31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN LINKY and Day 1 - Three Amigos

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Hello Portal Peeps!!  Bwahahhaahahahaahaaa!
It is the most wonderful month of the year - OCTOBER!!!!!
We love October!  The autumn feel is in the air, pumpkins are everywhere,
and we are getting ready for the big day - HALLOWEEN.

In true Portal style we are celebrating with a month long party.
The team will be posting every day this month sharing their spooky, creepy, mayhaps even cute Halloween inspired projects so join us, comment, link up and watch out for Halloween tricks and treats with

LOST COAST DESIGNS

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION

Use real stamping and link up your creepy, spooky, trick or treaty, fun and cute Halloween inspired makes.  Show us your weird creatures, skeletons, pumpkins, kids in costume etc. etc.

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! 

Gail is kicking off the party with this trio of Artist Trading Coins featuring Lost Coast Designs Creepy Dolls Frank, Mummy and Dracula

I cut my Artist Trading Coins (2.5" diameter) from patterned paper and stamped Lost Coast Designs PMC Circle Frame on them using black archival ink.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Creepy Dolls Frank, Mummy and Dracula, coloured them with Promarkers and gel pens and fussy cut them.  What a trio!!!

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 every day th month so check back and join the fun.

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #85 - 31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN
October 1st - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Thursday, October 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
 

Make it Funny - Artists

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Hello there, it's Liesbeth again with a ,Make it Funny' card! You can find everything about the challenge HERE .

I started with a background using Distress paint, Distress ink, Dylusions spray and a stencil. I stamped the face (ATC faces set) with black StazOn and masked it. After that I stamped the Daisy flourish, parts of  the Flagstone background, and the text. I removed the mask from the face and bleached the face and the tiny flowers with some bleach and a synthetic fine paintbrush. Using charcoal, I made a shadow arond the face and I coloured the lips and flowers with coulor pencils. I finished with a white gel pen to highlight the eyes and the text.

Hope to see you at the Make it Funny Challenge!
Hugs, Liesbeth

Make it Funny - My Coffee Card with Masked Layered Background

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Hello all,

Lori here, with a "Make it Funny" card featuring the "Coffee Chihuahua", Carmen's Veranda "My Coffee" saying along with a masked layered background.   Check out the instructions and photo below for all the details.

Lost Coast Designs:

• Rulers Background
• Coffee Chihuahua
• Carmen's Veranda - My Coffee

Other Materials:

• Water based metallic sprays
• Stencils
• Permanent Ink
• Pigment Ink
• Gelatos

Instruction:

1) Stamp Chihuahua stamp with permanent ink.

2) Use water pen with Gelatos to color Chihuahua.

3) Apply painter's tape to card panel to mask a pattern.  Spray with Die Based Inks.

4) Next spray ink sprays over stencils to build additional layers.

5) Edge card panel and Chihuahua panel with pigment ink.

6) Stamp Rulers Background with Pigment Ink.

7) Mount Chihuahua onto card stock, adhere to panel.  Stamp saying.  Adhere card panel to card base.

Done!

I hope you will join us for this challenge by clicking below and linking your "Make it Funny" creation to the Blog post.

Click Here

Happy Day,

Lori

Make It Funny: Trio of Penquins

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Hi again from Laurie with a series of three tags for the
Make It Funny Challenge.
I used Katzelkraft's Grumpy Penguins Stamp Set, which is available from Lost Coast Designs, and three of Carmen's Veranda Clear Stamps.  There is a great selection of sentiments so be sure to check all four pages!

I used the same background for each of my tags.  It is a Gelli print I made using blue and green acrylic paints.  I then stenciled my tags with Distress Oxide Ink in Abandoned Coral and white paint, using a different stencil for each tag. I added a bit of black random stamping for some contrast.

Next I stamped my penguins onto white card stock with black ink and fussy cut them.  I colored their beaks orange and added some Glossy Accents to the beaks and eyes.  I placed each penguin on the lower portion of the tag to give me room at the top for my stamped sentiment.  I added a hat to each and used some foam tape to give then some dimension.  The hats can be found at Vertical Party Hats at Lost Coast Designs.  I simply stamped three different hats and cut them out, only adding a couple of little flowers to Mrs. Penguin's hat.  

Sentiments were stamped with black ink onto white card stock, cut out, and edged with black ink.  All sentiments were also attached with foam tape.   For the final step I added some ribbon and various colored fibers to each tag.

This is such a fun challenge so we hope you will join us and show us your Fun and "Funny" stamped projects!

Hope for the best

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Cathy here with Funny card for you today.
Stamps Used:
Oz witch
Hope for the best

I started out by stenciling the clouds on green cardstock with black distress oxide ink.
Stamp Oz witch on white cardstock and color with copic markers, cut out. I added red glitter to her shoe. (she is the witch the house landed on)
Stamp saying and cut out.

Come join the fun and show us your funny.

Slightly Deranged

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Hello all my inky friends... Roni here with another piece for the current challenge
#84 - Make it Funny!

I decided to use the Swimsuit Girl for this card so I stamped her several times in different colors of ink then fussy cut and paper pieced her back together for the image I used on the card. I decided she needed a little bling so I added some glitter to her bathing suit, boots and hat.

To make the card I started off with a white card panel that I stamped with the Daisy Flourish.  I stamped a portion of the Grunge Black Swirl onto a scrap of brown cardstock and tore the edge.  The background panel was mounted on a black card blank with the brown strip mounted on top. I added the swimmer to the card then stamped the sentiment - Spirit Unicorn - off to the side.  It was finished off with a few sparklie dots.

Stamps:

Lost Coast Designs - Swimsuit Girl, Daisy Flourish, 

Carmen's Veranda - Grunge Black Swirl, Spirit Unicorn

There is still time to join in on the fun for the Make It Funny Challenge!