Final Post of the Weekend - Inspired by My Pending Summer Holiday!

So this card is working with the colours of my last card...Real Red, Tangerine Tango, Daffodil Yellow and Olive Green.  They just shout SUMMER to me which is the theme over on the Allsorts Challenge!

I've made this user Summer Silhouettes with a greeting from Flower Patch stamp sets, both from Stampin' Up!  The photo has a lovely shadow cast from my blind that I hope you can ignore!

I was going for another one-layer card so I made a clear line across the card with Post-Its and started stamping my flowers and foliage.  I added the stems, blended the green around the bottom of the leaves and added the greeting.....using an acrylic block I'd just cleaned....and left a splodge just below the sentiment, hence the carefully placed butterfly from the Beautiful Wings Sizzlits :-)

This is a close up of the flowers, finished with a touch of glamour dust (as usual). So, as the card was no longer one layer, I cut it down, matted it to Real Red before sticking to a card blank.

Now here's the question:  What does One-Layer mean to you?

Does it allow for embellishments, matting and glitter or is it as the name suggest strictly ONE-LAYER?

I'd be interested to know what you think :-)

In the meantime, I'm also entering this in to the following challenges:

Little Tangles  {Birthday}

Addicted to Stamping  {Anything Goes}

Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge  {Masking}

My Time To Craft  {Recipe: 1 Die Cut (Butterfly), 2 Images (Flowers and Leaves), 3 Flowers (3 Red ones, 3 yellow ones) }

Thanks for looking.  Feel free to leave me a link in my comments to visit your pages!

Linda

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One Layer Madness

Inspired by Less is More yesterday I've been making more one layer cards this weekend....and just before the light dies, I've managed to get (hopefully) decent pictures.

This card is for the One Layer Simplicity Challenge: Strip Down! Yes!  I've been crafting in my underwear :-)  Not really!

The challenge is to create a strip down the side of the card.  I masked my strip with Post-Its and then used the flowers and leaves from Garden in Bloom (masking those where necessary) to create a pretty pattern on the left side.  I added the greeting and the butterfly (also from Garden in Bloom) to finish it off...not forgetting scribbling liquid pearls in the centre of the flowers.

I'm also entering this in to the following challenges:

Happy Little Stampers August CAS Challenge   {Masking}

CAS-ual Fridays   {Pretty Patterns}

Addicted to Stamping  {Anything goes}

Thanks for looking

BFN

Linda

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One Layer Challenge - Woohoo!

I like the one layer challenges.  They really are a challenge to me!  The challenge on Less is More these week was a double whammy challenge for me cos it's also The Eyes Have it!

Having hunted high and low for something with eyes in my stash I found a stamp set I had from years back when my boys were younger....cute dinosaurs!

And here it is:

Using a similar technique to Chrissie, I stamped the cutie first then masked him.  I used PostIt notes to mask the circle off and sponged the background with Bashful Blue and Pacific Point with a little Daffodil Delight thrown in to lighten it.

I then removed all the masks and coloured the dinosaur in and embossed lines across the card to add interest.  Finally I added a Real Red greeting from Endless Birthday Wishes.

As well as Less is More today, I took inspiration from Case This Sketch:

And I'm also entering it in the following challenges:
Happy Little Stampers  {Masking}

Hope you like it.

BFN
Linda

The Paper Players - Winner!

Thanks to LeAnne over on the Paper Players Challenge blog:

She thought my One layer masculine card was a Cut Above this week!  Thanks, LeAnne.  I'm looking forward to the next challenge :-)

BFN
Linda

Another Colour Challenge - Subtle!

Just one more....before I throw my mask away.  This time I went with the challenge over on Colour Me Card Challenge.  Their theme is....subtle!

This is what I have:

I added a bit of glamour dusk for sparkle too!  Maybe a little too subtle :-)

BFN

Linds 

Only 3 Stamps on Less is More

Now you know by now that Less is More is one of my favourite challenges, but I always find the one-layer challenges…er….challenging! 

Can’t help but feel like a bit of a cheat with this fab meadow stamp from Indigo Blu though *snigger*.  Although you can’t really tell from my photo I’ve used my ink duster to add Baja Breeze “wash”  to the card (love ink dusters!).   I’ve added a little dragonfly stamp from Cardio and a greeting from Stampin’ Up ….that equals 3 stamps, so it can’t be cheating, right? :-)
Hope you like it.
I’m also entering this in the following challenges:
Crafty Catz {Happy Birthday}
BFN
Linda
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