Dream Valley #17 - Monochromatic

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Hello everyone, it's time for another challenge at Dream Valley Challenges, and the theme this month is Monochrome. So everything on the card needs to be of one colour, although if you're colouring a character you can still use skin tones of course.

 

Our sponsor this fortnight is One Stop Card Crafts, and a lucky winner will receive a £10 gift certificate for their store!

This is the card I made as my DT project....as you see I chose blue-green as my colour.  I used my new Stempelglede stamp, which I finally treated myself to (available from Quixotic Paperie), and stamped it using Versafine black ink onto gloss paper. Then I fussy cut around the edge of the image to give it a deckle-edge (you can see that better in one of the close ups below), then inked around the edge using some Clearsnap fluid chalk ink in Prussian Blue. Papers were also inked with Prussian Blue and I added some hand-stitching.

I made the embellishments using some laser-cut chipboards from Make It Crafty - a flourish and 2 snowflakes layered up together (an idea I saw on Elaine's beautiful blog). The chipboards were coated in some Adirondack acrylic paint in Cloud Blue and I sprinkled some glamour dust into the paint as it was drying to give them lots of sparkle. A gem was placed in the centre of the snowflakes, and a Prima flower and a pearl spray were placed next to the flourish. Some blue-green organza ribbon and ric-rac finish it all off.

Chipboard flourish coated in acrylic paint and glamour dust

2 snowflakes coated in paint and glamour dust and layered up with a gemstone

Image: Vintage Christmas by Stempelglede

DPs: K&Co and Prima Annalee

Chipboard flourish and snowflakes: by Make It Crafty, available from Quixotic Paperie

Flower: Prima, Sugar Plum roses in Caribbean

Pearl spray: Wild Orchid Crafts

Other: Adirondack acrylic paint dabber, cloud blue; glamour dust;

Clearsnap Cats Eye fluid chalk in Prussian Blue; computer-printed sentiment

Doily, gem & ribbons from my craft stash

I'd like to enter this card in these challenges:

Crafts & Me - Flowers
Crafty Emma's Store - Totally gorjusss/pretty girls

Crafty Purple Frog - Lots of layers

Delightful Challenges - Pearls & swirls

Glitter Geeks - Shabby chic

Kaboodle Doodles - Use a doily

Magical Mondays - Christmas in September (2nd entry)

Paper and Such Design - Recipe challenge (2nd entry) (I chose Ribbon / designer paper / 1 flower)

Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes

Top Tip Tuesday - 2 or more ribbons (ric rac ribbon placed on top of spotty organza ribbon)

And my tip for Top Tip Tuesday: when handstitching your card, paper prick the paper along the edge of a ruler first - not only does it make the stitches neat and evenly spaced but it is so much easier to sew through the paper.

For more monochromatic projects and ideas, check out the challenge blog and see what my teamies have come up with - I can tell you they've made some beauties!

Happy crafting!