Friday, May 7, 2010

Simplicity

Simplicity is the name of the new blog that I've fallen in love. As the name says it all..simple no fuss no frills. On a previous post I had mentioned a couple of others. This one is by Susan. And I love the clean cards she makes and just to make sure she inspires us all, she has a One Layer Wednesday Challenge (OLW, funnily everytime I read the acronym, I read it as OWL don't know why..something to do with brain being able to adjust the letters itself?)
Anyways, so this week her challenge was to search through your stash of stamps and use only your punctuation marks to create a card.  Go stop by her blog right now and see the wonderful cards and technqiues she shares.

As for the challenge, oops! I thought, I own but one set of alphabets, that too a tiny one..didn't even know if it contained any punctuation marks. But it did, there was an exclamation,  a question mark, a comma and a full stop. And I have  owned this set for 3 yrs. Used it, maybe twice till date, and I know this today..go figure!!

This is one thing I like about such challenges, they make you think outside the box..and I'm pretty happy with the results.


A bit more about the card. Fabriano CS. Love this thick CS. Now if you haven't guessed by now, the top part of the border is made of question marks and the straight border is exclamation marks.

That's all to the card. oh yes! I could not stop myself from edging the borders with black ink. Just to give a finishing touch to the card. Here's a close up of the border:



Cast of characters:
Fabriano CS
Dew drop ink in pearlescent crimson
Technique tuesday stamp-loves me, loves me not (for the big dot)
Stamps from hobby ideas for the alphabet set (Meglio stamps)
Sentiment is from Art warehouse-Borders 2

20 comments:

  1. I have an alphabet stamp set since one and a half years and i too think i dont have punctuations there.. I think i'll have to check too :D

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  2. oh great thinking tejal! very creative! i think ill check that blog out now...

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  3. Oh my goodness! You really rocked this challenge! You used the punctuation so decoratively that unless someone knew it was punctuation, they would never guess. So very, very clever!

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  4. I would never have guessed the punctuation would turn into a flower of sorts. How very off the wall and interesting. I should maybe stop ignoring the unobvious and try this. You get an A!

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  5. wow, what a great use of the question mark and the exclamation mark!! Awesome challenge card!!

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  6. What a clever use of the question mark and exclamation point! It' wonderful.

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  7. Nice!!! Love the cleverly used punctuation marks. I'd been to Landmark today and I bought some of the Fabriano CS.... and what do I see when I get back.. your blog! ;-)

    Hugs,
    Smita

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  8. Very creative! Great response to this challenge.

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  9. Thank you everyone for your sweetest words...they mean the world to me!

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  10. Just had to stop and say how creative your card is .... if you didn't know what Susan's challenge was you would never guess from your card; the thumbnail certainly fooled me!!!
    Wonderful card TFS

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  11. How perfectly creative. You would win the gold if there were a creativity Olympics. Just AWESOME!!!!!

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  12. Really out of the box...and suppppper cute :)

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  13. Great card! I love how you used the ? and ! Great design you created.

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  14. Wow! lovely card. clever and creative use of punctuations. Well done.

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  15. This is brilliant. What a great use of the punctuations.

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  16. This looks GREAT!!! I love the use of punctuation!

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