Sheepy Christmas

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Hello Portal Peeps!!   Gail here today with a cool sheep and some chilly snowflake inspiration for the Christmas in July challenge.  Maybe it's a bit early for you, but when the summer heat hits it's sometimes nice to immerse ourselves in a bit of snow and ice.

I used Carmen's Veranda Sheep Doll with Lost Coast Designs Small Snowflakes and Party Words. 

I love these folksy art stamps from Carmen's Veranda.   I actually originally intended to colour the sheep, but once I stamped the snowflakes on the corner of the panel I decided to keep it clean and simple, which is a bonus when you are Christmas crafting me thinks.

Thanks for dropping by.  The linky is open all month for your stamped festive anythings.   
We need at least 20 entries to award the prize so grab you stamps and tell your friends about our challenge.  The team is sharing inspiration all month so do visit us again soon.

#206 Love and hearts challenge. Valentine gifts for my girls.

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I love making valentine gifts for my daugther and granddaugther.

The first picture is for my daugther.

A card and a little gift in a box.

Stamps I used:

LCD Praying angel.

LCD Butterfly set.

LCD Misc words.

CV Open rose.

CV Text Liefde (love in dutch) 

There is a english version here!

Love dictionairy.

This candy bag is for my grandaugther.

Stamps I used:

CV Sheep doll.

LCD Hearts and curls border.

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Sheepy Spring

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here today with a spring card for our Cute and/or Fluffy challenge.  I've gone a bit more wooly than fluffy, but you gotta admit, she's a cutie.

I used Carmen's Veranda Sheep Doll and coloured her in spring greens.  The background stamp is Lost Coast Designs Daffodils Background.  I used a scallop die to cut my shaker aperture and also die cut some lovely green grass for her to stand on.

You have until 23.59 PST on the 30th to join the Cute and/or Fluffy challenge and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month so do pop back and see their awesome makes.

 

 Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

CHALLENGE #162 - SPRING HAS SPRUNG

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Hello Portal Peeps.  
 

It's time for our new Challenge.
Our challenges are now fortnightly!  A new challenge starting the 1st and the 15th of 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 #162

SPRING HAS SPRUNG

We want to see your stamped anythings featuring Srping!  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 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!

Gail used Carmen's Veranda Sheep Doll with Lost Coast Designs Sun and Flowers Background  

Liesbeth used Carmen's Veranda Medium Keyhole and ATC Birds in Trees with Lost Coast Designs Tulip Gnome and Old Typewriter Alphabet

  
Riet used Lost Coast Designs Megans Christmas Bird and Crackle Background

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 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 #162 - Spring Has Sprung
March 1st - 14th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Tuesday, March 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
 

 

One In A Million

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here.  I have been having fun with the Slimline challenge and also thinking ahead to Valentines day.  I actually started something completely different and then I spotted Lost Coast Designs Many Sheep and Carmen's Veranda Sheep Doll and a card was born.

I stamped Many Sheep on a panel of white card and trimmed it to fit my slimline base, making sure lover baa was in the picture.   I edged the panel with black ink and stamped Lost Coast Designs ATC Doodle Heart with red ink.  I stamped Sheep Doll with black ink on white card, added a little pink and silver, fussy cut and added her to the card.  A touch of grey promarker to ground her and we are ready for the month of love.

You have until 23.59 PST on the 14th January to join the challenge for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.  Hope to see your lovely stamped slimline card in the gallery.  

Lamb, Pizza and Napkins

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Hello.  Gail here today, just popping by to show you what I did with those sheep. 

I made some fun bottle hanging tags to help bling up the festive table.

I'd stamped, embossed, coloured and fussy cut Carmen's Veranda Sheep Doll
  and Quilted Wing Angel last week.  If you missed the angel project you can check it out HERE

 I used a pizza box, a sizzix die and a silver embossed napkin to make my tags.  Line the die up so one end is just over the folded pizza box so you get a double tag.  I cut two so I could have a nice strong tag and it also got rid of the spicy nacho picture LOL.  Then I glued my napkin on one side of the tag and fussy cut it.  Make sure you split the layers of your napkin so you are just gluing the top layer onto the tag.  Usually they are two or three layers and it rarely works to try and glue more than one layer at a time LOL. 

I inked the raised texture and edges of the tags with Paris Dusk ink, shaped the 'hanger' and cut a hole for the bottle neck.  I used glitter glue around the hole, blue here, and used my finger to smudge it out to give a starburst effect.  It also dries quicker as well.  I cut Poppystamps Flurry Frame from dark blue glitter card and added it and the sheep to the tag.

Here I added a silver glitter card layer that I cut with Poppystamps House in the Woods die.  The sheep is covering up the house, so now it's sheep in the woods!!

Thanks for looking.  Don't forget our Christmas/Winter challenge is still running.  Just leave your link in the comment section for a chance to win some Lost Coast dollars.  Hugz

May Angels Watch Over You

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Hi, Gail here today.  Are you ready??  Only a few days til the jolly red man gets stuck in the chimney!  And while everyone is choking on the smoke and Rudolf is trying to pull him out, you are carrying on as usual and trying to get the table set up.  And maybe you have invited some strangers to dinner, or the oldies, or maybe even the youngsters, need a little aide de memoire for who's who?  So I decided, since any new cards probably won't make it through the snow in time for the big day, that I would play about and make some table place cards.  This was more fun than a box of chocolate frogs!!!!

I used Carmen's Veranda's Quilted Wing Angel and some patterned card.

I started by stamping, embossing and fussy cutting Carmen's Veranda Quilted Wing Angel and Sheep Doll.  I coloured with distress inks, and gold, red and brown marker pens.  Then I decided to just go with the angels for this set.  The sheep will be back later...... 

To make the place card bases I cut some patterned paper into 4x4" squares, folded in half,  then used an oval die to cut off the bottom to give a more interesting shape.  I added some irridescent glitter to the wings and Windsor and Newton Iridescent Watercolour medium to the dress.  This is like Wink of Stella, but comes in a good size bottle, so you can get sparkly all over!!  I think you can see the glimmer in the main picture.

Off to make 5 more of these while the reindeer is cooking.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Don't forget you can link up all your Christmas or Winter stamped makes to our challenge right up to the end of the month.  See you there.  Hugz