Every Inchie Monday - Hut

This week the challenge is 'hut'.  My mind went immediately to beach hut, so I made two out of shrink plastic, and coloured them with distress markers. I placed them on a watercoloured inchie, drew a few pebbles, and stuck the huts in place. I might try to make a sewn one later. Having said that perhaps not, these gave me no end of problems. The shrink plastic does tend to distort, so they are rather crooked. Must be on a windy bit of coast.

Show us your Twinchies Challenge - Anything goes

I enjoy the challenge of making very small art, these are two inches square, so when I saw the Twinchie challenge, I couldn't resist.

I inked and stamped the backgrounds, collaged the little girls and the birds. I drew a few swirls, and that was it.

Every Inchie Monday -- Stone

The challenge this week is Stone, so the first thing I thought of was drawing one, which I did on watercolour paper which I had previously painted. I drew the stones, and then wrote (badly) the words. I wasn't happy with it, so back to the sewing machine I went, and made the yellow one, which has some shiny dots on it. I then stuck on a polished tiger-eye stone, that I have been hoarding for years.

Distress ink book

This is for a swap, in which the monthly theme was to use distress inks to make something for your partner. I inked a giant tag with peacock feathers, evergreen bough, and a small amount of wild honey distress inks. I then splashed it with quite a bit of water to get that lovely mottled look.
When it was dry I scored the fold lines and stamped my clock background stamp with peacock feathers ink.  The inside I used a cogs stencil with peacock feathers ink, on an inked background.
The die cut cogs were also coloured with distress inks, in vintage photo. The black ones were embossed and coloured with treasure gold.
The pages are different types of water colour paper and canvas, so my swap partner can try out different paints or inks on them.

 The book open to show a bit of the inside.

Last of all I put a turquoise eyelet in and threaded some fine ribbon through.

Tree tag

Here is my tag for a challenge on a Canadian site. The background was some deli paper that I use to put tags on that I'm spraying with ink. I stuck it on, and stamped some trees in the background, I then cut out a Memory Box tree die-cut in white. I didn't like it and thought about colouring it with inks, thought it a bit too delicate, so cut out another one in black. After messing about trying to stick them together to make them stronger, I let one slip to one side. The happy accident means it looks like the trees outside, covered in snow

Artful Times Challenge No 21 Time ATC

I don't make many ATCs now, so this one made a change from my obsession with tags. I stamped and embossed with gold the background on black card. Die cut and coloured some cogs, one was also embossed. I stamped the clock, coloured it with tea dye distress ink, and when dry put some crackle glaze on the face. The saying is from Paperartsy.

Every Inchie Monday

The word this week for the inchie challenge was Girl. I used an image I had in my collection of vintage girls, and stuck it on the inchie with a border of narrow ribbon on two sides. I made some very small pink paper roses, as that's what she is carrying, and edge them with magenta stickles. The gap above I covered with bedazzles, which probably don't show up on the picture.