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

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.

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.

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!

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!