What better way to keep track of inchies than a notebook! Ellen Hutson is releasing an ABC of Inchies on her blog, and for B I wanted to show you this binder decorated - Ellen is up to B today, and today, B is for Binder! :)
The photo you are looking at here is a close up of the cute inchie on the binder spine.
This binder is available from Ellen's store in her new Inchies section, along with other items to make creating Inchies easy and fun! Ellen also has in matboard, cut into 1" squares, in two colors - white and black. The matboard cut for these inchie segments uses a high-end product (Alpharag Artcare 100% cotton museum quality archival 4 ply is what is used) - all cut to 1" squares for you! These matboard squares make it very easy to create your inchies - a quality base to start layering or directly stamp onto.
Inside the notebook is a sheet of plastic holders....you guessed it! ...all sized perfectly for Inchies!! (Karen Lockhart's Inchie collection in binder.)
For more info on Inchies you can click on Ellen's blog link (there's a nice Q & A format), or go here to Inchie Arts.
For the binder - it is sturdy corrugated cardboard, and the neat aspect of this notebook is the three-ring part inside can be removed - you can alter this notebook 100 percent!
I chose a few new papers from 7gypsies Nottinghill collection, along with a 7g knob and elastic. Adhered papers with a thin layer of ModPodge. Here's how I did the knob:
1. Decorate the cover of your binder. Then punch 1/8" or thereabouts hole with an anywhere hole punch in the desired location. I used a Big Bite here from HSN. (YouTube video on the Big Bite here). warning - the video made me buy it. :)
2. Mount the knob to the binder - it just screws into place nice & easy. Hold the elastic around the knob and see where the ends hit the back of the binder. Mark back of binder with a pencil and punch same hole size in back binder cover.
3. Slip elastic through hole - binder back cover will look like this from the inside.
4. Binder back cover will look like this from the outside. Neato!
Now for the spine, I took a liking to the black matboard 1" squares and stamped 'inchies' with alphabet stamps (Missing Link) in white pigment ink. At the top of the title, I adhered an actual inchie - one of my favorites I've made and the only one too...because I used a page from a well-loved dictionary from my Dad's school days...scans just don't look or feel the same as real dictionary pages...lol...
For the inchie inchworm on the binder spine (please see photo at top of this post), I adhered an actual piece of an old dictionary
page, sponged edges with Distress ink in Vintage Photo and Antique Linen, and stamped the inchworm with black ink (Palette Noir). Colored in with Copic markers and signed. Please sign your inchies - it adds to the collectability when you trade!!
So have you made an inchie yet? Or two? Can I lookie see? :) :) :) They are fun, fun, fun, and....addictive!!!
Thank you for stopping by!!
The photo you are looking at here is a close up of the cute inchie on the binder spine.
This binder is available from Ellen's store in her new Inchies section, along with other items to make creating Inchies easy and fun! Ellen also has in matboard, cut into 1" squares, in two colors - white and black. The matboard cut for these inchie segments uses a high-end product (Alpharag Artcare 100% cotton museum quality archival 4 ply is what is used) - all cut to 1" squares for you! These matboard squares make it very easy to create your inchies - a quality base to start layering or directly stamp onto.
Inside the notebook is a sheet of plastic holders....you guessed it! ...all sized perfectly for Inchies!! (Karen Lockhart's Inchie collection in binder.)
For more info on Inchies you can click on Ellen's blog link (there's a nice Q & A format), or go here to Inchie Arts.
For the binder - it is sturdy corrugated cardboard, and the neat aspect of this notebook is the three-ring part inside can be removed - you can alter this notebook 100 percent!
I chose a few new papers from 7gypsies Nottinghill collection, along with a 7g knob and elastic. Adhered papers with a thin layer of ModPodge. Here's how I did the knob:
1. Decorate the cover of your binder. Then punch 1/8" or thereabouts hole with an anywhere hole punch in the desired location. I used a Big Bite here from HSN. (YouTube video on the Big Bite here). warning - the video made me buy it. :)
2. Mount the knob to the binder - it just screws into place nice & easy. Hold the elastic around the knob and see where the ends hit the back of the binder. Mark back of binder with a pencil and punch same hole size in back binder cover.
3. Slip elastic through hole - binder back cover will look like this from the inside.
4. Binder back cover will look like this from the outside. Neato!
Now for the spine, I took a liking to the black matboard 1" squares and stamped 'inchies' with alphabet stamps (Missing Link) in white pigment ink. At the top of the title, I adhered an actual inchie - one of my favorites I've made and the only one too...because I used a page from a well-loved dictionary from my Dad's school days...scans just don't look or feel the same as real dictionary pages...lol...
For the inchie inchworm on the binder spine (please see photo at top of this post), I adhered an actual piece of an old dictionary
page, sponged edges with Distress ink in Vintage Photo and Antique Linen, and stamped the inchworm with black ink (Palette Noir). Colored in with Copic markers and signed. Please sign your inchies - it adds to the collectability when you trade!! So have you made an inchie yet? Or two? Can I lookie see? :) :) :) They are fun, fun, fun, and....addictive!!!
Thank you for stopping by!!
