And the penguins rioted!

Last week I 'blogged' my entry for the 'Less is More' challenge and mentioned the black and white theme of the bedroom complete with black and white cat on the bed and penguins in the corner.  Well somehow the penguins found out that while I had put in a picture of the cat, they did not appear and a riot ensued.  So I promised them that I would show a picture this week, even though it has nothing to do with the rest of the post!



Right, that sorted back to the job at hand. This week the challenge over at 'Less is More' is a one layer card - off the page.

Materials used:
Stamps - Hero Arts Traditional Roses, Inkylicious Handwritten Script and Happy Birthday
Inks - Memento Tuxedo Black, Distress Inks - Vintage, Tea Dye and Old Paper
Spectrum Noir pencils
Grey Spectrum Noir pen

Method:
I had in mind a card with a page of a book coming in from the side and a rose stamped on top, the problem was how to create it so that it was one layer. Eventually I hit upon the idea of masking off the base of the card leaving an aperture where I wanted the book page to be. I use the script stamp to create the page and inked through the aperture with the distress inks to give a vintage feel to the page. Having removed the mask I then went around the edge with a fine line pen.

I stamped the rose on top of the script and coloured it in with the pencils. The script and the rose are both coming in from off the page. I then stamped the birthday greeting on to the card. I still was not happy that I had the dimension I wanted, which would have been there with a two layer card, so I gave the script a shadow down the side and underneath by running the grey pen along the edges. At that point I decided to leave it before it went pear shaped!

 



 

Thanks for dropping in.  Take care.

Pippa

Trying something different

I am running close to the wire with this one for the Less is More challenge.  The theme this week is Stencils and Masks and I have managed both in this card.  It is a different style for me but I am quite pleased with the results.

Materials:
Clarity small leaf stencil
Hills and Mountains stencil
Inkylicious Stamps - Handwritten Script, The Coppice
Free Birthday Greeting stamp
Distress Inks - Vintage Photo, Old Paper
Adirondack Inks - Meadow, Denim
Archival Sepia
A4 White card blank 

Method:
I used the leaf cut from the stencil to block out where I wanted the void to be on the background and then stamped the script stamp over it with Vintage Photo and Old P aper.

 

Using the stencil to cover the script I stamped the Coppice stamp through it onto the leaf shaped void. Keeping the leaf stencil in place I used hills and mountains stencil to brush in the grass and sky with Meadow and Denim ink. I then brushed Vintage Photo ink around the edges of the card and very faintly over the script areas.  Finally I stamped the birthday greeting at the bottom.

Job done, now off to the Less is More challenge before the deadline tonight!

Thank you for visiting, hope to see you again sometime.  Take care.

Pippa

I would like to enter this card in the 'Less is More' challenge.

Pixies Snippets Playground - Week 108

So here I am again with another snippet card for the challenge at Pixie's Crafty Workshop.  This time I have used up some left over snippets from the huge stash of Hunkydory kits I am slowly working my way through. The problem being that every time I make another card there are lots of left over bits to use up!  The 'dream' is stamped using Clarity Stramps letterbox kit., embossed with silver embossing powder and then cut out and mounted onto the card. The card blank is 4 1/4 inch square. It's a quick make this time because now that term is well under way life is getting busier.

Thanks for popping in.  Take care and God bless.

Pippa