CHALLENGE #198 - COLOUR CHALLENGE

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 June here at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.
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 #198

COLOUR CHALLENGE

We want to see your stamped anythings featuring the colours 
LEMON AND LIME or TERRACOTTA AND TURQUOISE.
You can pick which colour scheme you want to use.  You can include black and white and a small splash of other colours if you must, but the main colours should be obvious.
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! 

The team were all inspired with the terracotta and turquoise option to get us started.  ENJOY!

Cathy used Lost Coast Designs Brush Stokes, Pieces of Calligraphy,
Pieces of Architecture and Postage

Liesbeth used Lost Coast Designs 3 Waiters, Pieces of Calligraphy and Pieces of Architecture

  
Riet used Lost Coast Designs Steampunk Bicycle Lady with Carmen's Veranda Clock 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 23.59 PST on the 30th 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 #198 - Lemon and Lime OR Terracotta and Turquoise
June 1st - 30th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Monday, June 30th 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
 

 

Love and Hearts Challenge - Sweet Love

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Ink Stained Roni here...I hope you're enjoying the current challenge Love & Hearts. Today I have a little "steamy" card for you - Sweet Love.

I love everything Steampunk so I thought it would be fun to create a Valentine's Day card for my sweetie using the new Gears background by stamping it with VersaMark ink on pink cardstock then embossing with Hematite EP.  

I then stamped the Steampunk Bicycle Lady twice, once on kraft colored paper and once on a piece of grey cardstock. The clock was trimmed from the kraft paper and inked along the edge with Pine Cone VersaFine Clair ink.  The Bicycle Lady was trimmed from the grey cardstock and colored using a variety of colored pencils.  The Clock was mounted directly to the pink card and the lady was adhered using foam tape.  To finish off the card I stamped "Sweet Love" from the set Misc. Words.

Hope you join in on the fun with our Love and Hearts Challenge!

You might just be the lucky winner.

Ticket To Ride

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!

Good morning and a very happy Monday! It's Sue here and it's the last few days of our fun Tag challenge, so here's my second piece.

This time I started by making an inky background and stamping the License Plate Alpha Set.

I LOVE this sentiment, they are words to live by!

These are my fab stamps

License Plate Alpha Set

Steampunk Bicycle Lady

Bird On Bike

Coffee Lies 

There's still time to join in with us, so start stamping your tags!

Have a great week whatever you are doing, and thanks so much for looking x

#135 Let's fly. Step by step, how to marble a background.

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, I love this theme, you can use what ever you like that can fly.

Birds, butterfly's, dragonfly's or steampunk images with wings, angels and .........

 Stamps that I used and how I made the card.

Steampunk bicycle lady.

Butterfly set.

Pieces of Calligraphy

Art wings to fly.

Coatted paper

Distress oxide:

Iced spruce

Speckled egg

Bundled sage

Stazon black

and some markers for coloring.

Smear some of the 3 oxide colors on your craftsheet and spray with water.

Dab the paper in here, repeat until you are satisfied.

I left it very light because I wanted a marble effect.

Now I made the marble veins with the black Distress oxide.

With the side of the ink pad you draw stripes on the craft sheet.

You spray this with water and put the paper on it.

Don't wipe, just dab the black.

Let it air dry.

And look what a beautiful result.

You can of course do it in all kinds of other color combinations.

Or just keep it black and white.

What ever you like most.

Stamp the Steampunk bicycle lady with Distress oxide iced spruce.

And with Stazon black you can now stamp the round pieces of calligraphy, the alphabet strip and the butterfly.

Because the paper is coated, it takes a little longer for the ink to dry.

Now mask all the stamps and stamp the background with Distress oxide Iced spruce and a piece of calligraphy stamp.

Color the stamps to your liking and then you're done.

The team would love it if you join the challenge.

And you can also win new rubber stamps.

You are not even required to use LCD stamps.

As long as you follow the theme.

So, click on the link and join us and most of all have fun.

Go to the challenge.

#119 Numbers

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 everybody, Riet here.

This challenge is al about numbers.

And as I have a preference for vintage and steampunk stamping, I went in that direction.

I used the lovely Steampunk bicycle lady.

This card is not so difficult to make.

So even a beginner can try out this technique.

I will help you through it.

So here we go.

What you need:

Steampunk bicycle lady.

Embossing folder with numbers on it.

A white card.

Distress oxide,

Speckled egg

Ground espresso

Broken china

Fossilized amber

Crackling campfire

Distressink (not the oxide) Walnut stain

Stazon Timber brown

Markers or pencils to color the stamp.

Now the first step is to make ink puddles with,

Speckled egg, Ground espresso, Broken china

and Fossilized amber.

Spray a little bit of water on the ink.

Now pickup the ink with the paper.

Dry the paper, but leave it a little bit damp.

When embossing with a folder it works better when the paper is not compleetly dry.

Run trough your die cutting machine.

For the next step we are going to swipe with the stamppads over the raised parts.

Spray a littlebit of water so the ink will run out a bitt.

Dry the paper and then repeat the proces again.

As last repeat it with the Broken China.

Keep doing this till you like the results.

Now stamp the steampunk bicycle lady and color her.

Before you gleu her on the card, I have sew some stitching at the top and bottem.

And added 3 hotfix bronze stars.

And glued the card on dark brown cardstock.

Hope you liked this tutorial, and have fun with stamping.

We, the team would love to see your makes. 

So feel free to join our numbers challenge.

There is a chance for you to win some rubberstamps.

You can join with all kind of stamp brands, 

but please read the rules first.

CHALLENGE #81 - 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 August and 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 #81

ANYTHING GOES

It's Anything Goes, but don't forget real Rubber or Clear stamping must be the focus of your project for it to have a chance at the prize.

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 has got her spook on with this cool card using Carmen's Veranda Flying Skulls

Laurie made this beautifully card using Lost Coast Designs Mannequins set

Roni made this gorgeous card using Lost Coast Designs Steampunk Bicycle Lady, Carmen's Veranda Grunge Black Swirl

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 #81 - Anything Goes
August 1st - 14th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Wednesday, August 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
 

CHALLENGE # 55 - ROUND AND ROUND

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 #55

ROUND AND ROUND

We want to see circles on your stamped makes.  Or maybe circular makes??  Your choice.  As long as we see circles and rubber or clear stamping it is in the running to win some Lost Coast dollars. 

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 = a Winner chosen by the team is awarded our Challenge Winner's Badge
5+ Entries = a randomly selected Winner will receive a $5 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV
10+ Entries = a randomly selected Winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV
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 inspiration from the team to get us started.  ENJOY!

Laurie made this gorgeously cool card using Lost Coast Designs Steampunk Bicycle Lady and Doodle Circles Background and the fun Carmen's Veranda Inappropriate Behaviour

Cathy is right on trend with the newly popular Artist Trading Coins using Bubbles border, Cat Wavy Face and Doodle Circles Background stamps from Lost Coast Designs

Lori made this beautiful card using the dragonfly from Lost Coast Designs More Bugz, script stamp from Broken Letters and Harmony

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 30th 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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