My Artist Choice Project for October uses IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko's Kaleidacolor Dye Rainbow Inkpad and GooseBumps on Twinchies and Inchie+ Squares from Inchie Arts.

by Debbie Gaetz
Artist-in-Residence for IMAGINE Crafts

DIRECTIONS:

• Brayer the Kaleidacolor Dye Ink in Royal Satin onto two Twinchie Squares and one Inchie+ Square.

• Emboss the card panel with the embossing folder vertically and adhere to the base card.

• Line up the Twinchie Squares side-by-side on a worksheet with the brayered ink going side-to-side; adhere with removable tape on the back to keep them in place. Along the horizontal ink lines, stamp the image from the Stampendous Steampunk Charms stamp set with Memento Luxe in Wedding White; apply the white embossing powder and heat set.

• Stamp the Inchie+ Square with a blossom from the Magenta Carnation Border stamp in Memento Luxe in Dandelion and heat emboss with the Twinkle embossing powder.Fill in the outer blossom petals with the Stardust pen and the inner part of the blossom with the Glaze pen.

• Apply the peel-off design (Serenity) to the Inchie+ over the top of the stamped and embossed image.

• Using the dauber top bottle, blot GooseBumps with Shimmer onto the surface of all 3 inchie squares and allow to dry.

• Cut a piece of the Smugo silk paper in a rectangle 4.25” x 6.5” for the card top panel.

• Align the Twinchie Squares so the brayered colors and the white stamped design matches up vertically and the stamped horizontal design is placed vertically on the card panel and adhere.

• Place the Inchie+ Square on the top of the Twinchie Squares.

• Punch out 2 sets of corners with the paper punch and adhere to each corner of the card.

• Apply a tiny white pearl on each of the punch corners.

SUPPLIES USED:

• IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko Kaleidacolor Dye Ink in Royal Satin; Memento Luxe Mixed Media Pigment Ink in Wedding White and Dandelion; Embossing Powder in White and Sparkle; GooseBumps in Shimmer
• Magenta:  Stamp - Carnation Border (14.595.O); Peel-off sticker - Chinese Curios in White
• Stampendous:  Steampunk Charms SSC1179
• Speedball Ink Brayer
• Inchie Arts Inchie+ Squares and Twinchie Squares
• Sakura:  Gelly Roll Stardust Galaxy Pen in golden; Glaze Dimensional Glossy Ink Pen in yellow
• Couture Creations Embossing Folder:  Seedling Nouveau
• W R Memory Keepers Paper Punch:  Heritage Corner
• Hanko Designs’ Smugo Silk Paper in burgundy
• Fabriano Card Base (4.5” x 6.75”)
• Miscellaneous:  tiny adhesive-backed pearls in white