2019 Topic 14: Inchies & Twinchies
One
of the great things about using inchies and twinchies is that they
produce a calming order and designs that are easy to assemble. There is a
wonderful texture that Nikki has produced by brayering. With using
gorgeous subtle colours it has resulted in an elegant design punctuated
by lovely textural crochet dots!
Hi everyone, it's Nikki from Addicted to Art with you today, sharing a simple card design using Inchies or Twinchies.
There
is nothing original about the layout, check out Pinterest for lots of
inspiration using little squares to create different card designs. I
love that it is a great way to use up background scraps or a great
excuse to make lots of backgrounds as I have done here using stamps from
Courtney Franich and lovely PaperArtsy paints!
So
first of all I must confess the squares are neither inchies or
twinchies but actually 1 1/2 inches square. I began by brayering various
colours onto to some strips of Smoothy card. I used Blue Lagoon, Banana, Bougainvillea and Eggplant Fresco Chalk acrylics but the Banana strips didn't make this card!
I
ensured I didn't get total coverage of paint on the card leaving the
lovely textured effect the brayer creates and once dry I cut all my
squares (1.5 inches sq).
I selected my stamps and stamped on the squares in a coordinating colour of Archival ink. Most of the stamps are from Eclectica ECF08 with the crochet effect circles and words being from ECF07.
Those
crochet circles are a favourite of mine - either the entire stamp or
punching out the little circles as accents as I have done on this card.
If you don't have punches they are easy to cut out too.
I selected my stamps and stamped on the squares in a coordinating colour of Archival ink. Most of the stamps are from Eclectica ECF08 with the crochet effect circles and words being from ECF07.
I
love how these stamps work so well as background stamps - the textures,
tickets and postmarks providing the right amount of detail without
dominating each other.
5 comments:
This is wonderful Nikki. So much detail and so much to see.
Oh no - I badly want to come up with a clever name for your one-and-a-half-inchies, but it won't come! Love the colours and the choice of stamps here - those partial and patterned images are really intriguing to the eye... I want to know more, but the bold black borders leave me in anticipation! Love the tone on tone stamping too. Brilliant card.
Alison x
Terrific project!
Lucy x
Totally Love this! Nikki . The colours , the design, the way you've used Courtney's stamps are all spot on ! Fabulous creativity .
Alison I'm led to believe that something in-between an inchie and a twinchie is called a betwinchie- happened upon it when I was growing the web . :)
x
Gorgeous combo of colours, love your project! x
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