monochromatic Monday in March

Hello!  If you’re looking for my Operation Write Home Bunny Blog Hop post, don’t feel bad – I’m still making my way through all the blogs, too!  You’re welcome to read and comment on today’s post (or any others) too, but if you’re in a hurry and just want the Blog Hop post, click here.

Because it’s Monday, I have a new Paper Therapy challenge to share with you!  This week’s challenge is to make a monochromatic card.  You have until Saturday, March 12 to upload your card to the Paper Therapy challenge forum – and because it’s the first Monday of the month, you could even win a prize!  I don’t know exactly what the prize is, but I can pretty well guarantee you that it’s something related to cardmaking and something you’d probably like having in your craft stash!

I had a harder time coming up with today’s card than I thought I would.  I’ve done a number of monochromatic cards in the past so the concept of it wasn’t difficult.  Deciding what color to focus on and whether or not I had embellishments to coordinate with it was the hard part!  Blues?  Greens?  Purples?  Pinks?  Reds?  I kept coming back to wanting to do something with browns and this sketch from the OWH Stars & Stamps blog.  And as it turned out, I didn’t even use any sort of embellies, LOL.  Funny how that happens sometimes, isn’t it?

You may be wondering why I chose to make a Father’s Day card in March.  Or, maybe you know me well enough by now and have correctly guessed that it’s going to Operation Write Home.  I’m planning to send a few Father’s Day cards in the box I’m sending at the end of the month since OWH will be needing them soon.

Maybe it’s just my monitor, but trust me – the card base and background piece for the trees does match the light stripes in the designer paper better in person than it appears in the photo.

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Supply list:
Stamps: Lovely as a Tree (Stampin’ Up); Dream Big (Lizzie Ann Designs)
Cardstock: Naturals Ivory, Chocolate Chip, Recollections designer paper (SU)
Ink: Chocolate Chip (SU)