CASe It

At Less is More this week we have a challenge to CASe my and/or Jen's cards. I have made two, using the same technique, in the same layout. This one has a positive theme for breast cancer. 

This one just has a theme of love!

The process involves stamping the same image or images on two separate pieces of card, one of which is die cut and the letters or word is superimposed over the second image, so that the design aligns completely.

These die-cuts are from W Plus 9 dies.

Although I have used a specific technique,  people could use any aspect of the card to make their case.

It will be so interesting to see what everyone comes up with!

Ally Pally

Yesterday may have been a rainy old day, but we had such fun at the craft show at Alexandra Palace.

Here are 4 LIMettes on a lunch break.

L to R

Val (Canonbury Creations) Me, Anne (Stargroves) and Jenny (Crafting in the country)

Sylvie (Gibmiss) was somewhere in the building, but all 5 of us never managed to be in the same place at the same time. There may be a pic of Anne and me with Sylvie, if she emails me a photo!

This is what found its way home with me.

The bag of stamps in the foreground was a £5 grab bag from Rubbernecker stamps. It's such fun to find out what you have bought when the package is opened. One that looked like a clump of seaweed turned out to be a lion with a magnificent mane!

There was a stamp stall of a new company making humorous clear stamps in 1920's  & 1930's style, called Acid Drops and Whatnots. I couldn't resist them, so watch out for some cards using them in the not too distant future!

One layer films!

By the time lots of you read this I shall be on my way to Alexandra Palace to the craft show, where I shall hopefully be meeting some LIMettes also indulging in a little crafty retail therapy!

What fun!
Here are my cards for the "Less is More"challenge this week!

The theme is to be a film and the genre is one layer!

Lots of you know how much I love chickens... especially Penny Black ones and this card is self explanatory of the film title. I could watch it again and again.

This one is 'While you were sleeping'... another of my all time faves, it's such a fun film!

Mo Manning's images are so full of humour!

This was a real quickie... a Digi Stamp Boutique image of a cute little piggy for the film 'Babe',  gently coloured with watercolour pencils and a water brush. The sentiment was computer generated.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with... I found it a little tricky!

Recycle it

I love the effect of kraft card and so my supplies seem very special to me. This is why, when stamping goes a little awry, I turn over the card and use the other side, as happened here. There was a tiny gap in the line around the label image and so I turned over the card to use the other side before die-cutting it. I don't suppose too many recipients disassemble their cards to find that there is sometimes apparently  random stamping on the back of some elements.

Here Stampin' Up images have been embossed with white detail embossing powder and the sentiment is from a Cuttlebug die.

It's for the Paper Players  recycle challenge and it looks as though I'm just getting in under the wire.