Little Red Wagon #263 - 50 Shades of ?

Good morning.

Here I am bright and early with this weeks challenge over at.........

and NO........we have not altered the tone and theme of our challenges at Little Red Wagon, as my title may suggest!  That's just my feeble attempt at a little witticism whilst presenting a challenge for 'Monochromatic' creations this week.

For anyone who's unsure of exactly what I mean, I'd like you to choose one colour for your project (neutral whites, creams, black etc. are also allowed) then create using a variety of shades in your chosen hue.

Just to be clear.......it is not mandatory to use 50 shades!

For my sample I took the clean and simple route and created a single layer card, although in reality there's cardstock, ribbon, patterned paper, foam dots, and more cardstock so I guess it's not one layer at all!

However I did make a head start on my Christmas cards so this makes me happy.

It's pretty difficult to tell from the photograph but I added a little glitter too, which also makes me happy!

However I'm also a little sad, as this will be my final challenge for Little Red Wagon.

I've thoroughly enjoyed my time serving on the Design Team over the last couple of years, and I have been grateful for the constant source of inspiration shared by my fellow Girlfriends and those who have participated in our challenges.  However life's busy schedule means it's time for me to move on.

I hope you'll be able to join us with this weeks challenge.  Just remember to link up over on the blog and check out what the Girlfriends have been up to this week.

Have a great week, and I'll be back again pretty soon,

Jayne.x.

Little Red Wagon #193 Monochrome

Well HELLO!

Did you miss me......again?!
Apologies for not being around a lot recently, or rather, at all!  The last few weeks have been a little crazy busy as I have my parents here visiting from across the pond.  We've been making the most of our time together.....only happens once a year, so I'm afraid you'll just have to forgive me.

Yesterday we had a fabulous day, a trip into Toronto to see the current musical production of Cats.  Everyone enjoyed themselves no end, and as I speak my girls are wearing their newly acquired 'cats eye' t-shirts, scarves attached to their nether regions as tails, and with a little help from Mommy's eyeliner, a nose and whiskers........I'm sure they'll fit right in down at Walmart! (lol)

Anyhow, it's all back to business now as I have plenty of crafty creations to be blogging, just haven't had the time to make an appearance on here!

Unfortunately I've skipped out on the last couple of weeks over at Little Red Wagon (apologies to the ladies over there and our loyal followers), but I've finally caught up and hope to keep things back on track from now.

Sooooooo, without further ado, today yesterday over at............

...........it was Jan's turn to host and she chose Monochromatic as our theme.

Hmmm what colour to choose is the real question?  I figured I'd rifle through my stash of paper pads (I'm known to have maybe one or two!) and pick one that had plenty of shades of one colour.

Blue seemed to be the winner, so here's this weeks creation using a little 'Authentique' paper goodness:

The stamp I used seems to fit right in with our 'showery' weather we've had recently!  It's one that's sat in my stash for the last 3 to 4 years, so long that the wrapper is long gone and I can't remember for sure who designed it.  I'm guessing 'The Greeting Farm', but I'm sure someone out there will know more than me.

Colouring is with Copic's.....had to blow the dust off as I haven't used them in so long!

Well that's it from me for today, hopefully you'll get a chance to check out the creations from the rest of the girlfriends or better still, join in with this weeks challenge over on the blog.

Have a great day and I'll see you again SOON!
Take care,
Jayne.x.

A Monochromatic Crafty Challenge

Good morning, I hope your week is starting out OK.

Today over on the Two Scrapbook Friends Forum, as well as our ongoing Online Crop, we have a brand new Crafty Challenge for you........and I'm delivering the goods.

So, I may have given you a little hint in my title, as to the theme of today's challenge, but just to be sure we're all on the same page, I'd like to see a project showing a monochromatic colour scheme.

Your creation may be a card, scrapbook page, or any form of altered art, as long as there is only one dominant colour.  I will allow a neutral to be included i.e white/cream etc. and even a single accent colour if you feel the need, so long as there's an obvious monochrome look to the finished product..........see I'm going easy on you really! :)

I have a sample for you of course, a scrapbook page, where I went for the traditional 'Black and White'......can't go too wrong with that I guess.

As you can see it's definitely 'Monochrome'!  The only touch of colour appears in the editing of the photograph.

Papers are from Bo Bunny and the title is Maya Road chipboard covered with some of the patterned paper.  There's lots of layering, and the date is recorded with the trusty Dymo.

I die cut a couple of butterflies and used mini clothes pins for the body, together with a layer of sheer fabric for extra dimension.

The banner is also made using a die cut, together with a circle punch, some zig- zag stitching and brads.

Finally, the large flower is cut using the Slice and layered with a handmade felt center.

I hope you're feeling inspired to choose a colour and stick with it.  I can't wait to see your projects, but don't forget to upload to the Two Scrapbook Friends Gallery and Forum, to be in with chance of earning buttons.  We all know that buttons turn into gift certificates for the store, so what are you waiting for?

Have a wonderful day and I'll see you soon,
Jayne.x.