Monochrome for Group of Seven Cardmakers

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This month the Group of Seven is making monochrome cards.

I really enjoy making monochrome cards so I made a few.

First up in shades of pink...

I saw this video and got right to work.  I chose three shades of pink cardstock

and used one for the background and all three to die cut.  The butterfly is a sticker

from Spellbinders.  It's so convenient and I love the layered details.

Then I went with a Christmas card with the same layout.

I strategically stamped with a background stamp on the smallest die cut label and

heat embossed it before stacking the layers and adding a layered die cut snowflake.

I still had the key embossing folder and die set on the table so I used shades of gray

to make a masculine birthday card.  

It's very similar to this card.  I hope you don't mind.

You'll probably be seeing more monochrome cards here in the next month and

my fellow GO girls have some fantastic cards to share with you too.  There's a linky

at the GO7 site if you'd like to join us.

Group of Seven Cardmakers

 

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Diamond Botanical (Taylored Expressions)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Blush Blossom, Pretty in Pink, Merry Merlot, Vellum

Other:  Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers (MB), Criss Cross Motif EF (Spl), Floral Friendship Butterflies Stickers (Spl)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Christmas Story (PB)

Ink:   Whisper White

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Vellum, Blues

Other: Pinpoint Main Street Tags (PS)

Snowflakes EF (MS), White EP, Stitched Alpine Snowflake dies (PS), Silver Twine

Card Recipe (card 3)

Stamps:  Friendship Messages (SSS)

Ink:   Whisper White, Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Going Gray, Smoky Slate, Silver Foil

Other: Captivating Keys EF & Dies (SSS)

Enjoy!

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Torn Edge for Group of Seven Cardmakers

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I hope if you celebrate Christmas it was a joyous holiday for you and

best wishes for a creative and happy New Year.

This month we had a Design Element at Group of Seven.

We tore some paper for our cards.

I've done three cards

First up is a birthday card for hubby.

I've layered some torn vellum with torn woodgrain paper on a background from my stash.

Then some torn vellum over snowflakes from my UFO box.

The stamped snowflake as well as the die cut snowflake, were embossed with 

Distress Embossing Glaze.

Finally are some more elements from my UFO box for a Monarch size

slimline card.

The stamped trees were the starting point for some torn snowdrifts edged

with Dazzling Details.  Snowy has a paper pieced scarf and hat and

snuggles in the snowdrift.  I added some snowfall with Chunky White Frantage.

Challenges:

Group of Seven Cardmakers (Torn Edge)

Penny Black Saturday - (Penny Black Products-Christmas)

Double D - (Winter-Snow Scene)

Simply Clean & Simple - ATG CAS

 

 

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Easy Expressions Original (Ton)

Ink:   VersaMark, Rustic Wilderness

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Mixed Media, Woodgrain (TH), Vellum, Garden Green, Baked Brown Sugar (SU)

Other:  Botanicuts Pine Bough (Greetery), Easy Expressions Die (ton), Lindy's Magicals Powders

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Dazzling Snowflake (HA)

Ink:   VersaMark

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Vellum, Silver Foil

Other:  Speckled Egg Distress Embossing Glaze, Snowflake Duo Die (PB), Many Thanks Die (PB), Stitched Rectangle Die (SSS)

Card Recipe (card 3)

Stamps:  All Things Evergreen, Snowy, Merry Up (all PB)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black, Mossy Meadow, Soft Seafoam (SU)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, DSP (ret SU)

Other:  Frosty's Snow Die (PB), Dazzling Details (SU), Chunky White EP (Stamplorations)

Enjoy!

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Stenciling over Heat Embossing with GO7

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

This month the Group of Sever Cardmakers had a fun technique.  I liked it so much

that I did several cards.

First up is actually the last card I did.

I used a music background stamp from Penny Black and stamped with VersaMark on

Neenah Solar White cardstock.  I opted for this flower stencil, also from Penny Black since

it had fairly large areas of stenciling.  A foiled sentiment finished it off.

Next up...

I stamped a snowflake background stamp from Hero Arts with VersaMark and used

white embossing again.  I made a homemade stencil with a pennant die and vellum and

blended some Simon Says Pawsitively Saturated Ink through the stencil.

After adding some snowflakes from my stash, I stamped and used red powder to 

emboss the sentiment. You can see the embossed background better in the next photo.

 

Then....

I used a Christmas script stamp for the background and a Tim Holtz stencil with 

another foiled sentiment. (Sorry for the glare.)

And using the same background stamp...

I used gold embossing powder for this one and another Tim Holtz stencil.

I wasn't expecting to like this as much, but I think it's my favorite.

I found this funky bow in my twine box.  I'm not sure what I was trying to do

when I tied it, but I thought it looked good with this card.  It's always nice to get some

of those UFOs on a card!

There are tutorials and a linky on the Group of Seven Cardmakers blog if you'd like 

to try this and share your results with us.

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Music Background (PB)

Ink:   VersaMark, (Festive Berries, Candied Apple, Rustic Wilderness (DI)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Real Red (SU)

Other:  White EP, Flower Dance Stencil (PB)

Card Recipe (Card 2)

Stamps:  Hand Drawn Snowflakes Bold Prints (HA), Botanical Blocks IV (PTI)

Ink:   VersaMark, Field (SSS)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Vellum for stencil

Other: White EP, Red EP, Stacking Pennants Die (Honey Bee)

Card Recipe (card 3)

Stamps:  Christmas Story Background (PB)

Ink:   VersaMark, Festive Berries, Lumberjack Plaid, Mustard Seed (DI)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Real Red (SU)

Other: White EP, Poinsettia Duo Layering Stencil (TH)

Card Recipe (card 4)

Stamps:  Christmas Story Background (PB)

Ink:   VersaMark, Lumberjack Plaid, Barn Door, Rustic Wilderness (DI)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Gold Foil (SU), Vellum

Other: Gold EP, Poinsettia Layering Stencil (TH), Red Twine (stash)

Enjoy!

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