Showing posts with label SUSOL Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SUSOL Challenge. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Another Challenge Card

Me again, with another Challenge Card for you. This time it's a weekly Challenge give by a Demo group of which I'm a member. These challenges are great if you ever find yourself short on creativity they really help to get you started.

I used the Level 1, hostess set, Country morning it has 3 really cute images and a great sentiment in the set. It is the perfect set for practicing your water coloring technique. I got to use the Old Olive wide striped ribbon on the card, what FUN ribbon this it.

As always a big thank you for stopping by and I'll try to get pictures of my Foster Pups posted soon, they'll only be here until Saturday and I'm already worried about missing them. But they are going to great homes, so that makes me feel better!

Until next time.......see ya!





Saturday, January 31, 2009

Embrace Life in black and white



A demonstrator group that I'm apart of SUDSOL offers lots of challenges to keep your creative mojo going. I decided this week to take part for the first time in the Design Challenge which was to use only black and white and you could use a touch of color. This also fell right in line with a swap I'm in at CardSwappingForFun that is called POP of Color, it's a black/white card with a POP of color somewhere on the card, so these two worked together perfectly, nothing better than killing two birds with one rock (by the way I hate that saying, don't know why I used it???)




As a side note I was sure this challenge would be easy to do as I love very clean simple cards, but using only the black and white was much harder than I anticipated! The front is stamped in Craft White ink using the Embrace Life stampset and grosgrain ribbon is added for a beautiful touch of color. On the inside the same stampset is used but stamped on Whisper White with Basic Black ink, I used the three flower punch to add a couple of little red flowers. I was happy with the end result even though it was harder than I thought, I hope you enjoy it to.




Card Stuff:




  • Base Card - 4" X 4" in black


  • Layers - White 3-7/8" x 3-7/8", stamped black layer - 3-3/4", inside layer Whisper White 3-7/8" X 3-7/8"


  • Flowers - Real Red


  • Stamp - Embrace Life


  • Ink - Craft White, Basic Black


  • Accessories - 5/8" grosgrain, punch, heat gun

Big thanks for visiting the blog, come back any time!

Diane