little claire challenge #43 monotone

Hello girls 

well I've been dying to post this card ever since i was asked to be a guest designer for this little Claire challenge, i bought the new stamps and was itching to play, i wanted to use one colour on a card but didn't really know what to do so i sat and got my little boy to put his and in my vast collection of pro markers and my daughter to close her eyes and pick me out a stamp and the results are below, i was very pleased with the results let me know what you think.

these two pictures show the things i used to make the card the grey card on the right was a opalescent grey it added a beautiful subtle shimmer to the finished card.

1.  take a 6x6in card 300gsm and remove half of the front .

 2. mat and layer  the inside panel with 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 of black card 5x5 grey opalescent card and 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 piece of white do the same to the front panel just reduce the sizes and put this to one side

3. take an a4 piece of white card and take the small bunch of tulips and randomly stamp remembering to go over the edges i used black tuxedo and the pro markers i had chosen the cool grey's selection, colour the images when finished take a black fine liner and do three dots in the white spaces this fills the areas without being overpowering.

4. taking the now decorated A4 sheet cut out  two scalloped circle from your collection  big enough to leave a small border of grey around the edges mount one of the circles on the back panel and decorate i used buttons and flowers from my sizzlets collection of dies. i then stamped a sentiment coloured in using my pens and mounted this onto a small punched circle and mounted this in the middle of the panel

5.mount the remaining scalloped circle onto the front panel so it covers the back panel but you can still see the buttons and flower,s stamp the cat image colour and cut out and mount this onto a slightly larger grey circle. mount onto scalloped circle and add a few more buttons and flowers i also used a few swirly accents.

6. use the black fine liner to put fake stitches around both grey panels .

7. add pearls to the corners and cosmic shimmer pearls to the outer edge of the scalloped circle and there you have it a simple card using a few ingredients

thank you for stopping by

happy crafting Lisa xxxxxxx