Card {with I&D minis and Eclectica³ Lin Brown stamps by Joanne Wardle}

Hi Everyone, Joanne here,I'm back with another Clean and Simple card. This month I have made a one layer card, definitely a favourite style of mine. I'm using 3 mini stamps and one of the quotes from the brand new set of stamps by Lin Brown.

The concept for this card was to create the look of a flower growing up against a wall.

The neat trick to this card is the simple masking technique that is used. I stamped the quote from Lin Brown's new collection onto both plain white card and onto a  post-it note. 

I then stamped the flower from  Mini 69, again onto plain white card and onto a post-it note. 

I  roughly tore around the post-it images and secured them on top of the stamped images on the plain card as a 'mask'. 

I  then stamped  the brick image  from Mini 95 onto the card with brushed corduroy ink, but I didn't use the stamp with a block so that I could just apply part of the image for a softened effect. As you can see the images already stamped in black on the card are protected by the post-it note masks.

To add a softer, lighter accent, I removed the masks and then stamped the splatter image from Mini 72  over the card with pink ink. 

I finished the card by colouring the flowers with pencils. 

 

I hope that you enjoyed seeing this card, I had great fun making it, masks are great to experiment with.

Until the next time, Joanne. 

A huge thank you to Joanne from PaperArtsy HQ, another very effective, clean and simple design. Evocative of wild flowers finding a sheltered spot against a wall, exactly what you might find on a summer's day out in the countryside. 

If you would like to join in our weekly challenge with any of this week's guests who have blogged since Sunday night, then join in to link up your creativity HERE you will go in the draw to win PA stamps of your choice! You need to link your entry by17:00 (London time) Sunday Feb 9th 2014