Good morning folks!

It's Saturday morning and it's been two weeks since our last challenge over at Less is More which can only mean one thing...we've got a new one for you :)

It's the turn of our Colour challenge and this time we want to see...



The awesome Seven Hills Crafts returns as our sponsor for this month so make sure you play along during this and the next challenge to be in with a chance of winning the LIM monthly prize!


We have a wonderful designer joining us for this challenge, the super talented Milla who was one of our birthday month winners.  Please do pop over to her blog to say hi.


Ok, onto my samples and I have two for you today.  I was obviously in a friendly mood as both feature friend sentiments.  Here's the first...


This was super easy to make.  On a panel of white cardstock I blended two shades of Distress Ink in from the corner.  I very rarely use either of these colours but I adore how great they look together here.  I then used a doily die which is new to my stash to cut a white die cut and adhered it over the edge of the panel and trimmed off the excess.  To finish I stamped the sentiment before adhering the panel on fun foam.


Materials used:

• Ink: Distress Ink - Iced Spruce, Milled Lavender; Versa Color - Laurel Leaf
• Stamp: Wplus9 - All Year Cheer (available from our sponsor's store)
• Die: Sweet Dixie - Doily Five

I chose this soft green shade and began by inking through a leaf stencil using white chalk ink.  I then found a teeny flower stamp and stamped these around the leaves with a peachy shade.  I chose a slightly darker soft green shade to stamp my sentiment and adhered the panel flat to my card base.


Materials used:

• Coloured cardstock from stash
• Stencil: Uniko - Natures Treasures II
• Ink: Versa Magic - Cloud White; Versa Color - Cinnamon, Olive
• Stamps: Uniko - Background Builders Vines; Altenew - Thinking of You (available from our sponsor's store)

Good afternoon

I was lucky enough to win Challenge #272 at CASology a few weeks ago so today I'm joining the lovely team as Guest Designer!








I will admit, I didn't have many Stormy options but I eventually came up with this card..


On some pale grey cardstock I blended some Hickory Smoke Distress Ink along the edge of a cloud stencil to create a background.  I used some stitched frame dies to create the frame.  This was adhered flat to my card base and I then stamped the sentiment in blue ink and finished with a die cut sun (actually a flower die!) from yellow cardstock, gently blended with a little Distress Ink.

Materials used:

• Stencil: MFT - Mini Cloud Edges
• Ink: Distress Ink - Hickory Smoke, Wild Honey; Versa Color - Lapislazuli
• Stamp: Clearly Besotted - April Showers
• Dies: Clearly Besotted - Frame It Die Collection; Creative Expressions - Finishing Touches: Chrysanthemum

Good morning

We're into a fresh new month and that means it's time for our regular Colour challenge at Less is More.  We have a fun one for you this time...




I have two cards for you this week, my first using Uniko stamps...


I wanted to create a kind of wreath design so on a panel of white cardstock I made four pencil marks above, below, and either side of where I wanted the circle shape, just to help when eyeballing the stamp positioning.  I then stamped the images, four of each in a repetitive pattern to create the wreath.  I erased the pencil marks and die cut the panel using a stitched rectangle and adhered to my card base.  I finished by heat embossing the sentiment in white on some metallic copper cardstock, die cut with a stitched sentiment strip.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Uniko - Natures Treasures I and II, Flower Power #2
• Ink: Versa Color - Topaz, Paprika, Pinecone, Orange, Marigold; VersaMark
• Dies: MFT Die-namics - Wonky Stitched Rectangles, Stitched Sentiment Strips
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Opaque Bright White
• Copper cardstock from stash

I usually reach for what I call pretty colours but I really enjoyed using these tones this week, perfect for the season too.  Please do pop over to the main challenge, there is some great inspiration there from my teamies this week.

Thanks so much for popping by.

Hi there

Well, are you ready?  Yes, you've guessed it, it's time for One Layer week over at Less is More.  I think there's lots of scope for this one this week, see what you think...




I'll get straight to my cards, I have two for you this week (I did plan to have a third but it didn't go to plan so got filed under bin!)...



I started by stamping the flower, the flower head being stamped in two shades of orange to give it some depth at the centre.  I left it a few minutes to ensure it was dry before masking off a curved section and blending with two shades of Distress Ink.  After removing the masks I splattered some water drops to remove some colour, and finished with the sentiment, which was manipulated slightly to follow the curve.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Penny Black - Dreamy; Clearly Besotted - With Love
• Ink: Altenew - Olive, Sunkissed, Orange Cream; Distress Ink - Scattered Straw, Wild Honey; Versafine - Onyx Black

I decided to do some faded out ghosting on my second card.  Not entirely happy with it, not sure why.  Perhaps it's the colour, hmmm...but makes it gender neutral I suppose.




I die cut a curve from a scrap of card and used it to mask off the base of my card.  I then blended some green Distress Ink, gently fading it out upwards.  A leafy stencil was then placed over the inking, spritzed with water and then blotted away.  I curved the sentiment stamps to follow the curve of the design.  I think this one needs something else, but left it alone for now before I went ahead and ruined it :)

Materials used:

• Ink: Distress Ink - Bundled Sage; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Stencil: The Crafters Workshop - Mini Vineyard
• Stamps: Wplus9 - That is All

Good morning, crafters!

Over at Less is More we're continuing with our month long 6th birthday celebrations.  And this week we're back with our regular challenge, the one that you all love (*wink).....yes, you've guessed it, it's One Layer week!  So here's our theme for you...




And as I mentioned last weekend, we have lots of sponsors this month, and this week's it's the turn of Seven Hills Crafts, and the lovely Tara is also joining in this week's fun as our Guest Designer.


Wow, did I find this challenge tricky this week!  I had lots of ideas but trying to transfer those ideas onto a one layer card was proving tough.  In the end I did manage to create two cards for you this week.

For my first card I chose 'Night and Day' as my opposites...


And although our themes are different, I think Sarah G and myself were in the same creative zone this week, our cards are so similar!

I started by drawing a central pencil line down my card so I could work on each side separately.  I covered one side and gently blended some yellow ink before then inking though a stencil to create my sun rays.  I then swapped sides, added a small circle mask cut from a post-it note and blended a night sky (I've had my usual problem with my purple tone turning blue here in the photo!), to which I then added some small white dots with a white pigment pen to create some stars.  I then erased the pencil line and finished by stamping the sentiment centrally.

Materials used:

• Ink: Distress Ink - Mustard Seed, Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, Chipped Sapphire, Dusty Concord; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Stencil: MFT - Sun Ray
• Stamp: Clearly Besotted - Time to Celebrate Additions
• Accents: White Signo Uniball pen

I wasn't sure if this was going to work well but I'm really pleased with the end result.  I masked off the diagonal top section of the card and stamped the wide and narrow stripes to create the plaid design.  The sentiments were then simply stamped before adding some enamel dots to finish the card.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Clearly Besotted - Basic Stripes, A Little Sentimental; Uniko - All Occasion Sentiments #2
• Ink: Versa Color - Orange, Cyan; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Accents: Doodlebug Sprinkles - Tangerine, Blue Jean

And don't forget, by playing along with us this month you'll have a chance of winning some great prizes from our sponsors so why not join us.

Have a lovely weekend!

Hi there

Today marks the first challenge of 2017 at Less is More.  And as always on the first Saturday of the month it's the turn of our Colour challenge.  And this week we would like to see...



I started by masking the edges with large Post-it notes to leave the central rectangle.  I heat embossed the 'balloon strings' stamp with clear embossing powder and used the emboss resist technique to blend the coral colour in an ombre effect before removing the masks. On a scrap of cardstock I blended more ink before die cutting the hugs with the ombre in reverse, and die cut two more for thickness before adhering to the card.

Materials used:

• Stamp: MFT - Balloon Strings background stamp
• Ink: VersaMark; Distress Ink - Abandoned Coral
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Clear Gloss
• Die: Lawn Fawn - Scripty Hugs

Simply stamped directly on the card base.  I started with the largest stamp in the orange, then filled in with the medium size stamp in the pale orange bringing it further down the card, and finished with the smaller stamp in yellow.  The sentiment was also stamped directly onto the card base.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Clearly Besotted - Sunburst
• Ink: Versa Color - Orange, Marigold, Canary; Versafine - Onyx Black

• Stamps: Wplus9 - Whole Lotta Happy
• Ink: Versa Color - Baby Blue, Atlantic, Neptune; VersaMark
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Opaque Bright White
• Accents: sequins from stash

Hi there

I'm thrilled to be joining the lovely design team over at Stamping Sensations as Guest Designer for their May challenge.  Thanks so much, Brenda for inviting me.

• Stamps: Uniko - Pure Florals Cosmos, All Occasion Sentiments #6
• Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black
• Coloured with ProMarkers
• Die: MFT Die-namics - Inside and Out Diagonal Stitched Rectangles
• Patterned Paper: Pebbles - Basics Cardmaking Pad 2
• Ribbon: American Crafts