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.

Happy 9th Birthday Less is More

Hi there,

Yes, this week it's 9 years since the very first Simply Less is More challenge.
I joined in then and, although I had a bit of gap a couple of years ago, I'm still looking forward to our now fortnightly challenges.

This time the theme is

so a small image and very little else.

This is what I came up with,

 I struggled to find a stamp small enough but came across this very old stamp set from Elusive Images.

Stamped in Versafine black and embossed in clear EP.
The sentiment is from a small set by Flourishes.
The close up shows my rubbish attempt at water colouring with DI. It looks a bit better in real life.

And get this,  even though it's not one layer week this is a one layer card...go me lol.

So, seeing as it's 9 years since the start of this challenge blog I've had a scroll through past entries and found my first less is more card.

Funnily enough this one also has a stamped image from Elusive Images and a sentiment from the same Flourishes set.

I'm also entering this card into the Perfectly CaS challenge which is a one layer card.

Thanks for popping in x