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

thanks, both -- i will go play

 

Oh how fun! I shall try and play along.

 

I thought this might be fun but in fact I found it rather stressful to fill out all 100 squares Perhaps because I really wanted everything to match and look perfect. (Hint to any art journaler newbies - Never, ever try to be perfect - just create )

 

I'm all done! I'm sticking with my seasons theme. 25 of each!

 

In my case instead of ending merging everything and having 1 layer to use from the template, I simplify the template with as many layers as colors or tones. In this case my template would simplify to 5 layers, 4 grey layers and the white one.

 

I did something similar:

• I merged all the squares into one layer.
• Then I used the Magic Wand (W) with contiguous unchecked to select all the same colour squares.
• I didn't actually clip my background to them just used Ctrl-J to duplicate my selection from the paper. That way it was easy to change my mind if I needed to later. (Much more difficult to select patterned squares than the plain grey from the template)

 

It was huge! Here is mine... I am exhausted.. took me all day! Since 9:30am .. it is now 6:14pm and I did take a few breaks for lunch and dinner (and potty breaks).

I did the whole thing on seperate layers..I started with the bg and then did all the squares with the paper and the stitched borders then I went on to filling the spaces. In order to save in between I made a duplicate of the working psd and resized the duplicate after changing size from 300 to 72 dpis.. then I would go back to working on the original... at the end I merged all and saved and then resized using the action save for web.


Complete Credits:

Inchie Template:
Scrapping with Liz Skinnys Starter2 Template

Background:
Lynn Grieveson - Walden-1 & 20
Little Butterfly Wings- M3 Oct16 ADDON pp5

Each square same background paper & stitched border:
Little Butterfly Wings- M3 Oct16 ADDON Stitched 4
Little Butterfly Wings- M3 Oct16 ADDON pp4

Elements/word art from the following:
Etc. by Danyale: SS Beach | Pandemonium | Morning Coffee | Just my Type - collab | NB Mousseron
Lynn Grieveson : Walden
Dawn Inskip: ArtSmart Inchies | ArtSmart - elements | Secrets | Sweethearts | Coffee Break | Core Essentials
Little Butterfly Wings: Crazy Unicorn Lady | M3 Oct16 ADDON
Kim Jensen: Garden Pop - Newspaper Alpha
Pink Reptile Designs: Puppy Love | XOXO | For You Mom | House Blend Collab | Happy Days
Mommyish: NY State of Mind Collab | Secret Ingredient Collab | XsandOs Collab with Sabrina Creations
Kate Hadfield Designs: Coffee and Cupcakes | Wizardry | Tea Party | Star Spangled | Stars and Stripes Alpha | Christmas Blog Brad Freebie | Chef's Kitchen | Baked with Love | Hippity Hoppity

 

it came out beautiful Jeanet.. I agree I am stressed.. I am a matching perfectionist too and so that is why I found it stressful. I like the way it came out and I love yours too!!

 

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Inchie template: Scrapping with Liz (provided for challenge)
Supplies: Amy Wolff - Megasolids v. 5; Pop of color kit
Little Butterfly Wings - Travel Edition bundle; Color outside the Lines bundle; Bookholic flairs

 

LOVE the inchies idea and the pages I've seen in the gallery so far are amazing!!! Not sure I have the patience to make one of these.

 

This was fun! It did take a while to do, but it wasn't as long as I thought it would be!

 

@cfile , these are so you with all the harry potter in it.

 

Whew! What a marathon.

 

These are SOOOO fun! I have never done digi inchies, though I do them in my physical journal! Thanks Anne for the inspiration, now I gotta play!

 

I haven't been able to play because I've been so, so frustrated. for way too many hours today & yesterday I have been fighting with background papers. (which is probably why I had a dream that THEY were fighting eachother.) I've tried to use the png's but I can't get my papers to clip to them. I've tried 'eyeballing' and cropping that way. no, doesn't work. I've put the png inchies on top of the piece of paper and cropped under. still didn't work. I even got rid the the first ones I was working on and started over. Why, Why did I do that?! I've tried using the tiff as a mask. I've tried making frames and filling them. ACK!! I really want to get to the fun part! I don't even know how to proceed. Is anyone doing CA2? I did inverse, I don't have a magic lasso. eep. really, really frustrated.
/rant over. sorry.

OH Btw - Fabulous Inchies everyone! I love them all.

 

If we follow the rule of 2 items per inchie, can some of our items "flow" onto another inchie? Or is the idea to create each inchie as its own separate layout?

 

These all so inspiring... but I can see for me it would be very time consuming..... but you never know I might make time and have a play....