USING INCHIES TO MAKE GREETING CARDS

Once I got the hang of making Inchies and Twinchies as demonstrated in my other post  Click here  I decided to use them to decorate handmade greeting cards. 


1.)  For my first effort I found an old failed painting to use.  Then I looked for colorful areas in it, and ripped out a few possibilities...

I looked for a few areas that I especially liked with my handy dandy 1" masking matboard (lower right hand corner in picture below) and cut out one inch squares of the areas that I thought would go together nicely.  Once I got what I liked I put all six inchies together and flicked a bit of gold paint on each square.  In this case I glued them down on a blank olive green greeting card.  After all that was done I "framed" the six inchies with a gold pen.

Here I've laid my inchies on the greeting card to figure out the most appealing assemblage. You can also see the materials I used in this picture.

I used the same scraps of an old failed painting to make the card above, but here you can see I decorated my inchies with black ink for a cohesive look and mounted them on a white greeting card instead.

For this card I made my own abstract inchies by flicking many layers of watercolor and acrylic paint on top of each other until I got the effect I wanted.  I also decided to make use of the deckled edge of the watercolor scrap paper I was using when I cut my inchies.  Once I was happy with them I glued them on to my card and drew a "frame" around them with a black micron pen.

2.)  For the next few cards I used old stickers I had laying around... 

For this card below I painted four two inch squares deep pink to use as a base to glue my stickers on.  Once I glued the stickers to the pink squares I flicked gold paint on them.  Next I glued the four of them onto the card and drew a frame around them with a black micron pen.  Then I stamped the words, "Wishing You Joy" below and viola' I have a card.  Here are the supplies I used to make my twinchie fairy card...

"Wishing You Joy"

Here I'm making another greeting card from old floral stickers I had laying around.  These stickers fit perfectly onto inchies...

It was fun to make these cards and it's a lot of fun to use them when I need a card for a friend.  In the photo below you can see all the finished cards together...  

Thanks for looking in.  I hope you've been inspired.  Comments and suggestions are always welcome and appreciated.