Less Is More Challenge

Good Afternoon

This is my card for this weeks' challenge over at Less Is More, and the theme for this week is Masculine.

It's my dads birthday at the end of the month, so I make him 2 cards, one from me and hubby and one to grandad from the girls. I'd already decided that for one of them I was going to use the Toffee Shop stamp from the Pilkington Lane range, and this challenge gave me a kick start.

I'm adding a second photo which I have taken this morning, hopefully it will show the detail a bit better.

You wouldn't think so to look at it, but it has taken me most of the afternoon to get it finished! I started off with a sheet of black linen card, and die cut each of the corners using my new spellbinders Fleur De Lis dies. I love this set, in fact I love it so much I've now ordered the accompanying set! I then stamped directly onto the card using a white ink, and then embossed the image using a detail clear embossing powder. There is such a lot of detail in these stamps and this is the first time I have used them without watercouring the images.

The black linen card was then matted onto some white card, and then another layer of black linen card, and then finally onto the base card which was made from white linen card, I hope I haven't exceeded the number of layers allowed?

I'm really pleased with how this has turned out, and I think Dad will love it too. Now I just need to decide on his other card.

Last week I visited the blogs of over 150 other entrants to the challenge. I tried to leave a comment on every blog I visited, but sometimes I couldn't, I got a message 'you are not authorised to comment'. So it's not that I didn't want to comment on all your cards, I just wasn't able to do so.

Thank you to everyone who has visited my blog and left me comments, we all love to receive comments don't we. I'm now off to have a look at some of the other entries.