SEPTEMBER 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 September 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.  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 #129

MOVIE MANIA

is

Alicia

 

with this fun Freddy Mercury card

Congrats Alicia, you win a $10 gift certificate

WINNER of CHALLENGE #130

SENTIMENT IN FOCUS

is a fb entry from

Cathy

using Lost Coast Designs Steampunk American Gothic and Carmen's Veranda sentiment.  Awesome combo Cathy!

Congrats Cathy, you win a $10 gift certificate

 Congratulations Alicia and Cathy!  Please email Gail (craftynomad at gmail dot com) by the 15th 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

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN

 

Link up your stamped Halloween inspired projects

 for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.

 

31 Days of Halloween: Day 5: Forever Friends

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!

 

Bwahahahaaahahaaha!  Welcome Portal Peeps to Day 5 of our Halloween fun.

Gail here with wishes for eternal friendship.

Yeah!!!!

I made a smeared distress ink background using Spiced Marmalade, Wilted Violet and Cracked Pistachio.  Then I randomly stamped three of the stamps from Lost Coast Designs Pieces of Calligraphy set with the same inks to give some nice texture.  I stamped Carmen's Veranda Ghost Friends sentiment with black ink, stamped, coloured and fussy cut Carmen's Veranda Happy Skeleton and added him to the card.

Join the 31 Days of Halloween fun with your stamped anythings for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.

Thanks for visiting.  Hugz

31 Day's of Halloween, Day 4, Witches shoe tutorial.

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 there, Riet here.

Halloween is a real American celebration. 

But in recent years you see Halloween more and more in other countries. 

I think it's because of the internet and movies. 

It's just so much fun dressing up and escaping the daily things of life. 

But I love how the Americans celebrate it, all those beautiful decorations, amazing. 

So I thought, I will make something that can be used as decoration. 

And after a scavenger hunt on Pinterest, I saw the cute witch shoes. 

 I had bought a template of a shoe years ago and never used it. 

So now is a great opportunity to use it.

This is a list of the thigns I used.

Lost Coast Designs stamps:

Fourth dimension

Moon face, Just faces set

spiderweb background

witch 2

Carmen's veranda,

Witches go riding

Distress Oxide:

spiced marmalade

Seedless Preservers

distress ink:

spiced marmalade

Seedless preservers

twisted lemon

antique linen

Mustard seed

Distress micro glaze

Versafine onyx black

some ribbons

Plastic mini pumpkins

decorations

dry moss

Toothpics

black paint or paint marker

This is how I made it.

I started with drawing and cutting the template.

On the toe part of the shoe I stamped the fourth dimension background with Versafine onyx black.

When it is dry, sponge it with Distress antique linen.

Sponge the sides of the nose with Distress Ink Spiced marmalade

The sides and back of the shoe are stamped with Spiderweb stamp,

 and Distress micro glaze.

Then sponged with Distressink Twisted citron.

And the edges with Distressink Seedles preserves.

Sponge the insides of the shoe with Distress Oxide spiced marmalade .

With a sponge with a with open structure I made little spots with Distress oxide Seedles preserves.

Now it is time to glue the shoe together.

Whyle the shoe is drying,

we are going to stamp the witch and the moon with versafine black.

We color the stamps with distressink.

Take 2 toothpicks and paint them black.

Gleu them on the witch and moon.

We stamp the sentiment on paper and run it through a die cut machine.

If you don't have one, you can probably cut something out yourself.

Sponge the die cut with Distressink twisted citron and spiced marmalade.

Now we are going to finish the shoe with ribbons and embellishments.

You can decorate according to your own idea.

I hope you found it a nice tutorial.

Our team would love it if you would participate in our Halloween challenge.

This runs until the end of the month, and al brands are allowed to join.

You have a chance to win free rubberstamps.

The challenge.

Please read the rules first.

31 Days of Halloween Day 3 - I See Dead People

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!

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday! It's Sue here with the first of my pieces for our  31 Days of Halloween challenge. 

I have a bit of a theme running through this year, as all of my pieces are just under 5x5 inches square.

He's such a cutie isn't he lol.

These are the stamps that I've used. 

Lost Coast

Cheshire Cat

Skull Flourish 

I've also used the Old Typewriter Alphabet but for some reason, I've forgotten to put this on my photo (or did I, bwahahahahaha!!)

Carmen's Veranda

Ouiji Board

Smell Cake

I'll be back in a few days with my second piece, but in the meantime keep coming across to the portal and see all the inspiration that my teamies are creating, and then join in yourself!

Have a very happy (and spooky) day whatever you are doing, and thanks so much for looking x

31 Days of Halloween: Day 2 - Which Witch?

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 to our 31 days of Halloween here on the Portal!  The Design Team will be creating a new project each of the 31 days of October to inspire you to join us in creating some fun and scary Halloween projects!

I have a little ATC here for you, featuring the Gnome Witch with Stars stamp from Lost Coast Designs.  This is one of the fun, new gnome stamps available at LCD, so be sure to check them out as each one is cuter than the one before!

My background for this was created with Distress Oxide spray inks in shades of blue, green and yellow.  I sprayed my paper with water first then sprayed my colors kind of randomly and let them drip and run together.  After drying the inks, and using the same blue Oxide ink, I sprayed some on my craft mat and dipped a rubber stamp into the ink and used it to stamp on my background.  I zig zag stitched along the right side with black thread and outlined the whole ATC in black ink.

My witch was stamped with black ink onto white card stock and colored with Copic Sketch markers as shown.  I glued a few silver sequin stars onto her robe and colored the star on her wand with a gold pen.

She was then glued to the ATC front as shown and done!

We can't wait to see your Halloween creations so please be sure to enter them on the Portal for a chance to win some free stamps!!

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN: DAY 1 AND CHALLENGE #131 LINKY

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.  Welcome to our annual 31 Days of Halloween celebration!

The team will be posting their bootastic makes every day this month.

The linky will be open all month and we hope you will get your spook on and join the fun.  You can link up your Halloween inspired makes all month for chances to win 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.

CHALLENGE #131

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN

It's the most spoocktacular time of the year.  Link up your Halloween inspired projects.  Anything related to the season, spooky, fruity, fun, scary or cute.  Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project.  A small stamped sentiment in a sea of die cuts or digi images will not qualify to win the prize and you may be deleted!!!!  Bwahahhaaahaha.

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 we get 50+ entries we will be giving two prizes!

If you don't have a blog then no problem, 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!  

 

Let's get this party started!

Cathy made this groovy card with Lost Coast Designs Small Skeleton and Spiderweb Background.

Cathy stamped the skeleton and spiderweb background in a rainbow of colour.

Hop over to Cathy's blog for all the details.

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!