I never, never, EVER get tired of the shifting challenges from
Just Us Girls!
Every week of the month, it's a little something different, and THIS week,
even the COLOR challenge is different from the last time -
we're playing with MONOCHROMATIC color!
Oh, HOW IS LOVED THIS! It made me look HARD at my stash of
goodies, but THEN I remembered one, little thing... INK!!!! Oh, yeah!
And I ADORE meeting a challenge with enthusiasm and creative spirit!
So, in case you're interested, here's a few tips on how I went MONOCHROMATIC!
I made some cloud masks with post-its and placed them on a panel
and then stamped it along the bottom of the Oatmeal panel in
three different shades of blue, starting lightest to darkest. I did
not apply full pressure to the stamp, to allow vacancies in the
ink. TRUST me, this effect was EXACTLY what I wanted!
In the final layer, I sprayed dark blue SMOOCH spray from
Clearsnap, direct to the stamp. With a dry piece of sponge I
dragged the ink across the pattern of the stamp, stamped it to
the foreground of the panel and then dragged the foreground
with the sponge to smudge the pattern just a bit. THIS made
the deck pattern turn into SEA, right before my eyes! COOL!
Repeating with the same ink colors, ink was sponged over the cloud masks and across the sky.
I removed the masks, sponged a bit more ink onto the white of the cloud, until
and finished off a darling nautical SCENE, 'cause I LOVE me a "scene" card!
No reason to feel "blue" when you gaze upon our Color Challenge, this week!
Just Us Girls have MANY reasons to make you feel SUNNY and bright, as
Happy SAILS, to YOU!
Supplies -
C/S - Wplus9 Design Studio
Stamps - Wplus9 Design Studio
Ink - Stampin' Up!
Smooch Spray - Clearsnap