Lost Art Creations

Every Inchie Monday ~ Home

This weeks prompt is 'Home'.  To me a house is just a building, but when there is love, that's a home.  I have been blessed with a close and loving family and husband.  I remember growing up listening to my friends trash their parents & siblings, saying how much they hated them.  I never felt that way about my parents or my brother.  Don't get me wrong - we did have arguments - some pretty bad - but I never felt that teenage angst that so many of my friends did.  So to me home & love are synonymous.

Every Inchie Monday ~ Solitude

I almost forgot to post my Inchie.

The prompt today is 'Solitude'.  For some reason I associate solitude with strength.

Every Inchie Monday ~ Fancy

This week's prompt is Fancy.  Hmmm..... had to really think about this one.  Fancy what?  What fancy?  I ended up with fancy Bling.  LOTS of teeny, tiny rhinestones.  I actually used bits and pieces of a rhinestone flourish sticker - you know - the huge ones that give 12" scrapbook pages instant elegance.  I just cut off the tiny parts I wanted to use from the huge sticker.  Added one of my favorite pics of Louise Brooks to a premade base.  Done!

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Every Inchie Monday ~ Pink

This weeks prompt, 'Pink' was a no brainer for me.  My Mom just finished going through (successfully by the way!) Chemo & Radiation treatments.  Now she and my Dad are headed off on a Caribbean cruise to celebrate!

Every Inchie Monday ~ Heart

This weeks prompt is 'Heart'.  I happened to have this ribbon slide on my work table - how fortuitous!  I stamped and embossed the background, slid a piece of silk ribbon through the slide and attached it.  Probably the quickest Inchie yet for me.  Usually I hem & haw over the tiny details trying to get it just right - not this time.

Every Inchie Monday ~ Joy

Better late than never!  I have been helping out a friend and the store owner of Beautiful Impressions, covering her store while she took a much needed vacation with her son last week and part of this week.  I have been too exhausted to even plop myself in front of the computer for even a few minutes.

I did finally manage to get my Inchie done though - VBG!

I am a nester by nature so my home (my nest) gives me great joy.  From cooking to gardening to creating in the studio, as much as I love to travel, I am happiest at home surrounded by family & friends.

This weeks inchie is simply done.  I painted the background with Twinkling H2O's, stamped and embossed the image, then painted the eggs with the H2O's.  I framed the image with tiny rhinestone blue hearts and golden crystals.  Gotta have the Bling!

Every Inchie Monday ~ Friends

For my Inchie I decided to honor Abby, my 20 year old cat.  She is partly feral having been abandoned in Navy Housing as a kitten and lived the first 9 months of her life surviving outdoors.  She has never been a lap cat, content to sit beside you, not on you, and if you try to put her on your lap she just hisses at you and runs away.  She has gotten more affectionate in her old age.  If I don't pet her in the morning and scratch under her chin and behind her ears she will start knocking books off my nightstand until I do - LOL!  Then she snuggles in for a nap.

I made my inchie using a scrap of cardstock I made a while back using the polished stone technique, except I threw Glimmer Mists on it too for a bit of glitz.  The heart is shrink plastic.  I just used a heart punch and shrunk it - boy was that interesting!  Tiny hearts flying everywhere!  I still haven't located all of them - LOL!  The image is from my vast collection of vintage postcards.

Sing Inchie

Better late than never.  This week just seemed to get away from me for some reason.  I found this adorable image from Artchix in my stash.  I just had to resize it for the inchie.  With the prompt being 'Sing' I immediately had (and still have!)one of the songs Julie Andrews sings in The Sound Of Music floating around in my brain.  I call it the Doe, Ray, Me Song but I know that's not the real name.

Every Inchie Monday ~ Winged

A Springtime Fairy Queen

It's cold again here in SE Connecticut - yuck!  I REALLY want Spring!  My mini Iris and Crocus are blooming - so pretty.  My daffs are about 8" tall and some look ready to bloom any day.  The Spring Fairies are at work even though it's only in the 30's.

I used a premade background I made ages ago from vintage papers, stamped images and paint.  I didn't have any copper wings so I painted a silver one.  Her crown is a tiny tulip that is a vintage foil (really heavy foil - not flimsy) bit that is silver on one side and copper on the other.  I love these things!  They add the perfect touch and sized just right for Inchies.  I sell them on my Etsy Shop if you like to own some.  They come in an assortment of shapes.

Every Inchie Monday ~ Rhythm

This weeks prompt was a no brainer for me.  Sinus Rhythm.  That is when your heart is beating the way it should.  A week ago there was a little, tiny blip on the straight part of my EKG which indicted a problem.  Almost a week and 4 stents later my EKG is normal. 

I just started doing Zentangles at the end of my trip to San Francisco when I had to take it easy.  But I'm not the kind of person that can sit and do nothing so I started Zentangling.  And I continued with it throughout my hospital stay.  One of the Cardiologists was especially facinated with it, primarily the meditative benefits, and asked all kinds of questions about the process.  Who knows?  Maybe it's something he will suggest to his patients as a form of treatment.