Exciting Things Are Just Around The Corner

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Hello Portal Peeps.
Today we would like to start by introducing our new teamster

DOT LEATHBRIDGE

Dot is joining us from Australia.   Here's what she has to say about herself,

Hi everyone, I'm Dot and I live in Geelong, Australia. My two boys are now all grown up and are beginning their own adventures which is exciting to see.
I started my crafting journey by going to a 'stamp party' when the kids were younger and was instantly hooked! I am a passionate stamper who loves to experiment and have fun with stamps. There are so many different ways to use them.

I've been on few design teams over the years along with the occasional chance to be published in magazines both in Australia and overseas. I now have my own shop, on Etsy, where I sell the stamps that I love, including Lost Coast Designs stamps.

Lost Coast Designs stamps have long been a favourite of mine. I love how unique and original they are, so different to any other stamps that are out there. They just make you smile every time you see them.

Welcome to the team Dot.  Over to you......

Hi, it's Dot here and I'm excited to share my first DT card with you today.
I had so much fun putting this card together and I hope you give it a go.
It's great to get back into the swing of crafting after the Christmas and New Year break.

This card is where the stamps do all the work, with only a little bit of masking involved.

Step x Step:

• Stamp the Daisy Flourish onto your card. I've used Archival Jet Black. 
• Paint over the flourish with masking fluid with a fine paint brush and let dry. It only takes a minute or two.
• Ink up the Arches and Door with different shades of brown ink. Start with light brown first and then go to the darker browns so that you don't wreck your ink pads.
• Clean any wet ink from your masked area and then lightly rub away the masking.
• Because it is a large stamp I've taken the card to the stamp and carefully rubbed over the card. A little like when you are using a gelli-plate, keeping one hand on the card at all times so that it doesn't slip.
• Stamp the 3 animals from the Isle of Aud set onto photocopy paper.  Again I've used Archival ink.  Cut out and edge lightly with Black Soot DI.
• To finish, attach the animals to your background. Stamp the smallest puppy from Puppy 1 (Carri's Menagerie) into the doorway. Mat and layer your card onto coordinating card.
  
  
  
  
  
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Doodle Flowers

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Happy New Year - Laurie here.  We start the new year off with a fun Anything Goes theme
for our first challenge.  This leaves you with lots and lots of possibilities for all kinds of projects and you get to make your own theme!

I made a series of ATC cards using the Sketchy Cone Flower and the Sketchy Lily Flower stamps, both to be found in the new section of the Lost Coast Designs rubber stamp catalogue.

I stamped my flowers onto some scraps of paper I had on hand that I had made using my Gelli Plate and some acrylic paints.  I chose red, orange, blue and yellow/green.  I used Staz On black ink for the stamping, then cut out the flower portion of each one.  

Next I stamped four different pieces of scrapbook paper with four of the ATC background stamps that can be found in the ATC section of Lost Coast Designs:  ATC Misc. 6 Set and the ATC Text Set 1 and cut them to fit the front of a standard ATC.  I edged each with black ink, then stamped the Cone and Lily flowers onto each background.  I then pasted my cut out flowers onto each of the four ATC cards.

The final step was to stamp Clear Stamp phrases with black ink onto white paper, cut out, and affix atop each flower as shown.  
And there you have four colorful and fun ATCs that you can use for swapping or gifting.

Please join our first challenge of 2019 and show us what fun stamped creations you can make!

Frosty Blue Hugs

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It's an "Anything Goes" challenge at the moment so I thought I'd share a little card that is quite timely in my neck of the woods...Frosty Blue Hugs!

Yes, it's been a bit breezy here in Indiana with our first snowfall of 2019 so I went with this fun mixed media card sending you Frosty Blue Hugs with this darling little snowbear.

The background was created by pouncing Memento Bahama Blue, Summer Sky and just a touch of Paris Dusk. I then spritzed the inks with Frost Sheer Shimmer Spritz to mix and add a bit of sparkle.  I pressed a cardstock panel into the ink mixture and set it aside to dry.

I then stamped both large and small snowflake stamps with VersaFine Clair in Paradise Blue, a few using Kaliedacolor Blue Breeze inkpad and Silver Delicata ink.

I then stamped the little bear with the VFC Paradise ink and water colored him with a variety of blues and a touch of red.  I added some black pen work and glitter to finish him off.  He was fussy cut, added to the snowflake panel and it was all affixed to a red card base.

It's your turn...have you created a card this year?

If so be sure to link it to our challenge for your chance to win!!

Good Luck Everyone!

Supplies:

Lost Coast Designs - Creepy Doll Teddy 1,
Snowflakes - Lg, 
Snowflakes - Sm

Imagine - Memento Ink,
Kaliedacolor - Blue Breeze,
VersaFineClair,
Delicata,
Sheer Shimmer Spritz
On Point Glue

Other - Glitter
Black Pen
Kuretake Gansi Tambi Watercolor
Niji Water Brush
Sentiment Diecuts

Ink Watercoloing with TeeHee Pixie

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Hello all, Lori here today.

If you haven't checked out the Lost Coast Designs Hard Luck Pixie line then you are really missing out.  These are wonderful images available in 6 different Pixie designs.  I used the TeeHee Pixie on this card along with the Sketchy Rose and Little Diamonds images in the background.  Love this combination of stamps.  Step by steps are shown below.

Lost Coast Design Stamps used:

Hard Luck Pixies - TeeHee

Little Diamonds Background

Sketchy Rose

Instructions:

I hope you have enjoyed this project and will join us in the Anything Goes Challenge!
I would love to see your creations!

Happy day!

Lori

Opera Singing Brunhilda

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Hello all, Cathy here with a Opera singing card.

 As I was making it all I was thinking of Looney Tunes cartoon with Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny and them singing the Opera. Tell me what you think if you see it.

I started out by stamping Brunhilda  and then making a mask for it. I colored her with my Copic markers and then I cut out the mask. 

Then I cut out some "grass" stencil from scrap cardstock and used my distress ink to color the grass. I also die cut a circle from that scrap and used my distress ink and made a moon. After I added the mask to Brunhilda  I stamped the pillars from the ATC shrine set. Colored them with Copic markers.

I finished the card by coloring the sky with some Copic markers. 

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DECEMBER WINNER

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Greetings
It's time to announce the WINNER of our December Challenge!

So many lovely Cold and Frosty creations.  We would like to thank everyone who entered their lovely projects and it was so nice to see some Lost Coast Design and Carmen's Veranda stamps.  You of course get an extra chance in the random draw for using our stamps on your projects.  Thanks for playing with us!

Please do read the rules and also the challenge guidelines which are written under the challenge badges on the challenge post and in the sidebar.  We have to disqualify entries that do not comply with our rules or challenge themes.

We used Mr Random

WINNER of CHALLENGE #66

Cold and Frosty

is

JANNET

with this pretty snowy scene

Congrats Jannet, you win a $10 gift certificate.  Please email Gail (craftynomad at gmail dot com) by the end of January to claim your prize.  Please provide your full name and mailing address in the email as well as the stamps you would like.  You may choose from Lost Coast Designs and/or Carmen's Veranda!

Here's your snazzy Challenge Winner's badge for your blog!
Please link your badge back to us here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.
 

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ANYTHING GOES

Link up your stamped anythings

 for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.