By the Light ...

For the 31 Days of Halloween event that Lost Coast Designs recently participated in, I shared a spooky scene card, and wanted to explain a little about how I made this :

I loved the bright vivid colours that was created with nuance powders for the sky on water color paper. When it was dry I cut around the red central shape so I could slot in my moon. The moon was made by punching out a circle of yellow cardstock and then coating this is a few layers of silver glittery embossing powder. 

Then I stamped Tree Branches background stamp by Lost Coast Designs on acetate with stazon ink. I made a black frame so I could hide the pop dots that add some depth to the piece. The words were typed on my typewriter.

Thanks for stopping by, Nikki x

NOVEMBER NEWS!

Feliz Diá de los Muertos Lost Coasters!

 

Happy November!  Did you all have a spooktacular Halloween? 

We sure did over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!  We participated as a Wicked Blogger in the annual 31 Days of Halloween blog hop again and we're very proud to have survived the 31 days of project shares..Phew, it's exhausting but oh so much fun!  Well done LCDesigners and a big THANK YOU to everyone who hopped with us each day and left us lots of love!  To show our appreciation for all your support we're putting the names of everyone who commented on all 31 days into the Witch's Hat and one winner will receive a Halloween TREAT of $5 LCD/CV Bucks to spend in our online stores!  It's not too late if you missed all the fun...monster binge our 31 DOH projects by Nov 5th to be included in the drawing!

 

 

 The fun never ends as we rolled from Halloween straight into our Day of the Dead Celebrations after over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!   The event is Oct 31 - Nov 18 with daily Day of the Dead offerings from Oct 31st through today, Nov 2, for the traditional 3 day long celebration.  Then stop by again Nov 9 and Nov 16 for more DOTD inspiration from the LCDesigners!

 

 

 We unveiled our brand new Day of the Dead Angel to celebrate!  This gorgeous Lost Coast Designs stamp is available in two sizes, 5 inches and an ATC size!

 

 We have loads of fabulous Day of the Dead themed stamps in both our stamps lines!
Pop on over and check them all out!
Lost Coast Designs Day of the Dead collection
Carmen's Veranda Day of the Dead collection

 

 We want to see your DOTD projects too of course and you are free to use any stamp companies in our events/challenges but if you use ours your entry counts as TWO!  Enter your rubber stamped DOTD creations in the linky party at the bottom of the Oct 31st post by 5 to midnight PST on Nov 18!  Don't forget to check out our Rules to ensure your projects are eligible to win our prizes! 

Catch up on our DOTD celebrations!

Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3

 

Upcoming in November!

 

 

 Our monthly Challenge starts on Nov 7th so stop by to see what fabulous inspiration the LCDesigners have in store for you!

 

 

 We are super excited to launch our new segment called FAN FEATURES over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity this month where we will showcase projects created by our fabulous Event and Challenge Winners!

So if you've won one of our past events or challenges then we would love to see what you created with your prize rubber stamps!  Submit your projects for Fan Feature consideration to Leigh at LeighSBDesigns@cox.net or via Facebook messenger!

November is going to be fabulous so STAY and PLAY with us!

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Happy Stamping!

Leigh S-B

The Sharpie Domino Queen

LCD/CV DT Leader

Nan Here with the Tenth Day of Halloween!

EEEKKK!  Can you feel the excitement?  The smell of cauldrons bubbling and the sounds of the witches cackles?  Oh, how I love this time of year!  Today I have a little make for you to add to your holiday cheer :)

First, is it Halloween without Alfred Hitchcock?  I had this totally awesome postcard given to me and reluctantly due to my situation at home with my mom's health, used it to show off some of Lost Coast Designs great images!  I used "A Murder of Crows" (love the name and the stamps; it is a set) and the "Crows Border" such a neat stamp to use over and over again! just to dress him up a bit!  After all, he helped start all this wonderfulness so he deserves his day to shine!

He even got some golden ribbon to match those golden statues he MUST have!

Remember our events going on!  Our monthly  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity challenge is "Strange or Weird" what an appropriate theme for this month and so easy!  And the Portal has all of our new stamps on view and ALL the info on ways to win super prizes (there are 2 up for this month!) so get a chance to go shopping at stamp heaven!

Happy 31 Days of Halloween!

 Lost Coast Portal to Creativity

Lost Coast Designs

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Imagination is Boundless

Hello everyone!  Marilyn here (yep, I baaaaccckkk!) to share with you a masculine greeting card.

I stamped Thick and Thin Men onto a piece of watercolor paper I had gesso'd black with Versamark ink and thin embossed the image with different colors of embossing powder.  I cut the image out using a Sizzix die and then mounted it on top of a piece of scrapbook paper.  I ran a piece of twine through a Tim Holz word band and then around to the back of the paper, securing with tape.  I then mounted that onto a piece of colored cardstock.

That's it for me for today!  Stay tuned for more great projects.

Until later.............................
Smiles~
Marilyn

Catrina....

Hello there fellow crafters ! Darlene here and today I am going to share how I put my Catrina together.

Started with a regular skeleton ...used cotton balls to put under the halter top. The halter top I stamped the Skull crown onto it with black ink.  Then glued some fake hair onto the skull and decorated with some ribbon flowers and some lace for the veil.

 The skirt I shredded the material a bit and stamped with the Raven with Tree Branches and the Crows border.  (also in black)

Both the halter top and the skirt were tied in behind.  Over top of the stamped skirt I added some old sheer curtain material - so give the stamped skirt a bit of a muted look.  Added a black ribbon to tie around the waist to pull it all in.

Added a flower onto the halter and her wrist for a bit more colour....and done .....

Are you enjoying the 31 days of Halloween at Lost Coast !!!  My goodness the talent out there is AMAZING !!!!

Thanks for visiting and Happy Haunting ....

"7 Gates to Purgatory" Candle Holder

Hiya Lost Coasters!

Leigh here today...it's my turn to share some Halloween goodness!

 Our Lost Coast Portal to Creativity blog is participating as a Wicked Blogger again in the annual 31 Days of Halloween blog hop this month!  It's not too late to hop on over and join in the fun, there's lots to do and see all month long plus we are giving away TWO PRIZES in our October Challenge - SCARY or WEIRD, the Challenge started earlier than normal on Oct 1st and closes later on Oct 31st!  The Challenge Linky is at the bottom of the Day 1 of 31 DOH post!

love the glow of a flameless tealight candle!

 Today I'd like to tell you a bit more about my Day 1 of 31 Days of Halloween project.  It's an altered container I turned into a candle holder and features one of our NEW STAMPS unveiled this month, the wicked cool coffin skellie called RIP!

Our New Stamps are to die for!

 I found the unfinished wooden container in Target's craft aisle and it truly was a match made in Heaven Hell....the geometric sides of the container are actually coffin shaped and it has seven sides so I could not resist doing a Seven Deadly Sins theme.  

Here it is in all it's colourful crackled glory with skull beads for feet

 I started out by staining the wooden container with Fired Brick and Black Soot Distress Stain and while it dried I stamped the RIP stamp seven times onto white cardstock in Onyx Black Versafine Ink.  I coloured each coffin by randomly applying Rusty Hinge, Tea Dye and Fired Brick Distress Inks with foam ink applicators.  I then cut them all out, adhered them to the container with Scotch Quick Dry adhesive and covered the entire piece with Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint. 

Seven Deadly Sins:  Envy, Gluttony and Lust

 While the crackle paint dried I created the "Seven Deadly Sins" text in Photoshop CS6 and printed them out on printer paper.  I fussy cut out each word, coloured the background with black Copic marker and the words themselves with a metallic gold gel pen.  Each word was then adhered to the candle holder.

Seven Deadly Sins:  Wrath, Sloth, Greed and Pride

 The finishing touch was to give my candle holder the wicked cool skellie feet.  They're skull beads from a Halloween decoration and I just adhered them to the base with hot glue.  I prefer the glow of a flameless tealight candle but this is what it looks like with a pillar candle too.

the flame of the candle represents the Cleansing Fire of Purification

 Thanks for stopping by to see my project!

Have a spooktacular week and as always...Happy Stamping!

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Who Says Poe's Raven Was A "He"? (Besides Poe?)

Gothic Greetings, Lost Coasters!

Are you in the Halloween spirit yet? Well, you will be when you take part in the Lost Coast Designs Portal to Creativity spooky stamped art contest! Enter YOUR Halloween-themed art that uses rubber stamping (any company) for a chance to win one of TWO gift certificates to spend at the Lost Coast Designs store! See here for details.

As you are no doubt aware (clever reader as you are!), Lost Coast Designs is also participating in the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop, for which I am contributing a few projects. This one right here...

...is my own take on Poe's famous poem "The Raven" (visit my blog to read the full text of this sad and spooky Gothic classic!).

Now, Poe tells us that his raven was a boy. "PAH!" I say! Balderdash, even! Who needs your sexist raven-tropes around here? Not I! My raven is a WOMAN, do you hear? And not any slinky hot sexy young chick (<--see what I did there?) either. Mine is a GRANNY RAVEN and she has zero darns to give if you are shocked by this!!

I made this card by collaging the image of Lost Coast Designs' fabulous Old Lady Raven (that's what I'm calling her) from the Big Anthropomorph Birds set onto a background that I printed on my (beloved) Gelli plate. There's a bit of washi at the bottom and a hand-drawn spiderweb (with artist's pen and glitter gel pen) on the card too...and a single word, lovingly rendered in Bodoni for that Poe-period feel.

I hope my little piece gets you in the spooky spirit, and that you enter lots of art in the contest. We want you to win some of these fabulous Lost Coast Designs images!

Love and monsters, 

 

Halloween is on it's way ...

Halloween is on of "the" seasons in crafting world.

I'm happy to be in a 2 teams that are taking part of the

BIG hop: 31 Days of Halloween.  Soooo, all though I have

made quite a few projects for the hop, these are the ones

that are already been posted:

I used Distress inks to make the background and stamps from

More Cats and License Plate Alphabet -Sets

and to make the smily cat to pop a little bit more,

I added some color on him with a Copic.

AND

A bit darker side AJ page

Stamps from Carmen's Veranda: Large People Skull 

and Skulls and Bones Background.

Black page, watered white Gesso and embossing powder.

Have you used your Halloween stamps already? Yes?

Well then, why not link up to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity

challenge, the theme is Scary of Weird...

All the best to all, thank you for stopping by, hugs, Granne!

Snappy Pumpkin with Doodles Background

Hello Everyone!
This is my ( Karen) post #1 for the 31 Days of Halloween Event.  Lost Coast's Portal is participating in this event as a "Wicked Blogger". Check out the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity for all the details. The complete blog roll is listed there.
The Lost Coast Design Team is also Celebrating a New Release!  Check out all the new stamps here.  The LCD October Challenge's Theme is Scary or Weird. Be sure to link up all your Halloween/scary projects there for a chance at the prize.

Check out my project for the 31 Days of Halloween!!  I used one of the New Release stamps to create a fun background for this Halloween card.  I added a snappy Pumpkin Scarecrow and some embellishments to create this folk artsy card perfect for sending to a friend.

Stamps Used: Scarecrow Pumpkin - Carmen's Veranda, and ATC Doodles Set - Lost Coast Designs


Isn't this little guy cute!!   A great stamp to use for kids' Halloween cards too.
Check out the full post on my blog, Dreaming and Creating.  Stayed tune all month for more Halloween/Scary inspirations from the Design Team!!  See you again soon!
Karen McAlpine

OCTOBER NEWS!

Hello Lost Coasters!

Woohoo, it's finally OCTOBER and we're counting down to HALLOWEEN in style!

WE HAVE NEW STAMPS! 

Lost Coast Designs unveiled some fabulous new stamps yesterday!  Dash on over and add them to your collections!   Stop by Lost Coast Portal to Creativity all month long to see what the LCDesigners have created with them starting with my Day 1 project featuring the coffin skellie called RIP!!

 

31 DAYS of HALLOWEEN BLOG HOP

 The most anticipated blog hop of the year is underway and Lost Coast Portal to Creativity is participating as a Wicked Blogger again this year!  The LCDesigners are hard at work over their crafty cauldrons cooking up SPOOKTACULAR eye candy for you to feast your eyes upon for 31 days straight!  Come and hop with us!  

Plus....our celebrations don't end on October 31st as we roll directly into our November Day of the Dead event!  We will have a daily DOTD share starting Oct 31 through to Nov 2 and more inspiration midway on Nov 9 so dig out your Sugar Skulls and get ready to play!

Challenge #29

SCARY or WEIRD

Oct 1 - 31st

 Our October Challenge started a few days earlier this month as part of our Halloween celebrations!  We're giving you lots more time to join the celebrations and have TWO PRIZES up for grabs this month so round up all your friends and join the fun!

LOST COAST DESIGNS TRUNK SHOW AND CLASS - Oct 22!

Lost Coast Designs will be at Artsy in Loveland Colorado on Oct 22, 2016! 

Linda Malcolm will be in the store along with hundreds of our amazing LCD rubber stamps. You’ll be able to purchase on the spot as well as have an opportunity to take a special class with her later in the day. The trunk show will be open all day, but if you’d like to get into Linda’s class call Artsy right away or stop in the store to reserve your seat. It’s limited to the first $10 paid students.

http://artsystamps.com

5649 McWhinney Blvd,

in the Outlets of Loveland,

Loveland, CO, 80538

artsystamps@gmail.com

970 613-1631

Lost Coast Portal to Creativity is proud to be a CRYPT KEEPER again this year!  Click on the skull to see how other blogs around the world are celebrating Halloween!

We hope you'll join us for a Spooktacular good time!
Happy Stamping!

Leigh S-B

The Sharpie Domino Queen

LCD/CV DT Leader