Lost Coast Designs~ New Challenge Splash of Bright Color/Neon~ATC

Hello :)

Today begins a brand new challenge for Lost Coast Designs at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity. The theme is add a splash of bright color or neon, go crazy and have fun, make sure to add some rubber stamping!

I made a funky ATC using the Mini Cracked Critters stamp from my DT stash.

Click to see a bit bigger :)

I added some DecoArt modeling paste to the background using some stencils. The bronze bubbles were over heat embossed to make them extra bumpity :) My mini cracked fish(?) was colored with Inktense pencils and water brush.

Have a great day and hope you can make some time to play!

~kim

Still Time to Play at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!

Hi!

How are you today? I really wish you a great day!

I wanted to share a quick reminder for Lost Coast Designs, there is still time to play with our challenge this month. The theme is fun and easy, Anything Goes use a rubber stamp somehow. Be in it for a chance to win some Lost Coast stamps! You link up HERE and see all the wonderful makes from the other players and my teamies.

I have an ATC pair to share.

My ingredients list:

Watercolor paper

Nuance by Magenta water soluble dyes

LIVE Pear

Bubbles Border

License Plate Alphabet set

Detail of  JOY stamped in Archival Ink and smooshed in a puddle of Nuance.

LIVE Pear heat embossed in white to Pop!

Inked in LIVE and blinged to make it the focal point.

Have a fabulous day!

hugs n' peace

~kim

Lost Coast Designs Flora & Fluffy Tails Event~Cracked Birds "Be Different"

Hi!

Today we are having a Spring fun event over on Lost Coast Designs Portal to Creativity! It is the Flora & Fluffy Tails funfest!

Hop on over to check it and play along as you have time! We love seeing what you create.

Here is my 6 inch by 6 inch cardboard canvas. I loaded up with as much bright color as I could, hope you like it!

Please click the images to see them a bit bigger!

I used the Lost Coast Designs Mini Cracked Critters Chicken and Cracked Chicken. Both are colored using Nuance water soluble dye powder.

I die cut some flowers using some ancient papers.  I used a sparkly brad for the center.

The bright Dragonfly blue and Moss green are my first play with Canvas Corps Brands Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists, these two colors are in the Starter Kit, Brights. I love the subtle shimmer the Mists have, but it does not photograph easily! The brown diamond background layer has Glimmer Glaze Satchel which adds a wonderful smooth shine.

I also used Glimmer Glam Glitter Paints in Celebrate and Berrylicious in layers on top of the cardboard along with spritzes of It's Orange Glimmer Mist.

Thanks so much! Have a great weekend!
~kim

Lost Coast Designs Challenge Reminder~Let's Party!~"Party On"

Hi Everyone!

Today just wanted to share a quick reminder of the Party! challenge at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity. Such a fun and happy theme and so fun, "Let's Party"! Yay, no excuse, get your party hat on, promise we won't laugh and link up, and get a chance to wins some really awesome stamps!

So I am sharing these wonderful Party Dudes!

I used lots of DecoArt from my stash, Nuance color powders, Lost Coast Designs "Los Tres Caballeros" and "License Plate Alphabet" set stamps.

My substrate is cardboard, and yes at the top above "Party", that is the UPC barcode on the cardboard flap I used, fun design element, right :)  The base bottom later is washed with DecoArt Gesso and DecoArt Media Mister, the edges are touched with DecoArt Fluid Acrylic Gold, love it!

Layers and layers stacking it all up!

The stamps, I inked with Stazon in blue and purple, I love the newsprinty feel with the purple.

Party On!

Have fun with this, ok??? Come play! Click HERE for your transport to the party, leave some love for my teamies at Lost Coast, pretty please?

hugs
~kim

Lost Coast Designs Design Team Call~New Facebook Group

Happy Thursday!

I wanted to share some exciting news, Lost Coast Designs is having a Design Team Call starting today! You have seen some of my samples made with Lost Coast's fabulous stamps, now is your chance to join the team! All the details for applications can be found HERE. We are seeking Guest Designers as well and I knowwww you all are amazingly talented, so come check it out!

I really hope you take the time to apply, soon!  

More exciting news, there is a NEW Facebook Group for Lost Coast as well! Come play and share your Lost Coast stampy fun! Come to play or hangout, it's all in good fun. The group can be found HERE. We want to grow and share the love of stamping so we'd really love it if you would share the great news. 

Have a fabulous day!

~kim

Lost Coast Designs~Valentine's Week Celebration!

Hi~

Today is my day to share a bit of love for the Lost Coast Designs Valentine's Week Celebration!
We have a week full of awesomeness from the creative team. Hope you can pop over and share the love...there are prizes, too :) Click HERE to hop over and check out the details and more projects.

I made a 5" x 7" cardboard substrate canvas to share! Hope you like it!

These are the stamps I was given as part of the Design team to play with and I so lovvvveee them! It is a joy to use them each time.

Grunge Border 2" and 3"

Manga Goth with Top Hat 

Steampunk FlyGirl 

Calligraphy Heart Square 

The border trims were made using various Martha Stewart punches. The Daisy Chain was stamped with one of the grunge border stamps. I added Vintage Photo Distress Ink over most for 'aging'.

Have a great day!
hugs,
~kim

I am also sharing this over on the Moo-Mania Challenge Blog: February Hearts theme. Check out this wonderful challenge blog, it is amazing how much you can add to a tiny Moo piece. That is my next goal, to alter a Moo :)

Lost Coast Stamps New Release Party~Mini Cracked Bird

Hi!

I have another ATC for you today! This is part of the Lost Coast Designs New Release Party, happening now!

I used the funky mini cracked bird on wheels from the sheet Mini Cracked Critters. The background is the Doodle Circles sheet which is a must-have since I adore circles!

Keep Moving Forward!

~kim

Lost Coast Designs Stamps~New Release Play!

Hihi!

At Lost Coast Designs we are having a New Release stamp party! Hope you come by and see all the fabbbb new stamps and inspiration for the entire creative team.

I know you have lots to do, so this is short n sweet!

This is my "Harmony" ATC, next in the series of my ATCs using the Dictionary Words sets of stamps. The background stamp is a section from the huge Grunge Border 3" stamp.

Have a wonderful day!

Lost Coast Stamps Playday!~JOY ATC

Hello Lovely People!

Thanks so much for coming back to spend a bit of your precious time, it means so much to me!

I have an ATC to share today made with wonderful stamps by Lost Coast Designs. I wanted to feature one of the new Grunge Borders and Dictionary Words for you today.

Just in case, an ATC is 2 1/2 inches by 3 1/2 inches. I really love the challenge to play in a small space, it is amazing what you can fit into the area and to me, it changes how I see a lot of design elements.

The base is made from the Grunge Border 3" stamp. It is about 3 inches tall and 11 inches long! I don't have a block or mounting supplies for a stamp this size, so....I improvised a bit. I inked up the stamp flat on the table with Archival Cornflower Blue, Tree Branch and Black in random spots. Then I carefully pressed the cardstock half sheet onto the stamp. I loveeeee the way the image came out. All new to me, I know the technique is established by still thrilling :)

"Joy" is stamped in Cornflower Blue Archival ink, one of my new favs.

The edge is inked with Distress Ink Peacock Feathers and sloppy wetted, messy is my rule.

Thanks for reading! I hope you have time to pop over to the Lost Coast Shop and check out our Challenge, too!

~kim

Bringing on the New Year New Challenge at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity~Clean and Simple

Happy Monday!

Hope you all survived all your New Years Eve adventures!

Today starts a brand new challenge at Lost Cost Portal to Creativity, our theme is easy this month, Clean and Simple. Link and play as you can I really would love to see what you make! The rules are all listed HERE.

I made an ATC Trio cut from watercolor paper. I used the wonderful Doodle Words stamps by Lost Coast Designs, provided to me for projects and which I am extremely happy and grateful to use, they are great quality and stamp wonderfully!

For the color I used the Nuance by Magenta water-soluble powdered dyes also sold by Lost Coast Designs, given to me for Christmas by a dear friend, thank you! It is my first play with water color powders and it was fun. I am looking forward to doing lots more. The colors are very bright and rich. A teeny bit of powder goes a long way. I do hope you will check out all these great supplies at Lost Coast Designs.


Please click the pictures to see them a bit larger.

The stamped are heat embossed with WOW Opaque Bright White from my own stash. I was inspired to use a technique recently used by Mark, the designer at Visible Image to create the backgrounds.


I hope the New Year brings you Hope, Joy and your Wishes come true!

peace and hugs,

~kim

Merry Christmas!

Wishing you and yours a wonderful holiday season!

Merry Christmas!

~hugs

~kim

Winter Holidays Facebook Challenge with Lost Coast Designs

Wow! Happy December!

Where has this year gone? Amazing it is almost done!

At Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda, we are happy to share a fun Winter Holidays Facebook Challenge. Now is the time to play with your Lost Coast and/or Carmen's stamp and share with us in this Facebook POST. Make our fabulous stamps the star of the show and you could win some stamps, yay! The Facebook post is pinned to the top and all the rules are posted there, too!

I used on of my favorite stamps, Tabby Cat and Christmas Lights to make this ATC. I embossed Kitty with Lindy's Stamp Gang EP Razzleberry Plum which changes colors when tilted. 

The background is Distress Inked and spritzed with water for a wintery sky!

If you are a fan of kitties, there is a wicked fun new challenge blog hosted by Ike for Cats Only Projects, called "Show us your pussies", told ya it was wicked! All kitty cats are welcome :)

Come play, catrnip is purrvided!

I hope you can juggle and manage to play along in these amazing December Challenges!

To enter the Lost Coast Winter Holidays Facebook Challenge click HERE, we love to see your Lost Coast and Carmen's stamps in play.

I am not affiliated with the Show Us Your Pussies Challenge, but I am playing there, so visit, it is safe and not creepy, I promise! I am linking my Christmas Kitty HERE! Kitty lovers Unite!

~kim

Lost Coast Designs Mail Art Sunday

HI

Today I have a mail art piece I made for Lost Coast Designs. There is still time to play, hope to see you there soon! The theme is mail art and you can use any stamp on the project, much as we like to see ours, any will do! Check out the inspiration and rules HERE

I used a variety of stamps I was provided with on this project. Such a fun play!

Butterfly Face

Butterfly Mermaid with Face

Sun and Moon

Grunge Swirl in Black and White

Crows Border

This is the envelope before I folded it up. It is a template found at Mischief Circus by Crowabout StudioB.   Before I did any stamping, I created the background with various DecoArt paints on my homemade gelatin plate. I used a stencil by ARTplorations as well.

Thanks so much! Looking forward to seeing your projects, too!

~kim

New for November~Mail Art Challenge at Lost Coast~Postcard

Hi Lovely Friends!

Thanks so much for coming by!

This month at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity our Challenge theme is Mail Art! So grab those envelopes, some papers, lots of ink and paint, stamp it up and come play with us!

Here is a bit of play to get you going!

As always, you can see more including the stamp list over on the Lost Coast Review Blog, HERE


See ya soon!
~kim

Lost Coast Designs~Day of the Dead Challenge~Milagros Postcard

Hi!

Sneaky Peek of my post over on Lost Coast Portal to Creativity this time around! Up to November 15th, link up your Day of the Dead makes with us, use any company stamp and have fun!

Lost Coast Designs~Don't Lose Your Head ATC

Today I wanted to share my project posted over at Lost Coast Designs Portal To Creativity! Our Challenge theme this month is Monochrome. In addition, all month long we are celebrating Smeared Ink's 31 Days of Halloween 2015! Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda are some of the event sponsors. Everyday during October there will be new inspiration posted from each member of the design team!

This is my post for today, I wanted to cross-post here to celebrate!yay!!

Today is another ATC, "Don't lose your head"!

Love this funky skele guy! He made a wonderful ATC! I heat embossed him in white on black cardstock. These are the stamps I was given to play with:

Happy Skeleton

Flying Skull

Grunge White Swirl and Grunge Black Swirl Background stamps

So don't lose your head but Halloween is right around the corner! Hope to see you play at Lost Coast Designs Portal!

~kim

I am also playing along with the Wicked Wednesday's ATC Challenge:Halloween this week :)

Lost Coast Designs~Daisy Hell Hound! From Regions Beyond...

Today I wanted to share my project posted over at Lost Coast Designs Portal To Creativity! Our Challenge theme this month is Monochrome. In addition, all month long we are celebrating Smeared Ink's 31 Days of Halloween 2015! Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda are some of the event sponsors. Everyday during October there will be new inspiration posted from each member of the design team!

This is my post for today, I wanted to cross-post here to celebrate!yay!!

Today I present Daisy, Hell Hound! She is scary right?

To make Daisy a bit scary I used some Lindy's Stamp Gang EP that changes color when you alter the angle of view :)

I love these stamps, so fun! All stamps were heat embossed and colored with Distress Inks. I am really loving embossing again, it is all about texture! Here are the stamps I was given to play with:

Ironwork Wall

Daisy

Have a fun day!

~kim

Lost Coast Designs~A Murder of Crows Postcard

Hello!

Today I wanted to share my project posted over at Lost Coast Designs Portal To Creativity! Our Challenge theme this month is Monochrome. In addition, all month long we are celebrating Smeared Ink's 31 Days of Halloween 2015! Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda are some of the event sponsors. Everyday during October there will be new inspiration posted from each member of the design team!

This is my post for today, I wanted to cross-post here to celebrate!yay!!

A Murder of Crows Mail Art Postcard!

This postcard is 6 inches x 4 inches. The background is colored with DecoArt acrylics and Distress Paints. All stamps are heat embossed.

These are the stamps I was given to play with:

Spray Webbing

A Murder of Crows

Bird on Bike

Have a great day and hope you have time to check out our challenge and 31 Days of Halloween!

~kim

Lost Coast Designs~Trick or Treat Kitty

Hello!

Today I wanted to share my project posted over at Lost Coast Designs Portal To Creativity! Our Challenge theme this month is Monochrome. In addition, all month long we are celebrating Smeared Ink's 31 Days of Halloween 2015! Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda or some of the event sponsors. Everyday during October there will be new inspiration posted from each member of the design team!

This is my post for today, I wanted to cross-post here to celebrate!yay!!

This is my Trick or Treat Kitty ATC! She is heat embossed in black and colored with Distress Inks.

I used all Carmen's Veranda stamps on this project today:

Large Tree with Birds

Tabby Cat 

Flying Skull, the wings

Thanks for coming by and have a fantastic October!

Boo!

~kim

Soon...~Lost Coast Designs~Sunday Inspiration

Hello Happy Sunday!

I have lots to share today and several posts, too! Please scroll up and down to see all the fun today on my other posts.

Over on the Lost Coasters Review I have this page posted. I do hope you have time to hop over to see it. Over there is the full photo :)

I would love to hear what you think!

Have a fabulous week!
~hugs

~kim