Just because

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 all Cathy here with you today.
I have a simple and quick card for you all today.

Stamp Used: Cherry Blossom

These are the steps I did to make this card.
1. Get white cardstock, cut it smaller then the card base.
2. Stamp Cherry Blossom  in brown ink.
3. Grab a green marker and 2 different pinks and color the leaves green and the dots with the 2 different colors of pink.
4. Glue to front of pink card base.
5. Add word sticker.
Done.
Quick, right?
I think you could make these up in batches and have on hand when you need a card.

I hope you will join us in the wood challenge. You can enter here.

Wood Challenge: The Evil Eye

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 from Laurie here with a project for the current challenge: Wood.  Lots you can do with this theme, but it might make you think!

I made a card here using the Grunge Tree background stamp and the Evil Eye stamp, both from Lost Coast Designs.

I began by creating a background, using a circle stencil and green and blue Distress inks.  I cut around the edges with some deckle-edged scissors and mounted my piece to a black background.

Next I stamped my image onto white card stock and began coloring it with Copic markers in shades of gray and brown, using yellow for the claws and eyes.  I added some Crackle Accents to the eyes and teeth to give them some shine and make the stand out.  I fussy cut my image and affixed it to the front of my card. 

So put on your thinking caps and see what creations you can make with the Wood theme.  We can't wait to see what you make, and you just might win some free stamps!!

Through the Keyhole

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 with a peek through the Keyhole at Weeping Man.

Hmmmmm, seems that he spotted us!!

Since the current challenge theme is Wood I decided to stamp Carmen's Veranda Keyhole on woodgrain paper and emboss with gold powder.  I added some more colour using Promarkers and then I cut the center out of the keyhole.

I stamped Lost Coast Designs Weeping Man on white card with brown archival ink
and watercoloured with Brusho's.
Green hair??  Maybe that's what he's crying about??

I masked Weeping Man and stamped Lost Coast Designs Leaves Background.

I placed the Weeping Man panel behind the Keyhole panel and mounted it all on a dark brown base card.

Thanks for dropping by.
Don't forget to link up your stamped makes inspired by the word Wood for
your chance to win Lost Coast dollars.

Rustic Wood

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!

Ink Stained Roni here with a fun rustic card for our newest challenge... Wood!

I made a fancy fold card using Lost Coast Designs Trees Background and Carmen's Veranda All Who Wander sentiment and wood grained paper.

Join the fun and link up your stamped Wood inspired projects
for your chance to win Lost Coast dollars.

CHALLENGE #82 - WOOD

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 #82

WOOD

Stamp on wood, use stamps with trees, pencils, or other items made of wood etc.

Please mention how you were inspired by the challenge theme if it isn't obvious and Rubber or Clear stamping should feature heavily on your project.

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! 

Here's some inspiration from the team to get us started.  ENJOY!

Gail made this fun woodland scene using Lost Coast Designs Trees Background and
Carri's Menagerie large Moose

  
Liesbeth made this stunning mini-book using wooden buttons as the cover!  Loads of stamps used here; Victoriana, Mini flying ladies set, Chess set, Lily flourish, Daisy flourish, 3 Flying Flower Girl Faces and Misc. words


Lori made this fabulous wood plaque using Lost Coast Designs Large Chickenwire Background, Joy Dictionary Background, More Bugz, Long Swirl, and Carmen's Veranda Discover

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 31st 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 #82 -WOOD
August 15th - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Saturday, August 31st 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
 

Anything Goes: Raven

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 from Laurie here in sunny California to all you Lost Coasters!  I hope you are having a wonderful summer, wherever you are.

I have another entry for the "Anything Goes" challenge.  I tried out a lot of different ideas for this one, but I had this cool background I wanted to use, and the Raven With Tree Branches stamp from Lost Coast Designs won out. 

I made this background using some astrological tissue paper I found online - really I loved the patterns on these papers.  I took a page from a vintage book and using matte medium I adhered my tissue paper to the book page.  I let it dry well then cut it into a square shape, trying to incorporate as much of the design as I could.  I edged it with black ink then mounted it to a torn edged piece of black card stock.

I stamped my Raven with black StayzOn ink onto another page from a vintage book and cut it out.  
That was a bit of a challenge, but slow goes it and it came out perfectly.  Using a glue stick I pasted the raven as shown and gave him a tiny black rhinestone for an eye.  I then sprinkled around a few matte silver star sequins for a finishing touch.

This one gets me in the mood for Halloween - can't wait!!  Please join us here on the Portal and submit your "Anything Goes" projects by the 14th of July for a chance to win some awesome free stamps from Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!