Less is More - Wk 23 - Something with legs!

Over at the Less is More challenge blog this week the theme is - Something with legs- on a One layer card.

I had a giggle this morning when I thought of all the Limettes waiting to see what the new challenge was... and then rushing to make a card... Lol...
I thought I would use one of the stamps I designed for Joanna Sheen - the Puffins from the Tales of the Ocean stamp set - on the Fossil sheet.
Here's my card:
First of all I die cut the nesties 20 shape using a piece of copy paper.. .to use as a mask. I then positioned it on the card - stamped the puffins -masked the puffins so that I could ink the background and stamp the birds (also from the Tales of the Ocean stamp set - A shell that can sing). I drew around the shape with squiggly outlines and then finished with the stamped 'Have a nice day' which I was able to curve slightly because it is a clear stamp.

The one mistake that I made was that I manged to get the whole thing off centre... so to even up the sides I used a border punch on the right side... I quite like the happy accident.

The Tales of the Ocean rubber stamp set will be on Create and Craft TV this evening ( July 9th) at 6 pm GMT.. If you don't have the channel on your TV you can view C&C live from their website HERE

Thanks for visiting and looking at my latest card.. I'm off to see all the other lovely cards already uploaded to the Less is More blog....
TTFN
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First post of 2011

A Happy New year to you, it's a bit late I know, but I hope you all had a good beginning to the year.

We had a death on New Year's Day in our family so I haven't felt like blogging over the last few weeks. Things should return to normal soon and I plan to be involved in blogland again hope to draw many more freebies for you to download during 2011.

In the mean time I want to share some cards I have made for Valentine's day using a fantastic tutorial I saw on Valita's Designs & fresh folds blog... using hearts. I will show my cards to you first and give you a link at the bottom of this post otherwise you will go there and not want to come back Lol!!.. her blog is addictive heheh Lol!... so here is a taster of how she inspired me..
I used some mini mosaics on her dress because I thougth they looked just like little sequins.. I used the Tim Holtz floral alteration die cutting red organza for the flowers.

Valita show us how to shade the heart like this.. it's great fun!

This is a simple wedding card using the heart idea... I used some lovely holographic card for her dress and drew squiggles with a glue pen and added glitter for a wonderful sparkle.. it looks like a diamonte encrusted bodice.

Well, as promised here is the link to Valita's fantastic inspiring blog with her own video tutorial for these hearts... Thanks for visiting today.. remember to leave me a comment if you are going to before to get hooked on her blog... LOL!!
Hugs to you all

Ballerina card in Pink

Here's the Best Friends digi stamp coloured in pinks and browns this time.
I used pro marker pens and added some stardust pen to their frills and accents and then added some white gel pen over their legs to give the look of lace tights. I made the rose and punched the other flowers using a Martha Stewart punch. I also made the little sliders. I couldn't resist adding tiny little gems as a trail to the butterfly. the papers are from Papermania Summer bloom 12 x 12 paper set.

Come back on Sunday to fine info about a very special challenge to raise funds for a very special little boy.

Thanks for visiting

Sunday 15th August ~FREEBIE~

I love the images on those vintage adverts for soap and cologne etc... I saw one with a little boy cuddling his dog and was inspired to create my own version with a little girl instead.
here she is...

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• Feel free to print out and use my digital images on your own cards and cards you make for sale, please remember that these are copyrighted to me and must not be altered , given, or sold as your own individual digital images., so don't pass my images on to others, give them a link back here so they can download it for themselves.

Like the owl, a previous freebie, I decided not to save this as a black and white image so that you can colourize if you want too..as dogs are different shades.. I would love to see how you use this.

Here's a card I made today..

I used various papers from my stash and made the roses with the same papers. The paw prints embossed paper was made with a sizzix embossing folder and rubbed lightly with ink. Promarkers were used to colour the image and the dictionary 'cuddle' quote is a freebie from a fantastic website called Create with TLC (Thanks for that). Tearing and inking the edges of the image gives it a nice look plus the punched edges from EK succes.

Thankyou for visiting and hope you like what you see.
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Sylvie X

For those of you who have asked how I made my paper Roses... I got them from Craft Creations magazine website where you can download each article from each magazine.. here is the link for the roses.... scroll down the page to no. 11... Have fun!!
Craft Creations Magazine Issue 46 - Summer