Less is More week 8 & Hobbycraft Show

Well I admit I have been a terrible blogger over the last week or so, work is very hectic at the moment so card making & blogging have had to take a bit of a back seat. I did manage to get Friday off though to go to the Hobbycraft show at the NEC, which I will tell you about a bit further down. Anyway now for the card, through my blogging pal Alison, I found a fantastic blog by Katina, her cards are amazing and all clean and simple, so I thought I would give one of the challenges a go that she enters. For this card I followed the sketch over at Less is More, what an amazing place this is as well, opend my eyes to a whole new style of card. I used a flower stamp, which I coloured with promarkers and cut out, piece of ribbon and a stamped sentiment and thats it. Simple, or so you would think, how hard is it not to get the gems out, the sparkle out, the pretty edge punches, had to take a photo of it quick before I added anything else hehe. I really enjoyed making this card and will definatley be giving this style of card another go. I hope you like it :) Now on to the NEC this is all my lovelly new bits and pieces I brought, had a fantastic day, never been to anything like that before and loved it. Never seen so many crafty bits all in one place and to be honest it was a bit over whelming and if I went again, which I probably will, I would go over two days and spend a day just looking and the next day buying and joining in some of the demonstrations. I saw lots of the lovelly people from Create and Craft and my all time favourite Barbara from Clarity Stamps, although I was to shy to even say hello, but I did buy my first ever Clarity Stamp and will hopefully make something with that very soon :) Hope you all had a great weekend and dont forget to leave a comment as I love to read them :)