across your card.  The flatter your card as you use it, then the more rustic your background will look. I've used DecoArt paints.

Step 2: Stamp your image onto tissue paper and dry it with a heat tool.

Step 3:  Remove excess tissue paper from around your image. I use a water brush and gently pull the tissue paper apart.  Turn the tissue paper over and colour in some of the image.  You can see from the photo above that it doesn't need to be as arty as if you were painting on top of something.  The main thing is that you stay within the lines.  Oh, and from experience, dry the paint before turning it over and checking how it is coming along.  Wet paint will mark tissue paper easily and it wont come off.

Step 4:  Attach your dried tissue paper to your background with a gel medium.

Step 5:  Finger painting! I added a little extra white paint to a couple of corners with my fingers.  I had an idea to add a little Chrissy stenciling to the corners. 

Step 6:  I used a mini blender and archival ink to add some stenciling to the corners.  The stencil I used had a few bits on it so a little washi tape was added to make sure there wasn't any unwanted stenciling.

To finish:  Edge it with some archival ink.  Splatter a little white paint. Mat and layer it onto card stock.  

This is a beautiful stamp to use.  It's big enough to make a whole card with.

Tissue paper is one of my favourite techniques to use.  I hope that you decide to give it a go. 
And that you have been inspired to play.

Lost Coast Designs have a challenge called

Christmas In July
here on the blog or over on the fb fan page.

There is still time to join in and be in the drawn to win a fabulous prize from

Lost Coast Designs

Happy Stamping!

Dot x

Slow Dumb Stuff.

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 everyone,
It's Dot here with a tutorial for you.
Have you ever made something and then right at the end you made a mark that just wasn't meant to be there?
That is exactly what happened when making this card.
I felt like I was totally relating to these fun words from Carmen Veranda!

I loved matching this wise lady with these words.
This is how it all came together ...

Step 1:  I've a little collection of scrap backgrounds - don't we all? The background was made ages ago when I was playing around with my new Distress Oxides and seeing what yellow and pink looked like together.

Step 2:  I cut a hole in some paper toweling and used it as a 'window' to choose the area that I wanted to use for my background. I didn't want to miss out on some good splats. I then trimmed this down.

Step 3:  I stamped and coloured 'Coffee' with my inktense pencils.  Then cut here our.  She was an easy image to cut out.

Step 4:  For the words I used Slow Dumb Stuff. These are words to live by!!! I really related to them, and I KNOW that my friends will too. I masked off one lot of words, inked them up and stamped them above where she was going. For this I placed her on the card so that I had an idea where to stamp. Then I cleaned the stamp and did the same for the rest of the words - stamping them under where she was going to be.

Step 5:  A little stenciling with Distress Ink.  Some stamping of Long Swirls using Distress Oxides finished off the background ... or so I thought!

I accidentally dropped my black inkpad onto the background!

Step 6:  Time to fix up the unwanted ink mark.  I simply ripped up some washi tape (the same as what was used for masking off the words) and covered the mark.  I liked it, so I added more here and there so that it didn't look odd. I even put some under her feet so that she had something to stand on.

Step 7:  I couldn't resist putting a few black painty circles onto the background to help the washi tape blend in more. Water spray lids and pen lids were handy for this.  Then it was time to mount the piece onto some black and white cardstock.

I was really 'living the words' when making this one.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

There is still time to enter our challenge this fortnight.
It is all about Faces.

You can enter by clicking on the challenge here,
or over on face book.  Either way you'll be in with a chance to win.

Happy Stamping
Dot x

CHALLENGE 78 - FACE ON

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 yourself 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.

Now for our new Challenge!

CHALLENGE #78

FACE ON

We want to see a human face on your stamped creations. Remember, real rubber or clear stamping and the theme need to be the focus of your project for it to be eligible for the prize.

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!

Dot made this beautiful card using Lost Coast Designs
Goth Butterfly
 
Gail made this pretty card using Lost Coast Designs Asian set, large rectangle Shadow Frame and Carmen's Veranda Quiet Chaos Madness sentiment

Roni made this fabulous card using Lost Coast Designs Up Close & Personal and Carmen's Veranda Be the Person 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 5 to midnight PST on the 30th 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 #78 - FACE ON use a human face
June 15th - 30th 

Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
 

The Thick And Thin Of It. Card by Dot

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 everyone,
I hope everyone is enjoying the weather where ever you live in the world
and managing to get a little crafting in.

Today I've got a card tutorial to share with you
using the Thick and Thin stamp.

I had so much fun playing with these colours from our challenge this fortnight.
There is just something about Lemon and Lime that screams out "Happy".

Here is how I've made this card ...

Step 1:  Stamp the image, Thick and Thin Men, onto your card.  Then stamp it onto some photo copy paper and cut it out to use as a mask.

Step 2:  Mask your image. Using a sponge, sweep out some distress oxides (Fossilized Amber and Twisted Citron).

Step 3:  Use a circle stencil and use your sponge to add some circle detail with the Twisted Citron DO.  This helps to 'ground' the image to the edges and adds a little extra interest.

Step 4:  With your ATC Text Set 1 word stamp, randomly stamp some words.  Again, this helps ground the image and extend the image.  It also adds another layer.

Step 5:  I've added some black archival ink through another stencil to bring in another layer.  When you add layer upon layer it helps add more interest to your piece and creates more depth.

Step 6:  Randomly stamp the border of the Grunge Tree in a few spots around the edge.  The main image looks a little like Laurel and Hardy to me, so the grungy effect around the edges adds a that vintage and aged look to your card without too much thinking.

Step 7:  Finish off your card by mounting it onto matching lemon, lime and black cardstock.

These colours were so much fun to use.
We have them as our prompt for the challenge this fortnight.

You are able to join in this challenge here,
or over on facebook.

You will be in the draw to win some awesome and fun stamps!!!

The Main Stamps Used Were:

         

Happy Stamping!
Dot x

CHALLENGE #76 - USE SOME WORDS

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 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.

Now for our new Challenge!

CHALLENGE #76

USE SOME WORDS

We want to see stamped words featuring prominently your project.  Words as the background, a fun quote, BIG sentiments, whatever you like, just wow us with words.  Please remember we are a real stamp challenge so to be in with a chance for the prize you need to use the theme and stamping.

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!

Dot made this cute card using Lost Coast Designs Mummy and ATC Text Set 1 and Carmen's Veranda sentiments Stay Weird and Pets Live Longer.

Laurie made this fun card using Lost Coast Designs Party On and Carmen's Veranda Pro Tip sentiment

Roni made this really cool wordy background card using a number of Carmen's Veranda sentiments, Be the Person, Dogs are our Whole Lives, Today I am a Dog, No Dogs in Heaven, and the dog from Lost Coast Designs Georges and Louis

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 May 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.

Have you seen our DT Call??


Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #76 - Use Some Words
May 15th - 31st
Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Friday, May 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

On Wings She Flies, Card by Dot

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!

Welcome back!
I hope everyone has had a fantastic Easter and enjoyed
lots of chocolate.

The On Wings She Flies challenge is still on until the end of this month
so there is plenty of time for you to enter.
You can enter here or over in our facebook group.

This is a one layer card that uses the Winged Girl NS, Daisy Flourish and Arches and Door stamps.

One layer cards using masking is one of my favourite things to do.

Here is how this one came together:

Step 1: Stamp the gorgeous Winged Girl onto some photo copy paper and cut her out. This will be a mask, so it is important to cut her out a couple of millimeters in from the edge of the stamped image. This prevents a shadow around your stamped image when you add the background.

Step 2: Stamp the Winged Girl onto your card. I used archival ink for this. Dry well and place the mask over her. You should see an outline of the underneath image all the way around.

Step 3: Ink up the Arches and Door stamp. I used Rose Madder archival ink, coffee espresso DO and Versafine black ink.  The rose madder is a beautiful pink and I thought the brown ink would go with the pink nicely.  The Versafine is a rich black which is what I wanted as a border. This stamp is placed on your craft sheet without any acrylic block underneath.

Step 4: Place your card onto the inked up stamp. After a fair bit of experimenting, I decided that she looked best when she was over to one side.  This means that part of her is in the doorway. So, bear this in mind when you are placing your card onto the stamp.

Step 5: Being careful, gently rub over the card with your fingers. It's a little like doing a print. I like to keep one hand on the card at all times so that it doesn't move. I did it this way because when I tried to stamp straight onto the card I ended up with shadow effects around the image, no matter how many times to tried to do it.  Doing it in reverse gave me a much better stamped image.  This is due to the Arches and Door being quite a large and detailed stamp. Trim your card down.

Step 6: Leaving the mask in place, randomly stamp some of the Daisy Flourish.  Less is more (yes, I discovered this through trial and error too lol).

Step 7: To make the Daisy Flourish pop a little I've used a white gel pen to add some sketchy detail.  I love how the white gel pen picked up a little of the brown DO and gave a toned effect. It looks so natural. It was a lovely surprise.  It also hides of all the lines from the Arches and Door stamp. I like to use Tea Dye distress ink for skin tones. I just add a little to a craft sheet and spritz with water.  Using a fine brush I can then play with light and shade.  Distress ink is good to use as if you are too heavy with the colour it can be easily removed with a little water.

Step 8: Mat and layer your card onto some card. 

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

It is a little fiddly, but it is worth having a go.

Variations:

Change the colours.

Change the focal image.

Add some words.

Happy Stamping 

Dot x

CHALLENGE #74 - ON WINGS SHE FLIES

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 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.

Now for our new Challenge!

CHALLENGE #74

ON WINGS SHE FLIES

We want to see your winged females, so fairies, angels, butterfly girls, or add wings to a woman/girl.  Don't forget that real stamping and the theme should be the focus of your project.

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!

Dot used Lost Coast Designs beautiful Spread Your Wings And Fly stamp to make this gorgeous card

Gail made this fun card using Lost Coast Designs Tee Hee Hard Luck Pixie and Yourba Adire background.  The word Bliss is from Carmen's Veranda

Roni used Lost Coast Designs Housewife, Butterflies Set and Carmen's Veranda Happily Ever After sentiment to make this fun card.  I can so relate!!

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 30th 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

An InLinkz Link-up

Circles, Distress Inks and a Little Vintage Card.

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 Dot here with a fun little card for you to have a go at!
It is slightly vintage and uses Distress Inks.

Does this 50's Girl look like she is floating away in the bubbles?

It is a fun one to make and you can any image you like to this background, I just thought that this vintage girl might be a fun one to use.

Here we go ...

Step 1:  Make a circle mask using a circle die.  Attach it to the center of your white cardstock.

Step 2:  Carefully blend some Iced Spruce Distress Ink onto the card.  And a light bit of Picked Raspberry here and there as well.  Not too heavy though.

Step 3:  Using a circle stencil, lightly blend some Picked Raspberry ink into the largest circle.  Ever so lightly.  Then on a medium sized circle, blend the same colour heavily.  If you are having trouble keeping the colour to the circle that you want, mask around it so that you are only using the one that you want. Using the Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide, stamp some circles from the ATC's Doodle Set.

Step 4: Blend some Black soot around the mask to give it a lovely edge. Remove the mask at this stage.  Blend Black Soot through some smaller circles on your stencil so that they go into the white space of the previously masked area.

Step 5: Stamp the 50's Girl onto some photo copy paper and cut her out.  Work out where she will be sitting.  Her hand looked like it was floating so I stenciled another black bubble for her to rest on.

Step 6:  To finish - attach to girl to the card.  Add some more circles, if you like, with white acrylic paint and a pen lid. Edge the card with black Archival Ink.  Mount your card onto black card, then white and then black again  

This 50's Girl has a gorgeous vintage feel and is heaps of fun to play with.

The challenge this fortnight is

ROUND AND ROUND

and is all about circles. 

You will see the link over on the side here,

or on our face book page - here!

Happy Stamping everyone,

Dot x

CHALLENGE #71 - ATC CHALLENGE

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 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.

Now for our new Challenge!

CHALLENGE #71

ATC CHALLENGE

We want to see your Artist Trading Cards (2.5 x 3.5"), Artist Trading Coins (2.5" diameter).  We will also accept dimensional ATC's, so called Blocks, or Chunkies.  Please remember we are a stamping challenge and real stamping should be the focus of your project for it to qualify to win the prize.

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!

Dot's cool blue ATC's using stamps from Lost Coast Designs Misc. Anthropomorphs and ATC Grunge and Carmen's Veranda Cats Like Me and Stay Weird.  

Laurie made this fun ATCoin using Lost Coast Designs Face with a Heart

Roni made these gorgeous his and hers ATC's using Lost Coast Designs Up Close & Personal, ATC Doodles Set, Long Swirl Flourish, Misc Words,  and Carmen's Veranda Clock Square.

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.

I am also still waiting to hear from the Instagram promotion winner.  Is it You??

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

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