OLW#14

I almost missed doing this challenge. Not that I didn't have time, not that I didn't have ideas, not that I was busy. It was just that the rain Gods were so happy, that sun didn't show its face for 4 whole days..and it rained like crazy..plummeting the temperatures...who was I to complain!! I just snuggled under the blanket and dreamt of making cards...whereas my butt didn't go anywhere!!!

So thanks to Daisy's arrival in Susan's life(that might not entirely be the reason, but Daisy is a cute reason enough) that this weeks OLW got delayed and I finally moved my butt from under the blanket!

Before you get bored with my chit-chat (I'm in a very talkative mood today), tomorrow's post is a mini-tutorial on using the Glue and gloss. I've got many queries as to how to use it and etc, so figured might as well show you how. Stay tuned..!!

This week was to be a square outline card, this is where I fumbled. Not really grasping the meaning of outline image ( I could have just asked Susan, but for that I had to move my butt of out the blanket) so I just took a chance that what I made is what Susan asked us to make. Hopefully..

OLW 14

I uncovered a clear set of butterflies I owned, and didn't use cos they were too tiny. Too tiny to be used as main images, only as accents. So here I needed accents. And this card is trial no3. The other two are waiting for salvation...
This is a tiny 4x4 card. Notice how I left the butterfly in the PP behind! Yeah, I'm trying to show off!! :)

The next card was an afterthought, I'd won a set from Lizzy Anne designs, but this set did not motivate me. We just didn't belong together, until now. When I sat to make this card, I didn't want to color it. Its only highlighted!

Plus I made a muck out of the nest, I wanted a tree of sorts on which the nest would rest, but whatever I did I just looked like mud, so I made it into mud. There is only so much I could do to salvage this card. I just didn't want the nest to float in mid-air. Many don't care about such things, but for me it would be a weird world where the nest was floating in mid air, even on a card!!!

I have to say , I love  Lizzy Anne designs stamps, the rubber is beautiful. It stamps insanely gorgeous, and if money would grow on trees I would have all their stamps, maybe not all, but most of it. I love red rubber, any-day compared to clear acrylic, but that is a whole another post!

All I colored was the mucky ground, the bird's underbelly, and gray shadow under the bird. And highlighted its eyes..it looked blind before I did that!! So that's it from me.

And you thought I quit blabbering! Not yet, at least not before I show you one stunning RAK I received in the mail. Little miss Spardha (can't help but call her that, she's not even out of high school) sent me this gorgeous piece of work, it was hard to photograph since it was an acetate card, but I've been just staring at it since yesterday!! (Doing the happy dance!)

And if you want to see a ghost, peer closely at the acetate, you'll see my shadow!!

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