Less Is More Week 135

Good Afternoon,

It's that time of the week again when Chrissie and Jen set us a new challenge over at Less Is More, and this week's challenge is to 'Use a Rubber Stamp' and if possible use watercolours.  They are being sponsored by Penny Black this week, so we have even more inspiration from their Design Team.

Watercolour is a real challenge for me as I don't have Stazon or a similar ink yet to use to watercolour an image.  So I have to go with the easy option of over stamping a water coloured background.

Supplies Used:
Stampin Up - Pocket Silhouettes
Stampin Up Ink - Daffodil Delight and Calypso Coral
Tim Holtz - Crushed Olive

Had a busy week at work so I am spending the rest of the day catching up on what I have missed out on in blogland.

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Catching Up

Good Afternoon,

I am finally getting round to catching up with the challenge over with Jackie Rockwell to create cards using the Pantone Fashion colours.  I thought I would start with the most up to date colour and work my way back.  And this week's colour is Linen, I don't use a lot of neutrals colours, but I quite like the end result of this one.

Pink Petticoat - DP (Quartfoil and Solid)
Avery Elle - Good Foturne (Sentiment)
Twine and button from my stash

I promise that the card is actually closer to the banner provided by Jackie, but it hasn't photographed too well.

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CASology Week 59 - Book

Good Afternoon,

This week's Cue Card at CASology is something that I love almost as much as cardmaking.  No it's not chocolate, but that would also fit, but Book!  I love to read, so I surprised myself when I had no stamps that featured books! So after a bit on pondering, I rememebered seeing cards which feature die cuts from actual book pages.  Now since I love my books I couldn't bring myself to tear a page out so I made my own book page to use.

Supplies Used:
Computer generated text and printed on copier paper
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Antique Linen to make the paper look like an old book page
Clearly Besotted - Butterflies Wishes - Die and Stamp
Sparkle from my stash

Now it's over to you guys, I can't wait to see what you all come up with this week, but before you get started have a quick visit round the rest of the Design Team for further inspiration.

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Jen Wills

Judy Marino

Kimberly Wiener

 Maureen Merritt

Meghan McMillan

Melissa Chipperfield

 Rosemary Dennis

Tracey McNeely

and this week's Guest Designer - Lisa

Less Is More - Washi Tape

Good Afternoon,

I almost gave up on the challenge over at Less Is More this week.  Chrissie and Jen have asked us to use Washi tape and I have none.  I knew I could make it myself but yesterday when I was still a bit poorly it seemed like too much effort.  However when I got up today I was feeling much better so I got going with my homemade washi tape and I have to say it was a lot easier than I thought.

Supplies Used:
Uniko Studio - Wonderful Washi
Hero Arts - Neon Ink
The Craft's Meow - Celebrate

I am quite pleased with how it turned out, however if I was to start again I would change the sentiment, but I used up the last of my vellum so just going to have to stick with it.

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Birthday Butterflies

Good Morning,

I haven't been feeling too great this week, so I haven't had anything new to share.  However it my friends birthday yesterday so I thought I would share the card I made for her.  She wanted something pink and sparkly, so hopefully this ticked the box. (the butterflies are die but from black glitter paper)

Supplies Used:
Inkylicious - Ink Dusters
Stampin Up - Curly Cute
Uniko Studio - Bright Butterflies (Stamps and Dies)
Clearly Besotted - Butterfly Wishes (Dies)

I am going to enter this card into the current Sieze the Birthday challenge.

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CASology Week 58 - Paper

Good Afternoon,

Time for another Cue Card at CASology, and this week it is something we all love playing with 'Paper'. There is so many directions you could go with this one, but I decided to try a bit of origami!

Sorry don't really have a supply list this week, as the dp was a bit that I found in my stash. The sentiment however is from Stampin Up, Teeny Tiny Sentiments.  If you would like to try and make this bow you can find the instructions on this fabulous blog here .  You can make the bows as big or small as your hands can cope with!

Now it's over to you guys, but before you get started have a quick visit round the rest of the Design Team for further inspiration.

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Jen Wills

Judy Marino

Kimberly Wiener

 Maureen Merritt

Meghan McMillan

Melissa Chipperfield

 Rosemary Dennis

Tracey McNeely

and this week's Guest Designer - Jenny

We also have a sponsor this week - C.C Designs

Days Off

Good Afternoon,

I am so enjoying my extra day off work today, but why does it go so quickly! My working day never goes this quickly.

Anyway I thought I would quickly share a card I made today.

Supplies Used:
Clearly Besotted - Basic Stripes
Stampin Up - Teeny Tiny Sentiments
Ribbon from my stash

Challenges Entered:
CAS(E) this Sketch

Dynamic Duos

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Less Is More Week 133

Good Afternoon,

I had my idea for this week's Less Is More challenge as soon as I seen it posted yesterday morning.  However yesterday was our annual summer BBQ so there was no time for crafting yesterday.  However I woke up without a hangover and the tidying up has all been done so I have managed to escape to make some cards for the afternoon.

The challenge this week from Chrissie and Jen is 'Round and Round' which instantly made me think of my new Timeless Talk stamp set from Stampin Up.

A super simple card from me today, I feel almost like I am cheating with this challenge, with a simple stamped image.  Think I am going to make something a bit more fussy.

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Clearly Besotted Challenge

Good Evening,

A very quick from post from me tonight, life is far too busy right now, and as usual crafting is one of the first things that suffers.  However I wanted to join in with the newest challenge over at Clearly Besotted so here is my card for it.

Supplies Used:
Clearly Besotted - Basic Stripes
Clearly Besotted - Butterfly Wishes Additions
Clearly Besotted - Honeycomb
Sparkles from my stash

And this is the inspiration photo that Stephanie has provided this month, as you can see I have taken quite a literal view of the column of colours.

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CASology Week - Picnic

Good Afternoon,

Time for another Cue Card at CASology, and don't put away your food stamps from last week quite yet, as this week we are going for a Picnic.  I decided to stay away from the food stamps and tried to create a picnic rug instead.

Supplies Used:
Avery Elle - Celebrate
Uniko Studio - Sentiment
Stampin Up - Butterfly Die

Now it's over to you guys, but before you get started have a quick visit round the rest of the Design Team for further inspiration.

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Jen Wills

Judy Marino

Kimberly Wiener

 Maureen Merritt

Meghan McMillan

Melissa Chipperfield

 Rosemary Dennis

Tracey McNeely

and this week's Guest Designer - Kanan

Less Is More Week 132

Good Afternoon,

Another difficult week this week at Less Is More and to add to the difficultly it is a one layer week.  The challenge this week is to make a card with numbers on it.

Supplies Used:
Avery Elle - Count on it
Inkylicious - Ink Dusters
Stampin Up - Melon Mambo
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Worn Lipstick & Spun Sugar
Twine from my stash

This is actually my third attempt at this card! I got an ink smudge on the first one, the second one I didn't like the placement of the 40th, so I guess it was third time lucky!

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CASE Study Challenge #152

Good Evening,

Having joined in with the fab blog hop over at CASE Study last week, I have made a conserted effort to make sure I joined in with this weeks challenge.  And as luck would have it the fabulous Jennifer McGuire is this weeks Muse.

As soon as I seen Jennifer's card I wanted to try and create it using white on white, not sure why, but the first ides that popped into my head.  I did change the layout slighted but hopefully you will see where I took my inspiration from.

Supplies Used:
Uniko Studio - Accent Essentials - Arrows
Clearly Besotted Stamps - Sentiment
Sparkles from my Stash
VersaMark
Clear Embossing Powder

Here is Jennifer's wonderful Muse card;

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Remember

Good Evening,

I know I said this morning that I wouldn't have much time for crafting this next couple of days, well my new goodies from Clearly Besotted arrived this morning, so I made sure I had some time to have a play this evening.  And I just love love love this stamp and die set.

Supplies Used:
Clearly Besotted - Remember
Clearly Besotted - Full of Surprise (Sentiment)

I am also entering this into this fortnights CAS on Sunday challenge. Which is 'Tag It'.  I was very lucky to be chosen as the winner of the last challenge, so thank you so much!

That's it from me for the night.

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CAS-ual Fridays - Buttons

Good Morning,

Today I am sharing a card that I am not too happy with, for some reason it doesn't feel finished to me.  Normally I would leave it over night and have a look again, but I won't have much time for crafting in the next few days, so here it is.

Supplies Used:
Stampin Up - Timeless Talk
Stampin - Birthday Wishes
Buttons from my stash
Stampin Up - Distress Tool

Challenges Entered:
CAS-ual Fridays - Buttons

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CASology Week 56 - Dessert

Good Afternoon,

This week's CASology Cue Card is 'Dessert'.  Unfortunately I didn't have anything in my stash that was dessert ish.  However when I was out for a chinese at the weekend it sprung to mind that at the end of a chinese meal you normally get a fortune cookie! So surely that counts as dessert, right????

Supplies Used:
Avery Elle - Good Fortune
Paper Smooches - Geo Graphic
ProMarkers

Now it's over to you guys, but before you get started have a quick visit round the rest of the Design Team for further inspiration.

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Jen Wills

Judy Marino

Kimberly Wiener

 Maureen Merritt

Meghan McMillan

Melissa Chipperfield

 Rosemary Dennis

Tracey McNeely

and this week's Guest Designer - Donna

We have a sponser this week too - Eat Cake Graphics

Less Is More Week 131

Good Afternoon,

I have been very very lucky at Less Is More lately, I was chosen as the June winner and this card was showCASed this yesterday.  However it seems like my luck has run out, as Chrissie and Jen have set a colour challenge and the colours are my avoid like mad colours! However I am not one to quit that easily so I took a very literal view with my design and dug out my ink dusters.

Sorry some of the colours look slightly different in the photo

Supplies Used:
Inkylicious - The Coppice
Inkylicious - Ink Dusters
Stampin Up - Teeny Tiny Sentiments

And here is the colour palette for this week.

I can't wait to see what everybody else comes up with as I know these colours will be right up some of your streets.

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CAS(E) this Sketch 39

Good Evening,

I have missed a couple of weeks of joining in at CAS(E) this Sketch, for some reason I couldn't make anything I liked for the sketches, but today I finally managed to come up with something I actually liked.

Supplies Used:
Avery Elle - Good Fortune
Avery Elle - Tag Dies
Stampin Up - Butterflies Die
My Mind Eyes - DP

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