Less is More Challenge

I hope you have recovered from yesterdays excitement! My diary is ready and waiting for you to book your parties.

I sometimes suffer with insomnia and despite all the exercise yesterday I only slept for about 40 minutes last night! I walked another 6 miles today so hopefully come bedtime I'll sleep... If anyone has any tips I would really appreciate them. My general 'sleep hygiene' is good - No TV in the bedroom, chilling before bed, even tried staying up until I was ready to drop and that didn't work...

Anyway - I promised you another challenge entry and this is for Less Is More's sketch challenge.

I like to think outside the box a bit - so rather than put a stamp in a shape.... I decided the stamp design would completely replace the circle - mainly because I have this gorgeous stamp - Love and Joy and want to use it all the time!

What I did was to stamp the image in Versamark, then pour on Heat and Stick powder, shook off the excess and heated it, I then poured on the new gold Stampin' Glitter, shook off the excess and Voila - re-heated and set.

The little sentiment is from Petite Pairs and cut using the Bitty Banner Framelits.

Hope you like it - have a good evening and I'll be back soon!

Pxx

Simply CASEd

Most Crafters will recognise the phrase to CASE - it means to Copy And Share Everything. For me, I would be so proud if someone CASEd something of mine!

Today's post is a card I made using inspiration from a German Stampin' Up! Demo, Jenni Paulie.

The Dutch and German Demo's had an event last week to get together similar to the UK ones, and one of our lovely Dutch Pinkies posted a picture of the swap she received from Jenni, I loved it but it is a style I've never mastered - each time I try it ends up looking like the contents of my scraps box.

Jenni's swap though inspired this card, and I am really pleased with it!

I used a Crumb Cake base, a Perfect Plum mat, a layer of DSP from the Season of Style Paper Stack, I added a doily and then on top a punched circle from Perfect Plum card stock embossed with the Chevron embossing folder.

I wrapped a few turns of Bakers Twine around, then tied a short length of Linen Thread and placed it on top, punched out some chevrons with the Chevron Punch, Stamped a design from Label Love using Perfect Plum and punched it out using the Artisan Label, you'll see there is a Crumb Cake label behind that I punched, cut in half and offset at each end. The Congratulations Sentiment is from Love and Laughter and cut out using the Bitty Banners framelits. Curled slightly with my bone folder.

I added a few little pearls and love the result! I would love to hear what you think and hope you'll pop back soon!

Paula xxx

Exciting announcement!

The card I am showing you today was going to be entered in two challenges, Freshly Made and CAS, however I have been invited to join the CAS Design Team so you will find a card a week from me on the Challenge Page to help inspire you all to enter.

I am so excited and honoured and hope I can do the team justice. It is quite a new challenge blog so please pop over and join in and enjoy the challenges we set. It is great fun and has certainly got me thinking outside my comfort zone! CAS Colours and Sketches Blog

So, back to todays card, I used the CAS colour challenge colour scheme of Tangerine Tango, Sahara Sand and Summer Starfruit and the Freshly Made Sketch

I lightly embossed the Very Vanilla with the Elegant Bouquet embossing folder and stamped the leaves from Day of Gratitide on the Sahara Sand card that I had cut with the Apothecary Accents Framelit, stamping the same ink colour gives you a subtle image on the cardstock.

The sentiment is from the same stamp set and is cut out using my Bitty Banners framelits. The colours I have used just as an accent , the larger flower is the 3 elements of the Floral Fusion Sizzlits, the smallest element, repeated at the bottom of the card is a flower from my Itty Bitty Shapes punch set.

I hope you like the card and will pop back tomorrow for my next challenge entry!