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