Saturday, January 3, 2015

Make It Monday #195 A la Carte Challenge-Camouflaging Die-Cuts #193

Happy Sunday!! It is back to work tomorrow. The vacation flew by and has been just what I needed. This week will be busy with getting ready for a baby shower that is being held at my house in honor of a co-worker. I have a lot of cooking to do!

Today I am sharing a card I created for Paper Trey Ink's "Make It Monday #195 A la Carte Challenge." The challenge was to use one of this year's many videos to create a card. I chose the "Camouflaging Die-Cuts #193" as the inspiration for my card.


In Laura's video, she used ink for her camouflage. I chose to use ink AND stamping to create my card. This card was actually an evolution of sorts. I attempted to use "Enchanted Evening," "Spring Rain," and "Blueberry Sky" inks to create the shading but I just could not get the look I wanted with just the inks. I then decided that I would use Paper Trey Ink's "Ombre Builders" stamp set to stamp a pattern over the shaded ink. I think this was the right choice!!


I also used Wink of Stella clear pen over the die cut word. It is hard to see this in the photo but in real life, it makes the word pop a little off the card.

That is all for today. Thank you for stopping by!!


Supplies:
Paper-Paper Trey Ink-White
Inks-Paper Trey Ink "Spring Rain," "Enchanted Evening" and "Blueberry Sky."
Die-Paper Trey Ink-Banner Die, Mama Elephant "Happy" and Lil' Inkers Stitched Rectangle
Stamps-Paper Trey Ink-"Ombre Builders," Mama Elephant "Happy Everything"
Other-Sequins, Wink of Stella Clear Pen, Glue Dots, Foam Adhesive, Sizzix Big Shot Machine

9 comments:

Becca Cruger said...

This is really cool! I think the pattern addition was a good choice!

~amy~ said...

This is beautiful!

Joy2Scrapbook said...

Love the technique, your stripes worked perfectly with it. Beautiful card!

Julie said...

awesome!

Anita in France said...

This is so cool, Nora ... love how you added stamping to Laura's technique, it gives such an impression of additional dimension ... brilliant! Happy New Year! Anita :)

Taunya Butler said...

Nora - Wowee!! I love this card and you completely WOWed me!! I am in love with this new die cut craze with the words like this - now I just have to be brave enough to give it a try!! Thanks for showing me yet another great way I could do it!! You should go enter this card in the Virginia's View challenge - this card meets the criteria perfectly!!

Inkyfingers said...

HI Nora,
It was good to hear from you again and I love the ombre effect you achieved with this card and the half covered die cut word is so good!
You wanted to know how to import a digi stamp into Silhouette Studio software and I used this you tube video to help me so you might find it useful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zn0EFh3Ynk

I read through your goals and was interested in the one about making a video. This is something I have toyed with bu never been able try. If you get any tips on how to do it, could you let me know.

I hope you are feeling better now and that you still managed to enjoy Christmas.
Hugs
Carol x

DoofyJEss2 said...

Love all the white space and blues!!!

Kim Heggins said...

Oh boy...had no clue I was this far behind. So sorry.
Another fabulous card. I love this technique and you totally rocked it with this card.