2012 gets off on the white foot.

When I saw the challenge this week over at Die Cut Dreams I couldn't resist giving it a go. Design a card using only white and no other colours, relying solely on textures and shapes to give the card interest.
The card above is the result and uses materials from both ends of the crafting scale from luxury hand made paper to cheap copier paper.

I started by wrapping three layers of different ribbon - cotton lace, satin and organza around the bottom section of a piece of paper from the 'Artoz creamotions' range the design being 'glitter twine white', which had been cut to cover an 8" x 8" card blank. This panel was then stuck to the card blank using double sided tape.

I then turned to a box I keep all my try outs for new cutting dies in, whenever I add to my collection of dies I always do some test cuts on plain paper to see the results and keep these in a box 'in case they come in useful'. In there I found a number of flowers that had been cut from plain paper using the Tim Holtz tattered flowers die that had been part of a crafting bundle my husband had given me as a Christmas gift I added to these by cutting out some more flowers from white glitter paper using the die and from the remained of the piece of glitter paper I was able to cut some flourishes leaves using  Marianne dies. I also found a piece of vellum that I had put through the Sizzix using a Marianne designable cutting and Embossing folder. I stuck the vellum to the base panel in the top right hand corner using small dots of glossy accents behind the embossed areas so they wouldn't show through.

The Happy Birthday sentiment had been cut using the craftwell e-craft electronic cutter, which I had purchased with Christmas money from my dad. It was just cut from plain 160gsm card stock so I traced the letters in PVA and covered the sentiment in white glamour dust glitter and stuck this at an angle across the vellum panel.

I am a great believer that any 'new toy' should be used even if I haven't got a specific project in mind at the time and therefore also found in my little die cuts box a doily shape which had also been cut using the craftwell  from 160 gsm card. I used off cut strips of the same card to quill a flower to sit on the centre of the doily to add interest.

I then arranged the die cut flourishes,leaves and flowers on the top left and bottom right of the card mixing the glittered flowers and plain flowers to add interest with different textures and the centres were made using flat backed beads that I have had in my stash for ages.

The pearl pins were made using 'pearls' recycled from old jewellery and pushed in behind the flowers at the bottom right.

The finishing touch was a butterfly again cut using the craftwell and then covering n PVA and glitter before adding the teardrop shaped flat backed beads.

I really enjoyed the challenge of using just white and looking at combining textures and shapes rather than colours and patterns.

I am entering this card into the following challenge.
http://diecutdreams.blogspot.com/ - use only white