One Layer Only

Hello on this sunny Sunday! The weather is improving (for now) and the kids are officially on summer break. My posts may get a little sporadic (aren't they already?) but I'll try my best to post every other day or so. Well, Marie from The Greeting Farm has issued us another FUN challenge! The challenge is to create a ONE LAYER ONLY card. So, I made three! I actually have an idea for a fourth card, but I'm not sure if I'll get a chance to complete it. So, here is my first one layer card which I call "Falling Down the Rabbit Hole": Well, I tried to make it look like Alice, the Hatter, The White (pink) Rabbit and the tea cups were falling down a hole. I'm not so great with sponging the depth of a dark hole. But I tried! I stamped all the images and then colored them with my Copics. Then I masked them all and sponged with three different brown inks. I love the coloring on Alice. I asked a 5 year old (Hi Kylie!) what colors to use and pink (although it ended up red) and purple were her choices. So that's what I did and I love the turnout. Here is another one layer card:

This little 3x3 card gave me issues! I wanted to embelish the card, but everything I had was too big so I ended up making the flowers with my tiniest buttons and the trio flower punch from Stampin' Up. Also, I wanted to give a background to the froggy but my coloring didn't work out as planned. THEN, I added green souffle pen to the frog and sentiment and ended up covering his outline! UGH! I went back over the outline with my black Zig pen as you can see. I think the card turned out ok in the end though. Oh, and the sentiment is from Just So Hoppy from Gina K. Designs. And here is my fish in a toilet bowl:

LOL! Not really! I wanted my fishy to be in a FISH bowl, but when Andrew saw it he said "it look like a toilet bowl." LOL! Oh well, I tried. I sponged the blue around the fishy and added the gem bubbles. Then I did the inside too:

I guess it does look like a toilet with the varying blues and then you lift the lid and see the fish inside! Oh well! Well, I hope you liked the crds, even though they didn't come out exactly as I envisioned.

Until next post, be blessed!