Happy Sunday! It's time for a new sketch challenge over at
Sunday Stamps. This time we are all about single-layer simplicity. Check it out:
...and here is my project for the Design Team:
This card was fun to create! As someone who LOVES to add lots of layers to my designs, it was a huge challenge to work with a single layer. So, I set out to create the illusion of layers by using the masking technique. I die cut a flower-shaped mask from a scrap of card stock using the
Floral Frames Framelits. Laying that over my
Whisper White card stock panel, I then stamped several images from the
Butterfly Basics stamp set using
Crumb Cake and
Soft Suede inks. Then I sponged the entire area with
Crumb Cake ink to soften and blend the images.
After removing the mask, I heat embossed the flourish image from the
Everything Eleanor stamp set in
gold. I also used gold heat embossing to add the sentiment from the retired Best of Greetings 25th Anniversary set. I added some specks of gold with the splatter image from the
Gorgeous Grunge set and
metallic gold ink and then finished the design with a few strategically placed
pearls. The completed panel is adhered to a
Baked Brown Sugar card base.
As I said, this card was a real challenge for a layer-lover like me. Why not stretch your own creativity a little and give this one a try? We'd love to see your work, so be sure to share it with us over at
Sunday Stamps!
