Butterflies and a beer...

Every Inchie Monday #7: Beer

 I might as well admit it... I hate beer.. Never drink the stuff...

Diet coke... That's me...

If it absolutely has to be something with alcohol in it I'll take an ice cold glass of Bailey's.

I have been wondering what to do with the inchies this year as I want to have them side by side.
But I don't think I want to hang them anywhere. So this weekend I had an idea for my journal...

I actually intended to just do a frame for each inchie as we make them but once I got doodling there was no stopping me! lol!

Sadly I was out of the polka dotted paper, which I adore! So I had to find something else for page two.

Let me tell you it was hard not to get busy doing some of the inchies! Oh, how I itched to do the dolphin and the whale!

Butterflies for France...

This butterfly themed pocket letter I made for a swap on pocketletterpals.com where I was paired with a French pal Armandine who sent me the most precious PL in return.

I just hope she enjoyed this one as much as I enjoyed hers.

For the corner pocket with a bow around I used the backing from a pack of stickers. It was just too pretty to trash! The bottom corner with a flower was backing paper from a pack of brushes.

The butterfly lady I found on a google search and printed out.

A lot of these pretty butterflies were sent to me as goodies in pocket letters.

 

I love my alphabet stamp set and use it all the time!

I see more butterfly pocket letters in my future!
Mostly because I just bought a new paper pad filled with them...

Slip into an inch...

Every Inchie Monday #6: Slippers

I knew right away how I wanted to do this one. Finally an easy one!! lol!

I drew the slippers on polka dotted cardstock and glued on yarn for the part of the slipper that I do not know the English word for. Actually I don't know the Danish word for it either...

Is there a name for that part of a slipper?

A little rhinestone slipped (!) in there.

After our very manly theme last week, we need some sparkle! ;)

Now could I please have me some slippers-weather!

Pocket Letter of Bs... 

This was for a swapbot swap and went all the way to Africa!

Everything in this pocket letter was to begin with B.

Letter in Danish is 'brev'. Perfect for my first pocket. Then Bird, Bronze, Bow, Birdcage, Brads, Butterfly, Big and Buttons.

All except one pocket are cut down journaling cards. They are so pretty!

Bulldozer!

Every Inchie Monday #5: Bulldozer

So I had to ask my son what exactly a bulldozer look like...

Big wheels and a big shovel... 

This turned out a lot better than expected! I'm more of a cute cats and flower drawing kinda girl... ;)

Letter as a Pocket Letter...

The idea for this swap was to use your actual letter as a pocket letter...

I decided to make 9 little examples of how I might decorate a letter for my pocket letters...

Of course I forgot to take a picture of it after writing on these 9 little pieces of stationary...

It went straight into the envie...

... and off on it's way around the world...

This was a really fun idea for a letter swap!

Inchies...

Every Inchie Monday #4: Village

This was fun!

I so wish I had the time to make a whole page of little doodle houses and trees!

Of course this is exactly why I love this particular challenge. It's only an inch, it takes very little time, so little that even on the busiest of weeks I can find the time for an inchie!

Also even when I don't feel like drawing and I sit down to make an inchie anyway I end up relaxing and enjoying myself.

When I'm done I am asking myself why on earth I didn't feel like drawing?

The answer is probably that I was stressed out, which drawing is the perfect cure for!

After the village I made a new inchie for week 2. I wasn't really happy with the sun I made.

This one I like better. Even though I messed up the eyes.

Eyes are really tough! Really!

For the love of a sofa...

Every Inchie Monday #3: Sofa

So last week I forgot to submit my inchie... But at least I didn't forget to make it! lol!

This week we have one of my favorite things! Sofa! I love mine!

Actually we're getting a new one this month.

Which is kind of sad... Since we have these wonderful huge soft floaters... But they are 15 years old and have seen 10 years of sticky fingers (and paws) and jumping kids (jumping cat too!) lets just say these sofas have seen better days...

I am treasuring every last minute with my favorite sofa EVER! ;)

Positive Quotes Pocket Letter for Vivi in Malta

This was a swap on pocketletterpals.com which paired me up with another Dane although she is living in sunny Malta!

I had just bought a pad of quote stickers and then this swap comes along... Meant to be...

The paper is new too. I totally love these wonderful colors!

All wrapped up and ready to go!

Pink pocket letter for Esther in the Netherlands

This was for a private swap on swap-bot.com.

For the first pocket I google translated 'hi' and 'letter'.

I completely fell in love with some beautiful stamps that were on a letter I received from Finland!

Yet another swap...

 This one for washi samples... I love washi!

Pink pockets...

Every Inchie Monday #2: Sun

Just a quick yellow marker sun with a dash of glittery gelly roll.

Tangles: Balo, Tipple

Pink Pocket Letter for Stine in Norway

 For this one I used journal cards. I have to cut them a bit to make them fit the pockets, but that's okay because they are so pretty!

Danish and Norwegian (Swedish too) languages are somewhat similar so I could write the letter in Danish for Stine. I rarely write letters in Danish, so that was nice!

Another great thing about mailing to a 'neighbor' is that it arrived in just 3 days! :)

We had snow yesterday, it rained away today, which is just perfect! The kids got to build a snowman, we had a snowball fight, lots of snowy fun...

And tomorrow we can drive to work on snowfree roads!

My little snow angels...

Last weekend we spent the afternoon by the sea. Despite the fact that there wasn't really any wind the waves were beautiful!

This is one of my favorite places. :)

 

Washi love...

Every Inchie Monday #1: Galaxy

My very first inchie of 2016!
For this one I decided to go black... Then stippled a galaxy of white gelly roll with a touch of purple and glitter.

After seeing the awesome 2015 inchie displays my fellow inchie... inchiers... inchiees... (There's tanglers doing zentangle, so are we inchiers??) (Or do I just really need to go to bed... ;)

Those amazing displays made me want to make one of my own.

But last year (it seems like it was just last week...) I put all my inchies on little tags and used them in my journal, so I couldn't make a display.

I'm not sure what I am doing this year, so for now I'll just save them in an envie...

I have been making some pocket letters lately, but my swap partners have not received them yet, so that's for another time...

Swapping

This was for a washi tape swap I did a while back.

I have a serious addiction for washi tapes and I love these swaps!

I had 3 partners for this washi swap.

That means 3 letters with wonderful washi for me! Awesome!

A letter is not mandatory in these swaps. Just a note. But I really like writing letters, so I pretty much always write one for the swaps I take part in. And of course in a washi swap one should always pretty up everything with even more washi!

I hope you all entered the new year safe and sound...