August 29, 2015

Inkspirational Designer's Choice Challenge - One Layer

Hey there, Inkspirational fans!  I'm back!  I took August off to recharge and enjoy my holidays but I'm glad to be back at it with my Ink girls!  This time the challenge is Designer's Choice and it was our lovely teammate, Nonni's turn.  She chose one of my favourite kind of cards to make.  One Layer!!


I used to be so afraid of making one layered cards and now I have a hard time not making them. :-).  I do hope you'll all take the plunge and try a one layer card.  Just remember, a one layer card uses just the card base and no additional layers of paper or dies.  I would think that a limited use of some embellishments (washi tape, sequins, enamel dots, rhinestones, and maybe a small amount of ribbon) would be fine to include as long as you don't go crazy with it.  :-). Anyway, here's what I came up with...


I decided to play around with a new stamp set by Waffle Flower that I had won recently.  It's called Lotus.  It's gorgeous.  I just love all the images and sentiments.  I started off by stamping my lotus pads and then masking them I stamped the lotus flowers.  I used back StazOn ink as I was painting them using Distress ink.  For the green I used mowed lawn and the pink was Victorian velvet.  The blue was broken china and I faded it out as I went up the card.  Then I stamped the sentiment ink black.  I stamped the dragonfly in dove gray StazOn and then went over the body with a purple Spectrum Noir marker and added some dazzling diamonds (SU!) glitter to the wings.  I look forward to playing around with this set some more!  :-)

So, come on over to Inkspirational and check out what the rest of the team made!  Amazing work, as usual.  Plus, we have a super talented Guest Designer, Ellie of My Creative Moments, joining us.  Her project is just awesome!  Hope you'll join us and share your one layer wonders!

Thanks for stopping by and have a fantastic day!

I'm going to link up to the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More - clean and simple
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - anything goes
Addicted to CAS - code word is Blue 

16 comments:

  1. What great stamps and perfectly used! I love the layout. Beautiful!

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  2. I am the same as you, love one layer. Your masking and painting is superb x

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  3. I am not even surprised that you knocked this challenge out of the park! One layer and ink is totally a strength of yours! Simply beautiful coloring and a fun scene!
    - Shauna

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  4. Your lotus card is absolutely gorgeous, Kim! Your design, sponging and colouring are a marvelous combination. The wee dragonfly: perfect special touch! I've fallen behind in commenting again, but I've seen (via Feedly), gazed at, admired, oohed and ahhed over all your fabulous creations! Aiming to stay caught up as of now!
    Hugs~c

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  5. A really beautiful card Kim, loving the stamps!

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  6. This is a beautiful card......I always find one layer hard...so don't do any! You have the art down to a tee!

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  7. Fabulous one layer card, Kim! Love the colours you have used for the gorgeous lotus and way you have faded out the blue. Thanks for sharing with us at ATCAS :)

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  8. Beautiful job of masking and colouring Kim!! Your Lotus flowers are gorgeous, as is the beautiful blue backdrop. Thanks for playing along at ATCAS.

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  9. A masterclass Kim. You really do one layer cards well and this one is beautiful.

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  10. Such a beautiful one layer card! Perfect! Thanks for joining us over at ATCAS!

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  11. Fabulous one layer card, Kim. Great masking and I love the way you've faded out the blue.
    Thanks for sharing at ATSM this week, Anita x

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  12. This is a beautiful one layer card...the coloring is fab and the little dragonfly made me smile! Thanks for joining us at ATCAS.

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  13. I just have one word......GORGEOUS!!!

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  14. This is so beautiful! The colors are so vibrant! GORGEOUS card! Thanks so much for playing along with us for Anything Goes week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!

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  15. A beautiful OLC, Kim. Those stamps are fab and you made the most of them.
    Thanks so much for sharing at ATSM. :0)

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