Starship Friends

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 a fun fold card I made for a friend using Lost Coast Designs Pokey Cat and some Carmen's Veranda sentiments. 

Aren't those pussies adorable!!!!

 

 I winged it and scored a piece of 6" x 6" patterned paper to make my pop up thingy.

 

 I stamped Lost Coast Designs Pokey Cat with a bit of maskery trickery on patterned panel, then on plain card, fussy cut and added the daring duo to their stamped selves.  I did some square die cutting for the layered sentiment panels and stamped Carmen's Veranda Best Friends on the front, then mounted it on the mechanism.  It pops out a bit from the card base,in a fun and floppy manner.

Lift the flap for a second endearment..... 

So, are you team Cat??  or team Dog????   
Link up your stamped anythings featuring Cats and/or Dogs and
don't forget to check back often for awesome inspiration from the team.

Hope to see you in the linky.  Hugz

CHALLENGE #200 - CATS AND DOGS

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 #200

CATS AND DOGS

Oh, this is going to be so much fun!!!!  You have all month to share your stamped anythings featuring Cats and/or Dogs.  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

 
 Aimee used Lost Coast Designs Yoga Cat 5, Brush Strokes and Party Words

Liesbeth used Lost Coast Designs Up Close and Personal, Daisy Flourish and Imagine Dictionary Words

   
Riet used Lost Coast Designs Pokey Cat, Pokey Dog, Brush Strokes, Pieces of Calligraphy and Party Words

 

Now it's your turn.  Are you up for the challenge?  Team cat??  Team Dog??  Or team both???
We can't wait to see your projects!  
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!  The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month so check back and join the fun.

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #200 - Cats and Dogs
August 1st - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Sunday, August 31st 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
  

 

Only Sometimes

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!!   Are you enjoying all the wonderful colour inspiration on the blog this month??  Two beautiful colour schemes to choose from and today I went with Terracotta and Turquoise.

I started with a pale turquoise patterned card panel and randomly stamped Lost Coast Designs large circle Shadow Frame with salty ocean distress ink.  I egded the panel with the same ink.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Pokey Cat on the card panel and then on white card using archival sepia ink.  I watercoloured the cat with rusty hinge distress ink and blue gel pen and fussy cut.  The sentiment is Carmen's Veranda Ask For Directions sentiment. 

Join the colour challenge fun.  Link up your stamped anythings featuring the colours LEMON AND LIME or TERRACOTTA AND TURQUOISE.  

Thanks for dropping by.   

Bright and Cheerful - Pokey Mouse and Cat Slider 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 there stampers and card makers, Riet here.

I absolutely love the new animals from Lost Coast Designs.

There are 9 in total in the category new.

This is the Pokey Mouse and the Pokey Cat.

I also used the Bubbles Background stamp,

and the Party Words sheet.

The peek-a-boo slider card is made with a die set from Studio Light, SL-ES-CD929.

For the coloring I used Derwent colorsoft. 

Did you like this slider card?

The team would love to see what you can make

 for the "Bright and Cheerful" challenge.

Feel free to join, and maybe you will be the new winner of rubber stamps of your choice.

You can find the rules by clicking here!

RULES

GO TO THE CHALLENGE:

Animals challenge, This Pokey Cat is so cute.

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 crafters, Riet here. 

Today I made a card with the leftovers of a background,

 that I previously used to make an ATC Coin booklet.

Click here to see how to make them.

 Or maybe you have leftovers that you can use.

The LCD stamps I used:

Pokey Cat,

Party words,

Flowers.

I also used:

Markers for the cat

Posca white

White stamping pad

Black stamping pad

gellpen

paper scraps.

This is how to make the card.

Take your scraps and a piece of white paper.

Weave some strips together and glue them on to the paper.

Then cut them out.

Glue it on a black base card.

Stamp the pokey Cat and color.

I used markers on waterbase.

Because his hair and whiskers are so hard to cut out,

 you will stamp the cat's head directly onto the card.

We'll glue the cat on later.

Cut the cat out and glue on the card.

Stamp on a piece off scrap paper the sentiment and glue it on the card.

Use a white posca, make a scribbled line around the braided mat.

Stamp the little flowers with a white inkpad.

Using a white gel pen, draw some effects on the cat and a dot of white on its pupils.

And that was the tutorial for this time.

Let me know if you liked it?

And don't forget to join the challenge.

You probably have an animal stamp in your collection, 

make something fun with it and join in.

You can also join with other brands.

Maybe you will win this challenge.

Hello Kitty

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!

Hey !  Darlene here today sharing my make with one of the new Cats.

This month being the Animal Challenge and all....

I made a  5 x 5 inch 'barn door' style card.  Embossed the Cat in about the middle of the card.

Fussy Cut around his head, and straight across to make barn door.

The Cat is coloured in.  Used one of my stencils to make the brick look around.

Die Cut for the saying

It fold nice and flat for mailing too.

Enter the Animal Challenge for a chance to win !!