Monday 26 October 2009

Please don't make me do it again........................

I truly admire anyone who can make inches.  I love gazing at those wonderful individual works of art.   But they give me so much angst.

I just can't make them.  I have big hands, fingers bent with arthritis - and inches are my worst nightmare.

I really like to support forum swaps - and try my best but............................

There is a swap on a forum I belong too, it was an open 'theme' and I sent in my nine Oriental inches - but didn't feel they were my best.  I tried my best - but they lacked something.

So I have spent all of this morning trying again!  (Click to enlarge if you dare!)

They do look better in real life - but as you can see, I can't even arrange them properly to photograph - they are just too small.


I have 'lost the plot' - Idon't even remember which way up some of them are meant to be!  They have a Cosmic shimmer sheen here and there which the photo doesn't show.


In the photo some don't even look square - but they are - they are just not lying flat!



I have made 54 I think, this morning, and I am going to send them all off in the vain hope that the host can find nine suitable.  I still have to write my name on the back of them.

Please, pretty please, don't take offence if I don't  join in any more inches swaps.  I feel about inches, the way most people feel about spiders, or daddy long legs, or snakes.  My grandson loves me to read him a book called 'Arghhh Spiders' - he and his mum are scared of them - I'm not though - but I think I might write a book called 'Arghhh Inches' - and he can have the same delight reading it to me in a scary voice - as I do reading to him!

13 comments:

Claireabelle said...

Oh Lottie, you do make me laugh!! I can totally sympathise with the whole inchies thing though.

I think your inchies are fantastic, I love the colours on them
xx

Shairon said...

Your inchies are great Lottie. Don't know why you find them scary. I've never tried them yet though, so may find a similar problem. 10/10 for perseverance which has paid off in spades!

Anonymous said...

well they look flipping good to me missus....but as you know,I dislike these too - they are the work of the devil,truly they are lol

Carol Q said...

these are gorgeous Lottie - you've obviously got the knack even though you hate them! I know just how you feel.

Sally H said...

They look great! I can sympathise though. I too find inchies very difficult - I tend to get them all at an angle. My most successful have been using Inkadinkado inchie stamps and cutting them out after I have stamped them!

Unknown said...

That's cheating Sally isn't it LOL!

Cath Wilson said...

They are gorgeous, Lottie. I'll let you into a not so secret secret - I HATE inchies, too! But I do admire anyone who can fiddle and faff enough to make a good job of them. They're supposed to be so intricate and my hands just don't do intricate - besides which, I wouldn't have a clue what to do with them after, he, he! Well done, you! You deserve a medal :)

Momiji said...

I actually like inchies! you know me..all things mini!

Lisa Fulmer said...

I think your inchies look fab!! I really love the contrast of the black ink on the bright backgrounds. One way I like to make inchies (that's much easier than starting with a tiny 1" foundation) is by creating a larger collage, painting or stamp art piece with smallish patterns. Then I crop and chop out one inch squares randomly. You get all kinds of interesting results that way. Thanks for visiting my blog and leaving such kind comments!!

Jennie -The Artistic Stamper said...

love the inchies, and have to say I haven't tried any so when I do will let you know!
xx

LazyKay said...

Yes Lottie, I'll buy your book - I just CAN NOT do inchies AT ALL.

Yours are great and after all those you must be inchied out!

xxxxxxxxxxx

Jo Capper-Sandon said...

lol Inchies, Twinchies and things that go bump in the night... a best seller if ever there was one.

These are fab Lottie. We'd have never guessed the angst it all caused.

Lorraine said...

I think you have done a good job with the inchies but agree with you that the size is really hard to work with. I am the same and find inchies too difficult as I can layer them too much which is what I love to do do