31 Days of Halloween Day 4 - Pumpkin Party

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 and welcome to the most spooktacular month of the year!

Gail here with some inspiration for the 31 Days of Halloween celebration and today Fat Cat is all dressed up and ready to parteeeee!!

This cat has attitude!!!   I gave him a pumpkin jumper.  
The white panel has blended and smooched with Peeled Pint distress ink, and then I stamped Carmen's Veranda Flying Monkey Background with black archival ink, and added a little colour to the non-silhouette monkey.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Fat Cat directly on the panel and also on a piece of white card.  I coloured the cat, fussy cut and added him to the card.  I die cut the jack o'lantern pieces using a poppystamp die, stuck them on his jumper and done!!

Submit your stamped anythings with a Halloween theme to the linky party by 23.59 PST on the 31st 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. 

Thanks for dropping by.

Gimme The Box

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 Christmas in July challenge.  I was thinking about christmas boxes, which led me to cats, cos everyone knows cats love boxes.   So here's Lost Coast Designs Fat Cat in a box!!

I've made a bottle tag and I hand-drew the box and cut it out.  You can see why I use stamps LOL.  I die cut the bottle tag and smeared it with tumbled glass distress ink and stamped one of Lost Coast Designs Small Snowflakes randomly with dark blue ink.  I stamped Fat Cat and Santa Mona's hat, fussy cut them and added some distress marker colour.  I finished with some Misc. Words.

Thanks for dropping by.  The linky is open all month for your stamped festive anythings.   
We need at least 20 entries to award the prize so grab you stamps and tell your friends about our challenge.  The team is sharing inspiration all month so do visit us again soon. 

Festive Fun Challenge 203 - meowy CHRISTMAS

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!

Greetings! It's Kathi here with a holiday shaker card created for Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's November Festive Fun Challenge 203 with the Fat Cat Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.

Here it is!

Use Tuxedo Black Memento ink to stamp the Fat Cat Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs onto white Copic-friendly cardstock.

Fussy-cut the image, color him with Copic markers, and edge him with a black pen. Set him aside while you construct the rest of the card.

Position a square frame die as shown onto a piece of holiday-themed patterned paper, secure with low-tack tape, and die-cut. Trim the patterned paper to 5.75" square and edge with a BG marker. 

Use the same frame die to cut a piece of green cardstock and set aside.

Flip the square cardstock over. Adhere a piece of clear acetate over the aperture cut by the square frame die. Place double-sided foam tape around the aperture to create a well. Fill the well with sequins, clay pieces, etc. As you can see, I chose to use peppermint candy clay pieces, two colors of clay snowflakes, and clear snowflake discs. Carefully remove the backing from the foam tape and place patterned paper over the well to seal the shaker contents inside. 

Flip the patterned paper/shaker over and adhere the green cardstock frame.

Place a piece of 2" wide two-sided tape onto the back of a piece of vellum. Use a Speech Bubble Die to cut the vellum.

Place another piece of 2" wide two-sided tape onto the back of a piece of green textured cardstock. Use Christmas Sentiment die and Alphabet dies to cut the cardstock. Adhere "meowy" using the Alphabet die-cuts and the "Christmas" sentiment" to the Speech Bubble die-cut. Set the speech bubble sentiment die-cut aside.

Use a Santa Hat die to cut white cardstock and color with Copic markers. Adhere the Santa Hat to the Fat Cat's head.

Add a piece of torn blue glitter washi tape to the patterned paper panel. Adhere the Santa Fat Cat so that he's standing on the glittery washi tape and the right side of his body is overlapping the frame and the shaker element.

Remove the backing from the vellum sentiment Speech Bubble die-cut and adhere it over his head as shown.

Adhere the card front to a 6" green card.

~ ~ ~

You've still got today to play along with us for November's Festive Fun Challenge 203 for the chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Cash.

Challenge 200 - Cats and Dogs!

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!

Greetings! You've got Kathi here today to share a card created for the August Cats and Dogs Challenge 200 with the Poky Cat and Fat Cat Rubber Stamps by Lost Coast Designs.

The Poky Cat and Fat Cat Rubber Stamps were stamped twice with Tuxedo Black Memento ink onto white cardstock and onto repositionable sticker paper.

The sticker paper versions were fussy-cut and adhered onto their counterparts on the image panel to mask them.  A piece of repositionable scotch tape was placed horizontally across the image panel, covering their paws and the bottom of the panel.

Blue dye ink was brushed over the masked images. The image panel was then cut with a die. 

The masks and the tape were lifted and the images were colored with Copic markers. The area around and below Poky Cat and Fat Cat's paws was also colored with Copic markers.

The same blue dye ink was used to edge the top part of the image panel and a Copic marker was used to edge the bottom part of the image panel.

Orange patterned paper was die-cut with both a decorative rectangle die and sentiment label die. The rectangle die was used to mat the image panel. A sticker sentiment was adhered to the sentiment label die.

Patterned papers were layered as shown and trimmed to 5.75" square to create the background panel.  The matted image panel and the sentiment were adhered the background panel, then to an orange 6" card. Black rhinestones were added to finish the card.

You still have a few days to enter this month's Cats and Dogs Challenge for a chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h! 

Thanks for visiting today!

Whack A Kitty

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 a fun card for the new Fruit, Flowers and Foliage challenge.   I've made a twister card using Lost Coast Designs Fat Cat, Large Shrubbery Background and ATC Doodle Flower stamps.  So much fun!!!!!

 I made this card to send as part of the Card Chain Challenge, an international card exchange.  I based the card on all the options so we have the colours and sketch, a cat with a moustache using scraps, a twister card and friendship.  Of course, I used Lost Coast Designs stamps featuring flowers and foliage and cats.

I started with a white 5" x 7" card base, stamped the Large Shrubbery Background with Hero Arts Ocean ink on both sides of the inside of the card and scored the left hand side in the middle. 

I stamped Lost Coast Designs Fat Cat using sepia ink on a piece of kraft pizza box and the other one on a piece of kraft ice cream box.  I fussy cut the cats, inked around the edges and onto the back and stuck them together with a bit of string between them.  This isn't a totally symmetrical stamp, but it's pretty close, so a little gently trimming and inking and the cat is ready to twist!

I cut an aperture using a die across the fold in the left hand side of the card and glued the string along the scored line positioning the cat centrally in the aperture.   Fold the half panel back on itself and glue well, especially the string. 

I die cut the moustaches and green circles from card scraps.  I stamped the large flower from Lost Coast Designs ATC Doodle Flower three times on some purple scraps, fussy cut the flowers and added all these elements to the card.  

Opening the card reveals the Carmen's Veranda sentiment, made up from two different stamps, on the green circle.  And if you have wound up your cat you also get him twirling.

How fun is that!!!
 

Join the Fruit, Flower and Foliage challenge with your fruity and floral stamped anythings.  I can't wait to see what you make.  Hugz

Chocolate and Money

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 Bright and Cheerful inspiration.   Yellow and Orange always make me happy so I did some ink blending and grabbed Lost Coast Designs Fat Cat.

I blended yellow and orange distress inks then stamped with Lost Coast Designs ATC Doodle Flowers stamp using red ink.  The cat was stamped on a piece of card that I had coloured with distress inks and stamped with Lost Coast Designs Pieces of Calligraphy stamps.  To finish I stamped parts of Carmen's Veranda Chocolate and 8 Millions Dollars sentiment.   I left out the hard life bits and stayed with chocolate and money, cos what's happier than chocolate, and if you have money you can buy more chocolate!!

Thanks for dropping by.   Grab your Bright and Cheerful stamps and colours and join the fun.  The team will be sharing all month, so do pop back often to check out their awesome makes. 

Cold & Frosty postcard

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!

Cathy here with a cold and frosty postcard for you.

Stamps Used:

Fat Cat

Small snowflake set

I started out with a digital background paper that had some snowflakes on it. I then stamped Fat Cat on the bottom of the card. 

I always see him in a sweater, so I colored him with copic markers and made his middle into a blue sweater. I then stamped 1 of the snowflakes from the Small snowflake set in blue ink. After I got done, I added some snowflake confetti to the sweater to make it like an ugly sweater. 

You still have time to join the cold and frosty challenge.

31 Days of Halloween: Day 23

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 bootastic fun!!!!

I made my background with distress inks and Lost Coast Designs Tall Trees Background stamp.  I also stamped Carmen's Veranda Witches Go Riding sentiment.  Fat Cat was stamped in two pieces, coloured and fussy cut.  Then I put the slider together with a die cut moon on the slider pull tab.

It's a hidden slider card!!  

 

 

Yeah, video.......

Submit your stamped anythings with a Halloween theme to the linky party by 23.59 PST on the 31st 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. 

Thanks for dropping by.

She's Purrfect!

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!

It's Kathi here! I'm a proud crazy cat lady, so the new release Fat Cat stamp was a "must have" addition to my cat stamp collection. I absolutely had to use Fat Cat for September's Animal Challenge!

Here's the card I created with her!

The Fat Cat was stamped with Memento ink onto white cardstock and colored with Copic markers. 

The image panel was trimmed and adhered to a piece of green cardstock cut .25" larger than the image panel.

I found patterned paper in my stash that matched her eyeshadow and eye color, layered it, and adhered it to a green A6 card.

The same green cardstock was cut with a "Purrfect" cutting die, which was adhered to finish the card.

Please play along with us at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's September Animal Challenge and can win some Lost Coast Designs CA$H!

I hope to see your animal-themed artwork there!