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Christmas Inchie Cards

Before the holiday season is over, I wanted to share a couple of inchie cards I made using some $1 stamps from Inkadinkadoo. 

To create the inchies, I washed scraps of watercolor paper with yellow and blue ink, then added a thin layer of Shimmer paint (SU).  Once the scraps were thoroughly dry, I stamped the images with Versafine black ink. 

I punched out the yellow inchies with a 1" square punch, trimmed off 1/8" with my xacto knife, then mounted them onto 1" squares of Crushed Curry c/stock.  The blue ones were merely punched out with the 1" square punch and mounted directly onto a rectangle of black c/stock.

The bases are my favorite Fabriano watercolor cards and a few rhinestones and a little ribbon finished them off.

 

   I hope you all had a wonderful holiday!  Happy New Year!

Inchie Book Swap

As promised, here's the Inchie Book that I received from my swap partner Becky over at Addicted to Inchies.  I was thrilled to receive this in the mail - it's so beautiful!  The cover and pages are made from hand made papers filled with leaves and petals - I love all the textures she included in this book. 

Thanks Becky! 

Bird Inchie Book

Back in October I took part in an inchie book swap with the Addicted to Inchies group and I haven't had a chance to share my creation yet.  The book pages measure 2" x 5.75" and there are 5 pages in total plus the 2 covers.  I filled 2 of the pages with bird inchies and left the others blank for my partner to fill.

The covers are made from chipboard and covered with patterned paper and the pages are kraft c/stock.  The book is bound with hemp twine and accented with various ribbons and a letter charm with my swap partner's initial.  All the supplies are listed below.

I'll share with you the book I received from my swap partner later in the week. 

Supplies:

• Stamps: Oxford Impressions, Invoke Arts, Artistic Outpost
• C/stock: Kraft c/stock, various patterned papers (Basic Grey, Cosmo Cricket, K&Company)
• Ink: Chocolate Chip, Linen distress ink, Shimmerz paint
• Accessories: Hemp, various ribbons, silver bird charm, Type Charms (Tim Holz Idea-ology line)
• Tools: 1" square punch, crop-a-dile

Asian Inchies

I made these three Asian inchies for a swap last month and the mods at Addicted to Inchies very kindly put them on the home page this week.  So, I figured it was about time to share (sorry the picture's a bit blurry).

These were quite a stretch for me because I don't have any Asian stamps or collage sheets.  So, I got out my large stash of National Geographic magazines, tracked down some images of Geishas and made packing tape transfers. 

I created the backgrounds from gold tissue paper, some Asian text and red mesh origami paper.  The packing tape transfers were adhered to these backgrounds with gel medium. 

The beads were strung onto black thread and sandwiched between the background the black c/stock, so the thread doesn't show on the other side.  The beads are from an old dollar store bracelet that I cut apart.

Hope you have a fantastic weekend!

Time Inchie Challenge

Fiona over at Inchy By Inch asked me to be Guest Designer this week and I was delighted to accept.  I chose 'Time' as the theme and here are the inchies I came up with. 

The backgrounds are from a piece of collaged background paper I created myself with text from Non Sequitur stamped on top.  The clocks were stamped, cut out, mounted onto the squares and embellished with a rhinestone.

Head over to the blog and take the inchie challenge!

Stamp credits:

• Inchie Style by Cornish Heritage Farms
• Eternity by Non Sequitur Art Stamps

Inchie Challenge

I have a couple of inchies to share today.  The first is for this week's Inchy By Inch challenge with its theme of rain.  And now I'm totally embarrassed because Fiona, the owner of the site, used the same image on her inchie.  What a dummy I am!

The image in question is from a retired SU set and it was stamped on a piece of water color paper that had received a wash of pale blue ink.  I doodled the black and white frame around the edge and I'm not sure you can see on the picture, but I made some small raindrops with Art Gel.

 

And this set of inchies I made to celebrate Fall.  The backgrounds were made from c/stock I had left over from a sponge & shimmer panel I made (click on the link for a tutorial I wrote).  I stamped them with some script, edged them with brown ink, mounted them onto brown inchies and attached the metal leaf charms. 

 

Thanks for visiting - come again soon!

Inchie Challenge

I actually made something this weekend - it's been a while!  I took this week's Small World of Inchies & Twinchies challenge, which was to use circles.  I immediately thought of clocks and time and created this card for a friend who's having a hard time.

I created a master board using my Inchie Collage Technique - click on the link to see a tutorial on Gingersnaps.

And then I created this accordion booklet with a quote by Theodore Roethke.  I got the idea for this from Terri at Artful Affirmations.  [Click on the photo to see a larger version.]

Thanks for stopping by - have a wonderful day!

Stamp credits: Non Sequitur, Cornish Heritage Farm

Inchie Challenge Cards

Here are a couple of challenge cards I made today.  It's the first time I've ever made inchies and I think I'm addicted.  I suspect you'll see a lot more inchie creations in the coming weeks.

The first card is for Gingersnap Creations Movie Star Challenge.

The second one is a late entry into Daring Cardmakers' Give 'em an Inchie challenge from last week.  I'm not sure I like the layout of the card, but I didn't want to put the panel slap bang in the middle.  Ah well....

I wish you all a happy weekend.

Stamps: Oxford Impressions