Thursday, April 10, 2025

Calee CT - Monochrome



Hi ,  a couple of weeks ago I treated myself to a small black journal , which is something a bit different for me but when this month’s challenge theme - monochrome was announced, that was my inspiration to get busy .


The first step was to choose a catalyst card from set #3 which I tore diagonally across the centre and stuck down onto the bottom corner of my page . 

Next I took one of the leaf D’inkables from set 14  and drew through it to create two leaf shapes . I did this using a black fine liner on the catalyst card and a white gel pen on the black page .These I then coloured in the opposite  colours to the background . For this I used a black ink and a white polychromo pencil .

I then used a white gel pen and black fine liner pen  to add a stitched border around the edge of the page and on the leaves again using the opposite colours - black on white / white on black . I also drew some hearts and added some cross hatches to the background.



In my bit box I had a few stamped out clocks  , and with the addition of some of the small cogs , I decided they would be perfect for the monochrome theme . Some fussy cutting gave this clock a more intricate feel and a little shading with a grey pencil gave the centre of the clock more depth.


My last addition to the clock was a coat of glossy accents to the centre of the clock ,to give a glassy feel and some dimension .
While this was drying I stamped out this sentiment from the Time is FREE set adding a few doodles to create a frame . 



This is my finished monochrome page , the first in my new black journal . I’m  pleased with how it turned out,  as I am definitely a lover of lots of colour in my creativity , but it’s definitely good to challenge yourself sometimes and push out of your comfort zone. 
Thank you for taking a look , hopefully I may have given you some inspiration to create a monochrome project. 
Happy crafting 
Calee 
For this project I used -                                               
                             Catalyst cards set #3
                      D’inkables set 14
                                                            Time is FREE 
                                                              Glossy accents 
A black ink pad , white  gel pen , black fine liner and polychromo pencils and in  my small black journal  .         








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