Tuesday 3 November 2015

Time Out 43 and Just Us Girls Wildcard

Tonight when I got home from school, I couldn't wait to get into my craft room. After days of creative drought, I had an idea I wanted to try out. I know it's not a new technique but I've never tried out the sponging of snowy hills and trees quite like this, so it's new to me and I wanted to see if I could do it as a one-layer card.

I don't often play at the Time Out Challenge and have never played at Just Us Girls, although I like to look each week at the amazing entries at those sites.


I've often struggled with one-layer cards, so wanted to enter this challenge to stretch me a bit. The temptation to sneak layers in was strong. I resisted, but there might have to be a take 2 on this card at a later date!

The challenge at Time Out is Christmas with an optional twist of pink and/or purple.





The stars have been stamped over the sponging using silver ink after the trees had been masked off. I ummed and ahhed over embossing the sentiment in silver but went for black to balance the strength of the black trees.

Ingredients
Card: Heavy weight Whisper White
Stamps: Festival of Trees, Endless Wishes, Holly Jolly Greetings
Ink: Island  Indigo, Blackberry Bliss, Silver, Tuxedo Black.
All products are Stampin' Up.






15 comments:

  1. This is beautiful! You did a wonderful job with the masking and sponging......lovely colors! So happy to have you join us this week at Just Us Girls. I hope to see you in our gallery again.

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  2. Oh WOW what an amazing job you have done here. Love the non traditional Christmas colours. Beautiful blending and those trees stand out so well. Love the touch of gold with your stars. So glad you have joined us this week after much looking. Hope you will now be back again soon at Just Us Girls. Thanks.

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  3. it's gorgeous - love the the "sky"colours

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  4. Oh my goodness this is just gorgeous! I definitely think your creative drought is over! I'm seriously in awe! Thanks for playing with Just Us Girls and at Time Out!

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  5. this is gorgeous Jan, you have created a wonderful scene. You masked those hills to perfection. You should play along with us more! Great to see you at Time Out x

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  6. This scene is absolutely gorgeous! You don't look like you were in a slump to me! So impressed! Thanks for linking up with us over at Just Us Girls!

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  7. This is stellar! Absolutely beautiful card 😃

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  8. You've made a lovely scene and the colours are great

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  9. Wow! Jan, this is such a beautiful winter scene ... gorgeous sponging and such wonderful balance between all the elements! Delighted to have you playing along with us at Time Out with this beauty! Anita :)

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