Sunday, November 10, 2024

Gnome-vember challenge, Love the gnome santa.

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 crafters, Riet here with a gnome christmas card.
Love this gnome challenge.
Always so nice those little funny creatures.
For this card I used The Santa with toys (large)
And the merry Christmas from the Party words sheet.

It is an easy card.
Nice for the beginning card makers.
I took a smooth white double card.
Stamped the santa gnome with black waterproof ink.
Colored it with pencils.
With a stencil and gray ink sponged the stars on the white surface.
Die cut the presents, and glue them on the card.
Stamp the text in black.
Add some glitter to the gray stars.
And that's it, a quick Christmas card with a nice effect.

The design team would love it if you would join the challenge.
There are stamps of your choice to win.
So come to the blog and join in, the challenge runs until the end of the month.




Friday, November 8, 2024

Go Away - The Grumpy Gnome

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 Gnome-Vember and you've got Kathi here to share a card created with the Gnome Go Away Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs

Here's my card.


You might think he's crude and rude. I think he's funny, sad about the end of daylight savings time, and needs some time to chill by himself.

The Gnome Go Away Rubber Stamp was stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento ink, colored with Copic markers, fussy-cut, then edged with a black marker.

He was set aside while I created a background for him with inks, a cloud stencil, a house and gate die-cuts, and snarky sentiment strips, which I just realized aren't totally straight. My bad. BTW, I'm in the same mood as the gnome. 

I hope you get a chance to play with our Gnome-Vember Challenge 191!


Thanks for visiting today! 

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Santa Gnome!

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!

HEY - It's Gnome-Vember
Darlene here with my make with one of the new Gnomes !

yep - a Santa one !  He is ssssoooo cute. 
So - Welcome to Gnome-vember
and lets have some fun !
What  I did is make a gift card holder card.

It's a standard size card.
Stamped the gnome onto a 2 inch circle of cardstock
layered onto some blue cardstock and stressed the edges
Layered the blue panel DSP onto silver cardstock
coloured in the Santa added some stickies on the hat and chimney
Added 3 layered snowflakes(blue and vellum) with bling in the middle
 
This card has side by side layer , left panel was cut at 2 1/2 inches
The remaining right side panel get taped or glued down around the edges
to make an envelope.

On the inside is where you can slide in your gift card.

Be sure to join our monthly challenge

Monday, November 4, 2024

The Day After The Night Before

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 and it's Gnome-Vember!!!!   We are all about everything Gnome this month.  Lost Coast Designs has some awesome GNOME stamps.  You need at least one, but why stop there LOL.  

I've used Gnome Witch On Broom, Looking Up and large Shrubbery for my morning after scene.

Obviously the party dragged on and the little witch is a bit late getting home, much to the surprize of the local residents.

Join the Gnome-vember fun for a chance to win Lost Coast $$$$$.  You have all month to link up your stamped anythings featuring GNOMES!!!!

Friday, November 1, 2024

CHALLENGE #191 - GNOME-VEMBER

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 #191

GNOME-VEMBER



We want to see everything Gnome.  You have all month to share your stamped anythings featuring gnomes.  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!

Cathy used Lost Coast Designs 3 Gnomes, Corner Swirl and Small Snowflakes Set

 Aimee used Lost Coast Designs mini Gnomes 3
 
Liesbeth used Lost Coast Designs Swinging Gnome and ATC Floral Ironwork
  
Gnometastic!!!
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 #191 - Gnome-vember
November 1st - 30th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
Linky closes Saturday, November 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
 
 

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Day 31 of the 31 days of Halloween

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 Halloween. 💀
Cathy here with day 31 of the 31 days of Halloween. 


                                                                           Stamps Used:
                                                                           Small skeleton 
                                                                       ATC Italian postmark
                                                                       Witch from wizard of OZ 2


I started out with wooden coffins. I painted the back with black paint. I then glued some pattern paper to the front. 

I stamped the Small skeleton   of the side of the coffin. I then stamped  ATC Italian postmark in a light brown ink for the background. 
I added some Halloween ephemera around it.


For the second one I stamped   Witch from wizard of OZ 2 and colored it with copic markers. I also added the ATC Italian postmark and Halloween ephemera. 
Today is the lats day for the 31 days of Halloween challenge.