International Art & Soul, a challenge which has been put together to incorporate any type of craft, paper, wood, flowers, recycling, glass - the world is your oyster :). Come on over an join us with you artwork :)
Challenge #63
Monochrome
This fortnights challenge Monochrome has been chosen by DT sister Josephine. I just love monochromatic cards, I think that is because I can put thoughts of colour matching to one side and just play big time with textures and techniques. Just before making these cards a little bit of happy mail fell through my door, some stencils and a layered peony rose stamp which I ordered from Crafters Companion. What better excuse to play with the stamp than this challenge :). I started off by choosing 6 colours for my card bases and checked that the Altnew inks I had matched up. Next I embossed the each of the bases with a large background stamp and heat embossed with white. Up next was to die cut the embossed layer 6 times, one for each card lol, the the plain mount. Finally I die cut my stamping layer, again 6 times and set about doing the stamping using the Tim Holtz stamping platform. Have to say, this stamping platform is one of my biggest buddies in my craft room, until I got this I could not stamp for toffee. I had such a lovely afternoon making these and am so pleased with the outcome, pretty and full of texture cards.
Monochrome
This fortnights challenge Monochrome has been chosen by DT sister Josephine. I just love monochromatic cards, I think that is because I can put thoughts of colour matching to one side and just play big time with textures and techniques. Just before making these cards a little bit of happy mail fell through my door, some stencils and a layered peony rose stamp which I ordered from Crafters Companion. What better excuse to play with the stamp than this challenge :). I started off by choosing 6 colours for my card bases and checked that the Altnew inks I had matched up. Next I embossed the each of the bases with a large background stamp and heat embossed with white. Up next was to die cut the embossed layer 6 times, one for each card lol, the the plain mount. Finally I die cut my stamping layer, again 6 times and set about doing the stamping using the Tim Holtz stamping platform. Have to say, this stamping platform is one of my biggest buddies in my craft room, until I got this I could not stamp for toffee. I had such a lovely afternoon making these and am so pleased with the outcome, pretty and full of texture cards.
Challenges entered:-
- Daisy Chain Challenges (M, P5, E3) #32 - Flowers
- Happy Little Stampers Dies (M, P9) July- Always Anything Goes with Dies
- The Flower Challenge (M, P4, C6, E5, must use flower image/stamp) #34 - Pretty Pastels
- Lavinia World Challenges - 2W, SIO - #5 Anything Goes Using Rubber Or Clear Stamps (No Digis) (W1 of 2)
- Die Cuttin' Divas W, must include a Die-cut - #429 - Embossing (heat or dry)
- Get Creative Challenges (M, 1st Mon, 3E) #82 ANYTHING GOES with optional/ MONOCHROMATIC
