#147 Celebrate it! Manga girl in top hat.

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Hi there, Riet here.

 Today it's my turn for the "Celebrete it" challenge on the Lost Coast designs challenge blog.

I know America celebrates the 4th of July, the day America became independent.

An important holiday for Americans.

I found this manga with top hat stamp so suitable for that.

So in honor of America this card.

And here the step by step how the card is made.

I used this:

Manga girl with top hat.

Let's celebrate from the sheet, party words.

Red glitter, I used wow glitter.

Double-sided tape.

Red, blue, skin tone, orange and yellow markers.

White pigment ink.

Stazon Midnight Blue.

Star punches in 2 sizes.

Blue, red and white paper.

I made stripes with the double sided tape.

After removing the tape protection, sprinkled the glitter on it.

I did this 2 times.

Looks so great.

I stamped the manga girl with Stazon midnight blue.

Then I colored the girl with markers.

For cutting I use both scissors and a knife.

Then I punch small and slightly larger stars from the dark blue paper.

Then I stamp the words and cut a banner.

You can do this also with white embossing powder.

I stick everything on the card with foam tape of different thicknesses.

Matte with blue, white and red.

I hope you enjoyed it and are inspired to join the challenge.

You have a chance to win some new rubber stamps.

So click the link and play with us.

JUNE WINNERS

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Welcome Portal Peeps!!!
It's time to announce the WINNERS of our June 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 #145

TROPICAL

is

Mia

 

with this cute mouse scene

Congrats Mia, you win a $10 gift certificate

WINNER of CHALLENGE #146

FUNNY AND/OR CUTE

is

Karen

with this fun card featuring Lost Coast Designs Bird on a Bike

Congrats Karen, you win a $10 gift certificate

 Congratulations Mia and Karen!  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

CELEBRATE IT!

Link up your stamped projects featuring any celebration

 for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.

 

Happy Birthday from Mona

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Hello Portal Peeps!!!  Happy 4th July!  

If you are celebrating than have a good one. 

Gail here today with some inspiration for the Celebrate It! challenge.  I've gone for a birthday celebration.

For this card I used Lost Coast Designs Mona Flying, ATC Doodle Flowers, large rectangle Shadow Frame and Party Words.   The design was inspired by the current Lift Challenge where they want you to mask an area, blend inks, over stamp and then add a black and white image.  

I had an idea to use the large rectangle Shadow Frame, ink it with distress inks, spritz a bit with water and stamp it on my page.  Nice!  But then thinking about masking off to stamp into the inked area I didn't fancy fussy cutting that frilly edge....  So I decided to try stamping onto the shadow frame stamp and then stamping onto the inked page.

Ooh, pretty!!   Having a stamp platform or stamping tool is really helpful with this technique so you can perfectly over stamp LOL.    I used Spiced Marigold, Worn Lipstick  and Mustard Seed distress inks for the background and Rusty Hinge to stamp the Flowers.

I stamped Mona Flying on white card and fussy cut her and added her to the card.  To finish I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment on my inky stamped panel.

Join the Celebrate It! challenge with your stamped anything featuring any celebration.  You can submit your entries in the linky party below until 23.59 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.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Made For Each Other

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 Good morning and a very happy Saturday! It's Sue here with my card for out brand new fun challenge. We would like you to Celebrate It! Think birthdays, anniversaries, -  you get the picture. I'm always a bit last minute when it comes to anniversary cards, so I thought that I would get one made in advance.

Ok, maybe it's not your traditional anniversary card, but I think I can guarantee that they won't get two the same!

I started by raiding my Halloween paper stash, and made my background. My apologies for this photo I didn't realise how bad it was 'till I had (thankfully) covered it up.

Next I cut my layers. I only had one sheet of each so a lot of 'gutting' went on.

And here's my happy couple, all dressed up for Date Night!

I stamped and printed my sentiments. I always print more than one, and in different sizes just in case I 

a) totally mess it up or

b) cut it out, matt it perfectly, and then lose it!

I've used

Frank

Bride of Frank 

Misc Words

I hope you like my card and join in with our fun challenge - we all need something to celebrate.

Have a very happy weekend whatever you are doing, and thanks so much for looking x

Celebrate It: Party Cat Smells Cake

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Happy July 1st and hope you are ready to "Celebrate" with us as we start a brand new challenge here on the Portal!  Laurie here to help kick off this one with a tag using the Party Cat stamp from Lost Coast Designs and the Smell Cake clear stamp from Carmen's Veranda.

This one starts with a white tag made of regular card stock.  Atop that I glued a piece of vintage music paper and Mod Podged a piece of decorative blue and green rice paper over that.  Using a stencil with random small circles, I added some blue and green Distress Oxide inks.  Then using the same stencil, I added some TCW Champagne Gold Stencil Butter here and there.  After this dried well, I edged it with some gold ink and punched a hole in the top.

Next step was to stamp my Party Cat onto a piece of pale yellow card stock and fussy cut him out.  I re-stamped his eyes on white paper and his party hat on pale blue paper and cut them out, superimposing them atop the original images.  I added some shading with Copic Sketch markers then attached the Party Cat to the lower portion of the tag with foam tape.

 The sentiment was stamped with black ink onto the same pale yellow card stock and cut out then affixed above the Party Cat.  Final step was to tie a piece of gold ribbon to the top.

So come celebrate with us and enter your projects on the Portal for a chance to win some free stamps from Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

CHALLENGE #147 - CELEBRATE IT!

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 #147

CELEBRATE IT!

We want to see your stamped creations featuring any sort of celebration. 
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.

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 Party Hat Border, Alice and Tweedles, and Carmen's Veranda Smell Cake saying.

  
Laurie used Katzelkraft's Party Cat available at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda Smell Cake saying.

Liesbeth used Lost Coast Designs 3 Flying Flower Girl faces, Bubbles Border and Misc. Words.

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 23.59 PST on the14th 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 #147 -
July 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, July 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