Less is More # 455 Winter Whites

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Because there are 5 Saturdays in October this year, we have a lucky dip for you. This time it's Winter Whites and a great opportunity to catch up on those last minute Christmas cards maybe.

Just remember to only use white and keep it CaS.

Aperture cards were always my go to design at one time and then I began other techniques and design elements but for this card an aperture seemed the only way to go.

I used a Spellbinders Circle Nestie to cut out the aperture from a panel of white card.

I use an A4 sheet of card to make a 15cm x 15cm card and keep the piece I cut off the bottom. I use these for alsorts of things. They make great gift tags or smaller panels for inking or embossing. Or, in this case for cutting out the Holly die cut from Alexandra Renke.

I've simply used some white glitter on the outer edges of the Holly leaves and used some white pearlmaker for the berries.

The sentiment is from Avery Elle and is perfect I think for a WoW card

 

 

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Less is More #454 Autumnal

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It's Less is More day and this time we have the dreaded one layer card challenge. I'm sure most of you are experts at OLC by now but for those of you who are new  to this, there is some fabulous inspiration over on the blog.

So, our cue word is Autumnal which  means beautiful rich colours, autumn flowers and falling leaves.

 

For my card I chose to use this Sunflower stamp from Flourishes. Sunflowers remind me that, although Winter is on it's way, Mother Nature still finds ways to bring us sunshine.

The sentiment stamp is Papertrey Autumn Abundance set. 

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

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Embossed birthday card

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Another quick post to share the card I made for my son to give his partner. He decided to ask me right at the last minute so not a lot of time to think about making something fancy. I'm rather pleased with how this one turned out though.

 

I used my Crafters Companion box maker score board for the embossed lines.

The circle was made using circle dies from Die-namics and Spellbinders.

Flowers are from Ebay.

Leaves are by Alexandra Renke

Sentiment is PC generated.

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Daisy, Daisy...

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A quick post to share a card I made for my DiL whose birthday it is tomorrow (tuesday)

I started by embossing my card base with a folder from We are memory keepers, leaving a clean band along the top.

The flowers are from Simply Graphic cut from white offcuts with the middles cut from snippets of brightly coloured card.

Sentiment is computer generated.

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Less is More # 453 Colour.

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It's colour challenge time at Less is More and this time it's...

For my first card I've gone very CAS

I needed a thank you card for someone who did me a huge favour recently so this design was perfect, both for the challenge and the recipient.

The stars are cut from various dies with stars within a larger pattern because my nestie ones are too big for this. 

Cut from pound shop glitter card ( I'm so classy) the longest part of making this card was deciding on the layout of the stars.

The sentiment is computer generated.

My second card is another very simple make,

There's something about gingham and daisies. I think they remind me of picnics in the park when the kids were little and the girls in their sun dresses.

The gingham is from a scrap of DP I found lurking in my snippets box.

The daisies are from a punch, cut twice and the middles are cut from another snippet of pale purple card.

I can't wait to see what you all wow us with for this challenge. Please pop along to the blog for some more inspiration and give the rest of the team some love.

Birthday card

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I'm popping in quick to share a birthday card I made recently.

I used a Funky Fossil stencil for the leaves, with handmade texture paste covered in WOW glittered embossing powder.

Happy birthday die is by The Stamp Market cut out of gold mirror card and white.

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Less is More # 452, Hexagons

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We have a fun challenge for you at Less is More today,

Lots of scope for your creativity with this one, we can't wait to see what you come up with.

For my first card I went obvious with a Bee theme.

A really simple design using Spellbinders Hexagon dies.

I started by making a panel for the front of my card and cutting a hexagon just right if centre.

I found a piece of thin card that I'd printed the honeycomb pattern  from The Lovely Studio onto, in my snippets box and placed it on the card base under my cutout.

I then cut two hexagons from the same piece of card and placed them alongside the cutout using foam pads.

I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the little bee, from a set from The Works, added some Glamour Dust to his wings and adhered him with a small foam pad.

The sentiment is PC generated and yes it is wonky. I think the die slipped when cutting it out and I didn't have time to do it again. Please don't judge me :)

My second card was made for my son's birthday which he celebrated recently.

I've used the football theme and the colours of his favourite team, Hull City FC, who play in black and amber.

I started with a stencil from Studio 75 and black ink. The hexagons are Spellbinders again cut from amber card. 

I stamped and heat embossed a football from a very old Stampman set and cut that out with the smallest hexagon die.

The sentiment is PC generated (straight this time)

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