You're Amazing

Good afternoon friends, here I am again to show you a card I have made for this week's 'Less is More' challenge. This time it's a recipe and....     'Acetate or Vellum'     This is what I came up with, I seem to be in a green mood today ;) Not often I make green cards! I chose a very pale shade too so I hope you can see my card  clearly enough.     Enjoy your weekend whatever you have  planned ;)

ps. Our son has bought another house, (and it's fabulous)....... hoping this one goes through this time now! Ooh and our flat roof is all finished after 2 whole weeks also...rain stopped  play for a while....a long while! 

I used vellum on the small panel with the sentiment on.

White Linen card PP Ombre digi card printed in green  Inspire me Vellum Penny Black Flourish die Waffle Flower sentiment die Avery Elle sentiment stamp ( I used part of  it) Versa Color Green Tea ink Neat & Tangles Clear sequins

Dragon card

Hi playmates, how are you today? As it's Saturday yet again I am back with another 'Less is More' card to share with you.     It's a recipe this week and......     'Saints, Dragons or Heroes'     Not an easy one I thought, but then I decided to make a digi card for a  change.Glad it came together quickly, (see below for reasons). Just love this  cute dragon, hope you like him too ;)     Anyway come and have a closer peek  at my card, and enjoy your weekend  whatever you have planned.      I will include a quick pic of our new car  too.The table you see in the background  is where I take photographs of my cards  btw. ;)       ps. Still not feeling that great, I have  had a nasty virus I think. Anyway let's  just say things got very violent at both ends lol. Then I passed out for a while, alarming my very concerned OH.   He said my breathing wasn't great either to add to it. I don't do things by halves! Anyway it was just for a day and I am slowly recovering now ;)

Hope you can see the cute little worm(with wings lol) I added at the top of the wording ;)

Supplies

White smooth card Die-namics stitched die Pink Gem Designs digi dragon Computerized sentiment I added a digi soft watercolour  background (behind the words too but it  is very pale)and  the top flowers  and worm. Glamour dust

April Showers

Good morning play mates, how are you today? Pouring down...rather wet here alas but hoping it will improve very soon ;)     I am back with another 'Less is More' challenge card. It's a 'theme' this time and.....

"We'd like you to use 3 STAMPS

This could be 3 individual stamps or the same

 3 stamps used multiple times."

 

 

Ok I can do this......not! I tried several things,

all of which just didn't look right. I am not

that happy with this effort either but hey ho

I am going with it anyway!

 

 

So come and have a quick peek and see

what you think......looking out of the window

you can see why showers were on my mind !

ps. This is me trying to do a brief post for a

 change. Not finding it easy!!!! Anyway

enjoy your weekend whatever you have 

planned ! I am doing shabby chic 'stuff',

........more soon ;)

Supplies

 

White Linen card

TH watercolour card 

TH Distress inks

Versafine Onyx Black ink

Hero Arts Shadow ink Bubble Gum

Clearly Besotted stamps

Rubber stamps Tapestry

Green Spotty card

Hi friends, I hope you are all enjoying a very Happy Easter. It was bright and sunny here yesterday, just right for our Easter egg hunt! See pic of our  granddaughter hunting for eggs below my card ;)     I am popping in to show you my latest card for this week's 'Less is More'  challenge. It's a recipe this time and     POLKA DOTS       This is what I came up with, green for  a change too. I used the cut out bits from  the die to make ears, eyes and a smile. I was kinda thinking of an Easter bunny ....or maybe not lol.     Anyway come and have a closer look ;)  ps.I really love polka dots, infact I have just bought some yummy powder blue  chair cushions with white polka dots  on. Yes blue and not PINK.... I know ...........you will be shocked!       They are for our new wooden chairs we aquired cheaply from our new  neighbours. I managed to get a matching oil cloth for the pedestal table (also from our neighbours) and spotty cushions for our blue leather  sofa too.So lucky to get matching stuff from different sellers.       They all look so lovely in our back  sunlounge. The grandchildren have  already made use of the table for  games and making 'stuff' so it was  a great buy ;)     Enjoy what's left of the Easter holidays, very cold and windy here today!      

Lana did have some eggs in there.......I promise!

    Supplies White Linen card Avery Elle Finished frames die Mama Elephant sentiment die Clearly Besotted stamp ( present box one) PP Little vintage dots digi   (used for sentiment and other bits) Sequins from stash      

Leaves Sympathy card

Good morning friends, just popping by to  show you another card I made for the  'Less is More' challenge.     The theme is the 'Kissing Technique' , see my last post for more details. I went for green this time.     I used a leaf stamp and also a tree stamp. I think the tree stamp looks like veins  in the leaves ;)     Enjoy your Sunday ;)      

Sorry bit bright, had to put light on as it was so dark.

    Supplies White Smooth card Die-namics Wonky stitched  die WPlus9 Autumn leaves stamp  Creative Expressions Create a Scene stamp WPlus9 sentiment stamp Mama Elephant Mojito ink Memento New Sprout ink Little Things sequins      

Hoppy 70th !

Good afternoon all, hope you are enjoying your weekend ;)   We were babysitting yesterday so I had to wait until today to make my latest  "Less is More" card. The theme this week is......     NUMBERS     My mojo seems to be missing today, I have searched and searched but no luck!     After a while here's what I came up with, hmmm.....I may make another !!! 

ps.  A very big welcome to my latest follower also, welcome aboard and thanks for  following me ;)

White Linen card Pink Petticoat digi Ombre paper Die-namics arrow die (part of a set) Cuttlebug number die (old one) Penny Black sentiment die Cuttlebug E/F (Snowy?) Clearly Besotted frog stamp and sentiment Memento Tuxedo Black ink TH Distress ink Mowed Lawn Glamour dust

Green Ombre Sympathy card

Good afternoon friends, such a warm sunny day here too. I hope it will be a nice October.


Just stopping by to show you this sympathy  card. Sadly I have had to make far too many of these lately.

I have heard of five deaths in the last two  weeks ! First my elderly neighbour lost her  dear husband. Then a good crafting friend lost her lovely husband.      Then my SIL lost a close friend in an  accident. My DIL lost her granddad. Then  a couple of days ago my closest oldest  friend lost her husband very suddenly.     I hope that is all for now, my heart goes out to all their poor relatives & friends.

Anyway come and  see my card, it seems to be my 'go to' card now for sympathy cards. I find black too harsh and depressing.     I hope the recipients liked them too and  found comfort in the wording. I always try and say something uplifting....... and can only hope it helps a little. I used the green ombre colour on the  insert too btw.

White Linen card Pink Petticoat Ombre digi paper Memory Box flower die Die-namics Cross Stitch rectangle WPlus 9 sentiment Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Thinking of You Green Ombre card

Just a quick post for a change. I made this card for a dear friend, then disaster struck! I had just finished photographing it and I saw a watermark had suddenly appeared at the very edge half  way down :(  You can't see it here....it happened a couple of minutes later.     I think it was the white tak stuff I used to hold the card closed whilst taking a photo. Never had  that happen before. Anyway because of where it  was I was unable to hide it.       I was most annoyed as I had taken so much  care over making it (sob sob). Never mind I made another one which was much simpler and more my style. I will show you that another time.       Happy crafting my lovely friends ;)        

    White Linen card Pink Petticoat Ombre digi papers  Stampin Up E/F Label Fancy Tags Two Memory Box Flower die HoneyBlossom Sprig WPlus9 sentiment  Memento Tuxedo Black ink Clear gems from stash

Green and Gold Crazy Bird

  Good morning friends/playmates, hope you all have the glorious sun we have today. A real Summer's day here, hope it lasts a while.     I have my 3rd and last 'Less is More' card for this week to show you today. The colour theme is 'Green and Gold'. This is what I came up  with. Come and have a closer peek ;)       Just loving these Crazy Bird stamps, they make me smile everytime I look at them. This one certainly looked  as if  it was sorry to me lol,  so I went with a 'Sorry' sentiment.       ps. Bit of drama here yesterday, my poor OH fell of a ladder.....don't ask, it's complicated lol !  He gashed his leg rather badly so a quick trip to  A&E.      He had  several stitches etc. and I even watched   them do it,..... fascinating ...bit gory too though.   Such skillful nurses/Dr's they were  fantastic!!!        Also I seem to have  overcome  my squeamish  side too....who knew! Glad to report he is much  better today and mending nicely :)           

    White Linen card Watercolour card TH Crazy Bird stamp TH Distress inks Brilliance Galaxy Gold ink Heat It Up E/P Enchanted Gold Gold Acrylic Paint ( dots) My Favourite Things sentiment stamp Memento Tuxedo Black ink     Challenges   'Less is More'    Colour challenge Green & Gold  NBUS Challenge #5 (The bird is NBUS as is the sentiment)

      today

Green Feathers and a touch of gold

Good afternoon friends, just popping by to  show you another 'Less is More' card.     I used some distress inks and a few drops  of gold on the feathers.  
I stamped the sentiment and used a touch of gold gilding paste on the edge. The edge looks very golden irl, a tad darker  here though as usual. I pinched the gilding paste from  my OH lol.        He has so many yummy things in his garage/ workshop as he makes a lot of things out of  wood. I may be checking out his other supplies there now ;)      

      White Linen card Watercolour card Impression Obsession feather dies TH Distress inks Royal Langnickel Green Tea Leaves ink Gold acrylic paint Gold gilding paste Sentiment WPlus9      

Green and Gold Joy card

  Good afternoon friends, I hope your weekend is going well so far ;)     I have another 'Less is More' card to share with you again. It's a colour theme this week and...


Green and Gold


I pondered for a while (as you do) then decided to go with this idea. A bit of masking, blending and stamping. Hope you can see  the tree!      I finished it off by die-cutting this Joy sentiment and colouring  it with a yummy  gold ink I have. I looked at all my gold card but it was too harsh a gold colour.

I added a few dewdrops to finish it off. I wanted a gold one but didn't have one.     I dabbed a bit of gold ink on my card and popped the clear dewdrop on top, yeaaah....result!


Enjoy your weekend whatever you have  planned. We are babysitting our latest granddaughter again......cuddles will be compulsory I am thinking he he ;)

White Linen card Hobby Art tree stamp Royal Langnickel Green Tea Leaves ink Brilliance ink Galaxy Gold Memento New Sprout ink Hero Arts Joy die & sentiment stamp Clear and green dewdrops

Gingham hearts card

Hi friends, just popping by to show you another 'LIM' card again. It's a colour choice this week,       Yellow  and  Green     Here is my second attempt, still using gingham as I am just loving it for some reason atm. Come and have a closer peek......        

      White Linen card PP Gingham digi card TH Distress inks Lil' Inkers hearts dies Clearly Besotted 'Hello' die Neat and Tangled clear sequins  

Green trees card

Hi everyone,a grey and very rainy day here today  so I retreated to my craft room. Here is the result, .......lots of green !       Very brief post from me today.....for a change lol. I blame this horrid cold ......Anyway come and have  a closer look at my card.........and have a lovely  evening too ;)        

      Challenges 'Less is More'    More than one tree 'ALBC'  Clean and Simple or CAS 'Seemacrafts'   Monochrome White linen card TH distress ink Inkylicious Tall trees stamp        

Autumn leaves card

Hi friends, it's looking and feeling a lot like Autumn now here. Brrr the heating had to go on last night and  for a while this morning too.     I am posting another 'Less is More' card once again. It's a colour theme and.....      

"For our Colour challenge this month we have chosen 

Autumn's Bounty

Sounds kinda poetic doesn't it...

so we'd love to see autumnal shades in your cards."

This is what I came up with, not my usual colours,

but I am quite liking these for a change.Pop on over

and look at all the other cards over at 'LIM' too. There

 are some real beauties, so lovely to see all the autumn

 colours and leaves too.

ps. So busy yesterday with family birthday celebrations,

our son's 40th this time! The third one this year in our

 family. As usual they all came to us so I am still
 recovering!

The parties have become more frenetic lately, serving/
moving food around two crazy running toddlers and a
 crawling baby arghhh!

Phew that's the last party until Xmas, so I hope for a

bit of relaxation and card making now ;)

I will show you the teeshirts I designed for hubby in

 another post as it will be very photo heavy as you 

can imagine. He was very pleased with them I am

 glad to say! Enjoy your week everyone ;)

Challenges
Less is More   Autumn's Bounty
Great Impressions   Autumnal Elegance
Brown Sugar challenge  #114 Autumn/Fall
Quirky Crafts  The Quirky Falling leaves

 

White linen card

Lawn Fawn stitched leaves die

Die-namics stitched die

TH Distress inks (on leaves and edge of card)

Clearly Besotted sentiment

Momento Pear tart ink

Sew Easy thread

Sequins from stash

Enjoy the moment.....

Hi friends/bloggers I hope this finds you all well. It's another LIM card again and this time it's....     

"For our theme this week, we're going with Sarah's 

suggestion of using a song title to trigger your

 imaginations!"

This week's song is

Singin' in the rain!

"You can take any aspect from the title as the

 starting  point for your creation.  Rain, weather,

 music, dancing... let your imagination take flight.

Just remember to keep it Clean and Simple,

 with plenty of white space!"

I went with rain :) My first effort was almost

finished when I decided on a watercolour

background. BIG mistake!!!!

Let's just say it was a total disaster and leave it

 at that lol !

So onto card 2. I used a digital background

this time using Grepic dip dye digi paper and 

a Dearie Dolls digi coloured with Promarkers.

The sentiment is computer generated...........

and relax!

Hope there is enough white space ??, now onto

 card 2. I will be back very soon to show you

 my next effort !

Have a lovely weekend everyone, whatever you

 have planned. It was 30c here yesterday and I

was melting,........ 27c today still!

Gerbera card

Good morning everyone, here I am with my latest 'Less is More' card once again. The theme is......      'MORE THAN ONE STAMP' A bright orange Gerbera this time, and watercolouring of course ! Loving these stamps,......it seems you are  loving  them also .....there will be another very soon :)      Thank you everyone for the fabulous comments too. A big welcome to my latest followers, woo hoo that makes    over 200 now. I am sooo thrilled !!        

 

  White Linen card Uniko Studio stamps ( Gerbera and leaves) Stampin Up Gorgeous grunge stamp ( random inky bits) TH Distress inks  Sentiment WaltzingMouse stamp Momento Tuxedo Black ink     Challenges 'Less is More' Use more than one stamp 'Our Creative Corner'  'Photo * Must use Orange 'The Craft Garden'  Orange yellow and lime

Green daisy card

Good afternoon , hope your weekend is going well so far.     I have yet another 'Less is More' card to show you today. The theme this week is ......       'MORE THAN ONE STAMP'      I decided to use my new stamps which arrived this morning. I blame Gay for me having to buy this set of stamps lol.        I saw the daisy stamp over on her blog recently and just  HAD to have it of course. Having ordered it just yesterday I  couldn't believe it arrived first thing today, great service  Uniko Studio thankyou!         Anyway here is my card, I hope you like it. I did make an earlier card but it didn't work out, I may try again.          

    White Linen card Uniko Studio stamp ( from a set) Gerbera Butterfly ( stamp and die) Clearly Besotted Stampin Up Gorgeous grunge stamp Clearly Besotted  sentiment stamp Momento Tuxedo Black ink TH Distress ink Peeled Paint Wink of Stella white pen Glamour dust

Just because...

Hi all, it’s me again with another ‘Less is More’ card to

show you today. The theme is ‘Masking and Stencilling’,

this is what I came up with.

Imagination Crafts stencil 'Bayleaf'
TH Distress inks 'Salty ocean' and 'Mowed lawn '
Clearly Besotted stamp for the sentiment
Momento 'Tuxedo black' ink

Also entering  this into.....
Make something Monday  'Mask or Stencil'

'Shades of Green' watercolour card

Hi friends/bloggers I have another quick card to show you today. I saw a new challenge blog 'Virginia's View Challenge' 'Watercolour'  and couldn't resist making a card for it. Hope you like it too.      Not a great week, we came home to find a burglar trying  to break in our house....shock horror....more about that later.     Sorry about the peculiar text below. I fear changes I made to my html code have made it most strange.I am trying to resolve it still!        

                                  

                     
                 I used some TH distress inks and  some new Stampendous
stamps. The sentiment is from the same set also.I finished it off using a few dots of Liquid Pearls. I have been buying YET more craft 'stuff', I hope to start using it all very soon.       ps. As for our burglar, he only managed to smash a couple of small  glass panels in our inner door.Our 5 lever BS lock helped, he was never getting through that.     OH used to be in crime  prevention so takes security seriously.  My fault I didn't lock the outer front sunlounge door as expecting  post. Only away 20 mins too.     Outer door always locked now of course! OH chased him down the  road shouting and swearing at him hoping someone might  stop him.     He got away alas but a neighbour helped my OH find him and  they and the police did get him in the end. He has previous and says it wasn't him of course. Nothing will come of it no doubt but at least he got a big shock when my OH ran after him.    
Will let you know what happens anyway, the police have  been so fantastic.Great quick response etc., we wrote a letter thanking them all. They get enough criticism I think.          

Spring flowers card

Hi everyone, as it's Saturday yet again I have another 'Less is More' card to show you today.       It's one layer card week and the theme is.....     'Spring Flowers'       Here is the card I came up with. Luckily I had just taken delivery of some yummy pink Copics. I used an old 'Beccy's Place' digi image which I fell in love with as soon as I saw it.       A touch of Glamour dust and few dots of liquid pearls on the stamens and it was finished.      Now added a new pic as I darkened the flowers, hmmm still not sure which I like best. I was going for a very pale apple blossom colouring at first but then thought it looked a bit too pale.      

     

Darkened the flowers     Hope you like the card, makes me feel more Spring like anyway :) Have a lovely weekend whatever your plans are. We are off to see  our lovely grandson again.           ps. More weight loss last week thank heavens after a small  gain the week before.