A One Layer Card

Truthfully, it’s rare that I make a one layer card. In August, a friend and I attended a “Meet and Greet” hosted by the Altenew Stamp Company. They’re based in Syracuse, NY so it was an easy trip to make from Rochester. Quite a few of the participants had drive a long ways. I didn’t get any great photos of the event where we got to play with the September release ahead of time, and had a chance to meet quite a few of Altenew’s design team as well as Jennifer McGuire who happened to be visiting.

I stamped quite a few panels that afternoon, and several cards and brought most of them home to color. Here’s a card I posted earlier that was created at the same event. In this case I stamped on a panel and added it to a card later. I particularly liked one of their new Christmas stamps called “Modern Poinsettia” and stamped it numerous times. (I’ve since purchased the stamp, so you’ll be seeing more of it.) One of those was on plain white card. I’m not sure what kind of card it is, or if it’s Copic friendly. I also knew that if I colored it with Copics, it would bleed through to the back of the card front, so I pulled out my Polychromos pencils to work on it. I’m asking Santa for an online class using colored pencils for Christmas as I need a lot of practice with them. Nonetheless, I’m happy enough with this card to enter it in two challenges. First Less is More where the challenge is a one layer card with winter flora.

CAS on Friday’s challenge is also for a one layer card:

The card itself is very simple: one stamped image and the sentiment, both from Altenew’s “Modern Poinsettia.

I used three variations of pink and red pencils with some green for the centers and highlights as well as some purple highlights.

I did add a tiny dot of white gel pen to each of the berries as well as outlining the berries in a fine line pen. 

If you follow me on a regular basis, you’ll be wondering why I’m all of a sudden posting so frequently. I had rather invasive oral surgery last Friday, and was told to “lay low” for a few days since it involved general anethesia. Now I’m feeling much better and have had more time since I’m not yet back to my usual volunteering or social schedule. I’ve been making some Christmas cards and have quite a few birthdays later this month. In addition, I just figured out that I’ve done nine photo walks that I never posted, and have some travel photos to share from our road trip in Washington and Oregon. The blog is likely to be busy for a few weeks!