More Fun Kitty

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Happy August, everyone! Aimee here. Who loves a good summer party?! This kitty sure does.

This Party Cat stamp is the star of the show for this card. Paired with the More Fun sentiment stamp, this card is the perfect thing to send to that friend who is the Life of the Party. Follow along with the photo tutorial to see how I made it:

Whether you're a cat person or a dog person, there are loads of great stamps available on the Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda websites. We invite you to submit your Dog or Cat creation to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity for this month's August Challenge. Happy Stamping!

CHALLENGE #199 - CHRISTMAS IN JULY MID-MONTH REMINDER

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Hello Portal Peeps.  
 

Gail here today with a wintery blast of inspiration from the team

CHALLENGE #199

CHRISTMAS IN JULY

 

Halfway into our festive July celebration and we want to see your stamped anythings with a Christmas theme.  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 Art Doll, Small Snowflakes Set and ATC Italian Postmark,

  

 

Kathi used Lost Coast Designs Party Cat

 

Liesbeth used Lost Coast Designs Madonna and Child and Small Snowflakes Set

Now it's your turn.  Are you up for the challenge?  We can't wait to see your projects!  
Submit your entries to the Christmas in July linky party 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

Where's My Hat Challenge #196 - Unsupervised Dunce Hat Cat

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Greetings! You've got Kathi here to share a card created for the April Where's My Hat Challenge #196 with the Fluffy Cat Rubber Stamp from the Party Cat Rubber Stamp Set. 

Here's the card!

I have a pair of mischievious white cats, Domino and the aptly named Harley Quinn. They're littermates, who don't really get along, but occasionally conspire to create enough chaos that I really would like to put dunce caps on them, but I like my hands attached to my arms.

Anyway, the Fluffy Cat was stamped twice with Obsidian Black Amalgam Ink — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper. The image panel was heat set. The Fluffy Cat on the image panel was colored with Copic markers to make him look like Domino. 

The repositionable sticker paper version of the Fluffy Cat was fussy-cut and placed over his counterpart on the image panel.

They took a ride through my Big Shot inside of a rectangle cutting die to be die-cut, then were kept inside the cutting die by securing the die to the back of the panel with low-tack tape. I brushed yellow and two grey dye inks over the die onto the image panel die-cut with the masked images to leave a nice white border around the inked image panel. 

The image panel die-cut was removed from the die-cut and set aside.

Patterned paper was cut, edged with grey ink, and layered, then adhered to a white A6 card. The image panel die-cut was adhered as shown. A sentiment sticker was added to complete the card.

I really hope that you get a chance to play along with the April Where's My Hat Challenge #196 for the chance to with Lost Coast Designs Ca$h!

Thanks for visiting today!

CHALLENGE #193 REMINDER - BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL

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Hello Portal Peeps.

Gail here today with a mid month reminder for the Bright and Cheerful 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.

CHALLENGE #193

BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL

Let's get rid of the winter blues and those cold and frosty feelings.  We want to see your stamped anythings with a bright and cheerful look.  Grab your bold and bright colours and those happy stamps and join the fun.  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 more inspiration from the team.  ENJOY!

 Aimee used Lost Coast Designs Art Nouveau Faces with Carmen's Veranda Cusswords and Courage sentiment

 

 Kathi used Lost Coast Designs Party Cat

 

Darlene used Lost Coast Designs Carrie's Yoga Cat 10

Now it's your turn.  Are you up for the challenge?  We can't wait to see your projects!   

Grab your Bright and Cheerful stamps and colours and join the fun.  The team will be sharing all month, so do pop back often to check out their awesome makes. 
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! 

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

CHALLENGE #92 - TAG YOU'RE IT!!!

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Hello Portal Peeps.
Welcome to February here at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.
It's time to start 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.

Now for our new Challenge!

CHALLENGE #92

TAG YOU'RE IT!!!

We want to see stamped tags, or stamped projects with tags on them.  Your project must include a tag and the focus should be real rubber or clear stamping.

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!

Laurie made this awesome graphic tag using stamps from  Lost Coast Designs Party Cats and Carmen's Veranda Wear a Cone sentiment.

Lori made this beautiful painty tag using stamps from Lost Coast Designs ATC Misc. Set 6, More Bugz, and Misc Words

Roni made this wonderful colourful and fun tag using Lost Coast Designs Party On, Carri's Menagerie Puppy 1, ATC Doodles Set and Party Words

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 #92 - TAG YOU'RE IT!!!
February 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, February 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
 

Licensed To Party

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Hello.  Gail here today to share a party card.  Did you know Lost Coast Designs are now selling the Katzelkraft Cats and Dogs stamps???  These are so fun.  Meet Party Cat.

I decided he needed to disco like it's 1999........

I started by stamping Lost Coast Design Fourth Dimension using blue and green radiant neon ink.  I used a ripped piece of paper to mask off the top of the image to make my disco floor

I stamped Party Cat with Distress Ox Fossilised Amber, cos I wanted those party doodle bubbles and spirals to be yellow.  Then I used the same ink to stamp Cracked Sky many times.  Love those little stars and spirals.

I used License Plate Alphabet and stamped the letters using the green and blue neon inks.  I outlined the letters with gel pen to add some definition.  Here's a quick snap to show how that doodled outline makes the letters pop.  I also doodled a faux stitched border and edged my letters with grey archival ink.

I cut the panel with a stitch die and mounted on a white card base.  Party Cat was stamped, embossed and fussy cut.  I made him orange, cos they say gingers have more fun.  Then I added my letters.  PARTY!!!!

Our current challenge is Doodle and you will find the linky HERE

Thanks for visiting.  
Don't forget to drop by all month for fresh inspiration from the team.