Girl with curl for the " I am woman" 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!

Hi, here is another card for the challenge.

Love the theme of this month, I am woman. 

Stamps I used.

LCD:

Girl with curl,

Pieces of architecture,

Perfume bottle set,

Labels set.

Versamark

Versafine onyx black,

Distress ink,

Bundled sage,

Tumbled glass,

Antique linen,

Speckled egg,

Iced spruce,

Victorian velvet.

Mica powder bronze/gold

Here's how I made the card.

I started by stamping the labels and perfume bottles

 in different colors of Distress ink.

Mask the bottum bottle.

Stamp left and right from the mask bottle the other perfume bottles.

In the next picture you can see what I masked,

and stamped in the next phase.

Stamp the empty spaces with a stamp of the pieces of architecture and versamark.

Take a brush and powder the versamark prints with the mica powder.

And cut the card square.

Of course you could keep the card as is.

But I still wanted something with contrast on it.

So I stamped the girl with the curl in black ink.

Cut her out in a square.

I used foam tape to stick her in the middle.

Mat with black cardstock.

I love this month's theme.

And I'm very curious what you make.

Show it on our challenge blog or facebook.

Then you have a chance to win new stamps.

Until next time.

Christmas in July #171 - Girl With a Curl

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!

Roni here with another creation for the Challenge - Christmas in July.

I wanted to use some non-traditional stamps to create this card so I used the Girl With a Curl for the focal image which was stamped on kraft cardstock using black ink.  To create the background I used the Daisy Flourish which was stamped multiple times using Green Oasis Versafine Clair ink pad.  To finish the card off I stamped the sentiment from  Party Words and added a few sequins for a bit of bling.

Woman: Girl with a Curl

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! Liesbeth here with another woman for our Woman Challenge! There's only a few days left for you to participate. 

My card is very simple: I made a background with a few colours of Distress Oxide and water and stamped on it with StazOn Jet Black. The girl onto a seperate piece of course. I finished with colour pencils and white gel pen.

 Stamps used: Girl with a Curl (I love her!), Flagstone Background and Lily Flourish.

Hope we inspired you with our women! See you next time!

Liesbeth XX

#162 Challenge Black and White.

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 all, Riet here.

Yesterday the black and white challenge started.

Quite a challenge for me because I almost always work with color.

After a long time of thinking I finally managed to make a card without color.

This is what I used for this card:

Girl with curl.

Ledger background.

More bugs.

Misc words.

Versafine onyx black.

Marabu Art crayon black, 

or neocolor II or FC Gelatos will do.

Masking tape.

.Black fineliner.

How to make the card.

Stamp the moth and mask it.

Stamp the girl with curl and mask it.

Stamp the ledger stamp over the girl with curls.

Stamp a few moth stamps to fill up the background.

With the black crayon we are going to put some stripes

 on the edge of the card and around the stamp of the girl.

also a little on her cheeks.

We wipe it out with a damp finger.

With a fineliner we now put some scratched stripes and scratches on the edges of the card and around the girl.

From the Misc words sheet I take the word "Beautiful".

Stamp it and cut it out.

Use the chalk to make some shadow on it.

Matte it with black paper.

I made a white and black mat around the card.

Do you feel like participating?

You are very welcome, 

and if you participate you have a chance to win new stamps.

That's nice right?

Click on the link and join.

Good luck and till next time.

# 159 "Winged things" challenge , i made a printers tray.

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!

Today my contribution to the LCD/CV challenge "Winged things".

I made this printers tray (20x30cm) for a stamp friend's birthday.

It contains quite a few stamps, but I especially like the butterflies.

Here's a list of what I used and a brief description.

 Winged girl.

Girl with curls.

Long swirl.

Florish large.

Butterfly set.

Pieces of calligraphy.

Pieces of architecture.

Spike and Lucy. (only the girl)

Ledger background.

Party words.

Sentiment from Carmens Veranda, 

Just when the caterpillar.

Distressink

Broken China

Twisted citron

Fossilized amber

Rustic wildernis

Rusty hinge

Black waterproof ink.

For the frame, i used acrylic paint in the same colors.

For the spletters some white and brown paint.

Pencils for coloring.

White gellpen.

Nuvo aqaua shimmer for some glitter accents.

I first drew the frame on paper, so I knew exactly where the compartments were.

This makes it easier to determine where which stamp will be placed.

First I sanded the frame and painted it in various colors.

When that is drying I smeared the ink with water on the paper.

Then I stamped the stamps, 

The big butterfly of the Bitterfly set I stamped each wing turned left and right.

And I glued the 3 small butterflies loose so that they have depth.

Then I stamped the background around the stamps. 

Color the details with the pencils.

You can finish the it of with a white gel pen.

Don't forget to do some stamping on the edges of the frame as well.

Just splash the white and brown paint and you're done.

make a small Happy birthday tag and bind it to the foil giftrap.

I hope you enjoyed it and that you will soon get started for our challenge. 

You can win new stamps, so come and participate. 

The challenge runs until the end of this month.

Good luck.

#128 Face On, challenge at lost Coast designs.

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 there, Riet here.

Today a card for the "face on" challenge.

This challenge runs until the end of the month, so plenty of time to participate.

And you have a chance to win rubber stamps.

If you want to participate, please read the rules first.

For this card i used the beautiful "Girl with curl"stamp.

I have done this background technique before.

 It's a simple technique with beautiful results, you can find the tutorial here.

https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/2021/04/119-numbers.html

Now its your turn to amaze us, the team would love to see your entry's.

Click the banner to join the challenge.

#128 challenge at Lost Coast designs, 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 everyone, today this card for a challenge inspiration post.

The challenge this time is "Lets face it".

For this card I used a technique that I wrote a published article about years ago. 

Squeeze fresh flowers on paper. 

I love doing this technique, and make lots of prints so I have a lot of backgrounds. 

All you need is some flowers, paper and a die cut machine. 

You can also experiment yourself. 

For example, you can spray some ink or paint, or sprinkle some mica powders on it. 

You can probably come up with something yourself. 

Here is the tutorial for this card. 

You Need.....

Girl with a curl

Fresh cut flowers

Paper

Ink sprays

Paper towel

Die cut machine

Tweezers

Brush

Black and white paint.

I always press the flowers between 2 sheets of paper.

When you run the paper through the machine, 

sometimes a lot of moisture comes out of the flowers. 

It is wise to keep quite a few sheets of paper towel handy. 

As soon as you see too much moisture coming out of the flowers, 

you should quickly blot it with the paper towel.

In this photo I had sprayed some glimmermist over the flowers and paper.  

Because you use 2 sheets of paper, you get a positive and negative print. 

And that gives very nice effects.

Now you have to peel of the flowers with the tweezers and brush.

Do this very carefully.

The paper has become wet and very prone to tearing.

And look what beautiful prints you have now.

And now the stamping,

I stamped the "Girl with a Curl" directly onto the floral print with black stazon.

Then colored her hair, eyes and mouth with some distress ink in the right color.

Also made some shadow around the stamp.

Splatter with some white and black paint fine splatters over the background.

Add some accents with a white gel pen and you're done.

You can of course make all kinds of designs and combinations.

Experiment and you will be amazed at what is possible.

But most importantly, have fun creating.

And dont forget to enter the challenge.

Maybe you will be oure next winner.

CHALLENGE #128 - 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 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 #128

FACE ON

Include a human face on your stamped project.  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 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

 

Sue used Carmen's Veranda Sugar Skull Woman and Lost Coast Designs Goddess Dictionary Words and Fourth Dimension Background

  Laurie used Lost Coast Designs Girl with a Curl

Liesbeth used Lost Coast Designs ATC Faces, Daisy Flourish

 and Flagstone Background

 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 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 #128 - Face On
August 15th - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Tuesday, August 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
 

 

Anything Goes Challenge: girl with a curl

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, Liesbeth here! For the Anything goes challenge I made this card with two wonderful background stamps and a beautiful womans face. Stamps I used:
Girl with a curl
Flagstone background
Daisy flourish

I pressed some pads of Distress Oxide ink direct onto the craft sheet, sprayed water and swiped a white square card through the ink. I repeated it a few times. I stamped the flagstones and the flourish using black StazOn ink , and I bleached some small flowers with bleach and a synthetic brush.  On a seperate piece of white cardstock I stamped the woman and coloured her with pencils.

HERE you will find all the information about our Anything Goes challenge (August 1st - 14th) hope you'll join!

Liesbeth XX

Include A Human Face: The Girl With A Curl

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 again from Laurie on this 22nd day of June with a project for the current challenge here on the Portal:  Include a Human Face.  So we want you to put a human face on your project and you can do that any way that appeals to you.

I have made a square collage piece using the  Girl With A Curl stamp from Lost Coast Designs and the Postcard Background from Carmen's Veranda.

I started by stamping the girl onto a scrap of cream paper then tore around the edges to give it a rough look.  I added just a hint of color with some pink Distress Ink to her cheeks.  

I had on hand some Tim Holtz decorative tissue paper that I had dyed using coffee.  I stitched my girl's face onto a square piece of that tissue paper.  Next I took some leafy die cuts and stamped them with the Postcard Background stamp to add some text, then glued them to opposing corners. 

For the final step, I took a rough edged piece of hand made cream paper and stitched my tissue paper square to that.  I love this Girl With A Curl stamp and like the vintage-y feel of this collage piece.

Please join us here at the Portal and show us your stamped projects you create that Include A Human Face.  You just might win some free stamps!!