Three Wise Gnomes

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 some simple inspiration for the Festive Fun Challenge. It's a busy time of year so I think it's nice to be able to stamp a quick make.

I stamped Lost Coast Designs 3 Gnomes on a white card base and coloured with water colour pencils.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Reindeer Gnome on white card, coloured him and fussy cut.  I stuck him over the middle gnome and stamped the Happy Christmas sentiment.  I used a fancy sizzix die to cut the base card for some added some interest.  

You have all month to share your stamped anythings with a Christmas theme.  Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project.   Hope you get time to join the fun.  The team are sharing awesome inspiration all month so do check back often to see all their amazing projects.

 

CHALLENGE #203 - FESTIVE FUN

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 #203

FESTIVE FUN

You have all month to share your stamped anythings with a Christmas 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!

Cathy used Lost Coast Designs Reindeer Gnome

  
Riet used Lost Coast Designs Pokey Pigeon, Grunge Tree and Party Words

Darlene used Lost Coast Designs Santa Mona and Party Words 

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 #203 - Festive Fun
November 1st - 30th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Sunday, November 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
 

 

Happy Holidays mini slimline

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, Cathy here with the last day of Gnome-vember.

Stamps Used:

Deer gnome

I used the deer gnome, and I colored it with copic markers and cut out. I felt he needed a little sparkle for his hat. After I cut him out, I added some red stickles to it. I had to let it dry for bit. (I did overnight)

 

Next, I had some Christmas stocking paper I was going to place him on, but he needed to stand on something, so I added some black washi tape and a Happy Halidays sticker to the top and added it to a Kraft mini slimline card base and he is ready for me to send out as a holiday card.

Today is the last day to join the gnome-vember challenge.

#180 In the deep mid winter.

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, Riet here.

It's December so that's why it's a winter challenge.

Everything related to it is good for the challenge.

I chose these funny Christmas gnomes, really love them.

They come in two sizes.

For this shaker card I used the smaller ones.

And this is how I made the card:

What I used:

LCD stamps

Gnome Santa with toys

Reindeer gnome

Gnome santa in chimney

Checkerboard rustic border

Party words.

Distressink:

Barn door

Memento tuxedo black

Small snowflake punch

Punch for white small cirkels that looks like snow 

White acrylic paint

White posca marker

Markers or pencils to color the gnomes.

Foam tape

Mica sheet

Window and frame die.

I started by coloring and cutting out the gnomes.

With the Distressink Barn door and Rustic wilderness I made 6 prints on my worksheet.

Spray some water on it and place your paper on top.

Don't wipe, just give it some time to absorb the ink.

Once the paper is completely dry, we will splash with white acrylic paint.

While the background is drying we continue with the frame.

We stamp the frame with Distress ink Rustic wilderness and the checkerd border stamp.

On the bottom of the frame we stamp the text "Merry Christmas" with Memento black.

I cut some silver snowflakes with the punch.

And some dots in 3 sizes from white paper.

That is the filling for the shaker element.

I glue the red/green background onto a piece of paper.

Glue the checker board frame around it.

Now stick the foam tape on the back

and stick it on a white card.

Now glue the mica sheet that you first cut to size on the inside of the window frame.

Place foam tape around the frame.

Now place the shaker elements on the background and stick the window frame on the background.

Use the posca pen to put some white dots on the text.

Now we glue the gnomes to the windows.

The card is ready.

I hope you like it.

I'd love to see what you make of it.

So post it on the challenge blog or on the Facebook group.

Then you have a chance to win new stamps.

Gnomey Christmas

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 and Happy 1/2 way to Christmas.

Stamps Used:

reindeer gnome

pieces of calligraphy 

small snowflake set

 

I started out by stamping the reindeer gnome and coloring him with copics. I then cut him down to the size I wanted and set him aside so I can work on my background.

I took a cream color cardstock and some red distress spray and did the smooching technique with it. Next a grabbed some distress oxide ink in red and did the same thing. I was hopping to get some different levels of red but not really.

I then took the  pieces of calligraphy set and stamped it on the background I did the same with the small snowflake set all with black ink. 

Add some washi tape and some sequence and your gnome to the front and you are done. 

 

I hope you will join us with the Christmas in July challenge. If anything you can get a head start on your Christmas cards. 

Three Hats Are Better Than One

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 Portal Peeps!!  A few hours left of November and also your chance to enter the Festive Fun challenge.  Get stamping and add your makes.  We are giving away some of Lost Coast Designs awesome stamps to one lucky winner, but like Reindeer Gnome says, you gotta be in it to win it!

I made an Artist Trading card using charcoal Bazzill cardstock.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Small Snowflakes and embossed with brass embossing powder.  I went round the edges of the card with Fossilised Amber Distress Oxide and used Antique Linen distress oxide add the bottom to make some ground.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Reindeer Gnome on white card, coloured with Promarkers and glitter glue and fussy cut.  For added festive fun I made two more!!!! 

 All good things come in threes!!

Join the fun and link up your stamped Festive Fun makes.  Linky closes 23.59 PST....

Christmas in July

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 some Christmas tags for you
Stamps Used:
Reindeer gnome
Pompom gnome
Sunglasses gnome
CDRolly jester 
Pieces of Architecture
Small snowflake set

I started off with some Kraft tags and some distress oxide sprays. 

 One I drippled the the sprays from the the bottle. Set aside to dry. I stamped Pieces of Architecture only on the blues ones. I really didn't like how it came out. You really couldn't see them.

On the second tag I took all the splatter and smooched it on to the tag. On both of them I stamped  Small snowflake set  with blue ink.

 I repeated the same steps for the green and red tags.

Then all the tags were dry I stamped out my main images and cut them out. Then I decided where there were going on the tag and then colored them with Copic to match the tags.
Layered them with washi tape and glitter. 

 You can join the Christmas in July Challenge here

Also the sale is still going on at Lost Coast and Carmen's Veranda. 25% off.