Less is More Challenge

Hi everyone:

I am slowly getting back into the swing of things here and am so excited to do so.  I decided to look at the current challenges to help me get started and since it's been so long since I have done a challenge, found a few new ones (for me that is).  This first one is just that - Less is More looks like such a fun place to be and am excited to participate this week.  

I have a friend at work who is celebrating his birthday this week and of course, masculine cards are the hardest for me to make, but when I looked at this challenge, knew it would be perfect.  When I first looked at it, I only noticed the challenge as being a one layer card, which is something I haven't done in a VERY long time, so thought I would go outside my box this time and do that.  It wasn't until I compiled all my supplies I was going to use that I realized that the other part of the challenge was to have geometric shapes or patterns and I figured since I was making a masculine card, these chevrons would be perfect.  That was surely a sign I was suppose to join in on this challenge.  How funny is that. 

I blended the distress inks using the stencil, spread distress clear crackle over the design before removing the stencil; however, you can't see that :(  I stamped the ship journal images on each corner, the happy birthday sentiment, added a few enamel dots and that's it.  It was so simple and I was really pleased with how it turned out.

I hope you can join in with the challenge this week.  I know I'll be back.

Janet

Supplies:

cardstock:  SU heavy cardstock
ink:  Distress ink chipped sapphire, ground espresso, walnut stain; SSS smoke; SU basic black
stamps:  SU The Open Sea; SP& Company Mustache Madness sentiment
accessories:  SSS lined chevron stencil; Distress clear crackle; distress collage medium brush; Studio Calico enamel dots; ADtech crafters tape; MISTI stamping tool