Happy Jingle and Magic

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Hello Portal Peeps!  Hope your July 4th is wonderful.  Gail here today and I have some red, white and blue Christmas in July inspiration for your today.

I've made some artist trading coins with Carmen's Veranda Elf and Lost Coast Designs PMC Circle Frame background.  Words selected from the Misc. Words set.

Aren't they adorbs!!

Join the Christmas In July fun.  Link up your stamped anythings featuring Christmas!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

Say It Big

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Hello Portal Peeps!!   Happy 4th July!!!   We are kicking off the festive season this month with Christmas in July.   It's nice to make a few cards at a time and the heat of summer is the perfect time to think snowflakes and ice.  Especially if it's in a long drink LOL.  

No snowflakes or ice on this one, just an elf and a little red, white and blue.

I stamped Lost Coast Designs Flagstone Background with Ice Blue ink and realised I really need to clean my stamps sometimes.  But it's quite a nice shade of uh, rose?? so I stamped the large Rectangle Shadow Frame with Carnation Red archival.  I'd stamped, coloured and fussy cut this little Carmen's Veranda Elf and decided all it needed was a big sentiment.  License Plate Alphabet to the rescue.....

You have all month to join the Christmas in July fun.  

Check the rules to make sure your makes are eligible for the prize draw.

Thanks for dropping by.

 

 

Lost Coast Designs DT Call

Black And White Christmas Elves

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here today with a bit more inspiration for the Black and White Challenge.  I often stamp images and leave them uncoloured and when your stamps have as much detail as the ones offered by Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda they always look really good just as they are.   I decided to try a Christmas card and recruited Carmen's Veranda Elf with Star and Elf for the starring roles.

 I kept this a one layer card by using masks on the elves.  I stamped Elf with Star and Elf, masked them and stamped the edge of Lost Coast Designs Fourth Dimension for the floor and the vertical Merry Christmas in black.  With the masks still in place I stamped randomly with one of the Small Snowflakes and grey archival ink.  Unmask and magic!!!  I went round the edge with a black promarker to give a nice framed finish.

Join the fun with your black and white, or white and black stamped projects for a chance
to win Lost Coast dollars.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Don't forget to check out all the awesome projects from the team.

Think Like an Elf

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here today with some quick cards.  Christmas is coming and it's nice to have a few quick and easy designs and quite honestly, with Carmen's Veranda sentiments and a cute elf it is soooooo easy.........

My elves are fussy cut, but that's cos my elf stamp appears to have run off!!!   Maybe he's helping santa.  Luckily I had stamped a few the other day and coloured them with different colour schemes, so I just fussy cut them.  So, stamp a sentiment on a card panel, or even your card base if you want to be really easy, add your elf and done!!!!  I might have to make some more of these!!!   So many options with the Carmen's Veranda sentiments..........

Join the Something Seasonal challenge with your stamped anythings for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars!!   The challenge lasts all month and the team will be sharing inspiration with you from here to next year so come back and visit us again soon!

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

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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