SNR Featured Artist Spot: INCHIES!

 

How could I have forgotten?!! A few months ago, I was asked to be a featured artist over at Scrapbook News and Review. I decided to write an article about the different ways you can use or display inchies. I sent it off a few weeks ago, and what, with all the loco that's been going on, I about forgot that my article was scheduled to run yesterday. So for your viewing pleasure, here are the photos of my inchie projects! For the full article and several mini-tutorials on these projects, visit the SNR Website.

Inchie Cubes: Dice or Ornaments

Tiny Books

Wire Stands

Garlands

Embellishments

Bracelets

Enjoy! Have a wonderful week! I'll be...packing....blergh....

Skeleton Bird Art Doll

 Can I call this a doll if it's not a person? Meh, I'll call it what I want. This is another project for the Dia de los Muertos Swap!

Check out his crazy skeleton! The body is sewn out of plain canvas using the wren pattern from "The Artful Bird" by Abigail Patner Glassenberg. Then I used a ton of black craft acrylic paint to kinda stiffen the body and wings up. Then white paint for the details.

  The crest is just a guineafowl feather dyed with alcohol inks. To attach it, I cut a little hole in the crown with an exacto, which wasn't too hard because the fabric was so stiff from all the paint. Before I stuck the feather in, I had to reinforce its shaft with a little rolled up aluminum from a popcan. After that, I just stuck the feather in the hole with a little glue.

The beak is polyclay... I figured it would give it a much more hard, skeletal attitude :)

I hope everyone is having a good holiday weekend! I'm buying blinds for my new house today... Then packing like CRAZY. I might not blog for a week or so. Moving kind of sucks, but I'm going to be SO GLAD when we're settled in.

Hand-carved Fish Stamps

Had a fish stamp request, and I needed a break from being a tiny leg factory, so VOILA! I made a set like this a while back, if it happens to look familiar to anyone.

The set also has bubbles... So, you know, the fish can breathe :) Happy Thursday... I get the keys to our new place tomorrow! SO excited!

Also: EIGHT Wicked Witch of the East Ruby Slippers Bookmarks will hit my Etsy Shop tomorrow (Friday May 27) at 5 PM Central Time. Price is $19 plus shipping.