A Meaningful Lie Detector

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here today with some seriously funny inspiration for the Make It Funny Challenge.

I used Lost Coast Designs Leaves Background with prickly pear distress ink.  The jury is out on whether the stamp or the ink pad is slightly contaminated with lingering autumn shades LOL.  Then I stamped Lost Coast Designs Face With Feathers and the Carmen's Veranda sentiment with black archival ink.  I tried colouring directly onto the panel with my gel pens, but it wasn't working, so I stamped the face on white card, coloured, fussy cut the bits and glued them in place.

Carmen's Veranda have so many funny, profound and meaningful sentiments do hop over and check them out.  New ones added regularly to the top of the page.

You have all month to share your funny stamped anythings. Please read the updated rules before entering. Real rubber or clear stamping and theme must be the focus of your project for a chance to win Lost Coast $$$$$'s.   We need at least 20 entries to award the prize.

Thanks for dropping by and don't forget to check out all the other lovely makes from the team.

31 Days of Halloween Day 5 - Goat Skull on Autumn Leaves

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Hello Portal Peeps!!!   Gail here today for the 5th day of our 31 Days of Halloween Celebration.

Don't you just love Spooktober!!!   It is surely the most wonderful time of the year (part 1).  

Today I have been playing with alcohol inks and Lost Coast Designs Large Goat Skull. 

I made the background using drops of pink, green and yellow alcohol ink on a felt pad and dabbing it all over my glossy card.  Then I stamped Lost Coast Designs Leaves Background using orange and pink inks.  I stamped the Goat Skull on white card with black archival ink, fussy cut and added it to the card.  I coloured the flower with purple distress ink and finally stamped part of Carmen's Veranda Witches Go Riding sentiment.

Link up your Halloween inspired projects.  Anything related to the season, spooky, fruity, fun, scary or cute.  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 or fed to the giant pumpkin!!!!  Bwahahhaaahaha. 

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Autumn Moon

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 Hello Portal Peeps!!!   Gail here today with a tag featuring a twinchie and a domino for the Inchie Twinchie Domino Challenge.  Have you got you makes linked up yet???   We really would love to see your ideas.  The team has ben having a blast with this theme.  

 

I made a tag using Lost Coast Designs Leaves Background, Moon and Travel Quotes.

I started by cutting a tag from Bazzill Lima Bean card and stamped Lost Coast Designs Leaves using Hero Arts green ombre ink pad.

 

I stamped the moon and the sentiment of some yellow patterned card and applied some distress marker colour.  The Moon panel is a twinchie (2" x 2") and the sentiment panel is a domino (2" x 1") 

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.  

Thanks for dropping by. 

 

Challenge #182 - For the Men - Green Man

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Today I have a card that I hope will help usher in Spring without too much more of that white stuff...Green Man.

To create this card I started off by stamping the Leaves background image on the card using multiple colors of greens and browns. I then stamped the "Green Man" from the Victoriana set in a darker green. I then used some text from the Pieces of Calligraphy one or two images from Pieces of Architecture and dots from the Brush Strokes.  I then die-cut the Oak Leaf branches from Honey Bee Stamps to frame him.

There is still time to join in on the fun...

Autumn Queen

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here today.  The weather here in Norway has certainly changed the last few days.  Warm dry days became wet and now a cold wind is blowing away summer and bringing in autumn.  I decided to use the lovely oranges and browns of fall for my Things With Wings project today along with one of the new mini collage stamps Linda recently added to the shop.

 
Love these mini collage stamps.  They take all the work out of getting a lovely layered look to your stamping.  This one is called Mini Bug collage and I decided my bug was a bee. 

I started by making my background using Lost Coast Designs Leaves Background.  I stamped it first with yellow, then orange and finally red archival ink to layer up my colours and add some warmth and depth.  Then I stamped the frilly edge of the Bug Collage stamp so I didn't have to fussy cut it LOL.

I stamped the Mini Bug collage in brown ink and then inked the bee again with black and overstamped for a bit more definition.  I added a little yellow and some glitter glue to the wings and fussy cut.

I stamped Carmen's Veranda Queen of Everything on a scrap of the grid card I was using and put all the layers together, adding a scrap of red card to the top and left hand side of each panel.  

I hope you have time to grab some winged thing stamps and join the challenge.  Linky closes end of the month.  Don't forget to check out all the awesome inspiration from the team here on the blog.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Free Bad Advice

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Hello Portal Peeps!   Gail here today with some Free Bad Advice. 
Ask me anything!  Bwahahhaaahhaaaa.

I've used Lost Coast Designs Leaves Background and Carmen's Veranda Bad Advice sentiment.

I inked the edges of the Leaves stamp with Monarch Orange and Carnation archival ink, leaving a space in the middle uninked.  Then I reinked the whole stamp with Dandelion archival and restamped to fill in all the gaps.  A stamp positioner is kinda a must for this technique.

I stamped the sentiment on a piece of vellum with black archival ink and when it was dry I added a little glue behind the big letters and positioned it on my card.  Then I punched some holes and added some copper leaf brads.

Join the Sentiment in Focus challenge. 

You need to include at least 5 words on your stamped anything for a chance to win.

Thanks for visiting.  Hugz

Cookie Day

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here today with a simple card for the Sentimentally Yours challenge.

I used Lost Coast Designs Leaves Background and Creepy Heart Doll with the wonderful Carmen's Veranda Eat A Cookie sentiment.

I started by stamping the Leaves Background stamp on a pale blue base card with Sky Blue archival ink.  I was going to fold the card base and be done, but then I stamped the sentiment on the wrong end!!!!  Ah well, plan B.........

I cut the leaf panel with a wonky stitch die and stamped the sentiment and Creepy Heart Doll with black archival.  I coloured the doll with distress markers, adding a little blue shadow around her, and mounted the panel on a buff card base.  

Join the challenge for a chance to win Lost Coast Design dollars.  See you there.....

Coffee with Dali

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Hello Portal Peeps!  Gail here today.

Thanks to everyone who enter out Ladies Night challenge.  We really appreciate your support.

For the last part of the month we are going to turn our sights to the men.

Link up your stamped masculine makes for a chance to win.  The team are busy filling the blog with fabulous inspiration and here's my take on The Man Cave challenge...

I've used Lost Coast Designs Leaves Background and Travel Quotes and

Carmen's Veranda Salvador Dali stamp.

 

I stamped Salvador Dali on a scrap of kraft card with black archival ink, masked and stamped the leaves background with carnation archival.

I cut using Stamplorations cup die and added some white gel pen highlights.  I used a red Promarker to edge the die cut, and later I also went round with a black Promarker.

I stamped the leaves background with dandelion archival on glossy white card, just cos it was the first piece of white I found, and sometimes you gotta try these things......

 I left a white border when I cut the panel and edged with yellow and orange Promarker.  I used the cup die and cut some black craft foam to give the cup a bit more dimension.  I used the TRAVEL and WANDERLUST stamps from the travel quotes set and brown archival and stamped them randomly around the background.  Then I stamped the sentiment, also from the travel quotes set and added it to the card.

'Try everything once, then try it again somewhere else'

 

Thanks for visiting.  Don't forget to link up your masculine makes for a chance to win.

CHALLENGE #104 - LET'S GO VEGETARIAN

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Welcome to August here at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.

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 your self some 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.

Ready for our new Challenge???!

CHALLENGE #104

LET'S GO VEGETARIAN

We are looking to see plants on your project.  Think trees, flowers, leaves, fruit, vegetables.

Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project.  A small stamped something 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!

Gail made these lovely Artist Trading Coins using Lost Coast Designs Leaves Background, Grunge Cat and Misc. Words

 
Laurie made this fun card using Coffee Chihuahua by Katzelkraft available at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Eat Cake sentiment

Riet made this funtastic card using Lost Coast Designs Small Flourish, Sweater Gnome and Flower Gnome

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 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 #104 - Let's Go Vegetarian
August 1st - 14th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Friday, August 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
 

Boris, Frank and Charlie

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Hello Portal peeps.
Are you enjoying all the famous people inspiration from the team this month???
I must admit the Carmen's Veranda people stamps are some of my favourites.
Take a bloke, add a background.  What could be simpler?? 
Here's three of my favourite Carmen's Veranda blokes with three of my
favourite Lost Coast Designs Backgrounds.

 I stamped the blokes with black archival and then used different archival colours for the backgrounds

 Boris with Leaves background stamped with Prickly Pear archival ink

  Frankenstein and Fruit Pods background stamped with Bluebird archival ink

Charlie Chaplin with Bubbles Background stamped with Dandelion archival ink.

Grab you famous people stamps and join the fun for your chance to
win some new rubber!!!!

Talking of new rubber........
Linda added Yoga Cats to the Lost Coast Designs NEW! category before christmas and the other day she added GNOMES!!!!  Check em out!!  They are awesome!!

Linda also added three new people stamps to Carmen's Veranda NEW! category.  The team have already been sharing inspiration with these so scroll down to see their amazing makes.   

Thanks for visiting.  Leave the guys some love.  You know you want to.  Hugz

Through the Keyhole

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Hello Portal Peeps!!  Gail here today with a peek through the Keyhole at Weeping Man.

Hmmmmm, seems that he spotted us!!

Since the current challenge theme is Wood I decided to stamp Carmen's Veranda Keyhole on woodgrain paper and emboss with gold powder.  I added some more colour using Promarkers and then I cut the center out of the keyhole.

I stamped Lost Coast Designs Weeping Man on white card with brown archival ink
and watercoloured with Brusho's.
Green hair??  Maybe that's what he's crying about??

I masked Weeping Man and stamped Lost Coast Designs Leaves Background.

I placed the Weeping Man panel behind the Keyhole panel and mounted it all on a dark brown base card.

Thanks for dropping by.
Don't forget to link up your stamped makes inspired by the word Wood for
your chance to win Lost Coast dollars.

31 Days of Halloween - Day 5

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Hello.  Gail here again with some Halloween inspiration for our 31 Days of Halloween challenge.  I decided to play with Lost Coast Designs wickedly wonderful Evil Eye

Ooooh, wouldn't want to meet him on a dark night!!

I started with one of my shaving foam backgrounds I made the other day.  This is one of the last ones I made when the colours had all blurred together, but I thought it was good autumn colours.

Then I stamped with Lost Coast Designs Leaves Background with tangerine chalk ink.  Isn't that gorgeous!!  I once bought some handmade paper that had skeleton leaves embedded in it, called Buddha paper, but now I can stamp my own!!  So cool.

I added some red splats to the background using diluted acrylic paint.  I stamped Evil Eye on a piece of white card, embossed with black powder and fussy cut him.  I coloured with Promarkers and gel pens and added him to the panel. 

Thanks for visiting.  Don't forget to check the post below for our September winners.  It could be you!  But only if you entered the challenge!! 

 

For your chance to win some lost Coast Dollars link up your stamped Halloweeeny makes HERE

Making a Classical Card with an Embellished Background

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Hello everyone, my name is Ginny Maxam and I am a new DT member for Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!  Today's post is my first for my new team, I am excited to be working with this wonderful and talented team using the awesome images from Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

This Weeks challenge is Stamped Background.  A great challenge with lots of possibilities.
Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda have some very unique and arty designs, nothing run of the mill here.  Artsy, yes. Weird, yes, Classical, yes. Like any company, you will find images you like and images you don't, but that is what is so fun about stamping, you make the art uniquely yours to suit your purpose.

My Stamped Background inspiration card:

I made this card using the 

Leaves background stamp 

Stamping on a bright white cardstock using  Memento ink

and

 Classic Women

On my background, I used a little Nuvo foil flakes

Mirror board and a feather for a little panache`

  

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enter the Stamped Background challenge! 

 If you don't enter, you can't win!

Ginny M