3 stamps

The Less is More challenge this week is a one layer challenge to use just 3 stamps on your card.

I've used 3 stamps from a Personal Expressions set, stamped in a line.

and coloured them using my copics.

No sentiment as I'd used up my three stamps & although tempted to write a sentiment, not stamp it, I resisted & kept it truly LIM :-) 

Cut it Out

Is the theme over on Less is More this week.

I stamped this lovely stamp straight onto the card & then using a craft knife cut out the background behind the image, which I then coloured with my Copics

I popped a piece of red velum behind the cut out to make it 'pop'

To finish I stamped the birthday sentiment onto white card & layered it onto the velum & used a strip of the vellum as a 'ribbon' to co-ordinate

Take 3 Challenges

We have chosen a Recipe this time

Take 3 Challenges

We want you to choose 3 from any of our previous 29 and combine them in your design.
There is a list of our previous challenges under the tab heading at the top of our blog and you can also see the previous sketches under a separate tab.

Please state which 3 you have chosen.
NB There is no need to adhere to the One Layer if that is on the week you choose.

You may wish to go for your favourites or maybe your least...acetate springs to mind!

Most of all, be creative, have fun, remember our white space and the all important

"Less is More"

This is my card for this weeks Take 3 Challenges at Less is More

The 3 challenges are 

A touch of red, In the frame & use ink

The frame is the background framing the letters 

& I've used red ink.

The heart is chipboard that I've inked & embossed.

This week is a quick card as I didn't want to miss out in entering but I've been rather busy as my daughter got stuck in the USA due to Hurricane Irene & I've had to collected her (after being bumped off about 10 flights that she was booked on!!) & take her home to Cumbria & spend a couple of days with her .................. with limited internet time.

Hopefully I'll be back home & blogging soon.

Just had to .......

Show you my other card for this weeks Less is More Challenge

White on white

This is it

I used my cuttlebug embossing folder for the background script

and mounted it with a very small border of plain white card.

and the alphabet lettering that I got on my last trip to Australia :-)

The white letters were just right for this card :-)

This shows the depth of the lettering.

Very simple but in the CAS mode :-)

White on White

is the theme for the challenge over on Less is More this time

and this is what I've come up with for the challenge

it's surprising what a lot of shades of white there are :-)

I used a brass stencil in my Big Shot to produce the fish & then cut it out & inked the edges using Brilliance Moonlight White.

I did the background using a cuttle bug embossing folder

and the fronds are my trusty Martha Stewart punch

The sentiment was stamped using Brilliance ink again & punched out using my Martha Stewart small scalloped circle punch

To finish I added the 3 white pearls as 'bubbles'

Off Centre

Just managed to get my entry into the Less is More challenge 

photographed in time!

The challenge for this week is 'Off Centre'

It's been a hectic week this week & I managed to play whilst away in the Yorkshire Dales with my limited stash that I had with me.

I was going to play again at home as I wasn't totally happy with this attempt but time has run out on me & I've just been told that we are unexpectedly going away again this weekend - a last minute invite :-) which is lovely but leaves me no time to re do my card! & rather than not enter - this has to be it!

After stamping the elements I used my Copics to colour the image.

I left everything else & popped the appropriate colour button in place.

Not sure if it enhances or not .......

Making my mind up ...

or

The challenge over at Less is More this week is

A One Layer Card with the SENTIMENT
as the focus of your creation.

I can't decide which placement I like best. Usually it just pops out at me, 

but not this time!

I just keep changing my mind!

So I'll just have to pick one as my entry!

Less is More - Masculine

Just realised that this photo is a little wonky! Whoops!

I can assure you that the card itself isn't!

Over at Less is More this week the theme challenge is Masculine

this is my Masculine card.

I used the 'waste' from a Nestie cut out as a template to create the scalloped circular 'sky' background using distress ink

I then stamped the trees

and the mouse stamp, which I coloured with my Copics

finally adding the birthday wishes sentiment 

again stamped directly onto the card