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Saturday 5 September 2015

Less is More - week #240 - colour challenge

 I'm so sorry not to have been around in Blogdom this last week.  LIMettes will know that my mum died suddenly last week and this week has been a bit difficult.  I escaped into a bit of cardmaking last night which felt great and have some cards to show you for this week's Less is More Challenge - a colour challenge,  green and gold.  First up are some autumnal leaves, coloured with a load of different Distress Inks.  The leaf is an Inkylicious stamp, sentiment is Hero Arts and I've wrapped some gold machine embroidery thread round the panel.

 Next up I inked up a couple of House Meeces with a sunflower and coloured them with Inktense pencils and also made a Copic version which hasn't yet made it into a card.  Which do you prefer?
Next up is a traditional Christmas card made with Winnie & Walter pine branch and fircones.  I've gold embossed the cones and the sentiment and cunningly covered up a blob with some gold sequins :).
And finally I've added a silhouette cut on my Silhouette to a green card, with gold sentiment and mat.

I look forward to visiting as many LIMettes as possible this week.

13 comments:

  1. Great to have you back, Anne, and so glad you managed to find some escapism in your hobby. And wonderful creations they are too. I love what you've done with the leaf stamp, such gorgeous autumn colours, I must dig that stamp out again. I love your little mice too, both are coloured wonderfully and I think I prefer the sketchy look of the pencils. Take care xx

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  2. Anne what a fantastic gallery of green and hold awesomeness, you've certainly been busy and it's great to have you back. The leafy one is so spectacular and coloured brilliantly but the others are equally striking.
    Hope your week goes ok and sending hugs. Sarah x

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  3. Anne what a fantastic gallery of green and hold awesomeness, you've certainly been busy and it's great to have you back. The leafy one is so spectacular and coloured brilliantly but the others are equally striking.
    Hope your week goes ok and sending hugs. Sarah x

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  4. It's great to see you've managed to get crafty this week Anne, despite all you have on your plate at the moment. The colouring on that leafy card is awesome, you've managed to create such dimension!
    The others are fab too!
    Chrissie xx

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  5. It's great to see you've managed to get crafty this week Anne, despite all you have on your plate at the moment. The colouring on that leafy card is awesome, you've managed to create such dimension!
    The others are fab too!
    Chrissie xx

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  6. You've been quite the busy gal Anne. Love all your cards. Sorry to hear about the loss of your mum though...

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  7. Lovely cards Anne. I especially like the leaves card - I love autumn and the gorgeous colours the trees turn before the leaves fall. Sue

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  8. The sample card you used on the LIM site this week, 1st one here, is gorgeous. The colours the masked stamping all of it plain and simply glorious. XOXO Zoe

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  9. I was so sorry to hear about the loss of your Mum, Anne and it is great to see you creating beautiful cards through such a difficult time. Those masked leaves are stunning and I love your gold pinecones too. Thinking of you x

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  10. So sorry for your loss Anne.
    Fab Lim cards and nice to see you back. Love & Hugs xx Jan

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  11. So sorry for your loss Anne. You've certainly come up with some fab cards as therapy! Have to say I love the fir cone one. As for the Meeces I think I like the Copic one best.

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  12. Loving the tumbling leaves card. The colours are fabulous and the effect perfect, love it! I am always covering mini mistakes up with some inventive bling! The copic one for me but also loving the intense colour of the flower with the pencils x

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  13. So sorry to hear about your mum Anne, a hard time for you just now.....hugs! glad you managed to make a few cards though, all so beautiful too. Take care of yourself ;) Viv xx

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