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Post by freeatlast on Oct 5, 2018 10:01:16 GMT
Welcome, everyone, to Day 5 of the CARDtober Challenge. Today’s challenge is pretty clear-cut and straight forward. In fact, some may call it quite black and white. My challenge is to use black and white on a card. Use stripes or dots or patterns. Use a little as an accent or a lot as a background. Mix them together for a fun look. Keep it monochromatic or add a splash of color. Patterned paper, die cuts or stamped images - you choose your favorites. Here are some cards I've made recently with black and white.  CARDtober Challenge #5 Birthday by Pat Doyle, on Flickr  CARDtober Challenge #5 Christmas by Pat Doyle, on Flickr  CARDtober Challenge #5 Combo Thanks by Pat Doyle, on Flickr |
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Post by MDscrapaholic on Oct 5, 2018 11:27:50 GMT
Love these! I hope to get some time this weekend to try these.
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Post by grammadee on Oct 5, 2018 14:18:23 GMT
Awesome cards, freeatlast! I will give them some proper love on Flickr. And a fun challenge! Took me a bit of trolling through Pinterest before I found a design that would work. Decided to give THIS card cardtober 5 by Gramma Dee, on Flickr Of course now my head is flooded with other ways I could use my dies with black and white. |
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Post by LisaDV on Oct 5, 2018 14:49:30 GMT
Wow! To all the cards!
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Post by freeatlast on Oct 5, 2018 15:47:50 GMT
Awesome cards, freeatlast ! I will give them some proper love on Flickr. And a fun challenge! Took me a bit of trolling through Pinterest before I found a design that would work. Decided to give THIS cardcardtober 5 by Gramma Dee, on Flickr Of course now my head is flooded with other ways I could use my dies with black and white. Amazing card, grammadee! What a great interpretation of the challenge! Are those poinsettias made from a die? Love them. |
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Post by scrapnnana on Oct 5, 2018 15:51:57 GMT
I was hoping for an opportunity to use this owl stamp by Stampendous. The black and white challenge was a perfect excuse to make a card with it.  |
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Post by grammadee on Oct 5, 2018 15:55:06 GMT
Amazing card, grammadee ! What a great interpretation of the challenge! Are those poinsettias made from a die? Love them. Those flowers were cut from this die set: Dee's Distinctively IME-047. The dies also have a stencil/mask capability, but I wanted to keep these simpler than that, especially since my cs had a bit of glimmer to it. |
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Post by grammadee on Oct 5, 2018 16:00:10 GMT
scrapnnana, I love that owl and that spooky October 31st greeting, with the spider in the middle.
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Post by scrapnnana on Oct 5, 2018 16:44:53 GMT
Freeatlast, I love the cascading stars!
Grammadee, your poinsettias are beautiful! It is such a lovely card!
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Post by Mel on Oct 5, 2018 18:07:50 GMT
I'm all over the place today!! Did a couple of Halloween cards and an Owl one. LOL Attachments:
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Post by grammadee on Oct 5, 2018 18:28:12 GMT
Mel , I like both those cards, each using black & white so effectively. That mummy stamp is cute, and I like how you used those owl punches. Great use of that stiped mat and the banner on the first. Also love the pops of red and gold on that second card.
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Post by joblackford on Oct 5, 2018 20:55:55 GMT
Lots of wonderful cards again today! I love them all. Black and white is easy for me - if I'm not turning a 6x6 paper pad into a stack of cards I'm usually doing something black and white and then trying to figure out how to add color. I started by getting inspired by the black and white floral Thanks sample freeatlast shared and stamped some backgrounds with a new wave stamp I've been meaning to try. But then I went in a completely different direction. (I will come back to the waves if I have time). I had some skeleton animals stamped and cut (stamps from Michael's) and a distress-oxide-on-black galaxy background experiment sitting on my desk, along with a few tiny bats from a future challenge I'll be sharing, so I put them together with a sentiment from a new stamp that's waiting to be used (the SSS furry monster).  Cardtober Day 5 - black and white Halloween card by jo.blackford, on Flickr |
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Post by scrapnnana on Oct 5, 2018 23:31:11 GMT
I love the galaxy background, joblackford, and the skeleton kitty. Cute Halloween card!
Mel, your cards are very cute. I especially like the owls.
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Post by joblackford on Oct 6, 2018 3:08:28 GMT
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Post by JaneB on Oct 6, 2018 19:55:56 GMT
A bit of Pinterest inspiration again for me.
I made everything but the brad (Shabby Princess) and the twine bow (Mommyish) Fonts are Open Sans and Butler Black.
freeatlast thanks for the inspiration, your cards are brilliant. I can't pick a favourite, they're all lovely and different yet tied together with the black and white.
grammadee the texture with the flowers is great, and the little pops or colour. It's a lovely card.
scrapnnana love the owl  And the papers and the big title...
Mel what a cute little mummy with the googly eye! and I love the bird silhouettes, bit of an aww moment there
joblackford I can't say a skeleton cat is cute, can I? It's great, haven't seen one like that, it's perfect for Halloween. I love watching people draw; it gives me ideas even if they turn our rubbish! |
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Post by warrior1991 on Oct 6, 2018 23:05:34 GMT
Great cards everyone.  |
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Post by GiantsFan on Oct 7, 2018 1:48:30 GMT
Here is my B&W card. I used the Art C Many Thanks stamp and die set (for the sentiment and tag), LF Fancy Scalloped Rectangle for the black layer, and a Polka card base. It's just that easy! Attachments:
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Post by grammadee on Oct 7, 2018 3:16:13 GMT
So many different looks to black and white! joblackford, that skeleton cat is awesome! And I love what you did with the black oxide ink. I have been able to get some cool effects with the lighter colours, but when working with black mine just looks like mud. And those doodled people are really fun. Love the card with the hit of purple! Wow, JaneB! Those black & white designs really POP! Love how you made them all work together. warrior1991, that heart diecut is the perfect pop of colour and final touch for your card. Sometimes the simplest, easiest cards are some of the best, GiantsFan. Love the scallops and polka dots, and the tilted layers: so many ways to make a simple card interesting! |
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Post by joblackford on Oct 7, 2018 4:06:03 GMT
And I love what you did with the black oxide ink. I have been able to get some cool effects with the lighter colours, but when working with black mine just looks like mud. thanks  Yeah, the soot black oxide ink isn't intense enough for my liking - I've used it a little bit over colors but I would prefer something darker (maybe regular distress?). But this card was actually just using some of the lighter colors on plain black *cardstock* - that's how I got the intensity of black My black cs isn't very heavy weight though so I had to go light on ink and water, but I got some decent results with it. I had wanted to get some TH distress black watercolor paper but it was never available. JaneB of course a skeleton cat can be CUTE! The skeleton rat from the set, maybe not... the owl is pretty creepy too. But the cat is great  |
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Post by gale w on Oct 14, 2018 5:49:06 GMT
I rarely use black and white but coincidentally, I just bought two 6 x 6 pads of it.   Stamps and matching punch are stampin up, inked with gina k, stampin up, and altenew inks. The bulbs are coated with glossy accents. Black and white paper is from my favorite things. Cardstock from bazzill. |
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Post by JaneB on Oct 14, 2018 8:08:22 GMT
gale w oh that's gorgeous, love the black and white stripes with the red, such a great combination. What a great sentiment for the card too, it's just perfect
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Post by scrapnnana on Oct 24, 2018 11:54:19 GMT
Nice cards, everyone! It's fun to see how unique everyone had gotten using black and white.
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Post by refugeepea on Oct 25, 2018 1:20:39 GMT
I'm terrible at adding attachments, so I'm going to do this in three separate posts!
I made some Halloween cards and most are black and white. Supplies used: SEI pattern paper, Simple Stories, Carta Bella, Echo Park, and Dollar Store stickers
ETA: The cards flipped the wrong way, show up the correct way on my laptop.  
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Post by refugeepea on Oct 25, 2018 1:21:20 GMT
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Post by refugeepea on Oct 25, 2018 1:21:56 GMT
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Post by scrapnnana on Oct 25, 2018 2:42:56 GMT
I'm terrible at adding attachments, so I'm going to do this in three separate posts!
I made some Halloween cards and most are black and white. Supplies used: SEI pattern paper, Simple Stories, Carta Bella, Echo Park, and Dollar Store stickers
ETA: The cards flipped the wrong way, show up the correct way on my laptop.
They look the correct position to me. All six are really nice cards, refugeepea! |
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Post by patin on Oct 26, 2018 19:52:30 GMT
Really nice cardes everyone. There is definitely a classy look to black & white cards. JaneB posted a scrapbook sketch challenge a few months ago for little squares on the diagonal.I made 2 Halloween LO's - one traditional & one digital that I really enjoyed figuring out. I loved that sketch & adapted it to this card. I am trying to make mostly Christmas cards with these challenges & I was concerned that black & white wasn't Christmasy, but honestly I really like this card.  Cardtober #5 by Pati Nuce, on Flickr |
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Post by JaneB on Oct 27, 2018 7:30:28 GMT
refugeepea the cards are the right way for me too and they look great! I love your clean, simple lines and pops of colour  patin your black and white Christmas cards are excellent! So elegant and simple, I love them
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And the papers and the big title...
Yeah, the soot black oxide ink isn't intense enough for my liking - I've used it a little bit over colors but I would prefer something darker (maybe regular distress?). 
