Learn from Yesterday

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 card for I Am Woman challenge.

 I started out with a white Copic friendly cardstock and stamped Lycaonia with black ink.
Then I colored with Copic markers.

I also colored the background with Copic markers and took the colorless blender and made "snowflakes" with it for the sky.

Next I added a saying and layered my panel on black cardstock, then a blue card base.

An easy coloring and layering card.

Don't forget to join the I Am Woman challenge.

CHALLENGE #45 - I AM WOMAN

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 #45 

I AM WOMAN

We want to see projects featuring women.  Any age, any style, just show us bashful girls or wise crones and every in between and help us celebrate the ladies.

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 = one Winner is awarded our Challenge Winner's Badge
5+ Entries = one Winner will receive a $5 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV
10+ Entries = one 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 with this gorgeous fun card using using Birthday Mona and Do I Smell Cake 

SUE made this lovely tag using Feather Diva With Face
 and Fly

PUFF made this quirky card using stamps from Mini Flying Ladies for the face, from Doll Accessories for the body, and from Mannequins for the dress

 
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 31th 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!
Marilyn
Challenge Host

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Soul Circles

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.  Gail here today to share some final inspiration for our Doodle challenge.  This is an ATC made by Marilyn using Lost Coast Design 5 Circles and Carmen's Veranda Art Wings to Fly clear sentiment stamp

 You have until 5 to midnight on the 14th January to link up your stamped makes to our Doodle challenge.  Dig out those doodle style stamps or add some squiggles and wiggles with a pen and join the fun for a chance to win some Lost Coast dollars.

Raven Doodles

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 raven doodles for you.

I made this card using stencil and stamps and a ink pad or two.

 Here is a close up of the stencil and corner swirl stamp I used.

What I did was take a white cardstock and a circle stencil (I used Tim Holtz).

Tape it down over the cardstock and pick your color of ink. (I used my favorite color purple)

I used Distress ink for this because it is easy to blend. I took the corner swirl stamp and stamped it over the stencil. Next I took the blender and the leftover ink on the stencil and blended it into the circles. So you have the dark ink from the stamp and the lighter ink from the blending.

Next I took the Raven right small and black ink and stamped it in the middle(ish) of the paper.

Last I took the Farting Unicorn saying under the Raven.

Added it to a black card base and I was done.

Come Join the Oodles of Doodles Challenge

Licensed To Party

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.  Gail here today to share a party card.  Did you know Lost Coast Designs are now selling the Katzelkraft Cats and Dogs stamps???  These are so fun.  Meet Party Cat.

I decided he needed to disco like it's 1999........

I started by stamping Lost Coast Design Fourth Dimension using blue and green radiant neon ink.  I used a ripped piece of paper to mask off the top of the image to make my disco floor

I stamped Party Cat with Distress Ox Fossilised Amber, cos I wanted those party doodle bubbles and spirals to be yellow.  Then I used the same ink to stamp Cracked Sky many times.  Love those little stars and spirals.

I used License Plate Alphabet and stamped the letters using the green and blue neon inks.  I outlined the letters with gel pen to add some definition.  Here's a quick snap to show how that doodled outline makes the letters pop.  I also doodled a faux stitched border and edged my letters with grey archival ink.

I cut the panel with a stitch die and mounted on a white card base.  Party Cat was stamped, embossed and fussy cut.  I made him orange, cos they say gingers have more fun.  Then I added my letters.  PARTY!!!!

Our current challenge is Doodle and you will find the linky HERE

Thanks for visiting.  
Don't forget to drop by all month for fresh inspiration from the team.

Doodle in Dreams

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!

Our Challenge for this month of January is "Doodling", and there are so many great "doodle" stamps on the Lost Coast Designs website. 

For this card, I used Face With Heart Stamp and Doodle "Dream" clear stamp.  
I used black ink and stamped the face directly onto my background, then used Copic markers to add some color.  My background is made with my Gelli plate and rust, yellow, and brown acrylic paints and various stencils.  I then stamped the word "Dream" with black ink below the face.  I layered this with a brown piece of card stock then layered that with a torn edged piece of water color paper.
  
Now you go and create your own "Doodle" and enter the challenge for a chance to win free stamps from Lost Coast Designs!