Saturday 20 June 2015

Black and white gerbera ...

When I'm stuck for ideas I usually turn to my favourite stamp set to see if I can find inspiration - and today is no exception!  I'm supposed to be designing a card for my lovely son's birthday on Monday but ideas are sadly missing!!  I'm not sure that he would appreciate receiving this card:



This is the gerbera from Uniko Studio and I love it!  This time I have stamped it in onyx black ink and then shaded it using a fine micron black pen - I've seen this technique used before but cannot for the life of me remember where!! 

I'm going to enter the following challenges:

Uniko Studio Challenge 22 - Anything Goes with the optional twist of a masculine card.

Addicted to Stamps and more Challenge 148 - Clean and Simple

Enjoy!

9 comments:

  1. WOW Elaine! This is amazing, the detail you have added to the petals is divine and in the monochrome colour scheme is elegant too. THANKS so much for sharing and for joining in at the Uniko Challenge too. Hugs Bev x

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  2. This is fantastic Elaine. Love the monochrome look with the stamp and the extra detail is simply AWESOME. thanks for playing along at Uniko and ATSM. Sarah x

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  3. This is simply gorgeous! I love this stamp and you made t into a work of art!

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  4. Wow Elaine, I love what you have done here, what a stunning use of this stamp. I will have to try this. Thanks for joint Uniko and ATSM

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  5. Elaine, my gosh, this is so striking! I don't see why your son wouldn't love it. Guys like flowers, too! Aren't most of the gardeners and landscapers guys? Well, no matter, I love it and I think you are wizard with the micron pen!! Hugs, Darnell

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  6. Wow, this is CAS Perfection!!!! Such a subtle way of bringing this flower to life with your shading technique and love that you kept it the star on the card front. Incredible card and I'm so glad you shared it with us at ATSM this week!!

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  7. wow what an amazing effect, thank you so much for joining us at Uniko

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  8. This is a great CAS card, I'm not brave enough to make such a cool card, maybe one day!!

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  9. Wow, Elaine ... this is CAStastic ... stunning shading on this beautiful gerbera ... so striking! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Uniko! Anita :)

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