It’s time for our final challenge of the year at The Male Room, and it’s the colour blue. This challenge will be an extra long one, running through until January 8th. We also have a new team member joining us. Be sure to head over to the challenge page to greet her.
The first thing that comes to mind when I think of blue is water. That’s what I went with as my inspiration for this card. I started by masking off a portion of my white card base and ink blending over it with a combination of Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxides.
I wanted to add some texture and interest to the blended area do I used the Open Weave Fishnet stamp from Blank Page Muse and stamped over the blended area in a rough and random fashion using the same Distress Oxides. I then blended it out again without adding more ink to the blender just to soften it.
After removing my mask I placed the card base into my MISTI to do my stamping. I chose an image and sentiment from Your Next Stamp’s Cool Cats stamp set and stamped them with Altenew Jet Black ink.
I then stamped the same cat image again with MFT Black Licorice Hybrid ink onto a snippet of white card. I used my Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers to colour the image in. I then fussy cut it out. As I’d already stamped the image onto the card base it didn’t matter that I cut off the fiddler areas such as the whiskers. Once I’d finished cutting out the image I adhered it onto the card base over the image I had stamped there, completing my card.
I’m pleased with this card and I had fun creating it. I could have made it a one layer card by stamping the image first and masking it, but I decided against that this time. I’m glad I chose yellow-orange shades for the cat as it’s complementary to the blue and helps the cat to pop against the background.
Love,
Lady Joyful
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Challenges:
Creatalicious Challenges – Anything Goes
Digi Choosday Craft Challenge – Anything Goes
Fun Friday – Anything Goes
Pixie’s Snippets Playground – Use Snippets
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – Party Time and Optional: Your Next Stamp
Simon Says Work It Wednesday – Try Something New (the stamp set, and the way I added texture were both new to me)
STAMPlorations CAS Challenge – Anything CAS
The Male Room – The Colour Blue
Uniko Challenge – Celebrate
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Check out what the rest of the DT made:
Lady Joyful (that’s me!)
CAslicious, love thwe masking and stamping, thanks for joining us at Uniko.
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Thank you 😊
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So cute Charlotte! What a darling image and a really lovely card as well.
Merry Christmas
Hugs
Di xx
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Thank you Di 😊 Merry Christmas.
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Love blue so I love the card. Had a birthday this past Wed.(Dec.19.).
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Thank you 😊 Happy Belated Birthday!
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This is both fun and super cute! Thank you for playing along with the STAMPlorations CAS Challenge. We hope to see you back again soon! Karola, DT, InvisiblePinkCards
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Thank you Karola 😊
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A lovely card!
Thank you soo much for taking part in our “anything goes with optional Christmas with snowflakes” challenge over at Creatalicious & good luck in the draw.
Hope to see you again in our new challenge as well…
Hugs,
Melanie
(DT-Coordinator Creatalicious Challenges)
(DT Crafty Friends)
(DT The Sketchy Challenges)
(DT Simply Create Too)
PS: Sorry for the late comment, life had been very busy these past weeks…
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Thank you 🙂
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