Winner of Challenge #43

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Greetings
It's time to announce the WINNER of Challenge #43 Christmas/Winter!

We would like to thank everyone who entered their lovely festive projects and it was so nice to see so many using Lost Coast Design and Carmen's Veranda stamps.  You of course get an extra chance in the random draw for using our stamps on your projects.  Thanks for playing with us!

We used Mr Random and he said

WINNER of CHALLENGE #43
is

KIRSTEN 

with this gorgeous festive creation

 Congratulations Kirsten!  Please email Marilyn (mcgoo4@gmail.com) by the end of the month to claim your prize of a $5 gift certificate.  Please provide your full name and mailing address in the email as well as the stamps you would like, you may choose from Lost Coast Designs and/or Carmen's Veranda!

Here's your snazzy Challenge Winner's badge for your blog!
Please link your badge back to us here at LCPtoC, THX :0)
 

Our current challenge is

DOODLING

Link up your stamped projects using doodle style stamps,

 or add some hand drawn doodles,

 for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.

Down With The Fishes

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!

Good morning (although it's actually afternoon here in the UK) and a very Happy New Year to everyone. It's Sue here with our first challenge of the year at Lost Coast Designs, and it's 'Oodles of Doodles' Now this would normally strike terror into my heart, but my resolution for this year is to 
a) lose half my body weight (only joking - or am I....) and 
b) be a bit less of a perfectionist/control freak/not such an uptight arse - we can say this in England, it's not swearing - honestly! So, to celebrate the untightening of my arse - not sure if we can say that?? I didn't make my piece until the morning it was due, and I'm now typing up my post an hour and 15 before it due EEEEEEK!!
Anyway, here it is

So, in keeping with the theme of 'no worries' I decided to start in my brand new, pristine journal! But it's a cheapo one which is great because it doesn't matter if I mess up in it.

I't a black journal, so my first layer is white gesso, and then some colour.

I've used a mixture of Amsterdam, and Dina Wakley acrylics, and just brayered a background.

I also made a mop up sheet to use later.

Time for some stencilling and doodling with a white pen and black acrylic.

On my mop up sheet I stamped some images from the Fish and Heart Set and cut them out.

Then I sewed them onto a couple of tags.

I stamped the fish onto the circle from the Shadow Frame set so that I could reverse stamp it. It's not as 'perfect' as the normal stamping, but remember resolution (b) lol

The circles from the Leonardo Accessories Set have been stamped and cut out from the mop up sheet. You can also see the Large Chickenwire Background in the corner.

So there we are, all done with seconds to spare lol

It's your turn now, please join in with your doodles, however you make them for the chance to win some Lost Coast $'s. 

Submit your entries in the linky party by 5 to midnight PST on the 14th and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month.

Thanks very much for looking, and I'll see you later in the month xx

CHALLENGE #44 - OODLES OF DOODLES

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HAPPY NEW YEAR

Hello 2018 and hello to you!  So glad you have dropped by.  New year, new ideas, new challenge.  We are going two weekly!  A new challenge starting the 1st and the 15th of every month, with chances to win your self some 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 who gets our snazzy blog badge and the coveted Lost Coast dollars.

So, here we go.  Our first challenge of 2018 is

CHALLENGE #44

DOODLING

We want to see doodles on your project.  You can use doodle style stamps or freehand it, but we are a stamping challenge so there must be some rubber or clear stamping on the project as well.  Do check out the Doodle Stamps and Backgrounds categories at Lost Coast Designs for doodley ideas.

Please remember we do have some Challenge Rules to follow so look them over 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...and we love it when you do...then your entry counts as two, which doubles your chances of winning in our Design Team Faves prize drawing.

PRIZES

To ensure you all have a fabulous time playing in our Challenges this is how our Prize system works!
The more entries the better the Prize so tell all your friends to join the fun too!

1 - 4 Entries = one Winner is awarded our Challenge Winner's 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
and 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 made a card using Corner Swirl,
 Raven Right Small and Carmen's Veranda Farting Unicorn sentiment

GAIL made an ATC using Carmen's Veranda stamps
 White Cat, Cracked Grass, and Zen Create

and a tag using Frankenstein, Bubbles Background and Right Kind of Weird

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 5 to midnight PST on the 14th and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month.

Happy Stamping!
Marilyn
Challenge Host
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An InLinkz Link-up

Do I smell Cake

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!

 

Cathy here to interrupt your normally scheduled Christmas/Winter post to  sneak this in....

 

Over at Lost Coast Designs they have some cat and dog stamps by KatzelKraft. They are so cute. I just had to pop over here and show you what I made..

The saying is from Carmen's Veranda. I had the saying and it just felt like the two go together.

Please take a look when you are shopping for your Lost Coast and Carmen's Veranda stamps at the new additions of KatzelKraft . You will be happy you did.

 

Now back to your regular scheduled program........  

 

 

Lamb, Pizza and Napkins

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Hello.  Gail here today, just popping by to show you what I did with those sheep. 

I made some fun bottle hanging tags to help bling up the festive table.

I'd stamped, embossed, coloured and fussy cut Carmen's Veranda Sheep Doll
  and Quilted Wing Angel last week.  If you missed the angel project you can check it out HERE

 I used a pizza box, a sizzix die and a silver embossed napkin to make my tags.  Line the die up so one end is just over the folded pizza box so you get a double tag.  I cut two so I could have a nice strong tag and it also got rid of the spicy nacho picture LOL.  Then I glued my napkin on one side of the tag and fussy cut it.  Make sure you split the layers of your napkin so you are just gluing the top layer onto the tag.  Usually they are two or three layers and it rarely works to try and glue more than one layer at a time LOL. 

I inked the raised texture and edges of the tags with Paris Dusk ink, shaped the 'hanger' and cut a hole for the bottle neck.  I used glitter glue around the hole, blue here, and used my finger to smudge it out to give a starburst effect.  It also dries quicker as well.  I cut Poppystamps Flurry Frame from dark blue glitter card and added it and the sheep to the tag.

Here I added a silver glitter card layer that I cut with Poppystamps House in the Woods die.  The sheep is covering up the house, so now it's sheep in the woods!!

Thanks for looking.  Don't forget our Christmas/Winter challenge is still running.  Just leave your link in the comment section for a chance to win some Lost Coast dollars.  Hugz

MERRY CHRISTMAS

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 would like to wish all our customers and blog friends a very 

MERRY CHRISTMAS 

Hope you are having a day full of jingles and fun.

We hope Santa has brought you lots of crafty goodies.

If you are crafting don't forget our 

Winter/Christmas challenge

 is running until the end of the month.  

Ho Ho Ho.  See you there.