Monochrome cards

I have simple birthday card to share today...featuring a stamp which is fast becoming a favourite...'Sketched Flowers' by Simon Says Stamp. I heat embossed it, along with a sentiment from the set, in white on navy card then coloured the flowers using blue watercolour pencils...although I didn't use any water. I distressed the edges a little then added it to a card blank. Challenges for this card: Cards Galore Encore - Anything Goes Dream Valley - Add a Sentiment Seize the Birthday - Anything…

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending an art workshop with a great Italian artist. One of the things he said that struck me the most, is to put our feeling into our work. So he said: if …

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Hi Everyone, I am back with another card I’ve created for my Altenew Educator Certification – this time for the Let It Shine class! I love glitz and shine on my cards so this is already…

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I'm sharing the card I created on my Facebook Live this morning. If you would like to see how I made my card, please click here. Boho Blue is my favourite new In Color, and is the most popular one too! To create my card, I started by adhering Adhesive Sheet to a piece of Basic White Cardstock, die cut all the elements from the Cheerful Daisies Dies twice then stuck them together before adhering them to the Boho Blue Cardstock layer. I added this layer to…

A friend of mine belongs to a card club where they make 6 cards once a month to exchange. For January she had to make monochrome cards and she asked me to help her with them. I sent her various monochrome cards from Pinterest and Splitcoast and told her to pick a few and I would pull the products to make them. She picked a card by Biggan http://www.pinterest.com/pin/45950858669506919 for us to case. This is my take on her card. Hers was square, mine isn't. I used a different leaf spray and…

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For the OLW38 challenge we had to use a sketch. This one was hard for me so I fell back on the snowy tree images that I love to stamp. For a change I created a monochrome card depicting the grey days I see quite often around here in winter. The snow was masked so I could create the grey sky. The tree was stamped in black and then stamped again in versamark slightly higher so I could emboss in clear leaving the snowy layer on the branches after I sponged…