Variation on a Sketch!

This afternoon my daughter asked me to make her a baby card for her friends new baby who arrived yesterday and, as she needs it very soon, I decided to make it along the same lines as the one I made earlier for the Less is More challenge (scroll down to previous post to see that one!) It was made in exactly the same way but using Pretty in Pink DSP, from the Subtles Paper Stack, and the little bunny stamp from Perfect Postage and tied with Whisper White Organza ribbon. I stamped the sentiment and underneath put the baby's name which I made with the Timeless Type Junior Alphabet dies, run through the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, and dotted the'i' with a Basic Pearl. 

I have to say I'm not very good with pale pink and always seem to get a mental block when it comes to designing anything with it so I was really glad I didn't have to start from scratch with the idea!

Less is More - Sketch

 

I'm back this morning with a card for the Less is More challenge which, this week, is a sketch (shown above right). I've been experimenting lately with mixing colours and 'not quite so simple' layouts so, for this challenge, I thought I would revert back to my type of cards and I have to say it's good to be back!!

I started this card with a strip of River Rock DSP from the Neutrals Paper Stack and embossed it using the oval from the Designer Frames Embossing set. I coloured the image from the new stamp set Fruit & Flowers, available in the Spring Mini, with River Rock and Cherry Cobbler markers and stamped once onto a piece of Whisper White then, without re-inking, stamped again three times to give a faded image around the original. This was punched out with the Extra-Large Oval punch and positioned in the frame. A piece of Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding was tied around the panel before matting onto a DL card blank. The sentiment from Curly Cute was stamped directly onto the card blank in Cherry Cobbler. Thank you ladies, I'm loving this challenge!

I want to thank everyone for their get well wishes this week, they cheered me up no end. I decided to return to work on Friday, after being off all week, to be greeted by comments such as "you look very pale" and "you still sound awful" - which made me feel a whole lot better :0) Anyway, despite not having completely got rid of the bug, I am feeling a whole lot better than I did!!

Have a great weekend and come back to visit soon x

More Purple!

This was a card I made last week for a friend's birthday, which happens to be today, and when I went to post it here I realised it fits in with this week's Less is More challenge - Predominantly Purple! I started off with a white card blank and hand-embossed a frame using my Hougie board. Then, using a post-it mask, I stamped the swirly stamp from Everything Eleanor inside the frame. The butterflies were cut and embossed with the Beuatiful Wings Embosslits folder, in Elegant Eggplant, Perfect Plum and Pretty in Pink with some tiny Basic Pearls added and placed on the swirls. A strip of the new Elegant Eggplant Polka Dots ribbon was fixed across the card and the sentiment, from Happiest Birthday Wishes Hostess set, was punched with the Scallop Square punch and positioned on top of the ribbon.