Here is another one of my attempts to dress up Marie Antoinette. I didn’t do much to alter her appearance this time; added some wings and a flower to her hair. I did get to test out a new heart border punch (by Martha Stewart), but the rest was really just gluing on bling and stickers.
I made a twinchie very similar to this one for a swap at Splitcoaststampers. I used the same image with a different definition from my old dictionary (since we were to use actual pages, not photocopies). The current challenge at Small World of Inchies and Twinchies is “childhood”, so I am linking this twinchie to that site as well.
This ATC was made for a four-seasons swap with my friends in Iowa. A muff and fur hat are probably necessities up north right now, but I’m back to wearing sandals in Texas. I guess I have to live vicariously through my art! I finally found a reason to use these winter stamps from Close to My Heart. It is such a beautiful set that I really should try to use them more often.
Paper is last year’s Making Memories valentine line; snowflake punches are Martha Stewart and Marvy.
I enjoyed my share of spaghetti westerns as a teen. I even remember going to a movie-marathon wearing hot pants. Now if that doesn’t date me, nothing will! This is for a twinchie swap on Splitcoaststampers, and completes one of the four categories I signed up for this time around. I think Tim Holtz’s film strip ribbon looks right at home next to Mr. Eastwood.
I’m working on several sets of ATCs, but until I get them finished, here are some more inchies that I did this month. When Hero Arts came out with the wildflower stamps several years ago, I went a little bit nuts buying them. Of course, I haven’t used them as much as I should, but this set of four flowers fit the 1×1 inch format perfectly. I just wish I hadn’t offset the flowers so much; I like the effect on #2 the best.
Background stamp is Tim Holtz. I love the size of this text for inchies! The flowers were stamped with pigment or chalk inks before the embossing. The rest of the ink is Ranger Distress or black pigment.
I made this ATC a couple of years ago. Not much to it, really, compared to the ATCs I make now. But since it is his birthday today, I thought I should put it on my blog. Maybe next year I will dig out these stamps and make another ATC in honor of Elvis and all those peanut butter and banana sandwiches I don’t eat!
I’m 5 inches into the new year! Here are two more inchies I made with a “new year’s” theme. The challenge at Small World of Inchies and Twinches is to make something with a New Year’s theme, and these fit the bill. I plan to do each of these challenges this year, since I have 360 inchies left to make!
Soon I will have to leave the holidays behind and move on to winter and Valentine’s Day. I couldn’t resist playing with one of my “Merry Christmas to me” purchases (collage sheets from DigitalCollageSheets.com), and I sneaked in just under the deadline for the Merry Marie swap at Vintage Photo Image ATCs. The designer paper was an after-Christmas sale item (K&Company), and I reached into my stash for the Bazzill scraps, bling, German scrap, netting ribbon, and punches. The “merry & bright” stamp I used on the background paper is from Cornish Heritage Farms.
Did you eat your black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day? I made black-eyed pea queso; it was really quite tasty. Now I’m ready for a year full of luck! I have a rubber stamp that says “do something creative every day” (from Paper Source). My goal this year is to make an inchie every day. I’m sure there will be days where I play “catch up” and make up for days I missed, but I’ve got my binder ready to go and Day 1 is done. 364 inchies to go!
And all through the house…. I still have packages to wrap and cards to mail, but I wanted to post this ATC I made for a “Christmas Cuties” swap with the VPI ATCs Yahoo group. The tiny gold stocking charms fit perfectly on this vintage image, so I decided to design the ATC around those. The background (which is barely visible) was stamped using a corner of one of Tim Holtz’s Santa image stamps. The wall calendar is from the Snowy Woods sheet by Artistic Outpost. The paper is Basic Grey and Bazzill, and the mantle greenery was made with a Martha Stewart punch and tiny red Bazzill brads. The tree is a small Nestabilities die.
Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
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