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!

A card at last!

It's ages since I managed to get into my craft room and actually produce a card, but today I spotted this little butterfly which I had made from a drinks can, a die and some alcohol ink and thought it need somewhere to reside,  So I used a stencil from Stamplorations, which I dry embossed and then used as a mask to dust a little ink over the front of the card. The sentiment was computer generated,

It's for the challenge at CAS on Sunday where they are asking for Black white and one other colour.

It would be nice if I could get a few more cards made today!

Happy New Year from HLS

Happy Little Stampers has a new challenge for 2017 and it's Stencilling!

It seems that my craft room has seen little of me over the holiday and I really feel the need to get back into the swing of cardmaking.

This one again uses Darnell's Brusho technique,... taping down the stencil onto cardstock, sprinkling with various colours of Brushos and then spritzing with water. The excess water was soaked up with a paper towel.

The letters and number are from MFT , I believe that the stencil is from the Craft Workshop.

I would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year!