One Layer clouds

Hi everyone,

Since moving out into the countryside, the one thing I appreciate the most is the uninterrupted view of the big sky we have and watching the weather and clouds roll in and out again, so when I saw the challenge at Jennifer styles blog this week for OLW was to use clouds on your card I decided to recreate my favourite sky scene

I love the wispy lines of cloud above a sunset as they change from the usual white grey to a slate grey with lovely highlights underneath....quite different from the sky at the moment as we have just had a downpour!

This is another 4 inch sq card and I have used chalk to make the sky and then used coloursoft pencils to add the clouds. I've double stamped the seed head in black to give the 'silhouette' feel when you are looking at the sunset.

I hope this fits the challenge as my clouds are quite a small part of the scene :)

It's also a one layer challenge tomorrow at Less is More so can't wait to see what Mandi and Chrissie have in store for us:{

Thanks so much for calling by, I'm sure I'll be back over the weekend X



A Summery One Layer Card

Hi Everyone ,

I thought this week I would combine OLW with my LIM card as it's the turn of the nervously anticipated

ONE LAYER WEEK

and the challenge is

IN THE FRAME

We would like to see a frame of some sort or something in a frame... we'd like you to be as inventive as you like.

You could doodle, draw, emboss, ink, paint, colour, print, stamp, emboss resist,  mask or any other method you can come up with to get a frame of sorts into your design.

Over at One Layer Wednesday the theme is summer hols/beach and this week is being hosted by Jennifer and she has a guest designer too :)

Now I do not have any suitable stamps for this theme apart from flip flops , which have been done already , so it was a case of thinking outside the box ....or inside the box when I saw the LIM challenge :)

The scene is actually peeking through an aperture in the card so I hope this still counts as one layer ??

The parasol is a sizzlets die that I've drawn around on the card front and then I used a rectangle nestie placed so as the image extends outside of inner frame and drew around the inside and outside of the nestie, all with pencil.

Then using my craft knife , I cut the aperture either side of the parasol and drew the outer frame in with pen allowing a gap for the sentiment .

I've used Coloursoft Pencils for the Parasol and chalks for the beach scene , adding highlights with pencils and a white gel pen .

Not sure how useful this card will be with a sentiment like that but it just fitted the image nicely and anyway , I really wish I was there so perhaps I'll just keep it to look at on miserable weather days :)

I actually made this card yesterday having spotted the accidental heads up from Chrissie this week on my blogger dashboard .... oops now I've let the cat out of the bag :)

All the challenge details can be found on the links above , why not click and have a go too :)
 

Thanks for calling in today X

Non-floral sympathy card

Hello again , second post today ,

Time is running out for the OLW challenge here so I managed to make my entry this morning .

The requirement is a One Layer Sympathy card without using flowers or tree images so after searching through my stamps I came up with nothing suitable , I've ordered a set of stamps that would be suitable but they have not arrived in time so I decided to use stencils and chalks . I used a nestie to make a stencil and then chalked a dusk skyline , silhouetted hills and then added a few birds , the sentiment is from Stampin Up .
I'm quite pleased how it turned out as the sky colours give the card a tranquil feel and the embossed border frames it nicely ... its surprising what you can produce when the supplies are limited :)

That really is all for today , thanks for looking X