Crafters Of Faith: Monochromatic Card

Today's card is one I made for the Crafters of Faith blogging group ~ a group of Christian bloggers that met and bonded on Split Coast Stampers to craft, fellowship, make friendships and more!

This month, our hostess was Liz W.  She celebrated a birthday this month and told us that her birthstone is a peridot – her favourite shade of green.  Her challenge for us was to use our own birthstone color and make a monochromatic card.  A monochromatic card is one that uses tones of one color.
 
Since my birthday is in September and my birthstone is a blue sapphire, this is what I ended up with…although the brick looks white in this picture, it is actually a very light blue…

    

This card was fun to make, although it was a little time consuming.  I started by stamping an image of a tree onto a piece of light blue cardstock.  I coloured it in with various shades of blue copics (B93, B95, B97).  I cut it into 1/4-inches wide strips, then cut those strips into 1-inch blocks offsetting them by 1/4-inch.  I had to be very careful not to get the pieces mixed up.  Before adhering the pieces to my base layer I sponged the edges with some blue ink.  Then it was time for me to put the puzzle back together again by adhering each piece onto a piece of medium blue shimmery metallic cardstock.  I left off a few pieces to add some interest.  I adhered that to another piece of light blue cardstock, added the sentiment at the bottom, and adhered all of that to my dark blue card base.

I’m still plugging along with my 100 cards in 100 days challenge and this makes card #37 of the challenge.

Why not take some time and check out what the other girls in the group have made…

• Sharon  (You are here)
• Kelly
• Patti
• Carolina
• Liz W
• Liz D
• Carol
• MaryRose

Thanks for stopping by.