Here are my inchies for this week’s ARTchix challenge Making Inchies and the Power of 3!

I used a patterned paper from Inque boutique, ATC inspiration sheet from ARTChixStudio and a chocolate wrapper as my recycled material.


Thanks for the wonderful challenge Helga :)

Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space are the five elements of nature, and all beings are composed of a relation of these five elements. A perfect balance of them create the free flow of Soul, spirit and a better living.


I created these five inchies with the theme of “five elements” for the Helga’s blog challenge this week. Other than the words, background and the embellishments, everything else is from ARTChix studios.

Almost a month past, since my last post here. Its very bad of me :( I have not purposely neglected my blog, but was not able to have enough time to sit and write a proper post. Most of the time I was traveling and away from home with the production of my first individual documentary film.

It seems this year is going to be a productive year for me. So far during the month of January I managed to work on several freelance job assignments on filming, translating, graphic and costume designing as well. Life seems so wonderful and I am happy that I started working on my own.

Well, today I have a good news. I was selected as the winner of Helga’s 9 weeks Art challenge. She has featured my shadow box on her blog and I also received a $25 gift certificate to Artchix studios. I really enjoyed shopping at Artchix studios and my package came today.


Here are the art goodies I received and I can’t wait to start playing with them.

In challenge 9 we are asked to combine 3 or more previous challenges and create a piece of art. And here is my take on the challenge. This was on old clock I had with me and I altered it with different kinds of decorative stuff. The size of the inner box is 5'' X 5'', and with the outer frame it ended up as a 6''X 6'' shadow box!!!!


Here I have combined the following challenges,
Challenge 5 - Get Inspired by things you enjoy - with packaging leftovers and adding something from nature like dried flowers, sea shells etc.
Challenge 7 - Get Inspired by Project - Mixed-Media Shadow Box project by Jenn Greenleaf
Challenge 8 - Get Inspired by scraps - most of the decorative stuff I used here are the scraps from recent previous challenges.

I used images from My Art Challenges Collage Sheet, Mini Delights Collage Sheet, Inchie Words Collage Sheet by Helga. And also used freebies by Gaby Braun, Stacy Stephenville and Moonlight Journey.

The theme here was again an inspirational quote by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."

I really enjoyed making this and this is going to be a center art piece on the wall next to my working table.