Day 5: New Stamps Showcase - Two "Funky Chickens" Cards by Shari!

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 having a fabulous time showing off our new additions to Lost Coast Designs rubber stamp line!  A whole bunch of new images were added in December so if you haven't seen them yet then pop on over and check out our NEW IMAGES page, they are so freaking awesome, you're going to want them all!

We, the LCDesigners are kicking off the new year with a New Stamps Showcase where we will share our projects featuring the new stamps every single day for the next 2 weeks so sit back and enjoy all the fab DT inspiration!

Would you like to win one of our new stamps?  I'm sure you do so stop by every day of the showcase and let us know what you think of our featured project(s) then on the last day tell us which new stamp is your favourite!  Readers who comment every day of the event will be entered into a random draw to win their fave new stamp!!!!  

We are now on Day 5 and LCDesigner Shari is sharing 2 gorgeous cards today featuring these awesome new stamps:
2" Grunge Border, Cracked  Bird on Wheels, Cracked Chicken and Misc Words

Thanks for visiting with us again today, now don't forget to come back every day until Jan 31st for tons of "New Stamps" DT inspiration and leave us lots of love for the chance to win your fave new stamp!

Our Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation Day Blog Hop in celebration of his birthday is underway!  The hop started on Jan 19 but you can still play coz it's a progressive hop spanning over 5 days and you can join the hop at any time, no need to sign up!  You have until midnight PST on January 23 to join the fun!  You can see all the participating blogs so far over there in our right hand sidebar!

Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda are sponsoring this hop but ALL stamps of Poe and related imagery by other companies can be used, and one participating blog will be randomly selected to win a $10 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV!  Click HERE for all the info and to grab the Blog Roll code.  I hope you'll stop by for loads of Poe inspiration and join the hop too!

 

We have lots of crow/raven themed stamps including a Poe himself!  Stop by and check them out!

 Carmen's Veranda - Poe

Carmen's Veranda - Birds

Lost Coast Designs - Crown and Raven

more Crows and Ravens

 Border stamps too

 and Background stamps!

 Happy Stamping!

Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Day 4: New Stamps Showcase - "Amazing" & "Kingly Bird & Cat" Cards by Karen!

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!

Lost Coast Designs added some fabulous new stamps to the LCD catalogue in December and we're very pleased to see that so many of you have already added them to your collections, YAY!  If you haven't seen our fab new designs yet then pop on over and check out our NEW IMAGES page, they are so freaking awesome, you're going to want them all!

The LCDesigners are now super excited to kick off the new year with a New Stamps Showcase where we will share our projects featuring the new stamps every single day for the next 2 weeks so sit back and enjoy all the fab DT inspiration!

Would you like to win one of our new stamps?  I'm sure you do so stop by every day of the showcase and let us know what you think of our featured project(s) then on the last day tell us which new stamp is your favourite!  Readers who comment every day of the event will be entered into a random draw to win their fave new stamp!!!!  

For Day 4 LCDesigner Karen is sharing 2 gorgeous cards featuring these awesome new stamps:
Grunge Border 2", Misc Words, and ATC Faces Set

 and "Kingly Bird and Cat" featuring Cat with Bird

Thanks for visiting with us again today, now don't forget to come back tomorrow and every day until Jan 31st for tons of "New Stamps" DT inspiration and leave us lots of love for the chance to win your fave new stamp!

Our Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation Day Blog Hop in celebration of his birthday is underway!  The hop started yesterday but you can still play coz it's a progressive hop spanning over 5 days and you can join the hop at any time, no need to sign up!  You have until midnight PST on January 23 to join the fun!  Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda are sponsoring this hop but ALL stamps of Poe and related imagery by other companies can be used, and one participating blog will be randomly selected to win a $10 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV!  Click HERE for all the info and to grab the Blog Roll code.  I hope you'll stop by for loads of Poe inspiration and join the hop too!

 

We have lots of crow/raven themed stamps including a Poe himself!  Stop by and check them out!

 Carmen's Veranda - Poe

Carmen's Veranda - Birds

Lost Coast Designs - Crown and Raven

more Crows and Ravens

 Border stamps too

 and Background stamps!

 Happy Stamping!

Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Day 3: New Stamps Showcase - "Fly" ATC & a CAS card 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!

Lost Coast Designs added some fabulous new stamps to the LCD catalogue in December and we're very pleased to see that so many of you have already added them to your collections, YAY!  If you haven't seen our fab new designs yet then pop on over and check out our NEW IMAGES page, they are so freaking awesome, you're going to want them all!

The LCDesigners are now super excited to kick off the new year with a New Stamps Showcase where we will share our projects featuring the new stamps every single day for the next 2 weeks so sit back and enjoy all the fab DT inspiration!

Would you like to win one of our new stamps?  I'm sure you do so stop by every day of the showcase and let us know what you think of our featured project(s) then on the last day tell us which new stamp is your favourite!  Readers who comment every day of the event will be entered into a random draw to win their fave new stamp!!!!  

For Day 3 LCDesigner Nikki is sharing 2 projects, a gorgeous ATC and a CAS card featuring these awesome new stamps:
Cracked Bird from Cracked Critters Set One
and our new Nuance Powders

and a CAS card featuring Cracked Party Cat
 
Thanks for visiting with us again today, now don't forget to come back tomorrow and every day until Jan 31st for tons of "New Stamps" DT inspiration and leave us lots of love for the chance to win your fave new stamp!

Our Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation Day Blog Hop in celebration of his birthday is underway!  The hop started yesterday but you can still play coz it's a progressive hop spanning over 5 days and you can join the hop at any time, no need to sign up!  You have until midnight PST on January 23 to join the fun!  Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda are sponsoring this hop but ALL stamps of Poe and related imagery by other companies can be used, and one participating blog will be randomly selected to win a $10 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV!  Click HERE for all the info and to grab the Blog Roll code.  I hope you'll stop by for loads of Poe inspiration and join the hop too!

 

We have lots of crow/raven themed stamps including a Poe himself!  Stop by and check them out!

 Carmen's Veranda - Poe

Carmen's Veranda - Birds

Lost Coast Designs - Crown and Raven

more Crows and Ravens

 Border stamps too

 and Background stamps!

 Happy Stamping!

Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Day 2: New Stamps Showcase - "Mucha Reflects" Mixed Media Canvas by Nanette!

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!

Lost Coast Designs added some fabulous new stamps to the LCD catalogue in December and we're very pleased to see that so many of you have already added them to your collections, YAY!  If you haven't seen our fab new designs yet then pop on over and check out our NEW IMAGES page, they are so freaking awesome, you're going to want them all!

The LCDesigners are now super excited to kick off the new year with a New Stamps Showcase where we will share our projects featuring the new stamps every single day for the next 2 weeks so sit back and enjoy all the fab DT inspiration!

Would you like to win one of our new stamps?  I'm sure you do so stop by every day of the showcase and let us know what you think of our featured project(s) and then on the last day tell us which new stamp is your favourite!  Readers who comment every day of the event will be entered into a random draw to win their fave new stamp!!!!  

Day 2's project is a stunning mixed media canvas by LCDesigner Nanette featuring these awesome new stamps:
Mucha with Pillows

Doodle Circles

Misc Words

 Thanks for visiting with us again today, now don't forget to come back tomorrow and every day until Jan 31st for tons of "New Stamps" DT inspiration and leave us lots of love for the chance to win your fave new stamp!

Before you go I'd also like to let you know that I'm hosting an Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation Day Blog Hop in celebration of his birthday!  The hop starts today at 9am PST and because it's spur of the moment this will be a progressive hop spanning over 5 days and you can join the hop at any time, no need to sign up!  You have until midnight PST on January 23 to join the fun! 

 Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda are sponsoring this hop but ALL stamps of Poe and related imagery by other companies can be used, and one participating blog will be randomly selected to win a $10 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV!  Click HERE for all the info and to grab the Blog Roll code.  I hope you'll stop by for loads of Poe inspiration and join the hop too!
 

We have lots of crow/raven themed stamps including a Poe himself!  Stop by and check them out!

 Carmen's Veranda - Poe

Carmen's Veranda - Birds

Lost Coast Designs - Crown and Raven

more Crows and Ravens

 Border stamps too

 and Background stamps!

 
Happy Stamping!
Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Day 1: New Stamps Showcase - Tag ART by Leigh!

Hello 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!

Lost Coast Designs added some fabulous new stamps to the LCD catalogue in December and we're very pleased to see that so many of you have already added them to your collections, YAY!  If you haven't seen our fab new designs yet then pop on over and check out our NEW IMAGES page, they are so freaking awesome, you're going to want them all!

The LCDesigners are now super excited to kick off the new year with a New Stamps Showcase where we will share our projects featuring the new stamps every single day for the next 2 weeks so sit back and enjoy all the fab DT inspiration!

Would you like to win one of our new stamps?  I'm sure you do so stop by every day of the showcase and let us know what you think of our featured project(s) and then on the last day tell us which new stamp is your favourite!  Readers who comment every day of the event will be entered into a random draw to win their fave new stamp!!!!  

I'm kicking off Day 1 of the New Stamps Showcase with two Tag Art projects featuring these awesome new stamps:

Megan's Christmas Bird
Megan's Owl
Grunge Border 2"
Grunge Border 3"
Goodbye, Happy and New Year from the Misc Words set
plus the numbers from the License Plate Alphabet set

Here's a closer look at the fussy cutting and layering on "Goodbye 2015"

and a closer look at the fussy cutting and layering on "Happy New Year 2016"

Thanks for stopping by today to check out my projects and don't forget to visit every day for the next 2 weeks for tons of "New Stamps" DT inspiration and leave us lots of love for the chance to win your fave new stamp!

Before you go I'd also like to let you know that I'm hosting an Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation Day Blog Hop in celebration of his birthday!  The hop starts tomorrow at 9am PST and because it's spur of the moment this will be a progressive hop spanning over 5 days and you can join the hop at any time, no need to sign up!  You have until midnight PST on January 23 to join the fun!

 Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda are sponsoring this hop but ALL stamps of Poe and related imagery by other companies can be used, and one participating blog will be randomly selected to win a $10 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV!  Click HERE for all the info and to grab the Blog Roll code.  I hope you'll stop by for loads of Poe inspiration and join the hop too!
 

We have lots of crow/raven themed stamps including a Poe himself!  Stop by and check them out!

 Carmen's Veranda - Poe

Carmen's Veranda - Birds

Lost Coast Designs - Crown and Raven

more Crows and Ravens

 Border stamps too

 and Background stamps!

 Happy Stamping!
Leigh S-B
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Challenge #20 Clean and Simple

The winner of our #19 Board Game pieces Challenge is Val S. Crafting

Congratulations ..... And here is her gorgeous make, poinsettia square domino :

We did not have enough entries in November to be able to give away a prize, but
please pick up the challenge winners badge to proudly display on your blog.

Challenge #20 Clean and Simple (CAS)

Welcome to our new CAS challenge. 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!

A quick reminder about a couple of our rules : You must do some stamping and leave a comment on our blog after you link up. Please be sure to read our rules in full 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 CAS inspiration from our Team Dream :

Granne has used Carmen's Veranda stamps Alfred Hitchcock and Flying Birds for her cards :

For Kim's ATC trio she has used Doodle Words and Nuance Powders from Lost Coast Designs : 

Nikki has used Cracked Party Cat from Lost Coast Designs for her card :

Nan has used Franco Face, Misc. Words and Grunge Tree from Lost Coast Designs for her journal page

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 :)

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