What else is there to do with old advent calendars and holiday cards but make inchies?
I'm not suggesting you mutilate the paper wishes of your loved ones, but for the promotional and business type holiday stuff...snip, snip, snip.
I'd also like to bring up the idea of random cutting.
Now that I have a perfect one inch punch, I really put a lot of thought into where I depress the tool on a printed design. There's a lot of control and exact-ness to be had. But my inchie style has changed because of this.
These inchies were cut the old fashioned way. First in long one-inch strips and then made into one-inch squares. One after another, cut-cut-cut, maximizing the number of inchies I could get from one card. They were measured out on the non-printed side, making the end result completely random. I ended up with so many inchies that were mysterious and more fun than if I would have painstakingly "decided" where to punch each square.
Besides, this is just "square one" anyway! It's only the background, base layer. Turn it into anything or any theme you want.
If you end up with ones you don't like, then pitch 'em. "Regular" folks would've chucked them in the bin to begin with!!
What a great idea. Inchies look lovely when they are placed on a canvas or block of wood.
Julie
Posted by: Julie Stenning | December 26, 2008 at 08:54 PM