Black and White (only)

Good morning, today we begin a new challenge at 

Cardz 4 Guyz  #223 Black and White (only)

Please check the blog to see the super DT entries and

to check the details of the challenge.

I have made a 6" sq card using black and white card,

with a strip of black & white designed card. 

The 2" sq. blocks were stamped with an image 

of a motorbike, coloured with a black pen.

I hope we can inspire you to take part in our

challenge.  Have fun.

A New Challeng Blog Starting

Wow! I am super excited today - I am starting a NEW challenge blog.

I feel there is a need to encourage and provide a platform for

newbies, both in the crafting and blogging world. 

So here it is - to educate, encourage and nurture.

Back To Basics and Beyond Challenges

We are a small DT at present, we have a DT Call  to increase

our numbers over the coming weeks, interested? 

Please pop over to the blog to see what we are up to. 

For Challenge # 1 we are starting with

Matting and Layering.

Here is my card to show two level of matting and layering.

I used black card and mirri card to mat the main image, 

I used mirri card only for the back mat panel. I printed the 

main image and patterned papers from the Decadent Days section

from the USB #02 by Hunkydory. 

Black and silver ribbon with crystal gems to embellish. 

Monochromatic

Hello everyone, I hope you are well and enjouing your crafting.

Today we are statting a new challenge at Cardz 4 Galz.

Chris has chosen for us Monochromatic. 

You can use a contrast colour to display your creation, usually this is

either black, white, or a darker or lighter shade of your chosen colour. 

I have chosen orange, I love this colour which is bright and warm.

Plain black and orange cardstock. 

A piece of white card sprayed with mica inks for a background interest.

The stamp is from Woodware Stamps - Cosmos Flowers, as is the

greeting stamp. I used Promarkers and pencils to colour.

Black gems added to the flower centres. 

Thanks for your visit.

Monochromatic

Hello, today we begin a new challenge at Make My Monday.

Our team buddy Nandini in India has chosen 

MONOCHROMATIC

The Design Team have again produced some wonderful

inspiration, so please do pop over to see them.

 I used a page from a Craftworks Cards Colour with Candi Pad.

I used various yellow shade Promarkers to colour the design.

I blended the edges with Distress Inks -

 Mustard Seed and Fossilized Amber. 

I edged the design card with a Black Promarker. 

White Embossing

Hello everyone, today we start a new challenge at

Make My Monday

Pat G has chosen for us White Embossing.

You can choose whicever technique you like, as long

as it fits the theme. The DT have some wonderful inspiration

for you to check out.

I love monochrome cards, they can be so elegant.

I used a gloss black card for the background mat and for

the spotlight black circle.

The stamp is by Woodware - Meadow Flowers and the greeting.

Stamped onto white card with  Black Versafine. Stamped 

and heat embossed with Stampendous white detailed powder

 onto the black circle.  A piece of lace added.

Stamped, white embossed and cut a butterfly. 

Hope you enjoy the challenge. 

Black, White with a Spot of Red

Hello, hope your feeling well, safe and comfortable. 

Today is the start of a two week challenge at Make My Monday. 

Amy has chosen another interesting one for us. I am sure it will be popular.

Black,  White with a Spot of Red.

The Design Team have produced some wonderful inspiration, 

please pop over to see them and to  check out the challenge.

I recently bought a few of the mini Santoro Gorguss stamps, 

I decided this was a good challenge to try one out.

The card is a 6" square scallop edged.

Papers are from dovecraft back to Basics Monochrome. 

The stamp Santoro Mini Gorguss - The Scarf.

Dies - Greeting and Marianne Oval -  Embellished with a Debonair Flower. 

Monochrome

Hi, welcome to my blog, today begins a new two weekly

 challenge at Cardz 4 Galz

The challenge is Monochrome - at one time all we ever saw was

black and white but now I am happy when we see various colours

used for this challenge.

Please do check out the blog to see the wonderful creations from the DT.
I used a scalloped circle card for my base.
Used a Spellbinder die for my circle.
To create the yellow shades I used Tim Holtz technique called
Wrinkled Free Distress. To see a more detailed description check out
the previous post.
I heat embossed the stamp with Clear embossing powder.
The stamp is Meadow Flowers by Woodware stamps.
I watercoloured the flowers with the same Distress Inks used for the background.
I know yellow isn't to everyone's taste, but it is a lovely stamp. 

Monochrome

Hi everyone, welcome to my blog. Today starts the new weekly

challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz. Sharon has chosen the theme which is

Monochrome

Please take a look at the wonderful inspirational cards from the DT.

For my card, I chose my favourite colour which is orange.

I was inspired by a card I saw from Splitcoasters via Pinterest.

I blended several tones of orange on a 6" sq card.

The moon mask is from a Woodware punch.

The stamps I used are from Stampscapes - Nature Set #6

The Lakeside Cabin, the rocks and the grasses.

The sentiment is from Hobbyart.

Have fun, I look forward to visiting you. 

Monochrome

Hello, welcome to my blog, I hope you enjoy your visit.

Today begins the new challenge for the next two weeks at 

Fantasy Stampers

We are challenging you to create

 A MONOCHROME project.

This week blue is my favourite colour, yes I do change my mind regularly

on this subject. I firstly blended with Distress Inks -

Tumbled Glass, then Broken China then finally Chipped Sapphire.

The moon was created with a Fiskars circle punch used as a mask.

All of the stamps are from Lavinia Stamps.

If there are fairies about then of course there is the obligatory glitter

sadly this doesn't show up on the photo. 

Have fun with your monochrome project. 

Black and White

Hi everyone, welcome and thanks for visiting my blog.

Today starts the new challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz.

Amy has chosen for us Black and White. It's been some

time since we had a monochrome challenge, I greatly enjoyed 

making the card,  I am hoping you will too.

Plaease check out the blog, the DT gallery does not fail to

impress and inspire. 

For my card, I have well and truly taken a step into the past, 

and yet, silhouette (black) peel offs are being made popular once again 

with the amazing new products from Little Claire.

I used paper from a Black and White Papermania Pad.

I stamped text with a Creative Expressions script stamp.

The bottles of wine are a Peel off as above.

I did however, replace lots of the little left behind pieces, 

so the bottles weren't white.

E - Eye -Catching Edges

Hi again, it is time again to visit Alphabet Challenges, the letter for the next two weeks is E. Silvi has chosen for us Eye -Catching Edges.  Isn't that a good one? Please pop over to see what the DT have created to inspire you.  My card already has eye ctching edges with the scalloped edges, so I brought my edge in around the stamped matted imge, which I believe is a Little Claire stamp, I apologise if not. I drew squiggley lines and added a stamped bird in opposite corners. Of course now it is time to post I realise I could have done better with the lines. Have fun with this one.

Ribbons and Buttons

Hello everyone, here at Sparkles Monthly challenges for the next month we would like to see some #67 Ribbons and Buttons. Please pop over to see how the DT have created their fabulous inspirational projects.  I have lots of paper pads, I love them, I stroke them and admire them, but you have to sometime decide you just have got to use them. This  Black and White Back to Basics Dovecraft pad is just one of them. The stamped image is from Little Claire. My embellishments are a doiley, black lace, 3 heart buttons and a single white paper rose.  I do hope you have fun with this one. I was saddened when Shaz the owner decided to close this challenge blog, so sad, that I am now so pleased to report it will not be closing for I am now the new owner. Smiles all round.

Monochrome Time @ MMM

Another week, another challenge, it is time for a CAS ( Clean and Simple) project at  Make My Monday.

Can I give a reminder of what CAS is considered to be? 

It's all about the design

* not the technique
* not the tools
* not the embellishments

It's all about the design
* Uncluttered
* lots of white or open space
* one main focal point 

It's all about the design

Our theme within the CAS style is for MONOCHROME, which means one colour, you can of course add a contrast such as white, cream, grey or even black. I chose to have green, my small contribution to honour St. Patrick's Day, yesterday. I first stamped onto white card with Versamark and heat embossed with Stampendous 

White Detailed powder, heat dried, then I cut it with a label die. I sponged coloured it with TH Distress Inks Peeled Paint, leaving it in the die to provide a white edging. I then stamped with the same ink but in Forest Green with the same stamp, which is from Stamps Away - Wild Flowers. I believe this is called Shadow Stamping and you can see why. It is achieved by lowering your second stamping so it is as directly above as possible, then you simply move a tiny bit up or down and either right or left, whichever you choose will give a shadow effect. 

There have been some amazing entries of late to MMM, I am so looking forward to visiting you once again. 

Monochromatic - Orange

On at Crafting When We Can, their challenge is #23 Monochrome. Not everyone likes Orange but I did notice the background colour of the blog just happens to be orange so someone other than me must like it. I have been fairly busy over the last few days on a production line to produce cards. This is one of them. Each year I adopt a different charity to donate my cards to, last year it was the British Legion and St. Luke's Hospice, this year it is the Salvation Army, I take them as many cards as I can over the year, just from my weekly card making there are many, but every so often I have a blitz. When I bought my first pack of
Core-dination card, I had to have a play session which resulted in 20 cards. LOL

Flower stamp from Dreamees stamps, Make a Wish greeting stamp from Rubber Stampede , Embossing Folder - Christmas Vine by Craft Concepts

GC136 Glorious Greens

Gingersnaps Creations 136 is Glorious Greens. I have been having fun again getting inky and in a good old mess. I started with a  piece of white A4 card, which I then blended with a mixture of TH distress inks, including a small area I only coloured with Peeled Paint and Shabby Shutters, both shades of green.  I sprayed water all over the full card and sprinkled salt over all of the card. I allowed it to dry, then became impatient and resorted to the heat gun. When dry brushed off all of the salt. I used Memento Cottage Ivy to stamp the Elusive images collage stamp. I re-stamped the butterfly, spritzed it with some Cosmic Shimmer green mica. Added some Diamante glitter and a few crystal gems.  I attached the second butterfly onto the original with some silicone type glue. I also added some glitter to part of the harlequin area to give more light. The completed topper was added to a card with a resist technique leaf background on Crushed Olive. I would not normally make a card with just the one colour but I am pleased with this result. I do hope you like it too. Thanks for visiting and of course for any comments you may leave, for which I am very thankful.
I am also entering this into the January challenge at Sir Stampalot for Monochromatic

Monochrome at TIOT

This week at Try It On Tuesdays, we are challenging you to make a Monochrome Card, I decided on making a pale blue card. I used a piece of blue parchment to mat a pieces from Tim Holtz's Shabby Chic stash pad, using dies I punched out the circle, butterfly and layers to make the flower, which is from the same paper.The fairy is a Lavinia stamp.  I added some sparkle to the fairy image and a few gems to the butterfly. Once again the card challenge is being sponspored by One Stop Card Crafts. Please pop over to TIOT  to see the wonderful selection of monochrome cards my fellow Design Team members have created. I look forward once again to visiting your blogs.
Other challenges I will enter this card into are----
St. Luke's Charity Card Challenge - Card Buffet - I have used four of the buffet ingredients,
  Patterned Paper, Flowers, Punches and Gems.
Blogger's Challenge    Monochromatic Blue