Lost Coast Portal To Creativity - Events and Challenge Blog

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

BOO! a 31 Days of Halloween linky party plus our 1st Facebook Challenge!

Hello LCD and CV Friends!

Tomorrow begins the countdown to Halloween and that means only one thing...it's time to get spooky! Lost Coast Portal to Creativity is participating in the fangtastic Smeared Ink 31 Days of Halloween blog hop which kicks off Oct 1st and to celebrate we are throwing our own Halloween party with 2 events! Enter your spooktacular projects for the chance to win 2 freakishly fabulous prizes!

BOO! a 31 Days of Halloween Linky Party
Oct 1st - Oct 31, submit your entries in the Inlinkz collection below!
win a $15 shopping spree to Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

BOO! Rules

You can use ANY stamp companies on your entries BUT if you use only LCD/CV stamps your entry will count as two and doubles your chance at winning the prize!
Become a Follower of Lost Coast Portal to Creativity
Submission must link directly to your project, not just your blog home page
Include our event info and link in your blog post
No backlinking to old projects published prior to the start of the event
Please leave us a comment after you link up, we do love hearing from you!
No limit on how many times you can enter
No limit on how many events or challenges you can combine ours with
You may enter our events and Challenges even if you don't have a blog...Upload your project to a photo sharing site or personal Facebook accounts, and set the privacy setting to "Public", include the name of the event or Challenge in your photo description!

LCD/CV Facebook Pages Challenge

#1 Something Wicked this Way Comes!

The 2nd event is our 1st LCD/CV Facebook based Challenge, which began Sept 7 and ends Nov 2!
win a $15 shopping spree to Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

https://www.facebook.com/lostcoastdesigns/timeline

HOW TO ENTER & RULES

Enter on our Lost Coast Designs Facebook Page

Enter on our Carmen's Veranda Facebook Page

This challenge is running on both of our Facebook Pages - LCD & CV.
You must be a Follower of both of our FB Pages to enter!
Projects featuring our LCD or CV images will be entered into the DT Faves draw TWICE!
If you make a project combining stamps from both companies then you may enter the same project in both locations & quadruple your chances of winning the prize!
If you make a project using only LCD images then please only enter it on the LCD Page.
If you make a project using only CV images then please only enter it on the CV Page.
You may combine our LCD & CV images with stamps from other companies but our images MUST be the focus of your project!
Enter by adding your project photo in the comments of the Challenge Facebook post which is pinned to the top of both FB Pages.
Include details of what stamps you used & please leave the DT some love.
ONE winner will receive a $15 gift certificate which can be spent at both companies!
You are very welcome to enter the same projects in our events & challenges currently being hosted here on Lost Coast Portal to Creativity blog!
We'd greatly appreciate it if you'd share our Challenge with your friends via the "Share" button.

The LCDesigners have been creating up a storm so stop by every day throughout October for tons of spooktacular inspiration! The 31 Days of Halloween blog hop will have daily prizes sponsored by many fab companies including Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda which you can win just by hopping, commenting and playing in the Scavenger Hunt! Don't forget to come back here and enter your Halloween inspired creations in the BOO! linky party below and also enter our FB Challenge!

We hope you'll join us and Stay to Play!

An InLinkz Link-up

Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LCD/CV DT Leader

Monday, September 7, 2015

Challenge #16 Single Layer Project

The winner of our #15 Circles Challenge is Rosie

Congratulations ..... and here is her gorgeous make :

Please email Nikki (nikksup@gmail.com) by the end of September to claim
your $10 prize. Please provide your full name and mailing address in the email.
You can shop at either Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda.
Also, please pick up the challenge winners badge to proudly display on your blog.

Challenge #16 Single Layer Project

Welcome to our new challenge, One Layer or Single Layer project. By that we mean no additional layers of any kind, card stock, embellishments etc. We hope you will feel inspired to play along with us. Note that you can use any company's images you like to join our challenge, but if you use any images from Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda you will get two entries into the draw to win the prize, yes that's double the chance to win.

Reminder of our new prize system
PRIZES
To ensure you all have a fabulous time playing in our challenges we have a new format for our new blog!

1 - 4 entries = a winner will be awarded our Challenge Badge

5+ entries = one winner will receive a $5 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV

10+ entries = one winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV

you get the Challenge Badge to proudly display on your blog too!

Please be sure to read our rules so that your entry is eligible to win the prize :)

Did you know that you can play in our Challenges even if you don't have a blog!

Simply upload your project to a photo sharing site, including your own personal Facebook accounts, and set the privacy setting to "Public" and include the name of our Challenge in your photo description! You can not link to projects shared in a closed Facebook Group because the linky tool can't access it there! It's that easy so do join the fun!

Some inspiration from our Team Dream:

Leigh has used Lost Coast Designs' Manga Goth Dots and Carmen Veranda's Grunge White Swirl

Nan has used Chloe Collage and Dictionary Words from Lost Coast Designs:

Granne has used Backside Woman and Antique Text Border and Spray Webbing from Lost Coast Designs:

Kim has used Grunge Tree and Sugar Skull with Flower from Lost Coast Designs

Nikki has used Carmen's Veranda Birds Background Stamp

Reminder to read our rules so that your entry is eligible to win prizes :)

AND don't forget that we have lifted our restriction that only LCD/CV stamps be used to enter our challenges. But if you do use LCD/CV images then your entry will count as two which means you double your chances of winning.

Tell all your friends, come join us, and stay to play :)

Before you go we've also got some Facebook news to share!

Our 1st Facebook Challenge started today on both our Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda Facebook Pages! One lucky fan will win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV! Click the linked names above and check out the Challenge post which is pinned at the top of both walls.

An InLinkz Link-up

Monday, August 3, 2015

Challenge #15 : Circles

The winner of our #14 Zentangle Challenge is CARLA!

Congratulations Carla, you have won our Challenge Winner's badge to proudly display on your blog!

Challenge #15 Circles

Welcome to our new challenge, Circles. We hope you will feel inspired to play along with us. Note that you can use any company's images you like to join our challenge, but if you use any images from Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda you will get two entries into the draw to win the prize, yes that's double the chance to win.

Reminder of our new prize system
PRIZES
To ensure you all have a fabulous time playing in our challenges we have a new format for our new blog!

1 - 4 entries = a winner will be awarded our Challenge Badge

5+ entries = one winner will receive a $5 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV

10+ entries = one winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV

you get the Challenge Badge to proudly display on your blog too!

Please be sure to read our rules so that your entry is eligible to win the prize :)

Did you know that you can play in our Challenges even if you don't have a blog!

Now for some inspiration from our Design Team

Leigh has used the Bubbles Border

Tera has used one of the dogs from the Party Dog Set

Esther has used Feather Bird and the Shadow Frames Set

Karen has used Sunflower Background and Butterfly Face

Nikki has used Ballerina with Fish

Bibiana has used Light Mandalas and Daisy Flourish

Reminder to read our rules so that your entry is eligible to win prizes :)

Tell all your friends, come join us, and stay to play :)

An InLinkz Link-up

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

WINNER of our GRAND OPENING "New Stamp Release" EVENT is....

Hello Friends!

We launched this fabulous new Event and Challenge blog of ours on May 16, 2015 and we are thrilled that you have all stopped by, become followers and joined in our festivities!

We received so many truly stunning entries in our Grand Opening "New Stamp Release" event and now it's time to announce the winner of the $20 spending spree at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

and

the

winner

GERDA

CONGRATULATIONS Gerda! Here's your Winner's badge for your blog to display with pride and please email me, Leigh, with your full name and mailing address to claim your prize before September 1st!

ENJOY!

Gerda featured Lost Coast Designs Feather Bird stamp

Happy Stamping!

Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

DT Leader

Monday, July 6, 2015

Challenge #14 : Zentangle

The winner of our #13 Numbers Challenge is Gerda

Here is her gorgeous make for the challenge :

Congratulations. Please email Nikki (nikksup@gmail.com) by the end of July to claim
your $5 prize. Please provide your full name and mailing address in the email.
You can shop at either Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda.

Challenge #14 Zentangle

Welcome to our second monthly Challenge in our new events and challenge location. We hope you will play along with us. You can use any company's images you like to join our challenge, but if you use any images from Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda you will get two entries into the draw to win the prize, yes thats double the chance to win.

Reminder of our new prize system :
PRIZES

To ensure you all have a fabulous time playing in our challenges we have a new format for our new blog!

1 - 4 entries = a winner will be awarded our Challenge Badge

5+ entries = one winner will receive a $5 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV

10+ entries = one winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV

(you get the Challenge Badge to proudly display on your blog too!

Please be sure to read our rules so that your entry is eligible to win the prize :)

Did you know that you can play in our Challenges even if you don't have a blog!

Simply upload your project to a photo sharing site, including your own personal Facebook accounts, and set the privacy setting to "Public" and include the name of our Challenge in your photo description! You can not link to projects shared in a closed Facebook Group because the linky tool can not access it there! It's that easy so do join the fun!

Some inspiration from the Design Team :

Esther has used Travel Stuff and Up Close and Personal :

Corrie has used Rabbit's Square from Carmen's Veranda :

Nikki has used Renaissance Madonna from Carmen's Veranda :

Leigh has used Pencils Background from Lost Coast Designs :

Reminder to read our rules so that your entry is eligible to win prizes :)

AND reminder again that we have lifted our restriction that only LCD/CV stamps be used to enter our challenges. But if you do use LCD/CV images then your entry will count as two which means you double your chances of winning the prizes.

Tell all your friends, come join us, and stay to play :)

An InLinkz Link-up

Saturday, July 4, 2015

Alice in Wonderland Celebration Blog Hop!

Welcome LCD/CV Fans and Happy 4th of July!

Today we are celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Alice in Wonderland, and what better way to do that, than to share lots of creative projects inspired by this wonderful story.

The Alice in Wonderland illustration stamps I used are available at Lost Coast Designs. We have a whole category dedicated to Alice so stop by and check them all out!

Although our Lost Coast Portal blog isn't actually involved in this blog hop I figured there's no reason why I can't still share all the fabulous AIW inspired projects with you all here, invite you to hop along too and also share the project I made for the hop. I wasn't sure if I was going to get the blog roll in time before I'm away from my computer for a while so more names could have been added to the blog roll already but Suzi kindly let me still play and provided the blog roll early enough for me to add at least a partial list to my posts!

Most of you know how much I love Alice in Wonderland and my passion for AIW goes hand in
hand with my passion for altered game art and today I'm sharing a set of altered Bendomino "Alice in Wonderland" Push Pins over on my DominoART blog. I love using Bendominoes for my Alice projects, which are curved dominoes, coz the quirkiness of their shape ties in so nicely with the quirkiness of the Wonderland story! For info and detailed photos stop by my post HERE or work your way there by starting the hop HERE.

Not only will you see lots of amazing artwork today, but you can also win prizes from the following amazing companies;

The Stamping Boutique

Prize winners will be selected from Random blogs throughout the hop using Random.org to select each winner. In order to be eligible for a prize you must visit all stops on the hop and leave a comment. The prize draws will be open until July 18th, with winners announced on July 20th.

Blog Hop List

Nan