Sketchy Birthday!

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Welcome Friends!

As you know the current challenge is Anything Goes so I decided to play a bit with Imagine's Fireworks! Spray paired with Craft Plastic and this fun Sketchy Cone Flower....

I started off by spritzing my craft mat with Ivy Cottage, Bamboo Leaves and Gold Shimmer Spritz. I then dipped a piece of the Craft Plastic into the ink mix and heated to dry. I continued this process until I was happy with the look.

I stamped the Sketchy Cone Flower onto the Craft Plastic with Piano Black StazOn Pigment Ink.  I stamped the flower a second time onto white cardstock using VersaFine Clair Nocturne. The cardstock flower was colored using a variety of colored pencils, fussy cut and popped onto the Craft Plastic panel using double stick foam tape.

I matted the Craft Plastic piece with a bright turquoise cardstock and positioned it onto a white card panel. I then stamped the sentiment using Teal Zeal Memento Ink. This panel was then mounted onto a bright turquoise card blank.

Hope you've enjoyed my little card and join in on the fun for our

Challenge #81 Anything Goes!

Lost Coast Design Stamps: Sketchy Cone Flower; Party Words

Anything Goes Challenge: girl with a curl

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here! For the Anything goes challenge I made this card with two wonderful background stamps and a beautiful womans face. Stamps I used:
Girl with a curl
Flagstone background
Daisy flourish

I pressed some pads of Distress Oxide ink direct onto the craft sheet, sprayed water and swiped a white square card through the ink. I repeated it a few times. I stamped the flagstones and the flourish using black StazOn ink , and I bleached some small flowers with bleach and a synthetic brush.  On a seperate piece of white cardstock I stamped the woman and coloured her with pencils.

HERE you will find all the information about our Anything Goes challenge (August 1st - 14th) hope you'll join!

Liesbeth XX

Bee bag & tag

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Hello all you Lost Coast fans out there. Cathy here with a bag and tag for you today.
Stamp set used: Bugz set

I started out with a plain brown gift bag. I used a stencil that looked like a honey comb and some yellow distress ink and stenciled that all across the bottom of the bag.  Next I did the same thing in each of the corners.
Stamp the bee with black ink in the center of the bag. Then stamp the bee definition under the bee.
The bag is done.

Next it is tag time. Take the definition stamp and stamp it twice on the tag. Then use the same honey comb stencil and yellow distress ink all over the tag. Stamp bees in brown ink so the are not so prominent. Dye some ribbon to match the yellow that was used and tie it to the handle of the bag.

Your bag is done. I added some note paper I got. (that is what sparked my idea to make the bag.)

I hope you will join us in this anything goes challenge. You can enter here.

JULY WINNERS

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Greetings
It's time to announce the WINNERS of our July Challenges and Fridafest blog hop!

We would like to thank everyone who entered their lovely projects and it was so nice to see so many using 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 #79

CELEBRATE IT 

is

Karen Ladd 

with this fun red white and blue cupcake card

Congrats Karen, you win a $10  gift certificate

WINNER of CHALLENGE #80

CHRISTMAS IN JULY

is

Cornelia

with this monstrously cool card

Congrats Cornelia, you win a $10 gift certificate

We would also like to thank everyone who hopped around and left comments on our
Fridafest blog hop

We had a linky party as well and would like to thank everyone who took the time to create.  Unfortunately we didn't have enough entries to award the linky prize but the lucky blog hop winner is

Tonya Burke

Congrats Tonya, you win a $10 gift certificate

 Congratulations Karen , Cornelia and Tonya!  Please email Gail (craftynomad at gmail dot com) by the end of the month 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.
 

Our current challenge is

ANYTHING GOES

Link up your stamped anythings

 for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.

Use Stamp Press to create multi-color background with Little Diamond Background Stamp - Anything Goes

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Hello all,

Lori here, with a card featuring the Chloe face stamp and a multi-colored background.  The background for this card was made with several stamped images from the Little Diamond Background stamp using a stamp press.

Lost Coast Design Stamps:

• Chloe Face
• Little Diamonds Backgrounds

Other Materials:

• Dye based ink 
• Double sided tape
• Dew Drops
• Saying sticker
• Stamp press
• Colored Pencils

Instructions:

1) Using a stamp press, ink sections of the Little Diamonds Background stamp and stamp cardstock panel.  Repeat, inking different sections with different ink colors.

2) Using the same ink colors, apply splatters.

3) Stamp Chloe Face image onto card panel.

4) Stamp Chloe Face on a different piece of cardstock and cut out.

5) Select saying sticker and adhere to card panel.

6) Embellish with Dew Drops.

7) Adhere panel for card base.

8) Add a bit of color to Chloe Face image (cut out element) and then adhere to card base (over previous stamped image) with double sided mounting tape.

I hope you will try out this stamp technique as well as join us for the Anything Goes Challenge, just click on the badge below!

Happy day!

Lori

Infinitely Weird

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here today and it's Anything Goes!!!! 
Anything??
I blame my anything on the particularly warm weather we are experiencing.
Summers in Norway are not usually this warm.
Ice creams and brain cells are melting away.
It's too warm for ducks and reindeer.
But reinducks are having a ball.

Stay Weird!!  Yes, indeed.  Maybe it should have been stay cool!!!!

OK, so I grabbed Carmen's Veranda Duck and Reindeer Doll, stamped, coloured, fussy cut.  Cut a bit more.  Lost and found a head, some arms and legs, glued and declared it a thing.

I stamped Fourth Dimension using Bluebird archival ink and cut a panel of blue card with a stitch rectangle die and Sizzix Splat die.

I put Fourth Dimension behind the splat panel, added my Reinduck, stamped Carmen's Veranda Stay Weird words and mounted it all on a dark blue base.

Join the fun with your stamped Anythings for a chance to win

Lost Coast $$$$$!!