Joker Wild

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Hello all. Happy 2020.

Cathy here with the OG Joker man.

I used a new stamp from Carmen's Veranda called Joker

 I started out on black cardstock, heat embossed the Joker in white and cut him out.  I layered it on purple and glitter green cardstock. Of course, they are Joker colors.  Add some foam squares to the back and set aside so you can work on the card base.

Next I stenciled the background with some white ink. Edged the card also with white ink and lastly add the Joker square to the middle of the card.

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Zombie dog ATCoin

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Hello all Cathy here with a ATCoin for you.
Stamps Used:
Z-Oscar
ATC text
Corner swirl

 I started out by making the background. I used Nuance powers to make it. Then I splashed on some green distress spray ink. Dry it all. Punch out a 2.5 circle from paper.
Stamp ATC text with black ink randomly over the background. Then take  Corner swirl and stamp it with green ink all over the coin.

 Stamp Z-Oscar on white cardstock 2 times. Cut out one. Glue Z-Oscar to the front of the coin. On the second one smear green ink over the eyes. (easy way to color) cut out and glue on to Z-Oscar.
Edge with the same green ink around the coin.

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Opera Singing Brunhilda

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Hello all, Cathy here with a Opera singing card.

 As I was making it all I was thinking of Looney Tunes cartoon with Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny and them singing the Opera. Tell me what you think if you see it.

I started out by stamping Brunhilda  and then making a mask for it. I colored her with my Copic markers and then I cut out the mask. 

Then I cut out some "grass" stencil from scrap cardstock and used my distress ink to color the grass. I also die cut a circle from that scrap and used my distress ink and made a moon. After I added the mask to Brunhilda  I stamped the pillars from the ATC shrine set. Colored them with Copic markers.

I finished the card by coloring the sky with some Copic markers. 

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New Stamp Release Day 3

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!

We are in the final day of showcasing our new stamps.  We hope you have enjoyed seeing the selection of new stamps we have to offer.  Don't think this is all though.  There are several more on both the Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda (under clear stamps) sites. 
Now on with the show!

 LAURIE created Heart in Chains using Steampunk Heart.

LAURIE also created Fancy Fern using Medium Doodle Feather.

SUE created her A Tale of Two Edgars card using Goth Poe, CV Ouiji Board, and CV Witches Go Riding.

CATHY created her Evil Eye 4x4 tile using Evil Eye.

Marilyn created  her Stand Out Triptych coaster using Goth Mask, Lillith, and CV Born to Stand Out.

 

Did you enjoy the new stamps?  There are many more on the LCD website and lots of new clear stamps on the CV website.
Don't forget, get your comments in by July 22nd for a chance to win some LCD/CV rubber!

Happy Stamping!
Marilyn
LCD/CV DT Leader

New Stamp Release Day 2

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!

We are back for Day 2 of showcasing all the new stamps at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda.  There are a ton of new stamps and we are sharing just a few right here, right now.

 LAURIE created Beautiful Butterfly using Goth Butterfly and White Waves Background.

SUE created her Book of Wisdom book cover using Steampunk Heart and Miscellaneous Words.

CATHY created her Masked Lady card using Goth Mask.

GAIL created her She Thinks card using Steampunk Mermaid.

MARILYN created her Strange Things ATC using Cheshire Cat and CV Weird People.

Don't forget to get in on the fun.  Just leave a comment during our New Releases Event for a chance to win $10 of LCD/CV rubber.  Comments can be left through July 22 to qualify for the drawing.

Happy Stamping!
Marilyn
LCD/CV DT Leader

New Stamp Release Day 1

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!

For the next three days, we will be showcasing some of the new Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda stamps.  We have several new designs plus a lot of new CV clear quote stamps.  To get in on all the fun, just leave a comment and your name will be entered for a chance to win $10 is LCD/CV rubber!

Now on with the show!

LAURIE created her Tales From the Crypt using Goth Shrine ATC and Grunge Black Swirl.

SUE created her Mistletoe Christmas card using Mistletoe Goth and Miscellaneous Words.

CATHY created her Poe's Birds card using Goth Poe.

MARILYN created her Ocean Dreams Index Card using Steampunk Mermaid.

 Don't forget, leave a comment each day and you will have the chance to win $10 in LCD/CV rubber!  Comments can be left through July 22 to qualify for the drawing.  Can't get any easier than that.

Happy Stamping

Marilyn

LCD/CV DT Leader

New Stamp Release Day 3

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!

Welcome back for the final day of our New Stamp Release.
It's Day 3 and we are sharing more of our New Stamps with you.  Don't forget, to see all the NEW RELEASES, please visit Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda.  We have new CLEAR stamps on the Carmen's Veranda site under ClearStamp Words and Phrases & we have a new COLORING BOOK!

Here's the designers to show you a more of the new stamps.

CATHY

 Crayon Smell Card using CV Crayons.

MARILYN
Dream & Forget Twinchies using the Small Deer Skull & Fish & Heart Set stamps.

LAURIE
Laurie created a Fight Like a Girl card using the CV Fight Like a Girl & Annie stamps.

CATHY

 Cathy created this tag using a an image from our new Coloring Book and the Wings from the Flying Mona stamp.

Don't forget to leave a comment for the chance to win a $10 LCD/CV gift certificate!

Keep on Stampin!
Marilyn

LCD/CV DT Leader

New Stamp Release Day 1

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!

Good morning everyone!
We have NEW STAMPS!  Yes, Linda has released a plethora of new stamps and we are going to take three days to share them with you.  Please be aware that they are so many new stamps, both on the LCD and the CV websites that we are only showing a small fraction of all the new, quirky goodness.

 
It's a bonanza of new stamps!

To see ALL the NEW RELEASES, go to Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda.  In addition to our new stamps, we have new CLEAR stamps at Carmen's Veranda and a new COLORING BOOK at Lost Coast Designs.

So, without further ado, the design team is going to share what they have been creating with the new stamps.

 MARILYN
Happy Place tag using CV Crayons and CV Happy Place

SUE
Feeling Groovy Card using Cat Trio

 

CATHY
Frank's Costume card using CV Frankenstein

 CATHY

Cathy colored one of the pages in the new Coloring Book.

 

Stay tuned to tomorrow where we will have more projects for you using the new releases.

Would you like a chance to win some of the new rubber?  Just leave a comment over the next three days and your name will go in the hat for a $10 LCD/CV gift certificate.

Keep on Stamping!
Marilyn
LCD/CV DT Leader

"Oddities" New Stamp Release!

Welcome 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!

Happy 2017 Portal Peeps!

We are back, bright eyed and bushy tailed and ready to kick off 2017's events with a New Stamp Release but first we have the winner of our "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" event to announce!  Thank you everyone for playing in our Christmas linky party, all your projects were so festive and fab🎄

and the WINNER is

Art-Without-Anxiety

Congratulations Christi, you have won $5 LCD/CV Bucks to spend on rubber from either of our online stores!  Please email Leigh at LeighSBDesigns@cox.net to claim your prize before January 31st and include the following info:  the name of this event, prize amount plus your full name and mailing address😀

Here's your Winner's badge to proudly show off on your blog😉

We Have New Stamps!

 We are super excited to be adding these quirky new designs to our rubber stamp collections:
a set of 9 AUD Creatures joins our Lost Coast Designs Isle of Aud line and a Matador Monkey and two puppets called Kukla and Ollie join Carmen's Veranda!

PLEASE NOTE:

Due to a small tech issue the new stamps aren't up on the websites yet!
For more info or new stamp orders please email Linda at linda@lost-coast-designs.com!
Thx for your patience👍
 

Check out these fabulous creations by our talented LCDesigners!
Enjoy!

LCDesigner Leigh
"AUDities" Tag Book featuring AUD Creatures

 plus Lost Coast Designs Large Perspective Grid background and the following Alphabets:  Old Typewriter Capitals only and Old Typewriter Alphabet consisting of a set of smaller uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers (numbers are in lowercase).  Tag backgrounds done with Nuance Powders

LCDesigner Marilyn
"Inspire" Tag featuring Kukla and Ollie

LCDesigner Marilyn
"World Traveler" ATC featuring an AUD Creature

 LCDesigner Darlene
"The Wanderer" Card featuring an AUD Creature and Lost Coast Designs Shrubbery

LCDesigner Paula
"Stride"
Wall Art or large Card featuring AUD Creatures, ATC Misc. Set 3 and License Plate Alphabet

 Thanks for stopping by today, we hope you love our new stamp additions as much as we do...let us know in the comments😉
Stay and play with us coz things are about to get Curiouser and Curiouser....join us January 12th for a wintery adventure!

Happy Stamping!

Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Manager

Day 1 of 31 DAYS of HALLOWEEN by Leigh + Challenge #29 SCARY or WEIRD + New Stamps Release!

Welcome 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!

Welcome to Day 1 of

31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop 2016

and

Challenge #29

SCARY or WEIRD

plus our

NEW STAMPS RELEASE!

YAY!  The most anticipated blog hop of the year is finally here and LCPtoC is participating as a Wicked Blogger again!  The LCDesigners are hard at work over their crafty cauldrons cooking up SPOOKTACULAR eye candy for you to feast your eyes on for 31 days straight plus our October Challenge starts today too!  Please scroll down past the September Challenge Winner and October challenge details to see my Day 1 of 31 DOH project! 

We are also excited to unveil our clawesome NEW STAMPS today!  Dash on over to the Lost Coast Designs store and add them to your collections!  The LCDesigners will be featuring them all month long and my project today shows off the coffin skellie called RIP! 

TA DAAAAAA!  Aren't our New Stamps to die for!

 Oh My!  We are counting down to HALLOWEEN in style so lets get this fangtastic show started!

First up....it's time to announce the winner of our September Challenge and our new monthly CHALLENGE for OCTOBER!  Thanks for sharing all your fabulous Anything Goes projects with us, we loved them all!  The LCDesigners voted on their faves and the randomly drawn WINNER of CHALLENGE #28 is

#18 SUE the IRON

Congrats Sue, you've won $10 LCD/CV Bucks to spend in either or both of our stores!

Please contact me, you know the drill, before the start of the November Challenge to claim your prize!  Here's your Winner's Badge for your sidebar!

Challenge #29 - SCARY or WEIRD

 Our OCTOBER CHALLENGE starts today instead of the usual 1st Monday of the month and closes October 31st at 5 to midnight PST!  We're giving you lots more time to play with us this month and have TWO PRIZES to give away!

October's theme is SCARY or WEIRD...no explanation necessary right coz it's HALLOWEEEEEEEEN! mwahahahahaha!!!!!!

Enter your rubber stamped projects in the Challenge Linky Party located at the bottom of this post for the chance to win LCD/CV Bucks to spend in our Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda stores!  The more entries the better the prizes so round up all your friends and join the most clawesome party of the year!  We do have some RULES so please make sure you check them out to ensure your entries are eligible to win! 

Day 1 of 31 Days of Halloween

Join the fun and hop along the blog roll included below for more wicked projects each and every day.  The blog roll will remain in our sidebar over there on the right all month long too, you couldn't get lost if you tried!  Everyones 31 DOH projects are most definitely welcome to enter our Oct Challenge so ENTER ENTER ENTER!

Terra
Sarah
Alison
Amanda
Lyneen
Susan S
Shell
Susan R
Lost Coast Portal To Creativity - U R HERE
Monique
​Dream In Darkness
Airless Chambers
​Jessica
​Michelle
Kelli
Kapree
Genny
Sue
Lisa  

"7 Gates to Purgatory" by moi...Leigh S-B

I'm kicking off the proceedings with my altered wooden container that was a match made in Heaven Hell to feature our New Release Stamp, RIP!  The geometric sides of the container are actually coffin shaped and it has seven sides so I could not resist the Seven Deadly Sins theme.  All the text was computer generated and coloured with a metallic gold gel pen.

The votive candle glow represents the Cleansing Fire of Purification

Here it is in all it's colourful crackled glory with skull beads for feet

Seven Deadly Sins:  Envy, Gluttony and Lust

Seven Deadly Sins:  Wrath, Sloth, Greed and Pride

Lost Coast Portal to Creativity is also proud to be a CRYPT KEEPER again this year!
Click on the skull badge to see how other blogs are celebrating Halloween around the world!

We hope you'll Stay and Play and leave us lots of love each day!
See you again tomorrow!
Happy Hopping!

Leigh S-B

The Sharpie Domino Queen

LCD/CV DT Leader

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