Less is more - Handmade Flowers

Phew! I shouldn't complain but I'm going to. IT'S TOO HOT FOR ME! It's putting a dent in my mojo and I'm struggling to do anything and I mean anything.  However, I was itching to join this week's lessismore challenge so I dragged myself into my hot little craft room to take part in the theme which called for Handmade Flowers, which I love, and this MFT roses die has been waiting to be used all year so I couldn't miss this opportunity.

Here's my entry:

I used:

Scribble Flower from Anita

MFT Mini Rolled Roses die

Felt for the roses

Stampin Up Scallop Punch

Sizzix Original Leaf die

Papermania Bonding Powder and Hot Foils

Sentiment from stash

It's difficult to tell from picture, but I used Papermania Hot Foils for the Scribble Flower. I'm not too impressed with it so far as I've got speckles all over the place (although I think the effect is ok with this particular stamp).  If anyone has any tips on how to use these it would be appreciated.

Here's a close up - you should be able to see the shine from the foil:

Thanks for visiting. I hope you're coping better with the heat than me.  I'm off for a very cool bath.

Sue.x

Hooray

At long last I have my desk back for good.  No more snatching a bit of time here and there to make a card. My daughter has finished her studies after a long and gruelling 10 months, so my long forgotten crafting goodies are being dusted off ready to start playing again.


Here's my card for today:

And I'm entering it into the following challenges:

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/challenge-174-colour-combo.html
Use the colour combo pink and blue (I hope I can get away with that strip of green at the bottom).

http://abc-challenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/p-for-pretty-in-pink.html
Pink has to be the main focal colour

and

http://charismacardz.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/challenge-25-recipe.html

My recipe for the challenge is:

3 ribbons (from stash)
2 crystals (in the centre of the flowers - the blue flower has a black dot done with a Promarker)

1 punch (Stampin Up scalloped edge punch)

The stamp is from the Pink Petticoat Pretty Potties collection which were free in the May copy of Quick Cards Made Easy.  I coloured in with Promarkers and added a bit of glitter which you probably can't see from the picture.  The background paper is also from Pink Petticoat.

Hope you like it. I'm off to carry on playing - ohhhh where to start!

Sue.x

Less is more - Hexagons

This is my entry for this weeks challenge:

The challenge is to use hexagons on your card.  For mine I've used:

Silhouette Cameo 

Cutting file by Bird

Paper Smooches free digis

Promarkers

Ribbon and crystals from stash

Thaniks for dropping by.

Sue.x

With Sympathy

I'm always unsure whether it's appropriate to indulge my hobby to make a sympathy card or whether the right thing to do is to buy one! Have you ever questioned yourself with this one?

I decided I would make my own and have made a very clean and simple card:

I used a Cerise Promarker to do the background.

The stamp is from Inkylicious and the sentiment was done on the computer with two different fonts: Times New Roman and CAC Champagne.

I hope I don't offend the recipient with my handmade creation, although I'm sure he has other things on his mind other than my card at this sad time.

Sue.x

Less is more - OLC Film

A very quick post!  I have a new fur baby and don't want to leave him on his own for too long this evening (husband out with mates, eldest daughter in Dubai - alright for some, and youngest at theatre so just me and him tonight).

Here he is:

Isn't he just the most adorable thing you ever did see?  He's a 16 week old Lhasa Apso and he's hilarious - we're all smitten with him.

Anyway, here's my card for this week's lessismoore challenge which is a OLC with a theme of 'Film'.

Can you guess my film?

'Memoirs of a Geisha'

I cut a circle from the centre of a piece of paper and laid it over my card and then used ink dusters to create the background - a mix of Adirondack and Distress inks.  The stamps are mainly Kanban but the Geisha is a miniature Clarity Stamp. She's just the right size to go with this set of stamps.  I drew the birds using a fine tip marker.

Thanks for stopping by.

Sue.x

Nine weeks and counting.........

......till I get my craft room and computer desk back!  The LPC nearly done (for those that haven't visited before, my daughter has been doing her Law Practice Course since last September and has needed my desk to work on, hence lack of posts, cardmaking and blogging.

Here's what I've managed to do while she's been out today:

This is for my niece - she'll be fourteen next month and I thought this digi by Mo Manning would be perfect.  

The faux Kraft card started as a piece of white card and Pink Petticoat Kraft download paper - turned out pretty well, but a little too dark for me.

The DP is DCWV that's been in my stash forever.

I really like the rub-on 'Giggle' - again found at the bottom of my stash and the image coloured with Promarkers.

The sentiment stamps is from a Paula Pasqual collection and I've used Nesties and Stampin Up punches.

Finally a bit of ribbon and some Craftwork Cards Candi.

I'm going to enter this into this week's Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/toddlersteens-and-in-betweens.html

and

The ABC Challenge

http://abc-challenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/k-for-kraft-1st-april.html

Now on to my next card:

I used my Creative Expressions stamps for this - I really like this set.

I stamped the glass and bottle then masked off to do the orange circle behind (again this was done with a circle mask and ink dusters and Distress Inks.

The sentiment is a Clarity Stamp.

The table was done with Hero Arts Wood grain stamp and I stamped around the edges with a crackle background stamp.

Hope you like them.

Look forward to being back soon and thank you for popping by.

Sue.x

A few more embellisments........

I've added a few pearls to a card I posted a few days ago using my new gadget from the Hobbycraft show at the NEC - a Hotfix Rhinestone applicator.  Don't ya just hate fiddling with those tiny crystals/rhinestones, trying to get a blob of glue onto the back and getting it onto your card without it squishing out all over the place? I did, so that's why I decided to treat myself to this:

This is the original card:

 And this is it with the Hotfix pearls added to it:

Dead easy to do and really quick.  The rhinestones and pearls are really cheap to buy too.  My new favourite tool.

Sue.x