Less is More - A Touch of Red

This weeks challenge on the Less is More blog is a touch of red, I stamped the image and painted the poppies with Worn Lipstick Distress Ink with a little bit of Shabby Shutters to do the stems and darken the buds slightly. I layered it onto a red mat and then stamped the sentiment straight onto the card.

Bah! Humbug! - Christmas Trees

Here's my card for the Bah! Humbug! challenge this week which is Christmas Trees, I have used some papermania backing papers and some fabby green ribbon and thenused the Cuttlebug to emboss one of my favourite trees, I used the Core'dinations papers and sanded it back to reveal the green below. Finished with some red pearls in the corners and a bit of glitter on the tree, have to have glitter at Christmas!

CD Sunday - Transport

Good morning once again, this is the fourth time I've tried to upload this picture. I've had to revert back to the old style editor to get it to work but not sure why. This is my offering for our challenge over on CD Sunday, I have a few youngsters in the family who are into the army and am very slow at making the cards for their birthdays so have decided to use the theme of transport to get ahead. The topper was done in Craft Artist Platinum and the dog tags have been glazed in an attempt to make them look more metallic. I picked out the colours on the star for the papers to mat onto and there it is finished. To be honest it's not really my kind of thing but the boys will love it! Do come over and join us, we love to see your entries.

Music and Movement

I've made this card for a swap and the theme is music and movement. I have used some Basic Grey papers after much thought, I love the papers and hate cutting into them! I also downloaded the music from Swan Lake which I coloured with distress inks to blend in. The image is a digi which I have coloured with Promarkers and added a little glitter to the dress and headband.

The flowers are from one of my favourite places Wild Orchid.

Less is More - Sketch

I can't believe I am actually waiting for Saturdays so I can see what the Less is More girls have in store for us. This week it's a sketch so I have done a DL card which thinking about it is the first one I've done in a very long time.  I printed the pattern on the bottom and the sentiment then using the same card cut a strip which I put through the Cuttlebug, the flower is cut from a set  of dies and I popped a brown pearl in the centre to finish it off. 

Bah! Humbug! - Metallic

Over at Bah! Humbug! hall they have asked us to use something metallic. Well the first of my cards is done in Craft Artist and all the elements are metallic looking and I've layered the topper onto silver so hopefully that fits.

For the second card I've stamped some baubles onto silver mirri with Stazon, cut them out and hung them from the tree branch. They were very difficult to take a picture of as the silver reflects everything or just looks black so I have done the best I can. I have embossed the card using a couple of folders and then did the lines to fill the gap. The sentiment is from the same set of stamps as the baubles, they came in a Do-Crafts goody bag. The ribbon has been coloured with Promarkers and I added a little colour to the baubles too, being very careful so the Stazon didn't run.

I was off line last week as my pc stopped working so didn't get a chance to enter the challenge so hopefully this makes up for it and keeps my tally of cards going in the right direction.

Less is more - Masculine

Over on the Less is More challenge this week it's masculine, my first thought was oh no! but then I remembered this lovely husky stamp from Clarity and I was away. The frame was put onto the card in Craft Artist as was the sentiment and now I've closed the programme down I can't remember which font I used.  I love this image and although I have used this for the challenge I know lots of ladies who would just love a card like this. 

Quick update just in case anyone likes the font it's Morning Limerick BTN.

CD Sunday - Wild Thing

Hello everyone, I almost didn't get to post this card as I had a sick pc and have been off line all week, you all know the trauma this brings.  Over on CD Sunday this week the challenge is Wild Thing, not unsurprisingly we have all gone with the animal theme but there are other things that can be done with this theme so I'm hoping that we'll see some really good entries this week.
My card is for my brothers birthday, he loves otters and has always fancied a tattoo on his leg, he is a bit of an artist and has even drawn the design he wanted but has never got around to having it done so I decided the next best thing is have one on a card.  The image and the bubbly backing paper is from the first of the Jayne Netley Mayhew cd's, I have used a fabulous photo paper for the main image and it looks really crisp. The seaweed and coral I have cut out on my Cricut in a matching paper from the Life's a Beach cartidge. I do hope he likes it.

Simple Sympathy Card

I like the simpleness of this card, it is a five inch square and although is being used as a sympathy card I didn't want to use black so I have used a very dark green.

I am entering this into the Less is More challenge which is one layer and off the page.

CD Sunday challenge - Colour

I've made two cards for you today, these are my challenge cards for CD Sunday which this week is colour   we want you to use the colours blue, yellow and brown. I love blue and brown together but thought I'd throw a little something extra in and decided on yellow, when I came to do my cards I couldn't make up my mind what to do and it wasn't flowing as well as I had hoped so I ended up doing two and both of them have come from Joanna Sheen discs. I can always find something to fit the bill with her cd's as there is so much variety on them.

I am also entering the crocus one in the Stamp, Scrap and Doodle challenge which this week is spring.

Less is more - Off the Page

Over on the Less is More blog this week the challenge is a one layer card and off the page.  I stamped the lady leaving the back end of her dress disapearing off the edge of the card, coloured with Promarkers and then stamped the sentiment.

Bah Humbug! challenge - Embossing

Over at Humbug Hall this week the staff are having a great time and have asked us to do a bit of embossing, not sure if they have got their inspiration from the wallpaper but anyway I thought I join them and do a bit more for the Christmas box, I have used a cuttlebug embossing folder which funnily enough I won last year from those very nice ladies, I have used a little distress ink to highlight the trees. The words were cut on the Cricut as were the snowflakes, I really should use this machine more often as I do love it but just forget to switch it on at times.

I'm also entering this for the CHNC challenge which this week is embossing,

CD Sunday - St Patrick's day/Luck of the Irish

Good morning from sunny Wigan, it's another Sunday and can only mean one thing, yes it's another challenge from us over at CD Sunday. This week we are going to Ireland and celebrating St Patrick's day, our theme is based around luck so this is what I chose to use.  My card is done using the newest set of cd's in my collection, Craft Artist Platinum. I have had a ball using these cd's and built up the design before printing off, the bunch of shamrocks is a digi stamp from either last year or even the one before which I reduced in size to fit in the frame and then coloured it with Promarkers.

This week our challenge is sponsored by Art of Craft and they have been very generous in giving us a voucher for £20 to spend on anything in the shop, so go on over and have a look it's very well stocked.

Less is more - Three Squares - Take Two

OK I have to admit that I do like to do things right if that is possible, I know I don't always achieve it so will go back and start again. Earlier I made a card for the Less is More challenge this week which is three squares, now I wasn't 100% happy with it and most of the comments echo my thoughts. 

I decided to have another go but have done this one a little differently, once again the sentiment is computer generated but so are the squares. I found it a lot easier to get the squares in the right place using the pc, once I had printed the base out I used a stamp that I've had for quite a few years, I then coloured the flowers with promarkers. Now once again I'm not 100% happy as I could have placed the 1st flower a little further to the left  but I feel it's a great improvement on my earlier attempt.

Less is more - Three Squares

On the Less is more challenge blog this week the theme is three squares, easy you may think but not for me!

I have done this and now I've looked at it again I don't like the placement of the words, but I can easily do another and move them, I think they should be a bit higher.  The purple paper is a patterned one and this is why the shading is different on each square, again maybe I should have used a solid colour?

CD Sunday - Art Nouveau

Over on CD Sunday this week we want you to use the theme Art Nouveau, I have used My Craft Studio for my card and printed the background and the image onto pink pearlised paper. The base card is pearl white with a hint of colour and it changes with the light, I have embossed some lines down one side and across the bottom and added some brown pearls.

I am entering this into Crafty Ann's challenge which this week is a birthday card, thanks Ann a nice easy one this time.

I do hope you'll come over and join in with us, we'd love to see you.

Things That Fly - Bah! Humbug!

The Bah! Humbug! team are being nice to us this week after the stinker last week, and their theme is things that fly. Now this may be the oddest robin you have ever seen but it can fly so fits in with the challenge.  The card is an 8 inch square, yes Ann I know I said I wasn't doing big Christmas cards but this is for someone in particular.  In the background I have stamped some snowflakes with Perfect Medium and then dusted with pale blue Perfect Pearls, the dotty paper is from a digi kit in Craft Artist, the ribbon is not 100% right but once it was stuck it wasn't letting go without doing some damage so it will have to stay as is.

Bah! Humbug! - Use a CD

Over on Bah! Humbug! this week the ladies have decided we should use a cd, now my first thoughts were oh that's easy I'll print off an image and I'll be away but no, that wasn't how they wanted us to include the cd in our designs.

I found an old cd and used cranberry and lettuce alcohol inks to give it it's colour, I then found some green card and cut out a wreath, I used a bit of red glitter and lots of irresdecent, looks quite dull in this picture - oh for some sunny days!  I used another stamp from the Penny Black sheet I bought recently and coloured he image in.  I used a backing paper with presents on it to tie it all together.

Well it's Sunday so ..................

Good morning all you wonderfully talented crafters out there, today is Sunday so that only means one thing in my world - another challenge from CD Sunday.

This week the DT have decided on the theme  Get ahead- Get a Hat, now I had lots of different ideas for this one and the card I have made has no resemblance to any of them.  I wanted to do something a little different and maybe make you smile so I turned to DSA2 and a digi stamp I have had for a long time but never used.

This image always makes me smile and I have coloured him with Promarkers, the rest of the card was built in DSA2. I hope you can come on over and join in with us this week, we'd love to see you.

Less is more - Spring 2nd version

Help!  This blog is starting me off on a journey I hadn't planned on, when I found the

 Less is More blog last week I thought I'd have a go, not satisfied with one entry I had to do another. Now then this week they have a theme going and it's spring, well as I usually use stamps and inks and things but the entry I did earlier was totally digi. I guess it's because I have this software and I need to learn how to use it, now I'm feeling like I should try harder even though I can't tell you how long it took me to sort out where I wanted everything on the page for the first one.

The thing is this is also a digi but I have had some input as I have used Promarkers to colour the flowers.  I was going to stamp an image and had the sentiment all planned but can't find the stamp so have had a go with this, hope you like it.