Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Day 6: Everything Dances by Nikki!

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!

We are super excited to be participating in the seventh 31 Days of Halloween blog hop hosted by Smeared Ink!  If you joined the hop from the start then you got here from DominoART and your next stop is Susan.  If you just popped in to visit us today and would like to start the hop from the beginning or if you get lost along the way then the blog roll is over there in the right sidebar!  For more info about this hop and how to win prizes see Terra's blog.

Lost Coast Designs is proudly sponsoring Smeared Ink's Scavenger Hunt prize today! You can win a $10 spending spree to Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!
Good Luck!

Today's spooktacular featured project is by LCDesigner Nikki!
Nikki used the following stamps by Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda to make her funtastic card.
LCD Dancing Skeletons
CV Grunge Black Swirl Background 
Besides all the fabulous prizes up for grabs with Smeared Ink you can also join our Halloween party and win 2 spooktacular prizes! 

Enter your spooktacular creations in our BOO! linky collection HERE to
win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV! 
http://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/2015/09/boo-31-days-of-halloween-linky-party.html
You can also enter our first LCD/CV Facebook Challenge currently taking place on both of our FB Pages, Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!
Click on over, read the pinned posts and enter  
Challenge #1 Something Wicked this Way Comes!
Please make sure you read our blog & FB rules to qualify to win!

I hope you are enjoying our projects so far and are getting inspired to play along with us here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and on our Facebook Pages too!
We'd love for you to Stay to Play!
Thank you for hopping with us today, see you again tomorrow!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN
LCD/CV DT Leader

Monday, October 5, 2015

Day 5 Flying Skulls tag by Karen & October's Challenge #17 Monochromatic

Welcome back Hoppers and Hello to our Challenge Fans!
Today is Day 5 of our participation in the 31 Days of Halloween blog hop hosted by Smeared Ink PLUS our new monthly Challenge for October starts today so this post is for both!

First up is the Day 5 featured project and then the LCDesigners are here to also delight you with some Challenge inspiration so sit back and enjoy!

Carmen's Veranda is proudly sponsoring Smeared Ink's Scavenger Hunt prize today! You can win a $10 spending spree to Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!
Good Luck!

Today's spooktacular featured project is by LCDesigner Karen!
Karen used Carmen's Veranda - Flying Skull to make her wicked cool tag.

Nikki will now announce the winner of our previous challenge and give you all the details on our new one!  Don't forget to come back and enter once you've finished hopping ;0) 

The winner of our #16 Single Layer Challenge is Ellie Knol, here is her gorgeous make :

Congratulations .....

Please email Nikki (nikksup@gmail.com) by the end of October to claim
your $10 prize. Please provide your full name and mailing address in the email, as well as what stamps you would like. 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 #17 Color Challenge : Monochromatic

Welcome to our new challenge, a color theme : Monochromatic. We hope you will feel inspired to 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 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 DT inspiration from Team Inspire

Leigh used Carmen Veranda's Alfred Hitchcock,
Flying Birds background and ATC Birds in Trees


Karen has used Grunge Tree background, Party Girl and Party Words from Lost Coast Designs.



Nan has used Cityscape and Party Words from Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda Face with Tongue.

Tera has used Lost Coast Designs More Bugz, Broken Letters Set, Aggregate background and Leonardo Accessories

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 :)



Sunday, October 4, 2015

Day 4: Witches Workshop Book Box by Nan!

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!

We are super excited to be participating in the seventh 31 Days of Halloween blog hop hosted by Smeared Ink!  If you joined the hop from the start then you got here from DominoART and your next stop is Susan.  If you just popped in to visit us today and would like to start the hop from the beginning or if you get lost along the way then the blog roll is over there in the right sidebar!  For more info about this hop and how to win prizes see Terra's blog.

Lost Coast Designs is proudly sponsoring Smeared Ink's Scavenger Hunt prize today! You can win a $10 spending spree to Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!
Good Luck!

Today's spooktacular featured project is by LCDesigner Nanette!
Nan used the following stamps by Lost Coast Designs to make her wicked cool altered book box.
Early Stitch and Bitch
Dancing Skeletons
Six Mini Skulls
Besides all the fabulous prizes up for grabs with Smeared Ink you can also join our Halloween party and win 2 spooktacular prizes!

Enter your spooktacular creations in our BOO! linky collection HERE to
win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV! 
http://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/2015/09/boo-31-days-of-halloween-linky-party.html
You can also enter our first LCD/CV Facebook Challenge currently taking place on both of our FB Pages, Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!
Click on over, read the pinned posts and enter  
Challenge #1 Something Wicked this Way Comes!
Please make sure you read our blog & FB rules to qualify to win!

I hope you are enjoying our projects so far and are getting inspired to play along with us here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and on our Facebook Pages too!
We'd love for you to Stay to Play!
Thank you for hopping with us today, see you again tomorrow!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN
LCD/CV DT Leader

Saturday, October 3, 2015

Day 3: Trick or Treat ATC by Kim!

Happy 10th World Carding-making Day to you all
and 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!

We are super excited to be participating in the seventh 31 Days of Halloween blog hop hosted by Smeared Ink!  If you joined the hop from the start then you got here from DominoART and your next stop is Susan.  If you just popped in to visit us today and would like to start the hop from the beginning or if you get lost along the way then the blog roll is over there in the right sidebar!  For more info about this hop and how to win prizes see Terra's blog.

Carmen's Veranda is proudly sponsoring Smeared Ink's Scavenger Hunt prize today! You can win a $10 spending spree to Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!
Good Luck!

Today's spooktacular featured project is by LCDesigner Kim!
She used the following stamps by Carmen's Veranda to make her whimsical yet spooky ATC.

Besides all the fabulous prizes up for grabs with Smeared Ink you can also join our Halloween party and win 2 spooktacular prizes!

Enter your spooktacular creations in our BOO! linky collection HERE to
win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV! 
http://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/2015/09/boo-31-days-of-halloween-linky-party.html
You can also enter our first LCD/CV Facebook Challenge currently taking place on both of our FB Pages, Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!
Click on over, read the pinned posts and enter  
Challenge #1 Something Wicked this Way Comes!
Please make sure you read our blog & FB rules to qualify to win!

I hope you are enjoying our projects so far and are getting inspired to play along with us here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and on our Facebook Pages too!
We'd love for you to Stay to Play!
Thank you for hopping with us today, see you again tomorrow!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN
LCD/CV DT Leader

Friday, October 2, 2015

Day 2: Wicked Wonderland ATC by Bibiana!

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!

We are super excited to be participating in the seventh 31 Days of Halloween blog hop hosted by Smeared Ink!  If you joined the hop from the beginning then you got here from DominoART and your next stop is Susan.  If you just popped in to visit us today and want to join the fun then the blog roll is over there in the right sidebar!  For more info about this hop and how to win prizes see Terra's blog.

Lost Coast Designs is proudly sponsoring Smeared Ink's Scavenger Hunt prize today! You can win a $10 spending spree to Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!
Good Luck!

Today's spooktacular featured project is by LCDesigner Bibiana!
Bibiana used the following stamps by Lost Coast Designs to make her wicked Wonderland ATC. 

The White Rabbit - from the Rabbits, Cat Face, Hatter set
Decorative Arch - ATC misc. 5 set
Party hats 2 set
6 mini skulls

Besides all the fabulous prizes up for grabs with Smeared Ink you can also join our Halloween party and win 2 spooktacular prizes!

Enter your spooktacular creations in our BOO! linky collection HERE to
win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV! 
http://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/2015/09/boo-31-days-of-halloween-linky-party.html
You can also enter our first LCD/CV Facebook Challenge currently taking place on both of our FB Pages, Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!
Click on over, read the pinned posts and enter  
Challenge #1 Something Wicked this Way Comes!
Please make sure you read our blog & FB rules to qualify to win!

Thank you for hopping with us today and leaving us your wonderful comments!
See you again tomorrow!

Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN
LCD/CV DT Leader

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Day 1 of 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop by Leigh S-B

Hello and Welcome to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity, our event and challenge blog,
where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

We are super excited to be participating for the first time as a Wicked Blogger in the seventh 31 Days of Halloween blog hop hosted by Smeared Ink!  This is thee most anticipated blog hop of the year where we share wicked cool projects inspired by Halloween and Day of the Dead for 31 days straight!  You are in for a delightfully wicked October ;0)

If you joined the hop from the start then you got here from DominoART and your next stop is Susan.
If you just popped in to visit us today and would like to start the hop from the beginning or if you get lost along the way then the blog roll is below and will also remain over there in the right sidebar all month long!

Today's post has a lot of info coz there's tons of ways for you to win prizes this month so read everything, trust me, you must read all the way to the bottom coz you really don't want to miss a thing ;0)

Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda are also thrilled to be sponsoring the blog hop Scavenger Hunt prizes every single day!  All the info and the rules provided by Smeared Ink are below today's featured DT project but basically if you hop all the blogs each day, find the hidden Scavenger Hunt picture and email its location into Smeared Ink you are in the running to win daily prizes and the prize each day from LCD/CV is a $10 spending spree to Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

We are also hosting our own Halloween party this month so you've got even more chances to win some spooktacular prizes!

Enter your spooktacular creations in our BOO! linky collection HERE to
win a $15 spending spree to LCD/CV!  Clawesome right!
http://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/2015/09/boo-31-days-of-halloween-linky-party.html
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE...you can also enter our first LCD/CV Facebook Challenge currently taking place on both of our FB Pages, Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!
Click on over, read the pinned posts and enter  
Challenge #1 Something Wicked this Way Comes!
Please make sure you read our blog & FB rules to qualify to win!

 Is this going to be a spooktacular October or what!!!!!  Let's get this party started!
I'm kicking off Day 1 with a project featuring stamps from both Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda.

"Boo!" said Poe to the Raven!
Altered wood Shapes combined with typed portions of the poem "The Raven"
 by Leigh S-B
For more info about my project please stop by my blog, LeighSBDesigns!

I hope I've inspired you to play along with us here at Lost Coast Portal and on our Facebook Pages too!  Enter our BOO! event HERE and our Facebook Challenge HERE!

Thank you for hopping with us today and leaving me some love!
1 day down just 30 to go, bwahahahaha, see you again tomorrow ;0)
Leigh S-B

Now for the info on how to participate in the Smeared Ink blog hop and win daily prizes!

Horrifying Hopper

What You Have To Do:
Hop through each of the Wicked Blogs that are participating and leave a comment on each project. No need to sign up, just start on the first day and work your way through all the blogs. All Horrifying Hoppers will receive a Survival Button at the end of the month to proudly post on their blog.

The Rules:
You must leave a comment on EACH participating blog EVERY day in October to qualify for the grand prize drawing. Your comment should be about the project or something related (i.e.-no "Here's my comment for today" or "I'm here!"...these types of comments won't count!) If you miss a day or a blog, you will still qualify to receive a survival button, but will not qualify for the grand prize drawing.

Sinister Lurker

What You Have To Do:
Some of you can't participate all month long, and that's okay! Only Wicked Bloggers and Horrifying Hoppers are up for the grand prize drawing, but if you can't do either of those you will still have the chance to win some Lurker prizes! We will be hiding scavenger hunt pictures randomly throughout the month on various participating blogs...if you find one on any given day, you will be put in for that day's freebie drawing. It may be a coupon, a free digi, or a Halloween goodie, who knows! We are working on some great sponsor prizes for the scavenger hunt this year, and it will be well worth your time to visit every once in a while.

The Rules:
Scavenger Items will be hidden randomly on the Wicked Blogs, and are not guaranteed to be available every day. You will have to visit blogs to find them. If you find one, you will email and let us know exactly where it was and your name will go into that scavenger item's drawing. Each person who finds the "hidden" picture will get one entry. The drawing for each scavenger prize will be the day after it was posted and winners will be chosen by random number based on who emailed. Wicked Bloggers are able to participate and find scavenger pictures as well, unless it is hidden on their own blog.

Grand Prize Drawing

Doesn't this all sound like fun? I know WE can't wait!!
But wait, I know you are now asking yourself "What prize drawing at the end of the month are they talking about?" In addition to some awesome scavenger prizes provided by some pretty amazing sponsors, we are offering up a great prize at the end of the month. This year will be a little different since we are working on rebuilding our shop, however we will be offering a 12 month Smeared Ink digi subscription as a Grand Prize! Starting in November 2015, the winner will receive a free digi stamp of their choice from our shop every month for a whole year! We may also add in some other goodies as the event gets closer, and maybe even some sponsor prizes into the Grand Prize drawing. (By the way, this means that the Smeared Ink shop will indeed be reopening!)

How To Win It:
Each person who successfully completes the 31 Days as either a Wicked Blogger  or a Horrifying Hopper will receive one entry toward this prize drawing. If you successfully complete both, you will receive two entries. (Meaning if you are a Wicked Blogger and you comment on every blog every day, you have successfully completed both)
xXx 

Bwahahahaha!
Congrats, you have found the 1st SI Scavenger Hunt picture (for Day 1 only)!  
See, told ya it was worth your while to read all the way to the bottom LOL!
Off you go and email in it's location to Smeared Ink!  Details on Terra's blog!