Christmas Twinchies

This is only the second time I have made twinchies, the twinchies this time having a Christmas theme. 
So what are twinchies? These are embellishments made with two inch squares or two inch circles. Each twinchie is to have at least two layers, to be embellished 2 times, and with at least one technique (stamping, embossing, sponging, painting, glittering etc.). 
These are made for the swap at Canadian Die Cut Exchange.  The swap is to include 6 twinchies.
I opted to make the square twinchies.
Here are the ones that I made:

All the twinchies have a 2 by 2" piece of Real Red card stock, and when I used DSP it is the Candy Lane DSP.  I use a mixture of current and retired stamps and embellishments.

The swap called for 6 twinchies, but I was having so much fun making them, I made 4 extra.

Wouldn't these twinchies make great Christmas tags?


 
 

Pretty Pretty Twinchies - Paper Pal Arts #$306

Aren't the kittens in the "Pretty Kitten" stamp set cute?  Of course, I'm partial to cats because I have one and he's the love of my life.
But, although they are lovable, they also get in a lot of mischief - that's why I named mine "Mischief"

For the sketch challenge with  I decided to use this stamp set, and to make the squares on the sketch into twinchies.  I had recently done a swap with twinchies and I really loved making them.  This card sketch is ideal for them.

• A different kitten was stamped using Black Memento ink onto a 2" Whisper White square matted with a slightly larger scalloped Basic Black square.square. Before matting, each square was sponged with Night of navy ink.
• The kittens were coloured with a blender pen and ink pads - one kitten was white, one orange, and one gray.
• The twinchies were decorated with a Bitty butterfly punched out of Playful Palette DSP.  Rhinestones were added to the body; dazzling details to the wings.  Each twinchie had the butterfly adhered in a different location. To add more bling, a silver sequin was added, and then 3 tiny flowers, punched using Flirty Flamingo and Sweet Sugarplum cardstock were adhered with a glue dot.  The petal edges were curled up after which arhinestone was adhered to the middle.
•  Some Wink of Stella clear glitter was added randomly.

The decorated twinchies were adhered to the card base DSP using dimensionals.
The card base is Basic Black cardstock, layered with Whisper White, then Playful Palette DSP stack.

Supplies Used:

Stamp: Pretty Kitty

Ink: Black Memento, Night of Navy, Basic Gray, Smoky Slate, Flirty Flamingo, Emerald Envy, Cajun Craze

Papers: Basic Black, Whisper White, Playful Palette DSP stack, Flirty Flamingo, Sweet Sugarplum,

Accessories: Layering Squares Franmelit Dies, Itty Butterfly Punch, Itty flower punch, White Baker's twine, Wink of Stella clear glimmer brush, Crystal Effects, Glue dots, dimensionals, silver sequins.

Twinchies

One of the exchanges with the Canadian Die Exchange group this month is twinchies.  I had never made twinchies before and did not even know what they were.  So, I googled it, and checked various twinchies on Pinterest, watched a few tutorials on You Tube, and finally got the idea.

Twinchies are cards that are 2 by 2".  There are 3 layers to a twinchie- a cardboard bottom layer, a cardstock layer, and an image layer.  Embellishments are encouraged - from buttons, sequins, ribbons, glitter, etc.

For this exchange, I had to make 6 to send to my partner.  I used all Stampin' Up materials, some of which may be retired.

Twinchie #1:

 Robin made with Bird Builder Punch

                                                                          Frog on Lily Pad.  Background texturized

Old Car from Guy Greetings.  Several texture stamps used to create background

Bees on Texture Paste background made with Hive Framelit

Butterfly Basics.  Images watercolored with Aqua painter and ink pads.  Butterfly punched with small butterfly punch.  1/8" silver ribbons in top and bottom corner.

Botanical Builders used to create layered flower on sponged and embossed background