Happy Wednesday!! It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps. This week it might be a little bit of a challenge: Create a card using Black & White.
And here is the card I created:
I just happened to have the perfect pack of paper sitting on my desk after the last card I created! It has a lot of bright colors, but it also has several sheets of these black and white patterns. It seemed the perfect color combo for an elegant birthday card, and since there were "flowers" on the papers, I decided to pull out one of my all-time favorite stamps: Vase of Tulips. At first I thought to leave it uncolored, but decided to at the tiniest bit of gray to the tulips and color the vase. Then the leaves looked a little strange, so I colored them with a different shade of light gray, and man do I LOVE how it turned out!! To finish it all off, I added some black gems. They were actually the last six left on the sheet, so I ended up with a beautiful card AND used some of my stash!! Except for the card base and the large background layer, all the papers, black mats and white card stock were cut from scraps!
Thanks for stopping by! Make sure you head on over to The House blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has done with this challenge. And if you "need" any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your entire order coupon code over in my lift sidebar.
Supplies:
Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Vase of Tulips" and "Happy Birthday"
Dies: Verve "Mini Classy Labels"
Challenges:
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper--anything goes with patterned paper
Die Cut Divas--birthdays
Love To Craft Challenge Blog #59--anything goes
Cheerful Sketches--sketch
Sheepski Designs #51--layer it up
We Love Chocolate Baroque--handcolored or paper pieced image
CRAFT Rocket #182--birthday
Cardz TV #142--anything goes
STAMPlorations Theme and Photo Prompt--stamps +two colors (I used black and white)
Penny's Challenge #298--anything goes
Creative Moments #216--anything goes
Sweet Stampers #57--birthday
Simon Says Stamp Monday--beautiful blooms
Beautiful monochrome card love the vase of flowers and your selection of papers
ReplyDeleteCarol x
Gorgeous card Heather with all those layers and your amazing coloring on this!
ReplyDeleteA really lovely creation, love the black and white, great papers, design and a super image with great colouring. Thank you for joining our 'Hand coloured/Paper piecing challenge at We Love Chocolate Baroque.
ReplyDeleteKath x
A black and white beauty, Heather, and I love the sketch too! Thanks for playing again at Die Cut Diva's birthday challenge!!
ReplyDeleteAwesome job with that sketch! Wow! Love all your black and white designer papers on this too. That vase looks superb in black and white.
ReplyDeleteHow lovely this looks in the monochromatic colours and clever combining of DP's, thanks so much for joining in with our June theme at We Love Chocolate Baroque challenge.
ReplyDeleteB x
I am so glad you coloured your vase of tulips as they look fantastic following your monochrome theme. They coordinate beautifully with those papers too. Thanks so much for joining us at we love Chocolate Baroque this month xx
ReplyDeleteThose papers you had on hand were perfect for this black & white challenge! Even the vase of tulips looks great with the monochromatic color and I love that vertical border that looks like a fancy ribbon! Very pretty!
ReplyDeleteOh wow what a beautiful card - love the vase of tulips, never would have thought to do it in grays but it is stunning. Then all the different DP you have used. Certainly hit this out of the park.
ReplyDeleteThe first thing I thought when I saw your beautiful card was how elegant and dignified it is. Lovely. So glad you joined us at Die Cut Divas for our Birthday challenge
ReplyDeleteGorgeous monochrome card following our sketch. Love the vase with tulips and your papers.
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining Cheerful Sketches.
xxx Margreet DT
It's not easy creating a monochrome design but you rocked this! Super card. thanks for linking up at STAMPlorations. :)
ReplyDeleteSuch an elegant design - love all the layers.
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us at Penny's Challenge.
Helen x
Holy cow! So glad you had the perfect paper pack just sitting there! This card is gorgeous, Heather! Thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteSuch a woderful card.
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining us at the Sweet Stampers and i hope to see you again.
Hugs
Kuni
Hi Heather,
ReplyDeleteYour card is so lovely in black and white. The sketch is perfectly done!
Thanks for joining us at Cheerfulsketches.
love your card, awesome in those grayscales!
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining our sketchchallenge.
Nancy
Cheerful Sketches
Brilliant use of the sketch. Love the papers you chose.
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us at Craftyhazelnuts patterned paper challenge blog.
Happy crafting!
Catherine x DT
Me again!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing it with us at the Love to Craft Challenge too.
Helen x