Unleash The Flying Monkeys!

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 Thursday. 

It's great to be back with my second project for our fun "Let's Fly" challenge.

Nothing says flying quite like monkeys does it!

I started by making my background with Distress Oxides. I wanted a gray murky look like the black and white part of the Wizard of Oz. I've used mixed media paper so I dipped and dripped to my heart's content.

I stamped my monkeys on and off the page. Then I stamped them again, cut them out, coloured them, and layered them up.

Then added some interest by stamping in metallic paint.

These are my stamps, I've just used the tip of the hat and the boots for my 'Wicked Witch of the East'

Gnome Witch On Broom

Stone House

Cracked Grass and Sky

Flying Monkey (Carmen's Veranda)

So there we have it, the flying monkeys have been unleashed!

I hope that you're enjoying our challenge, and that you join in. Please remember that this is a stamping challenge so real stamps only, no digis allowed!

Have a wonderful day whatever you are doing, and thanks so much for looking x

DECEMBER WINNERS

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 Portal Peeps!!!
It's time to announce the WINNERS of our December Challenge!

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 #134

ANYTHING GOES WITH GNOMES

is

Angelnorth

 

with this cute card using Lost Coast Designs Pointy Hat Gnome

Congrats Joanne, you win a $10 gift certificate

and cos it's Christmas!!!

Janny

with this wonderful card using gnomes and Carmen's Veranda Clown Monkey

Congrats Janny, you win a $10 gift certificate

 Congratulations Joanne and Janny!  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

LET'S FLY

Link up your stamped projects featuring things that fly

 for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.

 

Unsupervised

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!

Cathy here with a tag for you today.

Stamps Used:

Gryphon

Saying

I started off with a #8 white tag. I used blue distress ink in many shades to make the background. I did the smooching technique to make the background. 

Next I stamped the Gryphon and the Saying in black ink. Added some white gel pen for highlights and blue fabric to the top and there is your tag.

Come join the fun new challenge here.

Let's Fly: Singing Birdie

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!

Happy New Year from Laurie to all of you from all of us!  Hope your holidays were wonderful and that you are looking forward to a new year full of fun challenges here on the Lost Coast Portal.

We start the year off with a "Let's Fly" Challenge.  Lots of ways to interpret this one - birds, angels, butterflies, etc.  So put on your creative thinking cap and see what projects you can make using this theme.

I've done a tag for this one using the Whimsical Flora stamp and the Doodle Circles background stamp, both from Lost Coast Designs, and the Sing clear stamp from Carmen's Veranda.

I cut out two tags, one larger that the other so I could layer them. The bottom layer is yellow scrapbook paper and the top layer is pinkish scrapbook paper.  I edged both with Distress Oxide ink in Fired Brick.  Next I stamped both with the Doodle Circles background stamp in the same ink.  I added some little dots with a black marker for a bit of extra interest.  My bird was stamped onto yellow paper with Oxide ink and fussy cut out.  I glued her to the lower portion of the tag as shown and added some googly eyes because everything is more fun with googly eyes!

 The sentiment was stamped with the same Oxide ink onto yellow paper, cut out, edged with ink, and positioned above the bird with foam tape.  Final touch was some yellow and pale pink ribbon through the hole in the top of the tag.

We can't wait to see your "Flying" creations here on the Portal, and don't forget to include some rubber stamping!

CHALLENGE #135 - LET'S FLY!

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.  Happy New Year!!! 

We hope you have had an awesome festive season and are ready for a new year of fun and inspiration here at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.
 

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 #135

LET'S FLY!

Your stamped anythings must feature something that flies.  Birds, insects, balloons, dragons, angels etc etc.  Please remember we are a real stamp challenge and 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!

 
Sue used Lost Coast Designs Flying Car, STP Dirigible and Small Cityscape

  

Gail used Lost Coast Designs Gryphon and License Plate Alphabet

 

 

Laurie used Lost Coast Designs Whimsical Flora and Doodle Circles and the Sing clear stamp from Carmen's Veranda


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 #135 - Let's Fly
January 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, January 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
 

 

Gnome for Tea

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'm still folding and clipping and stamping and inking and making little gift bags and boxes.  Some are on my Nice List, some on my Naughty List.  This one is definitely NICE and so cute.  Especially when you add GNOMES!!!!!!

This is a lovely little quick and easy gift bag that has a pocket front and back and a little space in the middle for a bag of your favourite treats!  The gnome decided to fill this one with ChocoTea!!  Always a hit in my house.

I started with a 8" x 11 1/4" piece of card and stamped it with Lost Coast Designs Small Snowflakes and blue ink.  The card I picked was a little heavy.  Thin card is very good for this.  I scored all the lines and inked them.  Then you need to cut the four corner pieces off.

Fold

and fold.......

Add a couple of stamped, coloured and fussy cut gnomes.  I used Reindeer Gnome and one of the ones from Three Gnomes.

Front and Back.  Cute!!

You have until one minute to midnight 31st December to link up your gnome themed makes for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.  Take care.  Have a very happy and safe New Year celebration.  See you on the other side...bwahhahaahahaha.