Sunday, September 27, 2015
One layer card
Hi everyone!
Pi here for the second time this week :D
I know, I know. You've been wondering all week where Noe is, but don't worry! You'll be seeing more of her gorgeous creations next week - so hang in there.
For this card I challenged myself to only use one layer, I was having trouble to see how I would
make my card not seem empty or flat. But then I went to pinterest and
o'boy! I find that the danger with pinterest, like overall the wireless
crafting community, is you spend hours oh-ing and awe-ing. But in the
end you get nothing done. Anyone with me on this?
Hmmm... I'll have to admit I went abit OTT with this card in the end...
I should have stopped both 1, 2 and 3 steps earlier. This could probably have been 2 gorgeous cards - LOL!
But
over to the card itself. I made the background scene with distress ink
and post-its. I cut a hillshape from the post-it and used that as a
mask. I then tried to create soft shadows and depht. I don't know about
you, but it never seem to work out until the card is almost done, before
it comes to life... I then used the tree from my latest stamp set from
Lawn Fawn, Toboggan together, but if you look closely, you'll notice my
first mess up.
I
didn't mask the trees thus, as I was aiming for a cluster of tree tops,
I stamped over the crisp white edge. It may be that I'm the only one
bothered by this... To me it still looked a little empty, but I really
could have stopped here. However, my baby was still sound asleep, so I
kept going... I created a branch in the foreground using Deck the Halls
by Lawn Fawn, this is a stamp set that will never go out of style. I
even added a bit of clear wink of stella to the pine cones, so they are
nice and shimmery.
Now
that I had started to get the hang of things, I started to play with
all the snowflake sizes in the sets. So I started with the smallest from
the top left using third generation stamping and then the further right I got, the larger the snowflakes became and I now use second generation stamping. The only first
generation stamping I used for the snowflakes (beside another little
boo-ho, which I hope you wont notice) is the large snowflake from The
toboggan together set.
Well
how about stopping now? I'm a bit unsure of how the depht looks to
anyone who is not me, but it is certainly not empty at least. But no, if
only my baby had woken up now - LOL!
I
had to get a sentiment in there... As I had, up til now, still not had
the chance to play with Ranger's embossing powder in liquid platinum...
Let's just say - I'm not happy with the placement of the sentiment and leave it at that...
Small ink blending tool (I wish I had these)
Masking paper (or use post-it)
Many thanks for visiting and bravo if you read it all :D
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