Waiting at the Garden Gate

Linda at Inching Artists has set a new challenge this week on the theme of Hello. I have made a series all from the same image.


For this challenge I have used my computer to manipulate the image and add the text. The image comes from a copyright free CD of Vintage Graphics. Each inchie is then printed out onto white card and edged with Tim Holtz's fired brick Distress Ink. I have also added a touch of Glossy Accents.

A Spot of Gardening

A greetings card for my Uncle's birthday.

I used decoupage papers by Paper Nation & patterned paper designed by Vanessa Arbuthnott for The English Paper Company.



I have added another photo to show the decoupage layers.

Earthworks

Duplicating my Sunday Blues idea, I have made another inchie collection, this time using earth tones of green and brown. As previously, all from the one publication which came with the Sunday papers this weekend.

Birthday Girls

I've finally made a start on the Birthday cards for this year.


I have used decoupage papers from Paper Nation & patterned paper designed by Vanessa Arbuthnott for The English Paper Company. So two very English birthday cards.

Winter

The Artist Trading Card challenge this week is Winter.

Recipe for Love

1. Take one manilla tag (5 inches by 2½ inches).
2. Take Tim Holtz’s tattered rose Distress Ink pad and swipe across the surface, front and back.
3. Pick up the tag and crumple to weaken the fibres and form creases.
4. Take Tim Holtz’s aged mahogany Distress Ink pad and using a square of foam, apply the ink over the surface, concentrating on the deep creased lines.
5. Take a Ranger Mini Mister, filled with tap water and spray over the surface of the tag.
6. Take Tim Holtz’s cranberry Adirondack Alcohol Ink and allow a few drops to land on the surface of the tag.
7. Take Tim Holtz’s Adirondack Alcohol Blending Solution and add a few drops onto the alcohol ink splashes.
8. Heat iron to a low heat and then press over the tag to flatten and dry the tag.
9. Reapply aged mahogany ink to any light patches.
10. Distress the edges of the tag, using an old emery board.
11. Take a heart stamp by Crafty Individuals, and stamp onto white card using a VersaMark watermark stamp pad.
12. Cover wet ink image with clear embossing powder. Repeat three times.
13. Take a heat gun and apply heat to melt the embossing powder.
14. Take the distress inks and apply ink over the embossed images and spray with water.
15. Tear out each heart and then edge the pieces with ink.
16. Choose wording and print out onto white card and colour as described in step 14.
17. Using a small circle punch, cut out two circles and punch a hole in the middle of each using your Crop-A-Dile thus making two reinforcement rings.
18. Using double-sided sticking tape, mount all the various component parts.
19. Finish by tying a ribbon loop through the tag hole, so the tag can be hung up.
20. Finally, give to the one you love.

Sunday Blues

Time for something different. Using just one magazine, which came with last Sunday’s papers, I have made a set of blue inchies using text found within the same publication. That’s it.

Queen of Hearts

This is an Artist Trading Card for a challenge theme of

Royalty.

I have used mountboard as the base & stamped crowns

by Elusive Images from Graphicus

with silver & gold ink as the background. 

The playing cards are made using a rubber stamp

from Non Sequitur’s Memories of Italy

coloured with watercolour & red glitter.

Just a note to say ...

This is a greetings card for someone who has just left hospital after a major operation.

Inside is says "we hope you're feeling better each and every day".

I have used patterned paper designed by Vanessa Arbuthnott

for The English Paper Company

& a butterfly stamp by Elusive Images from Graphicus.

Hot Lips

As you know from my previous posting, I was grabbed by the Friendly Plastic demo at the craft fair, so decided to buy a few strips to have a play.

Why is it the demonstrators always make things seem so easy?

So here is my first attempt at a friendly plastic inchie, using a lips rubber stamp and red glitter to highlight them.

I think I need to keep practising ...