Less is More Lucky Dip!

When there is a 5 Saturday month, we have a special Lucky Dip Week at 

Less is More 

and we have a Guest Designer too.

This month it's Birgit, who makes amazing cards

but it's extra special as Penny Black is also sponsoring the challenge!

So please DO check it out this week!

Here is my contribution. A gorgeous PB stamp called Brush Tulips. The sentiment is also PB from the clear Friendship set.

I've had Daisy here this week. It's her last week of holiday before she begins in Year 1. We have been to get new school shoes. I take her to the shop where I used to take her mummy... it's a really old fashioned shoe shop, but their attention to giving a superb fit it second to none. We only had to wait in line for 35 minutes to be fitted. However the queue was out into the street by the time we came out! It's always the same just before a new term!

This evening her mummy and Seb will be coming to collect her and my BIL will also be arriving. We're going to have a house full!

Washi!

Washi Tape

Our challenge at Less is More this week is to use washi tape and I have made a few cards using some bought and some home made tape.

This one is from Tim Holtz and is a simple Stampin' Up image coloured partly with ink and partly with a marker.

Here is the same image but this time using home-made washi tape. Simply tissue paper, backed with double sided tape, stamped and cut into strips. Easy Peasy!

This is back to using the Tim Holtz tape, which matches the design on the bird from A Day for Daisies.

I think it's such a cute image!

I have had an abscess around one of my teeth and to date have had two sessions of root canal work. It has not been the most pleasant of times and I now have to wait for a few weeks until I have the final treatment. I'll just keep taking the anti-biotics and hope that it all goes away!
 

Flowers

The challenge at CAS on Sunday is to use flowers on the card submitted.

Here I have a card using an image from Blockhead stamps with the bleaching technique.

I stamped the image onto black paper and then embossed it with black embossing powder.

I applied bleach over the image and waited for the colour from the paper to lighten. I discovered that the effect of the bleach on this particular paper left the image a perfect match for Stampin' Up's Sahara Sand card, which is what the card base is made from.

I think it's a tremendous effect.

I used various Nestie rectangles, adjusted to fit the image for the frame.

Holiday!

This set of stamps from Hot off the Press were free with a magazine quite some time ago.

I love the simplicity of the images and with a little masking this card was created.

The seagull has enormous feet and so the hut had to be masked before he landed on top, but I think he fits quite nicely on the slope of the roof!

It's for the challenge entitled Holiday from Addicted to CAS.

I have just ordered a Silhouette Portrait cutting machine. I'm hopeless with computer led stuff so I hope I manage to get some use from it. I have been Umming and Ahing about whether or not to get one for ages it seems, so time will tell whether or not it was a good decision!

Watch this space!