APRIL WINNERS

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Welcome Portal Peeps!!!
It's time to announce the WINNERS of our April 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 #141

SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH S

is

Karen

 

with this summer seaside scrapbook page

Congrats Karen, you win a $10 gift certificate

WINNER of CHALLENGE #142

HATS

is

Vee

with this cute cat tag

Congrats Vee, you win a $10 gift certificate

 Congratulations Karen and Vee!  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

STRONG WOMEN

Link up your stamped projects featuring Strong Women

for a chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.

 

Mona Don't Giveashit

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.  Gail here today.  The current challenge is Strong Women and that gives us all a chance to wheel out out lovely lady stamps and sassy sentiment.  I've combined Lost Coast Designs Victorian Mona with one of my most favourite Carmen's Veranda sentiments.

You tell em Mona!

I started by stamping Lost Coast Designs Flowers Background on white card with Wilted Violet and a touch of Worn Lipstick distress inks.

I stamped Victorian Mona, coloured with distress inks and fussy cut her.  I stamped the Carmen's Veranda Giveashitometer sentiment on a scrap of white card and squiffy cut the panels, edged em with black ink and added them to the card.

Done!

Thanks for dropping by.

Grab your stamps and join the fun for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars!

Strong Women: Frida

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Howdy from Laurie at the beginning of another fun Challenge here on the Portal.  This one is Strong Women.  "Strong Women:  May we know them.  May we raise them.  May we be them."

For this card I used one of my favorite Lost Coast stamps of Frida Kahlo.  This is just one

of a nice selection you will find at Lost Coast Designs.  

My Frida was stamped onto coffee dyed onion skin paper using StayZ On ink in Black.  I layered that with a piece of vintage ledger paper to give it more body, then fussy cut around the edges as shown.

The background is a piece of a master board I made using various pieces of hand made papers.  I glued my Frida to the center of the card front as shown, making sure all the edges were down securely as the paper is fairly thin.  Final step was to machine stitch around the perimeter of the card.

We would love to see your Strong Woman creations.  Please be sure to feature some rubber stamping in your work for a chance to win some free rubber stamps from Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

CHALLENGE #143 - STRONG WOMEN

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 May!
 

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 #143

STRONG WOMEN

We want to see your stamped anythings featuring Strong Women, and if you are wondering which woman to use, teamster Cathy can help you out cos she decided ALL women are strong.  It's girl power all the way.....
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!

Gail used Lost Coast Designs Silhouette Lady with Umbrella, Cracked Grass and Travel Quotes

Laurie used Lost Coast Designs Frida F3

    
Riet used Lost Coast Designs 50's Girl and Pieces of Calligraphy with Carmen's Veranda Happily Ever After 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 below by 23.59 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 #143 - Strong Women
May 1st - 14th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Saturday, May 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
 

 

Hats Challenge: Karaoke Cat

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!

Last day for this fabulous and fun challenge here on the Portal:  Hats.  Hi from Laurie with a fun slimline type card using the Karaoke Cat stamp from Lost Coast Designs, the Doodle Circles background stamp, also from Lost Coast, and the Currently Unsupervised clear stamp from Carmen's Veranda.

This background was a scrap of a gel print with green and blue acrylic paints and some gold stamping.  I added some doodle circles using red Oxide Distress inks.  The cat was stamped with black ink onto white paper, colored with Copic Sketch Markers, and fussy cut out.  I cut a pointed had for him from red card stock and added some polka dots.

The sentiment was stamped onto white card stock with black ink, the corners rounded, and edged with red.  The sentiment was affixed to the top of the card and the Karaoke Cat below.  The whole thing was layered with a piece of white card stock.

So hurry and get out your stamps and your crafty supplies and show us what you can create for this "Hats" challenge before it's over!!

Keep Your Hat On

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!  Gail here with some more inspiration for our current challenge, which is HATS.  Of course it is!   I've gone for a Christmas theme with another one of Lost Coast Designs awesome Gnomes. 

This gnome is called Profile Gnome, but I always think of him as Looking Up, and he's fun to use with things hanging or falling from the sky.  In this case it's large glittery balls!  Well, we all need a bit of bling at Christmas.  I stamped the gnome, masked him and stamped ATC Doodle Circles with blue archival ink.  Then I filled the circles with red/blue glitter glue.  I inked the edge of the stamp and used the same blue ink to stamp the line for the ground and filled it in with iridescent glitter glue.  I did consider glittering my gnome as well, but in the end just went with Promarkers.  I finished off by stamping the Merry Christmas.

Grab your stamps and hats and join the fun for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.  Don't forget, real rubber/clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project.  Linky closes last minute of the month!