Less Is More - Pastel

Good Morning

I spent many hours this weekend working on a competition card, which will be ready to go in the post this evening, when I'm happy all the glue has properly set!!!

When that was all finished I gave some thought to this weeks 'Less Is more' challenge. Full details of the challenge can be found here

After a lot of thought and test stamping this is what I finally came up with.

It does look better in real life! My photography skills aren't that great!

The image is one of the Bella panels available from Debbi Moore, which I stamped using a light blue ink. I then applied some blue chalk over the ink to add a bit of sparkle. I still wasn't happy (this was my 6th attempt at this image) so decided to try one of my favourite techniques, triple embossing, to give the image a 'tile effect'.

I embossed some blue and pale yellow card which I layer onto my white card base, cut a tag using a spellbinders die, and added some peel offs. I chose the words 'Just for You' as I think this card is suitable for a number of occasions.

If you're not familiar with this new challenge blog, why not pop across and have a look. Everyone there is very friendly. And on that note, I would like to thank everyone for visiting my blog and leaving me comments, it's a really lovely community to be a part of.

Thanks for your visit today. I'm off to have a look at some of the other entries.

Jo

Cream and Gold

Good Morning

Today's card is a birthday card for one of my eldest daughter's friends. She asked me to make a 'cream and gold' card. To start with I had a complete mental block!!! After a lot of thought and a good old rummage, I decided to use one of the Bella Panel stamps which are available from Debbi Moore designs. This is one of the first stamp sets I bought, and you get four panels in the set together with some additional accent and word stamps.

I chose the panel with the butterflies so I could tie it in with a cuttlebug embossing folder. I embossed some matt gold card, and then embossed some cream pearlescent card using a swirls embossing folder. The image was stamped onto cream pearlescent card and then heat embossed using a gold detail embossing powder.

I made a double bow using gorgeous cream organza ribbon from my stash and placed little pearls on the end of the 'twirly bits' (that's a technical term!). The label was cut using a spellbinders die and the Happy Birthday is gold peel offs, again from my stash.

I'm going to try and get a couple of challenge cards completed today - we'll see :0)

Jo