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
 

 

Colorful pokey mouse, for the animal 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, Riet here with a easy tutorial  this time.

 

Today a card with the pokey mouse stamp.

It is such a funny mouse.

The background is made with Nuvo shimmer powder.

This powder has a lovely shimmer.

I stamped with distress oxide weathered wood and the LCD ledger stamp the background. 

Stamp the mouse on a piece of paper and color it. 

Cut it out and gleu on the card.

With a black ink I stamped the long swirl on the edges of the card.

And do the same with the badass stamp.

Glue it on a purple and black cardstock. 

Join us on de Lost Coast Designs blog or facebook.  

And have a chance to win.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE. 

#185 "Let us entertain you" challenge. Clowns

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 everybody, Riet here with 2 cards. 

Today 2 cards for the challenge,

because I think both clowns really belong together.

Let me explain to you how these cards are made.

 I used these stamps:

Card #1

Pope clown

Ledger 

Brushstrokes

Card #2

Big nose clown

Brush strokes

Pieces of calligraphy

Victoriana

Furthermore I used:

Black stazon

Distress oxide.

Twisted citron,

Lucky clover,

Cracked pistaschio,

Musterd seed,

Wild honey,

Crackling campfire,

Barn door.

Derwent colorsoft pencils.

Take two pieces of paper measuring 20x20cm.

One for the orange background and one for the green.

We apply the colors with a brayer.

Starting with the light colors and working your way to the dark colors.

Be careful with the dark colors, apply small amounts.

With the sheet brush strokes, we now randomly stamp

 the orange tones on the green background.

And with the green tones on the orange background.

While we let this dry, we stamp the two clowns and color them.

When they ar colored you can cut them out.

Now choose a nice piece of background and cut it to 8.5cm x 8.5cm.

Now cut a piece of white cardstock measuring 12.5 x 12.5 cm.

And a double of 15 X 15cm.

We put the double card a side for a while.

Place the background on the white 12.5 x 12.5

Stamp the top left corner and bottom right corner,

 with the ledger stamp and the black stazon.

Repeat this with stamps from the Brush strokes sheet.

Use a stamping tool for this.

Now it looks like this.

Matt with a black cardstock with a 2mm edge.

Do the same with the second white card and glue them together.

Now use foam tape to stick the clowns on.

Now the card is ready.

The team would love to see your artwork in the LCD/CV challenge.

You can also participate with other brands of stamps.

You also have a chance to win new stamps, so join the challenge.

#183 Let's Fly - Not All Who Wander

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!

Time for another fun challenge and this time I went a wee bit Steampunk...

I wanted this to like they were plans to build a set of wings so I started by stamping the Steampunk Fly Girl on a piece of grid pattern paper. I then stamped the Ledger background in brown ink specifically using the column of figures and the months on the opposite side of the card.  I stamped some text - Pieces of Calligraphy - in red and added some fingerprints and smudges here and there so it looked like these were well worn plans.  I finished the card off by stamping the Not all Who Wander sentiment in the corner.

I hope you join in on the Let's Fly theme this month.

CHALLENGE #182 - FOR THE MEN

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.   Please read the updated challenge rules to ensure your entry qualifies for the prize.

Now for our new Challenge!

CHALLENGE #182

FOR THE MEN

We want to see your stamped anythings featuring men or with a masculine focus.  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!

  
Laurie used Lost Coast Designs 3 Waiters Stamp and Loopy Background with Carmen's Veranda Piece of Cake sentiment

Liesbeth used Lost Coast Designs Gears Background, Ledger Background, Misc.Words and Up Close and Personal stamps

Riet used Carmen's Veranda Jukebox with Lost Coast Designs Mini Gnomes and Rustic Checkerboard 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 29th 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 #182 - For The Men
February 1st - 29th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Thursday, February 29th 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, Frida Kahlo tag.

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!

 

Dear readers, first of all I would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year.

I wish prosperity and happiness and creativity for each of you.

And of course, most importantly, good health.

The challenge has moved from a bi-weekly to a one-month challenge.

This way everyone has a little more time to make something and participate.

You can read the new rules here.

Now my tag for the new challenge from Lost Coast Designs.

Here is the step by step explanation.

Materials I used:

LCD stamps,

Mini Frieda collage

Roses

Daisy florish

Ledger

Brushstrokes

Carmens Veranda,

Be a girl with a mind.

Versa magic,

Purple Hydrangea

Distress Oxide,

chipped sapphire

Distress ink,

chipped sapphire

faded jeans

speckled egg

dusty concord

Die for a window frame

White acrylic paint to splatter.

Distress micro glaze.

I started to color the tag with Speckled egg.

I made a print on the right side of the tag with the daisy floral and micro glaze.

I sponged the right half of the tag with Faded jeans and chipped sapphire.

I made some spots on the left half of the tag with Dusty Concord.

With the versa magic and the ledger stamp,

 I made a print over the left side of the tag.

let it dry.

In the meantime,

I cut out a frame with a piece of paper that I colored with Speckled egg.

I darkened the openings in the die with Dusty Concord.

I stamped the text from Carmens Veranda stamps and a border from the 

brush strokes sheet with Distress oxide chipped sapphire.

Did the same with the roses stamp.

Now for the portrait of Frida Kahlo.

This is a nice example of how you can also use part of a stamp.

I only used her head and it fit perfectly in the frame.

I made some splatters on the tag with the white paint.

The mat of the tag is made of lilac paper.

The edges are sponged with chipped sapphire.

Now just attach the frame with Frida on it and add some pearls for decoration.

Punch a hole and put a piece of ribbon through it.

I hope you enjoyed it and hope to see your work on the challenge blog.

Enter the challenge for a chance to win new rubber stamps.

31 Days of Halloween - Day 11 - Frightful

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Welcome to Day 11 of the 31 Days of Halloween...

Ahhh...another fun day of Halloween goodness.

For todays card I started off by applying 3 colors of Distress Oxide inks to a white card panel using an acetate circle to create a moon. I then flicked on a bit of water and blotted it off (creating such a lovely look).  I used the negative circle die to apply Brilliance White ink (give it a bit of shimmer) to the moon area.

 Next I stamped the Ledger background stamp using Dove Grey ink.   The Cityscape image was stamped along the bottom.  The Witch 2 was then stamped riding across the moon.  I used markers to color her in a bit.  Finally I used a glitter pen to add stars and outline the moon for a bit of sparkle.  I added the  "frightful" sentiment which I outlined with a marker.

#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.