Casual Friday's flowers

Here is a simple card for the challenge at Casual Fridays which this week is flowers or trees.

The stamp is a flat stamp inked with SU Markers and is from Local King. The sentiment is from Paper Make Up.

The image panel is simply hand embossed on the edges using a score board and embossing stylus, mounted on a similarly treated piece of pink card.

Our son was visiting briefly this weekend as he was attending an NHS sailing Regatta out of Port Solent. He was a token GP trainee on a boat full of orthopaedic and plastic surgeons and had great fun.They were fourth in one race (out of about 30 boats) and had rather good fun during the apres sail!

The weather was too bad to sail back from Cowes today and they returned on the car ferry!

A Sketch for "Less is More"

We have a couple of sketches to choose from at "Less is More" this week. They are similar except for the shape of the central panel.

                    

I bought the stamps from which this tree image comes at Ally Pally. The set is called Wild Trees by Stampology and the images are all rather quirky. The text stamp is from Stampin' Up and the sentiment by Kaisercraft.

The large butterfly is from a Spellbinders die and the small one is from a Marianne Creatables set.

 Mandi made a card some weeks ago that I loved and this is a case of it... I love the small flowers she added  on her card to the butterfly shape.

Details of this triple embossed card are on the LIM blog!

This is a case of another wonderful crafter's work. Birgit in Sweden does the most amazing work! I took the idea of adding dimension by superimposing small tiles of part of the image over the base layer.

I have now achieved my 3 stone weight loss and I feel as though I can see the end in sight even though it may take several more months. I want to lose another 14 lbs then I should be in the healthy zone for my height! I have rather more skin that I really need, but I'd rather have that than surplus fat!

LIM is Charming

"Less is More" is sponsored this month by Ribbon Girl and they sell some fabulous charms, so here are a couple of cards sporting them.

I love the gentle, natural colours achieved by pressing leaves and flowers between pieces of card and running them through my Cuttlebug machine.

I heat embossed the heart charm with gold embossing powder as I only had silver coloured charms and the colours of this oval panel were more suited to gold tones. 

I think that the little sentiment stamps, when embossed look a bit like gold ingots. They were in my £5 grab bag of about 40 Rubbernecker stamps from Ally Pally.
There's another card using my pressed flowers and leaves technique in the post below this... you can see it just here.

Clean and Simple is such a fab genre for baby cards... but then I'm one of the old fashioned breed that likes to see newborns in white and pastel colours rather than denim and trendy togs.

Details of this one are on the LIM blog.

I tend to forget about my border embossing folders I think I should use them more often!

Shabby Chic meets CAS

I made the paper for the oval and the flowers in this card by squishing flowers and leaves from the garden between 2 sheets of card and running them through my Cuttlebug.

I love the gentle effect and subtle colours... decidedly shabby chic.

The branch is made from my recent Memory Box acquisition. I think it's a beautiful die and works well used horizontally or vertically. The flowers are made from a Woodware punch.

The grey panel has been embossed with a Cuttlebug  leafy branch embossing folder.

The sentiment is from Gina K's botanicals set.

This one pleases me!

Charisma Cardz - Shabby Chic