The Thick And Thin Of It. Card by Dot

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,
I hope everyone is enjoying the weather where ever you live in the world
and managing to get a little crafting in.

Today I've got a card tutorial to share with you
using the Thick and Thin stamp.

I had so much fun playing with these colours from our challenge this fortnight.
There is just something about Lemon and Lime that screams out "Happy".

Here is how I've made this card ...

Step 1:  Stamp the image, Thick and Thin Men, onto your card.  Then stamp it onto some photo copy paper and cut it out to use as a mask.

Step 2:  Mask your image. Using a sponge, sweep out some distress oxides (Fossilized Amber and Twisted Citron).

Step 3:  Use a circle stencil and use your sponge to add some circle detail with the Twisted Citron DO.  This helps to 'ground' the image to the edges and adds a little extra interest.

Step 4:  With your ATC Text Set 1 word stamp, randomly stamp some words.  Again, this helps ground the image and extend the image.  It also adds another layer.

Step 5:  I've added some black archival ink through another stencil to bring in another layer.  When you add layer upon layer it helps add more interest to your piece and creates more depth.

Step 6:  Randomly stamp the border of the Grunge Tree in a few spots around the edge.  The main image looks a little like Laurel and Hardy to me, so the grungy effect around the edges adds a that vintage and aged look to your card without too much thinking.

Step 7:  Finish off your card by mounting it onto matching lemon, lime and black cardstock.

These colours were so much fun to use.
We have them as our prompt for the challenge this fortnight.

You are able to join in this challenge here,
or over on facebook.

You will be in the draw to win some awesome and fun stamps!!!

The Main Stamps Used Were:

         

Happy Stamping!
Dot x

Zombie dog ATCoin

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 Cathy here with a ATCoin for you.
Stamps Used:
Z-Oscar
ATC text
Corner swirl

 I started out by making the background. I used Nuance powers to make it. Then I splashed on some green distress spray ink. Dry it all. Punch out a 2.5 circle from paper.
Stamp ATC text with black ink randomly over the background. Then take  Corner swirl and stamp it with green ink all over the coin.

 Stamp Z-Oscar on white cardstock 2 times. Cut out one. Glue Z-Oscar to the front of the coin. On the second one smear green ink over the eyes. (easy way to color) cut out and glue on to Z-Oscar.
Edge with the same green ink around the coin.

Come join the fun here at the blog. 

Or Join us on our Facebook group here.

Hope to see you soon.

MAY WINNERS

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Greetings
It's time to announce the WINNERS of our May 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 #75

I Spy Something Beginning With B

is

Karthikha

with this fabulous slider card

Congrats Kerthikha, you win a $10  gift certificate

WINNER of CHALLENGE #76

Use Some Words

is

Sylvia Koning

with this fun card featuring Lost Coast Designs Party On!!

Congrats Sylvia, you win a $10 gift certificate

 Congratulations Kerthikha and Sylvia!  Please email Gail (craftynomad at gmail dot com) by the end 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

LEMON, LIME AND BLACK

Link up your stamped projects featuring Lemon, Lime and Black

 for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.

What's Lemon, Lime, Black and White?

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!

This fun and funky flower skull of course!
Ink Stained Roni here with a fun card for our Lemon, Lime and Black color challenge!

I love this challenge - the colors are just so bright and cheerful! I started off by stamping the Doodle Garden image once on lime cardstock with black ink and once on black cardstock with white ink. I fussy cut them and mounted both onto a yellow card base twining them together with a few little knife cuts.

I then stamped the Sketchy Flower 3x on yellow cardstock and colored with a bit of lime green colored pencil.  I stamped the skull onto white cardstock and colored with more lime green and yellow.  All of these elements were fussy cut then mounted on the card using double stick foam tape.

I hope you give this fun color challenge a try...

can't wait to see what you come up with!

Lost Coast Designs Rubber Stamps: Three Small Skulls, Sketchy Flower, Doodle Garden

Only Sometimes

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.  I hope you are having a fun and creative day.  Gail here today, crazily inspired by the fun Lemon, Lime and Black challenge colours.

Have you met Gus??  He's very laid back.  Just don't ask him for directions!!

 I started by stamping Carmen's Veranda Dice Background using black archival on patterned paper and added a generous smear of Twisted Citron distress ink.

I stamped Lost Coast Designs Gus on a scrap of white card and fussy cut him.  Then I coloured him with Mustard Seed distress ink.

I grabbed a scrap of yellow card.  I wanted some texture so I used the Mustard Seed ink and Dice Background to give a bit of tone on tone.  Then I stamped the Carmen's Veranda Directions sentiment with black archival and cut it up.

A black base card and a yellow mat and it all went together like this.

Join up your stamped Lemon, Lime and Black creations for a chance to win

Lost Coast dollars!!!  

Don't forget to check back all month for fun and amazing inspiration from the team.

CHALLENGE #77 - LEMON, LIME AND BLACK

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 #77

LEMON, LIME AND BLACK

Use the colours Lemon, Lime and Black in your stamped creations.  Other colours are allowed, but Lemon, Lime and Black should be the main colours, and real rubber or clear stamping should be also the focus of your project for it to be eligible for the prize.

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 colourful inspiration from the team to get us started.  ENJOY!

Cathy made this elegant card using Lost Coast Designs Mannequins set and Carmen's Veranda Grunge Diamond Background

Laurie made this fun card using Lost Coast Designs Annie and Carmen's Veranda Grunge Black Swirl and In Front of a Salad sentiment. Obviously Annie is a serious donut fan!!

Lori made this gorgeous card using Lost Coast Designs Large Domino and More Bugz stamps

Now it's your turn.  Are you up for the challenge?
We can't wait to see your Lemon, Lime and Black 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 often and join the fun.

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #77 - Lemon, Lime and Black
June 1st - 14th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Friday, June 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

Please leave your link in the comments until we get the linky sorted.