Less is More # 462 Occcupations

 Hello there,

I'm here to share my DT card for the latest Less is More challenge.

I've gone with this lovely digi stamp from Lily of the Valley for my card.

An interesting subject so there's plenty of scope, I'm looking forward to seeing what you all come up with.

I used various marker pens to colour the image except the spoon which I coloured with gel pens.

The sentiment is a really old Papertrey set called Autumn Abundance.

We're looking forward to seeing your creations for this challenge. Please check out the LIM blog for more inspiration.

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Birthday card

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I'm popping in quickly with a birthday card I made for my eldest grand daughter.

I used the die set from Alexandra Renke Glory flower set and cut the main flower, stem and leaves in thick white card.

I read on someone's blog post that good thick card is alright for watercolouring onto so I gave it a go. Now I'm not trying to convince anyone that using thicker card has turned me into an artist ha ha but it turned out quite good for me. I gave the flower head a slight colour wash in purple. The stem and leaves had a slightly deeper colour wash in greens. 

The second part of the flower was cut from deep purple pearl card and the stamen from some rose gold pearl card.

While I had the paints out I gave the panel a few splatters in purple.

The flower is quite large so fit nicely onto a slimline card

The sentiment is Avery Elle cut with a Cathrine Pooler banner die

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Less is More # 461 Pink and Gold

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It's time for another super challenge at Simply Less is More and this time it's a colour challenge,

I do love a colour challenge and I loved this combo so much I made 2 cards.

I made this card as a DL to accomodate the flower. I made a panel with a scallop die and used a stencil with some embossing paste as background.

I cut the flower, from Alexandra Renke out in gold and chopped it's head off, then cut the flower head again in pink card and attached it to the stem.

The sentiment is from Sugar Pea designs Birthday wishes set

My 2nd card was a lot more simple to put together. 

I started by scoring some lines with my box maker onto a snippet of white card, then cutting it out with stitched square die.

The leaves are part of a large leaf branch die from Pink Fresh Studio, cut from gold mirror card. The flower is 2 punched daisies laid on top of oneanother and the butterfly is another punch. The flower is dark pink in reality although it looks red on my screen.

The sentiment from Personal Impressions is stamped in Versamark ink and cut with a stitched rectangle die

I'm really looking forward to seeing your creations. Don't forget to check out the blog for more inspiration from the team.

Less is More #460 A Bit of Bling

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It's time for another challenge at Simply Less is More and this week it's a recipe challenge

I'm sure we all like just a little bit of bling now and again whether it's glitter, gems, sequins or something else. We can't wait to see what you come up with, just remember to keep it clean and simple.

When we say keep lots of white space, we really mean clean space so it's ok to use coloured card as long as it's CAS.

I've used some teal card from Papermill Direct for my base as it makes the gold look really rich.

I die cut the star, from Alexandra Renke, from adhesive backed glitter paper, placed slightly off the edge and tidied the overhanging edges with my trimmer.

The sentiment stamp is by Sugar Pea designs  Birthday wishes set, stamped in embossing ink and embossed in gold EP.

Finished off with just 3 gold sequins.

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Standing with Ukraine

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Just a quick post from me to share a card I made to show solidarity with Ukraine. 

I have a friend who'se dad came over from the Ukraine during the war and joined our air force. He was a lovely man and told me a little about his country and the hardships they'd endured over the years.

I started by making the circle borders with 3 different sized circle dies. I then made a mask, cut a circle in that and used it to stamp the sunflower into.

I used some decorative chalk in blue to sponge around the flower then coloured the flower itself with marker pens.

I then added the borders in Ukraines national colours of blue and yellow.

Hopefully this horrendous situation will soon be over.

Less is More # 459

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I'm back today with our new challenge from Less is More

This can incorporate images, ink etc. but the sentiment or any words must only contain 'Just one Word'

 And don't forget this is a one layer card,

 

  A nice easy challenge which I'm sure will give us a wide variety of designs. We can't wait to see what you come up with.

 I started by stamping the word then masking it before stamping the flower. There was a slight gap in the flower stems so I joined them using a fine liner pen.

I coloured the flowers with Spectrum Noir pens and that's it, nice and simple.

 

Flower stamp is Altenew, Pen sketched flowers

Word stamp is by Avery Elle.

 

Thanks for popping in, please check out the inspiration from the DT on the blog. 

Less is More # 458

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We're back!

Welcome to our first challenge of 2022. 

While we are sad to see Sharon, Anita and Izzy say goodbye to us, we are so pleased that Kylie has stepped up as our leader to keep Less is More going. Thank you Kylie.

We have a DT call this month too so please check the blog for information.

It's also our 11th birthday month which is why we're asking you to celebrate with us with your birthday designs. 

I used some small pieces of card from my snippets box ( I am getting through them, slowly) to make the balloons. All the patterns are The Lovely Studio and I've gone with the brightest colours I could find.

The balloon die is ( I think) from Amazon.

The letter dies are from Yvonnes Crafts

The sentiment stamp is by Flourishes.

I've added some flat back pearls for decoration.

Please check out the challenge blog for more fabulous inspiration and don't forget the DT call.

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