Less is More #472

 Hey LIMettes

We have a fabulous new challenge for you at Less is More ,

I love using vellum although I don't use it as often as I should. Luckily enough I bought a pack only a few weeks ago.

This is my card,

My lovely and very clever blog friend Viv posted a card using this reverse stamping on Vellum technique a couple of weeks ago with a link to a video tutorial by our wonderful founder Chrissie.

I simply cut a square of vellum slightly larger than my window and stamped a few small snowflakes in clear ink and embossed them with white embossing powder. On the reverse side I stamped the same snowflakes in versacolor blue ink.

While the ink was drying I cut my window using Pink Fresh Studio Blanket stitched squares die from a square of card slightly smaller than my base card.

I placed the vellum under the window and stuck it all down with foam tape.

The sentiment is Mamma Elephant Holiday Messages

Snowflakes are by Inkadinkado ( I think ).

 

 

A close up of the stamped vellum.

While I had the vellum on my desk I thought I'd make a quick gift tag.

I used a gift tag die to cut a tag from vellum and another from teal card and attatched them with an eyelet.

I stamped onto the vellum this sentiment from Gina K in clear ink and gold embossing powder and again with a small flourish stamp from Papertrey along the bottom of the teal tag.

I marked the vellum tag with a pencil before cutting at an angle along the bottom edge.

I look forward to seeing your creations. Thank you for popping in...

Congratulations

 Hello there,

I'm popping in to share a wedding card I made for friends of my son and DiL. I was asked to make their wedding invitations at quite short notice but they paid me double the asking price so the least I could do was send them a card.

The colour scheme was emerald and I found a couple of pieces of card I'd smooshed ages ago  in different shades of green. I like to give my smooshed cards a quick spray of glimmer mist in either gold or silver. I love the subtle sheen when the light is right.

I started by using a heart die to emboss the front of my card as a guide. I then cut lots of the leaf branches from the curved leaf branch die set by Alexandra Renke, from scraps of white card just to play about with until I got a layout I was happy with.

Then I cut the leaves from the smooshed card getting a good mix of shades of green and swapped the white leaves for the green ones. 

I cut the congratulations with a die and 3 layers of white card and one of old gold pearl card.

The whole card was extremely fiddly and took forever but I'm really pleased with the end result. I don't think I'll be doing another one just yet though.

Thanks for popping in...

Less is More # 471

 Hello there,

It's that time again, a brand new challenge at Less is More and it's the dreaded One Layer card.

It is a nice easy one though. We want you to share your favourite flowers with us.

Just remember to keep it one layer only. No die cuts or extra layers please and keep it clean & simple.

I don't think I have a 'favourite'  flower. I love all flowers really, although I do have a fondness for the daisy family. They have such a large range from the humble lawn daisy which we used for daisy chains, to the large brightly coloured Gerbera's.

So I've used a part of this stamp from Pink Fresh Studio. I stamped it on watercolour card in Versamark black ink and gave it a sprinkling of clear embossing powder.

I used watercolour pencils for a change to colour my image. I think I need a bit more practice but I'm reasonably pleased with the result. 

The background wash is very pale yellow IRL but the photo makes it look brighter.

I finished off with a simple sentiment from Visible Image.

Please check out the main blog for some fab inspiration from the rest of the team.

Thank you for popping in...

A card for Ruby

 Hello there,

I'm popping in today to share the card I made for grand daughter Ruby's 14th birthday.

I water coloured various flower die cuts from Alexandra Renke and Simply Graphic.

I also used some purple watercolour paint to splatter the base card before adhering the flowers.

The sentiment is PC generated and I finished with a few sequins.

Ruby is doing really well. She's 5 years cancer free now and thriving. She's doing well in school and simply enjoying being a teenager. We have a lot to be thankful for.

Thanks for popping in