Hello

Yesterday my two older grandchildren... Daisy aged 8 and Sebby aged 6 arrived to spend the remainder of their half-term holiday with us. My husband went to pick them up from Bath and forgot to bring their coats. Today I discovered that Daisy doesn't have her trainers with her either, so unless she attempts to do our proposed rock climbing session this afternoon in Ugg boots, I'm going to have to go and do a little shopping! This evening they'll be joined by my youngest grandchild Cleo aged 6 months, so tomorrow promises to be real fun! Next week I will probably spend getting over it!

Enough of all that. 

Here is a card for the challenge at MFT where there is a sketch to follow this time.

I chose two dies from MFT for this, but card base size limitations meant that I could only fit four boxes into it. The card was coloured employing a smooshing technique, using a mix of Inka Gold in Platinum, Distress inks in Blueprint Sketch and Mermaid Lagoon and Spectrum Noir Aqua Tint in White, all generously spritzed with water.

I'm now heading for the shower to be followed by a shopping trip for coats and trainers!

You and me

I just received these sentiment dies from CUTplorations and had to try them out.

The base layer ones are from Simon Says Stamp and it's just the simplest design, but it appeals to me!

The challenge at Time Out is to be inspired by this phrase!

The sentiment was cut from a piece of card which I had coloured using a marbling technique.

'Friends are connected heart to heart, distance and time can't break them apart'

 I think that this will fit the bill!

It's also for the CAS Challenge at Stamplorations ...I'm not sure if the pink is quite hot enough, but part of the marbling sheet I cut it from was!

Happy Valentine's Day

Another day, another card!

Here is a simple Valentine incorporating a few challenges!

I used the sketch from CASe this Sketch...

plus the requirements of the challenge at CAS Mix Up

and the theme from Just Us Girls

The sentiment is from an old Magenta stamp and the larger of the two punched hearts was punched from some card which I had stencilled a mix of ink and embossing paste, adding a little twinkle for good measure.

 I used a Lil Inkers die for the sentiment, elongating it slightly to accommodate the length of the stamp.

Hugs

I haven't managed to make a card to enter a challenge for quite a while, but I love this layout from Freshly Made Sketches and just had to have a go! The little butterfly is from a Penny Black die set and the 'hugs' from Cutplorations, which I triple layered.

Part of this week will be spent having our grandkids here for the half term holiday!What fun!

Back from Hols for LIM's 6th birthday!

Can you believe that Less is More has reached its 6th Birthday?

I am so proud of the way my challenge has developed over the years and am simply delighted that I have been able to hand it over to such an awesome team... which is taking it forward to its next fabulous phase. They are such a terrific, talented bunch of girls and I simply love the work of them all!

The challenge for this birthday week is a colour challenge and it's to use 3 adjacent colours on the colour wheel.

For this card I smooshed some Platinum Inka Gold together with some Aqua Tints in red and yellow and after spritzing with water, took prints to use for the sentiment and as backing for the die cut heart border. The word 'simply' was computer generated. 

It's basically what I think of this fabulous team!

We have just returned from a lovely winter break in Florida and the Caribbean. The weather in Florida this year was unseasonably warm, the temperature was in the 80's each day and we had a wonderful time. The cruise to the Caribbean was equally beautiful and the the seas allowed us to visit the island of Great Stirrup Cay which is a private island belonging to the Norwegian Cruise Line in the Bahamas. Last year the weather was too rough to allow the tenders to come alongside the ship in order to take us ashore. 

This is me at Mountain Top on St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands last week. It was spectacular!

It's because we're taking lots of lovely vacations plus my Granny duties in Worthing and Bath that I have stepped back from Less is More on a weekly basis,  but I do hope to join in from time to time!, 

The Blues

The CAS challenge for February at Happy Little Stampers is to use the colour BLUE!

Here I used one of the Birthday butterflies, using the die cuts to create an inked backdrop I stamped onto some smooshed card with Versamark and embossed in Liquid Platinum embossing powder before die cutting them and popping them onto the background. The sentiment is from the same set.

I've been seriously lacking in mojo recently, maybe a holiday will recharge my batteries!