Something shiny...

This week's Less is More Challenge is "Something shiny".  Shiny means Christmas cards to me, soI used new Stamp Addicts stamps of the twelve days of Christmas and embossed using Wow Superfine powder, which is fab for these detailed stamps.  I've scored a double line above and below the squares.

Phindy's Place Challenge - beach babies

Good morning and welcome to this week's Phindy's Place Challenge.  This week we have the summer theme of beach babies, I just hope we the rain stops and we get the weather to go with the theme!   I used the adorable Summer Bare image for my card, adding some Cupcake Basic Grey DPs and some card candy.  The layout is from Saturday Sketchers. 
My card is for the following challenges:
Sketch Saturday - sketch
Divas by Design - summer
Paper Pretties - summer inspiration
Simon Says - summer inspiration
Fashionista - simply summer
Pile it On - let's get outdoors

Holiday Ornaments

I have succumbed to temptation and got a new set of Waltzing Mouse stamps, the totally gorgeous ornaments which are designed to be used with Spellbinder dies.  They also go with the Nordic Winter set which is my all-time favourite stamp set for Christmas so I had to get them really :).
This is loosely based on this week's Waltzing Mouse Sketch Challenge, I've embossed onto kraft card and added a dry embossed panel.  I'm really impressed with the detail on these stamps, love them.

Clean & Simple Christmas

This week's Basic Grey Challenge is clean & simple.  I love my 6x6 pads and have lots of scraps that I cannot bear to throw away.  So I decided to use some up for this challenge.  Here I've matted squares from an Eskimo Kisses pad onto mirri card and used my Wow embossing powder in pale superfine gold for the Stampin' Up sentiment.  I think I may try this with 3x3 squares, not 2x2, what do you think?

Less is More flourish

This week the Limettes are challenging us to use a flourish on a one-layer card.  While I was looking for a flourish I realised I've hardly (if ever) inked up this Elusive Images birdhouse with a flourish growing up its pole. Hope it is a suitable flourish!  I white embossed it and brushed some Distress Inks onto the masked card.  The sentiment is Papermania.

Phindy's Place Challenge #109 - Father's Day

Welcome to this week's Phindy's Place Challenge.  This week we are making Father's Day cards, or masculine cards, mine is actually for my FIL.  The adorable image is called The Faithful and the Fickle, as ever I coloured with my trusty Copics, adding some brads, some Stampin' Up ribbon and masculine DPs.
I'm entering my card in the following challenges:
Card Cupids - animals
Penny's Paper Crafty - Father's Day
Clear it Out - brads and masculine (the brads are old stash)
Digital Tuesday - anything goes
Shopping our Stash - Father's Day
Cards for Men - Father's Day
Love to Create - Father's Day
Here Come the Boys - anything goes
Little Claire's - male
Secret Crafter - anything goes

Sweets for the sweet

This week Waltzing Mouse Challenge celebrates its 100th sketch!  This is my take on it, I really like simple red and white together for Christmas cards...

Red, white & Blue (and a diamond!)

Here's a one layer card using my Inkylicious stamps.  I used Distress Inks in Faded Jeans and Fired Brick and added a tiny diamond gem to the crown.
My card is for:
Less is More - red, white & blue
One Stop Craft Challenge - crowns or diamonds AND red, white & blue
Daring Cardmakers - red, white & blue

Digi Doodle Shop Challenge #110 - get the bunting out

Good morning and I'm a day late again with my posting!  I've been having problems with my printer and as a result I seem to be behind on everything...  This week's Digi Doodle Shop Challenge is right on trend for this week's Jubilee celebrations, we want you to add some bunting to your card.  I used the adorable Playful Puppies image, teaming it with this week's Papertake sketch and some Basic Grey Marjolaine papers from an old pad.
My card is for the following challenges:
Papertake - sketch
Simon Says - anything goes
Bearly Mine - animal kingdom

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #69 - Distress It

Oops I forgot to schedule this yesterday, must have been sidetracked by the sunshine!   This week the Crafty Cardmakers would like to see Distressed Projects.  I've used a gorgeous new set of stamps from Stamp Addicts which lent themselves perfectly to a vintage, distressed look. 

My image was stamped in Sepia Versafine, I've distressed and inked the edges then stitched around it.  Background uses more inking and the keyhole stamp, I added a couple of buttons with twine to the sentiment.
My card is also for the following challenges:
Incy Wincy - vintage
Opus Gluei - sew what
Poodle Parlour - monochromatic
Fab'n'Funky - a new beginning
Sisterhood of Crafters - old fashioned

Less is More - a shaped card

This week the LIMettes want us to make a shaped card, not something I'm usually too keen on.  Then I remembered how to cut down a standard rectangle into a triangle which can make a fun Christmas card.   There's not a lot of white space as I used my Swiss Dots embossing folder on the smaller, matted triangle, but I think it still works...   Sentiment is Lili of the Valley.

Phindy's Place Challenge #107: 1-2-3

 

This week at Phindy's Place we have a 1-2-3 challenge, use 1 image, 2 DPs and 3 embellies.  You can either count my embellies as 3 pearls or pearls, ric-rac and punched edge, whichever you feel fits the challenge best lol.  I've used the very summery image Biking Babe, along with Basic Grey Out of Print DP.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Sweet Stamps - anything goes

Bunny Zoes - anything goes

Catered Crop - ric-rac

One Stitch at a Time - anything goes

Basic Grey - anything goes

Less is More - baby or child

For some reason this week's theme at Less is More didn't seem to fit anything that I had so I ended up buying a large Woodware clear stamp at my local craft shop.  I've paper pieced the pram with SU cardstock and drawn a border with a Copic rather than matted it.  After I took the photos I saw that the white card is whiter than the white cardstock - oops.

Phindy's Place Challenge #106 - summer is coming!

What a long week this has been!  Thank goodness it's Friday and here is my cad for this week's Phindy's Place Challenge, Summer is Coming.  I chose the adorable new image Summer is Here and follwede the Sketch'n'Stash layout.  DP is Basic Grey Out of Print.
My card is for the following challenges:
Sketch'n'Stash - sketch

Digi Doodle Shop Challenge - work related

This week's challenge at Digi Doodle Shop is work related.  I've chosen to use In the Garden, a perfect image for those difficult man cards...  The background is brushed with Distress Inks and main image coloured with Copics.  I added some garden twine and some brass brads, keeping my card fairly simple.
I'm entering my card for:
Simon Says - clean & simple
Whimsy Stamps - anything goes

A CAS-ual bird

Today's card is an attempt at a CASE of the awesome Michele Zindorf, here is her card that inspired me.  I've sponged ink onto pearlescent cardstock, added twine, a sentiment and a punched out bird.  Not much white space but still very clean and simple. 

I'm entering my card for:
CAS-ual Fridays - birds
Catch the bug - things with wings
One Stop Craft - monochrome
Fairytale - things with wings
Glitter Geeks - things with wings
Polkadoodle - monochrome

Less is More - use 3 stamps

Remember when images were not usually coloured, before we all got Copics?  I had a go at a non-coloured card for this week's Less is More challenge, but ended up adding some colour with Distress Inks!  All three stamps are from a now retired Stampin' Up set which I love.  The single layer cardstock didn't like watercolouring but after three earlier attempts hit the bin I am sticking with this version :).
I'm also entering the St Luke's Challenge for this month which is one layer. 

Phindy's Place Challenge #105 - Christmas in May

Good morning and welcome to this week's Phindy's Place Challenge, which is to make a card or project for Christmas.  I couldn't resist the sentiment stamp that I bought in the post-Christmas sale at Stamp Attic and of course I had to use Phindy's brilliant Power Nap image for my card! 

I've kept things fairly simple, paper piecing the chair and adding my image to an easel card.  One card done for Christmas, maybe I will avoid the panic this year...

Less is More meets CAS-ual Fridays

I'm late with my LIM entry this week after spending the Bank Holiday weekend with a friend in sunny Dorset, eating and drinking too much and doing little else :).
LIM would like to see yellow used as the focus and CAS-ual Fridays are celebrating their 1st birthday.  I have the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die and don't use it anything like enoujgh, so I cut out some petals using yellow fabrics and attached them to a pale greeny-yellow card, adding a sentiment from a stamp that came free with a magazine.  Very clean, very simple :).

My card is for:  Less is More - yellow and CAS-ual Fridays - Happy Birthday.

Phindy's Place Challenge #104 - vintage

This week at Phindy's Place we are challenging you to make something with a vintage style.  Phindy's been drawing some fabulous new images recently and I chose Potted Primroses for my card.  I printed and coloured four times and made a decoupaged card.  There is lovely detail on the image but it has a very clean outline, perfect for this technique.  I followed the layout from Sketch Saturday, added some embossing and buttons.

My card is also for the following challenges:
Sketch Saturday - sketch

Aud Sentiments - anything goes
Craft us Crazy - favourite stamp company - easy one, Phindy's designs have been my favourite ever since I discovered them!
C.R.A.F.T.  - buttons
Crop Stop - emboss it
Do You Stack Up - circles
Little Miss Muffet - May flowers
Papercrafting Journey - vintage
My Mum's Craft Shop - embossing
Paper Pretties - flowers
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Tuesday Throwdown - in the garden