Clean and Simple

This could be a long post, its Anything Goes over on Simon Says Stamps Challenge and the DT is showcasing Unity Stamps. The set I brought was Insightful Meadows and seeing Clean and Simple cards are in vogue at the moment I thought I would give this is a try. First I made a drawer and you can just see the front panel of the drawer, this is repeated all the way round. I used the Distress Inkpads, Tumbled Glass and Broken China. I did wonder if I left too much white.

I then make some Clean and Simple Cards to go inside the drawer. I made a chart of all the Distress Inkpads I had and then worked out which would work together. I've used Nestablilities for some cards.

Here our some close ups of the cards I made. Its amazing how just three brads make all the difference.

I used a score board to make the the embossed stripes, another simple way to finish off a card.

I was running out of ideas so just a touch of ribbon to finish.

This time I use some black pearls and found these words in a Penny Black Transparent set.

This was a huge stamp but I was trying to use all the same size card so another with ribbon to finish.

Now looking at the last two they seem quite busy and the last one I need to move the pearls. To make the cards I use two different techniques. First one is to stamp and embossing with white embossing powder then blend the ink round them. The second I've use a circle as a mask and then blended the ink round and finally stamp the images.
When I had finished I had to lie down in a darken room, this was totally out of my comfort zone.
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