Day 31 of the 31 days of Halloween

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Happy Halloween. 💀

Cathy here with day 31 of the 31 days of Halloween. 

                                                                           Stamps Used:

                                                                           Small skeleton 

                                                                       ATC Italian postmark

                                                                       Witch from wizard of OZ 2

I started out with wooden coffins. I painted the back with black paint. I then glued some pattern paper to the front. 

I stamped the Small skeleton   of the side of the coffin. I then stamped  ATC Italian postmark in a light brown ink for the background. 

I added some Halloween ephemera around it.

For the second one I stamped   Witch from wizard of OZ 2 and colored it with copic markers. I also added the ATC Italian postmark and Halloween ephemera. 

Today is the lats day for the 31 days of Halloween challenge.

 

Day 4 of 31 days of Halloween

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!

Happy Halloween 👻

Cathy here with a leaf decoration I made for you today. 

Stamps Used:

Small skeleton

ATC set 6

So, I started out with a leaf decoration I got at Dollar tree. I painted it with a cream paint and let dry. Next, I took some distress inks and smooched then on my craft mat and dipped the leaf into them. I then dried it. I took the Small skeleton and stamped it with archival black ink. Then I stamped the Italian postmark from the ATC set 6 around the edges with some brown archival ink.

Lastly, I edged the leaf with some drown ink and tied some baker's twine to the top. 

Come join the month-long Halloween challenge here

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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 all, Cathy here with a card for you.

Stamps used:

Small skeleton

Manga goth with tophat

Magical shit 

As you can tell I have no tropical stamps. So, I chose to do tropical colors. I started off with the mop up of from the background I made for the start of this challenge.

                                                                 This card.☝☝☝

I then took Small skeleton and stamped it in orange pink and yellow on the front of the card. Next I used a star stencil and added some orange paper glaze to go around the skeleton. Set that aside to dry. 

On a scrap piece of cardstock I stamped Manga goth with tophat and colored her in with the same colors I used to stamp the Small skeleton in. I fussy cut her out. By that time the stars were dry so I added Manga goth with tophat to the middle of the card. 

Lastly I stamped Magical shit  saying on some white cardstock and cut it apart and added some foam tape to make it stand out a bit and attached it to the card.

I hope you join the challenge here

 

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN: DAY 1 AND CHALLENGE #131 LINKY

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.  Welcome to our annual 31 Days of Halloween celebration!

The team will be posting their bootastic makes every day this month.

The linky will be open all month and we hope you will get your spook on and join the fun.  You can link up your Halloween inspired makes all month for 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 #131

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN

It's the most spoocktacular time of the year.  Link up your Halloween inspired projects.  Anything related to the season, spooky, fruity, fun, scary or cute.  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 we get 50+ entries we will be giving two prizes!

If you don't have a blog then no problem, 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!  

 

Let's get this party started!

Cathy made this groovy card with Lost Coast Designs Small Skeleton and Spiderweb Background.

Cathy stamped the skeleton and spiderweb background in a rainbow of colour.

Hop over to Cathy's blog for all the details.

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 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!

 

 

CHALLENGE #110 - SPOOKTACULAR FLORALS

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.  I hope you had a safe and spooktacular Halloween.

 Thank you for the awesome response to both our October challenges.  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.  I'd also like to say a heartfelt and awed THANK YOU to the team, who have created amazing art everyday in October and really taken the blog to new heights of awesomeness.  October is our month to shine and the team put in extra special and continuous effort to keep you inspired and entertained.  If you haven't checked out the October posts please do, and leave a little love here and there.  We all need a little love and appreciation.

 

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 your self some Lost Coast dollars.

 

 

CHALLENGE #110

SPOOKTACULAR FLORALS

We would like to see your stamped Day of the Dead style projects.  We realise not everyone celebrates that particular festival so we will also accept floral and/or spooky projects, for those not in the spooky mood and for those still in the spooky mood Bwahaahahaaa.  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!

Cathy made this wonderful quirky card using

Lost Coast Designs Small Skeleton and Sketchy Lily.

  
Laurie made this wonderfully colourful and fun card using Lost Coast Designs Doodle Leaf and Large Chicken Wire background and lots of googly eyes!!!!

Riet made this spooktacular card using Lost Coast Designs Frida Skull and Spiderwebs 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 5 to midnight PST on the14th 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 #110 - Spooktacular Florals
November 1st - 14th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Saturday, November 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
 

 

Day 11 of the 31 days of Halloween

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!

Cathy here with a bookmark for all your spooky reads this season.

Stamps used:

small skeleton 

Flying birds

I started off with a end cut from my white cardstock. I thought it would be a good start for a spooky bookmark. 

Grab some Halloween colors of distress ink to make a background. Smoosh some colors on a craft sheet and tap the paper into it. Dry in between colors.

Stamp the small skeleton  on the bottom and then stamp Flying birds on the top. Layer on a black cardstock. 

Lastly add a word strip to the top. 

Now you just have to pick out a book to use it in.

Join the Halloween fun here

The sale is still going on. Come check it out.

31 Days of Halloween day 10 Pearl eyes

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!

Cathy here with day 10 of the 31 Days of Halloween celebration.
Stamp used:
Small Skeleton

 For this card again I only used one stamp. I stamped and cut out the Small skeleton.  I added him to some black glittery paper. Added some washi tape and some pearls for is his eyes.
I kept trying to add  more but nothing look right with it so I just left it as is.

 Come join the fun of the 31 days of Halloween here

CHALLENGE #64 - DIA DE LOS MUERTOS

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.
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 #64

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS

Yep, it's time to celebrate Day of the Dead. 

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.
 

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!

Cathy made this beautiful colourful card using Lost Coast Designs Small Skeleton

Laurie made this gorgeous card using Lost Coast Designs Day Of The Dead Angel

Lori made this stunning card using Lost Coast Designs Black Nose Skull and Doodle Flower 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 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

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