Inchies

I had fun making "inchies" and mounting them to display.

I am a fan of nine-patch quilts, so I decided to mount 9 inchies in a display. I used as background some paper that I had painted with dye (top middle and bottom first and last), some mulberry paper (middle first and last, and bottom middle), some printed scrapbook paper (top first and last), and a scrap of map (middle square). I decorated the inchies with punched heart and with stickers. I framed the inchies with paper punched with a McGill scallop square punch, then with black paper. I mounted the 9 inchies on foamboard covered with coffee-stained white mulberry paper.

Back from Seattle

I'm back home after two wonderful weeks in Seattle, working and visiting with my sister Kathy, her husband Chris, and their son Matt.

I made a thank-you card to send to them. Two kinds of Basic Grey Motifica paper; the top one is altered using a technique I learned from Tim Holtz' blog. I stamped stripes and embossed with clear embossing powder for a resist, then painted over it with green (mixed with a little brown) craft paint. When the paint was dry, I wiped the paper with a damp paper towel to reveal the paper. The Thank You is just green dymo tape embossed with the Dymo.

I hope they like it.

Mother's Day

I made a Mother's Day card today. The base is a white card. I sponged a little blue paint over the edges to pick up the blue in the Anna Griffith paper that I used as a background. The picture is from my first Christmas -- me and Mom and my twin sister. The lettering is a Stampington clear set with individual words good for making cards, stamped in Colorbox chalk ink in Warm Green over a piece of pink printed paper that I had. I sponged a little antique white paint over it to make it blend better with the background paper. A very simple card. I hope Mom likes it.