Another Less is More

Here's my second card for this week's Less is More Challenge:

I used my lace stamp from the Aspects of Design stamp set (The Stamp Man). I've had this set for years and never had much use out of it but I really love the lace design and had the idea in my head for this sketch.

The image has been embossed and then red ink sponged over it.  The heart is a Nellie Snellen die.  Again I embossed the lace image onto the inner heart and sponged with the same red ink.

The sentiment was done on the computer.

That's it for today I think. Sunday lunch is now calling.

Sue.x

Less is More week 52 - Sketch

Here we are again, another weekend and another great challenge from  Chrissie and Mandi. A really simple sketch:

I have another card or two buzzing around in my head for this one so expect more entries for this challenge.

Here's my card:

I used Versacolor inkpads to create the background of the panel and then used my new Birds of Paradise Kanban stamps.

The sentiment is a really old stamp I've got in my collection - I think it's from The Stamp Man's Aspects of Design.

Hope you like it.  I'm off to get on with my next card.

Sue.x

Less is more week 34 - Sketch

The girls are out shopping and O/H has gone to the footie, so I'm taking advantage of some time in my craft room and I've had such a lovely afternoon. I've been stamping, messing with inks and embossing - heaven.

As usual, the lessismore challenge has encouraged me to dig into all those items of stash that get sadly neglected - that includes another one of those stamps that has never been inked.  It's from the Stamp Man's Aspect of Design 01 plate and some of my Adirondack rainbow pads.


The challenge is a sketch:

and here's my card:

I had such fun playing with the inks I did two. I'm not sure which I prefer, but I think it's probably the pink and green.

Both images were embossed although you can't tell from the photo.  I stamped the image onto a piece of copy paper first and cut out the frame to create a mask and used my brushes to add ink to the backgroun.  The sentiment stamps are both from my Paula Pascual set.  I mounted the finished pieces onto some Stamping Up card.

Sue.x

Less is more challenge two - OLC

The lessismore second challenge is for a OLC (one layer card if you haven't come across the abbreviation before), with a theme of a flower or a tree.

Again, I've dug out a stamp that's been stashed away forever and never been used.  I think it looks really striking on the white card base.  I've simply stamped it with a Memento black inkpad, coloured with Promarkers and then added some embossed lines around the edge of the card and a few diagonally. 

After a visit to Kerry's (A load of old pickle) blog, she's a link to another challenge which this card would fit into:
http://stampfairychallenge.blogspot.com/
The theme for this challenge is white with a touch of colour.

Sue.x