For the men: You're Invited!

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 lovely people! It's Liesbeth here with another ,For the Men' card, it's an inventation with two wise men on it :-)

I took a background from my stash, it's a Gelli print this time, and cut a card. First I stamped the background with blue and black StazOn inks: ....background. I stamped the birds and text on a seperate piece of paper, cut them out and coloured them with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. Party Words, Penguins and Anthropomorphs Birds. I made a ,bottom' with black charcoal and a white gel pen and glued everything onto the card, the text first on a piece of dark red cardstock.

Hope I inspired you make a men creation too! :-) 

Liesbeth XX

Make It Funny: Trio of Penquins

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 again from Laurie with a series of three tags for the
Make It Funny Challenge.
I used Katzelkraft's Grumpy Penguins Stamp Set, which is available from Lost Coast Designs, and three of Carmen's Veranda Clear Stamps.  There is a great selection of sentiments so be sure to check all four pages!

I used the same background for each of my tags.  It is a Gelli print I made using blue and green acrylic paints.  I then stenciled my tags with Distress Oxide Ink in Abandoned Coral and white paint, using a different stencil for each tag. I added a bit of black random stamping for some contrast.

Next I stamped my penguins onto white card stock with black ink and fussy cut them.  I colored their beaks orange and added some Glossy Accents to the beaks and eyes.  I placed each penguin on the lower portion of the tag to give me room at the top for my stamped sentiment.  I added a hat to each and used some foam tape to give then some dimension.  The hats can be found at Vertical Party Hats at Lost Coast Designs.  I simply stamped three different hats and cut them out, only adding a couple of little flowers to Mrs. Penguin's hat.  

Sentiments were stamped with black ink onto white card stock, cut out, and edged with black ink.  All sentiments were also attached with foam tape.   For the final step I added some ribbon and various colored fibers to each tag.

This is such a fun challenge so we hope you will join us and show us your Fun and "Funny" stamped projects!

Song and Dance Challenge: dancing birds!

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... still dancing?? Liesbeth here with another inspiration piece. It's still possible to participate our challenge HERE or at FACEBOOK!

This is how I made this card: Onto a piece of music sheet I sprayed some Distress Oxide sprays and water and I also coloured here and there with pink, blue and black soft pastel. With black ink I stamped the swirl. On a seperate piece of white cardstock I stamped the birds, cut them out and glued then on the card. I finished the card by using black charcoal, black fine marker and a white gel pen.

Stamps used: 

Penguin anthropomorphs 

Swirls and Dots border

CHALLENGE #58 - ANYTHING GOES!!!!

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.  It's time for our new Challenge.
Please remember we are a stamping challenge and real rubber or clear stamps should be the focus of your project to be eligible for the prize.
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 #58

ANYTHING GOES!!!!!!

Everybody's favourite it's Anything Goes here at the Portal so get out those stamps and go crazy!!!!

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 Design Team Faves 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.  If you are using Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps you can now also link up your challenge entry in the Lost Coast Official Fan Group on facebook.  There is a challenge album in photo's.  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 fabulous inspiration from the team to get us started.  ENJOY!

Cathy made this wonderful card using Lost Coast Designs Elk Skull  and Grunge Diamond Background stamps

 and this one using Lost Coast Designs Elk Skull

 Laurie made this fun card using Katzelkraft Grumpy Penguins, which you can buy from Lost Coast Designs, and the fun Carmen's Veranda sentiment Eat Cake.

Sue made this fantastically dreamy project using Lost Coast Designs Seahorse, Eternity, Journal Letter Guide, Leonardo Accessories Set and Carmen's Veranda Compass Square.

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.

I'd also like to remind you that through to August 10th Lost Coast Designs is sponsoring the Allsorts challenge, where the theme is Tags, so that's another chance to win Lost Coast dollars.  There is also a discount code on the Allsorts blog so do hop over and check it out!!

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

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