CHALLENGE #208 MID-MONTH REMINDER - GNOMES

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Hello Portal Peeps.  
 

For April we are all about GNOMES here at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.
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 #208

GNOMES

You have all month to share your stamped anythings featuring GNOMES!!  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 a mid-month blast of inspiration from the team.  ENJOY!

Aimee used Lost Coast Designs Sunglasses Gnome and Daffodil Background 

Darlene used Lost Coast Designs Gardener Gnome

Kathi used Lost Coast Designs Go Away 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

Challenge #208 - Anything Goes With Gnomes
April 1st - 30th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Thursday, April 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
 

  

new beginning

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Cathy here with a gnome postcard.

Stamps Used:

Cherry blossom 

sunglasses gnome

I started out by stamping the cherry blossom stamp and colored the buds with a pink glitter pen. I then stamped the sunglasses gnome and colored him in with pencils.

Lastly, I edged it all with drown ink.

I hope you join the fun challenge.

Butterfly Reminder

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Hi all, Aimee here. I LOVE making gift tags. They may be smaller in size, but that doesn't mean they can't make a big impact! With ribbons, embossing, 3-D butterfly sticker wings, and photo corners--there's a lot of visual interest:

I used the Sunglasses Gnome and Brush Strokes stamps from Lost Coast Designs, and the Butterfly Reminder sentiment from Carmen's Veranda. Follow along to see how this tag was made:

The Lost Coast Portal to Creativity is hosting a January Challenge: Things With Wings. Submit your creation by January 31 for your chance to win a prize!

Hippy groovy gnome with a hat

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Goodmorning Cathy here with a hippy gnome card for you.

Stamps Used:

gnome with sunglasses

I started out by stamping gnome with sunglasses and coloring him in with copic markers. As I was coloring him it popped in my head to make him a hippy gnome. I layered him on some black cardstock, and I set him aside. So, I made a tie-dye looking background with a 3D embossing folder and some distress inks and a black ink.

Here is a close up of the background I made. I added some glitter sequence to some of the middles of the circles. 

Today is the last day to join in on where's my hat challenge. 

Thanksgiving Gnomes

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Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends! Aimee here. In honor of the holiday, I thought I'd make this Thanksgiving Gnomes greeting card as part of the "Gnome-vember Challenge" on the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.

Today is a day to express gratitude. Why not try making this cute gnome card and writing a heartfelt message inside to send to someone who could use a little extra love. The Lost Coast Designs website has an amazing catalogue of gnome stamps--there are so many fun ones to choose from. For this card I used Sunglasses Gnome, New Girl Gnome, and Silly Gnome (isn't he hilarious?!). Follow along with these photos to see how this card was made.

And there you have it! One thing I'm grateful for this year is my role on the Design Team for Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda. It's a wonderful creative outlet that challenges me to try new things. There's still time for YOU to try something new by creating something with gnomes as part of "Gnome-vember's Challenge." You have until November 30 to submit your creation to the Lost Coast Portal To Creativity. Happy Stamping!

A Happy Gnomey Christmas!

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 Good morning and a very happy Friday! Can you believe we're halfway through December and hurtling toward Christmas at breakneck pace! If it isn't done by now.... you probably live in our house and in your mind there's still LOADS of time lol.

For my second card I've used one of my favourite combos, kraft card, white ink, and coloured pencils.

I started with Brilliance ink and a leaf stencil. Then added a little bit of blue (not so delicately) around the edges.

A little bit of snowy spatter makes everything look better!

These are my lovely stamps, I've used my trusty

Misc Words and

Sunglasses Gnome

I hope you're having fun with your own Christmas preparations, and that you join in with our challenge.

Take care and have a very happy weekend x

Gnome hat tag

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Hello, all Cathy here with a tag I made.

Stamped Used:

Sunglasses Gnome

ATC Italian postmark

I started out with stamping Sunglasses Gnome and coloring it with copic markers.

 Next, I found a scrap piece of pattern paper and I stamped ATC Italian postmark randomly on it with brown ink. I then stamped ATC Italian postmark randomly on the tag background. I edged the tag and the pattern paper with the same brown ink. I added some stickers, rub-ons and paper bits to but it all together. 

 

Come join the Hat challenge fun here

Merry Christmas From Our Gnome To Yours

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 Good morning and a very happy Monday. It's Sue here and my first project for our 'Gnome' challenge is a Christmas card. Let's face it, Christmas card production is at the top of many crafters to-do list at the moment.

This is a huge card, about 11 inches long (luckily it came with its own envelope)

I started by matting and layering some card and designer paper to my card blank.

Then I stamped, coloured, and cut out my gnomes and houses. The sentiment has been printed from my computer onto vellum.

These are my lovely stamps. They are

Sunglasses Gnome

Three Gnomes and

Stone House

Then it was just a case of assembling my gnome village and adding some snow.

I hope you join in with our fun challenge and stamp out your gnomes!

Take care and have a very happy December x

It's All In The Cards

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 Good morning and a very happy Thursday. It's Sue here and I'm sharing my huge playing cards with you for our fun 'Numbers' challenge.

I started with these three giant cards from my deck, they are about 8 inches tall.

For my numbers, I used a couple of Lost Coast borders, Bingo, and Numbers and just cut them out and layered them.

Now it's time for the gnomes! This is the Ace of gnomes, Book Gnome, and I've teamed him with the Carmen's Veranda sentiment Power Of Coffee.

Next, it's the two of gnomes, Sunglasses Gnome which I've put together with Full Ass.

And finally the three of gnomes with Three Gnomes and The Ass Family

These are the stamps that I used,

Bingo

Numbers

Book Gnome

Sunglasses Gnome

3 Gnomes

Power of Coffee

Ass Family

These were great fun to make, I hope you like them and that you join in with our challenge. Just join up with the linky for the chance to win some Lost Coast dollars.

Take care and have a very happy day x

Neon Hippie Gnome

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Hello all Cathy here with a neon card for you.

Stamps used: sunglass gnome

Horizontal party hats

I started out with some white cardstock and 3 colors of neon paint. I but 3 blobs of paint on my craft mat and took a brayer to them and rolled it on the paper. Set aside to dry. 

Stamp sunglass gnome and color his strips with neon markers. I bet you could use highlighters if you didn't have neon markers. I colored the rest of the sunglass gnome with copic markers. Cut out. 

Now back to the piece that has the neon paint. I die cut it to fit on the front of the card. Also I stamped

the Horizontal party hats in the same neon colors as the paints but they didn't really show up. You can knida see it on the top of the blue. I then felt it need something so I took a butterfly stencil and some black paint and added that. 

Lastly I added washi tape for the gnome to stand on and added to a dark brown card base. 

                                                    

I hope you will join in your hat challenge here.

Gnomeo Gnomeo, Wharefore Art Thou Gnomeo?

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 Good morning and a very happy Sunday. It's Sue here with my second piece for our Gnomes challenge, and I thought it was time that I brought a bit of culture!

I've often wondered (and by 'often' I mean never) what would have become of Romeo and Juliet if they hadn't died young. My guess is she'd have got a little chunky and he would only change his socks when nagged.

I started by stamping my background with Doodle Circles and colouring in with alcohol markers.

Next, I stamped, coloured, and cut out Sunglasses Gnome and Coffee. I gave Coffee a gnome hat from 3 Gnomes. I've given them both a nice romantic heart 'cos they still love each other really, and let's face it, no-one else would have them! Many a long-lasting marriage has been build on this principle.

The sentiment has just been typed up on my computer - I won't tell you what Juliet thought about Gnomeo!

You still have a full week to join in with our challenge, so please have a go and link up for the chance to win some Lost Coast dollars. Take care, and enjoy the rest of your weekend xx