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.

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.

Time And Tide........

Really do wait for no man!!

Again another two days have passed without being able to concentrate on crafting for my blog! But here is my Twinchie on the theme of time, for Small World of Inchies. I created it by using a 2" square of stampbord, covering it in varying shades of blue chalk eye, and then stamping on top with an image of the moon and pocket watches. I then scratched out highlights and added the time saying in pen on top. I hope you like it.

Nature's Finest

New week, New start......

So much for catching up with everything I had to do, I still feel that I am chasing my tail!!! Evidence being that I have not been able to craft and upload new work to my blog. So.....time to try and keep up with it all this week, and break even at least.

TMTA this week set the challenge for Mother Nature, and this is my interpretation. I coloured and ATC with two different coloured chalks and stamped on top with a Crafty Individuals stamp. I then coloured up a square of Stampbord in three differnt shades, let it dry and then stamped a flower image, also from Crafty Individuals and scratched out highlights and detail, then applied this to the top of the ATC and added a hand written title. I hope you like the end result.

Cities of Europe

Was the theme for Make A Moo or Two this week. I chose to make two different sets, one on London and the second on Venice.

For these first two I drew an abstract Union Jack in chalk eyes on white card, then stamped a vintage skyline of London over the top, I then selected the two best areas and cut them to size, adding the wording to finish.

For Venice I chalked white card with two shades of blue, then stamped a Venician Gondola on top. I then took a small square of Stampbord and chalked the background to match the card and stamped a section of the gondola on top. I then scratched out the highlights and coatd in Glossy Accents. Once glued onto the background image in the right place I added the wording to finish.

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.