Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Merry Monday #189 - One Layer Card

Hello friends.  Time for another challenge over at Merry Monday, and this week it is to make a one layer card.  This worked out great as it gave me a chance to play with a new Penny Black stamp called Berry Bevy.  Take a look:

  
I used Tumbled Glass and Salty Oceans Distress Inks and a sponging tool to create my background first (and a piece of torn cardstock), and then stamped my image and sentiment in Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  I used a small dot stamp and white ink to stamp over the berries first, and then colored over the white with an R29 and R39 Copic marker (the reds show up brighter over the white than if I had just tried to color over the sponged background).  I also added Dazzling Diamonds (SU!) along the branches to add a little sparkle to my card.


You can see the glitter a little bit better in this close up.  My sentiment is from Cas-ual Fridays Snowy Sayings.  A simple card, but I'm really happy with the way it turned out!  :0)

13 comments:

Cat Craig said...

Gorgeous bit of inking, fabulous card.

Sandee Shanabrough said...

Beautiful background! Such a pretty card!

Fabiola said...

magnifique, j'adore, biz

Nancy R. said...

This is just beautiful...everything about it!

Margaret said...

lovely!

Bonnie said...

A beautiful scene, Marcia! I love the berries and the icy branches! Great sponging too! Thanks for sharing this with us at Merry Monday!

Jean Franks Beck said...

Found you on Merry Monday - this card is stunning! Gorgeous background and design layout, and I love the touch of glitter. Great tip about stamping in white before using Copics, too!

Ann Butler said...

Ditto, everything about this card is just gorgeous.

Birgit said...

Oh wow, this is stunning!! What a fabulous background and beautiful branches. I can see the sparkle. Truly gorgeous!

Linda said...

Oh my, Marcia, this is so beautiful. Love all the detail.s Thanks for joining us this week at Merry Monday.

Bobby said...

Your background inking it fantastic, Marcia, and those berries - Wonderful.

Colleen said...

OMG, Marcia this is stunning!! I love your background...it is a WOW for me! Great card!

Susan Joyce said...

Love the Branch images and the sponging for your background. Thanks for sharing at Merry Monday.