Paper craft project no. 416: Just be you one layer card

Popping by to share a card I made for Time Out. It's the Inspired by Words challenge and for the next couple of weeks, we'd like to see projects inspired by this line from a John Lennon song: Love is the flower you've got to let grow. Now that's one line that can be taken in many, many directions. 

I went with one of the words in the line -- flower -- and created my one layer card. I stamped the large zinnia in HA yellow ink and then re-stamped it in a darker color to create that offset, retro look. Added a little bit of contrast by stamping the grungy splatter stamp in HA ultra pink. I stamped the butterflies and sentiment in black. Finished the card by rounding one corner.

Check out the cards the team + guest designer Valentyna made and then link up your own inspired by words project. Sponsoring the challenge is Clearly Besotted.

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Paper craft project no. 415: Merry Christmas one layer card

We're starting a new challenge over at One Layer Christmas Card. Our guest designer this time around is Maura. As usual, it's anything Christmas goes...so long as it's one layer. Hope you can join us and link up in the next two weeks. Check out the beautiful one layers created by our guest designer and my teamies Vickie and Susan.

To make my card, I stamped the Christmas candles and sentiment in HA dye ink. I wasn't in the mood for coloring (okay, who am I kidding...I don't have much time to color or even make cards that take more than 5 minutes to make these days) so I added color with stamps -- green for the grunge chevron and red for the grungy dots on the poinsettia leaves.

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Paper craft project no. 414: Welcome, precious little one!

Hello! I'm sharing a card for a special little guy (using stamps from the Heaven Sent and Mixed Media Grunge, and Hearts in Bubbles ARTplorations stencil). You see, STAMPlorations girl Deepti Malik gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Siddharth, on January 29. He is one super cute baby!

We at STAMPlorations are throwing a card shower for Deepti to congratulate her and her hubby and to welcome their precious baby. And we're inviting everyone who knows Deepti to come celebrate with us! Just pop on over the Deepti Popped! post and link up your cards. The linky is open until February 15.

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Paper craft project no. 413 : Especially for you one layer card

Popping by to share the card I made for Time Out. This time around, we're CASEing our guest designer's card and putting our own twist. We are CASEing Marika from Me and Minime Crafting. Below is her card:

I CASEd the layout of her card and for my twist, I went with one layer (no surprise there). I stamped the large narcissus and masked it before stamping the grungy border and dotty background (from the Mixed Media Grunge set). I removed the mask and "colored" the image with a splatter stamp (from the Mixed Media Elements set). I added a few small hearts (from the Anchored set) and stamped the sentiment from the Country Rustic set).

Linking up to The Paper Players #278: Clean and Simple Valentine. It also fits the January CAS Card Challenge at STAMPlorations (I skipped the optional color twist).

  

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Paper craft project no. 412: Merry merry merry one layer card

Popping by to share the card I made for the new challenge we have over at the One Layer Christmas Card Challenge. I stamped the bells (Holiday Sketches; Christmas Bells) and masked them before stamping the grungy borders and splats (Mixed Media Grunge and Mixed Media Elements) and finishing off with the sentiment (Joyful). Grungy, just like how like it, but still pretty CAS :o)

Check out what my teamie Vicki and Susan made + we have our first guest designer, the talented Ashwini. Link up by February 1 -- we'd love to see you there!

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