Friday, February 3, 2012

One-Layer Card

Welcome to the last day of the Impression Obsession sneak peek week. I hope you have enjoyed it and been inspired.

Today I wanted to share a one-layer card with you using one of the new background stamps (CR006 Honeycomb). I know I will be using this stamp a lot! I stamped the background onto a kraft notecard using Toffee Versafine ink. I then stamped the Dogwood 3 (H12004) and Hello greeting (A3759) on top using black Memories ink and colored the flowers with white and pink Prismacolor pencils. Because the pencils are opaque, the coloring covered up the brown honeycomb underneath the flowers.

Be sure to check out the other designers on this final day, and don't forget to leave comments for a chance to win a prize. Daniela, Dina, Jeanne, Jenny, Julie, and Vicki all have something to share.

33 comments:

stampqueen said...

Beautiful card!!! Love your coloring of the flowers!!!

Helena (Gvendalen) said...

Beautiful card! Love these flowers and a background.

Anonymous said...

Laura, your card is stunning! Great tip on the pencils and background, I was thinking you had masked.

Hope you have a great weekend! --Elena

suerwelsh said...

Love this card! Great background on this! Love the colors too!

NancyK said...

Beautiful card - I love this dogwood image.

Miranda said...

Pretty card Laura, love that Dogwood stamp and the background is great! gr. Miranda

Jennifer Roach said...

Beautiful! I love colouring directly on kraft...it looks so pretty using white.

June W said...

Love your card. This dogwood stamp is a must have for me!

Karen McAlpine said...

Great new honeycomb CAC. Love the way you combined it with the beautiful flower images.

eyes2theocean said...

This is one of my favorite new release stamps. From all the examples done of it, I don't think you can go wrong. Just so pretty. You've done a wonderful job! :)

Sara Tanner

Paula Huiras said...

I like the one card background-easy and effective-great job!
PH

Tracey said...

LOVE this card!!! I am soo adding these three stamps to my purchase list!!! Thanks for the inspiration!!!

Sherry Kushibab said...

Love it...rarely do we see one layer cards - great idea, flowers are colored perfectly to make them stand out.

Ellen Taylor said...

This is simply gorgeous! Beautifully colored and it looks great with that background!

McStamper said...

Great card. Love the background.

Carole said...

Simple and elegant, love it!

Craftyfield said...

Your coloring of the Dogwood flower is simply amazing and I had no idea pencils could cover so well the stamping underneath. Love one layer cards both from a design and a practical standpoint (posting).

Cindy said...

Pretty card! Love that honeycomb background stamp!

Linda Carson said...

Most EXCELLENT artwork! Love it!

Marsha said...

I've been learning allot with these blogs - I did not know opaque pencils would cover so well. I also like one-layer cards because they fit in an envelope and mail well - that often means allot!

Paper Creations by Shirley said...

I love this card ! The one layer is great, awesome background and the Dogwood is one of my favorite images this week. Great colouring with the Primsa Pencils.. thanks for a great week of inspiration !

Katie said...

Great card! Your coloring is beautiful and I love that honeycomb background! Thanks for sharing!

Katie B.

Stephanie Y. said...

This card is so cool! Love how you did it in one layer and with a background stamp too! Thanks for the new technique

Mary said...

What a beautiful job you did on coloring these dogwood blooms!

Ginger said...

Dogwoods have always been my favorite! Very pretty

Unknown said...

One layer cards are a real challenge for me. Yours is gorgeous.

Denise Bryant said...

Beautiful Dogwood stamp and coloring! Love the Honeycomb background too!
DeniseB

jimlynn said...

Sensational1 Love the coloring in pencils on Kraft and also love this background stamp.
Lynn

lynda said...

Fantastic coloring!!

Tigriswillreign said...

So lovely!

Judy W. said...

Beautiful! Love the way you colored those dogwood blossoms! They look so real!

Patti J said...

I love that your card is one layer! Wow! Beautiful, and great for mailing. Thanks for sharing!

Judy said...

Simple concept but such a beautiful and eye-catching result. Thank you for the inspiration.