Less Is More Challenge #421

Popping in for another "drive by" post where I'm sharing a card I created for the Less is More challenge blog this week.  I was drawn to the  prompt of Borders.

I've recently revamped some of my stamp storage and realized that I have tons of stamps from PaperTrey Ink that I rarely use anymore.  Today was time to remedy that. 

I stamped out the border in a crisp black pigment ink.  I heat embossed the sentiment and large heart in a platinum embossing powder, fussy cutting the heart once cool.  I then did a pad to paper technique with my embossing ink to create a swatch of platinum paper from which I die cut the smaller hearts.  I layered the panel on top of a piece of embossed card stock and adhered the entire thing to my card base for a very simple and yet elegant look.  

Supplies:

PaperTrey Ink - stamp set (so old it's unlabeled)

Martha Stewart - heart punch

Ranger - Liquid Platinum embossing powder

Tonic Studios - Champagne Harlequin Embossed Cardstock 

Stay safe and healthy my friends!  

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Happy Crafting!

Jules

Less Is More Challenge #415

My card today was created with the current theme over at the Less Is More challenge blog in mind.  Their prompt is to use the colors raspberry, red and grey which is one I can totally embrace.

In keeping with their Clean and Simple philosophy I kept my card elements very minimal.

I did some stamp masking to create depth and Copic markers for the coloring.  Hardly gets simpler.

Supplies:

Memory Box - Love Grows stamp set (mushroom)

Ellen Hutson - Snaile It stamp set (sentiment)

Stay healthy my friends!  

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Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules

Revisiting My One Layer Card

Remember this one layer card post from awhile back?  If you don't, that's ok.  It wasn't that memorable except for my exasperating rant.  :-) 

The card posted that day was my fourth attempt at one layer.  Today I'm going to share with you my first three (failed) attempts at creating a "simple" one layer card.  (Who coined "Clean and Simple" anyway?)

As you will see, today's card uses an entirely different color scheme than the one linked above.  I actually like today's combination better but after three failed attempts I began to think my choices were jinxed and switched them out on my final attempt.  Ha!  (It couldn't possibly be me!)

Card #1

You're looking at this saying "What's wrong with this card front?"  Well, the sentiment position was aesthetically misplaced, throwing off the balance of the card.  Soooooo I cut the panel down substantially on the bottom edge which in the end makes it a non traditional sized card on a black card base.  (It's no longer 4.25 x 5.5.  A good save in my opinion but obviously it's no longer a one layer card.)   

Card #2

I'm sure you can all figure out what happened to this one.  I mucked up the sentiment which was originally black ink on the white card front.  I did what we all do (right???) and slapped a wide sentiment strip on top and saved the card.  (But not the challenge. That silly sentiment strip bumped it to a two layer card.)

Card #3

Yep.  Another boo-boo.  This time it was a big old black mark on the white card front.  I saved it but cutting down the foliage into a long strip, matting it to black cardstock and then adhering the whole thing down on a new card base.  By now I'm crangy (that self anger that accompanies multiple crafting mistakes) and not willing to make any more boo-boos so I took the safe way out and used another sentiment strip greeting...'cause it was no longer a single layer card anyway!

Now you know why I despise one layer cards.  :-)  And as a reminder of my original post, here was my entry into the challenge.....

You may recall that I mentioned that I flubbed this one too.  I wanted my foliage on the left (see all of the ones above) but after removing the card base from my Misti I saw that I'd stamped it upside down.  *sigh*  There was not going to be a fifth attempt. 

If you stuck around this far, thank you.  I do hope we're still friends after your glimpse in the OCD, Crangy thought process of JulieWorld.  :-)


I'd give you the supply list but I'm so over this..... *wink*
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Happy Crafting!

Jules

Two Challenges / One Card ---- Perfectly CAS #5 and Less is More #411

I have a very full house and a tight crafting schedule as of late so today I'm conquering two different blog challenges with one card.  The theme of both challenges is to create a one layered card.  I've played along with the first challenge several times however this is my first time participating in the second challenge.  

Perfectly CAS

Less is More

Before I show you my card I'd like to address the whole "one layer" thing.  You can go back through my blog and even further back on my IG account and the only single layered cards you {might} see are the result of an online card class.   Why is that you ask?  Well, I don't like them much.  LOL!  I always thought it was because I considered them too flimsy but now that I've tackled the process once again I've decided it's because there just isn't any way to fix boo boos and Julie is the Queen of Boo Boos.   Today's card is my 4th attempt at this design and even now, it's not what I'd wanted.  I did salvage my previous three cards by cutting/pasting/covering etc and I'll post them sometime soon.  For now I have this and I'm calling it DONE.

The sentiment stamp and the greenery stamp are from two different sets designed by The Stamp Market.  The tiny dot is from an older Simon Says Stamp set.  

Remember when I said that even this 4th attempt wasn't what I'd envisioned?  Well, that's because the darned strip is supposed to be on the left side of the card front.  I got all discombobulated by having to put an entire 5.5" x 8.5" piece of card stock in my Misti.  Oy!  (I managed to get this part right during my first three attempts but those each had various other issues.)  Trust me when I say, there was NOT going to be a 5th attempt.

A closer look at the stamping.  

The recipient of this card will have absolutely no idea that it took me the better part of two days to create it.  Seriously.  So while earlier this week I mentioned that today's card would be even simpler than Monday's I obviously meant "in appearance" and not "in time spent."  I think my one layer days are officially over.  Been there.   Done that.  Wasn't fun. 

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Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules