Less is More - Purple

Welcome to 2018!  Hope everyone had a terrific New Years Celebration!  Here's to wishing everyone a wonderful year!

I have a giveaway going on...if you are interested check it out here.

We have a new challenge starting over at Less is More.  This is our first challenge of the new year and we have some changes to the challenge for 2018! We are moving to a two week challenge...this gives everyone just a bit more time to develop their beautiful creations!

Our challenge for this week is a color challenge.  And purple is the color on tap.  Here's my take on the challenge.  Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!




I choose to go with a simple inlaid die design for this challenge.  Just a bit of simple stamping with my newest stamp set from My Favorite Things using two different color purples.  I then die cut the sentiment and used copic markers to color it.

Here's a bit of a close up of the design.  You can see that there is no dimension---so makes for easy mailing.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

CAS on Sunday - Thank You

It's been a hot day today, with lots going on.  I had a bit of yard work to do, so that kept me busy this morning, then I nearly forgot that we have a new challenge starting over on CAS on Sunday!

For this challenge, our theme is "Thank You" cards.  Come on over and join the challenge, I'm sure there is someone that would appreciate a handmade thank you card from you!

Our next door neighbor, a young middle school boy, traveled to Japan this summer by himself!  He came back and brought us some cookies!  This card is for him!

For this card, I wanted to use some old stamps, unfortunately these are out of print.  But, I like them, this little guy is so cute!

I started by stamping the images with Versafine ink, then coloring them with my Zig Clean Real Brush Pens.  I then cut the card with the speech bubble and popped it up on foam tape.

Added a few red and green glitter stars, and that was it!  Quick and simple!

Here's a close up of the card, showing a bit more of the dimension created by the foam tape!

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!





Supplies:

Strathmore Bristol Smooth Surface

Reset Cuttlebug Machine V2

large stitched rectangle stackables

Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink Pad VF-82

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker

Die-namics Stitched Speech Bubble Edges

InLinkz.com

Less is More - Faux Bleach

We are in for a bit of a warm weekend...so a few tennis matches in the heat :(

We are starting a new challenge over at Less is More today.  The theme for this week is Faux Bleach. This one was hard for me.  I had to try many different ways to get this to work.  It finally came together in the end...here is what I came up with.  Looking forward to seeing your design, hope you can come and join us.

I created my faux bleach pattern on a small stipe of card stock.

I then stamped and heat embossed my sentiment on a larger panel. I added a thin strip of glitter paper at the bottom of the larger panel and popped it up on some foam tape.

It looks a little too plan so I added a heart that I cut from the same glitter paper that I used before.

Tag You're It Challenge #44

Today is a busy day, we are preparing for a wedding for two of our friends.  Pretty exciting and we just love attending weddings always super fun!




We are starting a new challenge over at Tag You're It.  Here is the inspiration from Nancy.  A bright and fun tag full of color flowers and a spring umbrella.  Just love this tag.


Here is my take on the inspiration.  While I love Nancy's umbrella, I don't have any umbrella stamps or dies, so I focused on the flowers and and spring colors!









This is a super easy tag to make.  I started by die cutting my tag.  then I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment.  I then pulled out some spring colors---yellow and pink and stamped some flowers.

I filled in the empty space with green leaves and that was it!  Pretty simple!









Supplies:

• Neenah Solar White Card Stock
• My Favorite Things:  Tag Dies
• Simon Says Stamps:  Flower Stamp
• Avery Elle Pigment Ink
• Versafine Ink
• Hero Arts Gold Embossing Powder