Fruit, Flower & Foliage: A Dutch card! ;-)

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Hello lovely people, Liesbeth here again. Our current challenge is Fruit, Flower & Foliage and as a Dutchie I would love to show you the Tulip! I love the Carmens Veranda Tulip stamp so much!

First, using a rainbow ink pad,  I stamped the LCD background stamp Flowers on an inked piece of cardstock. With StazOn ink I stamped the Tulip twice (I masked the first) and bleached them. I coloured the tulips with colour pencils and I stamped the sentiment from Party Words.

A very Dutch card I think! Hope you participate this flowery challenge, see you next time!

Liesbeth XX

Gnome-vember challenge, Match box with popup gnome.

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, Today a tutorial on how to make this gift box.

Its a Karen Burnstein die.

But if you have a score board you kan make a matchbox.

This box is made for the,

Lost Coast designs/Carmens Veranda stamps challenge blog.

What I used for this box.

LCD tulip gnome the big one.

LCD pieces of calligraphy

LCD longswirl

CV Tulip

Distress oxide:

Wilted Violet

Peacock feathers

Twisted citron

Spiced marmelade

Strip acetate.

A small piece of ribbbon.

A bead or button.

Color pencils or markers.

White gelpen.

Black ink I used versafine.

Color the box with the four colors of distress oxide. 

Don't forget to do the inside of the drawer too.

Inside of the drawer.

Make a hole in the front of the drawer.

Pull the ribbon through the button or bead and through the hole.

Glue the ribbon and assemble the drawer.

Now you have a pull knob on the front of the drawer.

Stamp the Gnome and the tulip with the Versafine.

Color the gnome and tulip as you like.

Give the gnome and the tulip some accents with a white gellpen.

Take the strip of acetate, 1cm wide and 7cm long. 

Make a fold in the acetate strip at 2cm.

Glue the long piece on the back of the gnome.

And the short piece in the drawer. 

If you now pull the drawer open, the gnome jumps up and offers you a tulip.

To finish the box, take the smallest stamp from the Pieces of calligraphy and the Versafine.

Stamp lightly here and there, it doesn't have to be a perfect print.

With the Long swirl stamp and the oxides I made some small prints.

I did this with Orange on orange and green on green etc.

Let your ink dry.

Now, isn't this a nice gift box?

You can put candy or chocolates in it.

Or a gift card.

Make sure you put it under the gnome.

Are you also making something with a gnome?

Then join the challenge and maybe you will win those new stamps.

You can join with other brands, as long as there is stamping on your art.

So hope to see you on the challenge.

Click here for the challenge.

CHALLENGE #191 REMINDER - GNOME-VEMBER

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Hello Portal Peeps.  
 

It's time for a reminder about our November 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.

CHALLENGE #191

GNOME-VEMBER

We want to see everything Gnome.  You have all month to share your stamped anythings with any theme.  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!

   
 Kathi used Lost Coast Designs Mini Gnomes 2

 
Riet used Lost Coast Designs Tulip Gnome, Pieced of Calligraphy and Long Swirl with Carmen's Veranda Tulip

Darlene used Lost Coast Designs mini Side Sign Gnome

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

 

MID MONTH REMINDER CHALLENGE #181 - 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!

 

Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here today with a mid-month reminder for the current Anything Goes Challenge. The challenges now run for the whole month so you have plenty of time to join the fun.   PLEASE READ THE RULES.  We have made a few changes and updates and some of the entries in the linky already are not eligible for the prize.  You can find the rules tab at the top of the blog.

CHALLENGE #181

ANYTHING GOES

It's Anything Goes!  You have all month to share your stamped anythings with any theme.  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!

 

Roni used Lost Coast Designs No Hat Mona with Carmen's Veranda Swearing Burns Calories sentiment

 Riet used Carmen's Veranda Tulip with Lost Coast Designs Shadow Frames, Pieces of Calligraphy and Brushstrokes

Laurie used Lost Coast Designs Coat Lady and Pieces of Calligraphy with Carmen's Veranda All Together sentiment

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 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 #181 - Anything Goes
January 1st - 31st Please READ over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Wednesday, January 31st 23.59 PST.
All entries must be entered in our link up or in our fb group.  See our RULES page for more info