Hostess of smART Cookie Tea Party #14, Donna Duquette, started off by asking the team, "What if you ran out of glue? Could you still make a card?"
Her questions were followed up with this party's challenge:
Make a card with no adhesive. That's right...no glue, no tape, no paste.
Now I'm a layering kinda gal, who practically wears her ATG tape gun in a holster on the hip. I'm also terribly fond of tacky glue, permanent gluestick, and glue dots. I immediately started to panic...
Then I remembered brads... eyelets... stitching...etc. Lots of possibilities... Whew! The panic subsided.
Of course, the only problem with all the possibilities I could think of, was how unappealing the backsides look on the inside of the card... It's a personal preference thing, but I've tried to leave the backs of the like exposed, and I just can't do it -- I ALWAYS adhere an insert over what I consider "the yuk."
Wanting to stick to the rules ~ha ha, and unable to overcome my "yuk" aversion, I opted to bypass the entire dilemma by making a simple one-layer card:
With Mother's Day right around the corner, and my stamping playtime extremely limited this week, I also decided to accomplish two things at once -- meet the challenge while making a card for my mom.
First, I chose images from ABC-Have a Heart, ABC-TT #6, and MD-03 Basket.
Next, I chose the cardstock... Since most single layer cards are white, I decided to try something different, and selected a light yellow.
Why light yellow? Because I wanted a color which would compliment the other colors I planned to add, and figured even if the yellow base altered the applied colors, the outcome would still be palatable -- pink might be more coral, blue more aqua, etc. I'd never done it before, but I was pretty sure it would work...
I cut the cardstock lengthwise, made a top-folded card, and rounded the bottom two corners.
The images were then stamped in Versafine black and clear embossed with Transcendence powder.
For adding color, I started with pastel shades of pink, green, and blue markers, then using a waterbrush, gradually added darker shades of the same colors, and touches of Twinkling H2Os. (Confidentially, I choose the wrong color pink in the Twinks, which made the heart flowers too dark... This overpowered the blue of the bow, so I had to add a darker shade to that... I liked things better, lighter, but when one can't leave well enough alone, that's what happens. Besides, with my mom's very limited vision, the darker colors are probably better for her.)
The final steps were wrapping a length of 5/8" black, satin ribbon around the folded edge of card, and knotting it in front, and applying two layers of dimensional glaze to the heart flowers.
Challenge met. Mother's Day card complete.
Wonder what Donna, Dina, Trish, and Heidi did with their glue gone? You can check them out with me, then try the challenge yourself. It's actually sort of fun.
Thanks for stopping by,
Susan T.
P.S. In case you're wondering, my theory about coloring over the yellow base proved correct... When I added the pastel shades of marker, there were slight changes in the applied colors, but as soon as the darker shades were added, it didn't seem to make much difference... the darker colors prevailed.
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