Saturday, April 6, 2024

Cute 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!

Hello, all Cathy here with a square card for you.

Stamps Used:

I started with a stencil and some green distress ink, and I stenciled the top and sides of the square paper. I just eyeballed where the stencil will go. I placed the stamps over the stencil so I kind of knew the stamps were going to go. 
I stamped Pieces of Calligraphy on the bottom of the paper and then I stamped the Large peekaboo kitty on top of the other stamp. 

Come join the fun here. 

Thursday, April 4, 2024

Cute, Fluffy and Sassy

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 with some inspiration for the Cute and/or Fluffy challenge.
I kept it simple with a distress ink smooched background and a little scripty stamping using one of the Lost Coast Designs Pieces of Calligraphy stamps.  I stamped Carmen's Veranda Peekaboo Kitty on white card, fussy cut and added some gel pen colour to her eyes.  I added the cat to the card and stamped Carmen's Veranda Hot and Sexy sentiment to finish.
You have until 23.59 PST on the 30th to join the Cute and/or Fluffy challenge and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month so do pop back and see their awesome makes.
 Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Monday, April 1, 2024

CHALLENGE #184 - CUTE AND OR FLUFFY

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.  
 
It's time for our new Challenge.
Our challenges are now monthly!  A new challenge starting the 1st 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 #184

CUTE/FLUFFY


We want to see your stamped anythings featuring cute and or fluffy things.  You have all month to join the fun.  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 read the updated Challenge Rules 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 you could win a bigger prize in our random prize drawing.  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!


 Roni used Carmen's Veranda Bunny

 
   Riet used Lost Coast Designs Spike and Lucy and Long Swirl with Carmen's Veranda Dog Hair.

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 30th 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 #184 - Cute and/or Fluffy
April 1st - 30th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Tuesday, April 30th 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

 
 

Saturday, March 30, 2024

The Flying Club

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 Easter!!  Hope you have chocolate!!!
Gail here today with a art journal page.  It's been a long time since I have worked in my art journal but when I started looking at flying themed stamps I tried a few different ideas.  And then I decided to put them all together in a glorious collage.

My starting point was Lost Coast Designs Flying Pig.  I decided to make an ATC with a brusho sprinkle background and the Carmen's Veranda Art Wings To Fly stamp.  The pig was stamped, coloured and fussy cut and I glittered the wings. 

One ATC seemed lonely so I stamped Lost Coast Designs Gnome Witch On A Broom on a piece of white card, watercoloured with distress inks and cut with an ATC die.  I fussy cut around the end of the broom so it would protrude outside the ATC when I die cut. 

Then the ideas were flowing.  I stamped Carmen's Veranda Bullseye on a piece of offwhite card and ripped the edges.  Then I fingerpainted with Worn Lipstick distress ink to add some patches of colour.

I stamped Lost Coast Designs Flagstone Background on a scrap of patterned card and stamped Whimsical Flora directly on top.  Then I selectively coloured for a stained glass look.  Tron is another stamp which is excellent for this technique. 
Then I turned to my journal page.  These are a pale yellow pages.  I started by putting some distress inks on an acrylic block, spritzing with water then using bubble wrap to stamp the colour on my page.  I used a few different distress ink.  Then I stamped a border with Lost Coast Designs Dominos Border
Then I put it all together.  
I stamped some Dictionary Words on cork and embossed with black embossing powder and found some more cork embellishments to finish the page.
 
I hope you like my art journal page. 
 You have until 23.59 PST on the 31st to join the Let's Fly fun and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month so do pop over and see what they are doing.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Let's Fly: Rosetti with Butterfly

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 again from Laurie as we near the end of our month long challenge:  Let's Fly.  I hope you have been creating along with us all month and entering your makes here on the Portal.

I have a card here using one of my very favorite Lost Coast stamps - Rosetti With Butterfly.  I love the Arts and Crafts movement and the art that it inspired, so this stamp is very special for me.

My image is stamped with brown ink onto a piece of vintage kraft paper that I have torn and inked the edges of.  I layered this with a black panel and layered that with a piece of vintage text from an old book.  Final step was to layer that with another black panel.

I started to add some color to this with some markers, but I really like the old look of this the way it is and decided not to do anything that would distract from the wonderful design of the stamp itself.

Be sure to get your projects posted here on the Portal by the end of March for a chance to win some free stamps!



Tuesday, March 26, 2024

#183 Lets fly challenge.

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, No tutorial today but a brief explanation.
I used these stamps for this card.
and 

I also used 
distress oxide Iced spruce, 
Wilted violet, 
Picked rasberry 
Blueprint sketch.
And distress ink Black soot.
A black waterproof ink.
White gel pen.
Black fineliner.

I started by making a puddle with Iced spruce and some water and dabbing the paper into it.
Let it dry, then make stripes with the side of the oxide ink pads.
Stamp the ravens with the waterproof ink.
Color the ravens with pencil or marker.
Give them some accents with the white gel pen.
Stamp the text on white paper and draw a line around the words.
Cut the words in to pieces.
With the black distress ink and an ink blender we now darken the outer edge of the paper.
That gives it some mystery.
Glue the words on the card.
Now take a larger sheet of white paper,
 and stamp it completely full with the Daisy floral and black ink.
Now stick the raven card on top and matt with black cardstock.
This is a somewhat older technique, 
but as you can see, you can quickly and easily achieve an interesting background.

So now its up to you, and I hope you join the challenge.
It runs till end of the month, so still time to join.
There is new rubber to win, so thats nice.
Goodluck and dont forget to have fun with your craft.