Valentine's Day Cards - New!

Here are three brand new listings on ArtFire.  Valentine's Day is right around the corner, but there's still time to order a special, one-of-a-kind card for your sweetie!

All three of these cards were inspired by the January Challenge for the Card Markers Guild on ArtFire.  We were challenged to create a card using "Inchies".  (I blogged about my excited discovery of Inchies a few months ago:  Another Discovery! )  I decided to take off and run with the idea and ended up making three Valentine's themed cards, featuring little inch-square tiles.

On ArtFire: Checkerboard Card 

On ArtFire: True Love Card

On ArtFire: Hearts and a Kiss Card

They were fun to make and I would love to create even more Inchie cards after this!  They are a lot of fun to create, but I wasn't entrirely sure what I would do with them.  Oddly enough I hadn't considered using them on cards!  The growth of ideas like that are why I really enjoy the monthly Challenges on the Card Markers Guild.   

Another Discovery!

Shortly after learning about ATCs (Artist Trading Cards), I started seeing references to "Inchies".  Curiosity finally got the better of me and I decided to find out what they were...

Quite simply, Inchies are even smaller works of art than ATC, being - you guessed it - one inch in size.  After reading about them I was super excited to try my hand at an EVEN smaller scale than the ATCs. 

So, without further ado, I present my first four Inchies!:



They were fun to make and I'm looking forward to cranking out many more of these little things. 

I also made about 15 ATC blanks, all set up to decorate.

The ongoing Studio overhaul is going well, today I spent several hours getting things set up and moved around - it's really coming together!