haiku cards

I find one-layer cards really difficult. You need good stamps, good inks and good technique, and I can rarely manage all three! This one is the best I could manage in the time I had for it today…

Clearly Besotted leaf stamp, Papermania sentiment, olive pastel chalk ink and Docrafts green (which is currently all over my fingers!)

This is a one layer card for Less is More’s challenge #319 One-layer Leaves

and the colours are taken from The Paper Players Green and White challenge #335 from Jaydee

Leaves unfurl on trees,
green building upon green, then…
cherry blossom time!

I love turquoise, teal, aqua. My favourite colours. This year there’s more teal around, some of it a little too much towards green. And a few of the challenges are reflecting this colourway at the moment. More on The Card Concept’s lime and aqua later, but because I love this colour I have different cards for each challenge.

Here’s my first attempt at emboss resist, inspired by Michelle’s so pretty card at Muse Challenge #205. I’ve taken some of the colours and much of the design from her card. I was a little disappointed by the lack of definition on this Crafty Individuals feather stamp. But I may try it with a different stamp. It uses Colorbox chalk and Hobbycraft inks. It’s more aqua than it looks in the pic where it seems bluer. It’s a very dull and rainy day today for card pics!

The next card is for Less is More’s TEAL challenge

This seems a versatile design, and one I’ve had in my head for a while. This is an old but trusty Autumn Leaves Rhonna Farrer swirls stamp and some lovely embossed card for the mat that I’ve been hoarding. But it’s there to be used isn’t it? I was trying for a bit of a shabby feel rather than very crisp stamping. I think it flows better. (I’m unlikely to achieve a perfect finish anyway!)  There are three different colours of watercolour pen on there.

The haiku for these:

Trying to make sense:
Events swirl around me like
Feathers, not controlled

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Managed a few cards this weekend, as I’m trying to build up stock for a busy period of family birthdays plus an autumn fair at the care home my dad lives in.

This one is inspired by the colours at CAS Colours and Sketches #189: red, yellow and blue. The card by Jane in the design team really got me thinking (SUCH a fab card!) and here’s where I ended up.  I hope it’s still Clean and Simple despite the salamander motif being layered on top!

I’d also like to add this to Daring Cardmakers September Elemental Inspiration: with the exotic beach photo (wish I were there!). The three elements are the exotic location (probably has lizards if not salamanders on sunny rocks!), the border between sea and sand in the middle of the picture (border between red and yellow colours in mine) and the water (watercolour background!).

Rain in Tenerife
Small lizards hide under rocks
Never felt before.