Posts Tagged ‘monochromatic cards’
Monochromatic Monday – Jar of Haunts
I’ve been a bit out of commission with the start of the school year and a rotten cold. Don’t know why, but this year I have wanted to hang on to the last bits of summer (which is not usually me). I’ve got to get my fall/winter mojo going because Stampin’ Up! has a gazillion new items to play with in the holiday catalog.
Monochromatic Monday – seems I really like this post day. Today’s post features all of gray colors – Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, and Memento Black with a little Whisper White. A little Old Olive is in the eyeball coloring. I don’t usually color with blender pens, but that is how I colored the solution in the jar.
Jar of Haunts is a must-have item if you have the coordinating framelits. So easy and fun to use – the jar stamp is the medium-sized jar in the framelit set. I also used the Spooky Fun and the Hardwood background stamp set.
Our new label punch is easy to layer by just punching out a few extra pieces and cutting them and adhering them behind the saying.
Subscribe to the comments for this postMonochromatic Monday-Falling Flowers
Today’s challenge is creating a card with a monochromatic color palette, and my choice was Daffodil Delight.
I’m kind of crazy over our Basic Pearls, and this card uses plenty of them! Did you know if you press the pearls first before taking them off the protective sheet, they won’t lose their glue dot? One of my stampers suggested this, and it really does work!
The main stamp set is Falling Flowers, and the phrase is from Layering Love.
Sponging around the focal image softens the overall look. This card lends itself with any color palette!
Technique Tuesday – Masked Rubber Band Technique
At last month’s Technique Tuesday class, I taught the Masked Rubber Bank Technique. The technique uses some basic supplies – clear block, rubber bands, sponges, and a DIY mask for your cardstock.
Here is the card we made:
How did we do the technique? Here are the instructions:
Supplies
- Clear Block
- Various-Sized Rubber Bands
- Coordinating Inks (at least 2)
- Sponge
- Mask
- Glue stick or light adhesive
- Neutral Card Stock
Instructions
- Create a mask, leaving about a 1”-2” opening. I use three small pieces of grid paper, taping a top and bottom with an opening in between.
- Dab a little glue on the back of the card stock. Sneak card stock under opening.
- Put rubber bands over clear block – spread them out for best coverage.
- Ink rubber banded block in darker ink.
- Stamp block on the unmasked card stock.
- Take sponge and lightly ink all over unmasked section in the lightest ink color.
You could sponge first and then stamp with the rubber banded clear block. However, I like how sometimes the ink gets blurry with sponging – it gives a little more depth to the background.
Monochromatic Monday – Blushing Bride Cupcake
My first Monochromatic Monday starts with Blushing Bride. I usually pair this color with Chocolate Chip or Early Espresso. Keeping it to Blushing Bride and Whisper White was a challenge, but I really liked the results.
I used the brand-new stamp set, Sweet Cupcake, with the coordinating framelits, Cupcake Cutouts. This is one of the few three-step stamp sets which is gaining popularity. For the frosting, I actually stamped off once for the base image, and then stamped full strength for the next two stamps. The color variation looked perfect when I did this.
The “sweet” and the edge swirl are both framelits. Our new detail glue is wonderful to attach these pieces to cardstock.
I have been somewhat addicted to our Basic Pearls lately. I thought the pearls softened the edges.
Wetlands Alcohol Ink Technique Card
At last week's Technique Tuesday class, I taught my stampers a quick and easy technique using a clear block, dye ink refills, and hand sanitizing lotion. Yes, you read that right – hand sanitizing lotion.
I used a mini hand sanitizer (about 1 oz) and added 7 drops of Soft Suede dye ink refill. I shook it up enough to distribute the drops of ink. Then, I dropped about 5 or 6 drops on top of a large clear block. I flipped the clear block on top of the center of my Very Vanilla card stock, pressing it lightly. When I pulled away the clear block, it made a super-cool yet subtle design (more subtle due to the light ink refill I chose). To speed up the drying, I used my heat gun. Then I stamped the goose in Baked Brown Sugar right on top of the design (which I think looks a lot like grassy sand bar).
Here's the end result – the little droplets are just a bonus – my poor little goose was very nervous being photographed 
