Happy Birthday Rogue Redhead

Rogue Redhead Designs, run by good friend Shar, turned one year old this week. Happy Birthday Rogue! To celebrate, she has launched a brand new website, released two new stamp plate and is offering some awesome deals.

I was lucky enough to play with the new release Milliner Misses and made this 8" x 8" inchie hanging:

Here's the info on the plate:

"This mini plate packs a lot of style into just a few images. Capture distinctive fashion and panache of the twenties with these great elegant ladies and their fabulous hats. Perfect for gal pal cards and fashionable greetings of all kinds." It retails for $7.50, but is on sale for $6 until the end of the year.

I stamped images from the Milliner Misses and Relish Reading plates onto the edges of old book pages, inked the edges and mounted them onto pre-cut matboard inchies. I also cut out inchies from old dress patterns and embellished some of the squares with a hat pin, buttons, fabric and lace.

All sixteen inchies were mounted onto a piece of watercolor paper with a salted background. Tutorial here. I stitched it to a piece of dark brown card stock and hung it with some beautiful seam binding from Blue Bird Lane.


Check out the other awesome artwork by the DT on the Rogue blog and wish them a Happy Birthday!

I'm linking to the following challenges:

Three Muses
Anything Goes Challenge

Miniature Inchie Notecards

I created some miniature note cards for the Gingersnap Art Exchange participants last week and thought I'd pop them on my blog.


I glued my Vintage Page Inchies onto a piece of c/stock in groups of four and cut them out with a Nestabilities label die.


I mounted the die cut inchies onto black c/stock and then onto 2.5" x 2.5" folded cards.

Very quick and easy, especially when you need to make a large batch of cards and they're a nice size to slip into a package.


Thanks for stopping by!

Ali

Inchie Scraplings

The last art exchange we hosted on Gingersnaps was paint chip scraplings. I made a few extra scraplings to include in the participants' packages. Instead of paint chips, I used inchies and small punched shapes and they work perfectly with the scraplings. These adorable little cards measure just 4.25" x 1.5" and are so handy to include with a gift or package.

I used some left over inchies from this card using my Inchie Collage Technique. Stamps are from Non Sequitur.


The second set are left over from this card. Stamps are Cornish Heritage.

Okay, these aren't inchies, but they're scraplings nonetheless. I punched the butterflies from a piece of dry embossed book page background and embellished them with a rhinestone.


These scraplings are quite addictive - try them if you dare!

Have a great weekend,

Ali

Back after a Break

I took a blogging break for a few weeks over the summer to spend time with family and friends. We had family staying with us for best part of a month and we did a bunch of fun things. Here's a brief snapshot:

I just have two Gingersnaps challenge projects to share today - the first for the current color challenge (red and black) and the second for the supply challenge (punches). The color challenge card uses an image from Crafty Individuals and is colored with Prisma pencils and gamasol. The background stamp and sentiment are both from SU.

The second card was made using the Inchie Masterboard technique and a retired SU set called Architectural Elements. It probably needs a sentiment or another embellishment, but I literally had five minutes to make it. The punch I used was a 1" square punch.


I hope to start stamping again next week if I can find some mojo from somewhere - it's been months since I've sat down and made something just for fun. Sigh.....

Happy weekend!

Ali

Split Stamping Personality

There hasn't been much stamping or blogging going on here for the past few weeks, I'm afraid. That's what happens during school vacation. I have a little down time this week because my daughter is in camp and I finally managed to stamp today.

I have two cards to share - one I made for a tutorial I wrote on Gingersnaps, but haven't had time to blog. The background behind the woman is a sun print made using a chemically treated paper. You can read how it's done here. I restamped the image (from Artistic Outpost) on cream c/stock and cut out the woman and adhered her on top of the sun print. The pale blue background was made using the Sanded Whitewash technique (TJ newsletter Aug 09).


And the second card is for today's Clean and Simple Challenge on Splitcoast - it's been an age since I did that challenge. It's for my husband because we celebrate our 14th wedding anniversary next week.


Together they highlight my split stamping personality! Generally, I go for botanical, vintage and collage images, but I also have what I call my 'Papertrey' side. I love the clean lines of some of the modern images, such as this one from Stampin' Up (Cute by the Inch).

Quick Tip:

I love these Pitt Artist pens from Faber Castell and use them all the time. They have four different nibs - brush, medium, fine and super fine, and are waterproof and smudge-proof.


I like to run the brush tip along the edge of inchies (or other punched shapes) for definition and these work great. The super fine nib is good for filling in missing parts of a stamped image. Or the dots on this card. Their uses are infinite and at $11 - a real bargain. I got mine at an art supply store, but I'm sure Michaels and other big box retailers sell them too.

Here's hoping for more stamping time tomorrow.

Happy Stamping!

Ali

Robin Inchie Card

I love grids! I think that's why inchies and cards made with inchies make me smile!

I created a sheet of faux designer paper (TJ technique Dec 08/Jan 09) using Birds of a Feather by Artistic Outpost. The large script/egg image was clear embossed on cream c/stock and covered with blue and brown inks. It was over stamped with robin image and the embossing powder ironed off.

I followed my own Inchie Collage technique and created this inchie card. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.


Happy stamping!

Ali

Christmas Inchie Cards

Before the holiday season is over, I wanted to share a couple of inchie cards I made using some $1 stamps from Inkadinkadoo. 

To create the inchies, I washed scraps of watercolor paper with yellow and blue ink, then added a thin layer of Shimmer paint (SU).  Once the scraps were thoroughly dry, I stamped the images with Versafine black ink. 

I punched out the yellow inchies with a 1" square punch, trimmed off 1/8" with my xacto knife, then mounted them onto 1" squares of Crushed Curry c/stock.  The blue ones were merely punched out with the 1" square punch and mounted directly onto a rectangle of black c/stock.

The bases are my favorite Fabriano watercolor cards and a few rhinestones and a little ribbon finished them off.

 

   I hope you all had a wonderful holiday!  Happy New Year!