Two twinchies

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Goodmorning, Cathy here with 2 twinchies for you.

                                                              

                                                                    Stamped Used:

                                                     small skeleton 

                                                    Flying skull  

                                                    pieces of calligraphy 

I started by cutting 2 pieces of white cardstock to 2x2 and then coloring them with distress ink. I then cut 2 black cardstock pieces and then I trimmed the white ones down to stack on top of the black ones. 

I stamped each with the main stamp in black and then stamped the script in the same distress ink color I did the background in.

Lastly, I added some ephemera to each of them.

 Come join the fun challenge. 

We Are Published in Rubberstamp Madness Fall 2025

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 Dear blog readers,

We at Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda Stamps are proud to be featured 

on pages 30 and 31 of the fall 2025 issue of Rubberstamp Madness, titled "Being in a Design Team."

There are seven talented DT members in total: Gail, our team leader,

Liesbeth, Cathy, Darlene, Aimee, Kathi, and myself, Riet.

I was therefore surprised and pleased that some of my work was published with the article.

I had made an accordion booklet.

These are the stamps I used:

Pokey cat

Pokey dog

Pokey pidgeon

Pokey mouse

Flowers

Brush strokes

Misc words.

The booklet is made with Brusho and black acrylic paint.

I hope you enjoyed it.

#201 Inchie, Twinchie or dominos challenge

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 Hi everyone,

Today I made a card with inchies for the challenge at Lost Coast Designs.

The stamps I used are:

Bugz and more bugz.

Daisy flourish

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.

(Reed the rules).

We hope to see you there, and maybe you'll be the winner of the challenge.

inchie Decoration

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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 !!!

Joyful Dragonflies

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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.

Inchie Twuinchie Domino: real domino's!

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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. 

Stamps used: Pieces of Calligraphy, Pieces of Architecture, Victoriana and Mini Butterfly Collage.

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

LiesbethXX

Strangely Bizarre

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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.  

Just do it!

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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.

Game On

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Hello Portal Peeps!!   Gail here today with my first inspiration piece for the Inchie Twinchie Domino Challenge.  I decided to chop up my background into bits and piece it back together.

I stamped Carmen's Veranda Dice Background using yellow ink on white card and then chopped it into 1" x 1", 2" x 2" and 2" x 1" pieces.  I arranged the inchie, twinchie and domino size pieces onto a black card square and then added a yellow mat behind.  I stamped Carmen's Veranda Alfred Hitchcock Standing on white card with black ink, fussy cut him and added him to the card.  To finish I stamped Lost Coast Designs Happy Birthday on one of the domino pieces. 

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. 

CHALLENGE #201 - INCHIE TWINCHIE DOMINO

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Hello Portal Peeps.  
 

It's time for our new Challenge.
Our challenges are now monthly!  A new challenge starting the 1st every month, with chances to win Lost Coast dollars. We will be announcing winners on the 5th of the month, so do pop back and see who wowed the team and gets our snazzy blog badge and the coveted Lost Coast dollars.

Now for our new Challenge!

CHALLENGE #201

INCHIE TWINCHIE DOMINO

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.
Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project.  A small stamped sentiment in a sea of die cuts or digi images will not qualify to win the prize and you may be deleted!!!!  Bwahahhaaahaha.

Please read the updated Challenge Rules to ensure your entries qualify to win this month's prize!

You are welcome to play in our Challenges using rubber stamp images from any company but if you use any of our Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps...we love it when you do...then you could win a bigger prize in our random prize drawing.  All winners get our snazzy Challenge Winner's Badge to proudly display on their blogs!

If you don't have a blog then no prob, you can still play in our challenges by sharing your projects from public photo sharing sites which includes our Facebook Company Pages for Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda.  Please include our Challenge info and the link back to our challenge in your photo's description!  As long as the privacy setting for your photo is public you're good to go.  See, it's so easy to join the fun!  FYI, you can't link up projects shared in closed Facebook groups! 

Here's some inspiration from the team to get us started.  ENJOY!

 
 Aimee used Carmen's Veranda Farmer Chicken with Lost Coast Designs Shrubbery for a fabulous inchie background

Liesbeth used Lost Coast Designs Small City and Daisy Flourish with Carmen's Veranda Birds Collage Background to make twinchies 
 
Riet used Lost Coast Designs Shrubbery for her colourful background and on her inchie, twinchie and domino focal points.

Happy birthday is from the Misc words sheet.

 
Now it's your turn.  Are you up for the challenge?  We can't wait to see your projects!  
Submit your entries in the linky party below by 23.59 PST on the 30th and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month so check back and join the fun.

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #201 - Inchie Twinchie Domino
September 1st - 30th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Tuesday, September 30th 23.59 PST.
All entries must be entered in our link up but your don't need a blog to win.  See our RULES page for more info