Have A Holly Jolly Christmas

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 Tuesday!

It's Sue here with my first project for our Something Seasonal challenge. 

I've had this stencil since last Christmas, and now it's finally come out of the packet!

  

As I have rather a lot of cards to make (and I've not really started yet) I needed something that I can batch make but that still looks nice.

I coloured my coated card with Distress oxides, then stamped and cut out Georges and Louis. This is a simple shape to cut out and I like how the brown looks against the blues.

As you can tell, this stamp has been very well-loved lol.

I've just added some glitter to the red berries, and a Tim Holtz sticker.

I hope you join in with our challenge and link up your seasonal piece.

Take care and have a very happy December xx

November Winners

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Welcome Portal Peeps!!!
It's time to announce the WINNERS of our November 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 #155

SPOOKTACULAR FLORALS

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Susan

 

with this spooktacular card

Congrats Susan, you win a $5 gift certificate

WINNER of CHALLENGE #156

TAG YOU'RE IT!!

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Cari

Cari entered on fb in the fan group with this lovely tag featuring
Lost Coast Designs Georges and Louis

Congrats Cari, you win a $10 gift certificate

 Congratulations Susan and Cari!  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 Seasonal

  Link up your stamped projects featuring the season for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.

 

Peace

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, Cathy here with a card for you today.

Stamp used:

Megan Christmas bird

I stamped Megan Christmas bird and embossed it with black embossing power. Next, I colored it in with Copic markers. I then tore around the image and backed it with some sliver glitter paper. 

Lastly, I added a saying and but it on a dark gray card base.

You can join the challenge here.

Think Like an Elf

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here today with some quick cards.  Christmas is coming and it's nice to have a few quick and easy designs and quite honestly, with Carmen's Veranda sentiments and a cute elf it is soooooo easy.........

My elves are fussy cut, but that's cos my elf stamp appears to have run off!!!   Maybe he's helping santa.  Luckily I had stamped a few the other day and coloured them with different colour schemes, so I just fussy cut them.  So, stamp a sentiment on a card panel, or even your card base if you want to be really easy, add your elf and done!!!!  I might have to make some more of these!!!   So many options with the Carmen's Veranda sentiments..........

Join the Something Seasonal challenge with your stamped anythings for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars!!   The challenge lasts all month and the team will be sharing inspiration with you from here to next year so come back and visit us again soon!

Something Seasonal: Winter Time

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 the 1st of December from Laurie and a brand new challenge where we ask you to create "Something Seasonal".  So whatever the season means to you and how you would like to express that.  

Just be sure to include some rubber stamping in your projects for the chance to win some rubber stamps!

This little card features the Georges and Louis stamp from Lost Coast Designs.  I love this stamp!  It's one of my all time favorite LCD stamps.

I started by stamping onto white card stock with black ink and fussy cutting out the image.  I then restamped the image with blue ink and then again with brown ink.  From these I cut out the blue coat and hat and the brown dog.    I glued them atop the original stamping and added some color to George's face with Copic Sketch markers.  Using the same markers, I colored in his pants a light gray color.

My background is a gel print made with a a stencil and some blue and green Distress Oxide Spray inks.  I splattered this with some white Dyllusions spray ink and after that dried, spritzed the whole surface with Distress Mica Spray in Brushed Pewter.  I edged it with a silver pen and layered it with a white background.

We look forward to seeing the fun and seasonal projects that you make during the holiday month of December!!

CHALLENGE #157 - SOMETHING SEASONAL

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.
This challenge will run all month with a chance 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 #157

SOMETHING SEASONAL

 

It's December and we want to see your stamped projects featuring the season.  So winter, Christmas, maybe rolling into the New Year after all the Christmas snacks have been eaten......
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 Brush Strokes, Gnome Santa with Toys and Snowflake set.

    
Laurie used Lost Coast Designs Georges and Louis

Riet used Lost Coast Designs Gnome Santa with Toys, Crackle Background and Large Snowflake set with Carmen's Veranda Christmas Tree


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 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!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #157 - Something Seasonal
December 1st - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
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