Rustic Holiday Inchies

To Celebrate Ellen Hutson's 5th Birthday, Sharon has posted a Back In Time Challenge at The CLASSRoom encouraging us to re-visit prior blog posts and choose an older project to inspire a new version.  I chose this All Mixed Up Inchie INKling project from July 2011.  Julia made this sweet little inchie card & shared how inchies can help unify a design.

I went with the same card design, but decided to make my elements 1 1/4" because I like the look of the frame around the inchie elements.  To unify my design, I used traditional red & green inks for my stamped images.  I also added a bit of sparkle pen to each inchie (in the picture you can see it on the candle flame and in the center of the stars on the top row) to help tie things together even more.

All inchie stamps are from Inkadinkado.  I stamped the center element twice and popped-up the inchie for a bit of dimension to this other-wise very mailable 5" square card (I trimmed the card base down from a pre-made 5"x6 1/2" card, so I even have an envelope that won't require additional postage for a square design).

The red base paper is a piece of Basic Grey Fruitcake (oh how I wish they still put coordinating solid colors on the back of each of their patterned sheets … those distressed solids are still some of my favorite go-to papers).  The inchies are punched from a piece of chipboard packaging I saved from a shirt (because those thicker pieces are just too good to throw away) … which is perfect for the Lost and Found Challenge at the Basic Grey Challenge Blog.

It is also inspired by the Christmas Tree Challenge at Our Creative Corner … now to go get these cards addressed, so they can go in the mail.