Less is More 424 Christmas in July

Hello there,

Time for our latest challenge at Less is More and this time it's the dreaded One Layer Challenge and the theme is,

As if this year hasn't been strange enough lol.

I've stuck with a basic, quick and easy card to share with you,

I stamped my Judikins Snowman in Memento ink and used a post it note to make a mask and
 sponged some pale blue decorative chalk around him.
I drew a wavy line with a fine tip pen to ground him before colouring his hat, scarfe and nose with Promarkers. I also added some pale blue to the line and around some of his body to show some shading.
Finished off with a sentiment from Winnie and Walter

I think most of us begin our Christmas cards about now or even earlier so I hope we give you some inspiration to get you into the mood. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

Thanks for popping in x

Birthday

Hello there,


A really quick post from me today.

It was grand daughter Ami's 8th birthday yesterday, we popped to see her on Sunday for a little tea party and to give her her present and card, all socially distanced ofcourse ( well best you can with little ones)

Not the best photo because of the rotten weather we are enjoying in the UK at the moment but there's a lot of pink, lilac and pale green in the papers and on the image.
Papers are from my stash.
Image is from Lilly of the Valley, coloured with Promarkers.
Lace border on papers is a Xcut punch.
Oval die from Amazon.


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Less is More # 423

Hi There,

It's a colour challenge at Less is More 
and we have a fun, vibrant palette for you this time.

I love a colour challenge especially strong, bright colours. This is right up my street and I couldn't wait to start playing.

I started with a stencil for the background.
After a lot of fiddly masking I used some home made texture paste which I coloured grey by adding a very tiny amount of black acrylic paint.
I then took a little bit of bright pink Twinkling H2O's and scribbled it on a craft mat, gave it a squirt of water and smooshed the top 2 or 3 inches of a piece of white card.
Once dry I placed the flower dies so the heads were on the painted part of the card and the stems were left white and cut them out.
When the texture paste was dry I placed the flowers where I wanted them using small foam pads on the heads.
I used an offcut of bright yellow card to stamp the sentiment and trimmed it off to fit and placed it over the flower stems with foam pads.

Stencil   Memory Box Zippy Dots
Flower Dies     Amazon
Sentiment     Avery Elle Simple Sentiments

This is me in my comfort zone, I really enjoyed making this one

Don't forget to check out the other DT for some fab inspiration

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3 cards, 3 colours 1 design

Hello there


A fairly quick post to share some cards with you.

I had 3 ladies to make birthday cards for and I was so pleased with how the first one turned out, I decided to use the same design but change the colours for the other two.

This was the first one. I'd seen someone make a butterfly using a die and layers of crepe paper so I thought I'd give it a go.
The hardest part was seperating the layers as I cut then from 8 small sheets.
Stupidly I forgot to take a pic of the butterfly layers before sending it.

I made this one the same just changed the colours. Again forgot to take pic of butterfly layers.

This one I used 8 layers of coloured vellum for the butterfly. The wings seem to stand up a lot better giving it more depth. And this time I did remember to take pics.

Not the best pic I could have fiddled about with it a bit more but you get the idea.

Flowers are from Wild Orchid crafts
Babies breath die from The works
Large leaf die and circle frame from Amazon
Butterfly die from Memory Box
Backing papers from The Lovely Studio

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Less is More #422

Hi There,

It's time for another fun challenge at Less is More and this time it's,

It's easier than it sounds...honestly!

Quite a bit of masking involved but a fairly quick and easy design.
I used a very old Waltzing Mouse stamp set called Big Blooms in 3 different shades of pink for the solid and Versamark Onyx for the outline.
The sentiment is  Avery Elle Simple Sentiments

Check out the other DT for some fab inspiration and leave them some love


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Less is More # 421 Borders

Hi there,

It's Less is More Day, 
and this time we have a lovely easy challenge for you

This is my take on it,

I used a border embossing folder from Crafters Companion that my lovely friend Carol gave me ages ago and I have never used before now. Certainly will again.
The flowers were made using a punch and finished off with a pearl centre
The sentiment is from a set called Orchids by Flourishes.

Please check out the challenge blog, there's some fabulous inspiration from the DT

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Emilia's 1st birthday bash

Hi there

It's my youngest grand daughter Emilia's 1st birthday today.
 As we can meet up with 6 family members in an open space from tomorrow, we cheated and started our lockdown relaxing 24 hours early and celebrated at the birthday girls garden this afternoon. It was so lovely to actually see them all properly and not have to shout from the garden gate. We did do social distancing but there were a few moments when Emilia decided to crawl out of the gate or try to eat the flowers.

I made a couple of cards. The first one is from me and hubby, the second one I was asked by Em's dad to make a card with her favourite television character Raa Raa the very noisy lion. Neither of them are very good. I feel I've turned the clock back 10 years and gone back to basics.
However, the thing I want to really show off is the present I made for Emilia. This is what has kept me sane throughout lockdown.

My mum made one of these for her grandchildren way back in the 80's. He stayed at her house for all the grands to play with when they visited and still sits on the bed in the spare bedroom.
There is so much detail on these patterns but they are so easy to knit.
I enjoyed it so much I'm in the process of knitting his friend Sally for my gtreat grand daughters birthday.
The pattern is a book of  a family of 7 scarecrows and is available from Amazon.

 This is the card I made from me and Emilia's grandad.
DigiPapers by Shabby Princess
Stamp from LOTV, coloured with promarkers and the balloons have been finished with a coating of Glossy Accents.
Bunting die from the works
Heart shaped Ballons from Cottage Cuts

This one was so easy.
I found images of Raa Raa and his friends on google and used a My Craft Studio CD to make the tiled background.
I printed Raa Raa onto a piece of card and made the sentiment at the same time. Cut them out with a couple of circle nested dies.
I added some more balloons to fill the corner and a foam glittered number one.
Really basic and not one of my better makes but they both went down well.

I'll finish quickly with just one photo of Emilia after demolishing a huge piece of birthday cake. It was everywhere.

Thanks for popping in x