LIM108 - Paper Piercing & CASology - Circles

I've missed a couple of challenges at Less is More and I'm happy to be back!  A little over a week ago, I came down with a very nasty stomach bug.  I lost 12 pounds in 3 days...DEFINITELY NOT a diet I'd recommend! I was so sick I didn't do anything for almost a full week!!

So....it's good to be back.  I see that I've had a couple of my recent cards showCASed at Less is More...and I want to say a BIG thank you to Chrissie and Jen!!  Having my hand drawn piano card from week 106 (music theme) and my heartfelt thanks card from week 105 (Kraft and Kreme) showCASed really made me happy!

My cards this week also fit the challenge at CASology...which is to use circles.

Since I got such a late start this week, I only have two little cards to share...so off we go...

No stamping on either of these cards.  I actually made both cards with these little circle images that I've had in my "someday" bin for a year or more.  The images were some freebies from Papertrey Ink that I'd downloaded, printed out, and punched...thinking....I'll use these one day.  Well, today's the day!  I colored the image with Prismacolor pencils, then added a little blue background with a Copic marker. I cut a 5 x 3.75 white panel, decided where the circle would go, then pierced a circle outline.  I popped the circle in the center of the paper piercing, then backed the white panel with a piece of bright blue....super simple card.

For this card, I used another of the PTI images from my "someday" bin.  I colored the image with Copics and added just a touch of sparkle with the Sakura clear star pen and a couple of small pieces of bling to the center of each pinwheel.  I embossed a panel with the zigzag embossing folder, then punched out a circle (about 2.5 inches) from the right side.  Then I trimmed off part of the embossed panel so that my circle embellishment would fit nicely in the cut out. I pierced a circle around the outside of the image piece and adhered it with pop dots.  The embossed panel is adhered directly to the blue card base.  I added a white liner on the inside to stamp the sentiment on.

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Simon Says Challenge

I do love white on white, and the challenge this week at Simon Says is a white on white challenge.  I had a lot of fun putting this card together.

I cut a 5.25 x 4 inch panel and embossed it with the Swiss dot embossing folder.  I cut another piece of white card stock approximately 3.5 x 4.75 inches and embossed it with a flowers folder Cuttlebug folder.  The butterfly is a MB die as are the flowers.  I cut out several of each size flower and layered them for dimension.  I added a small clear gem to the center of each flower.  The butterfly and the sentiment tag are both coated with glamour dust for a fine sheen (I hope you can see it). I've folded the wings up and curled them just a bit to lift the butterfly off the card.  The sentiment was stamped in black (hope that's okay for a white on white challenge) and is from PTI.  I pop dotted the flower layer and the sentiment tag.  I also added a flower to the sentiment tag.  All corners on all layers including the base card were rounded with the 1/4 in corner chomper.

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{PIN}spirational Challenge #44 - Feel the Love

This week's challenge at {PIN}spirational is to create a card using this photo as inspiration:

Isn't this a sweet photo?....Here's how I was inspired by the photo:

I found this image of the giraffes in my digi files (I have no idea where I got it!)  I printed the image on white card stock, then colored it and cut it out - using an exacto knife to cut the intricate details.  I cut a white panel 4 x 5.25 inches and embossed the top of the panel with the TH brick EF.  I scored three lines below the "bricks".  The grass was stamped with Old Olive (SU) with a very old stamp from All Night Media.  I popped dotted the giraffes on the panel, and then popped the panel on the white card base.  The three hearts were punched with a MS punch then colored red and pop dotted over the giraffes.  I added a touch of glossy accents to each of the hearts.  I didn't add a sentiment...wasn't sure where to put it, so I decided to leave it off.

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LIM 106 - Let's Make Music!

I was sad to see that Mandi will no longer be able to participate and lead us in the Less is More challenge, but a big Thank You out to Jen for stepping up to join Chrissie as our hostess with the most-est! I'm not sure I could come up with all these diabolically difficult fun challenges, so I'm glad that Chrissie and Jen will continue to keep us challenged!

It's one layer week at Less is More and we've been challenged to create a one layer card with a theme of music.  I remember when we had another "music" challenge, and for me...that's definitely a challenge since I own virtually no stamps that relate to music.  I do have a couple of huge sheet music stamps, but it's SO difficult to make a CAS card with such a big stamp!  Anyway, I stewed over this one for several days, and finally realized that I'd made 5 cards...and I honestly can't say that any of the cards make me happy.  Let's just say that music is definitely not my forte.

Here's this week's pitiful offerings: 

This was the first card I made.  I printed the music note on the card base using my Silhouette program.  The sentiment is from PTI.  I added some black stickles to the note...let that dry...then added some glossy accents on top of the stickles.  It give the note a bit of dimension without adding layers.  Too plain....off to my next effort:

I found the music score online and printed it on the card base, then I stamped the little bird (no idea where this stamp is from as I've had it forever).  The sentiment is from Hero Arts, I believe.  I curved it on my acrylic block to fit under the music.  Then I colored the bird with Copics, added a few bits of grass with two different green Copics. The flower on the bird was coated with stickles, then I added a small gem as the center of the flower.  Eh...not to bad...but moving on...

Then I found this Christmas stamp with bells on it...perfect, I thought.  I made the card 4.25 x 4.25, stamped the image, colored with Copics, and added the sentiment under the image.  I also added a touch of glitter pen to the snowflake, and some glossy accents to the bells. Super simple... yet still not right....

This card started out with just the music score on it....then I decided to mask off the music and stamp over it with a striped stamp. As you can see the masking wasn't quite right, so the strips don't actually meet the music on the bottom.  Then in the process, I managed to get some of the teal ink on the top of the card, so I had to add a couple of butterflies to cover the ink blobs.  The birthday sentiment is from Sweet & Sassy stamps (I think), and is stamped in black.  Then hoping to tie it all together, I added a couple of score lines on top of the stripes....might have liked this if the masking had been better!  The music score is a very old Prima stamp and I never can get a good clean and crisp image...maybe it's me and not the stamp?

Last ditch effort...I decided to doodle my own music, so I drew a little wavy keyboard...and it's a little crooked too!  The sentiment is from PTI.  I added three small gems to add a little punch of color...maybe next week's challenge won't be quite so challenging for me!

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CASology - Fairytale Week

This week's challenge at CASology was really diabolical difficult for me!  Honestly...I just don't have any stamps that make me think "fairytale"!  So....I resorted to some digital images that I have on my computer.  

Can't say either of these cards make me swoon....and I hope they "say" fairytale!

Both of my cards today are one layer cards and super simple (YAY me!!)  The image on this first card is from MayzeArt.  I colored the image with Copics, then added a few tuffs of grass with a green Copic.  The little girl's crown and frog's crown are both coated in gold stickles, and I added itty-bitty pieces of bling to the top of each crown. The sentiment from PTI seemed perfect for this image...I mean....seriously...if you're going to kiss a frog, don't you really hope your dreams are waiting! LOL! I rounded the bottom corners with the 1/4 inch corner chomper.

The image on this card is from Mo's Digital Pencil.  I wasn't sure this would "fit" the challenge, but then I decided that maybe it does.  After all, doesn't every little girl play dress up and believe she the princess of the castle?  I colored the image with Copics, then added a touch of glossy accents to the shoes, beads, and earrings.  The sentiment is from PTI and seems to go well with this adorable image!

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Two NEW challenges for me -- {PIN}spirational and CAS on Sunday!

There are so many new challenges to chose from, I hardly know where to start!  I made a card yesterday that actually works for two challenges....{PIN}spirational and CAS on Sunday.  Both of these are great challenges and I'm glad I found them!

Here's the {PIN}spiration image used this week to inspire our creativity:

The very first challenge for CAS on Sunday is to create a card with the theme "Be My Valentine".

Here's my card:

I used a white card base and rounded the bottom corners with a corner chomper.  I designed the hearts in my Silhouette program, and slightly overlapped each of the hearts and then welded the heart together so that I could cut out a strip of hearts.  I then cut out 4 layers of each of the rows and glued them together.  I cut out one additional heart, colored it with red Copics, and layered it on top of the last heart in the last row.  I added a couple of coats of glossy accents.  The sentiment is from PTI and is stamped in Memento black.  It truly was a super simple card....and now that I've made the heart design in my Silhouette program, I can use it over and over.  If anyone would like to have this file (it's in Silhouette Studio....I'm not sure how to change it to svg, but I could learn if someone wants a copy), just let me know and I'll send it to you.  You can contact me through my email by clicking on the "contact me" envelope on my sidebar.

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Playing with The Paper Players

I've never played along with The Paper Players weekly challenge.  The challenge this week is to make a sympathy card.  Thank goodness I don't need one right now, but it will be good to have on hand.  My card is super simple and took just minutes to make.  Here's what I came up with...

I used a white card base and a black panel cut at 5.25 x 4 inches.  I heat embossed with white the sentiment from PTI.  The flowers were cut with a MB die from white card stock (left over from a card I made last week).  I adhered the flowers to the black panel, then pop dotted the panel onto the white card base.  I had a difficult time getting the black card to look black in photos, until I changed the photo background to red paper.  I'm still working on getting better with my heat embossing.

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LIM105 - Kraft and Kreme

Happy Birthday to Less is More!

It's hard to believe I've been playing along with this challenge for two years!  (Well, technically, I've missed a few weeks...but not too many!)  Needless to say, this is one of my favorite challenges and I look forward to Saturday mornings when the new challenge is posted.

This week's challenge is to create a card using the Kraft and Kreme (it took me a minute to realize that this is what I call "creme")....  I had to put my thinking cap on for this one, but I finally came up with a few cards to share with you all.

I cut a Kraft panel slightly smaller than the Kraft card base.  I used a MB die to cut out the flower in the panel, then cut it out again in a creme card stock.  I put some strips of score tape on the back side of the panel then paper pieced the creme colored flowers back into the Kraft (using the Kraft piece to fit in between the two flowers.  I then added a small piece of white copy paper on the back side of the score tape.  The sentiment is from PTI and was stamped in a cocoa brown Memento ink.  I popped the panel over the card base.  It's is so difficult to photograph Kraft!  I must have taken 25 pictures of my cards this week...and the Kraft always has a grey cast to it!

This card was made using the creme card base.  I cut the Spellbinder floral oval from the Kraft card stock, then cut a smaller creme oval.  I used one of the SU pocket silhouette stamps for the flower on the creme, the sentiment is from PTI.  I added three small creme pearls below the sentiment (they look yellow for some reason, but they really are creme IRL). The creme oval is pop dotted over the floral oval, which is adhered directly to the card base.

For this card, I used a creme card base and a Kraft panel on the front.  I cut the MB butterfly from the Kraft, then layered the butterfly over the top of the shape cut out in the Kraft panel.  I lifted the wings slightly and added a bit of sparkly with a Sakura clear star pen.  The sentiment is from PTI.  I used a deco corner chomper on the corners of the Kraft panel and popped the panel with pop dots.

Since I had the flower I cut from the Kraft, I decided to cut another from the creme to make this card.  This card is basically a one layer card.  I cut the flower from the creme, then just inserted the Kraft flower.  The sentiment is SU.  I did have to add a paper over the back of the flower to keep it in the card.

I was really getting on a roll with this color combination...I think I love it!

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CASology - Game

As usual, I'm running behind...again.  I've had this card made for 3 days, but just haven't had a chance to post it...so maybe I'll get it in just under the wire!

This week's challenge at CASology is using the cue word - GAME. That was a tough one for me as I have no stamps that will work for this theme.  So, I resorted to my Cameo, and made a few Scrabble game pieces, and created this Valentine's card.

I used a Kraft card base for my card.  I cut a piece of white card stock slightly smaller than the base, then scored it so that my Scrabble "tiles" would fit in the squares.  The Scrabble tiles were made with the Cameo.  I cut out 4 layers and adhered them together to give some dimension to my letter tiles.  The heart was punched with the MS deep edge heart punch and several layers glued together for dimension...then I added a bit of glossy accents to the top and adhered a piece of bling in the glossy accent layer.  The white panel was pop dotted for extra dimension.

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