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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Playing with Snowflakes

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I've been trying to clean up some of the stack left on my table.

Both of these were made from some gel plate pieces that had been stenciled

with Wendy Vecchi stenciling paste.

First up has some Penny Black snowflakes cut from Glimmer Paper on

a piece of stenciled snowflakes.

I'll take this over to the Penny Black Saturday Challenge.

Next up uses another piece cut from this background with some stitched 

snowflakes from Poppystamps.  I'll enter this one into the Poppystamps Challenge.

And I'll take my new Stitched Snowflake dies over to Darnell's NBUS challenge.

I have celebrated the holidays with bright lights, lots of tasty goodies, making, 

sending and receiving Christmas cards (and now thank you cards), and most importantly,

spending time with family and friends.

Challenges:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge:  ATG-Optional Christmas

Poppystamps Challenge: Happy Holly Days

NBUS - Never Before Used Schtuff

  

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Special Wishes (PB)

Ink:   Pacific Point

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Sparkle Glimmer (SU)

Other:  Gel Plate, Snowflake Duo Dies (PB), Snowdance Stencil (PB), Embossing Paste (Wendy Vecchi)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Itty Bitty Basics (MFT)

Ink:   Pacific Point    

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Sparkle Glimmer (SU)

Other: Stitched Alpine Snowflakes Dies (PS), Gel Plate, Snowdance Stencil (PB), Embossing Paste (Wendy Vecchi), Subtle EF (SU)

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