Thursday, May 16, 2024

#185 "Let us entertain you" challenge. Clowns

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 everybody, Riet here with 2 cards. 
Today 2 cards for the challenge,
because I think both clowns really belong together.
Let me explain to you how these cards are made.

 I used these stamps:
Card #1
Card #2

Furthermore I used:
Black stazon
Distress oxide.
Twisted citron,
Lucky clover,
Cracked pistaschio,
Musterd seed,
Wild honey,
Crackling campfire,
Barn door.
Derwent colorsoft pencils.

Take two pieces of paper measuring 20x20cm.
One for the orange background and one for the green.
We apply the colors with a brayer.
Starting with the light colors and working your way to the dark colors.
Be careful with the dark colors, apply small amounts.

With the sheet brush strokes, we now randomly stamp
 the orange tones on the green background.
And with the green tones on the orange background.
While we let this dry, we stamp the two clowns and color them.

When they ar colored you can cut them out.

Now choose a nice piece of background and cut it to 8.5cm x 8.5cm.

Now cut a piece of white cardstock measuring 12.5 x 12.5 cm.
And a double of 15 X 15cm.
We put the double card a side for a while.

Place the background on the white 12.5 x 12.5

Stamp the top left corner and bottom right corner,
 with the ledger stamp and the black stazon.
Repeat this with stamps from the Brush strokes sheet.
Use a stamping tool for this.

Now it looks like this.
Matt with a black cardstock with a 2mm edge.

Do the same with the second white card and glue them together.

Now use foam tape to stick the clowns on.

Now the card is ready.
The team would love to see your artwork in the LCD/CV challenge.
You can also participate with other brands of stamps.
You also have a chance to win new stamps, so join the challenge.


Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Poppin In

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 poppin' in today with some inspiration for the current Let Us Entertain You challenge.  We want to see your stamped anythings with an entertainment theme, so think anything to do with entertainment.  Juggling dogs, trapeze artist cats, clowns, circus, movie stars, theatre, opera, dancers, TV films etc etc.  The team are posting their awesome makes all month so make sure you check out all the posts on the blog. 
I've used Lost Coast Designs
Silhouette Lady with Umbrella, who makes me think of Mary Poppins, and what's more entertaining than a lady flying in on an umbrella.  She has obviously arrived and is standing within the Arches and Door Background.  Then I added the Thinking Of You from the Party Words set. 
You have all month to share your stamped anythings with an entertainment theme. Please read the updated rules before entering. Real rubber or clear stamping and theme must be the focus of your project for a chance to win Lost Coast $$$$$'s. 
Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

Sunday, May 12, 2024

Let's Dance

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 afternoon, Cathy here with a card for you.
Stamps Used:


I started with a pink cardstock base and stamped the splat from the Brush strokes in pink distress ink. I then took a butterfly from the Butterflies set and stamped that with pink distress oxide ink. Lastly, I stamped Corner swirl in drown distress oxide ink. That is how I made the background for my card. 
Next, I took a scrap pink dot pattern paper and added to the front of the card. I edged the whole card with the brown oxide ink. 
Then I stamped Thin dancer in the middle of the card and added saying and some washi tape and that is the card.

You can join the challenge here.

Friday, May 10, 2024

Let us entertain you: Harlequins

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 everyone, Liesbeth here to ,Entertain you´ 😊for our current challenge Let us entertain you. Hope you will entertain with us and join in!


I stamped the wonderful fortune card Dueling Harlequins Card onto white cardstock and stamped the flowers (ATC Doodles set) with a rainbow colour inkpad. I finished the card with colour pencils. 


See you next time! 
LiesbethXX

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Homage to Alfred

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 with some inspiration for our May challenge Let Us Entertain You!
We want to see your stamped anythings with an entertainment theme, so think clowns, circus, movie stars, theatre, opera, dancers, TV etc etc.  The team are posting their awesome makes all month so make sure you check out all the posts on the blog.
 
 I've used Carmen's Veranda's Alfred Hitchcock standing and combined it with sentiments and a tonic diecut.
I decided to keep everything black and white so I cut the film die cut from white card.  Then I used Lost Coast Designs Flagstone Background stamp and black ink to add texture.  I mounted it on a black card base.
I set back in the white pieces in the film strip and stamped the sentiments.  I stamped 
Alfred on white card with black ink, fussy cut and added him to my card.
You have all month to share your stamped anythings with an entertainment theme. Please read the updated rules before entering. Real rubber or clear stamping and theme must be the focus of your project for a chance to win Lost Coast $$$$$'s. 
Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

Monday, May 6, 2024

APRIL WINNER

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!
 
Welcome Portal Peeps!!!
Gosh, third time lucky and I am back on track!!!
It's time to announce the WINNER of our April Challenge!

We would like to thank everyone who entered their lovely projects.  It so nice to see you using Lost Coast Design and Carmen's Veranda stamps.  Thanks for playing with us!  Surprizingly there weren't many entries for cute and fluffy and we didn't have enough entries to award Lost Coast dollars, but the team has voted for our favourite. 

WINNER of CHALLENGE #184

CUTE AND/OR FLUFFY

is

Chantal

 
With this gorgeous quirky card using Lost Coast Designs AUD Chicken stamp. Love this Chantal!

 Here's your snazzy Challenge Winner's badge.
We'd love if you link your badge back to us here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.
 

Our current challenge is

LET US ENTERTAIN YOU

Link up your stamped projects featuring an entertainment theme, so think clowns, circus, movie stars, theatre, opera, dancers, TV etc etc. for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.