CHOCOLATE, COFFEE & CARDS - CHALLENGE #52 - MONOCHROMATIC

Happy Friday everyone :) 

So today I am posting my first DT project for Chocolate, Coffee and Cards and I'm still very excited to be part of this wonderful team.

For this challenge we are sponsored by 'Robyns Fetish' and the theme is 'Monochromatic' (all one colour) you can find the home for all their wonderful stamps HERE.

We would love for you to join us for this challenge, to find the challenge and all the details please click HERE. Don't forget to check out the other fabulous DT work :)

The DT were lucky enough to have a few wonderful images to pick from and I decided to challenge myself and step right out of my comfort zone, with an image I wouldn't normally use! I also decided to step out of it even further, by using techniques I haven't used before!

You may remember a little while ago that I told you about my friend Roberta's 'chalk cards' well I thought it would fit perfect with this image and so decided to give it a go. You can find Roberta's original project from where my inspiration comes from HERE.

Well there are probably many ways to achieve this result and if you have read Roberta's post, you will see I have done it very differently to her, but it has the same desired effect. But this is my way...

So the stamp I picked was a 'Cornucopia' Firstly I loaded the digi stamp into my silhouette software and added some writing, I traced the lines and then converted the newly created cut lines into printable lines. I changed the line colour to white to represent the chalk and placed them on a black (chalkboard) background.

I created a wooden frame around the blackboard area, to try and give it the feel of a sandwich board you would see outside a shop!

After printing out all my layers and cutting them to size I added a white shadow using a white pencil around all parts of the image and writing. I then used the same white pencil on its side, to drag across and leave the smudge effects, so it looked a bit more realistic.

After popping all the layers together (including a black leafy background) the card was finished, but to make it a little more card like, rather than a mini sandwich board, I popped a sentiment on a chalkboard sign and hang it over the corner.

I hope I have done the chalkboard style card justice and hope you like my creation :)

Materials

Black Autumn leaf paper - Samantha Walkers Harvest moon set

Robyn's Fetish digi image

White pencil

String

We really hope you can come visit us at CC&CC and play along with our fun challenge, we can't wait to see your creations

Hugs 

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Challenges I would like to enter:
Craftitude - Anything goes with string
Cut it up - Thanksgiving
Sister act Card challenge - anything goes
Catch the bug - Anything goes
Crazy for Challenges - Black and White
My creative moments - Anything
Doodle Pantry - Any digi
Card Mania - anything Goes
Craftin Divas - Anything Goes
Creative Cutting  -ThanksGiving
Love to Scrap - Anything Goes
OLLCB - Food and/or Drink
Paper Nest Dolls - Anything Goes
Victorine Stamps - Thanksgiving
Whoopsi Daisy - Monochromatic
Eclectic Ellapu - Black and White
Fashionable Stamping - Anything but Ink
IDIC - ThanksGiving
Crafting by Designs -Anything with smeared ink
Divas by design - Use a digi
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
LEJ Designs - Monochromatic
Loves RubberStamps - Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesdays - Thanks giving
Brown Sugar - Anything goes