Here are my entries into the Small World of Inchies challenge, which is Royal Ladies.
The inchie is simply covered in a piece of aged text, the Queen cut from a stamp, a small stamp that vaguely resembles a crown and the word 'Queen' cut from a magazine.
The twinchie was a first for me... well two firsts actually. It was first ever twinchie, but also my first collage piece.
The background has multiple layers; I used Distress Ink (Antique Linen) and then stamped the flourishes randomly onto the base. Then covered it with some inked, crumpled tissue paper and stamped more flourishes. One more layer of inked and creased up tissue paper (with Tea Dye Distress Ink around the edges) and more flourishes around the edge.
The queen was cut from an old playing card -her hair, eyes and lips were coloured with markers. The crown was cut from a book page and inked (same DIs there!).
The hand (which due to blurry pic is hard to see) was cut from a magazine and to make the flower that the queen of clubs holds I used the fab Papermania Make Your Own Brad kit. I used the smallest sized punch and cut out the club from the playing card, attached it to one of the gorgeous brads and added the clear dome sticker over the top.
I'm really pleased with how they turned out and appologise for the poor quality image - I had to take it using my phone's camera.
Looking forward to a full days crafting tomorrow so hopefully I will be back with more project photos then.
Take care and happy crafting,
Charli xx
I really have been a busy little bee today, but I think all this variety after so long of making nothing but cards has refreshed my creative muse.
This time around I was inspired by the challenge over at Lexi's Creations which is to alter something.
I have a few of these little tins - from when my hubby tried to quit nicotine by smoking cigars instead of cigarettes - but I thought these little tins were adorable so I kept a handful.
This particular one holds paperclips, ring pulls and such.
I covered it with torn pieces of a book page (a book I have nodesire to read again that was bought as a holiday read from Poundland! I also stained it the old-fashioned way with actual tea!) and plenty of PVA glue, which has the added bonus of a glossy finish. The tree I drew with a lovely brown Indian ink brushtip marker that I have had for years.
The "magpies" are actually a little bird stamp that's more akin to a blackbird but with the beak made longer and more rounded and the tail made much longer - and also the colours - I think they may just about pass for magpies; they're stamped onto aged inchies.
The numbers in the rhyme and the inchies also qualify for the Small World of Inchies challenge with the theme 'Numbers'.
Thats all from me for now. Hopefully I will be back in a day or two with some more new creations.
I shall also blog-hop around to view the other entries to the challenges I've entered.
Take care and happy crafting!
Charli xx
The inchie is simply covered in a piece of aged text, the Queen cut from a stamp, a small stamp that vaguely resembles a crown and the word 'Queen' cut from a magazine.
