This week I'm featuring a one layer card. I don't often make one layer cards as I do find it difficult to use the space with just stamps. This one was actually easy to create with a bit of masking and some pretty stamps.
- White card base
- Flower (MME), leaves (Couture Creations) and 'thinking of you' (Cre8tiv) stamps
- Plum (Ranger archival), black (Stazon) and green ink as well as mowed lawn and seedless preserves distress ink
- Black marker pen
- Pearls and gems
- Corner rounder (Fiskars)
Directions:
- Mask off an area just below the middle of the card front. Stamp two of the largest flowers either side of the masked area making sure to overlap the mask a bit. Stamp one of the smaller flowers below the mask. Mask off the flowers and stamp the leaf outlines to fill in more space.
- Remove the mask. Using a ruler and the marker, create two lines either side of the masked off area. Stamp the greeting in between the two lines.
- Using the distress ink, water and a brush, fill in the leaves and any outline flowers with colour. Once dry, splatter some of the purple distress ink over the card front.
- Adhere a few gems and pearls and round the top right corner.
I was kind of making this one up as I went with no final vision in mind, I think it turned out well and I managed to hide the small mistakes I made well. The splatter of ink was to help hide the fact that some of the ink from when I stamped the flowers seeped through the mask and the gems were to cover up a couple of smudges I made. Just goes to show that little mistakes like that can be covered up and disguised easily to save your card from the rubbish bin!
Till next time
Stacey
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