Strangely Bizarre

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 Inchie Twinchie Domino Challenge.  I had a look through my stamps for some that would fit on dominos (2" x 1") and found this set of Lost Coast Designs Mini Ancient stamps.  Two were a bit small, two were a bit wide, but I trimmed them, and two were perfect!  Then, after advising two friend this evening that chocolate is the answer, it got a little bit quirky...

I stamped the Lost Coast Designs Mini Ancients using brown archival ink, cut them to size and inked the edges with the same brown ink.  My background is Lost Coast Designs Bubbles Background stamped with Prickly Pear archival ink, then over stamped with Lost Coast Designs Drips and sepia archival ink.  I arranged my domino's on the drips and then stamped the Carmen's Veranda Breakfast Chocolate sentiment in brown archival ink.

For September we want to see your stamped makes featuring Inchies (1" x 1"), Twinchies (2" x 2"), and/or Dominos (2" x 1")  You can make said Inchies, Twinchies or Dominos with real rubber or clear stamping, or you can incorporate these sizes into your project in another way, perhaps chop up your background, or your foreground, cut windows, or maybe make a three dimensional shape, or a tiny album.  

The team is sharing awesome projects all month so do scroll down and pop back to check out all the amazing inspiration.  

Game 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!!   Gail here today with my first inspiration piece for the Inchie Twinchie Domino Challenge.  I decided to chop up my background into bits and piece it back together.

I stamped Carmen's Veranda Dice Background using yellow ink on white card and then chopped it into 1" x 1", 2" x 2" and 2" x 1" pieces.  I arranged the inchie, twinchie and domino size pieces onto a black card square and then added a yellow mat behind.  I stamped Carmen's Veranda Alfred Hitchcock Standing on white card with black ink, fussy cut him and added him to the card.  To finish I stamped Lost Coast Designs Happy Birthday on one of the domino pieces. 

For September we want to see your stamped makes featuring Inchies (1" x 1"), Twinchies (2" x 2"), and/or Dominos (2" x 1")  You can make said Inchies, Twinchies or Dominos with real rubber or clear stamping, or you can incorporate these sizes into your project in another way, perhaps chop up your background, or your foreground, cut windows, or maybe make a three dimensional shape, or a tiny album.  

The team is sharing awesome projects all month so do scroll down and pop back to check out all the amazing inspiration. 

Naughty or Nice

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 last hour inspiration for the Cats and Dogs Challenge.  I have had such a blast with this challenge, and I think the team has too, with so many awesome canine and feline delights.  I decided to use Pokey Dog again and combined him with some die cuts for some festive fun.

I cut a hexagon card base using Tonic dies and stamped the large Shadow Circle Frame with orange ink.  I stamped Pokey Dog and fussy cut him and arranged him with my Tattered Lace die cut wreath.  To finish I stamped Lost Coast Designs Merry Christmas.

You have until 23.59 on the 31st to link up your stamped anythings featuring Cats and/or Dogs.  Don't forget to scroll down for awesome inspiration from the team.

Hope to see you in the linky.  Hugz

Underlay

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Hello Portal Peeps!!   Gail here today with Taco John.  I stamped and fussy cut him the other day and he looks hopefully at me every time I sit at my desk, so I decided to combine him today with some happy yellow papers and a little stitching.

 

He's just so adorbs!!!!  He is stamped on a scrap of patterned card with brown archival ink and I added a little distress marker colour.  The happy birthday is from Lost Coast Designs Party Words.  The panel behind his head was a bit of sock packaging (gotta love it when they use kraft) cut with a postage die (I have so many but probably Gummiapan cos it's square) and then I used a nifty little die from Your Next Stamp to cut the holes.  Then I stitched with a delicious variegated wool I scored in the bargain basket the other day.

 

Inside it's a bit of a sunny explosion so I added a writing panel then stamped Taco John again, peeking onto the card, and Lost Coast Designs Do I Smell Cake sentiment.  

Link up your stamped anythings featuring Cats and/or Dogs and
don't forget to check back often for awesome inspiration from the team.

Hope to see you in the linky.  Hugz

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Peace, Love and Harmony

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 Lost Coast Designs Pokey Dog and Dictionary Words Artist Trading Cards.  ATC's, little canvasses of joy, and with Pokey Dog involved you just have to smile don't you!!

 So, we have Lost Coast Designs Peace, Love and Harmony.  I used three different colour inks on my three white ATC's.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Dictionary Words and then did a little off block stamping with a stamp from Lost Coast Designs Pieces of Calligraphy set.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Pokey Dog on three different patterned paper scraps, fussy cut them and then added them to the ATC's.

Link up your stamped anythings featuring Cats and/or Dogs and
don't forget to check back often for awesome inspiration from the team.

Hope to see you in the linky.  Hugz

 

 

Kitty Pink

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 Cats and Dogs challenge.  At the moment it seems team cat is in charge.  Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda have a multitude of cat and dog stamps in all sorts of styles, so there is something for everyone.  Today I am using Carmen's Veranda Large Peekaboo Kitty and some Lost Coast Designs Pawprints. 

 

 I used a sketch from De Egel and lots of scraps in shades of pink.

I stamped the Happy Birthday using pink archival ink on shrink plastic and cut with a circle die.  Here's one shrunk and one not.

I stamped Peekaboo Kitty on a cream scrap, fussy cut and added her to the card.  A few Pawprints and done!!

Link up your stamped anythings featuring Cats and/or Dogs and
don't forget to check back often for awesome inspiration from the team.

Hope to see you in the linky.  Hugz

Starship Friends

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 fold card I made for a friend using Lost Coast Designs Pokey Cat and some Carmen's Veranda sentiments. 

Aren't those pussies adorable!!!!

 

 I winged it and scored a piece of 6" x 6" patterned paper to make my pop up thingy.

 

 I stamped Lost Coast Designs Pokey Cat with a bit of maskery trickery on patterned panel, then on plain card, fussy cut and added the daring duo to their stamped selves.  I did some square die cutting for the layered sentiment panels and stamped Carmen's Veranda Best Friends on the front, then mounted it on the mechanism.  It pops out a bit from the card base,in a fun and floppy manner.

Lift the flap for a second endearment..... 

So, are you team Cat??  or team Dog????   
Link up your stamped anythings featuring Cats and/or Dogs and
don't forget to check back often for awesome inspiration from the team.

Hope to see you in the linky.  Hugz

Santa Boris

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Hello Portal Peeps!!   Gail here today with bad boy Boris for the Christmas in July challenge

I stamped Carmen's Veranda Boris Karloff on white card and cut with a circle die.  I coloured boris with red sharpies and water coloured with distress inks.  I stamped the star from Carmen's Veranda Elf with Star using salty ocean distress oxide on the still wet salty ocean water coloured background to give that nice smudged effect.  I cut a slightly larger circle with a stitched circle die from blue card and used the star with the distress oxide to stamp all around the edge for a bit of texture.  I cut a base card with the same stitched circle die so Boris can rock!!

  

Thanks for dropping by.

Join the Christmas In July fun and link up your stamped anythings featuring Christmas!!

See you there..........

Happy Jingle and 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 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

 

CHALLENGE #199 - CHRISTMAS IN JULY

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 monthly!  A new challenge starting the 1st 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 #199

CHRISTMAS IN JULY

Half way to the crazy season so let's kickstart some Christmas makes. You have all month to share your stamped anythings with a festive theme.  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 read the updated Challenge Rules 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 you could win a bigger prize in our random prize drawing.  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

 
 Aimee used Carmen's Veranda Plaid Pants Santa with Lost Coast Designs Small Snowflakes Set

 

Darlene used Carmen's Veranda Angel Cat

 

 

Gail used Lost Coast Designs Taco John, Shadow Frames, Santa Mona and Misc. Words

      
Riet used Lost Coast Designs American Gothic Christmas with Carmen's Veranda Reindeer Doll for this slimline slider card

 

 

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 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.

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #199 - Christmas in July
July 1st - 31st  Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Thursday, July 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
 

 

Only Sometimes

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!!   Are you enjoying all the wonderful colour inspiration on the blog this month??  Two beautiful colour schemes to choose from and today I went with Terracotta and Turquoise.

I started with a pale turquoise patterned card panel and randomly stamped Lost Coast Designs large circle Shadow Frame with salty ocean distress ink.  I egded the panel with the same ink.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Pokey Cat on the card panel and then on white card using archival sepia ink.  I watercoloured the cat with rusty hinge distress ink and blue gel pen and fussy cut.  The sentiment is Carmen's Veranda Ask For Directions sentiment. 

Join the colour challenge fun.  Link up your stamped anythings featuring the colours LEMON AND LIME or TERRACOTTA AND TURQUOISE.  

Thanks for dropping by.   

Just Citrus

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 Lemon and Lime inspiration.  This month we are asking you to pick a colour scheme between Lemon and Lime or Turquoise and Terracotta.   The choice is yours!  Your anything should feature mostly your two chosen colours and don't forget to stamp.

I've kept it simple and used the lovely Jester Square by Carmen's Veranda coloured with green and yellow distress watercolouring.  I stamped the Happy Birthday and Do I smell cake? from Lost Coast Designs Party Words using Prickly Pear archival ink.

 

Grab your stamps and pick your colour scheme and join the fun.   We give a real rubber stamp prize to our randomly picked winner, but we do need at least 20 entries to award the prize, so tell your friends and get stamping!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Old Yellow

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 all about colours here at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity this month and we have a choice of two colour schemes to choose from.  Gail here today and I've gone all Lemon and Lime with this beautiful Old Truck stamp from Carmen's Veranda. 

The background stamp is Carmen's Veranda Cracked Mirror.  I used green ink for stamping and distress inks for water colouring.  The sentiment is from Lost Coast Designs Travel Quotes set.

Join the colour challenge fun.  Link up your stamped anythings featuring the colours LEMON AND LIME or TERRACOTTA AND TURQUOISE.  

Thanks for dropping by.  

Bad Beanie

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Hello Portal Peeps!   Gail here today with a little inspiration for the the Are You Kidding Me!! challenge.   Lost Coast Designs has a new set called Comic Kids and I've used Beanie and a slightly naughty sentiment from Carmen's Veranda.

Beanie!!!   What a sassy little fellow he is!  I stamped the background with Lost Coast Designs Cat Quotes stamp.  Beanie was stamped, coloured with distress markers and fussy cut.

 

Hope you get time to join this fun challenge.  Share you stamped anythings featuring kids, funny kids for extra points and funny if you really can't find any kids to stamp.  And don't forget to check out all the awesome inspiration from the team and leave them a little love.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Embracing my Inner Child

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 fun kids for the Are You Kidding Me!! challenge.

There is a new set called Comic Kids that Linda has been selling at shows, so I know some of you have already got these fun kids.   I've used two of them on my graffiti style card today

I've used Hero Arts Neon Ombre inks on this card for a bright effect.  I stamped the Carmen's Veranda sentiment with black archival and then stamped the two Comic Kids with the neon inks.  I cut one pair of hands off of Lost Coast Designs Handprints Border and randomly stamped it in various neon inks.  To finish I inked the edge with the neon ink and mounted on a green base card.

This is such a fun challenge.  Shared you stamped anythings featuring kids, funny kids for extra points and funny if you really can't find any kids to stamp.  And don't forget to check out all the awesome inspiration from the team and leave them a little love.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

CHALLENGE #197 - ARE YOU KIDDING ME??

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 monthly!  A new challenge starting the 1st 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 #197

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

We want to see cards featuring kids.  Extra points for making it funny.  If you haven't got kids we will accept funny, but funny kids will really make our day!  You have all month to share your stamped anythings.  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 read the updated Challenge Rules 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 you could win a bigger prize in our random prize drawing.  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!

Cathy used Lost Coast Designs Flying Ballerina, ATC Italian Postmark and Grunge Diamond Background

  
Riet used Lost Coast Designs Spike and Lucy, Ledger, Daisy Flourish and Misc Words.

Gail used Lost Coast Designs Beanie from Comic Kids and Baby Checklist

 

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 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.

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #197 - Are You Kidding Me??
  May 1st - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Saturday, 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
 

 

You Sing It Son, I'll Play It

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 again with some more hatty fun.  I think hats are great, and have a lot of stamps with images with hats, but if you don't just add a hat to anyone or anything and join our Where's My Hat? challenge.

I started with a piece of patterned card that had a subtle grid pattern and some blue dots on it.  I cut it with a pierced edge die and mounted on a mid blue card base.  I stamped one of Lost Coast Designs Pieces of Calligraphy stamps with blue ink and also the vertical Happy Birthday sentiment.  I stamped Carmen's Veranda Monkey With Banjo on white card, coloured with distress markers, fussy cut and added him to my card.

I hope you get time to join the Where's My Hat? fun.  We need at least 20 entries to award the prize so tell your friends and add your stamped makes featuring headgear to the linky.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

Cowboy 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 today with some classic headgear for the Where's My Hat? Challenge.

I've used Carmen's Veranda Rocking Horse and Southwest Town to make a cowboy scene. 

 

I started with a kraft card base and stamped Southwest Town with brown ink.  Then I blended Fossilized Amber and Salty Ocean distress oxides to make the sand and the sky.  I stamped Rocking Horse on some light grey card, coloured with distress markers and fussy cut just the horse.  Such a fun little cowboy on his horse.

 

Hope you get time to join the Where's My Hat? fun.  We need at least 20 entries to award the prize so tell your friends and add your stamped makes featuring headgear to the linky.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Where Did You Get That 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 today and the challenge for April is Where's My Hat?  We want to see your stamped anythings featuring headgear.  I had a look through my Lost Coast Designs stamps and found lots with hats!  Check out yesterday's challenge post and the fun makes from Cathy, Liesbeth and Darlene where they kicked off the challenge in amazing style.  Today I have used one of the images from Doodle Dolls 1 set, and I found she also featured on the Postage set, so I've made a slimline collage style birthday card.

I used archival ink in shades on blue and red and did some ink mixing on the stamps to give some variegated colours.  The background stamp is Lost Coast Designs PMC Circle Frame.  I used a die cut to make the oval frame and arranged the Postage stamps and Doodle Doll on it after I had stamped and fussy cut them.  I stamped the Happy Birthdays using Lost Coast Designs Party Words and die cut with a Waffle Flower die. 

Hope you get time to join the Where's My Hat? fun.  We need at least 20 entries to award the prize so tell your friends and add your stamped hatty makes to the linky.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz