Alison Manning: Inchie Master Board Technique

Sharon did an awesome Master Board Tutorial in May. I decided to follow up with a slight twist on this technique that I've called Inchie Collage. It can be used to create small pieces of art, such as inchies, twinchies or even ATCs. Each inchie is created from a master board, but there's plenty of scope to decorate each one individually to make unique pieces of art.

Here's the card I made using this technique:

Let's get started. Using black ink, stamp a few large images
in varying directions onto a 8 1/2" x 11" piece of vanilla c/stock.

Fill in all areas with medium and small stamps - do not leave any gaps.
This is going to allow lots of detail on the inchies.

Sponge stripes of ink onto the master board.

Cut the master board into 1 1/4" strips.

Create pleasing compositions using the 1" square punch as a guide
and create as many inchies from each strip of master board as you can.

Lay out your master board inchies onto a piece of white c/stock.
They are ready to use in your projects.

You can decorate each one individually or use them in grouping as I did on my card above and this little accordion folded book.


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Stamp credits: Non Sequitur and Cornish Heritage Farms.