Less is More - One Layer Week 115

Morning crafters

After making my last card it made me realise I really like one layer cards although I find it quite difficult sometimes to make them look interesting enough, which is mainly due to the lack of variation in my stamps.  I always tend to go for the same types of things such as flowers and butterflies and have now realised that my stamp collection, albeit still very small, is all very samey!

When I saw this week's challenge at Less is More I really wanted to take part.  This week's theme is to produce a One Layer Card (yay, just what I wanted to hear), and the card needs to be inspired by a Film (uh-oh, not so good!).  For every film that popped into my head I didn't having anything remotely helpful in my stash.  So, I now have to admit that I can't take credit for this week's idea as it was my mum's suggestion that I went with.  She often does crafting with me and so she knows roughly what stamps I have.

And here it is...

 

 

I think this has to be the most CAS card I have ever created!  I stamped the design but then had to think of a fitting sentiment to use.  As the bird is supported I thought this worked quite well.

 

 

 

So have you guessed the film yet...

 

 

It's the Mel Gibson / Goldie Hawn film,

 

Bird on a Wire!

 

 



Materials used:

• Stamps: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Background Builders II (woodgrain), Clearly Besotted Stamps - Paired Up (bird), Personal Impressions - Mix and Match (sentiment)
• Ink: Versa Color - Brown and Turquoise
• Pen: Whispers Strokes

After the brain block I had yesterday I've just had another film spring to mind so I may be back later with another one!

Thanks for visiting as always, I hope you're all having a lovely weekend :)

Muse Challenge #12

Hi guys, I'm back!

Sorry I've been a bit quiet with my blogging posts lately.  My flat is still upside down, I'm still in the throws of decorating my lounge with all my furniture, etc. still in it.  My home is so small I'm unable to move it elsewhere in the flat so the table I use for crafting is buried under a mountain of clutter!

I really wanted to take part in the latest Muse challenge, as I unfortunately missed the last one *sobs*.  So I grabbed a few bits and bobs from my craft stash and made the following card stood up in my kitchen!  The challenge was to use Therese Calvird's beautiful design (shown further down in this post) as inspiration for our creation.  Although the challenge wasn't for a one layer card that's what mine turned out to be and I'm actually really pleased with it!

Here it is...

 

 

I used the ferns as my main inspiration as I had these stamps in a set and hadn't yet inked them up, and I was also inspired by the bottom left placement for the design and the large sentiment.  As the fern images are small and detailed I didn't feel flowers would work so I used a circle/sun image to create the pop of colour.  I only wanted the sun image to have a pinky tone, not be completely pink, so I first inked up with a creamy yellow and gently stamped this onto some scrap paper to take away the bulk of the ink, I then did the same with pink and orange before stamping the final image on my card and pressing down hard to get all three colours to blend.  I finished of with what I think is a fitting sentiment for the design and a few pearls, and used my decorative scissors to create a rounded corner to match the curve of the sun.

 

Materials used:

• Stamps: Kanban - Spring Meadow (ferns and birds); Clearly Besotted Stamps - Paired Up (sun); Clearly Besotted Stamps - Blooming Marvellous (sentiment)
• Ink: Versa Color - Narcissus, Pink, Orange, Versafine - Onyx Black
• Pearls from stash

 

This is Therese's stunning design, fabulous as always...

 

 

 

 

Thanks for visiting today, hopefully I'll be able to get back to creating more often very soon :)  Have a great weekend.

 

 





Less is More - Scallops

Hi guys

Apologies for not being around much lately, as I'm in the middle of decorating I've had to clear away my crafty space and haven't had anywhere to create.  But I really wanted to enter this week's challenge at Less is More so I scooped some clutter out of the way in order to make this card, with about 4 hours to spare!  My new blog friend and super-talented Lizy is Guest Designer this week so all the more reason why I wanted to enter.

This week's challenge is to use Scallops on our creations, and this is my card...

 

 

I bought the Stampin' Up Both Way Blossoms stamps set a while ago on eBay so wanted to incorporate one of them on this card.  The floral image I thought suited a sympathy card so I decided to go with soft lilacs and purples to keep the whole thing quite subtle.

 

Materials used:

• Stamps: Stampin' Up - Both Way Blossoms; Clearly Besotted Stamps - With Love (sentiment)
• Ink: Versa Color - Grape and Green Tea
• Die: Spellbinders Edgeabilities - Classic Triple Scallops
• Cardstock: Papermania Premium Textured Cardstock

 

 

That's all from me tonight, thanks so much for visiting and please leave a comment, I really do appreciate what you have to say.

 

Take care

 

 

 



Muse Challenge #10 - Take Two!

Hi guys

I enjoyed the colours I used on my last card so much I decided to make another entry for this week's Muse challenge while I had all the inks to hand. Go me! haha

Once again I took inspiration from the cluster of rainbow colours and the large black sentiment and this is what I came up with...

 



I had this idea in my head but I didn't realise how much work would be involved until I made a start.  I had little sticky balloon masks all over the place! I stamped and cut these from post-it notes.  Then I had the tricky task of hand drawing the strings (didn't think of this at the beginning either!) so I masked over the sentiment too and used the edge of my post-it pad to roughly follow the line downwards.  I didn't want them to be really straight so I just added a little wiggle on the way :)

Materials used:

• Stamps: Uniko Studio - Label Love: Birthday; Sentiment is wood mounted Whispers Words by Docrafts
• Ink: Brilliance - Graphite Black; Versa Color - Pink, Fresh Green, Canary, Orange, Lavender; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Pen: Whispers Strokes

Here is Ardyth's cheery card from which we were to draw our inspiration...

 

 

That's all from me today, out for a meal tonight so off to get ready.  I hope you're all having a lovely Good Friday.  Thanks as always for visiting.

 

Take care

 



Muse Challenge #10

Happy Easter guys, I hope you are all looking forward to the nice break :)

Sorry its been a while since my last post, I've been feeling a little under the weather for a few days and haven't been feeling very motivated but now that I have four days off work I think I'll fit in a little bit of hobby time :)

I have boring things like spring cleaning to do today but thought I would put that off and have a little crafty time and make a card for this week's Muse challenge.

This week's card has been made by the very talented Ardyth Percy-Robb.  Her design is gorgeous, so bright and cheerful, you can see it further down in this post. 

Here is my entry for this week...

 

I took my inspiration from the rainbow of colours that Ardyth used and I love the mix of these bright tones.  I also took inspiration from the bold black sentiment.

 

I chose to create a wide border and used embossed dotted bright pink cardstock which I thought would mirror the dotted stamp design.  I really enjoyed making this one and it was pretty easy to create so I may replicate this kind of design again in the future.

 

Materials used:

• Stamps: Hero Arts - Dot Asterisk (wood mounted); Clearly Besotted Stamps - Butterfly Wishes (sentiment)
• Ink: Versa Color - Pink, Orange, Fresh Green, Canary, Lavender; Brilliance - Graphite Black
• Cardstock: From stash

 

This is the Muse card, Ardyth's use of rainbow colours is just fab...

 

 

Thanks for popping by today, your visits and comments are so very much appreciated.

 

Have a lovely Easter break.

 

 

 

 



A Little Bundle of Joy

Morning lovelies

Just a quick post this morning to share a new baby card I made to order for a friend. 

When I made this one I discovered that I'm in serious need of some baby themed stamps, this is all I have! I have loads of old baby themed peel-offs but I didn't want to use these.  I'll use them up to make some cards for my stock but I feel some new purchases are required...and soon! :)

I didn't really have a design in mind when I started this one.  I stamped the image and coloured it with ProMarkers then used a Spellbinders die to cut it out.  I then went in search of some patterned paper and found this gorgeous design in my Boofle paper pad.  Not a bad match considering I coloured the image without thinking about what else to use!  A little scalloped border, a sentiment and some gems and there you have it!

Materials used:

• Stamps: Cart-Us (image); Personal Impressions - Mix and Match stamp set (sentiment)
• Ink: Memento - London Fog
• Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities - Classic Scalloped Ovals Large
• Design Paper: Docrafts - Boofle 6" x 6" Designstax
• Cardstock: Papermania Premium Textured Cardstock (lilac)
• Punch: EK Success - Edger Punch Dotted Scallop
• Coloured with Promarkers
• Gems from stash

I'm feeling a lot better this morning, hopefully this bug is finally on its way out :)

Have a fab weekend guys

Muse Challenge #9

Hi guys

I've been suffering with a horrid cold for the last few days so I thought I would try to escape the endless sneezing and nose blowing to make a card for this week's Muse challenge.

This week's inspiration card is by Marion Vagg and I absolutely love it.  Although my design is quite different the colours Marion used are fabulous so these hues were my inspiration, as well as the use of stripes.

Here is my interpretation...

I used post-it notes to mask off the four areas to stamp, then scored lines to add definition.  I double-scored the lower panel to highlight the sentiment.  I then matted the white card onto jade green cardstock to create a defined border.


Materials used:

• Stamps: Woodware - Salutations (sentiment); Hero Arts - Share Laughter set (dotted flower); Marion Emberson - Its all in the Words set (plain flower); Hero Arts - unknown set (swirl flower)
• Ink: Versa Color - Royal Blue, Mint, Sky Blue
• Cardstock: Craft UK Ltd - Premier quality smooth white card; Papermania Premium Textured Cardstock (jade green)
• Scoreboard (free with Papercraft Inspirations magazine)

This is Marion's wonderful inspiration card...

As always, thanks for visiting...I'm now off to bed armed with a hot honey and lemon :(

Take care

Neet x