Hi there
It's Saturday and time for a new challenge at Less is More, but I'm sure some of you won't be excited to hear that we're back to the dreaded One Layer week! lol
And this time we want to see your one layer creations combined with...
Monogram isn't an easy theme and then combined with only being able to use the card base makes it much more tricky. I was scratching my head for quite a while thinking about what to do and how to produce what I wanted to do for my DT card but, with a little forward planning I managed to create the vision I had in my mind. Here it is...
I knew I wanted to use this sentiment stamp saying 'friends forever' which has been in my stash, well, forever! I just had to figure out a way of creating the 'FF' behind it and I certainly don't have any alphabet stamps this large! So I printed the 'FF' onto some fairly thin paper then drew around the letters on the reverse with a pencil. Then I scribbled over the front to trace it onto a sheet of masking paper. I tried to cut the letters out with a craft knife but the masking paper dragged a little so I used some tiny decoupage scissors to cut away the negative space. The rest was pretty straightforward. With the masking paper over my card front I ink blended through the letters with light pink ink then stamped the ditsy flowers and leaves, keeping the colours fairly pale. All that was left to do was remove the mask and stamp the sentiment.
Materials used:
- Stamps: Stampin' Up - Stacks of Wishes (sentiment); Wplus9 - Happy Wishes (tiny images)
- Ink: Distress Ink - Spun Sugar; Altenew - Sea Breeze, Soft Lilac, Minty Mint; Versafine - Onyx Black
- Other: Inkadinkado - Stamping Mask Paper
Please give this challenge a go, with a little forward planning it's not as difficult as you first think.