Tale As Old As Time

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 Good morning and a very happy Thursday. It's Sue here with my journal page for our Movie Mania challenge.

Can you tell what it is yet??

Beauty And The Beast is one of my favourite films, which is a good thing as I must have watched it hundreds of times when the kids were small. My favourite will always be the animated version, though I enjoyed the re-make too.

This is a very rare thing for me, a one layer piece (pretty much) I just stamped, masked, and coloured my journal page.

The rose petals are just a de-constructed paper flower, and the sentiment has been typed on my old typewriter.

These are the stamps that I used.

Large Film Strip

Roses

Cracked Grass and Sky

I hope you like it, and that you join in by showing us your movie makes. Just link up your stamped creations for a chance to win some Lost Coast dollars.

Take care and have a very happy week x

Movie Mania: Godzilla

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Welcome to the first of September and the new challenge here on the Portal:  Movie Mania.  We want to see what fun things you can create with characters from your favorite movies.  So many to choose from!    It's Laurie here for this first day of the challenge with a Godzilla card.  I remember seeing "Godzilla" at the movie theater when I was small and being scared silly!

For this card, I used the Godzilla stamp and the Small Butterfly stamp from the Butterfly stamp set, both from Lost Coast Designs.  My sentiment is from the huge selection of clear stamp phrases at Carmen's Veranda.

I began with my background, which is a piece of white card stock, a leaf stencil, and three shades of Distress Ink sprays.  After spraying and drying my background piece, I edged it with some Crushed Olive Distress Oxide ink.

Next I stamped Godzilla with black ink onto a piece of dark green card stock, then fussy cut him out.  I added "teeth" with a while gel pen and enlarged his eye with a small piece of white paper and a black rhinestone.  I used a Glitter Gel pen to go over his back and tail to make them stand out more.  I then attached him to the lower left corner with foam tape.

I stamped my sentiment onto a white square with black ink and edged it in black.  I positioned that in the upper right corner.  I stamped the small butterfly twice onto red yardstick and cut them both out, attaching them as shown.  I just glued the center of the bodies to the background so I could fold the wings up to make them look dimensional.

Come join the fun and show us your "Movie Mania" creations featuring some rubber stamping. You might just win some free stamps!!

CHALLENGE #129 - MOVIE MANIA

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.  

 

Have you seen the new GNOMES!!!!
 

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 #129

MOVIE MANIA

Share your stamped makes featuring movie stars, based on movies (make sure you tell us which one), include movie paraphernalia etc.etc.  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 Godzilla from the Lost Coast Designs Coloring Book and Shark stamp for pets.

Movie: Godzilla

 

Gail used Lost Coast Designs ATC Many Cats and Grunge Cat

Movie: Cats

Laurie used Carmen's Veranda Godzilla and Currently Unsupervised sentiment, and the smallest butterfly stamp from the Lost Coast Designs Butterfly Set.

 Movie: Godzilla


 

 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

Challenge #129 - Movie Mania
September 1st - 14th  Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Tuesday, September 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
 

 

Kissing Mona

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Hello Portal Peeps!   Gail here with some final inspiration for our Face On! challenge.  You have until close of play Pacific Standard Time tomorrow, give or take the summer time thingy, to join the fun and share your stamped makes featuring a human face.  I had the desire to do some acrylic block stamping and decided to throw in a little kissing for good luck!!!!

I used Lost Coast Designs Victorian Mona and Pieces of Calligraphy and 

Carmen's Veranda Nights Into Mornings sentiment stamps.

 

I started by inking an acrylic block with Mowed Lawn and Evergreen Bough distress inks.  I spritzed with water, kissed with the Pieces of Calligraphy stamp and stamped both on the paper.  Hmmmm.....

Since there was still wet ink on both the acrylic block and the stamp I stamped them again under the first impressions.  Hmmmm!!!!!

Then I made a whole sheet of stamping, using the same techniques, varying when and how much I spritzed and stamping off the stamp and the acrylic block all over the sheet until I was happy with the look.

I cut a piece out of my master sheet that I liked using a stitch rectangle die and inked up Victorian Mona hat and dress with green archival ink.  Then I cut partial masks and stamped her face with black archival ink.

Ta Dah!!!!!   She was looking a little green so I used some water and a paper towel and dabbed the distress ink out of her face and bow.

To finish I stamped the Nights Into Mornings sentiment, used some glitter glue on her feathers and necklace and mounted on a dark green base card.

 

Don't forget to join the fun and have you seen the NEW GNOMES!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Face on: Art Deco Face

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Hello everyone, Liesbeth here showing you a Face On card for our challenge, you can still join us! 

I love this beautiful stamp so much! I stamped her (using my good old Memories ink, it works with every ink!) with dark brown on a piece of white cardstock and masked her. I stamped the other stamps with brown, pale green and darker green, sponged some green and brown and and dried well. I removed the mask and heat embossed the swirl with gold embossingpowder. I coloured the face a bit using some Distress ink Vintage photo and a water brush. I sponged the edges of the card with dark brown for some deapth.

Stamps used: (click=see) Art Deco Face, Pieces of Calligraphy, Pieces of Architecture, Scalloped Flourish.

 

Liesbeth XX

Face On Challenge: Ancient Woman

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Hi again from Laurie with a tag I made for this current "Face On" Challenge going on through the end of August here on the Portal.   I used the Ancient Woman #4 tag stamp from Lost Coast Designs.  There is a whole series of these ancient woman portrait stamps at Lost Coast, and I love all of them!

I stamped my Ancient Woman onto a piece of cardboard, then trimmed the top to a tag shape, including punching a hole for some ribbon or twine.  Next I took a piece of cream and black scrapbook paper and pleated it, then stitched across it with a zig zag stitch.  I edged it, and the tag, with some Vintage Photo Distress ink to age them both, and tied a piece of twine around the pleated paper.  I then glued this to the bottom of my tag.

I finished my tag off with some light brown and black seam binding ribbon through the hole in the top along with an aged bronze charm.

Please come join us for this fun challenge, featuring "face" stamps - you could win some free stamps from Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!