twinchie transfers

Lisa Lee over at Inchie Arts asked me if this technique would work on twinchies

(that got me playing some more ;-)

The Inchie Arts Inchie and Twinchie Squares 

are made from a high quality matte board

... they worked quite nicely in fact!

Thank you Lisa!

Here you can see that I've adhered my Twinchie Squares (dark cream) 

directly onto the images

I used Mod Podge - which is a decoupage medium

If you cannot obtain this, I would suggest Golden Acrylic Medium or white glue

Here they are individually cut out and fully dried

I allow at least half a day drying time

Next I simply wet the paper and gently rub it away leaving the ink jet image

(my original post about this process is HERE)

... and here they are all finished ...

The nice thing about using the Inchie Arts products for this project

was the sturdiness of the material

You definitely want to use something that will stand up to the abuse

(glue, water, rubbing, etc.)

this one is my fav

(these are all pictures of my dear old Dad)

Butterfly Twinchie

Butterfly Twinchie

(This week's SCD Challenge)

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here's the how-to:

1) Starting with an Inchie Arts Black Twinchie Square, either draw your image with a "Glaze" gel pen (made by Sakura), or stamp and emboss your image using clear embossing powder. I drew my own butterfly because I didn't have a stamp that would work for this.

2) Fill in your basic colors with oil pastel

3) Lightly buff the oil pastels off with a clean soft rag

4) Apply your background color and more color details in your image

5) Lightly buff again - repeat these steps as often as you'd like. Oil pastels have a lovely way of building up with layer upon layer of color.

I have always wanted to try oil pastels on a black background.  The color has a completely different depth to it than it would on white. The Inchie Arts high quality matte board bases are perfect for using oil pastels. The color applied evenly and I was able to layer and blend the colors without degrading the paper. The oil pastels have also sunk into the material and will not smudge off any more after the final buffing with the rag. There will be no need to add a fixative. Amazing.

wishing you ...

a daffy dipsy daffodil sort of day

and a happy daylight savings time :)

spring blooms

("Hellebore" is also known as the Lenten Rose)

Here are 2 more of my flower twinchies.

(I'm creating a flower alphabet of the flowers growing in my garden)

Right now, the hellebores are blooming profusely ...

and the crocuses are carpeting lawns and flowerbeds all over town.

I just love this size!

- 2 inches square -

a "twinchie"

I'm using the white Twinchie Square bases from Inchie Arts.

The thickness and size of the thing just begs to be picked up and held in your hand

that's my kind of art format :)

Inchy By Inch Challenge

Having all this fun stuff to play with from Inchie Arts has got me jumping in on the Inchy By Inch Monday challenges. They're going through the alphabet and are on the letter "F" now ... I think I have some catching up to do! For this project I used the white Twinchie Squares (shown here .....)

I think I'll go through the alphabet using flowers from my garden.

I have beautiful baskets of fuchsias on my porch in the summertime.

Using a photograph from last summer, I first sketched my drawing in pencil and then went over it in ink and next colored it in with watercolors.

The Inchie Arts material took erasing of the pencil marks without the surface getting roughed up -

and I'm very happy with how well the watercolor took to the surface as well.

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But did you know how to spell F U C H S I A?

I didn't! and had to put in an "oops!" and spell it correctly ...

I can't stand to leave something misspelled!

You'd think it would go by typical spelling rules - is there such a thing? - and be spelled 

F U S C H I A

 .... but it's named after a 16th c. German botanist by the name of Leonhart Fuchs .... so it's 

F U C H S I A

 .... oops!

my favorite dish

... is my grandmother's candy dish.

She used to always have a supply of those strawberry hard candies with gooey filling.

Yum.

Now it keeps small 2 inch pieces of art (twinchies) that I've swapped with friends ...

less fattening :)

"Tooting My Own Horn"

2 of my cards have been published in this magazine:

here's 2 page spread:

Kris Dickinson (her blog is Nostalgic Collage) organized it. She sent around the rubber stamp (of the cat in a party hat) and we all took turns with creating 2 cards for submission in this ongoing feature of Stamper's Sampler: "Different Points of View." The idea is to showcase how many different ways one stamp can be used.

I made this twinchie:

and this atc:

Thank you Kris! I have to toot your horn too, because it was a patient task to organize our group and submit our work. To give you an idea of the patience involved, I made my cards last June. June of 2008 that is!

Mermaid Twinchie

Art Creations Friday has offered up this image to work with today. I thought the lower half of her body looked like a mermaid's (if you squint, maybe you can see it the way I did) ...

..... So I made her into a mermaid twinchie (2X2")....

Spring Color

"twinchie" (top) and 3X4 (bottom)

MMM "Spring Colours" challenge:

These are actual photographs (on photographic paper - not in my photoshop files) that I played with. For both of them, I heavily sanded the edges, gradually lightening up on the pressure as I worked my way to a focal point. Then I applied a beeswax treatment. For the top one I applied beeswax flakes and then heated it up in the toaster oven. I ended up with only a small part of the photograph that was recognizable - the part with the least amount of sanding. The second one I dipped in hot beeswax, which did less to damage the photograph but in some ways is not as interesting. The toaster oven method did emit some interesting smells - probably not that good for my brain - so next time I do it that way, I think I'll move the operation outside.

These are photographs from our yearly tulip festival in Skagit County, Washington. It happens every April and truly is a sight to behold.