Wednesday 18 April 2018

Back to Basics - a brand new challenge!

A brand new challenge starts today - and I'm excited to be on the design team.

The challenge is called Back to Basics and Beyond  and new challenges will be posted every two weeks on a Wednesday. Each challenge will feature a different technique, from long-forgotten ones to bang-up-to-date ideas to help us all to broaden our crafting repertoire, and we hope that this means they will appeal to both novice and experienced crafters.

Our first challenge is a very familiar technique to most of us - matting and layering.


I've used a very old Artylicious stamp which I coloured in with pencils then masked and overstamped with bare twigs, then removed the mask and finished with a grassy foreground. I then chose three colours from the image and used them for matting and layering on both the image and sentiment, finally adding a finished touch of die cut corners and candi.

4 comments:

Margarets designer cards said...

Lovely card, a beautiful image and lovely layout,
Great card for the first challenge on the new challenge blog

Crafting Queen said...

Lovely card, very clean and simple and beautiful.

Lindsey said...

Fun concept for a challenge! Nicely done illustrating how matting with layers can enhance an already lovely image.

meg said...

Great card Jane,