Less is More - Recipe

Hi folks, not been around all week as I am suffering from Labrynthitis which causes vertigo.  So, I have not been able to do much.  We were supposed to be going to a Wedding Reception this evening and I haven't felt up to making the card.  I already knew that I wouldn't be fit to go, but Robert had said he would go, so I spent the entire day trying to make a card. He came home from work and said that he wouldn't be going as he is a bit tired after a 12 hour shift - men!

I decided that I was going to make a card for this week's Less is More Challenge - use a button or ribbon (or multiples).  As you can see I have made a monogram card for Mary and Daniel.  This card is about the 12th version, but sorry I can't go into detail because using the computer aggravates labrynthitis and I would be here all night trying to post.  I usually like to make wedding cards to match the bride's colour choice, but our invite was just a piece of cream card.  Unfortunately I am out of cream card, so I went with a white pearlised card with a golden shimmer, all of the constrasting card is gold mirri, but it looks black in the picture.  The initials were cut using my CraftRobo everything else is from my stash

I hope I haven't overdone the decoration on my card Chrissie and Mandi and that it still is Less is More
Apologies for not being able to visit many Limettes this week, unless the Labrynthitis goes quickly
Beryl x

Solitude

Good Afternoon, my card today is for this week's CD Sunday - Nautical.  The image is from Joanna Sheen's Pamela West CD, the bp is Cuddly Buddly, cs is from my scrap box, the sentiment is computer generated and I have finished off with some Card Candy.

I hope you like my card and thank you very much for visiting today
Beryl x

Less is More - Circles

Good Afternoon, my card today is for this week's Less is More Challenge - Circles.  My snowman was cut with a Cuttlebug Die that I have had for ages and never used.  It was a bit time consuming cutting out all the bits in the different colours. I used some textured white card for the snowman to give a bit of dimension.  In the pic the colour added to the white nestie looks pink, in real life it blends in with the red nestie perfectly. The sentiment was printed directly from the computer.

By making Christms cards for challenges my box is beginning to fill up nicely, not sure that I will make many like this one though, because it was very fiddly glueing all the little bits in place and the air was quite blue at times lol.

As all of the elements of my card came from my scap box I am going to enter my card into Jules Crafty Snippet Challenge 

I hope you like my card and many thanks for visiting.
Beryl x

A Blue Christmas

Good Evening, my card today is for this weeks Bah Humbug Challenge - Shapes.  I have used Spellbinders Labels to make my card, but I have no idea which number.  The image is from Penny Black and coloured with Promarkers, because it is a small card I decided to keep to shades of blue, the bp is from Fred She Said and the sentiment is computer generated.

Many thanks for visiting my blog
Beryl x

A Stitch in Time

Good Afternoon, my card to share today is for Rainbow Lady's Challenge - A Stitch in Time.  This was a dead easy card, the image and bp come from  a Papermania Christmas pad complete with ready made faux stitching, I have no idea where it came from as I certainly didn't buy as a one off, it must have come from a goody bag.  The cuttlebugged card is Papermania Shimmer, the snowflakes and stars are from the same piece of card, with just enough left over for whatever sentitment I decide to put on it - probably a little girl's name.

I am also entering my card into  Crafty Ann's Challenge  - Dry Embossing:  Crafty Sentiments - Use Stitching:

I hope you like my card and many thanks for visiting today
Beryl x

Augustus

Good Afternoon, my card today is for this week's Sweet Sketch Wednesday - No.110-32.  The image is Augustus the Dragon from Digital Delights and coloured with Promarkers, the bps are Funky Fairys, the ribbon and large brads  are from my stash and the sentiment is computer generated.

I am also entering my card into:
Digital Tuesday Challenge - Spellbound - die cuts.
Passion for Promarkers - Gingham

I hope you like my card and many thanks for visiting.
Beryl x

Thinking of You

Good Morning, my card to share today is for the challenge at Crafty Ann' s Challenge Blog - Get Well/Thinking of you/Just Because.  The image is Walter Owl from Willow Designs coloured with Promarkers, the bp is Cuddly Buddly, the Cuttlebugged card is Papermania Shimmer, the flower is from my stash, the sentiment computer generated and the leaves are from an offcut of CraftyAnn's Polished Stone bp cut with  a Marianne Die

Handbags

Good Afternoon, my card to share today is for the challenge at CD Sunday - Handbags.  The image is made up from three stamps which I think are Elusive Images now Chocolate Baroque, I have had them for ages.  Took quite a while to get the arrangement just right, lots of masking.  I have coloured using Promarkers and the new fine tips were just brilliant to pick up the tiny flowers.  The backing paper is from Card Creations+ Art Deco cd, the plain bp is from CraftyAnn, the flowers, leaves, pearls and hatpins from my stash, the sentiment is computer generated.

I hope you like my card and many thanks for visiting and leaving me such lovely comments.
Beryl x

Another one for the box.

Good Afternnon, my card today is for Sweet Sketch Wednesday No109 and I am still trying to make Christmas Cards for challenges.  The image is a Judikins stamp, the bp is CuddlyBuddly, the contrast strip of card is Papermania Shimmer embossed with a dotty folder, the flower is Fred She Said, the ribbon was white from my stash and coloured with a Promarker, the sentiment was comupter generated. Oops, I've just realised that my trees are squint.

Thanks for stopping by today
Beryl x

Meeces

Good Afternoon,  Whilst blog hopping this afternoon I visited fellow blogger Pat and she had made a card for this week's Bah Humbug Challenge - Meeces!  I said that I wouldn't be able to enter as didn't have any mice images.  Then I decided to go searching and I found this fabulous digi image at Cuddly Buddly.  I printed it directly onto the white cardstock and coloured with my Promarkers.  Have any of  you discovered the fabulous new fine nibs to clip onto the end of your Promarkers, they are brilliant you can get into all the small fiddly places without going over your lines.  They were perfect for the holly and stars on this image and I also attached one to my blender pen to try and get some texture on the meeces, doesn't show up very well.  Which is a good thing cos I need a lot more practice in this department. lol.  Joanna Sheen did have some of these  nibs as do Letraset.

I am also making a second entry into this weeks LIM challenge - A One Layer Card - Something with Legs.

Thank you for stopping by and for the lovely comments you leave
Beryl x

Less is More Time!

My card to share today is for this week's Less Is More Challenge - One Layer Card - Something With Legs.
I printed the double frame and sentiment in Craft Artists, in medium grey,   and then stamped the image inside the frame with Versamark and heat embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Silver ep.  I couldn't get a very good picture as it is so dull today, I did all the things I normally do to get the best possible light and used Picassa to try to improve things, but even that didn't want to play today.  So the final pic looks more like a black and white card and not grey and silver. The stamp is one I bought last year from Imagination Crafts to use for last Christmas, but never took it of it's packaging!!!  I used an A5 card because the frame took up too much space on a square one.  I am not overly happy with the result and will probably make another at some point this week.

Thank you for visiting today.
Beryl x

New Home

Good Evening, my card to share today is a New Home card that a friend asked me to make.  It is a  Less is More card as this is the type of card she likes.  The image has been made up by using Clarity Stamps - house and birds;  Stampscapes - Foreground and trees.  I used various ink pads and Copics to colour the image.  The sentiment was computer generated and the key embellishment came from my stash.

I am entering my card into Rainbow Lady's Challenge - In the Country

Thank you for visiting today

Bah Humbug

Good Evening, a second post today because I am cutting it fine to get my card into this weeks Bah Humbug Challenge - Acetate.  The image is from Joanna Sheen's Thomas Kincade Christmas cd, printed onto acetate, then attached to a piece of white card with brads, I then used a glue pen and glitter to add a bit of Christmas Sparkle.  The bp is from the Artylicious Christmas Greetings cd.  The silver ribbon is from my stash and the sentiment is computer generated. Sorry the pic is a bit pale and the bp looks almost white, it is actually pink with snowflakes on it.

I am also entering my card into the challenges at:
CD Sunday - Christmas is Calling
CraftyHazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Pink and/or Purple

Thank you so much for visiting and for the lovely comments you leave
Beryl x

From my Scrap Box

Good Morning, my card to share today is for Sketch65 over at Sketch and Stash.  The new items on my card are the flowers, they arrived from Wild Orchids on Monday, everything else is from my scrap box. I found a forgotten piece of square gold mirri with the bp already stuck onto it and that decided the rest of the card.  I think the bp is from Card Creations+ Art Deco cd but am not absolutely certain. The image is Willow Designs and was sitting already coloured  with Copics in my toppers box., the matting and corners are from a scrap of CraftyAnn's Polished Marble bp. Not sure what the cuttlebugged card is, I just found it in a little basket  filled with embossed bits. Isn't it surprising what you can find in the various boxes and tubs that we all have sitting around our crafting space.

Thank you for visiting and for the lovely comments you leave
Beryl x

Picking up some more Penquins

Good Morning, it's a beautiful sunny morning again here in the northernmost isles of the UK, two in a row it must be summer lol.  My card today is a skin of my teeth entry into Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch108.  The image is Penny Black - Carolling Penquins.  Coloured with Copics, the bp is CuddlyBuddly, the red cs is Coredinations, the ribbon was white and coloured with a Copic.  The message is computer genterated.

Thanks for visiting and I hope you like my card
Beryl x

Feeling Blue!

Good Afternoon fellow bloggers.  Been awol for over a week, life and tennis seem to have gotten in the way of crafting and I have not made one card since my LIM sketch card over a week ago.  So now the tennis is finished I have given my self a stiff talking to and here is my entry into this week's  Less is More Challenge - Colour Blue.  This one was dead easy as I already had the topper made, a couple of weeks back I sat and stamped out this image and another one of my faves in different coloured inks and mounted them onto corresponding cs ready for any last minute requests.  The image is Penny Black - Letters and Flowers, I can't remember what ink pad I used, and the sentiment is computer generated and mounted onto the same blue cs as the image

Sorry for my absence and I hope to get back to visiting you all very soon.    I hope you like my card and thanks for visiting.
Beryl x

It's that time again!

Good Afternoon, well it's Less is More day again and this week Chrissie and Mandi have given us a sketch to follow. As I am so up to date with personal cards and ordered ones I decided to make a Christmas Card. My images are Judikins Praying Angel and Peeking Angel, coloured lightly with Copics, the matting is Papermania's new textured cs and the sentiment was printed directly onto the card, the font is Dolphin Extended.

I have decided that I have developed some physic skills this week.  On Thursday I made a Christmas Card with a penquin on it for a challenge and then yesterday the ladies at Bah Humbug requested  penquins for their challenge.  Then this morning I went to check out the LIM challenge and found the sketch and realised that one of my early cards for LIM was the same as the sketch.

In fact just last week I made up another couple like this in different colours for my box!

Thank you for stopping by today and for the lovely comments you leave, it gives me such a buzz when I log in and find that I have a bunch of comments waiting to be read.
Beryl x

A Tassell!

Good Evening, my card today is for the challenge at CD Sunday - Tassell Time.  The fan is from Joanna Sheen's Fashion Boutique cd, the bp is Cuddly Buddly, everything else comes from my stash.  Not overly happy with it, but it is an extra card for the box

Thanks for visiting
Beryl x

Pick up a Penguin

Good Evening, my card today is for Sketch107 over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday and I have flipped it horizontally because of the way the penguin is looking - didn't think to flip Mo's Digi stamp.  I coloured the image with Promarkers, the bp is DCWV Christmas stack with glitter, can't find it anywhere now I think it has been discontinued which is a shame because there were some fabby papers in this stack.  Everything else on my card is from my stash, I have cuttled the red card and sprayed the white flowers with silver glitter spray.  I decided to go with another Christmas card because for the first time in ages I have got all of my personal and ordered cards completely finished up to the end of July.

I am also entering my card into Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Digi Day

Thank you for visiting today, I hope you like my card and many thanks for all of your lovely comments.
Beryl x

A second post

Back again.  I don't usually post twice in one day, but I had a bit of a play just now and had a go at a tag for Dragon's Dream TIO which this week is Let's Face It.  I used a Craft Stamper freebe stamp with an archival black inkpad and  masked it, then over stamped with a script stamp - think it's an Aspects of Design one.  Before removing the mask I used one of my Judikins colour dusters and Brushed Corduroy DI to colour the tag, then a couple of Promarkers to colour the face and what looks like a hair band.  I rooted around in my ribbon bag to find something to match the hairband and found these three bits of red fibre to finish off my creation.   Hope you like it cos this really isn't my comfort zone, usually everything I try like this ends up a complete mess.  Must admit though, that I think this went quite well.
Beryl x