Feb 20 2009
Not My Style
But I like it!
Hi everyone, today is Friday and Friday over at Sharon Johnson’s blog, notimetostamp, is challenge day. When I saw Sharon’s challenge today, ssnotime75, I thought this new paper I picked up at Michael’s a few days ago would be perfect. The challenge is to use black ink only. What!!!! No water colors, no brush, can I do this? Well I decided to give it a try and while this is so not my style, I’m happy with the card. I would have preferred to use a red silk flower, but this is all I had in my stash. You can’t tell from the picture, but the flowers on the background paper are black felt. All that gorgeous texture is lost in the photograph. I used May Arts black shear ribbon. That really is a pretty bow, but because of the sheerness, it’s not showing up well in the picture. Lesson learned, next time I’ll use grosgrain or twill.
The background panel was made with the large scallop Nestie and placed on dimensionals, the dimension is lost on the black paper in the photograph. I really, really need to learn how to photograph my cards so that the dimension shows up in pictures. I used a Spellbinders leaf die for the leaves. The tag was made using SU’s window punch. The sentiment is a stamp from A Muse. To comply with the challenge, I used basic black ink from Stampin’ Up! The butterfly was punch from a Martha Stewart punch and adhered to the tag. I adhered black Kaiser pearls on the flower and the butterfly. Super easy, fast quick card! The Nesties, Kaiser pearls, Zip Dry adhesive, and ribbon can be purchased at Joan’s Gardens.
This is the inside of the card. I simply cut two strips of paper to 1/8″ and adhered using Zip Dry adhesive. I then adhered the flower and leaves to punch up the inside a bit.
- Stamps: A Muse
- Paper: Black Black, DCWV DP
- Ink: Basic Black
- Accessories: Nesties, Prima Flowers, Martha Stewart Punches, Kaiser Pearls, May Arts black sheer ribbon, Scor It, Zip Dry, SU window punch
