Thar Be Dragons

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.  Welcome.  Gail here today with some inspiration for a topic that I love, which is maybe why it's popped up LOL.  I have been helping Marilyn run the team whilst she has been dealing with some health issues.  Unfortunately she has had to step aside for a while so I have taken over the team management.  So if you are enjoying the challenge themes, I'm glad.  And if you aren't, then give em a go anyway cos after all, it's supposed to be a challenge bwahahhhaaaahhaaaha.  

Enough of my crazy megalomaniac ramblings!  Let's get to the project for today.  Call me mad, call me crazy, but I decided to paper piece the glorious Lost Coast Designs Shooting Star Background and I found a celestial dragon!!!!

This is one of my favourite stamps and I have to admit I hadn't really spotted that dragon there before!!  But now I've found him I am sure he will be popping up in other places!  And yes, this was a lot of fussy cutting, but I did have a lot of fun!  And think, when you are stranded on a dessert island, which luckily has a luxury hotel, good weather and drinks with umbrellas in them, with only a pair of scissors, some patterned paper, an ink pad and some stamps, you will still be able to make beautiful colourful art!!!

I started by stamping Shooting Star Background on four different patterned papers.  This technique is of course fabulous for using up scraps, but since this is such a big stamp and I wasn't sure where I was going to use which colour, I started like this.  

I did think I was going to use the yellow for the background but in the end decided the red would work best.  Love how the white scribbly writing adds such lovely texture and also gives contrast through the Versafine Clair Twilight ink.

Then I started cutting out other elements.  I cut the flower and the dragon from the blue paper and then added some layers from the yellow one.

I used the green for the streaming stars bottom and top right, and started cutting more details from the yellow paper.

I cut and layered some blue and more yellow elements on the shooting star in the middle and cut out the stars in yellow to add to the top green area.  I also used a white gel pen to highlight the dragon's eye and teeth.  That is the only colouring I did.  I added a thin gold frame and mounted it on a black base card.  And I love it.  

Thanks for dropping by.

 Join the fun for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.  I am looking forward to seeing what you piece together.  Hugz

CHALLENGE #60 - PAPER PIECING

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!

Greetings.  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 your self some 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 #60

PAPER PIECING

We want to see anything stamped that includes paper piecing.  Please note, no holes required!!  We want to see you stamping images on different patterned papers, cutting them out and piecing them back together.  Like paper patchwork!! OK??
Ready, set, stamp, cut, piece!!!

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 Design Team Faves 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.  If you are using Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps you can now also link up your challenge entry in the Lost Coast Official Fan Group on facebook.  There is a challenge album in photo's.  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 fabulous inspiration from the team to get us started.  ENJOY!

Laurie made this pretty vintage style card using Lost Coast Designs new Sketchy Lily and Carmen's Veranda Happy Place sentiment

Lori paper pieced the lovely new Lost Coast Designs Sketchy Flower, Gears Background and Carmen's Veranda Right Kind of Weird sentiment to make this floral beauty  

Sue made this fun card using Carmen's Veranda Birds Collage Background  

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 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

An InLinkz Link-up

The Window by Roni

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!

Time is running short on the Hard as Stone challenge but you've still got a few hours to enter your creation for a chance to win a gift certificate!

I just love the Window image from the Door & Window set of stamps. It has such a romantic feel about it that I thought it would be perfect to pair it with the vintage looking Roses image.

To create this card initially I stamped the window in the center of the panel using VersaFine Clair Morning Mist (a charcoal grey) ink. Next I spread a bit DecoArt Media Modeling Paste through a stencil over the upper right and lower left hand corners. Media Crackle Paint was then applied to the opposite corners.  I set the panel aside to dry.

I stamped the rose a couple times on white cardstock using green and red inks.  The pieces were fussy cut and pieced together.

I went back to the window panel which was then watercolored with Prima Watercolor Confections.  This panel was mounted on a black card base and the roses were then added.

There is still time to enter your creation!!

Don't wait too long.

Supplies:

Lost Coast Designs - Door & Window set; Roses

Imagine - VersaFine Clair inks

DecoArt Media Modeling Paste, Crackle Paint

Prima Watercolor Confections

Stencil

Hard as Stone, Harmony

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 all,

Lori here, back with another Hard as Stone Challenge project for you.  This time I went with the Broken Letter Set and use the stamp image that looks like a stone tablet.  I love the ancient look of this stamp and it worked nicely with the Bee stamp from the More Bugz set. 

For the step by step, check out the quick video tutorial below.

Lost Coast Designs Stamps:

More Bugz

Harmony

Broken Letter Set

 

Check out this Video!

This is a great challenge that may inspire you to think outside the box a bit.
Hope to see your stamped creations for the Hard as Stone Challenge!

Happy Day!

Lori

Window on a New Day

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.  Gail here today with a little inspiration for our current Hard As Stone challenge.
We want to see an architectural element on your stamped makes and I decided to play with the lovely gothic window from Lost Coast Designs' Door and Window set.  And what better to go with a gothic window than a Gothic Princess.....

She is so pretty, standing on her own little beach, under the stars,
looking through the window to a new day. 

I started by stamping the window on a white base card with black archival ink.  Then I stamped Goth Princess, coloured her with distress inks and a neon green gel pen and fussy cut her.   Those eyes is a little bit spooky!  I think she's been in the dragon blood liqueur!!!

I wanted to play with my new Baked Texture embossing powders.  I used my embossing pen to scribble the foreground and used Dirty Sand btep and heated it.  The texture is amazing.  I looks a little like sand when you sprinkle it and keeps that rough sandy feel when heated.  Then I smeared Versamark ink around the sides and top of my card and embossed with Deep Sea.  This has some nice white chunky bits but not many of those stuck to my versamark ink.  On the right hand side I have started to layer the embossing powder cos I want to stamp in it.  This one is translucent so you can see how the colour intensifies as you layer it up.

Once I had 3 layers of Deep Sea powder I melted it and stamped Lost Coast Designs Cracked Sky with white dye ink.   I coloured the window and bricks with Pumice Stone and Hickory Smoke distress inks and gave the foreground a wash of Spiced Marmalade.  I masked the window and stamped Cracked Grass (upside down to make grass into mountains and trees LOL) and coloured the sky with Stormy Sky distress.

I finished colouring the sceney with more distress inks and added my goth Princess. 

Thanks for dropping by.  I hope you feel inspired to join the fun and show us your stamped projects with windows, doors, houses, statues, brick, flagstones etc.  There are Lost Coast Dollars up for grabs and the more entries the bigger the prize!!
The Hard As Stone Challenge linky is open to the end of the month.

Big City, Bright Lights By Roni

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 All!
Ink Stained Roni here with a fun card to inspire you to join in our current challenge - Hard as Stone!

I started off by stamping the Small Cityscape image onto a piece of white cardstock using Imagine's "Blues" Kaliedacolor ink pad.  Once the image had dried I sponged on a variety of blues and purples to make the night sky light up.  Iridescent Purple Creative Medium was then spread over a star stencil to give the sky a bit of shimmer.  The panel was set aside to dry.

This panel was edged with black ink and affixed to a white card base. I finished it off by stamping the word "Mystery" in purple ink, trimmed and glued it to the card.

Now it's your turn!

Stamp something "hard as stone" and enter for your chance to win!!

Supplies:

Lost Coast Designs - Small Cityscape, Words

Imagine - Kaleidacolor Ink Pad, Memento Dye Ink, Sponge Dauber, Creative Medium, Palette Knife

Cardstock

Star Stencil