Anniversary Card

 Hello there,

It was my daughter and son in law's 21st wedding anniversary yesterday so ofcourse there had to be a card.

I gave myself a little treat and bought this gorgeous new stamp from Pink Fresh Studio. I just know I'm going to be using it quite a lot.

I stamped and embossed in gold EP and coloured with Promarkers and Spectrum Noir pens.

The sentiment is from Avery Elle.

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Less is More # 443

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Another Saturday has turned up and is just waiting for us to get our creative juices flowing with another challenge at Less is More

This time it's a sketch,

 

A nice simple one today.

I do love a sketch challenge. As long as you stick to the basic design you can put your own interpretation on it.

For this card I used a stencil from Funky Fossil.

I started by embossing a rectangle on the card front using a Spellbinders Rectangle nestie die.

I then masked off the rectangle with post it notes before placing the stencil how I wanted it over the top. After securing the stencil I used homemade texture paste to give some dimension.

As soon as I removed the stencil and postits I smothered it in WOW Lime Rickey EP. This EP is beautiful, it has some glitter in it too so even after heating there is a lovely subtle sparkle.

I left the card alone for a couple of hours until the texture paste was dry before heating it up.

I made a flower, Primrose from Crafters Companion, out of pink crepe paper and added a touch of gold in the centre.

The sentiment is by Avery Elle stamped and embossed in gold EP.

My second card is completely different.

I stamped and coloured the house and used the nestie rectangle die to cut it out.

Then I stamped and coloured the Gnome and fussy cut him before popping him in place with a foam pad.

I wanted to put some white spots on the toadstools but my white gel pen has dried up. Something else to add to my 'must remember' list

All stamps are MFT Hanging with my Gnomies set.

Really looking forward to see your interpretation of the sketch. Please pop along to the blog for some lovely inspiration from the team.

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Thank you

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My husband retired from his job at the end of April. He was hoping to sneak away without any fuss but the rest of the staff had other plans. They'd laid on some sandwiches and cakes and presented him with lots of gifts. They even sent me some flowers for letting him work with them for the last few years.

I think he was a bit overwhelmed and even a bit emotional although he'll never admit that.

So ofcourse I just had to make a thank you card didn't I?

I've cased this design from one I found on Pinterest but there's no makers name so I can't give credit I'm afraid.

I found some eucalyptus leaf digital images on Etsy ( Reachdreams) and used these to make my DP.

I printed off 2 copies and trimmed one down slightly so I could lay it on top of the other, making sure the images sat true.

I printed off some larger images for my letters.

Die cut a small gift tag and the white leaves.

The heart on the tag is die cut from one of the eucalyptus leaves so the colours stay true, and the same with the tiny punched butterfly

Dies- Memory Box, Die-namics, the Works

 

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Less is More #442

 Hello there,

Another Saturday has swooshed around and it's time for a new challenge at Less is More.

It's theme time and the theme for this challenge is,

 

 Think of all the wonderful life there is under the sea's across the world, colourful fish, huge mammals and beautiful plants. Maybe even the odd mermaid or two.

I've gone quite colourful with my card, no change there then.

I started with a watercolour splash which is a digi stamp from LOTV.

I used just a small part of it on my main panel and a tiny bit more on my circle.

The seahorse, plant,shell and starfish are cut from previously smooshed card and cut with dies from Amazon.

The  grass, Jelly fish and sentiment are from Hero Arts stamps and matching dies. I've heat embossed the grass with WOW EP.

I finished it off with a smattering of sea blue sequins.

I'm really looking forward to seeing your creations. Please check out the blog for some fabulous inspiration from the rest of the team.

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Less is More #441 Diamonds

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It's time for a new challenge at Less is More and this time it's the dreaded one layer challenge.

I've taken the promt quite literally with my card and used a diamond (gem) stencil from Funky Fossil

 

 I started by embossing a square using a die from Die-namics, on the front of my card blank.

After a bit of measuring to find the centre to plave the stencil, I quicky sponged some white pigment ink through the stencil then sprinkled some pale pink glitter over it (after removing the stencil ofcourse)

The sentiment is by Wplus9 stamped with versamark black ink

Another view to try to show the sparkle from the glitter

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Birthday Card

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I'm nipping in quickly to share a card I made for my Grand daughters birthday which was yesterday.

I used a digi stamp by Alex Syberia for my card.

 I discovered Alex's digi stamps when she was one of our birthday celebration sponsors at Less is More and now can't get enough of them.

I coloured the image in a mix of Promarkers and Spectrum Noir pens.

I've added a touch of gold glitter to the stamen to give it a bit of bling.

The sentiment is computer generated.

 

I'm entering this card into the latest challenge at Addicted to CAS the theme for that is flower.

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Less is More #440

 Hello there,

It's our first challenge for April and it's a colour challenge, Pink, Grey and Gold.

We can't wait to see your creations using these gorgeous colours. There is some fabulous DT inspiration on the challenge blog. Please check them out and leave them some love.

I do love a colour challenge but I have to admit, this one really was a challenge. I do think it was lack of mojo rather than the colours though. Still, that's all part of the fun and it wouldn't be a challenge if it was too easy would it?

For my first card I began by die cutting a stitched rectangle from a piece of white card.

I then die cut a square of dark grey card before embossing with an EF.

With a piece of scrap card I inked a strip at the top with  pink pigment ink, big enough to fit the flower heads only before die cutting them. I then cut just the heads from a scrap piece of gold card, using a tiny bit of double sided tape I removed one piece from each flower and replaced it with the gold.

The sentiment was stamped and embossed in gold EP before being die cut with a small stitched rectangle.

This card came about out of frustration.

Among other things I've seen a fabulous stencil which is a grid pattern made up of dots, on a site in the EU. Unfortunately, since Brexit they have stopped selling to the UK because of our taxing system. To say I'm upset is an understatement but hey ho.

So I looked through the stencils that I do have and thought I could maybe get a similar effect from this one. I'm quite pleased with it.

 

After much masking with many post it's I used a tiny bit of embossing paste and then smothered it with gold EP. Once dry I melted it with my heat gun and here it is.

I then made a multi winged butterfly using 5 layers of bright pink paper from the plain butterfly die and the top layer from the cut out butterfly. The body was cut from a small piece of gold card.

 

The sentiment is stamped and embossed in gold EP and cut with a stitched rectangle die and I've added some small gold sequins to finish.

Dies- Die-namics, Memory Box,Spellbinders

Stencil- Alexandra Renke

Embossing Folder- Cuttlebug

Sentiment stamp-Avery Elle

 

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