Saturday, January 30, 2010

playing with ink and paper

Last night I sat down in my scrap room to work on a few challenges from 365 cards. I loved this weeks challenges - each day had a letter and 3 prompts starting with that letter. I loved the prompts and decided to add my own favorite challenge: no patterned paper. I allowed myself a piece of cardstock for the card blank; everything else had to be done with white cardstock. I pulled out my studio 490 stamps {cause Wendy has some awesome background stamps} and started playing! Here's what I came up with:

day 335: Dark Brown, Diamond and Distressing:



The background is embossed diamonds, which I lightly overstamped with a background stamp, inked with distress ink and added texture with water droplets and some gold perfect pearls.

day 334: Blue, Blossom and emBoss



I love the way the background came out for this card - dark blue ink to stamp the design on white cardstock, inked over with distress inks and accented with a white pen.

day 333: Green, Glitter, Grosgrain



One of my favorite Wendy Vecchi background stamps on this card!

Day 332: Red, Rhinestone, Rickrack



and finally a simple craft cardstock background on this one, stamped with Wendy's splatter background stamp.

14 comments:

Mary Hamer said...
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Mary Hamer said...

I love the tulip's shabby chic style - my fav!

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~amy~ said...

Oh my goodness!!! You rocked the challenges!! Fabbie work!!

Jemma said...

really cute cards, really really nice, i love the butterfly one though!!

Louise F NZ said...

These are fabulous, they are all so cute.

♥ Audrey ♥ said...

Wow! Your cards are simply gorgeous! Luv the colour scheme you used. Thanx for playing at 365 Cards.

Suzanne said...

What wonderful work! I especially love the tulip card because that's my favorite flower!

Pam said...

Wow - an amazing job with all the challenges!!

Rose said...

wow! no pattern paper?! they are all fantastic :) congrats on making the top three for the 3B's

Becky said...

These are awesome, love the tulips.

TesaB said...

Ohhhh, AMAZING work! Love your style! Congrats to the top 3 position, you soooo deserve it!

Hand Me a Stamp said...

Your sense of texture and color combinations are great! Love Wendy's stuff too:)

Brown said...

Oh my goodness!!! You rocked the challenges!! Fabbie work!!