Be your beautiful self

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 fun card for you today.
Stamps:
Thin dancer
Robust dancer

I stamped both dancers  and colored them with Copics. Then I cut out.

I added sparkle to the wings and bling to the waist of one of the dancers . I then took brown cardstock and made the base for the card added some old music paper to it. Next I glued the Thin dancer down. I added foam tape to the Robust dancer and added her.
To finish off the card I added a saying and some bling to the top of the card.

Come join the fun here

AUGUST CHALLENGE WINNERS

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!

Welcome Portal Peeps
It's time to announce the WINNERS of our August Challenges!

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.  We had lots of entries for the Anything Goes challenge!  Not so many for the Wood challenge!!  The team had a wonderful time checking out your fabulous creations.  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 and he said

WINNER of CHALLENGE #81

ANYTHING GOES

is

Lia

with this striking giraffe silhouette card

Congrats Lia, you win a $10  gift certificate


We only had 4 entries for the Wood challenge so the DT have voted for the winner.

WINNER of CHALLENGE #82

WOOD

is

Vivian Foo

with this beautiful page using Lost Coast Designs Whimsical Birds

Congrats Vivian, please take the blog badge.

 Congratulations Lia and Vivian!  Lia, 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

  SONG AND DANCE

Link up your stamped projects inspired by the theme

 for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.

The Wedding Singer

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 little inspiration for the current Song and Dance challenge. 

I've used Carmen's Veranda's Monkey with Banjo and Lost Coast Designs Door stamps.

I stamped the Door on grey woodgrain card base that I had cut with a stitched die and  coloured with distress inks.

  I stamped the Monkey on the same card, coloured with Promarkers and fussy cut.

I adhered the Monkey to the card and done!!

Join the challenge with your stamped makes inspired by the the Song and Dance theme for your chance to win Lost Coast dollars!  See you there!!

CHALLENGE #83 - SONG AND DANCE

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 #83

SONG AND DANCE

We want to see your stamped makes featuring dancers or based on a song.
Remember you the theme and rubber or clear stamping must be the focus of your project for it to be eligible to win the prize.  Please state the stamps you used and the way you were inspired by the theme in your post if it isn't obvious.

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 card using Robust Dancer,  PMC Circle Frame and Carmen's Veranda Flying Monkeys Background

  

Laurie  made this lovely card using Lost Coast Designs Showgirls, Large Chickenwire Background and Carmen's Veranda Sing clear stamp.

Liesbeth made this beautiful card using Lost Coast Designs Ballerina 1, Floral Ironwork stamp (ATC Misc. 4) Flagstone background and ornaments from Victoriana set on an alcohol ink background.

   

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 #83 - SONG AND DANCE

September 1st - 14th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Saturday, September 14th 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

Tree Hugging

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 our Wood Challenge #82

I have been eye-ing off the bark out the front of my place

for some time to make something with, so I was
pretty pleased when this challenge came around.

The tree out the front is called a Paperbark tree.

The bark starts peeling away from the trunk

and has the most amazing colours.

I peeled a heap of the layers from the tree and brought them inside to dry.

You can peel the bark super thin, which is what I did, and you can layer them up

any way that you like.

I chose some that had different colours and textures and glued them together

with gel medium.

The stamp 'Evil Eye' was stamped onto some tissue paper.

Then on the back of this I painted some
white acrylic paint ... carefully.

Once it was dry it was easy to attach to the bark

with gel medium.

I added some branch effects by using a small section of the

Grunge Tree stamp with brown archival ink.

The bark was easy to rip to the size that I needed for my card.

Then it was a simple task of attaching it with gel medium.

The words, from Carmen's Veranda, were stamped

with white ink onto black card and cut out.
After edging with more white ink I attached it to the bark.

The card still needed something else ...

so I painted the eyes of the Evil Eye's eyes with blue acrylic paint.

There is still a little bit of time to enter our Wood challenge

for this fortnight.
Either here or over on facebook.

Happy Stamping!

Dot x

Wood Challenge: *Magic*

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, Liesbeth here!
There's still time for you to join our Wood Challenge till August 31st!

I hope to inspire you with this card. I made the wood grained background by wiping (direct to paper) my Distress Ink pad Vintage photo onto strips of paper of different widths). I sponged the edges of the strips, again with Vintage Photo and glued then on a card.  I stamped Large tree crown and ATC tekst set 1 also on the background. 

I stamped Ancient woman 4, added some colour and fussy cut her, then stamped the word, ripped and inked the edges.

Stamps I used: Large tree crown, Ancient woman 4, ATC tekst set 1, and Misc. Words.