Frank and Maureen's Big Day Remembered

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.  The team is having a real blast with the current challenge theme of Celebrate It!!  If you can make a party out of it then we want to see your makes.  Don't forget we need to see real rubber or clear stamping and the theme as the focus of your project for it to have a chance to win the wonderful Lost Coast dollars.  

Today I made a Happy Anniversary card for Frank and Maureen

There they are on the happy day.  Frank looking particularly dashing in his new Crushed Olive jacket with Pine Needles trousers.  Maureen had taken fashion consultant Igor's advice and gone with a Wilted Violet hair wash to match the Shaded Lilac dress.  Frank though Igor the photographer hadn't quite centered the subjects, but Igor the cardmaker said hang it all a bit squiffy and no one will notice.  So we did!  What a day!!

The Door stamped with London Fog memento ink and coloured with distress inks.

American Gothic Party stamped on gold mirror card, embossed with black powder and then cut inside the frame.

I stamped, coloured and fussy cut Frank and Bride of Frank and stamped the words from Misc. Words on gold mirror card, embossed with black powder and cut with a stitch die. 

 Join the fun and link up your stamped celebration makes for a 
chance to win Lost Coast Designs Dollars!!
Remember, the more players the bigger the prize!!

CHALLENGE #79 - CELEBRATE IT

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 yourself 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 #79

CELEBRATE IT!!

Link up your stamped makes with a celebration theme for a chance to win Lost Coast $$$$$'s. Birthdays, Weddings, Anniversaries etc. all welcome.

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 random 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 chosen by the team is awarded our Challenge Winner's Badge
5+ Entries = one randomly picked winner will receive a $5 gift certificate to spend at
Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda
10+ Entries = one randomly picked winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to spend at
Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda
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.  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! 

The team are really having fun with this theme!  Here's some inspiration to get us started.  ENJOY!

Laurie made this fabulous card using Lost Coast Designs Waltzing Cowboys and Medium Shrubbery Background, and Carmen's Veranda Smell Cake sentiment.

 

Lori made this wonderful happy birthday coffee cup sleeve using Lost Coast Designs Doodle Flower Background and Carmen's Veranda My Coffee sentiment.    

Roni made this fabulous card using Lost Coast Designs Showgirls 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 5 to midnight PST on the 14th 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 #79 - CELEBRATE IT!!
July 1st - 14th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Sunday, July 14th 23.59 PST.
All entries must be entered in our link up, or in our fb fan page challenge album.  See our RULES page for more info
 

Queen

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.  Roni here today.

I had so much fun with this card.... I started off by scribbling watercolor art crayons by Marabu all over the card panel then blending with water.  When I liked the colors I left it to dry. I then stamped the flourish over the entire panel.

I stamped the head and words on white cardstock. The head was watercolored and fussy cut. It was then mounted on the card with double sided tape. Each of the words was cut from the cardstock and mounted on the right side of the card. I used a black fine tip pen to outline each of the words.

Lost Coast Designs Rubber Stamps:
Phrenology Heads; Misc Words; Long Swirl Flourish

There is still time to join the Face On challenge.
Feature a Human Face on your stamped make for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.

Slow Dumb Stuff.

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 everyone,
It's Dot here with a tutorial for you.
Have you ever made something and then right at the end you made a mark that just wasn't meant to be there?
That is exactly what happened when making this card.
I felt like I was totally relating to these fun words from Carmen Veranda!

I loved matching this wise lady with these words.
This is how it all came together ...

Step 1:  I've a little collection of scrap backgrounds - don't we all? The background was made ages ago when I was playing around with my new Distress Oxides and seeing what yellow and pink looked like together.

Step 2:  I cut a hole in some paper toweling and used it as a 'window' to choose the area that I wanted to use for my background. I didn't want to miss out on some good splats. I then trimmed this down.

Step 3:  I stamped and coloured 'Coffee' with my inktense pencils.  Then cut here our.  She was an easy image to cut out.

Step 4:  For the words I used Slow Dumb Stuff. These are words to live by!!! I really related to them, and I KNOW that my friends will too. I masked off one lot of words, inked them up and stamped them above where she was going. For this I placed her on the card so that I had an idea where to stamp. Then I cleaned the stamp and did the same for the rest of the words - stamping them under where she was going to be.

Step 5:  A little stenciling with Distress Ink.  Some stamping of Long Swirls using Distress Oxides finished off the background ... or so I thought!

I accidentally dropped my black inkpad onto the background!

Step 6:  Time to fix up the unwanted ink mark.  I simply ripped up some washi tape (the same as what was used for masking off the words) and covered the mark.  I liked it, so I added more here and there so that it didn't look odd. I even put some under her feet so that she had something to stand on.

Step 7:  I couldn't resist putting a few black painty circles onto the background to help the washi tape blend in more. Water spray lids and pen lids were handy for this.  Then it was time to mount the piece onto some black and white cardstock.

I was really 'living the words' when making this one.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

There is still time to enter our challenge this fortnight.
It is all about Faces.

You can enter by clicking on the challenge here,
or over on face book.  Either way you'll be in with a chance to win.

Happy Stamping
Dot x

The Other Side of a Kiss

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.   For my inspiration piece for the current Face On challenge I used the kissing technique.  This is where you stamp one stamp onto another inked stamp to remove some of the ink and give a subtle pattern.

 I stamped and masked the Geisha, inked the large rectangle Shadow Frame with pink distress oxide ink, pressed the Bamboo stamp into it, then stamped the Shadow Frame over the masked Geisha image.  This gives that ghosty bamboo look.  Then I stamped the Carmen's Veranda Quiet Chaos Madness sentiment.

 I was kissing with the Bamboo stamp from the Asian set and decided not to waste an inked stamp!!

For this second card I stamped and masked the Geisha again and then stamped the pink distress oxide inked Bamboo.  She looks so thoughtful.  I thought this would maybe make a good thinking of you or even a sympathy card.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Don't forget to join the fun with your stamped projects featuring a human face for your chance to win Lost Coast Design $$$$. 

Include A Human Face: The Girl With A Curl

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 again from Laurie on this 22nd day of June with a project for the current challenge here on the Portal:  Include a Human Face.  So we want you to put a human face on your project and you can do that any way that appeals to you.

I have made a square collage piece using the  Girl With A Curl stamp from Lost Coast Designs and the Postcard Background from Carmen's Veranda.

I started by stamping the girl onto a scrap of cream paper then tore around the edges to give it a rough look.  I added just a hint of color with some pink Distress Ink to her cheeks.  

I had on hand some Tim Holtz decorative tissue paper that I had dyed using coffee.  I stitched my girl's face onto a square piece of that tissue paper.  Next I took some leafy die cuts and stamped them with the Postcard Background stamp to add some text, then glued them to opposing corners. 

For the final step, I took a rough edged piece of hand made cream paper and stitched my tissue paper square to that.  I love this Girl With A Curl stamp and like the vintage-y feel of this collage piece.

Please join us here at the Portal and show us your stamped projects you create that Include A Human Face.  You just might win some free stamps!!