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This month it was Von who chose the theme for our Challenge and as you can see from the heading, from Von's and Sam's postings and from the Challenge site it is "Birds".
I have some quite nice "inchie" stamps of birds so I decided to use them as I do enjoy making inchies but rarely get asked to do them in a swap of any kind. When I am making mine I always use mountboard as I think it is much more substantial than ordinary cardstock for such a picture. Here are my Bird inchies - on a tag for this week's Challenge:
You will never guess what I used for the background on the actual inchies - DI's - yes, my usual Distress Inks - I must start to use something else. I am getting boring! The images were stamped with Archival Black Ink and the tag was sprayed with Crafty Notions Turquoise and then oversprayed with Champagne. I really do like these sprays as they seem to work better than any others on the market. Such a shame that you cannot see the glimmer from the photograph.
As well as doing these inchies I did some, identical, but in Polymer Clay. Yes, if you use a light colour (I used white) you can colour in just as on cardstock with your Distress Inks and then stamp your image with the Archival Ink - bake them in the oven and they come out just fine. I'm not showing them to you as I haven't done anything with them yet, I need to do some more and then I will decorate a photo frame with them like I did before here. (Although the inchies were a lot more complicated that I used previously as they were a collection from my Polymer Friends)
Right, as usual I have chatted far too long, hope you enjoy all the 'birdie' things the Artful Times team have done and we all look forward to seeing what you make for us to look at and comment on. Remember, we like comments too.
