Inchies

I love creating small pieces of art, and what could be better than a challenge to produce inchies! I could have added them to another piece of art like an ATC, skinny, card or 4x4, but I think they are great just as they are! I am in the process of creating a big range of different inchies, twinchies and ATC size pieces of art, so that I can then collage them together into a big mosaic piece to show them all off. So I created these three inchies for CBH on Stampbord, which will be added to the collection.

I first inked the stampbord with chalk eyes then stamped my chosen images on top. The stamps are inchie size and are from a set by Inka-dinka-do. Once stamped I then used a scratching tool to bring out textures and highlights.

Cats

I have always loved cats and there has always been at least one in the household all my life. I think now it would feel strange to not have that little person bumping around your legs, jumping on your work, and chasing all manner of things around the garden. Cats is the theme for Inchy By Inch this week and I used a selection of cat stamps and chalk eyes to create mine.

The Blues...

are a great range of colours to work with and I created these inchies for SWI&T. I used some stamps of different peacocks and their feathers onto a background I made with distress inks. I stamped in midnight blue and once dry added stickles on top to highlight areas and chalked the edges to finish.

Exotic Places...

Sound really good right now. The weather has definitely turned to winter, and a dose of warm sunshine would be very welcome!! Exotic places is the challenge at Weds Stamper, and I used my Egyptian stamps to create this arch. I stamped the background in a montage, added colour and chalked the edges. Then I stamped King Tut onto a separate piece of card, added some extra colour and stamped the lotus flower pattern several times, added colour and cut out as inchies, incorporating them to the background with foam pads to raise them off the surface. Using inchies is the theme over at OPH.

Favourite Colours?

Time is very definitely limited this week, a very busy schedule that shows no sign of letting up yet! So I have combined Arty Girlz and SWI&T this week.

My favourite colours - that is a hard one, there are so many lovely colours in the world and different combinations evoke so many different emotions. In the end I settled on a colour range that I really do use a lot - purples, blues and browns. I created this card using some inchies I had made previously and applied them to the background, which has been coloured with distress inks over a Tim HOltz mask. I drew around the inchies and the border to define the shapes and patterns, then mounted it all onto black.

Cute

Is the theme over at SMWI&T, and what cuter than my great reindeer stamp. I love the expression on his face! I stamped two inchies with his face at different angles, added colour with markers and then added stickles to highlight specific areas. Hope you like the end result.

Right, off to the next thing...
This week has been so busy and is not set to calm down until the end of the weekend, everything always seems to come around at once! Looking forward to my night out and my day scrapping tomorrow at a CROP held by Scrapbook Sisters.

Friend For Life...

Dogs are man's best friend, so they say. But I do not have many craft items relating to them, I am rather a cat person myself!! However I do own this gorgeous stamp by Cherry Pie Arts, and decided it would be perfect for the challenge over at SWI&T. I found a scrap of paper that matched the stamp perfectly, the orange and brown complementing the shapes and patterns on the dalmation., which was stamped on a separate piece of card, cut out and placed on top. The wording in handwritten, and it is all finished by chalking the edges.

Halloween Finale

This is my last halloween set for this year, two inchies created for SWI&T.

I created them by chlking the background and then stamping the images on top. I worked into the images with a range of different glaze & glitter pens to add a bit of dimension ot them. Hope you like them.

Faeries.....

As a child I used to spend hours in the garden looking for the faeries. My mum was good at telling stories and giving tips on how to find them - the circle of mushrooms in the lawn was a constant source of fascination for my sister and I - we even found a mini skipping rope once (well done mum, as we found out once we were grown!). Despite that I still believe in all things a little mit mystical and magical.....

For the Small World of Inchies I have made one twinchie using a stamp by Crafty Individuals, coloured with watercolour pencils and then detail adding with Glossy Accents and Stickles.

Then I made these two inchies using silhouette stamps and chalking the backgrounds. Again finished with Glossy Accents and Stickles.

Remember they are out there just on the edge of your vision...

Elements of Fall

Autumn is a popular theme at this time of year, with yet more challenges being set around it. For SPA this week I have taken the colours of Autumn and elements of Halloween to create my postcard. I used a range of different stamps, three stamped onto the background and the tree stamped separately and added with foam pads to raise it off the surface. I added glossy accents to parts of the stamped images for detail.

I also used halloween based images for Small World of Inchies, however this is slightly late for their challenge, as this week has been a bit crazy and the end has been a long way from sight!!! Still two days to now try and catch up with everything else! I used the same ranges of stamps and colours for these inchies and again added glossy accents as detail.

Music.....

Is the sound made by the morning chorus. These inchies are my interpretation of the theme for the Small World of Inchies & Twinchies. I stamped the music background, cut to size and chalked three different colours, I then stamped the birds in blue and finished with a gem on each.

The dawn chorus is always great to hear, especially on a summers morning. It reminds me of many holidays and early starts.

Celestial Light

For the theme of Celestial set by The Small World of Inchies & Twinchies, I chose to use a Penny Black stamp. This is one of her new range stamps out in the Christmas range.

I used inch square Stampbord and chalked it up in varying shades of blue and purple Chalk Eye. I then stamped the stars in Midnight Blue Stazon and then scratched out the highlights.