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Saturday 8 November 2008

Stamp Something - Simple


This week's challenge on Stamp Something is in celebration of six months of creating challenges. Congratulations to them! So, the brief is to: "Make us a card using only one layer of cardstock. You can embellish it, stamp it, color it, do anything you wish, but you must only use one layer!"
I've had a long but enjoyable day teaching quilting at Lorne Hill Farm and I decided that something simple was just what I needed :). So I got out the first stamps I ever bought, which come from http://www.laviniastamps.co.uk/lavinia.html .
I went to Sewing for Pleasure a couple of years back and diverted into the Hobbycraft section where I came across Tracey Dutton demonstrating her stamps. She was working with a brayer and Adirondack dye inks to produce backgrounds on which she used gorgeous sillhouette stamps. I was hooked immediately :). The stamps weren't too pricy either, (though I seemed to "need" rather a lot when I looked at them) nor were the ink pads, or the brayer. But oh dear the total on the credit card slip was alarming, how ever did such a small bag of stuff cost so much?!
I try to avoid buying too many silhouette stamps these days, it's so much fun to paint/ colour images. But I do still love these stamps. I made some brayered backgrounds tonight that I didn't like, which will cut up for ATCs, and in the end I settled on a chalk ink background. I'd like to call this card New Dawn and have it symbolise a new birth, but this foal is not that young, his tail is far too long for a new born :). Still a lovely stamp though. I've added no embellishments at all and really kept this simple, I feel it works better like this. I've mounted my one piece of cardstock onto a card, I hope this meets the challenge requirements. It's just too messy a technique to use direct onto the card!

10 comments:

  1. goregous! beautiful stampin..and even more beautiful coloring..love those color tones..yummy!

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  2. Gorgeous card. I love it.I like when there are not too many details on a card.
    Hugs Vanja

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  3. wow that is gorgeous - much better than plain brayering

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  4. This is lovely Anne, the chalk pastel background is stunning....and I love those stamps!

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  5. I am in awe of your talent!!! So simple, yet so beautiful! I must try something similar. And thanks for your comments on my blog. I totally agree! I'm off to zip things up a bit! Have a great day!

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  6. This is just beautiful! Love that background, gorgeous. Beautiful images too. Thanks for playing! :)

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  7. I love your stamps, and they look so much better in brown than they would in black...

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  8. Your background is just beautiful! Silhouette stamps just scream for something like this. Well done.

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  9. Oh this is gorgeous, I have those tall tree stamps - like you I got sucked in when I saw Tracy Dutton at a craft event - the ArtStamps Scotland one I think - and like you my plastic took a bashing that day - but hey we NEEEED the stash right!

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  10. Soo pretty!! Love the images adn the gorgeous colors! thanks for playing along!

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