Love & Hearts: Pink heart

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Hello everyone, 

Liesbeth here with a heart shaped card full of love fot our Love & Hearts challenge💕

Hope you will share your love with us this month!

I started with a white heart and made the background with Infusions powder and the wonderful LCD  text stamp Loopy Background. I stamped CV´s Loveheart Square and the word Love (Misc. Words) with black StazOn ink. I finished with bleach and glitter glue, and sponged the edges with black ink.

Wishing you LOVE :-) 

LiesbethXX

For The Men: 3 Waiters

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Happy February 1st from Laurie and welcome to a brand new month long challenge:  For the Men.  Self explanatory I think??  Find your masculine, boyish, macho stamps and make something creative with them!  You could win some free stamps from Carmen's Veranda and Lost Coast Designs.

For this card I used the Three Waiters stamp and the Loopy Background stamp, both from Lost Coast Designs, and the Piece of Cake clear stamp from Carmen's Veranda.

For the background, I took a square piece of vintage book paper and, using a glue stick, glued a piece of decorative decoupage paper atop it.  I then stamped that with the Loopy Background stamp using black ink.  I edged it with the same black ink.

Next I stamped my 3 waiters onto a white scrap with black ink and fussy cut it out, edging it with Distress Vintage Photo Ink.  The only color I added was some Copic Sketch Marker to their hands and faces.  I then attached them to the center of my card front.

The sentiment was stamped with black ink onto a white square edged in black ink and positioned as shown in the lower left corner.

We are excited to see what fun things you come up with for this newest challenge here on the Portal!

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
 

 

Tropical: Monkey in the jungle

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here with our final Tropical blogpost. There's still a bit of time for you to participate!

I used a paper napkin for the tropical background:

I stamped Loopy Background onto a piece of  white cardstock (13 x 13 cm) using black waterproof ink. After that I glued the upper layer of the napkin onto the card with gel medium and after drying I coloured the white areas with yellow and green watercolour paint. I stamped Carmens Verandas Monkey Face on the card with black and painted it with white gesso (or white acrylic paint) I also stamped the monkey onto tissue paper, tore it out, and glued it onto the card with gel medium. I dried it with a heat tool and watercolour painted it (brown). I cut some flowers and leaves from printed scrappaper and sticked them around the monkeys head.

Hope to see you next time!

LiesbethXX

Save the trees: Fabric book cover ,Frida'

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, it's Liesbeth again, stamping on everything but paper! There's still time to participate our ,Save the Trees' challenge: click HERE.

This time I've chosen a big piece of white fabric, used lots of stamps on it and covered an A4 plain book with it! Unfortunately I can't explain how I exactly did it, because this technique is one of my workshops.....

Stamps used (click =see): Frida with roses, Callygraphy Frida, Frida 1, Frida 2, Frida 3, Pieces of Callygraphy, Pieces of Architecture, Daisy flourish, Loopy background, Doodle circles, Flagstone background, 3 Flying flower girl faces, 

Liesbeth XX

Tag you're it Challenge: Art Deco Face

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Hi everyone, welcome to our Tag You're It Challenge! (click ;-) )Here's another tag, this time I used the beautiful Art Deco Face! I stamped her using black ink on a inked background and masked her. I stamped the Loopy Background and Black Flourish and I removed the mask from the face. I coloured the face with color pencils and finished the tag wit some charcoal and white gel pen.

Liesbeth XX