Popularity for One Layer Cards

It seems to me that the appearance of Clean and Simple and One  Layer Cards in challenges around Blogland is on the increase. I would love to think that in some part it's due to the influence that our challenge site "Less is More", is having... but this may merely be wishful thinking! We're so grateful for its popularity in any case.
Here is a One Layer Card made by masking and sponging colour (Adirondack Caramel and Cranberry inks) using  sponge daubers and then over printing, both before and after the masks have been removed.
The stamp set used is Stampin' Up's French Foliage... I simply love it.
Yesterday the washing machine was doing trojan service after the suitcases had been emptied of laundry from our holiday. Ironing awaits!
Crafty Cardmakers - One Layer Card

Back from Spain

We returned home last night from a couple of weeks holiday in France and Spain. We drove through France and met up with our daughter and her family who flew to Spain to spend a week with us in a resort just outside Fuengirola.
It was a shame that Daisy (our granddaughter) was feeling a little under the weather for a few days and even had to go the see the doctor. She had a problem with one of her ears.
Thank the Lord for Calpol!
I now need to catch up on a few card orders and this is for one of them... a card with cardstock buttons  for the challenge at Just us Girls and also one of the Best Wishes cards requested by my friend.
The sentiment was computer generated and uses the fonts One Fell Swoop and AL Fantasy Type. The paper is from Pink Petticoat and the butterfly dies are from Die-namics.
We stayed at some fabulous Paradors in Spain.
I was thrilled to see that there was a stork's nest  atop a chimney of the castle where we stayed in Olite, Spain, but I had to wait a while until it showed itself.

Now back to cardmaking!
Stamp Something - Butterflies

Something with Legs

Isn't this Ted just the best!

He comes from Indigo Blu and reminds me of a teddy which sits in my conservatory and was given to me many years ago by one of my pupils at the end of a school year (I taught tiddlers don't forget).

He is for our one layer challenge at "Less is More" which this week asks for "Something with legs". It's implicit that he has them although they can't be seen.

He was stamped and masked to add the manuscript 'behind' him. The sentiment is from the Wild Rose Studio.
Alphabet Challenge - Just one Word

More stamps here from Indigo Blu.

My favourite masking technique was used to sponge the central panel in blue, amethyst and green and the  tree was stamped in Early Espresso both before and after the mask was removed. I chose the position for the sentiment by stamping it onto acetate and moving it around the card until I was happy with the chosen spot. then using my lego corner to guide my stamp into place. The legs are on the birds in this one!

Here's a final quickie with legs... this time it's a table from Stampin Up's Scene in a Garden, but the the bird has legs too I guess.

Nuff said!

Shades of Blue

I just love making this kind of card!

It's for our Colour challenge at "Less is More" this week.

I began by stamping the 'Joie'  and the flourish  from Stampin' Up in Versamark and heat embossing using clear embossing powder. I sponged over much of the card with Bashful Blue ink, then stamped the splodges also using Versamark and embossed once more with clear embossing powder. The butterflies were stamped with Stormy Sky  Distress ink and also embossed. I stamped the small text stamp randomly across the card. I had a range of blue Distress inks and sponged around the embossed images with various shades, before cutting the card into three equal rectangles and inking the edges with some of the darker blue.

There's something about a triptych which I find most satisfying.

The sentiment is from Penny Black and both it and the image are mounted on two shades of blue card and popped on dimensional pads to add definition.