Starship Friends

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 with a fun fold card I made for a friend using Lost Coast Designs Pokey Cat and some Carmen's Veranda sentiments. 

Aren't those pussies adorable!!!!

 

 I winged it and scored a piece of 6" x 6" patterned paper to make my pop up thingy.

 

 I stamped Lost Coast Designs Pokey Cat with a bit of maskery trickery on patterned panel, then on plain card, fussy cut and added the daring duo to their stamped selves.  I did some square die cutting for the layered sentiment panels and stamped Carmen's Veranda Best Friends on the front, then mounted it on the mechanism.  It pops out a bit from the card base,in a fun and floppy manner.

Lift the flap for a second endearment..... 

So, are you team Cat??  or team Dog????   
Link up your stamped anythings featuring Cats and/or Dogs and
don't forget to check back often for awesome inspiration from the team.

Hope to see you in the linky.  Hugz

CHALLENGE #200 - CATS AND DOGS

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 #200

CATS AND DOGS

Oh, this is going to be so much fun!!!!  You have all month to share your stamped anythings featuring Cats and/or Dogs.  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

 
 Aimee used Lost Coast Designs Yoga Cat 5, Brush Strokes and Party Words

Liesbeth used Lost Coast Designs Up Close and Personal, Daisy Flourish and Imagine Dictionary Words

   
Riet used Lost Coast Designs Pokey Cat, Pokey Dog, Brush Strokes, Pieces of Calligraphy and Party Words

 

Now it's your turn.  Are you up for the challenge?  Team cat??  Team Dog??  Or team both???
We can't wait to see your projects!  
Submit your entries in the linky party below by 23.59 PST on the 31st 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 #200 - Cats and Dogs
August 1st - 31st Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Sunday, August 31st 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
  

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Christmas In July Challenge 199

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! You've got Kathi here to share a Christmas card created for the Christmas in July Challenge 199 with Megan's Christmas Bird Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs

Use Memento ink to stamp Megan's Christmas Bird Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs onto the center of a white cardstock panel. 

Color the bird, branch, and Christmas lights with Copic markers. Use a fine-line green pen to color the light's wire. Add white highlights to the bulbs with a white gel pen and glittery highlights to the centers of the snowflakes with a clear glitter gel pen.

Position a square cutting die onto the image panel and secure with low-tack tape. Run the die/cardstock combination through your die-cut machine to cut the image panel. Keep the image panel square die-cut in the die by flipping the cardstock/die combination over and adding low-tack tape to cover the back of the die and connect the outside and inside of the image panel.

Flip the image panel/die-cut combo back over so that the image and die are facing upwards. Brush pearlescent blue ink over the die onto the image panel, going heavily around the edges. This will leave a white edge around the square.

Apply sparkly glitter glue onto the edges of the square and set aside to dry, preferably overnight so that you aren't tempted to touch the glue and make a mess.

Cut a 5¾" square of blue snowflake patterned paper, edge with a black marker, adhere the image panel die-cut, and apply the "Merry Christmas" rub-on as shown. Adhere the card front to a 6" square black card.

You still have a tiny bit of time to join Challenge 199 for a chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!

Christmas ID card

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Good morning, Cathy here with a Christmas ID card for you.

                            

Stamps Used:

Travel Stuff Set
Small Snowflake Set 

 

I made the background by starting off with some cream color cardstock and using 2 different distress inks on it. I then edged it in a dark brown distress ink.

I found a fun Xmas image I wanted to use for the photo for the ID card. I then stamped the ID part from the Travel stuff set with black ink and then I stamped some of the tickets from that set in brown ink and cut out. 

I then stamped a snowflake form small snowflake set on the ID card and on the ticket. Lastly, I added some tape and some ephemera.

 

#199 Christmas in July challenge.

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!

Hi stampers, Riet here.

If you have a lot of cards to make for Christmas, this is a nice, quick card to make.

You can add some glitter or sequins yourself.

I used: 

LCD Mini gnome set 4.

LCD Party words.

CV Postcard background.

CV Christmas tree.

Color pencils or markers.

Black waterproof inkpad.

Versa Magic, Red magic,

Tea leaves and Sage.

Square or postage die.

I started with Versa Magic Tea Leaves, stamping the christmas tree.

Then the left half with the postcard background stamp and VM sage.

While the background dries, I stamped the little Santa gnome.

I colored him with Derwent Chromaflow pencils.

Using a blender brush, I colored the edges with VM Tea Leaves.

With the VM Red Magic I stamped Merry Christmas.

Mat the card with red and green,

 and stick the square with the Gnome on with 3D foam tape.

And your done.

Now, wasn't that a fun and quick card?

Are you still participating in the challenge?

There's a great prize to be won.

The challenge runs until the end of the month, so there's still time to enter.

Here's the link:

TO THE CHALLENGE!

Challenge 199 - Christmas in July

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 Kathi here with a Christmas card for the Christmas in July challenge 199. The card was created with one of the Santa Gnomes from the Mini Gnomes 2 Rubber Stamp Set by Lost Coast Designs.

Santa Gnome with Gift Sack was stamped with Memento ink, fussy-cut, and edged with a black marker.

I was debating whether to place him in front of a house or on top of a chimney. Obviously the chimney scenario won. Then the scene took on a life of its own. I traced a chipboard house onto white cardstock, fussy-cut the house, colored it with dye inks, then detailed the bricks and siding on the house.

The windows and door were die-cut from white cardstock. The window frames were left white, but the panes were colored with Copic markers and inlaid. The door and panels were colored with Copic markers, inlaid, then matted onto white cardstock to become a frame. 

White cardstock was die-cut with some corner border dies, detailed with a clear glitter gel pen and layered in back and in front of the house on a white speckled navy cardstock panel. Two shades of green cardstock were cut with a fir tree cutting die and added to the scene.

The "naughty or nice?" sentiment and the snowflakes are from an ancient QuicKutz Rub-on set (circa 2005). The sentiment was added to a white speech bubble die-cut. The snowflakes were added to the scene. Apparently I decided that more was more.

I adhered the card front to a red 5" x 7" card and called it done.

You should definitely join the Christmas in July Challenge 199 for a chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!

Thanks for visiting today!