Lucky Dip week at "Less is More"

This week at "Less is More" we have a Lucky Dip week with a special Guest Designer. We have Rebecca (Melly Moo) as our Guest and the theme is 2 legs or 4!

I have one in each category for you today!

The little bird is from A Day for Daisies, coloured with watercolour pencils and a water brush.

It has a simple frame from SSS dies and a computer generated sentiment.

This little four legged creature is from Clearly Besotted, stamped with Ranger Java Bean dye ink  and die cut with its matching die.

The stitched dies are again from Simon Says Stamp and the tree from MFT, with an embossed sky from Stampin' Up.

My daughter-in-law is the chair of a really worthy charity called Petals, which offers counselling for trauma or loss during pregnancy and birth. Having benefited from their services is the past, it is very close to her heart. She wanted to be involved with me to devise a Thank you card to send to donors of substantial amounts to her charity... we spent the afternoon playing around yesterday... we're getting there but it's not sorted just yet,,..so watch this space!

If anyone feels they would like to contribute to this incredibly worthwhile service, I have added a link, just click here to go to their site.

As promised here it is. This is the card I finished up making!

LIM Colour Challenge!

It's time for another colour challenge at
"Less is More".

This time we have this fabulous Design Seeds set of shades

Here are the cards I came up with.

I spotted this image yesterday at Tiddlyinks and decided that I needed it. What a cute snowman!

He's dusted liberally with Glamour Dust and coloured with Mirage pens.

Another digi here, this time from Bugaboo. Love these festive shoes... if only I could wear heels like this!

The sentiment is computer generated.

This is a favourite stamp of mine from The Stamp Gallery. I stamped the birds then painted each one with a little Elmers Rubber Cement, as a mask. I then added the colours for the sea and sky using a torn piece of Post It note as a mask and then overstamped with a couple of SU Gorgeous Grunge stamps, one inked and the other embossed with white EP. I removed the cement with an eraser when I had finished. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches.

Only three this week... I've been occupied with cleaning and finishing our conservatory which has just had the top part replaced... a somewhat protracted process as the roof didn't fit the first time! We have had a tarpaulin over it for a couple of weeks whilst new glass was made! Hopefully all is well now... just a few remedial things to be sorted and we'll be there!

I also put up our Christmas tree, for its 38th year! It's doing really well!

Have a good week everyone!

LIM Pick a Challenge!

At Less is More the challenge for the next two weeks is to simply pick a favourite challenge from any of the 150 previous challenges as a theme for your card.

Here I used week 107 Up in the Air.

It's simply a seagull cut using my Silhouette and mounted over a dark cardstock. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches.

Week 147 here... a Christmas card incorporating a bird. This cardinal is made from the SU punch using a second 'wing' section to create the crest. The wreath stamps are from Cardio.

It could also be for Week 146 to use Designer paper in a CAS way.

I prefer how I have shaded the cardinal on this one, The dies used were from Memory Box. The sentiment is from Penny Black.

Here is Week 140 White on White Christmas!

A Penny Black die-cut teamed with a Stampin' Up sentiment. 

We hope that everyone will have fun choosing their favourite challenges for this one... enough to fill in any spare moment over the Christmas period.

DO have a happy one!

Week 50 Less is More - One Layer - Birds

It's One Layer Week once more at "Less is More" and time to get back to the basics of Clean and Simple cardmaking. The subject this time is BIRDS!

It seems that as each week goes by, more layers seem to find their way onto many submissions and white space all but disappears, so to have a One Layer challenge once per month does tend to drag things back into perspective.

Here is a cute image from Penny Black of a couple of  darling ducks. Stamped and masked, with the circle inked using Ink Duster brushes, it's a really simple composition. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up.

Here's a cute chicken from Artemio with the sentiment from Hero Arts.

Simply coloured with Copics, it doesn't really need much explanation.!

This is a tiny card using another image from the same Artemio set.

The sentiment if from Wild Rose Studio.

It could be for a new Home or a new Baby.

We went to Bath yesterday to see my daughter and our grandchildren. My son is with us for a few days, whilst his wife is busy working and so he came to see his nephew and niece for the first time for many months. It's such a shame that the siblings live so far from each other.

This final card for this week means that you'll have to look closely for the birds, but they're there!
The lighthouse, birds and dune grass are from Hobby Art sets and the sentiment is from Inkylicious!
The colours used for the inked background are SU Bashful Blue, and Barely Banana, with a little Mellow Moss for the grass. I painted the lighthouse itself with a little white watercolour.

Now I need to go and make a 60th birthday card for a a friend whose tea party we'll be attending this afternoon. Let's hope inspiration strikes before I reach my desk!

Have a great weekend.