Something beginning with S: Squares

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, join our current challenge, it's easy...just stamp something beginning with S ! Read everything about the Challenge HERE ;-) I made three Square cards with the Carmen's Veranda Square stamps. They are so beautiful and detailed, love them! I just stamped them onto a square inked card with black StazOn ink and bleached them here and there with watered down bleach and a synthetic brush.

See you next time!

Liesbeth XX

#141 Something beginning with S, Sleeping Lucy

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.

And another fun challenge, something with an S.

I chose the stamp "Sleeping Lucy".

This is definitely a favorite stamp of mine.

And then that text by Carmens Veranda, it fits so beautifully.

I've made the background of the card before and you can find a post with the technique here.

It is made with a Hydrangea leaf and some glimmer mist.

I made Sleeping Lucy from watercolor paper and watercolor paint and glued it on the card.

I applied gold glitter on the hair and wings.

The card is matted on dark brown and green cardstock.

The team would love to see your creations. 

So get crafty and join the challenge.

You might be the lucky winner of new stamps.

The challenge is here.

MARCH 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 March 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 #139

ROUND AND ROUND

is

Marlies

 

with these lovely artist trading coins she shared in the fb group

using Lost Coast Designs Mini Manga Girls 

Congrats Marlies, you win a $10 gift certificate

WINNER of CHALLENGE #140

TWEET THIS

is

Carol

with this lovely crow card

Congrats Carol, you win a $10 gift certificate

 Congratulations Marlies and Carol!  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

SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH S

Link up your stamped projects featuring things that start with S

for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.

 

S is for Snarky Sentiments!

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 Monday! It's Sue here with my card for our fun 'S is for..' challenge. Isn't it strange how your mind goes blank when you're given a specific letter to work with, but I finally came up with Snarky Sentiments (my favourite kind!) 

I actually knew just how I wanted my card to look (which is very rare for me - I usually just wing it as I go along). So, to start with I just laid it all out, then took this photo so that I could put everything in the right place on my stamping platform.

And it worked, woo-hoo! I'd stamped it in red, but then decided that I would prefer it all in black. Luckily I'd left all the stamps in place so I just cut another piece of card the same size and stamped again.

Look at this face, what's not to love. He may not be a hairless cat, but he doesn't mind pretending to be!

This is his sentiment, it always reminds me of Mrs Whiskerton, the hairless cat that Rachel had in Friends.

These are my fun stamps Enervy is from a range of Katzelkraft stamps that are sold through Lost Coast Designs. All of the sentiments are by Carmen's Veranda.

Enervy (Coffee Chihuahua)

Decaf Coffee

Power Of Coffee

My Greatest Accomplishment

My Coffee

Weird Bright Light

Bottom of Wine Bottle

I hope you like my card (I definitely do 'cos it's a 'man' card made for the box!) 

You have until the 14th to decide what your 'Something Beginning With S' is going to be, then just link up for the chance to win some Lost Coast dollars.

Take care, and have a very happy week whatever you are doing x

Something That Begins With S: Sherlock

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!

Happy April from all of us here on the Portal and especially from me!  We have a brand new challenge that Starts today - "Something That Begins With S".  So the Sky is the limit as long as your challenge features rubber Stamping and Something that begins with the letter S.

The card I have created here features the Sherlock Stamp from Carmen's Veranda.  Such a great Stamp featuring Such an iconic character!  

My background is a little patchwork of Some pieces of Several master board collages I have made.  I have used most of them for various projects but always hang onto the extra bits and usually find a good use for them.

I taped them all together then zig zag Stitched down the middle and Straight Stitched around the edges.  I then Splattered the Surface with Pumice Stone Distress Ink Spray.  

Sherlock was Stamped with black ink onto a piece of coffee Stained paper.  The edges were brushed with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and then the whole was  Stitched to the center of my card front.

Done and dusted!

We can't wait to See what fabulous S creations you can make for the challenge!  So come join the fun!

CHALLENGE #141 - SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH S

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.  
 

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 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 #141

SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH S

Grab your stamps and make anything that features things beginning with S.
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 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!

Cathy used Lost Coast Designs Spiderweb Background and Skull Crown

Gail used Lost Coast Designs Many Sheep Background, Sun stamps and

Carmen's Veranda Smile clear stamp

    
Laurie used Carmen's Veranda Sherlock stamp

 

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 23.59PST 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 #141 - Something Beginning with S
April 1st - 14th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Thursday, April 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