Monday, April 1, 2013

Macabre Monday "Bare Bones" Challenge


WooHoo, look at me!  Usually I'm part of the "B" Team at Haunted Design House but here I am posting the first week of the challenge.  This fortnight the challenge is "Bare Bones" which means CAS (clean and simple), no (or very minimal) embellies.  RESTRAIN yourself!  Normally this is not my kinda style, but because I DO find it such a challenge, I've been dabbling quite a bit lately.  The cool thing is if you manage an idea, these projects are soooo much quicker to execute.  Although not required, I immediately thought of skellies (you know, the "bones" reference) and remembered the fabby dancing ones from De StemplewinkelThe Trees with Crows completed the scene.  Wow, TWO rubber stamps on this!  Will wonders never cease?  Anyway, once they were stamped, I masked off the bottom of the card (one layer no less, go me!) and used a Nesties circle as a mask for the moon and sponged a bit of Stormy Sky Distress ink.  Removed the masks, drew a line with my Micron pen to separate the design and ran it through the printer for my sentiment.  DONE!  See, how easy?  Now it's your turn.  More fab inspiration from at least half the Minions HERE.

I'm also entering this in the Left of Center Challenge 2 where it's Anything Goes if it's LOC, Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes, Simon Says Stamp and Show (Very Strict) Anything Goes (LOL) and  the Outlawz Sunday CAS Challenge which is Anything Goes.

15 comments:

  1. Love this stuff..... love YOUR talent for making the cutest cards evahhhhh.
    Carole

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  2. Fabby CAS, Donna! I may even have a go for next week. You make it seem so easy!

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  3. Super-duper CAS hun!! You do these really well. xx

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  4. Clean and Simple, you hit the nail in the coffin on this one!

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  5. Ooooohhh....love those dancing skellies! Fun card, Chickie!

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  6. It really is so professional. You are honestly an arts and crafts diva. xxx

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  7. The minimalist effect is simply stunning! Love the skellie and the tree - I thought they were a set, silly me. Your masking and inking is AMAZING! Totally wow-ed now! Bummer about our sweet 16 game... :(
    Hugs,
    Susan

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  8. This is just fantastic! Great design and I really love the sharp line beneath the image and the white space surrounding the sentiment. Thanks so much for playing along with us over on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog!

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  9. Love this so much! Is it wrong to feel happy seeing a couple of skellys dancing?

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  10. This is beautiful Donna and sooo CAS, now, if I could produce art like this, I wouldn't want to embellish it, ergo no twitch! LOL

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  11. How fabulous is this? Very! I love both your stamps and they look made for each other. Great CAS card. Vee xx

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  12. Your card is very cute. I love the simplicity of your design. It's very effective. Love the white background and the stamps you've used in black. The blue in the background is perfect! Thanks for sharing your card with us at Simon Says Stamp and Show. <3 Candy

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  13. I love the comment at the bottom. I thought it was very creative! You were very creative with the blues! Thank you for sharing with our anything goes challenge this week at Simon Says Stamp & Show...no joke!!!

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  14. This is so cool and a fabbo result to your labours :-) Totally CAS and this rocks !!!
    IKE xxx

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  15. Oh this card is so cool Donna! Love the stamped image and the sentiment and that font is just perfect! Hugs!

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Thanks for making my day!