MERRY CHRISTMAS

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We would like to wish all our customers and blog friends a very 

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS

 

Thank you so much for your support this year for our small family business and for sharing your beautiful projects using Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda stamps. 

I'd also like to thank the design team for the amazing work they do all year.

We hope you have a day full of love and joy.

 Treasure the little things.

 

If you are crafting don't forget our 

ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE

 is running until the end of the month.  The team are sharing awesome inspiration all month here on the blog so take some time to enjoy their projects and maybe leave a little love.

The world need more love.

Bluebird

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Merry Christmas Eve, everyone! Aimee here. I wanted to share a recently published card that appears in the Winter Issue 2025 of Rubber Stamp Madness magazine. 

The design was created as part of the magazine issue's Paper Challenge where they encouraged stampers to use as many types of paper as they could. You can see that I attached embossed paper to the card base. I then tore a diagonal strip out of an old book (fun fact: this book was written in Lithuanian), inked the edges, then stamped Lost Coast Design's Whimsical Birds 1 over the print. Prismacolor pencils colored over the print quite nicely. I then added paper flowers and leaves for embellishment. Here you can see it described in the magazine: 

This month is an "Anything Goes" Challenge on the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity. December is a busy holiday month, so maybe look through your previous creations to submit to the blog for your chance to win a prize.

Merry Christmas

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Well here we are, almost Christmas.

Darlene here with my final make of the year

and in the 'anthing goes' challenge

Thought I would end the year with a Christmas card I made

using the Corner Swirl and Party words stamps

embossed white onto vellum with the corner swirl stamp.

dry embossed the side panels, layered onto shiny craft paper

add the snowflakes and a bit of silver thread

The saying is embossed in silver too.

Want to wish everyone a great holiday season !

And be sure to enter your make to try and win some new stamps

December "Anything Goes" Challenge - Another New Year's Card

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Greetings! You've got Kathi here to share a New Year's Card created for December Anything Goes Challenge 204 that was created with the Flying Pig 2 Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.

Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Flying Pig 2 Rubber Stamp twice —once a white cardstock panel and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 

Use Copic markers to color the Flying Pig 2. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version of the Flying Pig 2 and place it over its counterpart on the image panel as a mask.

Sponge or brush Paris Dusk, Danube Blue, and Lulu Lavender Memento Dye Inks over the image panel, blending as you go. 

Pounce an anti-static pouch over the image panel. Sponge VersaMark (or other embossing ink) over a star stencil onto the masked and inked image panel. Remove the stencil.

Pour white detail embossing powder onto the wet ink, dump the excess powder back into its container, and heat set the embossing powder. 

Use a white paint marker to add additional white dots to extend the star theme.

Trim the image panel to 5.25" x 4" and edge with Paris Dusk Memento Ink.

Adhere the image panel to a white A2 card. Add the sticker sentiments as shown to complete the card.

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There's still more than a week left to join our December challenge for the chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!

#204 Anything goes. Giftbox for chocolates.

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Hi there, Riet here.

I made a gift box to fill with chocolates.

I love the LCD Pokey animals, and I enjoyed decorating the box with them.

What I used,

Pokey cat

Pokey mouse

Pokey dog 

Pokey pidgeon

Pieces of calligraphy

Brush strokes

Butterflies set

Distress oxide,

Twisted citron

Lucky clover

Cracked pistachio

Derwent inktense for the coloring

Black waterresistent inkpad

Stencil Craft emotions

We r makers, giftbox punch board

How to make this box.

Make a box on the punch board

or a score board.

I stained the paper with twisted citron and cracked pistachio.

I used an ink blender and lucky clover to transfer the stencil pattern.

Stamp the animals and butterfly on thin paper

 and color them in with pencil or markers.

Now take the smallest text stamp from the Pieces of calligraphy set. 

Stamp here and there with twisted citron.

Now we take the Brush strokes set and grab the stamp with the small dots.

Stamp a narrow strip of this in black.

Rotate the stamp in different directions.

To finish it off, stamp a butterfly, color it, and cut it out.

Fill the box and close it. 

Glue the butterfly to the top tab of the closure.

That's it for today, I hope you enjoyed it.

Please join the anything goes challenge, which runs until the end of the month. 

You have a chance to win stamps, which is really cool.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!!!

CHALLENGE #204 REMINDER - ANYTHING GOES

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Hello Portal Peeps.  
 

We hope your December is going well.  It's a busy month so this month we are playing 

CHALLENGE #204

ANYTHING GOES

You have all month to share your stamped anythings with any theme.  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 read the updated Challenge Rules 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 you could win a bigger prize in our random prize drawing.  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 awesome inspiration from the team.  ENJOY! 

 

Aimee used Lost Coast Designs Cartoon Kids with Carmen's Veranda Be Weird Confuse People sentiment

Kathi used Lost Coast Designs Man with Cane

Darlene used Lost Coast Designs Corner Swirl and Carmen's Veranda Never Too Late sentiment

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 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