CLOSED-Inchies! You gotta try them! Ends March 1st

Right. Opening up the template now. I can't wait to play with this. I wonder how long it will take? LOL

 

OK, I had to order pizza for supper, but it's one! I ended up with 381 layers. AND, all the credits are there! Gotta Love Storyteller!
Oh Anne, you are so evil!! lolol

 

Oh my I don't know that my eyesight is up for this. I remember when inches were going round in the 'real' world and some friends were doing all the cutting etc By HAND! yes @Electra ,

 

Oh how incredibly fun! I will definitely be playing along. The thought of the credits would be the only thing to scare me off. I also have had this idea on my to-do list for my regular art journal for about a year too. Maybe I'll go hybrid!

 

Not sure if they would be called inchies, but when DH turned 63, I did a layout for him, included 70 circles (7 across, 10 down), seven were pics, and wrote up 63 reasons (one in each circle) of why I loved him. Some were simple backgrounds, but on others, I added in some elements. He got a bit teary-eyed. But the one he glommed onto was "You can be nice." Truthful. Then when he turned 65, I made one with square inchies, 7 across, 9 rows with 7, 1 row with 3, resulted in 66 photos of him, one baby pic & then one from every year of his life. Just gathering the photos was a nightmare, but I think he enjoyed the fuss.

Moving on to Anne's inchies. I managed to do 10 last night, worked on another 10 this morning. At this rate, I should be done the morning of March 1.

 

Kristina, don't give my secrets away, I was planning to squeeze in Dawn's inchies in mine. LOL!!!

 

I thought of this, these must be YUGE files!

& @AnneofAlamo is there a transcript of the chat? maybe some hints in there?

 

I just had to share this. I just woke up from the strangest dream! My inchies had picked sides and started a war against each other and the winning side got to choose the theme of all the inchies! Uh...okaaay...I wasn't really involved - other than the as artist. I could also eavesdrop on either side's strategy. They could be ruthless.
No idea where this came from, and IRL I've only done 4 inchies. This was way more than that.
OK, going back to sleep now.

 

I'm innocent UNTIL proven guilty! LOL!!!

btw. In templates like this one, instead of merging the entire thing, I like to merge the pieces that are the same color. If it looks aesthetically pleasing to your eyes now, if you merge the papers with the same color (or hue in this case) then you can clip all those to the same paper after they are merged and they will look great!

 

Um, I may have questions about this once I try it.

 

wait ... so you basically eliminated the "template" part of the template? no more clipping masks?

 

this is just ... fabulous.

 

so, on the inchies layer, each inchie could still accept a clipping mask? or not?