Tuesday, September 16, 2025

#201 Inchie, Twinchie or dominos 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 everyone,
Today I made a card with inchies for the challenge at Lost Coast Designs.
The stamps I used are:

I also used:
Versafine onyx black
Black paint 
Black marker
coloring pencils
Distress oxide Hickory smoke
Stickels diamond

I stamped 4 bugz on 4 inchies with Versafine onyx black.
I colored them in with pencils.
Stamped the large dragonfly onto the background paper with Versafine Onyx Black.
In the bottom corners, I stamped the Daisy Floral with Distress Oxide Hickory Smoke.
Colored the dragonfly and added diamond stickles to the wings and the bugs.
Outlined the inchies and the background with a black marker.
Splattered some black paint and matte with white, 
and gave them a black border with the marker as well.
And that's about it.
Not to difficult this time.
So even beginning stampers can do this.

Come and join the challenge.
You can enter with any brand, so you're not required to use LCD/CV stamps.
We hope to see you there, and maybe you'll be the winner of the challenge.



Monday, September 15, 2025

inchie Decoration

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 - Darlene here with a decoration I made using a masterboard and doing the 
Twinchies, Inches or Dominoes theme this month

Whats a masterboard you ask !!  
well basically you take a big piece of cardstock and stamp and colour all over it.
Then it gets cut up for the project you are working on

So here is the masterboard with an assortment of stamps


then I made a 2 X 2 square box with patterened paper
Cut up my masterboard into one inch pieces 
Then did a bunch of layers


To finish it off I added a tasel


Be sure to enter our challenge this month and 
maybe win some new stamps !!!



Saturday, September 13, 2025

Joyful Dragonflies

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 all, Aimee here! When the September Challenge topic was introduced to me as "Inchies/Twinchies," I'll admit I had no idea what that meant. It was explained to me that the stamped design should include 1-inch, 2-inch or 1x2-inch squares. Gotcha. I found it trickier than I imagined--a 1-inch square is REALLY tiny, especially when you have big hands like me haha!
Another challenge was finding a stamp small enough to fit into a 1-inch square. I decided to take one dragonfly from the end of the Dragonflies Border stamp for the "inchies." The Joy stamp fit within a 1x2-inch square. Barely. Follow along to see how I created this card:
I hope you'll give this type of card design a try. Sometimes what seems really simple is more challenging to put together than you think. And when you do, post your creation to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity for your chance to win a prize.








Friday, September 12, 2025

Inchie Twuinchie Domino: real domino's!

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 everyone, Liesbeth here. Today I break the rules a little bit! ;-) 
I stamped onto real dominos for our current challenge Inchies Twinchies Dominos but only the biggest of them is the exactly right size (2"x 1"). I still would like to show them all because the stamps I used are so perfect for domino bricks!


I coloured two dominos with alcohol inks and I stamped them with StazOn - Jet Black. 


I love playing with this small sizes, hope you give it a try too! Have fun!



LiesbethXX

Monday, September 8, 2025

Strangely Bizarre

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 some inspiration for the Inchie Twinchie Domino Challenge.  I had a look through my stamps for some that would fit on dominos (2" x 1") and found this set of Lost Coast Designs Mini Ancient stamps.  Two were a bit small, two were a bit wide, but I trimmed them, and two were perfect!  Then, after advising two friend this evening that chocolate is the answer, it got a little bit quirky...
I stamped the Lost Coast Designs Mini Ancients using brown archival ink, cut them to size and inked the edges with the same brown ink.  My background is Lost Coast Designs Bubbles Background stamped with Prickly Pear archival ink, then over stamped with Lost Coast Designs Drips and sepia archival ink.  I arranged my domino's on the drips and then stamped the Carmen's Veranda Breakfast Chocolate sentiment in brown archival ink.
For September we want to see your stamped makes featuring Inchies (1" x 1"), Twinchies (2" x 2"), and/or Dominos (2" x 1")  You can make said Inchies, Twinchies or Dominos with real rubber or clear stamping, or you can incorporate these sizes into your project in another way, perhaps chop up your background, or your foreground, cut windows, or maybe make a three dimensional shape, or a tiny album.  
The team is sharing awesome projects all month so do scroll down and pop back to check out all the amazing inspiration.  

Saturday, September 6, 2025

Just do it!

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!

Howdy - Darlene here with my first make for the month of the theme
Twinchies, Inchies or Dominoes 




This card I did with a Twinchies theme.

Using the Pokey Pigeon and the Flying Pig 2 stamps



So all the squares are 2 x 2 (twinchie). stamped in black onto kraft paper
edges inked.  Used my white pen for some outline.
The square in behind has some splattered white ink.

The middle twinchie is a saying from Carmen's Veranda
The square was splattered, added some threads, and layered onto black.

Offset all the layers.  The background paper is inked on the edges and some paint splatter also.
A couple of blings added.

The center twinchie is popped up a bit too.


Come and join the challenge!!!  Maybe win some new stamps.  Just remember
there has to be stamping on your make.