OLW 106 Sponging
Posted: September 19, 2012 Filed under: CAS, OLW, Penny Black, Stamped Landscapes, Tutorial, Winter Ledge 42 Comments
As you may know if you have spent any time browsing around my blog, I love to use sponges to apply ink. That being the case I thought it appropriate that I devote one of my weeks hosting the One Layer Wednesday challenge to sponging. I want you to enter into the sponging fun too. You have no doubt tried it already; I see beautifullyl sponged cards here, there and everywhere. So your challenge this week is to use some sponging on your card; use a little or a lot, combine it with another technique if you like, just get inky! (Aach! I just realised, at the eleventh hour, that I used the very same stamp on my last OLW challenge. Sorry for the repetition; I will pay more attention next month!)
Don’t forget about the Gratitude Campaign! See Susan’s blog for details.
Don’t forget to check out the sneak peaks and giveaways on the Penny Black blog.
OLW106 Rules
1. A ONE-LAYER card is defined as a single layer of card stock folded in half. No other layers allowed!
2. Make a card that incorporates sponging
3. Post your card somewhere online and link back here using the InLinkz button at the bottom of this post. Please make sure you link to the specific post on your blog rather than your blog’s main page.
4. Have Fun!
I have received several requests lately for a sponging video tutorial. I am sorry I don’t have one for you today but I do have the next best thing, a photo tutorial. I will get a sponging video done as soon as I can.
Position your masks first; I find that it helps to use the lines on a cutting mat to get everything square.
Sponge your lightest colour first.
I only used two blues so I started sponging the darker blue on the side I wanted darkest. I even started off the card base to help regulate how much ink I applied. Without picking up more ink I sponged towards the lighter side of the sky as the intensity of the colour faded.
When I am getting close to the coverage I want I blend the ink by sponging in circles instead of dabbing it on.
When I sponged this snowdrift I did not go back to the lighter blue I used the dark blue sponge without picking up more ink. I sponged right on the edge of the post-it mask rubbing it against that edge so the blue would define the snow drift.
I always sponge a little on the bottom edge to define the edge of the panel.
Supplies:
Stamps: Winter Ledge, Silent Night (PB)
Inks: Memento Summer Sky, Nautical Blue, Versafine Onyx Black, Versamark(Tsukineko)
Autumn Leaf
Posted: September 15, 2012 Filed under: CAS, Maple Leaf, OLW, Penny Black 19 Comments
Once again I have combined the One Layer Wednesday challenge with the Less is More challenge. Cheryl challenged us on Wednesday to make an Autumn themed card featuring what we love about the season. For me it is the colours of the leaves. My favourite season is summer but the beautiful colours of fall help me cope with summer’s departure.
The challenge at Less is More today is to incorporate an oval into your card. It only took me three attempts to get my card the way I envisioned it! I stamped the leaf first then positioned an oval mask over it and restamped it and added more colour both on the stamp and by painting on some ink picked up from the stamp pad lid with a small paintbrush and some water. Before lifting the mask again I sponged and restamped the leaf.
I realize that I did a leaf card last week for OLW and Less is More. The layout is identical. Sorry to be so repetitive. The leaves are turning here and so my mind turns to leaf images!
( I finally posted some pics of my daughter at the National Track & Field championships on my other blog)
Supplies:
Stamps: Maple Leaf, …Wishes (Penny Black)
Inks: Memento Rich Cocoa, Rhubarb Stalk, Morocco (Tsukineko)
Simple Foliage
Posted: September 8, 2012 Filed under: CAS, Foliage Fancy, OLW, Penny Black 18 Comments
Susan is hosting the One Layer Wednesday challenge and has challenged us to join in her Gratitude Campaign for 2012. In her words:
The Gratitude Campaign is my annual attempt to save Thanksgiving from the commercial limbo between Halloween and Christmas. I resent that Thanksgiving only gets an end-cap at Target. Those of you who read my other blog know how important an attitude of gratitude is to me, and it’s just sad that Thanksgiving has become an excuse to over-eat rather than an opportunity to jump in a big pile of autumnal gratitude and roll around in it.
I wholeheartedly agree with her so have created two gratitude cards today. The challenge for me is not creating them; it’s mailing them. I’ll keep you posted on my success rate!
The Less is More challenge this week is to create a one layer card featuring Foliage so I combined the two challenges and created the card above.
I used Memento dewdrop inkpads to apply ink directly to the stamp, first a pale orange, then a darker one around the edges of the stamp. I then added text to the leaf stamp by inking the letter background stamp and pressing the two stamps together (often called the ‘kissing’ technique).
I liked the look of the blended leaf so I stamped several more then cropped one out to make a single popped up strip on the two layer card below.
Supplies:
Stamps: Foliage Fancy (Penny Black)
Inks: Memento Cantaloupe, Tangelo, Potter’s Clay (Tsukineko)
Cardstock: Penny Black Mix & Match Papers Grand Canyon
OLW 101 Feeling Blue
Posted: August 15, 2012 Filed under: CAS, OLW, Penny Black, Stamped Landscapes, Winter Ledge 39 Comments
Blue has long been my favourite colour so I thought a One Layer Wednesday challenge with blue would be appropriate. It is a very simple challenge: Feature the colour blue on your one layer card. You can use other colours too but Blue must be the star of the show! To create my card I masked the bottom of the card with a post-it note and then stamped the Penny Black stamp “Winter Ledge” twice, one in versamark, then again slightly lower in black. Next I embossed with clear e.p. I positioned a hill mask and started sponging the sky; when I was happy with it I repositioned the hill mask and sponged again along the edge of the mask to create a snow drift.
I might not get to visit your submissions straight away as I am off to Prince Edward Island with my daughter for six days. She is competing in the Canadian Youth Track and Field Championships and I will be cheering her on and snapping pictures. I look forward to visiting your blogs when I return next week.
I have another card below which I made for the Penny Black blog today. It isn’t one layer but it features the same technique and stamp so I thought I’d post them both together.
Rules for OLW 101
1. A one-layer card is defined as a single layer of card stock folded in half. No other layers allowed!
2. Make a card using blue as your feature colour. Remember to keep embellishments to a minimum and NO ADDITIONAL LAYERS of card stock.
3. Post your card online and link it to the InLinkz button below. If you link to your blog, please link to the specific post, not your blog’s main page.
4. HAVE FUN!
Supplies:
Stamps: Winter Ledge, Christmas Fashion, Winter Magic (PB)
Inks: Memento Summer Sky, Danube Blue, Lulu Lavender, Sweet Plum, Versafine Onyx Black, Versamark(Tsukineko)
Pieces of Sky
Posted: August 12, 2012 Filed under: Birds on wire, CAS, OLW, Wishing You 21 CommentsI managed to create cards for two challenges this afternoon: the OLW challenge Cheryl set us to use some form of transportation and the Less is More challenge to feature fur or feathers. Let me tell you I was not overflowing with ideas for either challenge. But then I noticed the little airplane stamp in the set I used last week with the fish stamp. Perfect for transportation.
One of Chrissie’s cards for the Less is More challenge reminded me of my birds on a wire stamp, as yet uninked. Perfect for feathers.
Have a wonderful week.
Supplies:
Stamps: Wishing You, Birds on Wire, Happy Birthday (PB)
Inks: Memento Summer Sky, Danube Blue, Nautical Blue, Sweet Plum, Versafine Onyx Black(Tsukineko)
Tag time
Posted: August 4, 2012 Filed under: CAS, Free Flight, Hello Gorgeous, OLW, Penny Black 8 Comments
Susan’s OLW challenge this week is to take inspiration from something on her Pure Inspiration board on Pinterest. I picked the line up of tags below as my inspiration then had to work out how to make it one layer.
To keep it one layer I punched a tag mask out of a post it note and sponged a base of Wheat Chalk ink inside the mask. All the stamps are from the Free Flight set except the tiny sentiment. I used the collage stamp to add background to each tag and then used the bird and butterfly as well as the lace edge and the postal part of the collage to be feature images.
Unfortunately when adding the last image to the last tag I smudged ink on the card base. Not wanting to start again I changed the size of the card and continued by adding a sentiment above the tags. It ended up crooked and really did not look good so I began again and ended up adding a tiny sentiment inside a tiny masked tag, then threaded the ribbon through a whole in the card base.
I was happy with my one layer card but didn’t want to waste the tags from my original attempt so I punched them out and made a layered card.
Supplies:
Stamps: Free Flight, Wishes, Hello Gorgeous, Letter Background (PB)
Inks: Memento Rhubarb stalk and Desert Sand, Wheat Versamagic Chalk ink (Tsukineko)
Cardstock: Penny Black Mix & Match Fall Festival
Also: Ribbon, Cord
OLW 97 Line Up
Posted: July 18, 2012 Filed under: CAS, Lace Delight, OLW, Penny Black, Puzzle Parts 6 CommentsI am challenging you to use lines on your one layer card this week. Straight lines, zig-zags or curves, just as long as they are obviously lines.
I created a set of little note cards each stamped in a single colour. The masculine one is full of lines.
When the idea for this little set popped into my mind I thought it would be so simple. But as it turned out, even with my new gridded acrylic block some of these little note cards took 3 or 4 attempts. Even though my lacey note cards are less linear I have still stamped a line or two of lace so I think they scrape in for the challenge too. To see a couple more pretty note card sets visit the Penny Black Blog today.
Supplies
Stamps: Puzzle Parts, Lace Delight, Flourish Thank You, Special Time, Round & Round , Free Flight. (PB)
Ink: Memento Elderberry, Tangelo, Bahama Blue, Rhubarb Stalk (Tsukineko)
OLW97 Rules
1. A one-layer card is defined as a single layer of card stock folded in half. No other layers of card stock allowed.
2. Make a card featuring lines of some sort.
3. Post your card online somewhere and link back to it using the InLinkz tool on the sidebar of Simplicity. If posting to your blog, please link to your OLW blog post, not just the main page of your blog.
4. Have fun getting in line!
I can’t wait to see what you come up with.
OLW Stars and Stripes
Posted: July 5, 2012 Filed under: CAS, OLW 6 Comments
Susan’s challenge for One Layer Wednesday this week is to use stars and stripes, very appropriate for a July 4th challenge. I did not choose to make my card in red, white and blue however; I went for some bright sunny yellow stars.
I realized after I had finished that this almost exactly the layout I used for my last OLW card; sorry for the lack of variety. This simple three star card took three attempts to complete as I smudged yellow ink outside the star on the first two cards. Sigh. Other than that little hitch it was a very straightforward card. I punched the stars out of a post it note to make the mask. I then sponged yellow first, added a straight mask, sponged orange, repositioned the mask and so on.
Hope your week is sunny.
Supplies:
Stamps: Sweet Wishes (Penny Black)
Inks: Memento Daffodil, Cantaloupe, Tangelo & Potter’s Clay (Tsukineko)
OLW 93 In the Kitchen
Posted: June 19, 2012 Filed under: CAS, OLW 12 Comments
Life has been busy here lately with all the end of school stuff going on. I have not had a chance to play along with the One Layer Wednesday challenges. Today I do though because it is my turn to host this week and I am sending you to the kitchen for inspiration. Take a look at your china, your decor, the food in your refrigerator, whatever you like as long as it’s from your kitchen.
I chose the funky travel mug below because those dots were just crying out to be made into a card. I punched a circle in a post-it note to make my mask and sponged Memento Lady Bug, Pear Tart and Summer Sky before completing the card with the Penny Black sentiment Thinking of You.
OLW93 Rules
1. A one-layer card is defined as a single layer of card stock folded in half. No other layers allowed!
2. Create a card inspired by something in your kitchen.
3. Post your creation online and link to it using the InLinkz button below. Please link to the individual post on your blog rather than your blog’s main page.
4. HAVE FUN!
Lace flowers (and a winner)
Posted: May 23, 2012 Filed under: Lace Flower, OLW, Penny Black 3 Comments
I pulled out the Lace Flower stamp and the Floral Thread background stamp again because they work so beautifully together. I am not sure what my colour inspiration was but it is possible a wedding could have a purple colour scheme with yellow flowers I guess?
I stamped the Floral Thread background first on a large panel and then added sponging in Memento Lilac Posies and Dandelion. I then stamped the Lace flower several times on the panel in Versafine Onyx Black. To create the tiles I cut the panel into 1¾” squares and then fiddled around with their positions until I was happy with the arrangement. The sentiment is half of the Blessings stamp I used on my last wedding card.
One Layer Wednesday News
Thank you to everyone who left comments or participated in my first challenge. I was thrilled to look at all the different Mini Masterpieces and now have plenty of inspiration for more of my own. I did click and visit everyones’ submissions but a couple of your blogs would not let me leave a comment-sorry about that.
As promised I have a winner randomly chosen from the cardmakers who took up the challenge. Congratulations to Carol Lucas who made a cleverly framed Mini Masterpiece that had me wondering how she had managed it with only one layer. Carol, I will be in touch to get your address so that you can receive your Soft Wings and Music Background stamps from Penny Black.
The fun continues on Cheryl’s blog this week with her “Something Sweet” challenge.
Supplies
Stamps: Floral Thread, Lace Flower, Blessings(PB)
Ink: Memento Lilac Posies & Dandelion, Versamark (Tsukineko)
Cardstock: Penny Black Mix & Match Fuschia Fantasies & Summer Sun
Heather Telford 