Lessis More # 470, Butterflies

 Hello there,

It's time for a brand new challenge at Less is More and this time it's a theme.

The possibilities are endless with a butterfly image from the different species we see all over the world to the colourful fantasy ones in our heads.

I can't wait to see your creations,

I've seen lots of these 'floating' panels on cards lately so I thought I'd give it go.

Really easy to do. I cut my strips of card the same width and adhered them onto a piece of acetate leaving a small space between each strip. I then simply used a circle die to make the topper. I place foam pads behind the strips to keep them hidden and placed it on my card.

The butterfly is cut from a Memory Box die using 8 layers of pink paper. I made the body from a scrap of pale green card and added some green gems before adhering it to the topper.

I used some glitter and pearlised card from Sizzix in old gold for the topper.

My next card is made using watercolour card and a very old butterfly stamp from Elusive Images.

I stamped the images in Versafine black ink and embossed it with clear EP.

I painted it with some blue and violet Twinkling H2O's. There is a bit of a sheen to the finished image but the camera hasn't picked it up unfortunately.

The card blank is 4" x4" so quite small but I thought it made a nice thank you card. The sentiment is from Visible Image.

Please pop over to the LIM blog for some fabulous inspiration and leave some love for the rest of the team.

A card for Markuss

 Hello there,

Just popping in with a card I made for grandson Markuss's 18th birthday.

I'm not very imaginative when it comes to man cards, you may have noticed lol but you can't really go wrong with a bit of gold and some stars can you?

DP is Papermania ( very old)

Star dies Hero Arts I think.

Number dies are Memory Box

 

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Less is More #469 Traditional Christmas

 Hey LIMettes,

We have a brand new challenge today at Less is More. It's a colour challenge and this time we want Traditional Christmas colours.

For my first card I've used different shades of green card to cut out my trees and some gold card for the word die.

This card is using Sizzix winter foliage dies.

I simply added a few white flat back pearls and little red bow.

The sentiment is by Winnie & Walter.

My last card is based on a design I found on Pinterest. 

The snowflakes dies are from Janna Sheen cut from baby blue pearised card, white pearised card and baby blue glitter card.

I added a blue gem in the centre of the top snowflake and some silver twine at the top.

The sentiment is from Avery Elle.

Thanks for popping in and please check out the rest of the team on the main blog for some fab inspiration.

A card for Ami

 Hello there,

It was our grand daughter Ami's 10th birthday last week.

 

As she's growing up fast now I thought a more grown up card would please her.

I started with a 6x6 white card base.

I cut a piece of lilac card slightly smaller than my base and layered a piece of white embossed pearlised card on iy leaving a narrow border.

Luckily the number 10 was easy to make in a larger size simply by using two oval dies, one inside the other, and cutting a longish piece the same width as the oval.

The flowers are from  Sweet Lilac flowers and I've used a selection of colours.

Finished with a sprinkling of sequins and a sentiment I printed from the PC.

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Less is More # 468 Emboss

 

Hello there,

We have a brand new challenge over at  Less is More and it's a super (aren't they all?)

We'd like to see embossing on your cards this time but remember to keep them clean & simple with plenty of clean space.

I'm sitting comfortably in my happy place with this challenge. I really do love a bit of embossing, in fact it was the first thing I attempted when I first started making cards all those years ago.

One of the first pieces of equipment I bought was a heat gun and some embossing powder and even now I get a thrill from watching the powder melt as if by magic. So I might just have got a bit carried away with my inspiration samples this time.

Dry embossing

Dry embossing can be done with an embossing stylus or an embossing folder. This card is simplicity itself.

I used my Crafters Companion box maker and a stylus and just scored the lines until I thought the panel was wide enough.

I cut my flowers from watercolour card and gave them a wash of water colour paints.

I added a sentiment stamped and embossed in gold.

The crocus and  Illarius are from Alexandra Renke, the tulip is Simply Graphic

Texture Embossing

For this one I used a stencil called falling petals from Alexandra Renke and some Nuvo embellishing Mousse.

I used some more of the same flowers

Heat embossing

This one is slightly different and I'm not sure it's CAS enough so I've left it until last.

I used some mid grey card for my base and a piece of light grey for the panel.

The leaves are from a  set by Crafters Companion that were free with a magazine ages ago.

I stamped them in clear ink and embossed the in gold EP before fussy cutting them.

I added a strip of black to the top of the panel and then added an eyelet in gold.

The sentiment is another really old Papertrey ink stamp, stamped and embossed in gold.

I finished off with some waxed thread in gold.

Sympathy cards are not the nicest ones to have to make but I do like to have a couple ready made because sooner or later I know I will need one.

I do hope I've given you a little bit of inspiration, please pop over to the Less is More blog for some super creations from my teamies.