inchies - as magnets

You've seen these inchies solo in this post back in November. I've adapted them for a practical purpose - magnets - the card can be sent, and the receiver can remove the inchies for their own use! For this card, I used a Memory Box card front, and adhered a piece of decorative script paper, edges distressed, inked with a Distress pad, and an eyelet. Don't throw away your boxes! I found this tiny corrugated cardboard by peeling apart the layers of a little box that was shipped to me. What a wonderful texture! I tore the edges, and inked the edges and surface with a Distress pad and adhered over the script paper.

I mounted the inchies onto chipboard, then adhered a ProMAG magnet to each back. ProMAG makes a magnet that is intensely strong, and is sold in packs of 4 at Michaels Craft Stores and other craft/hobby stores. They are about 1/4" thick. On the corrugated cardboard I adhered smaller magnets (Basic Grey) to keep the height of the inchies projecting away from the card down.

I would ship a card like this in an envelope, then place the card/envelope unit inside a bubble wrap shipping envelope. Thank you for stopping by!

Pear image - Lockhart Stamp Company, French script - A Country Welcome; Memory Box card/envelope in Moss; patterned script paper - 7gypsies 6x6 classic paperie pad, found corrugated cardboard; Distress pad in Antique Linen - Ranger; ProMAG magnets; Basic Grey magnetic snaps.

Inchies

Inchie (/'inch-ē): a 1" x 1" square piece of medium (e.g. cardstock, chipboard, fabric, and so forth) embellished as desired; typically used to convey a concept, idea, feeling or sentiment. Working at a small scale is both challenging and fun. At first I figured Inchies would be pretty much restrictive. I mean, ONE INCH square??? How can I work with a canvas THAT small?? Well I gotta tell you - these are addictive and downright fun. I had a blast going through embellishments and gathering product that I could use on these tiny art forms. And I was shocked at how many embellishments and product one can use on a little 1" x 1" square of cardstock. 6x6 or 8x8 pads of designer paper are perfect for Inchies - because the scale of the 12x12 paper has been scaled down. Artist should initial somewhere on the front of your Inchie; use them in groupings, solo (mount on chipboard & hot glue a tack on the back), create into magnets, or frame them as I did here with other elements. I heard about Inchies from Ellen Hutson - here is her post for more information about these one-inch-wonders. Ellen is giving away a limited number of free Inchie art pieces by Karen Lockhart with purchase - please see her site for details. Plus, Lockhart Stamp Company just released new images..... Any notes from this point on are details/product list on what I used on these - thank you for stopping by! Inchie photo top, L-R: All cardstock used from PaperTrey Ink (PTI); pear image is from Lockhart. top left Inchie: 'P' is from PTI; stamped in Adirondack Espresso, outlined in Micron brown .5mm pen; colored with Copic markers; DPT (direct to paper technique) used with Distress Peeled Paint. bottom left Inchie: 7gypsies Requiem Quad paper; Ranger Crackle Paint in Peeled Paint; small French script - A Country Welcome (www.addictedtorubberstamps.com); stamped with Archival Coffee pad & DTP with Distress Vintage Photo. top right Inchie: Ranger Crackle Paint in Shabby Shutters; Distress Peeled Paint & Antique Linen; vintage gold brad (Stampin Up); Copic markers. bottom right Inchie: Archival Coffee pad; Distress Peeled Paint; Copic markers. Framed Inchies: Pear image - Lockhart; small French script - A Country Welcome (www.addictedtorubberstamps.com); black cardstock - Stampin up; cardstock squares - Papertrey Ink; small jewelry tag - www.staples.com; red script paper - 7gypsies 6x6 classic paper pad; 1/8" May Arts stitched olive ribbon; celery bauble; lower case 'p': 7gypsies Sketchie rub ons; miniature key: 7gypsies; all tags were aged DPT with Distress Vintage Photo and/or Antique Linen pads.