Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Paper craft project no. 318: Fa la la la la la la la la one layer card


Over at Time Out Challenges, we're doing the Inspired by Words challenge for the next two weeks. This time around, it's "Christmas is Love with All the Trimmings." The challenge is pretty easy: create a project inspired by that line. Take a word or two or a few, and then create! Done making Christmas cards for the year? You can just go with "love" and create a Valentine's day card. Really, it's up to you how you'll be inspired by the phrase. We have one of my absolute favorite cardmakers, Shirley of shirley-bee's stamping stuff, guest designing with us! I hope you can stop by the blog, check out the awesome cards my teammates made, and play along!

To make my card, I inked up my brush stroke stamp and stamped the widest part of the tree. For the next one, I covered both sides with post-it notes before stamping again, and then I repeated that until I got to the top part of the tree. I inked the same stamp with brown ink to create the trunk. For my "star", I took mustard seed Distress paint and simply made a big dot then dragged a palette knife to create the "rays". I stamped the sentiment in black ink. I spattered a bit of fired brick Distress ink to finish the card. This was an easy, quick, and fun one layer card to make!

Linking up my card to these fun challenges:
  1. Addicted to Stamps & More #126 - Anything Goes with an Optional Twist (I skipped the twist, but I'm hoping I can get another card in with it before the challenge closes!)
  2. CASology #126 - Snow (the white areas on my brush stroke Christmas tree look like snow)
  3. Deep Ocean Challenge #93 - Christmas is all around
  4. Tuesday Throwdown #225 - Christmas
  5. Cards in Envy - Christmas Carols (mine's Deck the Halls -- I bet you won't be able to look at my card without singing the fa-la-la -- and yes, I stamped the right number of "la-la" in there LOL!)
  6. Simon Says Wednesday - Winter Inspiration (I went with the snowy forest in the top left)

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Thanks for stopping by!

~Shery

Supplies: Stamps - Vignette: Celebrate Artsy, Joyful from STAMPlorations; Inks/Paints - Sage and Sparrow Mix'd Media Chox from Clearsnap; Jet Black Archival, Fired Brick Distress Ink, and Mustard Seed Distress Paint from Ranger; Paper - 100# Classic White Premium Heavy Weight Cardstock from Paper and More

28 comments:

  1. I am your first follower!! Great new blog design-so very you! And so is this card!! Such a funky way to create a tree x

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  2. Love this tree, Shery. What a great way of using the brush stroke. Fab new blog design, just got your second follower. 🙌 Have a lovely day! Hugs Monika xxx

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  3. And I'm your 4th follower! LOVE your tree Shery

    Best of luck with this new blog too

    Kathyk

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  4. Fabulous new blog, Shery! I am #6. Yippee!

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  5. Love the grungy tree! Such a cheerful card! Hugs, Gerrina

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  6. Love this creative design Shery!! Loll xx

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  7. I was wondering why I haven't been getting your posts - now I know. Love the new blog - off to follow

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  8. I love how you created this tree! Love the CAS design too. :-)

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  9. Loving the new bloggy design AND your adorable card! You're right - I did sing the words! :)

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  10. ... I just had to count yours ;) Love the brushstroke tree!

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  11. Your new blog looks very cool - and so does this fab card! Love the way you have created this tree :)

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  12. Such a clever and fun one layer card, Shery...I love it! Thanks for making me smile...and sing :)

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    1. Oh, and I meant to also say...Thanks so much for playing along with us at ATSM this week!

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  13. SUPER use of the brushstroke stamp, Shery! You are as creative with your one layers as always, love how this turned out!

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  14. Genius use of the brushstroke stamp. I'm definitely putting this in the CASE file! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Cards in Envy!

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  15. You are right! I did sing Fa-la-la-la-la! Ha, ha. Love your card! The tree is fabulous and I need a brushstroke stamp I think! Thanks for sharing with us at Cards in Envy!

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  16. Cool card, Shery! LOVE your one layer creations! Thanks so much for playing along at ATSM xx

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  17. This is such an amazing tree! Love that it's one layer, too! So glad you joined us at CASology this week!

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  18. Super fabulous card!! Such a wonderful design! Love it!

    Happy Holidays!

    Thank you very much for joining us this week at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!

    hugs...
    Melissa

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  19. Love your fun clever card Shery - very cool design! Merry christmas xx

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  20. Love your unique Christmas tree!!! Thanks for joining us at CASology this week!

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  21. So fun, Shery ... such a cool Christmas tree! Anita :)

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  22. What a cool CAS card! I love your tree and now the song is stuck in my head! Thank you for sharing with us at Cards in Envy! I hope you join us again soon!

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  23. MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Enjoy your time with family~

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  24. I just LOVE your card! I wanted to let you know that I’ve chosen your creation as one of my Favorite Picks and linked back to your blog! Thanks so much for sharing your talent. Kathy at stampsatplay.blogspot.com

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  25. Such a fun card! Thanks for joining us at Cards In Envy!

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