On Helga Strauss' blog, the challenge this week was to get inspired by creating inchies, 5 inchies, either one a day or all at once. I picked the "all at once" option, and here are my efforts.

It had been a while since i had created any "inchies" (1" x 1" collages) and i had truly forgotten just how small they were! So, i decided to start making them more or less together, cutting them apart at the end for any final embellishing. I took my 1" square pieces of scrapbook paper and glued them to a piece of watercolor paper.

next, i drew around the edges of the squares with a watercolor crayon. Yes, i use these all the time!

I used a wet brush on the crayon to activate it

adding rubber stamping (CatsLife Press) with StazOn ink

added more crayon to the paper squares (yellow)

and then cut the inchies apart. A little more stamping and words from ARTchix Studio.com and I was done.

Thanks, Helga!! Another great challenge! ~lenna young andrews - February 1, 2010