Less is More

This week is

Butterflies!!!

Here's my entry this week- missed out last week since my computer was on the fritz!

I started with a white card which is stenciled on some orange mini stars using some confetti remnants- you know the left over paper they punch confetti out of. Then I added an orange swirl die cut and a white die cut flower. Both the swirl and the flower were punched out of grungeboard- left overs from a different project- which I then painted.The butterflies are by Hero Arts, stamped on white and colored pink and orange- a color combination I don't use very often but had a hankering to try. Finally, I added the saying which is by Cornish Heritage Farms.

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Less is More-White

I've never made a stamp-less card before, never mind one totally in white. But what a blast. I really enjoyed doing this and it all just seemed to flow quite easily.

So I started with white cardstock for the card base. Then I texturized the background (with an argyle pattern) and then textured some white cardstock with dots and cut the flower from it. I assembled the flower, reversing the middle ring of petals so the dots went downward not up. I think it helped make the flower rings stand out from each other a bit.  Before I attached the flower I put down 2 rows of thin white lace, attaching them in opposite directions to make them into 1 thick lace row with the little lace hearts pointing in the up and down directions. At the top I attached 3 die cut butterflies cut from white cardstock that I did not texturized, and to those I added some clear Viva glass effects to make their bodies and antennae.

I only wish I had some textures or words so I could have added those in white, but I don't think it really needs that. It just would have been nice, that's all.

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Less is More-Thank You

This week at the Less is More Challenge is a Lucky Dip-cards for thank you or congratulations.

Check it out at http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/.

Here's my entry; I'm going with a pretty Thank You card on white cardstock. Unfortunately from the photo you can't get the feel for the flowers which are purple from Dimensional Pearls, but what I did was dab 4 But I'm ahead of myself. I started with the leaves in a bright green Staz On ink and then stamped the blossoms in black. Both of these stamps are from the now out of business Cornish Heritage Farms and designed by Kim Hughes. The Thank You is from Inkadinkado. Then, as I previously mentioned, I added some purple Pearls to make the flowers pop.

I think the photo would be brighter had we had sunshine outside, but since its rainy and grey, the affect is a bit muted, but still...I'm happy with this card. This is one of those projects where I do think Less is More.

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Less is More

Here's my OFF CENTER entry to this week's Less is More Challenge. All stamps are from Crafty Secrets, and I just love this Wizard of Oz set that just came out earlier this year. I colored the Tin Man and the heart with Copics and used the same red marker to outline the words, just so they stand out a bit more.

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Simply April Showers-Less is More

I'm going to make a post to the Less Is More Challenge, my first!

This challenge focuses on the sentiment and when I made it I somehow missed the one layer part- I think I goofed...whoops. I did use the white square on the card.

Here's the card I made. I started with yellow cardstock and texturized the stitches along the bottom. Then I cut a 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 inch square of cream cardstock and stamped the sentiment. On the bottom right corner of this square I stamped the edges of the flowers (Crafty Secrets) and colored them with Copics.  On the top left corner I stamped the raindrops with torquoise ink (Technique Tuesday) and first stamped the umbrella (also Technique Tuesday) over the rain. Then I stamped the umbrella on some white paper, cut out the top and colored it with Copics too. By doing this I was able to get the umbrella shaft and handle and give the umbrella a bit of a 3D affect. I then glued it down . The bunny is from the Tweety Jill Easter Parade stamp set. I stamped it on white, colored it and then cut it out and attached it down on the corner. I had to add the bunny not because the card actually needed it but I was making Easter cards and this little guy is just a cute little bunny. Plus, he's holding those May flowers...

Check out the Less is More blog at http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/2011/04/week-10-one-layer-challenge-sentiment.html

We're having April showers at my house today...and since not much is in bloom yet, I'm hopeing for lots of May flowers...but maybe in April.

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