Less Is More with Hexagons

A very quick card and a very quick post today as I'm expecting my son-in-law to come and paint my kitchen at any minute!
The LIM challenge this week is to use hexagons and this is my really simple entry. I embossed a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock with the Honeycomb Embossing folder and matted it onto a strip of Chocolate Chip DSP. I attached some Bakers Twine around the panel before matting onto a 4" x 4" cream card blank and then added a sentiment from, the soon to be retiring, Made for You set. I doctored the Decorative Label punched out piece by re-inserting the label and punching again and then rounded the end with a 1" Circle Punch.
Must dash now as I need to get the kettle on ready for the 'worker' :0) Have a great weekend and I'll be back soon x

Card Swap Group

I really can't believe we are on the THIRD month of the card swap group but it's that time again and this month I have to make a card for the lovely Sue. My sister and I met Sue and her sister at a Craft Retreat we attended 2 years ago and we immediately got on really well. When we met Sue and Carole again at the Retreat last year it was like meeting up with old friends and we had a great weekend. Sadly the Retreat is not happening this year so we have to resort to keeping in touch by email, well that is until it's our turn to send a card to each other :0)

Anyway Jane has set a theme this month and that is to make a card in the recipients favourite colours and Sue's are orange and yellow. Jane's email had the comment 'can't wait to see what you come up with' and that's probably because as a regular visitor to my blog she is well aware I don't do bright colours! Well I've tried Jane :0) I have used Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight cardstock along with Polka Dot Parade DSP. The Whisper White panel in the middle was embossed with the Honeycomb Embossing Folder and inked around the edges with Daffodil Delight, the butterflies punched with Elegant Butterfly and Bitty Butterfly punches, and the sentiment was punched with the Word Window Punch and matted onto a Decorative Label Punch. 

I posted my card to Sue on Tuesday so hopefully I'm not posting it on here before she's received it! Have a great weekend and I'm sure to be back tomorrow for the Less is More challenge.

Colour Q

I'm sneaking another post in today after seeing this week's ColourQ challenge which, as you can see from the inspiration picture above, is Soft Suede, Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, Blushing Bride and White. As we no longer have Blushing Bride in the UK I have substituted this with Pink Pirouette. I started by sponging a piece of Whisper White with pink in the centre, then yellow and finished with coral on the outside. After this I ran the bottom half of the cardstock through the Honeycomb Embossing folder, matted it onto Soft Suede cardstock, added a knot of Pink Pirouette Taffeta ribbon and then fixed to a white card blank. I punched six flowers, two of each from Daffodil Delight, Pink Pirouette and Calypso Coral, with punches from the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack and added these to the Honeycomb. Basic Pearls were used for the flower centres and a sentiment from Sassy Salutations was stamped in Soft Suede.
I really enjoy taking part in the ColourQ challenges because I am very much a 'monochrome person' and these challenges really do take me out of my comfort zone - I would NEVER think of putting these colours together and it really surprises me when I actually like the finished card :0)

Back tomorrow x (if you were expecting to see my second b&w card I have re-scheduled it for 2pm this afternoon!)

'Simples Sunday'

Well here is the first of my 'Simples Sunday' posts - and not a meerkat in sight!

The background is a panel of Whisper White, embossed with the Honeycomb Folder, and matted onto Old Olive cardstock. A piece of retired ribbon was placed across the card leaving a loop at one end and two branches, cut with the Little Leaves Sizzlits die, positioned onto the card. The Sassy Salutations sentiment was stamped onto Whisper White, the corners rounded, and matted onto Old Olive cardstock and then placed on top of the ribbon. Easy peasy!

Well it's half term this week so, hopefully, a bit more time for crafting :0) Back soon x

Today's card was inspired by a card made by Jen Nelson, a designer for LIM. My card is very different from Jen's but I liked the idea of 2 panels with the bottom one embossed and that's where the similarity stops!

I used Naturals White cardstock for both the card base and the two panels, with Cajun Craze and Certainly Celery for the colour scheme. The bottom panel is embossed with a new folder coming up in the Spring Mini and is called Honeycomb (available from 1st Feb) and the edges of both panels are sponged with Cajun Craze. The flowers were made with the Floral Fusion Sizzlits die and a punch from Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack, and the leaves cut with the Little Leaves Sizzlits die. A sentiment from Sassy Salutations was stamped on the top panel and a couple of small butterflies from the Beautiful Wings die were added to finish the card off.

Sneek Peek

My card today is showing you a sneek peek of some brand new products coming very soon. A sentiment from a set that you will be able to get absolutely free and an embossing folder in the new Spring Catalogue, which runs from 1st Feb - 30th June. The Sale-a-Bration promotion is up first though, running from 22nd Jan through to 22nd March and for every £45 spent on products you can choose a free gift from the SAB catalogue (and this year there are also some selected products available from the main catalogue to choose from)
Now onto the card - there are a lot of very similar cards out there in blogland but this is my version. I started by embossing a section on a piece of Whisper White with the Honeycomb Embossing Folder (Spring Mini) and this was matted onto an Old Olive panel. I ran a couple of pieces of Old Olive DSP through the embossing folder and, because it is very deep embossing on this particular folder, it almost cuts through the DSP so the little hexagons are easily 'popped' out and then you just have to trim the edges with sharp paper snips. These were then glued in a pattern onto the embossed panel and a piece of Old Olive Taffeta ribbon tied around before fixing to a white card blank. The sentiment comes from a set of 4 called Vintage Verses which is an SAB set you can get for free, which I punched out with the Extra Large Oval punch and inked the edge before fixing to the card. To tell you the truth I did stamp it directly onto the card but it was wonky so I needed a quick fix!!
I hope you're all having a good weekend despite the arctic temperatures :0) Originally they forecast snow here for today, then tomorrow and now they're saying Monday teatime. I'm really not looking forward to that!!