The Challenge

this week over at Art-it does a body good: And I quote here " Your assignment this week is to make a page using a minimum of 3 inchies. The inchies can be exactly alike, or all different. Additionally, I want you to use this quote for inspiration: "Enjoy the little things, for one day, you may look back and realize they were BIG." ~Robert Brault. It doesn't have to be written on your page, but it should be apparent by your page design or subject (don't get scared - remember, this is FUN)."

Humm, this is the first time I have heard of inchies, what can I say other than I suppose I live a somewhat hermit kind of life.

Okay then, so in honor of the first day of Autumn September 22, and because I liked a fall picture from a magazine, I used that for my overall page theme. I began with gessoed pages; smeared on a vibrant yellow, acrylic paint. Ya know I really like using my fingers for painting these days.

Next layer was finger smuchings of grape followed by iris purple acrylic paints. Then a smear of extremely light green (credit card tech). That dried for a few minutes then off some of it came with a baby wipe. After the page dried I lightly sanded, to end up with this.

So here are my inchies, magazine page cut into inchies. I adhered them with glue stick to my page. Lined around them with gold gel pen and purple gel pen.

I added some text on a bit of lined paper

then added my final inchie

And this is the final page. I quite like it and hope you do too.

Yes, yes I'll be around soon if not sooner.