Less is More - Three Stamps

What a lovely day it has been and the sun is still shining.

Thought I would have another go at the Less is More challenge this week, which is one layer and to use 3 stamps - no more or no less.  Well did I strugle with this, think I had every stamp I own out, tried all sorts of techniques and still not keen on anything I have created.

I have no idea what the stamps are I used for this card, think they are freebies I have collected from magazines.

These are the cards I rejected, again some of the stamps are from magazines, Kanban, Portobello road and born to shop.

Well thats about it for this week, unfortunatley working all day tomorrow so lost a crafting day.  Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend :)

Less is More - Yellow

Well it has been a while since posting or even entering a challenge, but as it's the bank holiday and found I had a little time I thought I would have a go at this weeks Less is More challenge.

This weeks challenge is to use Yellow.  There are some amazing entries for this challenge and I have tried a few things and remembered I had these Klever Konstruction Flowers, which I haven't used before and to be honest wasn't sure how to use.

Used a selection of different sized flowers and melted and shaped them and created a circle round a stamped sentiment and thats about it.

Hope everyone is having a great bank holiday, it's actually not rained for the past few days so hoping to get out in the garden today :) xx

Sweet Stampin - Girly but no pink

Am really not getting on with this new blogger layout for creating posts, can't find anything and it had re-set word verification which I didn't realise!!

Anyway thought I would have a go at the Sweet Stampin Challenge, they want girly cards but no pink.  Well when you have 3 boys and get the chance to do anything girly I always go pink, it just has to be done but when I did this card I used a technique for sepia tones that Nikky Hall demonstrated in a magazine and kept the whole card in the same tones but still went for girly.

This image is my first Saturated Canary called Good Morning and I just love her, have already made 3 cards using her, so lovely to colour in.  Think I can see a few more finding there way into my collection they are just so beautiful.  She is coloured with promarkers with some diamond stickles added to make her sparkle.  Papers are from g.c.d Paris Nights.  Used Cheery Lynn dies and flowers from my stash with more diamond stickles added.

Even made a box for this card as there was no way it was going in an envelope with those flowers :)

Hope everyone is having a great weekend and thank you for stopping by :)

Apples galore

This is what I was doing Easter Sunday & Monday.  The weather was so awful I sat with my youngest son watching films and making these lovely needle cases.

I found the pattern in a Simply Homemade magazine and really enjoyed making them.  My original thought was for my son to give one to his teacher when he finishes school in July as he starts secondary school in September, then my mom saw me making them and said she would like one and anyway I ended up making five so I have a few stocking fillers as well hehe :)



New Baby

Well I can definatley say I have been a very bad blogger, what with the Easter holidays and the lovely weather we WERE having (now seems like a distant memory) I have not been on my computer at all so thought I had best pop on and say Hi :)

Even though I have not done much on the blogging side, I have been making cards.  I made this one for a friend at work and used one of my lovely new LOTV stamps, which I loved colouring in.  Used my new heart & corner die from Cheery Lynn (these are finding their way onto alot of my cards).  Papers were a freebie I think form Nitwits and have been stitched.  Used a couple of charms that I brought from the NEC last year and have never used!  Have added a fair bit of sparkle to this card although it doesnt show up to well on the photo.

Have been trying to find a challenge to enter this card and so far can only find Anything Goes at Prairie Fairy :)

Less is More - Recipe

Another week has flown by and can't believe we are nearly in April. Have been a very bad blogger of late and have not done much on the card making front as work, decorating and now the lovely weather so the garden is calling all seem to be getting in the way!

Spent a lovely day at the NEC yesterday and brought some nice new stash, mainly die's I was after and some perfect pearls, which I have never used before and came away with lots of ideas. Seeing the cards in real life, specially the LOTV cards I was amazed how truly beautiful and sparkly they are you so don't get to see that when you are just looking at them on-line, not that they don't look fab they are just so much better in real life.

Anyway enough waffle, this weeks challenge at Less is More is a recipe using any 3 of the previous challenges.
I had to use one of my fab new dies from Marianne and sparkled it with some stickles. Stamped and embossed the sentiment and trail in silver. Do think it is missing a little something, but then don't I always hehe. On a first attempt I had stamped some tiny butterflies in the back ground and dusted over with perfect pearls in pearl which looked affective but wasn't sure so left it off the final card might just try it again and see what it looks like.

Challenges used:

Week 14 White on White
Week 16 Butterfly
Week 55 Punches or die cuts

Hope everyone is having a fab weekend and enjoying the sunshine :)

Less is More - Masking

Another weekend is finally here, how quick the weeks are going. Have got a few days off from work and I am ment to be doing a bit of decorating, but thought I would have a quick go at the Less is More challenge, which this week is masking.
I watched Barbara Gray do something similar the other week, although I must admit I watched it through a bit of a haze suffering from a hangover, was very annoyed with myself for drinking to much wine hehe. Used a couple of post-It's to make a mask and then stamped around the edge with my lovely Kanban stamps and embossed in white. I used my brayer to add colour round the edges with Tim Holtz Broken China and Adirondack Juniper and used a clarity stamp for the sentiment. Mounted on to black card and thats about it.

Well thats it for today, off to sort some tea and will be back to do some commenting :)