Less is More Sketch

There's just something about chickens!

For our sketch challenge at "Less is More" this week, I have chosen to make a primitive style card using Quickcutz dies, Coredinations card and a Stampin' Up sentiment. I think this chicken looks kinda funky.

I don't know about anyone else, but when I make cards using tiny die-cut pieces I invariably lose a vital part sometime in the process, which either seems to be lost forever or turns up in the most unlikely of places. When doing this project, one of the chicken's bodies went walkabout (without its legs). In the end I had to make another only to find the original a little later in my clear sentiments drawer. I always used to pop the 'bits' into a little box I had made, to try to keep them together, but that too seems to have gone walkabout!

The ribbon was rescued from a gift from my daughter-in-law and flattened using my hair straighteners.

Here are another couple of chickens who reside in my kitchen. The one which is hanging up was bought in the USA, when we went back and stayed with our ex-neighbours. We visited their beach house and there just happened to be a Craft Fair taking place that weekend... what luck.

This one looking out of my kitchen window, came from the Isle of Wight. I saw her in a shop when I was over with Mandi and just couldn't resist her. She was only £2.99, I thought that was a real bargain. She reminds me of the set of 3 fabulous Penny Black chicken stamps which Mandi gave me on this visit too!


We went to see Hampshire play Gloucestershire in a T20 cricket match last night at the Rose Bowl. Not only were we fortunate enough to see a game... the rain was threatening all evening, (it only stopped play briefly a couple of times), but Hampshire also managed to win the game.