News at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda

... A new challenge and events blog

Welcome to the Grand Opening of our new Event & Challenge Blog where the stamps of Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you Twice the Inspiration and Double the Fun!

We've got so many fabulous events planned for you this year! There's going to be lots of Design Team eye candy and many events for you to get involved in and win prizes galore!

You can look forward to awesome blog hops, new stamp release news, A Different Point of View segments, articles, contests, tutorials and Guest Designer features and more, much more!

PLUS our Lost Coaster's Review Challenges will now be hosted here starting with the June Challenge on June 1st! Our challenges will continue to start on the first Monday of every month!

Exciting times ahead so become a Follower and STAY TO PLAY!

Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda offer a sophisticated line of unique, quirky and alternative images covering vintage, Steampunk, game pieces, collage, shrine, angel, gothic, horror and much more to excite your creative impulses!

To celebrate our grand opening we are throwing a 10 week long event (approx. 2 months) to showcase the stamps featured on the NEW IMAGE pages of both stamp lines!

Win a $20 gift certificate to spend at either company or a combination of both!

How YOU can Play and Win a Prize!

Click on the links below, check out ALL our fabulous stamps, shop, create and submit your projects featuring Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps or a combination of both into the Inlinkz collection below by midnight PST on July 22nd!

1. Become a Follower of Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!
2. Please only link up projects using our stamp images.
3. One exception to the rule is...you CAN use sentiments by other companies if your project "needs" it!
4. Include a link back to this post when you share your projects on your own blogs!
5. Grab our blog badge, share it on your blogs and spread the news of our grand opening!
6. Your submissions are not restricted to just the new LCD and CV stamps, you can submit projects featuring ANY of our stamps BUT if you do use our new images then your name will be entered into the prize drawing TWICE!

Check out our new Lost Coast Designs stamps!

Check out our new Carmen's Veranda stamps!

The Lost Coast Design Team have created some fabulous eye candy for your inspiration!

Let's get the party started! 

Her is mail art I made created using the Cityscape stamp from Lost Coast Designs :

Here is mail art I have made using  one of the new images from Lost Coast Designs :

I have used the Cityscape image, stamped in black and added some white gel pen details :

 I have actually stamped around the whole envelope so the Cityscape is continuous : Here is the back and front of the envelopes : 

The envelope is sponged in distress ink, then I have used the journaling guide stencil to add another layer of interest by sponging in the same colour over the top. Once I get some nice and colour co-ordinated postage stamps on there it will look even better I think :)

Please come and join us at our portal to creativity, it will be fun :)