Less is More - Week 18

Oh my where does the time go? I can't believe it's a week into June already, but a week tomorrow we go on holiday, hurrah! I made my first card for this weeks challenge at Less Is More on Tuesday evening but have only just had the chance to take a picture. Our challenge set by Mandi and Chrissie is Monochrome and this is my take on it...

 

 

I've gone with shades of teal card and ink, although in the picture the embossed detail on the letters looks black, but IRL it's dark teal!

It's taken me well over an hour to write this post! My husband has just bought himself and Xbox (as if he doesn't own enough games consoles already) and the game he playing is so distracting, but in a good way. The graphics are fantastic and it's like watching a really high quality animated film. Anyhoo, enough waffle I have a few bit's to do and then I may pop back and post my other attempt at this weeks LIM challenge.

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

CES Challenges: Clean and simple

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge: Male theme (thanks to my follower Lisa Jane for pointing this one out to me)

Crafty Card Makers: Love the lasting kind

Sparkles Forum Challenges: Fathers Day

Item's: White A6 Card Blank, Teal card from Paper Mill Direct, Papermania brads, letters printed from word, Hessian Background Stamp from Dimension Forth, Pacific VersaColor ink pad, clear sparkle embossing powder and white gel pen.

Less is More - Week 15

Over at LIM towers this week it's the dreaded one layer card..lol. Also it has to include some embossing (dry or wet). Well after last weeks WoW I needed some colour so I've gone with a very hot pink and used one of my favourite stamps of all time, a cupcake, part of a fantastic set from Hero Arts. I stamped and embossed the cupcake and sentiment with dark purple embossing powder, coloured it lightly with shimmery watercolour paint, masked it and then stamped and embossed the dotty background stamp in clear sparkle embossing powder. It looks like there's a smudge in the bottom right corner but it's not honest...it's a shadow on the picture and isn't there IRL.

Item's: Hot Pink card from stash, Sentiment and Cupcake stamp from Hero Arts set, Dotty background stamp from Dimension Forth, Versacolor inkpad, Perfect Medium inkpad, clear sparkle embossing powder, dark purple embossing powder and watercolour paint.

ATC Challenge Blog - Challenge 1

I’m excited!  The first challenge starts today over on the ATC Challenge Blog and this is my first ever DT post. To ease us all in gently the theme is: 

ANYTHING GOES

Below is my ATC but don’t forget to take a look at the blogs of the other DT members for more inspiration:

A little birdie told me... Base is covered haphazardly in silver coloured leaf and then coloured with alcohol inks, a piece of tissue paper stamped with a hessian background stamp has been glued on and a sentiment added, a scrap of glittered paper (handmade using pva glue, tissue paper, glass paint and glitter), a decoupaged bird covered in glossy accents, some punched leaves to make a branch and finally some lace coloured to match with alcohol inks. Stamps used are from Hero Arts and Dimension Forth.

As this is the first challenge it will be open for three weeks but after this the challenges will run fortnightly and don't forget to take a few seconds to read the challenge rules.

A little reminder of the fabulous prize for the winner of the first Challenge… 

A DCWV paper stack

And finally if you want to swap your ATCs then head over to the Craftymess and take a look at the ATC swap group.