Archive for November 1st, 2009

Nov 01

White Christmas

The Penny Black Saturday Challenge #73 was to create a white-on-white card. You could have colour on your image, but nowhere else.

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I really wanted to try this, but I’m not a very good colour-er, nor do I have the tools (but I’m taking a Copic class tomorrow and I’m SO. EXCITED.), so I thought I’d take the challenge one step further, and have all white, with just one colour for stamp ink.

White on White Christmas

I got out all my papers, and pulled out all the white I have. My ‘Christmas Mint’ pack had this great swirly cardstock – that became my card bases.

I used a couple border punches to get some texture, and even found a little bit of white lace and some leaves, in my old crafty bin. I used gold ink on the Penny Black stamp for my colour. I used the sketch at Sweet Stop Sketches (#28) for the layout.

White on White Embossing

This card even has an image on it, but it’s embossed in white on white cardstock, so it is subtle. The image squares are on 3-D adhesive, and the red-stamped sentiment has 4 little pearls on it. I stuck with one border punch on this card, and did 3 layers. This is my newest punch purchase (Martha Stewart, of course. I want all the ones she does!) so it fits in with the Daring Cardmakers challenge to use your newest punch purchase. I also bought a MS button punch at the same time, I’ll have to make some cards with that soon!

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I stamped the big image from the Penny Black set I have – a mouse decorating a tree with a cat at the top. I cut out the cat and the mouse. You can see them better in this photo.

This sketch is from Sketch Saturday #75.

For both cards:
Cardstock: SEI Christmas Mint ‘Merangue’, Bazill (dotted), Office Depot (white)
Stamps: Penny Black
Punches: Martha Stewart
Inks: ColorBox

Both these cards also qualify for Colour Create’s ‘All White’ challenge #30 as well!

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