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Seasons Givings - A special thank you!

Happy New Year 2017 !!

We are so excited to be included again in the Seasons Givings Blog Hop!

This really is a spectacular event and all the credit goes to Latisha Yoast for her vision and organization! She has created a wonderful way for all of us...to thank all of you...for the love and support that has enabled everyone on this list to continue to share their creativity. And, as we learned last year, this is a great way for us to introduce Inchie Arts - Art Squares to those unfamiliar with our products. 

 

 

This year we introduced our Little Village kits, Original and 2. The response has been tremendous and as we, and others, continue to experiment with how they can be used, there is no doubt that these will become part of your year round papercrafting and card making. If you are looking for samples and ideas on how to use Little Village kits be sure and visit the Inchie Arts Facebook page.

 

 

We would like to extend a very special thank you to all the artists and crafters who shared their work with us!! You continue to inspire and demonstrate that Art Squares are the perfect substrate for everything from stamping and coloring, mixed media, Gelli Plate, die masking, watercolor, stencils, Pan Pastels, Stendoodling, photo collages, cubes, tags and so much more.

 

 

 

 

Whether you already love our Art Squares....or are super curious to create with them....please leave a comment below on THIS POST as your entry to win this collection of Inchie Arts - Art Square and Little Village products. In order to be eligible please leave a comment between now and Sunday January 8th at 12 midnight PST. We will randomly select one winner and will post their name here on our blog, and on our Facebook page, on Tuesday January 10, 2017.

 

 

The Inchie Arts - Art Square Giveaway Package includes: 2 packages Original Little Village, 2 packages Little Village 2, one package each of white: 1" Inchie Squares, 3" Art Squares, 4" Art Squares, ATC size (2.5" x 3.5") Art Squares and 2" x 4" SWATCH Art Squares.

 THANK YOU for stopping by and we hope you will visit again to see if you won, but more importantly to explore this blog and our Facebook page to see what you can create with Art Squares. 

And what a list for this year - WOW! 

Lawn Fawn

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Reverse Confetti

Taylored Expressions

Paper Smooches

Neat & Tangled

Technique Tuesday

Clear & Simple Stamps

Richard Garay

My Sweet Petunia

JustNick

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store

Sunny Studio Stamps

Inchie Arts llc

Scrapbook Update

Buttons Galore

Latisha Yoast

Julia Stainton

ChariMoss

Cristina Nunez

Wanda Guess

Vera Yates

Amy Tsuruta

Mary-Ann Maldonado

Lori Craig

Lydia Fiedler

Jenn Shurkus

Lisa Henke

Dina Kowal

Libby Hickson

Emily Leiphart

Cindy Lawrence

Kelly Klapstein

Erica Houtghton

Elise Constable

Julee Tillman

Lee Murphy

Lisa Arana

Giovana Smith

Karen Baker

Lindsay Amrhein

Dana Joy

Marcie Sharp

Megan Hoeppner

Alicia Thelin

Asia King

Debbie Seyer

Yvonne Van De Grijp

Tenia Nelson

Michelle Woerner

Christina Griffiths

Lori McAree

Barbara Anders

Jill Hawkins

Veronica Zalis

Leigh Penner

Margie Higuchi

Amy Coose

Melody Rupple

Karen Letchworth

Heidi Ramsey Blankenship

Jennie Harper

Jodi Collins

Jessica Frost-Ballas

Gracie Chavez

Stephanie Klauck

Savannah O’Gwynn

Terre Fry

Neva Cole

Maria Levine

Misti Oblander

Ceal Pritchett

Thank you for visiting All In An Inch from Inchie Arts! Don't forget to leave a comment below on THIS POST as your entry to win the Inchie Arts - Art Square and Little Village products shown in the picture. In order to be eligible please leave a comment between now and Sunday January 8th at 12 midnight PST. We will randomly select one winner and will post their name here on our blog, and on our Facebook page, on Tuesday January 10, 2017.

Happy New Year everyone!! 

Holiday paper packs and Little Village projects

(created with select components from Little Village 2 and the I Love Christmas paper pad by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park Paper Co. ) 

We have been posting a few of these on our Facebook and Instagram the last few days and just wanted to take a minute to round up the projects, so you can view them all in one place. 

As much fun as it is to stamp, color and embellish the Little Village components, it's pretty amazing the results you get from covering the pieces with pattern paper. We especially love using the paper selections from the very popular 6" paper packs! The papers in these packs have already been 'curated' so they will all work together making it hard to go wrong with your combinations if you just use the papers within the pack for your card or project.

 

In fact, when we were working with Kae Pea from RubberMoon during the conceptual development of Little Village, we sent her one of the first samples and she created this!! 

 

And, there are so many different themed paper pads out there, like this winter themed Jack Frost pack from American Crafts (used to cover all of the pieces from the original Little Village) that your options are virtually unlimited.

 

We create a three panel piece using select components from both kits, and an added ATC Art Square background piece covered with papers from the Holly Jolly pad from Pebbles. 

 

And don't forget to add die cuts! We used mirror image die cuts of the Winter Scene die from SavvyStamps to enhance this 3 panel project.

Hmmm, might have to add a few more panels to this one and put it on the mantle!!

RubberMoon and Little Village

We were pretty excited when Kae Pea, owner of RubberMoon stamps agreed to let us share some of her wonderful Little Village creations with us.

One of the reasons that we love RubberMoon stamps is that they can be combined to create the most wonderful visual stories. 

Beginning with a 4" white Art Square as her base and then using no less than 9 different RubberMoon stamps and 3 pieces from a Little Village kit she has created this adorable 'scape'. According to KP, the background was tinted using Pan Pastels, while the more vibrant colors were created using Acrylagouache. (I have just learned of this product from KP and am eager to give it a try) 

 

Using the same materials as above on an ATC size white Art Square (one of these comes in each Little Village kit) and 4 small pieces from Little Village kits, I would guess that she used 10 different RM stamps on this one!

Be sure and visit RubberMoon to see all of the wonderfully imaginative stamps that can be used with Little Village kits to tell your very own stories.   

Use Little Village pieces as sentiment banners

 

 

Whether you have a few extra pieces left over from your Little Village kit(s), or you have discovered that you can cut up the carrier sheet that comes in the package to trim more bits and pieces from our signature matboard, don't throw them away!!

They make the perfect little banners for sentiments. 

There always seems to be a holiday where we are running around looking for the perfect little gift box. So we keep a stash of shallow jewelry style boxes that have a top that measures 3-5/8" square. Of course this is the PERFECT size to cover and decorate with either 9 Inchie Squares, 4 - 1.5" Art Squares or 1 - 3" Art Square!    

(if you frequent the Inchie Arts FB page you may have seen the Washi tape box tops in February)

• Paint a white 3" Art Square with Bashful Blue and Wild Iris Twinkling H2O watercolor- dry completely.
• Stamp Impress Embroidered Snowflake with white gesso (be sure and wash stamp promptly with a toothbrush before gesso dries) - dry.
• Stamp select leftover pieces from your Little Village kit with appropriate sentiments
• Assemble, and overlap sentiment banners on the completed 3" Art Square.
• Glue 1 or 2 coordinating colors of trimmed cover weight paper to box top, then finished 3" Art Square on top of that 

Be sure and visit Ellen Hutson's inspiration and education blog, theCLASSROOM, every day this week as they join us in celebrating everything Inchie Arts - including 20% off all in-stock Inchie Arts merchandise at Ellen Hutson LLC.

And join us here for the next several days as we share even more Little Village creations! 

A Holiday Sparkle Little Village

 

Working with the Little Village kits can be overwhelming as there are SO MANY options in terms of how you can color and decorate them!

We laughed when asking Sharon if she was finished with her sample for today's post and she said, "Not yet, I can't decide how I want to color them!" But decide she did, and we think her sparkly Little Village is a perfect example of how you can color and decorate them for the holidays. 

Just as Dina did with her Spooky Village on Monday, Sharon has mixed the components of Little Village 2 with a super cute town silhouette die cut that she positioned in front of, and behind the Village pieces. And to add additional 3D dimension to her piece she actually used the dies to emboss extra details of doors and windows into the LV pieces!

By using a 4" white Art Square as her background she was able to accommodate a lot of pieces! And of course the color and sparkle comes from painting the background and pieces with Perfect Medium, Perfect Pearls and the addition of a bit of glitter tape. 

 Please visit Sharon's blog, PaperFections to learn all the specific details. And be sure and visit Ellen Hutson's inspiration and education blog, theCLASSROOM, every day this week as they join us in celebrating all things Inchie Arts - including 20% off all in stock Inchie Arts merchandise at Ellen Hutson LLC. 

Quick mini spatter tags with snips from ATC Art Squares

It's a wrapping frenzy here today and we are desperately in need of gift tags!

A quick and easy solution is to cut a white ATC Art Square into 3 vertical lengths. While the 4 ply width is too thick to cut all the way through with a paper trimmer you can use this tool to partially cut and then finish the cut with a craft knife.

 

Place the tags in a shallow box (to control the spatter mess) and flick away with a paint filled brush. We used Twinkling H20 Key Lime. Let dry completely before adding next color.

 

Repeat the process using red (or whatever color your heart desires!), this is Twinkling H20 Poppy Red. 

 

Stamp names with individual letter stamps or hand letter yourself. Punch the hole with a Cropadile and tie with ribbon.

merry merry!!

(PS - loving this festive paper from IKEA!)

 

 

 

The most gorgeous ornaments....from inchies!

Dina has truly outdone herself with these incredible ornaments...all made from Inchie Squares!!

Not only that, but she has created a very detailed step by step tutorial that you can view over at the Splitcoaststampers website.

WOW!!

Season's Giving Blog Hop - winner announcement!

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Inchie Arts prize package for the Season's Giving Blog Hop is:

Beverly Jordan

(Beverly, please email us at [email protected] with your address info, and again, congratulations!!)

And a special thanks to all our new readers who we would not have met without participating in this fabulous blog hop! We hope that you will continue to visit in the next year, to see the work of our wonderful design team and learn new ways to use Art Sqaures.

And be sure and like us on Facebook...we are almost to 1000 likes!!

Happy New Year!

 

We have a winner!

 

We had a blast during our Twelve Days of Trees event and want to thank you all for joining us!

And, to announce the winner of the Magnet Display Board and Tic Tac Toes 'inchies'...

Congratulations to Katie Bond!

(Katie, please send an email to [email protected] with your mailing information)

Happy Holidays everyone!  

 

 

Twelve Days of Trees - Day 12

 

We want to thank everyone who participated in our Twelve Days of Trees. This was a totally last minute idea - and we owe a big hug to all who took time out of their crazy holiday schedules to share their 'tree' inspirations!

We would like to end on a favorite project of ours - using Inchie Squares to create your own custom inchie 'tree' for a perfect (and quick) holiday greeting card.

 - use your favorite photos; from floral to family, pets or projects

- these cards have 6 squares, but you could use 7 and add a centered 'trunk' at the base

- trim photos to a precise 7/8" squares using a punch, paper trimmer or Sissix GridWorks die

- center on each Inchie Square leaving a perfect 1/16" border around the photo and glue down 

- we used black Inchie Squares, but you can use any of our 7 available colors to coordinate with your photos (white, ivory, dark cream, wheat, light gray, dark gray or black)

- you can even add a bit of holiday sparkle by coloring the edges with a Krylon Gold or Silver leaf pen

There is still time to enter to win the Tic Tac Toe magnetic display board from Day 4.

Just leave a comment here on our blog, or on our Facebook page, at any time during the Twelve Days of Trees. We will randomly select one winner from all the comments and will post their name on both the blog and FB on Tuesday December 23, 2014.  

"Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees." - Karle Wilson Baker