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Sample cards - for the holidays

Since Thanksgiving is almost here we decided it was high time that we dive into the holidays and send out sample cards (with store orders) that reflect the upcoming holiday season!

There are so many wonderful holiday images from Lockhart stamps and we have been tinkering with both the Itty Bitty's and larger format stamps for our Inchie Art card samples. We are also having fun with papers from Memory Box as we create festive holiday cards to send out. We hope you enjoy these recent creations and are inspired to make your own! All the cards are made using colors from the Inchie Notes collections, and if you look really carefully you will see how addicted we have become to the Sakura Stardust Gel pen - that extra bit of sparkle is perfect for these types of cards!

 

Holiday Wreath  

White Inchie Square, Lockhart IB Wreath #3044, Memory Box paper from the Gingercake collection. Color the stamped image with Copic G21 and Prismacolor pencils in spring green and grass green. Add sparkle with dots of Sakura Stardust Gel pen around the wreath, color bow and berries with Atyou Spica red glitter pen.

 

Pink and Blue for Christmas!

White Inchie Square, Lockhart IB Christmas Tree #3046. Background colored with Copic R000 and tree colored with assorted Prismacolor pencils. Tree finished with a coating of Inkssentials Glossy Accents. Sparkle dots of Sakura Stardust Gel pen.   

 

 

A Holly Cupcake

White Inchie Square, Lockhart Holly Cupcake # 6037 (direct stamp only a portion), Memory Box paper from Gingercake collection. Color background with Copic G20. Color the stamped image with Prismacolor pencils limepeel, kelly green and crimson lake. Add sparkle to the berries and to limepeel colored holly leaves with Sakura Stardust Gel pen. 

 

You too can dive into the holiday's. Why not host a holiday card making party...with inchies! It's amazing what a mood changer it is to get out all the supplies, turn on a little holiday music, put out some holiday treats and invite your best buddies over for an afternoon or evening of creative fun!

Hmmm, I can almost smell the cinnamon and hot cider brewing on the stove...

Sample card - the perfect paper

Sometimes it's serendipity and sometimes it's a happy accident...but we can tell you from personal experience that most times finding the perfect paper for a card often occurs after an agonizing search.

Have you ever been designing a card only to have the perfect paper seared into your visual memory but then driving yourself crazy because you can't remember what it was or where you saw it? Or searching endlessly through all the bins and drawers of paper you have been accumulating to find that nothing is quite right?!

Today was the exception!

The snowman inchie was created using Lockhart stamp #6028 Nicholas Flurry. After stamping diagonally on a white inchie square color around the image with Copic Marker # BV04 Blue Berry, edges too. (I remember just grabbing a darkish blue marker and thinking it might be a little too dark, but what the heck...) The snowman was colored with an assortment of bright Prismacolor pencils. Don't forget a little bit of gentle blue shading on his base to add dimension. Add the 'snow' by gently dotting with an Inkssentials white opaque pen - these are amazing! 

Now that the inchie square is complete it's time to begin the hunt for the paper. And low and behold...that rare occurrence when the sun, the moon and the stars all line up actually happened...that perfect paper happened to be sitting right on the desk. I owe Dave Brethauer of Memory Box a debt of gratitude for designing this perfect paper! It is part of the Memory Box Winter Wonderland Collection of mixed cardstock. Unbelievably, the color seems an exact match to the Copic marker we were reluctant to use; and, it has ready made snow! This card practically assembled itself on a white Inchie Note!

Instantly, everything just fit together...almost as if there had been advance planning for all the components of this card. Shhh, we'll never tell...... 

Travels with inchie

You may have heard of Flat Stanley...or the Roaming Gnome...how about travels with 'inchie'!

 

Front row seat in the Cascade Mountains

We were a little busy last week - two chicks (sounds better than middle aged mom's), a 22' truck with a car trailer, and our favorite buddy...'inchie'! We left the Seattle area on a Sunday to help a friend move, and arrived in Minneapolis on a Friday. What an incredible trip - filled with amazing experiences, sights and new memories.

  Deciduous evergreens? Who knew Idaho was so spectacular!

 

Montana...Big Sky Country...no kidding!

 

Now which side is the gas tank on? OMG, how do we turn around!

    

How long did you say we were driving today?

  Rapid City?...sure is a slow train...

 

My new buddy!

 

Wow, how did they do that? 

 

The colors in the landscape were amazing

 

Hmm, I wonder if the constant bouncing of the truck is offsetting what we have been eating?

   

Should I be scared?

 

Are we on Mars?

 

Don't shoot! Did you know that South Dakota is a hot spot for pheasant hunting?!

 

That sure is a big windmill!

 

Are we there yet? Sure looks different in Minnesota - are those trees?

 

Yeah - we made it!

And that is just a thimble's worth of the pictures we took, and the experiences we had!

Inchie, I promise never to travel without you again! It's amazing how many people wanted to meet you, have their picture taken with you, and answer ALL your questions!