Leila Bidler from Polymer Clay Italia hosted an international inchies swap and these are the inchies I sent in to trade. Queen of Hearts, lots of them.
It was a Valentine’s Day Swap and we had to make our inchies with a Valentine flair. So these crazy Queen of Hearts were my contribution.
Leila said that my return set of 20 inchies have been mailed, so I’m waiting as calmly as I can. It took almost a month for my queens to reach Leleila, in fact I was getting worried that they had decided to tour the world on their way to Italy. I hope it doesn’t take that long for her package to reach me.
For those of you who haven’t ever heard of inchies, it’s like ATCs (artist trading card) business size cards that are traded between artists and rarely ever sold. Inchies are the clay and mosaic artists version, altho there have been many ACT made from clay.
Inchies are 1″ x 1″ little works of art. I sent in 20 inchies and I will get 20 different one back from artists around the world. A swap takes a willing hostess to have everything shipped to them and then they have to sort and sent all the packages back out again. It takes a lot of work and I send my thanks to Leleila for giving me the opportunity to be in touch with so many others that love polymer clay.
You can take a look at a slide show of this years swap here or go to the Flickr site here.
Alice … your Queen of Hearts “inchies” are wicked cool!! It’s amazing how much work can go into one square inch! Wonderful, wonderful work!
hugs, luny
You’re not kidding luny, it’s so addicting too. I had a ball, thanks I’m glad you like them ….
The inchies are so cute. When I looked at them I saw faces/hair that reminded me of Lucy. Loved that show growing up. We always
had to be home in time to watch.
That’s funny Linda, I thought several of them looked like Lucy. Thanks, they were fun.