Showing posts with label Mini gnomes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mini gnomes. Show all posts

Sunday, April 12, 2026

Gnome For 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 with some inspiration for the anything Gnome Challenge.  I've gone shaped card and simple and Christmas with mini Pompom Gnome and his Mushroom House.
I do like this wiggly circle die and it's a nice big layered set so great for fun card bases.  I found a bit of card already smooched with distress ink that seemed a perfect background for my green and gold 'shroom house.  The house and the gnome were both stamped on white card, coloured with distress markers and fussy cut.   To finish I stamped the Happy Christmas directly on the background.
Hope you get some time to get gnomey.  You have all month to share your stamped anythings featuring GNOMES!!  Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project and we need at least 20 entries to award the prize.  Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

CHALLENGE #208 - GNOMES

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 #208

GNOMES


You have all month to share your stamped anythings featuring GNOMES!!  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 Rabbit Gnome

Gail used Lost Coast Designs Book Gnome and Mayan Stele

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 30th 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 #208 - Anything Goes With Gnomes
April 1st - 30th 
Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Thursday, 
April 30th 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

 
 

Saturday, December 7, 2024

Cold and Frosty Gnome Christmas Card

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!

Greetings! You've got Kathi here with a Christmas card created with the Looking Up Gnome from the Mini Gnomes 2 Unmounted Stamp Set by Lost Coast Designs. In the first panel our hero Gnome is enjoying nice weather, but dreaming of a white Christmas. In the second panel, his wish came a bit too true for him.

Here's the card. 


I used .25" wide washi tape to tape around the edges of a 5.25" x 4" panel and down the center to create two panels.

Tuxedo Black Memento was used to stamp the looking up gnome from the Mini Gnomes 2 Unmounted Stamp Set by Lost Coast Designs in the right panel. I scooted the taped panel over to the right and stamped him again onto the left panel. Both gnomes were colored with Copic markers. 

The Gnome was stamped two more times onto repositionable sticker paper, which was fussy-cut and placed over both gnomes as a mask. 

An acetate mask was placed over the bottom part of both panels. Desert Sand Memento Ink and Worn Lipstick Distress Ink were lightly brushed over the stalks and caps of a mushroom cluster part of the Mini Whimsical Shrooms stencil onto the image panel and onto repositionable sticker paper.

The sticker paper versions were fussy-cut and placed over the mushrooms to mask them. Tumbled Glass Distress Ink was sponged over the masked mushrooms, the masked Gnomes, and over the acetate mask on the bottom of the panel. 

Bundled Sage Distress Ink was brushed over the fern cluster from the same stencil onto the image panel.

The acetate mask was lifted and Desert Sand Memento Ink was brushed over the bottom part of the image panel.

The masks were removed from the mushrooms and gnomes. The mushrooms were colored with Copic markers. The left panel was covered and flat white and shimmery white Pan Pastel was brushed over the right panel. When the Gnome was obscured, a white Posca Paint pen was used to add white splatter and more intentional snow covering to the panel. When the Posca paint was dry, a clear glitter pen was used to add touches of sparkle to the snow.

The washi tape was removed from the image panel.

A piece of translucent vellum was backed with double-sided tape, then cut with a speech bubble cutting die and the dots from other speech bubble dies. Christmas-time Remnant Rubs were used to add the "Dreaming of a White Christmas" to one of the speech bubbles. Jet Black StazOn Ink was sponged through the "Seriously?" Stencil onto the other speech bubble. 

Both vellum sentiment speech bubbles and the vellum dots were adhered to their respective panels. White Posca pen was added to the "Seriously?" Speech bubble to reinforce the snow-mageddon theme.

A piece of 5.5" x 4.25" patterned paper was adhered to an A2 card then edged with Worn Lipstick Distress Ink. The image panel was adhered to finish the card.

I hope to see you playing along with December Cold and Frosty Challenge. 


Thanks for visiting today!

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Gnome-vember, gnome poststamp card.

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 stampers and cardmakers. 
Riet here.
Today it's a short tutorial.
Just stamping and coloring.
It's more about figuring out where each stamp should go.
These gnomes are a nice size for this die.
The flowers will soon be on the webshop.
I also used a waterproof black ink.
I colored with watercolor markers and Derwent inktense pencils.

I started with the postage die from Studio light craftlab.
I used watercolor paper.

With the metal die I made a paper template and numbered the squares.
Then I cut them out.

Take a piece of paper and stamp the gnomes on it.
Now you can puzzle where each gnome fits.
You can also use a piece of a stamp.
I used the flowers for the very small boxes.

Color the boxes as you see fit or as I colored it is of course also allowed.
I chose to do the middle box in pale colors.
This way you get a nice contrast with the bright colors around it.

Matte on a black background, it makes the colours pop even more.

Not that difficult but a nice result.
The challenge runs until the end of the month.
So there is still time to participate and have a chance to win new rubber stamps.
You can participate with other stamp brands as long as there is stamping.
But read the rules first, that prevents disappointment.
So come and join, it's fun.