Hello fellow crafters - today's post discusses Inchie tiles and making them glossy!
I try my best to make sympathy cards ahead of time to have on hand. This post shows how to make three, and very quickly.
To start, I created three, square, Robin's Egg (all solid cardstock is Memory Box) card bases - each card measures 4-3/4" square. Then adhered patterned paper of choice and ribbon.
Next, piercing. Ellen carries a wide variety of decorative piercing templates (look under 'Tools') and I picked this one. Using her foam pad (it's super thick and great to use) and amazingly sharp piercing tool I followed the pattern on the template.
This is what the card front looks like when the piercing is done. You might be tempted to not finish the design, knowing part of it will be covered by a design element on the card front, but remember this piercing will be visible on the card inside, so go ahead and finish the piercing design.
To create the Inchie tiles, I used Lockhart Stamp Company's Tulips, inked with Palette Noir ink. Working with the inked rubber facing up, I pushed an Inchie Square into the portion of the Tulips I wanted. Remove stamped Inchie Square carefully using tweezers or lift stamp and turn over, allowing gravity to remove the Inchie Square.
The thickness of the Inchie Squares, from Inchie Arts, provides a quality embellishment, perfect for this card. These thick squares are made with the highest grade of Alphamat Artcare museum quality preservation matboard.
Next, I colored in Inchie Square tiles using markers.
To make the Inchie Square tiles shiny, I pressed each colored Inchie tile into an embossing ink pad then dipped into a wide-mouthed container of clear embossing powder.
Heat set - nice & shiny!
Matted as a diamond onto a square of Vanilla Bean cardstock for the card front.
Three cards quickly made. Also, a photo of the a card interior (verses & hero arts stamps), with a strip of decorative paper added to tie in the card front. Thank you for stopping by today!!
supplies: Lockhart Stamp Company Tulips; Palette Noir pad; Robin's Egg & Vanilla Bean Memory Box cardstock, Webster's Pages Full Bloom; Copic Markers; Ornare Piercing Pad (large, thick and quite nice), piercing tool, Ornare Border Stencil; satin eggshell ribbon, White Inchie Squares.