#206 Love and hearts challenge. Valentine gifts for my girls.

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I love making valentine gifts for my daugther and granddaugther.

The first picture is for my daugther.

A card and a little gift in a box.

Stamps I used:

LCD Praying angel.

LCD Butterfly set.

LCD Misc words.

CV Open rose.

CV Text Liefde (love in dutch) 

There is a english version here!

Love dictionairy.

This candy bag is for my grandaugther.

Stamps I used:

CV Sheep doll.

LCD Hearts and curls border.

Do you want to win some rubberstamps?

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CHALLENGE #206 - LOVE AND HEARTS

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 #206

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February, the month of love.  Please share your stamped anythings featuring love and hearts.  Lets get romantic and share love.  We certainly need as much as we can get.
You have all month to share.  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 Sherlock and License Plate Alphabet

 
Gail used Lost Coast Designs White Nose Sugar Skull, Hearts and Curl Border
and Love Dictionary Words

  
Riet used Lost Coast Designs Prom Night and Misc. Words

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 28th 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 #206 - Love and Hearts
February 1st - 28th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Saturday, February 28th 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
 

 

Oh Valentine

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 on the most loverly day of the year.  Appropriately we are hoping you will join us and share your Fruit, Flower and Foliage anythings.  Unfortunately showing us your lovely roses won't cut it, but if you stamped a card to your loved one using flowers, or sending them a special pineapple greeting then please share.  I incorporated a few hearts and flowers for this fun birthday card.

I started by stamping Lost Coast Designs Heart and Curls Border down each side of my card panel with mulberry ink, masked and stamped Lost Coast Designs ATC Doodle Flower multiple times with sunflower ink.  I stamped, coloured and fussy cut Lost Coast Designs Day of the Dead Woman and added her to the bottom of the stamped panel.  Finally I added the Carmen's Veranda Hot and Sexy sentiment which I stamped on a scrap of white card.  

 

It's Fruit, Flower and Foliage all this month here at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity so don't forget to check out all the gorgeous makes from the team and link up your own for a chance to win.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

CHALLENGE #183 Reminder - LET'S FLY

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 reminder for the Let's Fly Challenge.
Our challenges are now monthly!  A new challenge starting the 1st 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.

CHALLENGE #183

LET'S FLY

We want to see your stamped anythings featuring Things That Fly.  You have all month to share your projects.  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 a blast of inspiration from the team to get your creativity flowing.  ENJOY!
   

  Riet used Lost Coast Designs Praying Angel and Hearts and Curls Border with Carmen's Veranda Dutch Dictionary Liefde (English Love)

 

Liesbeth used Lost Coast Designs Shrubbery, Robust Dancer and More Bugz

 

Gail used Lost Coast Designs MRaven1, Grunge Border 2" and Travel Quotes

 

 

 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 #183 - Let's Fly
March 1st - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Sunday, March 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
 

 

 

#181 Anything goes 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 stampers and crafters, Riet here.

The "Anything goes" challenge is still running until the end of the month.

Join us so you can win prizes.

Now about the card.

I used these stamps:

CV, Carmen dog,

CV, Kiss my ass,

LCD Crackle background,

LCD Hearts and curls border, 

Distress oxide:car

Barn door

Musterd seed

Spiced marmelade

Chipped sapphire,

Peacock feathers.

Any water resistend black inkpad.

White pasca or gellpen.

Color pencils, I used derwent colorsoft.

How the card is made:

I started by sponging the colors Barn door,

Musterd seed and

Spiced marmelade onto the card.

I made a stamp impression with the crackle background stamp that I sprayed some water on.

This is a simple technique but with a very nice result.

We now continue with the stamp of the Carmen dog.

We first make a mask from that.

Take a piece of white paper that is slightly larger than the dog.

Stamp the dog with waterproof ink.

Stick the mask on and then sponge the paper with Peacock feathers.

Let it dry.

 

Leave the mask on.

Stamp with chipped sapphire and the heart and curls border,

left and right along the dog.

Let everything dry thoroughly before removing the mask.

Color with pencils or markers the dog.

Make white dots in the curls with the posca or white gellpen.

Stamp the saying with peacock feathers.

Put white dots with the posca or gellpen.

Matt the card with turquoise and purple.

And glue the carmen dog on the top.

Well this was fun to do and a very cheerful card.

There is still more than a week to participate in the "Anything goes" challenge,

If you participate you have a chance to win stamps.

 You can even participate with stamps from other companies. 

Please read the rules first, as they have recently changed.

Have a great day.

 

Arresting

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 inspiration for the Love and Hearts challenge.   I saw Boris and this sentiment and they just seemed made for each other.

I stamped Carmen's Veranda Boris Karloff on grungy grey card and Carmen's Veranda You're Staggering on a panel of the same card.  Then I stamped Lost Coast Designs Hearts and Curls Border twice with pale blue archival ink on white card, added my fussy cut Boris and mounted on the sentiment panel. 

Boris, you are such a bad boy!!!!

 

Join the Love and Hearts challenge with your stamped anything featuring love and/or hearts for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

CHALLENGE #160 - LOVE AND HEARTS

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 February, the month of love, and 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 #160

LOVE AND HEARTS

We want to see your stamped anythings featuring Love and Hearts.
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!

Laurie used Lost Coast Designs Chloe Face stamp

Liesbeth used Lost Coast Designs Winged Girl NS, Dream Magic Love, Black Flourish and Misc. Words. 

Riet used Lost Coast Designs Brush Strokes, Misc Words, Frank, Bride of Frank and Hearts and Curls Border.

 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 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.

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #160 - Love and Hearts
February 1st - 14th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Tuesday, February 14th 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
 

 

Heartland 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!

 

Hello Portal Peeps!  Gail here today.  It the last of July and I'm here with some final inspiration for our Christmas In July Challenge.  It's nice to see so many of you joining us this month.  There is still time to do some stamping and join the fun.  Linky closes 23.59 PST tonight!

I started with a white slimline panel and stamped Lost Coast Designs Hearts and Curls Border and Merry Christmas with cobalt archival ink.  I cut around the two hearts at the bottom of the panel.

I added a strip of silver glitter paper, sliding it behind the two cut hearts.  Then I stamped, coloured and fussy cut Carmen's Veranda Reindeer Doll.   Love this quirky deer.
Thanks for dropping by.  Don't forget to check out all the awesome inspiration from the team, link up your makes for a chance to win and check back tomorrow for another fun challenge and even more lovely inspiration from the team.  Hugz

Challenge 132, Art dolls and Diva's

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, its me, Riet.

Today an art doll as a card.

Years ago I participated in a swap, theme was puzzle with your stamps. 

I believe the original idea came from Hermine Koster. 

So much fun to do, if you like a real challenge.

You can join our challenge and maybe you will be the winner of new rubber stamps.

I did the coloring with distressinks.

These are the stamps I used.

Click on the stamp, if you like to go to the webshop.

I put these three parts together to make the art doll.

I used the Ledger stamp for the background and 2 pieces for the border.

Click on the banner to go to the challenge.

I hope I see you there.