Less Is More Week 8

Hello

Aren't the weeks flying by quickly? I don't know where the time goes.

My card for today is my entry into this weeks' Less Is More Challenge, this week we have a sketch to follow.

My card uses a DL card blank, to which I have applied some lilac backing paper and a matching ribbon made with a Martha Stewart punch. The jar of flowers is from a Sheena Douglass stamp set, which I coloured using my Lyra's. I then applied glossy accents to the jar, which doesn't show up so well on the photo, but looks good. The sentiment is from another Sheena stamp set. I'm not sure if the sentiment is a little too high? Other than that, I'm pleased with my card.

I'm now off to have a look at some of the other entries.

Jo x

Have A Sporty Birthday

Hello!

Today's card is for my nephew who's birthday is next week. He loves his sport, especially football and golf, so I decided it was time to ink up some of my Sporty Lofty stamps from Joanna Sheen.

This is my first attempt at a double twisted easel card, I thought it was a good way to display the images.

The images were stamped onto watercolour card using versafine ink, and then coloured using my Lyra Aquacolour Crayons. They were then layered onto a larger oval, cut using a Nellie Snellen die.

The sentiment stoppers came on the stamp sheets and were stamped onto card using a Big & Juicy inkpad. The same inkpad was used to stamp the Happy Birthday sentiment, which is a Dimension Fourth rubber stamp, which was stamped directly onto cardstock which had been Martha Stewart punched. A pale blue card from PaperMill was used to make the easely bit!

I'm quite pleased with how this has turned out. I'm not the most confident watercolourer, but think this has turned out ok.

Have a lovely, crafty day.

Jo

A Sweet Little Girl .... and a Prize

Happy Saturday!

Don't they come round quick? My body is complaining very loudly this morning, so I'm going to have to take things even slower this morning.

Todays card is made using another of Sheena's new stamps - Busy Doing Nothing. Isn't she gorgeous? She reminds me of my little niece, she's cute as a button too.

I stamped the images onto watercolour card using versafine ink, and coloured using Derwent Watercolour Pencils and Lyra Aquacolour's. The backing paper is from SWALK 2 cd-rom. The butterfly border was punched using an EK Success punch (another birthday present), and one of the little punched out butterflies was then added to the main image. I decided to leave it without a sentiment.

I'm very excited to tell you that I've won a cd-rom in the lovely Edna's blog candy draw. Thank you very much Edna, it will be put to good use :-D

Enjoy your weekend whatever your plans.

Jo x

Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside

Good Afternoon.

I hope you've all had a lovely weekend.

Today's card is made using the fabulous new Faye Whittaker stamps from Joanna Sheen, this set is called Seahorse. I've always found seahorses quite fascinating.

The shape of this card was made using one of my fancy layering templates, this is my favourite one in the set of four.  The image was stamped onto watercolour card using versafine, and then coloured using Lyra Aquacolours.  The word 'Mum' on the stopper was stamped using the Crystal Tips Alphabet Set from Dimension Fourth, and embossed using Beachcomber embossing powder and does really look like sand.  The seahorses were again coloured with Lyra's, and then I applied some Glossy Accents to make them look wet.  The little shells were from my stash.

It's my mum's birthday next week, and I'm one of three girls, so this seemed the perfect card for her.

Thanks for having a look.

Jo x

A Simple Card That Says So Much

I tried to post this on November 11th, as it was such an appropriate card for the day, but I've had no end of problems blogging and so have had to set up a new blog and import the post!

Poppies are one of my favourite flowers, and this rubber stamp, which is one of Sheena Douglass's new range, stamped beautifully and was a delight to colour.  I stamped the image onto some pearlescent cardstock that I purchased recently from my local Papermill.  I stamped with a Black Versafine ink and coloured with my Lyra Aquacolours.  I then matted and layered it onto some more card from Papermill and put the sentiment (again from Sheena's stamp plate) onto the card with some foam tape just to make it stand out a bit more.

Jo