Inchies as embellishment...

I've heard about the word 'Inchies' but couldnt work my head around it.How could someone possibly work on such a small surface, I wondered?! I know that ATCs are small too but at least they are big enough to add a few bits and pieces. Anyway I got some inchies and was trying to figure out how to use it, what to make of it.

For a first time I wanted to use them as a frame or something. I started by painting four of them using Reeves acrylic paint in yellow as shown in step 1. Let it dry for a few minutes.It wont take long as acrylic paints dry very fast. Then I've inked up one of my favourite stamps by Crafty individuals (CI - 113) with brilliance black ink and stamped the four squares by putting them together as shown in step 2.

Step 1:

Step 2:

This is a closed up view of the inked inchies....you can see that the surface is not very smooth as I intentionally left the marks of the brushstrokes while painting it.

Then I have used whispers brush markers to colour in the flowers as shown in step 3.

Step 3:

And finally I decided I wanted a smooth finish afterall....So I decided to use amazing glace to emboss them. I first inked them with clear embossing ink, then sprinkled with amazing glaze, tapped off the excess and heat emboss with a heat gun.


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Step 5:

I was quite pleased with the result, and I thought I would use it as an embellishment on a card.

I have first used the same stamp and inked the background of my card with versamark. I then chalked over it using yellow , red and orange colour. I have inserted some eyelets in the inchies and thread through black satin ribbon to interlink the inchies. I mounted the inchies on a piece of orange colour card to make the blackc ribbon stand out, then mounted this onto black card which has been finally mounted onto the same orange colour card. I stamped with black brilliance ink part of the same stamp, colour it in with whispers brush markers and cut it into a square which has been mounted onto orange card, then black card. I then glued down the same satin ribbon to run across the card, glued down my inchies embellishment and the stamped image.I finished off with a good luck peel offs.And the result is this:

I have had so much fun that I decided to try another technique with the inchies. I wanted to try to embed some elements with amazing glaze, so I decided to have a go with the inchies.


Step 1:


I have prepared the inchies as mentioned above by painting with acrylic paints but this time I have used yellow first and then dabbed some orange into it using sponge. Let them dry and then cut out a piece of natural dried flower and glued it down with some PVA glue.







I let this dry for a few minutes, then inked it with clear embossing ink, and sprinkled generously with amazing glaze. I have used my tray as you can see:)

Step 2:



Heat set the amazing glaze using a heat gun. Do protect your work surfacec as the amazing glaze powder tends to scatter around.

Step 3:





Keep on heating until the powder melts.

Step 4:




It will look like this when the powder has melted.



Here are a few examples I have done using die cut flowers as well. I just love this technique as well!