Claret and Blue - what else??

Hello, happy Friday.

The Less is More challenge this week is to make a masculine card.

I don't tend to make many cards for men, but I do make most of the ones I give to my husband, because he has to be nice about them.  He's a West Ham supporter and for those of you who don't know, their colours are claret and blue.  Which does give me a good colour scheme to work with.

Thank you Ardyth for the inspiration.

All I have to do now is save it until his birthday next January, what are the chances of me finding it again??

Enjoy your weekend.

One layer

Hello, happy Sunday to you all.

The lovely ladies over at Less is More have given us carte blanche for our one layer card this week.

I've kind of followed the sketch from a couple of weeks ago as well.

I stamped the main flower first then stamped the border flowers and masked the edges and sponged it.  I probably could have stamped the main flower last actually, but never mind.  A few diamonds and a greeting and I'm done.

Hope you enjoy your week.

Pat

I can sing a rainbow

Hello

Sorry, did I wake you?  I know I haven't been here in forever.  Life's been very busy lately and I just got out of the habit of blogging, but I'm back now and hope to be here more often.

One of my earliest childhood memories is of my mum singing the rainbow song to me, even though it has all the wrong colours.  Red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue.  So if I do want to design a rainbow, I have to resort to that old school chestnut, Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain.  Why do these mnemonics work for us?  I can still remember the one for the planets (in the days when Pluto was a planet as well as a dog) Since Mount Vesuvius Erupted Many Jolly Scientists Usually Never Panic.

Anyway, I digress.  I made two very similar cards for this week's birthday celebratory challenge at Less is More (Happy 3rd Birthday LIM).

You can't really tell but the greeting is gold mirror card.

Enjoy the rest of your week.

Pat

White Christmas

Happy Friday.  I hope you've had a good week.

The Less is More challenge this week is white on white but also it needs to be a Christmas card.  This ought be fairly easy so why was I struggling to come up with a design?  That's why I've left it until now to enter, hoping inspiration would strike.  This is the best I could do, both in terms of the card design and the photography at 4pm on a drab day like today.

I die cut the tree then attached it to the same place inside the card, just for variety.  Added glitter, which as we all know, never comes out well in a photo.  This is the tree on the inside of the card, also glittered, subtly and with taste, of course.

Hope you all enjoy your weekend.  Bye.

Sketchy Saturday

Good morning.  Less is More have such a lovely sketch this Saturday that I found it easy to make a card before the Friday night deadline for once.  Thank you Jen.

  

I'm really liking my new Peace die.  I can see me using it a lot this Christmas.

Now I look at my card again, I should have masked the circle before I stamped the trees.  Ah well, you live and learn.

Have a good week.

Felt or Fabric

Good evening.

The Less is More team have asked us to make a card using felt or fabric somewhere.  This coincided with my friend Anna's birthday.  I'm slowly getting her into crafting and so far she's really enjoying it so I think she'll like this card.

 

I was inspired by Lisa Adessa's card here.  Her flowers are some lovely new Simon Says Stamp die cuts but I just diecut some circles and snipped into them, which is why mine look a bit dodgy random.  I think I like the dark purple one best.  The sentiment is computer generated and the border is hand doodled.

 

Enjoy your weekend, see you soon.

Feel Better Soon

Hi, sorry I've been absent.  Life seems so busy at the moment.

Very quick post today, my submission for Less is More.  It's one layer week and we've been asked for a get well soon card.

This is my current favourite GWS card, I think it's cute.

The greeting does seem to have faded since I stamped it, think I should have done it in black.  Oh well.

Bye, must dash.