Well it’s been a while… I’ve gone through a bit of a creative drought the past few weeks and just not been able to make anything I’ve been happy with.
But thankfully Sharon’s dare for this week’s Daring Cardmakers challenge had me thinking a bit outside of my comfort zone… I mean using just 2 colours on your card – in total!??
Hm, but after deciding that grey would be one of my colours I went off to create a tone-on-tone stamped background then the next evening I needed to pull it all together!
Here’s the finished article:
Stamps: Simon Says Stamp – Look for the Miracles
Dies: MFT – Cause for Celebration, Mama Elephant – Sew Fancy
Other: grey and blush pink cardstock, dye inks, 3D foam tape, Misti, pink crystals
It might be one of the shortest supplies lists for this card – just one set of stamps, a few dies, 1 pink ink pad, 1 grey ink pad, light and dark grey cardstock and 1 piece of light pink cardstock.
So yeah, the grey background got stamped one evening, but the next evening when it came to assemble my card I thought it was missing something with just a plain background behind it. So I set about recreating the pattern I’d stamped in grey on the pink cardstock – thank heavens for the Misti in enabling me to line up most of the stamps I’d previously used. Note to self, next time I try to do this I’ll just stamp the two pieces of cardstock at the same time as I go! lol
The die cut words were cut into the floral grey panel – then I cut the words 4 times from the same pink cardstock I’d used for the background and layered them up in the apertures… you can see the dark cardstock peeking through in the image above and also the dimension created from stacking the die cuts below:
And of course there had to be a little pink bling to make things pop!
I really like the end result for this one – I’m not one to stamp backgrounds or use outline stamps much, but I think they really work nicely in this tone-on-tone design. No colouring in necessary! 🙂
Anyway, fingers crossed the crafting drought is over and I can get down to some more creativity soon.
Remember to pop on over to the Daring Cardmakers blog to see the two-colour inspiration from the rest of the design team!
Happy crafting!
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