Fab Friday

I thought I'd play along with this sketch from Fab Friday. 

I really want to try more challenges this year as I have let things slide in that direction over the past year or so. 

This is really simple.

 I had to do the SU Baroque border on a separate piece of card as my first attempt which was directly onto the card was abysmal! As it turns out I think that the design was improved by this mistake as I could score the edges of the strip,which seemed an improvement to my eye.

The sentiment from Personal Impressions was die cut and mounted with a Spellbinders Framed tag (2).

CAS as can be!

Less is More #101

I really got into the colour challenge for Less is More this week and made quite a few once I got going, so for the challenge of Black and White plus a hint of another colour here are the cards I made this week.

A favourite layout of mine, with Pink Petticoat paper and a ribbon coloured with a Copic marker to match.The border punch is from Martha Stewart and the base is embossed with a folder from Craft Concepts. I added a few flat gems to highlight the intersections.

My additional colour here is gold for the trumpet from Darkroom Door, hand-cut and mounted over a panel stamped with a Rollagraph wheel.

The sentiment is from Stampin' Up.

Here is a mere touch of red. the deets of this one are on the LIM blog.

For this one I used a little wrapping paper for the manuscript, a Martha Stewart punch once more for the border and a Darkroom Door sentiment, die- cut with a Stampin' Up framelit die.

More die-cuts here, once again the details are on the LIM blog.

Finally, a simple bit of stamping. The image is by Unity stamps and the sentiment from Personal Impressions. The image together with the sentiment is popped on dimensional tape for a little added interest.

I must try to join in with a few more challenges this year, something that I have sadly been neglecting since the inception of Less is More!

Thank You!

I think my New Year's Resolution may have gone to my head... two posts in one day, whatever next?

I made this card for my son's mother-in-law, where we spent Christmas Day. Her hospitality was wonderful and her culinary expertise unbounded. We had a marvellous day, sumptuous food and great games... we even had fireworks. It was just amazing. This is just a little something to say a big thank you.

She loves butterflies, hence the embossed border, which I think is from Sizzix. The image is from a Stampin' Up set called Paisley Petals. The sentiment is from Art Impressions embossed with WOW Green Pearl powder and die-cut with  Papermania tag, extending it just a tad to fit around the sentiment..

It's for Casual Friday's CAS Thank you challenge!

New Year's Resolution

I think I should try harder!

How many times did I have that said about me during my school day I wonder... probably more than was good for me... but now I really think that I should try harder to join in with more challenges.#

Since the advent of "Less is More", I seem to have spent progressively less time on other challenges and I really think that I should remedy that.

Here goes with my first for 2013

Here is the sketch for Retro Sketches #44

I chose an odd piece of kraft card which was lurking in a drawer together with a piece of Pink Petticoat paper, printed long ago. (Another resolution is to try to use more of my  accumulated stash)

The small section was embossed with what I think is a Cuttlebug border EF and stitched with real stitching... there's another resolution... with my new desk I now have room for my sewing machine in my craft room, so I have no excuse not to use it.

The sentiment is Stampin' Up mounted on a Sizzix Framelit diecut.

Job Done!