Now these beautiful inchies have stayed in a bag in my extension craft room since the event (really it is the utility but I have purloined a cupboard and had a free standing one built in to cope with my "overspill") but last night I decided they were too nice to be hidden away and it was time I did something with them.
Looking through my collection of "frames" (yes, I have quite a collection, you know how it is, you see one, decide you will do something with it, take it home - and it stays in a pile with the others you had forgotten about) I found three small photo frames from the Swedish company that we all tend to visit now and then. Perfect - or at least they almost were when I put my inchies on them. A few gaps didn't look quite right so I took my Walnut Ink Stain and covered the wood and left it to dry overnight.
This morning I stuck my inchies on and here are my picture frames.
I cannot remember who made all the various inchies, do know that Alex from Spain made the Steampunk one top left and his wife, Noella made the one in the opposite corner. His mother, Marta, made the fourth along from his and Irene, my friend, did the "face" one next to it. Val did the Celtic knot at the bottom and the one above it and the one below Noella's were made by Sue. Now how did I get two from Sue - Lauren, her daughter insisted Chas had one although he had none to swap himself - lucky me! The one with the circle on was made by Christine Dumont one of the tutors. After that I am stuck!
Yes, in places on the photos they look a bit wonky but I can assure you they are stuck on straight. Some are not quite 1" x 1" but you have to remember that some of the participants come from other countries and are not used to the "inch" as a measurement. We were not given any thickness to roll them out to so the depth does vary and this might add to the wonkiness you see. I can assure you though, they do not look wonky when you see them stood up in real life. Anyway, it shows they are hand and not machine made.
OK so there are only two frames, didn't have enough for the three frames but that gives me scope to make one myself as I do other things in Polymer clay. Now to find some suitable photographs and somewhere to display them. Perhaps you could do something like this - even if you don't use clay you could do them with techniques in rubber stamping.
